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Configure, Don't Customize Your Service Desk

Posted July 13, 2012 - 5:15 pm

Join Pink Elephant Analyst George Spalding and Nimsoft Service Desk expert Tim Rochte to learn the perils of customizing your service desk and losing flexibility to adapt to business changes.
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Configuration, Not Coding How Nimsoft Service Desk Speeds Deployment and Time to Value

Posted July 13, 2012 - 4:00 pm

For years, many support teams have been hamstrung by their traditional service desk platforms, which require complex, time-consuming coding for virtually every aspect of customization. This complexity makes it costly and difficult for support organizations to adapt-and places an increasingly substantial burden on the agility and efficiency of the business as a whole.
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Long live SOA in the cloud era

Posted June 25, 2012 - 7:12 am

You might not hear much about SOA anymore, but its imperative to make 'everything a service' is more relevant than ever
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Aetna dumps its siloed enterprise architure for SOA

Posted June 11, 2012 - 1:32 pm

Aetna overcomes business hurdles to revamp its enterprise architecture
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Securing SOA and Web Services with Oracle Enterprise Gateway

Posted June 6, 2012 - 4:30 pm

Download this whitepaper, Securing SOA and Web Services with Oracle Enterprise Gateway, for a clear and concise understanding of how this one-stop solution can integrate, manage, and protect your businesses service-oriented architecture. .
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Turning Financial Mainframe Applications into SOA Building Blocks

Posted May 7, 2012 - 4:50 pm

This paper discusses the benefits and challenges of implementing SOA in financial service organizations such as banks or insurance companies. After exploring the characteristics of mainframe-based financial applications, you'll learn various approaches for service-enabling these applications.
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Cloud services, recycled hard drives leak critical data; IT doesn't notice

Posted April 26, 2012 - 3:34 pm

Studies show a third to half of storage drives hold residual data from other users, much of it confidential, some of it enough to allow identity theft. Cloud services widen the hole by making it possible to leave lots of critical data behind with no chance to check whether you did or not.
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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Process Platforms 2011 Vendor Analysis

Posted March 6, 2012 - 5:39 am

This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to assess the capabilities of vendors to support midrange to complex process improvement scenarios using business process management software.
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Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA - Customer Perspectives on Evaluating Complexity and Business Value

Posted March 6, 2012 - 5:39 am

With this white paper, Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA, you'll get a healthy perspective on SOA and figure out which one is best for your organization.
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Top Reasons to Implement an SOA Governance Strategy: A List for IT Executives

Posted March 6, 2012 - 5:38 am

Download this white paper, Top Reasons to Implement an SOA Governance Strategy: A List for IT Executives, for a guide to governance that will set you on the right path.
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Get Serious About SOA Governance: A Five-Step Action Plan for Executives

Posted March 6, 2012 - 5:38 am

Download this whitepaper, Get Serious About SOA Governance: A Five-Step Action Plan for Executives to see why many organizations are reaping the rewards of successful SOA transformations and what you need to do to make yours one of them.
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Calling BS on cloud hype: Prediction that cloud will create 14 million new jobs is misleading

Posted March 5, 2012 - 1:46 pm

The news byte from an IDC report paid for and touted by Microsoft as predicting cloud computing would create 14 million new jobs doesn't tell the same story as the data in the report, which shows IT will get less relevant and the U.S. will get few new cloud-fueled jobs.
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Why is IT so bad at cloud computing?

Posted February 17, 2012 - 1:00 am

It's no secret IT is ambivalent about cloud computing's potential to steal jobs and user loyalty. That's no excuse for sloppy security negligence of apps in the cloud. That attitude doesn't come from hostility; it comes from overwork and the desperate wish that something new could happen without incremental additions to every headache IT ever had and never cured.
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Zynga loses much of its 'Facebook bounce'

Posted February 15, 2012 - 1:28 pm

Shares of social games maker Zynga fell nearly 16% after the company reported a Q4 loss, erasing much of the gains made by the stock since Facebook's IPO plans became public in late January.
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Pro-SOPA Comcast uses SOPA-incompatible DNSSEC

Posted January 11, 2012 - 3:58 pm

Comcast's executives and its NBC subsidiary are hot for SOPA controls on Internet content. The company's geeks just finished a national rollout of DNS security, and killed a service based on the same mechanism SOPA uses for enforcement because it won't work with DNSSEC.
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What CIOs really want for Christmas

Posted December 9, 2011 - 6:20 pm

The decorations are going up and the office party is the talk of the canteen — yes, Christmas festivities are upon us. While kids everywhere are busy making lists of the toys and gear they want to see under the tree Christmas morning, we asked Australian CIOs what Santa could bring them to make their life easier in 2012.
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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Business Process Platforms 2011 Vendor Analysis

Posted December 5, 2011 - 4:10 pm

This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to assess the capabilities of vendors to support midrange to complex process improvement scenarios using business process management software.
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Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA - Customer Perspectives on Evaluating Complexity and Business Value

Posted December 5, 2011 - 3:00 pm

With this white paper, Oracle SOA vs. IBM SOA, you'll get a healthy perspective on SOA and figure out which one is best for your organization.
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Top Reasons to Implement an SOA Governance Strategy: A List for IT Executives

Posted December 5, 2011 - 3:00 pm

Download this white paper, Top Reasons to Implement an SOA Governance Strategy: A List for IT Executives, for a guide to governance that will set you on the right path.
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Thanks, schmanks; give the deeply skeptical something to feel good about

Posted November 23, 2011 - 4:20 pm

Cats are wily, cunning, skeptical, hard to fool and able to manipulate humans to do their bidding. Dogs drool, shed, lack any shred of dignity and ARE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!!. Guess which is happier.
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Facebook admits 1 in 4 chance your account will be compromised this year

Posted November 1, 2011 - 2:12 pm

Facebook just added another security feature than may actually make its users more vulnerable. 29% of those accounts are compromised every year, though possibly only half that number are hacked. Still that failure rate would get any security geek fired. With real fire.
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Enterasys CEO: Total cost of ownership sets us apart

Posted October 6, 2011 - 6:54 pm

How's this for a challenge? The CEO dies suddenly and you're tabbed to take his place -- on the heels of your network infrastructure company entering into a major new strategic partnership and in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Oh, did I mention your competition includes some companies named Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Juniper Networks, among others? That's life for Chris Crowell, CEO of Enterasys Networks, who took over in 2009 shortly after predecessor Mike Fabiaschi's untimely death.
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Symantec study shows disappointment cloud computing is not magical

Posted October 4, 2011 - 1:36 pm

The real truth about cloud computing is that it can make IT vastly more powerful and efficient, but making it work means changing everything IT does every day and much of the infrastructure and processes it has spent 30 years building. No wonder it hasn't worked yet.
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Cloud computing market is starting to look a lot like one big data center

Posted September 16, 2011 - 6:15 pm

So many different computing functions have moved into the cloud that the cloud has begun to look like the computing industry, or a single data center, itself. The difference is all those pieces are spread out and owned by different people. At what point will it make more sense to start consolidating "the cloud" into something that looks much more like outsourcing?
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Best feature in Windows 8: Potential to take 'PC,' ditch the OS

Posted September 14, 2011 - 4:01 pm

With virtualization, cloud and portability, Microsoft may be building its first actual operating environment focused on the end user, despite years of claiming that's what Windows was.
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