Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the week of June 15, 2009. Quality early sounds nice, but making it happen brings significant cost savings, repeatable QA processes, user satisfaction, and shorter development cycles. The results reward developers and IT operators alike. To better understand the journey to quality assurance for new applications -- and the processes that work best -- BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner interviews Michael Cooper, director of enterprise quality management, at HP Software and Solutions Excellence Award winner T-Mobile USA. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/t-mobile-ramps-up-quality-based.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

The global economic downturn has accelerated the need to reduce total IT cost through identification and elimination of wasteful operations and practices. At the same time, IT departments need to better define and implement streamlined processes for operations and also for proving how new projects begin and unfold. Knowing the true cost and benefits of complex and often sprawling IT portfolios quickly helps improve the financial performance of how to quantify IT operations. Gaining real-time visibility into dynamic IT cost structures provides a powerful tool for reducing cost, while also maintaining and improving overall performance. Holistic visibility across an entire IT portfolio also develops the visual analytics that can help better probe for cost improvements and uncover waste. Here to help us understand how to bring improved financial management capabilities to enterprise IT departments we're joined by two executives from Hewlett-Packard Software and Solutions: Ken Cheney, director of product marketing for IT Financial Management, and John Wills, practice leader for the Business Intelligence Solutions Group. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/it-financial-management-provides.html. Sponsor: HP.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the week of June 15, 2009. As services pervade how and what IT delivers, quality assurance early and often becomes the gatekeeper of success -- or the points of failure. IT's job is evolving to make sure all services really work inside business process -- regardless of their origins and sourcing. Quality of component services is assurance of quality processes, and so such pervasive quality is no longer an option. Part of making quality endemic becomes organizational, of asserting quality in everything IT does, quality in everything IT's partners do. It even now means quality in how the IT department is run and managed. To better learn how service-enabled testing and quality-enabling methods of running IT become critical mainstays of IT success, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner interviews Robin Purohit, Vice President Software Products, at HP Software and Solutions. Read a full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/in-everything-as-service-era-quality-of.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the week of June 15, 2009. When people think of Software as a Service (SaaS) Web delivery, they often envision business applications. But HP has been delivering quality assurance and applications performance management functions via SaaS for years. As interest in cloud computing ramps up, the ability to deliver more aspects of IT lifecycle and quality management, along with project and portfolio oversight values, also ramps up. A missing ingredient for IT innovators has been how to begin and how to organize these changes effectively. To better understand the expanding role of SaaS within IT, and how professional services can newly help in transitions to SaaS use by IT departments, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner interviews two executives from HP's Software and Solutions, Scott Kupor, Vice President and General Manager of Software-as-a-Service, and Anand Eswaran, Vice President, Professional Services. Read a full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/consulting-insights-poised-to-help-it.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the week of June 15, 2009. In many companies, IT departments remain in a silo, often not reporting to the CEO, and often unfortunately disconnected from the main business imperatives. Now, the combination the down economy, tight IT budgets, and the advent of more cloud sourcing and data center architecture options offer two paths to IT leaders: Remain on the alienated edge, or move to center-stage in how businesses adapt to their changing markets. HP at its Software Universe conference has provided a unified people, process and product roadmap for how to transform IT, and therefore better help transform the business. To more deeply understand the transformative challenges facing IT and business leaders alike, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner interviews Andy Isherwood, Vice President and General Manager of HP Software and Solutions. Read a full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/hps-andy-isherwood-on-running-it-like.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the week of June 15, 2009. Quality early sounds nice, but making it happen brings significant cost savings, repeatable QA processes, user satisfaction, and shorter development cycles. The results reward developers and IT operators alike. To better understand the journey to quality assurance for new applications -- and the processes that work best -- BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner interviews IT executives at FICO, Gevity and JetBlue. Read a full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/winning-quality-war-hp-customers-offer.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the week of June 15, 2009. HP's purchase last year of EDS came just as talk of cloud computing options ramped up. So how does long-time outsourcing pioneer EDS fit into a new cloud ecology? Is EDS a cloud provider? And how will IT departments factor their decisions on what to keep on-premises in data centers versus placing on someone else's cloud infrastructure? We pose these and other "fluid sourcing" future questions to David Gee, Vice President of Marketing at EDS, in an interview by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/edss-david-gee-on-spectrum-of-cloud-and.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the week of June 15, 2009. IT departments are nowadays having to do more with less, gaining additional productivity while spending less money. It sounds simple, but is very complex. How do IT departments and companies approach this problem? To probe deeper into the new IT economies of performance, BriefingsDirect sat down with Anton Knolmar, Vice President of Marketing for HP Software & Solutions, for a discussion moderated by Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/hp-software-marketing-head-anton.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 42. Our latest topic centers on governance as a requirement and an enabler for cloud computing. We discuss more than IT governance, or service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance. The goal is really more about extended enterprise processes, resource consumption, and resource-allocation governance. In other words, "total services governance." Any meaningful move to cloud-computing adoption, certainly that which aligns and coexists with existing enterprise IT, will need to have such total governance in place. We see a lot of evidence that the IT vendor community and the cloud providers themselves recognize the need for this pending market need and requirement for additional governance. Listen then as we go round-robin with our IT analyst panelists on their top five reasons why service governance is critical and mandatory for enterprises to properly and safely modernize and prosper vis-à-vis cloud computing: David A. Kelly, president of Upside Research; Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and ZDNet blogger, and Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/analysts-define-growing-requirements.html. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Sponsor: TIBCO Software.

