BriefingsDirect Analysts Make 2009 Predictions for Enterprise IT, SOA, Cloud and Business Intelligence 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.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:27am EDT

MapReduce-scale Analytics Change BI Landscape as Enterprises Mine Ever-Expanding Data Sets 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.

IT Systems Analytics Become More Crucial as Cloud and SaaS Adoption Raises Complexity Bar 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.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:22am EDT

BriefingsDirect Analysts Handicap Large IT Vendors on How Cloud Trend Impacts Them 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.
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Cloud Computing Means More Than Cost Savings: New Models Will Transform Business, Say HP and Capgemini 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.
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Remote Support Offers Enterprises Avenue to Cut Operations Costs While Improving IT Systems Reliability 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.
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Interview: HP’s Tim Hall on Heightened Role of Governance in SOA, Cloud and Dynamic Business 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.
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Enterprises Can Leverage Cloud Benefits and Manage Risks Using Service Governance, Say HP Executives 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.
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Identity and Access Management Key to Security Best Practices in Changing Business Landscape 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.
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BriefingsDirect Analysts Review New SOA Governance Book, Propose Scope for U.S. Tech Czar 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.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:32pm EDT

rPath’s Billy Marshall on How Enterprises Can Follow a Practical Path to Virtualized Applications 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.
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IDC Research Shows Enterprise SOA Adoption Deepens Based on Certain Critical Practices 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.
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Solving IT Energy Use Issues Requires Holistic Approach to Efficiency Planning and Management 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.
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Implementing ITIL Requires Log Management and Analytics to Help IT Operations Gain Efficiency and Accountability 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.
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BriefingsDirect Analysts Take Microsoft's Pulse: Will the Software Giant Peak in Next Few Years? 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.
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Identity Governance Becomes Must-Do Item on Personnel Management and Security Checklist 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.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:44am EDT

