Monday - June 15, 2009
IBM had added a new service-and-hardware offering to its cloud computing repertoire. The bundle targets users seeking a single jumping-off point for deployment of a cloud environment focused on a discrete task, such as a test bed for application development. IBM CloudBurst is a set of preintegrated hardware, storage, virtualization and networking tools that come with with a built-in service management system. It's an easy, one-off deployment to help companies get started on a particular project, IBM's Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, told the E-Commerce Times.
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Tuesday - June 9, 2009
Employees are the lifeblood of any business, and the data they produce is critical to productivity. Unfortunately, during recent uncertain economic times, businesses of all sizes across America have laid off hundreds of thousands of employees. Yet when any employees leave during turnover, important data can be lost or forgotten.
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Thursday - June 4, 2009
As the market recedes further and companies look to shed cost in any way feasible, many look inwardly in order to find key areas for improvement. Aberdeen's research shows that the top business pressures forcing companies in the direction of legacy application modernization are largely internal. The top two pressures have to do with agility.
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Tuesday - June 2, 2009
The Internet has become a critical component in today's fast-moving business environment and continues to play a central role in delivering mission-critical business applications and vital communications to employees, partners and customers. The Internet holds the promise for organizations to streamline operations, improve operational efficiencies and lower costs.
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Tuesday - May 26, 2009
Cloud computing is a hot tech growth category that shows no signs of cooling. These are still early days, though, and companies that are experimenting with this computing model are doing so in a piecemeal fashion, or on a case-by-case basis. The result, for some firms, is a mishmash of IT functionality -- some of it in the cloud, much of it still on the ground.
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Tuesday - May 26, 2009
Does testing require a plan? That may sound like a silly question, but many organizations leave the testing to the end of the project, and whatever time is left is the time that will be spent on testing. Testing, like any other part of a project, must be carefully planned in order to accomplish the objectives.
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Thursday - May 21, 2009
Aberdeen's research shows a 16 percent increase in the number of organizations that are satisfied with the performance of business-critical applications since March. However, the disparity among respondents is profound. Ninety-three percent of Best-in-Class organizations are satisfied with their application performance, and only 48 percent of Industry Average and Laggard organizations show the same level.
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Wednesday - May 13, 2009
During the software development life cycle, time and resources need to be committed to application testing. This is the testing that is done by the testing group, or black box testers. The allocation of time and resources is always a problem, as some organizations aren't quite sure how much should be assigned.
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Thursday - May 7, 2009
Given the unpredictable nature of today's market climate, many software-oriented companies are scrambling to cut costs and streamline their application development processes. For organizations utilizing Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 as their primary development environment, the difficulty of achieving this agility was magnified by the April 8, 2008, termination of all support for VB6.
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Wednesday - May 6, 2009
Virtualization and cloud computing specialist Citrix wants to do for its IT customers what Apple does for users of its App Store. Instead of selling programs like games or restaurant finders for the iPhone, however, Citrix's new Dazzle service will provide on-demand business applications.
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Tuesday - April 28, 2009
IT developers are moving toward higher-level languages that make their work simpler in order to keep up with business needs. That simplicity is found in lingos such as Java, C Sharp, Visual Basic and .Net. However, even those languages are sometimes not simple enough for the Web 2.0 world, spurring developers to also turn to dynamic languages such as PHP and Ruby, which can provide a faster return on development efforts.
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