Enterprises are seeking cloud computing efficiency benefits, lower total costs, and a heightened ability to deliver services that support agile business processes. So-called private clouds, or those flexible computing models that enterprises can control on-premises, have a lot in common with longstanding mainframe computing models and techniques. New developments in mainframe automation and other technologies support the use of mainframes for delivering cloud-computing advantages -- and help accelerate the ability to solve recession-era computing challenges around cost, power, energy use and reliability. In this podcast, we'll learn how mainframe is the cloud. We're joined by Chris O'Malley, executive vice president and general manager for CA's Mainframe Business Unit. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the interview at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/mainframes-provide-fast-track-access-to.html. Sponsor: CA.

The impact of cloud computing is most often analyzed through its expected disruption of IT vendors, or the media, or as an economic balm for developers and Web 2.0 start-ups. Yet cloud computing is much more than a just newcomer on the Internet hype curve. The heritage of what cloud computing represents dates back to the dawn of information technology (IT), to the very beginnings of how government agencies and large commercial enterprises first accessed powerful computers to solve complex problems. So how does cloud computing fit into the whole journey of the last 35 years of IT? What is the context of cloud computing in the real-world enterprise? How do we take the vision and apply it to today's enterprise concerns and requirements? To help understand the difference between the reality and the vision for cloud computing, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Frank Gillett, vice president and principal analyst for cloud computing topics at Forrester Research. Watch a video of the interview at http://www.akamai.com/cloud. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/dana-gardner-interviews-forresters.html. Sponsor: Akamai Technologies.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 41. Our latest topic centers on the next era of information technology (IT). Suddenly, cloud computing is the dominant buzzword of the day, but the current confluence of trends includes much more. There is business process modeling, business intelligence, complex event processing, service-oriented architecture, software as a service, Web-oriented architecture, and even Enterprise 2.0. How do all of these relate? Or if they don't relate, is there a common theme? Is there an overriding uber direction for IT that we need to consider? The cloud computing moniker just doesn't include enough and doesn't bring us to the next stage. In the words of Huey Lewis, we need a "new drug." Join our panel of guests and analysts to help dig into the new era of IT: Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Brad Shimmin, senior analyst, Current Analysis; Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and ZDNet blogger, and Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/05/briefingsdirect-analysts-take-pulse-of.html. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Sponsor: TIBCO Software.

Bringing enterprise applications effectively out to mobile devices has required some harsh trade-offs for developers. To gain access to devices, you lose functionality and portability, for example. But thanks to the sizable impact that the Apple iPhone and its WebKit browser have had in the market -- and the lure of new business opportunities around mobile application stores -- the mobile Web has suddenly become more attractive and attainable for mainstream developers. Such technologies as HTML 5, Android, WebKit and advances in scripting and open source tools are allowing developers to target mobile devices better than ever. To learn more about how the development field for mobile Web applications is shaping up and how targeting the modern mobile Web browser may be removing some of the harshness from the trade-offs of the past, we assembled a panel of development experts. Join Stephen O'Grady, founder and analyst at RedMonk; Wayne Parrott, vice president for product development at Genuitec, and David Beers, a senior wireless developer at MapQuest as we unpack the mobile Web. The podcast is moderated by IT industry analyst Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/05/rise-of-webkit-advances-mobile-webs.html.

