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Andrew Conry-Murray
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Apr 19, 2008
Question: Do today's new collaboration tools make it harder for IT to wrangle corporate information, or easier? Answer: Yes.
By <a href="mailto:michael.healey@greenpages.com">Michael Healey</a>
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Apr 19, 2008
Here's how to drive your software-as-a-service initiative beyond standbys like CRM--without getting into dangerous territory.
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Jonathan Feldman -
Apr 1, 2008
Top IT shops have gone from being the No Police to the Frazzled Yes Guys. Project portfolio management can help stem the tide while keeping your hard-won reputation intact
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Mar 15, 2008
Vendors are emphasizing two approaches to collaboration. One focuses on the architecture, the other on the desktop. Which is right for you?
By
Michael Biddick
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Mar 12, 2008
Our second entry in this Rolling Review, Lumension PatchLink, is ideal for cross-platform shops that don't mind agents
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Michael Biddick
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Mar 3, 2008
The massive enterprise management vendor consolidation over the past several years means organizations have salespeople promising that their offerings can do everything well. While all certainly try, different products have strengths and weaknesses. We took a look at the major functional areas within enterprise management and picked our favorites in 10 key tech areas.
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Andy Dornan
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Feb 16, 2008
Switch vendors want to sideline servers by making their devices smarter. Now IT must decide if this is a brave new world ... or a nightmare of lock-in and higher costs
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Andy Dornan
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Feb 2, 2008
Virtualization 2.0 will go beyond server consolidation, making applications more agile and scalable to fit a service-oriented architecture.
On Network Computing's Application Infrastructure Channel, our real-world technology editors cover the products, technologies and services that serve as the "glue" of enterprise computing -- databases, integration technologies, new IT approaches such as service-oriented architectures and software-as-a-service and much more. The way that applications are built is changing -- today's apps are lightweight, built-to-be-integrated and designed to consume data not only from within your enterprise but from customers, partners and suppliers as well. We cover the basics of data storage, including enterprise databases from long-time providers such as IBM and Oracle, as well as open source alternatives such as MySQL. Learn about the latest data warehousing and business intelligence products and approaches that deliver key operational data to help executives run the business. In the area of Enterprise Application Integration, or EAI, we cover traditional EAI solutions as well as new XML- and SOA-based approaches. Vendors from previously separate markets are jockeying to provide SOA solutions, and we cover them all. Key SOA components include management, security, development tools and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), the middleware that distinguishes an SOA from standalone Web services. We also detail the under-the-covers technologies driving these new approaches, including XML, or eXtensible Markup Language; SOAP, or Simple Object Access Protocol; SAML, or Security Assertion Markup Language; and more Web services standards and technologies. Check out our reviews, tests and analysis of integration and application infrastructure technology and products. And don't miss the latest news, white papers and featured sites on the topic of application and data integration.