BriefingsDirect Analysts Discuss IT Winners and Losers in an Era of Global Economic Downturn 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.
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BriefingsDirect Insights Analysts Examine HP-Oracle Exadata, Extreme BI, Virtualization and Cloud Computing 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.
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Improved Insights and Analysis From IT Systems Logs Reduce Complexity Risks From Virtualization Virtualization has certainly taken off, but less attention gets directed to how to better manage virtualization, to gain better security using virtualization techniques, and also to find methods for compliance and regulation of virtualized environments -- but without the pitfalls of complexity and confusion. Virtualization is new enough that best practices are still being formed. To help learn about new ways that systems log tools and analysis are aiding the ramp-up to virtualization use, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke with Charu Chaubal, senior architect for technical marketing, at VMware; Chris Hoff, chief security architect at Unisys, and Dr. Anton Chuvakin, chief logging evangelist and a security expert at LogLogic. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/09/virtualization-use-requires-improved.html. Sponsor: LogLogic.
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Oracle and HP Explain History, Role and Future for New Exadata Server and Database Machine The sidewalks were still jammed around San Francisco's Moscone Center and the wonderment of an Oracle hardware announcement was still palpable across the IT infrastructure universe late last week. Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison caught the Oracle OpenWorld conference audience by surprise Sept. 24 by rolling out the Exadata line of two hardware-software configurations. The integrated servers re-architect the relationship between Oracle's 11g database and high-performance storage. Exadata, in essence, gives new meaning to "attached" storage for Oracle databases. It mimics the close pairing of data and logic execution that such cloud providers as Google use with MapReduce technologies. The unveiling clearly deserves more detail, more understanding. Listen as Dana Gardner interviews Rich Palmer, director of technology and strategy for the industry standard servers group at HP, along with Willie Hardie, vice president Oracle database product marketing, on the inside story on Exadata for BriefingsDirect. The discussion took place Sept. 25, 2008 at the Oracle OpenWorld conference. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.
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Interview: From Oracle OpenWorld, HP's John Santaferraro on Latest BI Modernization Strategies Leading up to HP and Oracle's blockbuster announcement Sept. 24 of record-breaking data warehouse appliance performance, the business value of these infrastructure breakthroughs was the topic of a BriefingsDirect interview with John Santaferraro, director of marketing for HP's Business Intelligence Portfolio. Now that the optimized hardware and software are available to produce the means to analyze and query huge data sets in near real-time, the focus moves to how to best leverage these capabilities. Listen as Dana Gardner interviews Santaferraro on such new and productive concepts as "operational BI" and "BI Modernization." The discussion took place Sept. 23, 2008 at the Oracle OpenWorld conference. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.
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From OpenWorld, Oracle and HP Align Forces to Modernize Legacy Apps and Spur IT Transformation The avenues to IT transformation are many, but the end result must include modernization of data, applications, systems, and operational best practices. It's no surprise then that the partnership of Oracle and Hewlett-Packard gained new ground at the 2008 Oracle OpenWorld conference. The companies are providing products and services that holistically support the many required variables to successfully implement IT transformation. To learn more about how HP and Oracle will continue to act in concert, especially as enterprises seek the highest data center performance at the lowest cost, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner interviewed Paul Evans, worldwide marketing lead for IT transformation solutions at HP, and Lance Knowlton, vice president for modernization at Oracle. The discussion took place Sept. 23, 2008 at the Oracle OpenWorld conference. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.
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Amid Finance Turmoil, Combined HP-EDS Solutions Uniquely Span Public-Private Divide As Wall Street faces some its most turbulent times, HP and the newly acquired EDS unit are combining forces in unique ways. Between them, EDS and HP have been servicing the financial and government sectors for decades. Combined, HP and EDS are uniquely positioned to assist potentially massive transitions and unprecedented public-private interactions. To learn more about how HP and EDS newly align amid financial sector turmoil, BriefingsDirect interviews Maria Allen, vice president of Global Financial Services Industry solutions at EDS. The discussion, moderated by Dana Gardner, was recorded Sept. 22, 2008 at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.
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iTKO's SOA Testing and Validation Role Supports Increasingly Complex Integration Lifecycles The real value of IT comes not from the systems, but from agile business processes in actual use. Growing complexity, and the need to support a process orchestration of the old applications and the new services, places a premium on validating at the process level before -- not after -- implementation. iTKO, through it's LISA product and solutions methods, has created a continuous validation framework for SOA and middleware integrations. To learn more about performance and quality assurance issues around enterprise integration, middleware, and SOA, we interview John Michelsen, chief architect and founder of iTKO. Our podcast is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: iTKO. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/09/itkos-john-michelsen-explains-roles-and.html.
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Systems Log Analytics Offers Operators Performance Insights That Set Stage for IT Transformation Despite growing complexity, IT organizations need to reduce operations costs, increase security and provide more insight, clarity, and transparency across multiple IT systems -- even virtualized systems. A number of different tools and approaches are available for gaining contextual information and visibility into what goes on within IT infrastructure. The solutions that capture all the available systems information and aggregate and centralize that information are becoming essential. To learn more about systems logs analytics, BriefingsDirect conducted a panel discussion with Pat Sueltz, the CEO at LogLogic; Jian Zhen, senior director of product management at LogLogic, and Pete Boergermann, technical support manager at Citizens & Northern Bank. Our podcast is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: LogLogic. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/09/systems-log-analytics-offers-operators.html.
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Interview: HP's Virtualization Services Honcho John Bennett on 'Rethinking Virtualization' Hewlett-Packard announced a series of wide-ranging virtualization products, services and initiatives on Sept. 2. The drive indicates a global and long-term surge by HP on managing solutions for virtualization, but in the context of business outcomes and in a management framework that includes larger IT transformation strategies. To better understand HP's goals and offerings, BriefingsDirect interviewed John Bennett, the worldwide director of data center transformation solutions and also the HP Technology Solutions Group (TSG) lead for virtualization. Our podcast is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/09/interview-hps-virtualization-services.html.
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HP Experts Portray IT Transformation Vision, Explain New Wave of Virtualization Products and Services Virtualization has been gaining attention and adherents faster than ever, but the context of virtualization to business outcomes has been sketchy. Hewlett-Packard on Sept. 2 announced a series of products and services designed to place virtualization into a business and economic framework, one that helps enterprises embrace virtualization in the content of IT transformation. The goal is to use many virtualization products and attain the needed professional services in a way that optimizes the outcomes and paybacks from virtualization activities, to make them related and managed holistically over an IT lifecycle. In order to better understand the new role and return for virtualization, how HP approaches the issues, and to gain more details on the Sept. 2 news, BriefingsDirect conducted a panel discussion with Greg Banfield, consulting manager for the HP Consulting and Integration (C&I) Group infrastructure practice; Dionne Morgan, worldwide marketing manager for HP’s Technology Services Group (TSG), and Tom Norton, worldwide practice lead for Microsoft Services at HP. Our podcast is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/09/hp-experts-portray-it-transformation.html.
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Pulse Provides Novel Training and Tools Configuration Resource to Aid in Developer Education, Preparedness Java training and education has never been easy. Not only is the language and its third-party and community offerings constantly moving targets, each developer has his or her own preferences and habits. What's more, the "book knowledge" gained in many course settings can vary wildly from what happens in the "real world." To help make Java training and tools preferences configuration management more streamlined, automated and extensible, MyEclipse maker Genuitec developed Pulse. This podcast explores how Pulse and best practices around it use helps organize and automate tools configuration profiles for better ongoing Java training and education. To learn more about how Eclipse profiles can be organized and coordinated using Pulse, we we spoke with Michael Cote, an analyst with RedMonk; Ken Kousen, an independent technical trainer, president of Kousen IT, Inc., and adjunct professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; and Todd Williams, vice president of technology at Genuitec. Our podcast is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: Genuitec. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/08/pulse-provides-novel-training-and-tools.html.
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Borland's Own ‘Journey' to Agile Forms Foundation for New Software Delivery Management Solutions Borland Software has been in the developer productivity field for decades, but when it came time to build out a new software delivery management suite for application lifecycle management, Agile became both the means and the ends. The development process at Borland shifted dramatically to Agile and Scrum practices, which in turn deeply influenced how the new products were crafted and refined. To learn more about Agile Development and how Borland Software used the methods to build their own software management products and solutions, we spoke with Peter Morowski, the senior vice president of research and development at Borland. Our podcast is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: Borland Software. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/08/borlands-own-journey-to-agile.html.
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Data Services Provide Catalyst for SOA, Set Stage for Cloud-Based Data Hosting Models In the past, data was secure and controlled. The bad news is that the data was limited by the firewall of personnel, technologies, and rigidity. Today, however, the demand is for just-in-time and inclusive data, moving away from a monolithic data systems to multiple sources of data on real-time activities, events, and inferences. The move is in the ownership of data to the people who really know it, create it, and can use it for business advantage. Analysis values rule. But how to jibe the best of the old with the needs of the new? To learn more about the quickly evolving data services landscape, we spoke with Paul Fremantle, the chief technology officer at WSO2; Brad Svee, the IT manager of development at Concur; and James Governor, a principal analyst and founder at RedMonk. Our podcast is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: WSO2. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/08/data-services-provide-catalyst-for-soa.html.
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SOA Demands Broad Skills and Experience for Enterprise Architects Across Technology and Politics, Says Open Group Panel Defining the role of enterprise architects (EAs) in the context of services-oriented architecture (SOA) is more than an esoteric exercise. It helps also define the major shifts under way with SOA in enterprises and large organizations about how IT is managed. To help better understand the shifting requirements for personnel and leadership in EA and SOA, listen to this podcast discussion recorded at the 19th Annual Open Group Enterprise Architect's Practitioners Conference on July 22, 2008, in Chicago. We discuss the role and impact of skills and experience for EAs in both the public sector and the private sector. Our panel of experts and guests includes Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Eric Knorr, editor-in-chief of InfoWorld; Joe McKendrick, SOA blogger and IT industry analyst; Andras Szakal, the chief architect at IBM's Federal Software Group, and David Cotterill, head of innovation at the U.K. Government Department for Work and Pensions. Moderation is by Dana Gardner of Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript of the podcast: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/08/soa-demands-broader-skills-and.html. Sponsor: The Open Group.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:47pm EDT