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, held its 22nd annual Enterprise Architecture Practitioner's Conference in London, England in April 22. This panel discussion podcast, "Resisting Short-term Thinking: Rationalizing Investments in Enterprise Architecture During a Recession," uncovered insights into how enterprise architects can help businesses and IT departments during periods of turmoil. The challenge for EA is to be able to balance the long-term goals against the pressing short-term needs of the business. There are intense commercial pressures right now to reduce costs at a time when capital expenditure is severely constrained. Operational efficiency has become an imperative, but agility and speed to market are equally as important. Join Kevin White, contributing editor to Computer Business Review in the UK, as he moderates the panel. Guests include Henry Peyret, principal analyst at Forrester Research; Phil Pavitt, the group CIO for Transport for London; Thomas Obitz, a principal architect at Infosys; Mike Turner, enterprise architect at Capgemini, and Terry Blevins, a senior principal information systems engineer at MITRE and Open Group Customer Council Board member. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/05/enterprise-architecture-strategy-aligns.html. Sponsor: The Open Group.

Our topic on BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 40, centers on platform as a service (PaaS), part of the cloud computing taxonomy that pertains to software and services development over the Internet. Developers can use tools and testing apparatus as a service on someone else's data center, building and refining their applications and services, and even putting them through some real world performance testing, before going into production and use. We've seen a great deal of interest by the developers in using Amazon's Web services for PaaS. We've also seen a lot of action and interest from the likes of Google, Microsoft, and even IBM. Yet a lot of enterprise operators and mangers don't even see PaaS on their radar. They're much more interested in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) components of cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS). So, what is PaaS good for and how will it impact enterprises? We're joined by a panel of guests and analysts to help dig into the enterprise role of PaaS: Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; David A. Kelly, president of Upside Research; Mike Meehan, senior analyst at Current Analysis; Jonathan Bryce, co-founder of Mosso at Rackspace, and Rourke McNamara, product marketing director at TIBCO Software. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/05/briefingsdirect-analysts-unpack.html. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Sponsor: TIBCO Software.

The productivity and perils of open source software has been a topic pretty much beaten to death. Yet the landscape in IT, as always, is shifting -- because of the recession and because of a white hot interest in cloud computing. It's time again, then, to look at the pluses and minuses of open source software models in the context of tight IT budgets and the advent of cloud-based services for enterprises. Our latest analyst roundtable examines open source in the context of economics, complexity, competition, and the disruption of the shifting business models in software. The major question is: Does using open-source software pay off in a total cost sense, compared to commercial offerings today? Furthermore, how will this change over the coming several years as cloud model take hold? Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; JP Morgenthal, independent analyst and IT consultant, and David A. Kelly, president of Upside Research. Out guests are Paul Fremantle, the chief technology officer at WSO2 and a vice president with the Apache Software Foundation, and Richard Seibt, the former CEO at SUSE Linux, and founder of the Open Source Business Foundation. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/04/open-source-software-and-cloud-curse-or.html. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Sponsor: TIBCO Software.

The paybacks from designing a strong IT architecture can now be enjoyed by more than the enterprises that build them. Increasingly, enterprises are reaping the fruits of good IT architectures that their SaaS and cloud providers have developed. Think of it as a multiplier effect of IT modernization -- everyone using the services benefits. In essence, by building good applications and infrastructure, SaaS providers are providing more than applications and services -- they are delivering business agility as a service. To learn more about IT architectural best practices can achieve added benefits for the users -- at greatly reduced total costs -- BriefingsDirect examines the experiences and approaches of Workday, a human capital management (HCM) SaaS provider. Join Stan Swete, CTO of Workday, in a podcast discussion moderated by IT industry analyst Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/04/saas-providers-advanced-architecture.html. Sponsor: Workday.

Virtualization has become imperative to enterprises as they better manage resources, cut total costs, reduce energy use, and improve IT agility. But virtualization is more than just installing hypervisors. The effects and impacts of virtualization cut across many aspects of IT operations. The complexity of managing virtualization IT runtime environments can easily slip out of control. A proper level of planning and management, however, can assure a substantive economic return on virtualization investments. This podcast examines how virtualization can be applied as a larger process, with sufficient tools for governance that allow for rapid, but reasoned, virtualization adoption. Providing an in-depth look at how virtualization best practices make for the best economic outcome, we're joined by Bob Meyer, the worldwide virtualization lead in HPs' Technology Solutions Group. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/03/hp-advises-strategic-view-on.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Doing more for less in IT? Sure, easier said than done. But who said it couldn't be done? BriefingsDirect took the question of how to cut IT costs in the downturn to five analysts and consultants, who can both say and do. The result is the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 38, a periodic discussion and dissection of IT infrastructure related news and events with a panel of industry analysts and guests. In this episode, recorded March 13, 2009, our analyst guests make their top five recommendations for cutting enterprise IT costs amid the economic downturn. How does IT adapt and adjust to the downturn? Is IT to play a defensive role in helping to slash costs and reduce its own financial burden on the enterprise? We ask our panel to list the top five ways that IT can help reduce costs, while retaining full business -- or perhaps even additional business -- functionality. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Joe McKendrick, independent IT analyst and prolific blogger; Brad Shimmin, principal analyst at Current Analysis; JP Morgenthal, independent analyst and IT consultant, and Dave Kelly, founder and president of Upside Research. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/03/briefingsdirect-analysts-list-top-5.html. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Sponsor: TIBCO Software.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect presentation, a podcast created from a recent Nexaweb Technologies Webinar on application modernization. Learn how enterprises are gaining economic and productivity advantages from modernizing legacy and older client-server applications. The logic, data, and integration patterns' value within these older applications can be effectively extracted and repurposed using tools and methods, including those from Nexaweb. That means the IT and business value from these assets can be reestablished as Web applications on highly efficient platforms. Examine how a number of companies have attained new value from legacy and client-server applications, while making those assets more easily deployed as rich, agile Web applications and services. Those services can then be better extended across modern and flexible business processes. We hear from Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions; David McFarlane, COO at Nexaweb, and Adam Markey, solution architect at Nexaweb. Listen or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/03/webinar-modernization-derives-new-value.html. Sponsor: Nexaweb Technologies.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 37, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Feb. 13, 2009, our guests examine the essential topic of bringing human activity into alignment with IT supported business processes. We revisit the topic of BPEL4People, an OASIS specification. The need to automate and extend complex processes is obvious. What's less obvious, is the need to join the physical world of people, their habits, needs, and perceptions with the artificial world of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process modeling (BPM). This will become all the more important, as cloud-based services become more common. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Michael Rowley, director of technology and strategy at Active Endpoints; Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; and JP Morgenthal, independent analyst and IT consultant. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the podcast: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/03/briefingsdirect-analysts-discuss.html. Charter sponsor: Active Endpoints. Additional underwriting: TIBCO Software.

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in February held an Enterprise Cloud Computing Conference in San Diego. A panel of experts was assembled at the conference to examine how cloud computing aligns with what real enterprises will need to do in terms of savings and productivity in the coming years. In essence, this is a discussion about real-world cloud computing. To gain deeper insights into how IT architects can bring cloud computing benefits to their businesses, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner queried panelists Lauren States, vice president in IBM's Software Group; Russ Daniels, vice president and CTO Cloud Services Strategy at Hewlett-Packard, and David Linthicum, founder of Blue Mountain Labs. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/02/cloud-computing-and-enterprise.html. Sponsor: The Open Group.

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in February held its first Security Practitioners Conference in San Diego. A panel of experts was assembled at the conference to examine how enterprise security intersects with enterprise architecture. Aligning the two deepens the security protection across more planning- and architectural-level activities, to make security pervasive -- and certainly not an afterthought. To gain deeper insights into how IT architects can bring security and reduced risk to businesses, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently queried panelists Chenxi Wang, principal analyst for security and risk management at Forrester Research; Kristin Lovejoy, director of corporate security strategy at IBM; Nils Puhlmann, chief security officer and vice president of risk management of Qualys, and Jim Hietala, vice president of security for The Open Group. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/02/effective-enterprise-security-begins.html. Sponsor: The Open Group.

Apache Software Foundation open source projects, OSGi, service-oriented architecture (SOA) developments, and cloud computing trends are converging. In this podcast we talk with some thought leaders and community development leaders to assess the patterns of adoption and use-case scenarios around SOA and open-source projects. We'll learn about the context of the ServiceMix ESB in some of the other Apache activities, and how the FUSE support offerings from Progress are getting more traction in interesting ways. To better understand the role of OSGi, SOA, and Apache software, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Guillaume Nodet, software architect at Progress Software and vice president of Apache ServiceMix at Apache, and Adrian Trenaman, distinguished consultant at Progress Software. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/02/interview-guillaume-nodet-and-adrian.html. Sponsor: Progress Software.

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in February delivered TOGAF 9, an enterprise architecture framework. TOGAF 9 represents a departure for enterprise architecture frameworks in general. It's larger, more mature, and modular to allow folks to enter it from a variety of perspectives. It takes on a much more significant business services and accomplishments perspective. While IT practitioners and architects will be looking over TOGAF 9 deeply, it’s also going to be of interest to the business side of the enterprise and offers a way for them to understand more about how IT can service their business needs. To gain deeper insights into how IT architects can bring value to businesses, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Robert Weisman, CEO and principal consultant for Build The Vision, and Mike Turner, an enterprise architect at Capgemini. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/02/togaf-9-advances-it-maturity-while.html. Sponsor: The Open Group.

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in February delivered TOGAF 9, an enterprise architecture framework. As part of the festive opening ceremony for TOGAF 9's arrival, a panel of experts examined the value and role of IT architecture in light of a dynamic business environment. The topics also addressed how IT can better communicate and collaborate with the business interests around them. To gain deeper insights into how IT architects can bring value to businesses, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner moderated the panel discussion at The Open Group's 21st Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in San Diego on Feb. 2. Panelists included Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Janine Kemmeren, enterprise architect at Getronics Consulting and chair of the Architecture Forum Strategy Working Group in The Open Group; Chris Forde, vice president and technology integrator at American Express and chair of the Architecture Forum in The Open Group; Jane Varnus, architecture consultant for the enterprise architecture department at the Bank of Montreal, and Henry Peyret, principal analyst at Forrester Research. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/02/strong-it-architecture-doubly-important.html. Sponsor: The Open Group.

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in February delivered TOGAF 9 at the organization's 21st Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference. At the juncture of this new, major and free release of the enterprise IT architecture framework, it made sense to examine the present and future of The Open Group itself, some of its goals, and what it does for its members. The global organization is actively certifying thousands of IT architecture practitioners, while using the commercial license to increase the contributor flow of best architecture practices back into TOGAF. To better understand how The Open Group operates and drives value to its members, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Allen Brown, president and CEO of The Open Group. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/02/interview-open-groups-ceo-allen-brown.html. Sponsor: The Open Group.

As established enterprise IT expectations meet up with cutting-edge cloud delivery models, there's a clear need for additional trust and maturity in order for enterprises to further adopt cloud-based services. Enterprise IT expectations on visibility, control, and security to software as a service (SaaS), and cloud-based applications delivery need tools that manage the applications use and the use patterns for providers. This podcast examines how one SaaS provider, Innotas, has developed a more matured view into services operations and application programming interfaces (APIs) and how they can extend the benefits from that visibility to their customers. We'll hear how Innotas, an on-demand project portfolio management (PPM) service, derives more analytics from network activity and thereby provide mounting confidence in how services are performing. To better understand how Innotas has used solutions from Sonoa Systems to provide better managed services based on service level agreements (SLAs), BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Tim Madewell, vice president of operations at Innotas, as well as Chet Kapoor, CEO of Sonoa Systems. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/01/visibility-and-control-over-use-and.html. Sponsor: Sonoa Systems.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 36, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Jan. 12, 2009, our guests examine what keeps SOA alive and vibrant, the ability for the architectural approach to grow inclusive of service types like service-oriented communications (SOC). We also visit the purported demise of large-scale SOA to calibrate the life span of SOA -- dead or alive? Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Todd Landry, vice president of NEC Sphere; Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and prolific blogger; Dave Linthicum, founder of Linthicum Group; JP Morgenthal, senior analyst at Burton Group, and Anne Thomas Manes, vice president and research director at Burton Group. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the podcast: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/01/briefingsdirect-analysts-discuss.html. Charter sponsor: Active Endpoints. Additional underwriting: TIBCO Software.

When large businesses need to change fast, the IT systems need to do more than keep up with change -- they need to manage, define and secure it. Multiple enterprise systems of record that must quickly operate together as result of mergers and acquisitions are being effectively orchestrated using IT repositories. Using such repositories, IT and business assets that need to be quickly federated and integrated can be brought into alignment and managed via policies and governance definitions, even in far-flung operations. To better understand the value and opportunity in using IT repositories to manage change in complex business environments, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently defined a case study at Wachovia, which is now merging with Wells Fargo. The case study emerges in a discussion Gardner has here with Harry Karr and Hemesh Yadav, both IT architects at Wachovia. Listen or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/01/it-repositories-help-financial-giant.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Bringing more enterprise data to the mobile tier has been a thorny problem for many years now. This podcast examines innovative ways to extract and make enterprise data ready to be accessed and consumed by mobile device users. Kapow Technologies is focusing on the Web browser on the mobile device to allow data to be much more efficiently delivered via mobile networks beyond the limited range of traditional enterprise applications. To provide an in-depth look at how more enterprises and their data can be packaged and delivered effectively to more users, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke to JP Finnell, CEO of Mobility Partners, a wireless mobility consulting firm; Stefan Andreasen, founder and chief technology officer at Kapow Technologies, and Ron Yu, head of marketing at Kapow. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/01/enterprises-seek-new-ways-to-package.html. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies.

Internet-scale data gathering, swarms of sensors outputs, and content signals from the mobile device fabric -- as well as enterprises piling up ever more kinds of metadata to analyze -- have stretched traditional data-management models to the breaking point. Yet advances in parallel processing using multi-core chipsets have prompted new software approaches such as MapReduce that can handle these data chores at surprisingly low total cost. What are the technical underpinnings that support the new demands being placed on, and by, extreme data sets? What economies of scale can we anticipate? To provide a technical look at how parallelism, modern data infrastructure, and MapReduce technologies come together, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke with Joe Hellerstein, professor of computer science at UC Berkeley; Robin Bloor, analyst at Hurwitz & Associates, and Luke Lonergan, CTO and co-founder at Greenplum. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/01/technical-look-at-how-parallel.html. Sponsor: Greenplum.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 35, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Dec. 19, 2008, our guests make their top five predictions for IT in 2009. We're going to look at what trends may have changed in 2008, but with an emphasis on the impacts for IT users, and buyers and sellers in the coming year. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Brad Shimmin, principal analyst at Current Analysis, Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and prolific blogger; Dave Linthicum, founder of Linthicum Group; Mike Meehan, senior analyst at Current Analysis, and JP Morgenthal, senior analyst at Burton Group. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the podcast: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/12/briefingsdirect-analysts-make-2009.html. Charter sponsor: Active Endpoints.

Internet-scale data sets and Web-scale analytics have placed a different set of requirements on software infrastructure and data processing techniques. More types of companies and organizations are seeking new inferences and insights across a variety of massive datasets -- some into the petabyte scale. How can all this data be shifted and analyzed quickly, and how can we deliver the results to an inclusive class of business-focused users? Such companies as Greenplum are now focusing on how MapReduce approaches are changing business intelligence (BI) and the data-management game. To provide an in-depth look at how parallelism, modern data infrastructure, and MapReduce technologies come together, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke with Tim O’Reilly, CEO and founder of O’Reilly Media; Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research, and Scott Yara, president and co-founder at Greenplum. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/12/mapreduce-scale-analytics-change.html. Sponsor: Greenplum.

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing are changing the nature of IT systems' performance requirements and heightening expectations for end users of applications and myriad services. Increasingly, this expected level of visibility, management, and performance will apply to those serving up applications as services regardless of their hosting origins or models. To learn more about how systems log tools and analysis are aiding providers of cloud and SaaS, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke with Phil Wainewright, an independent analyst and director at Procullux Ventures and SaaS blogger at ZDNet and ebizQ, as well as Jian Zhen, senior director of product management at LogLogic. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/12/it-systems-analytics-become-crucial-as.html. Sponsor: LogLogic.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 34, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Nov. 21, 2008, our experts focus on the impact that cloud computing will have on the large, established IT vendors. We really are only beginning to understand how the IT services delivery, data management, and economic models of cloud computing will impact the market. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum Research; Brad Shimmin, principal analyst at Current Analysis, and Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and prolific blogger on ZDNet and ebizQ. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the podcast: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/12/briefingsdirect-analysts-handicap-it.html. Charter sponsor: Active Endpoints.

Many enterprises and service providers are now grappling with how cloud models and economics will impact them. The specter of a challenging business climate may well hasten the need to seek IT resources that are supported through greater utility approaches to save money, as well as to reach Internet audiences and gain global Web efficiencies. The goal is to take advantage of what cloud models offer, but to do so with low risk and in alignment with enterprise IT dictates and requirements around management, security, governance, and visibility. To better understand the value and opportunity unfolding around cloud computing, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Andy Mulholland, global chief technology officer at Capgemini; Tim Hall, director of services-oriented architecture (SOA) products at HP Software and Solutions, and Russ Daniels, vice president and CTO of cloud services strategy at HP. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/12/cloud-computing-means-more-than-cost.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

The trend around using remote support software for monitoring, remediation, and maintenance automation is gaining steam in the global IT market. We expect that as companies become even more cost conscious that they will seek to reduce their total cost of IT operations, and that remote support best practices and effective use will become even more prominent. The goal is to free up on-premises IT personnel to focus on what they do best and to offload routine and potentially unproductive chores to organizations that do IT support remotely at high efficiency and low cost. To better understand the options for better remote monitoring, resolving, and automating the ongoing performance of IT systems, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Dionne Morgan, worldwide marketing manager in HP Technology Services, and Claudia Ulrich, communications manager in Delivery Engineering at HP. Listen here to read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/12/remote-support-offers-enterprises.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

As enterprises scale up of their use of service oriented architecture (SOA), proper governance is providing an insurance effect. Governance helps ensure that SOA will grow without stumbling -- allowing companies to “crawl, walk, and run” to SOA without losing control. SOA governance heightens the business benefits of services, increases IT efficiency returns, and reduces the risk that complexity could undermine the services lifecycle and hamper the adoption in large organizations. Services governance also sets the stage for leveraging cloud and third-party services while managing the boundary between internal and external services. To unpack the relationship between SOA, governance, cloud and IT management, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Tim Hall, Director of SOA Products for HP Software and Solutions. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/12/interview-hps-tim-hall-on-heightened.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Much has been said about cloud computing in 2008, and still many knowledgeable IT people scratch their heads over what it really means. They want to know, How can enterprises best prepare to take advantage of this shift in IT resources use and acquisition -- but while also avoiding risks and uncertainty? To learn more about how enterprises should begin enjoying the pragmatic benefits of cloud-based delivery of mission-critical applications and data, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner spoke with Rebecca Lawson, Director of Service Management and Cloud Solutions at HP; Scott McClellan, Vice President and Chief Technologist of Scalable Computing and Infrastructure in HP’s Technology Solutions Group, and Norman Lindsey, Chief Architect for Flexible Computing Services at EDS, an HP company. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/11/enterprises-can-leverage-cloud.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

In an age of significant layoffs and corporate restructuring, the burgeoning problem of identity and access management for IT operations and data centers has escalated into a critical security issue. Managing who gets access to which resources for how long -- and under what circumstances -- has become a huge and thorny problem. Improper and overextended access to sensitive data and powerful applications can cause massive risk as employees are upset. To learn more about how enterprises should begin coordinated identity and access management strategies, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner spoke with Dan Rueckert, worldwide practice director for security and risk management in HP’s Consulting and Integration group; Archie Reed, distinguished technologist in HP’s security office in the Enterprise Storage and Server Group, and Mark Tice, vice president of identity management at Oracle. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/11/identity-and-access-management-key-to.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 33, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Nov. 7, 2008, our experts examine services-oriented-architecture (SOA) governance, how to do it right, its scope, its future, and impact. We'll be talking with Todd Biske, author of the new Packet Publishing book, SOA Governance. The panel also focuses on the IT policies that an Obama administration should pursue, as well as ruminate about what a cabinet-level IT director appointee might accomplish. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum Research, and Biske, an enterprise architect at Monsanto. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a transcript of the podcast: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/11/briefingsdirect-analysts-review-new-soa.html. Charter sponsor: Active Endpoints.

Many enterprises are factoring how to bring more applications into a virtual development and deployment environment to save on operating costs and to take advantage of service oriented architectures and cloud computing models. Managing virtualized applications is an essential ingredient in making cloud-computing approaches as productive as possible while avoiding risk and complexity. To learn more about how enterprises should begin moving to application-level virtualization, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner spoke with Billy Marshall, founder and chief strategy officer of rPath. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/11/interview-rpaths-billy-marshall-on-how.html. Sponsor: rPath.

Fresh research from IDC on service oriented architecture (SOA) adoption patterns shows what users of SOA identify as essential success factors. The perceptions are critical as more companies cross from experimentation to more holistic SOA use and its required governance. A recent webinar captures the IDC findings and shows how HP is working to help companies adopt SOA successfully. That webinar is captured here as a podcast. Join BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner as he moderates a presentation by Sandy Rogers, program director for SOA, Web services, and integration research at IDC, along with Kelly Emo, SOA product marketing manager for HP Software. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/11/webinar-idc-research-shows-soa-adoption.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

The critical and global problem of energy management for IT operations and data centers has emerged as both a cost and capacity issue. The goal is to find innovative means to conservation so that existing facilities don't need to be expanded or replaced. In order to promote a low-risk matching of energy supply and cost with the lowest IT energy demand possible, the entire and contextual IT landscape needs to be considered. That means an enterprise-by-enterprise examination of the "many sins" of energy mis-management. To learn more about how enterprises should begin an energy-conservation mission, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner spoke with Ian Jagger, Worldwide Data Center Services marketing manager in Hewlett-Packard's (HP) Technology Solutions Group, and Andrew Fisher, manager of technology strategy in the Industry Standard Services group at HP. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/11/solving-it-energy-use-issues-requires.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Implementing best practices from the the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is becoming popular in IT departments. As managers improve IT operations with an eye to process efficiency, operational accountability, and systems behaviors, they need visibility into systems and networks. The use of systems log management and analytics in the context of full IT infrastructures produces the audit and performance data trail that helps implement and refine such frameworks as ITIL. To learn more about how systems log tools and analysis are aiding organizations as they adopt ITIL, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke with Sean McClean, principal at consultancy KatalystNow, and Sudha Iyer, director of product management at LogLogic. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/11/log-management-and-analytics-key-to.html. Sponsor: LogLogic.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Insights Edition, Vol. 32, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Oct. 24, 2008, our experts examine the state of Microsoft at the onset of the annual Professional Developers Conference. Two narratives emerge from the roundtable discussion, that Microsoft is behind on many new IT trends and is tied to past business models, and opposing is the view that Microsoft will ride business intelligence, data services, and cloud computing to become bigger and more pervasive than ever. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum Research; Dave Linthicum, independent SOA consultant at Linthicum Group; Brad Shimmin, principal analyst at Current Analysis; Mike Meehan, a senior analyst at Current Analysis, and Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and prolific blogger. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a transcript of the podcast: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/10/briefingsdirect-analysts-take.html. Charter sponsor: Active Endpoints.

Security and risk aversion around personnel, applications, and IT systems access have never been more urgent. Properly managed identity information and access rules for the users of applications and systems has evolved quickly to include gaining insight into use and abuse patterns. The goal is to work more toward identity governance, a step above simply giving access and privileges, and of getting pro-active in managing access across multiple dimensions in a business. To learn more about the newest solutions around identity governance, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner speaks with Mark McClain, CEO and founder of SailPoint Technologies, and Jackie Gilbert, vice president of marketing and founder at SailPoint. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/10/identity-governance-becomes-must-do.html. Sponsor: SailPoint Technologies.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Insights Edition, Vol. 31, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Oct. 10, 2008, our experts examine the worsening global economic climate to evaluate the impact on IT buyers and sellers. The experts pick some winners and losers and offer surprising and useful advice for enterprises. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum Research; Jim kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research, and Dave Linthicum, independent SOA consultant at Linthicum Group. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a transcript of the podcast: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/10/briefingsdirect-analysts-discuss-it.html. Charter sponsor: Active Endpoints.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Insights Edition, Vol. 30, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Sept. 26, 2008, our experts examine the HP-Oracle announcements at Oracle OpenWorld, cloud computing and "on-premises" clouds, and recent virtualization news from VMware, HP, Red Hat and Citrix. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Joe McKendrick, an independent analyst and ZDNet blogger; Brad Shimmin, principal analyst of Current Analysis; Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research, and Dave Linthicum, independent SOA consultant. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by Dana Gardner. Read a transcript of the podcast: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/10/briefingsdirect-insights-analysts.html. Sponsors: Active Endpoints, Hewlett-Packard.