ITIL's Influence Extends Beyond IT Operations to Enhance SOA, Portfolio Management and Change Management Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) advances have helped IT departments recast themselves as mature and process-oriented. But the role and influence of ITIL, especially version 3, is extending well beyond IT organization and operations improvements to impact such essential endeavors as as service oriented architecture (SOA), portfolio management and low-risk change management. ITIL, in effect, is fostering cultural and behavioral change inside of IT departments, which also has a direct bearing on general business transformation and the ability of enterprises to innovate and compete writ large. To help better understand the role and impact of ITIL on actual IT departments in a variety of use-case scenarios, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner interviewed two ITIL practitioners, Sean McClean, principal at Katalyst Now, and Hwee-Ming Ng, solutions architect in HP's Consulting and Integration group. The discussion was recorded June 18 at HP's Software Universe event in Las Vegas. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:31am EDT

HP SOA Products Director Tim Hall on New Business Drivers and Efficiency Benefits From SOA Service oriented architecture (SOA) is at a crossroads, moving from pilot to enterprise status for many companies. As the trends and economics landscapes shift, SOA's benefits and pay-offs are accelerating. Green and energy-conscious companies are also seeing SOA through the context of data center and applications modernization. To probe deeper into SOA's impact on enterprise IT and business transformation, we sat down with Tim Hall, director of HP's SOA Center products for a discussion moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner, recorded June 18 at HP's Software Universe event in Las Vegas. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:53am EDT

HP Information Management Maven Rod Walker Describes How BI Helps Business Leaders Innovate Business intelligence (BI) has been a top investment for corporations in the past several years, but the ability for BI to generate value and strategic direction guidance is merely in adolescence. In health care, customer retention, energy and oil management, and for global risk reduction, BI is offering some of the best payoffs from IT and datacenter investments, says Rod Walker, vice president for information management at HP's Consulting and Integration group. Listen to this BI value "now and to come" podcast recorded at HP's Software Universe event June 19, moderated by BriefingDirectt's Dana Gardner. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:16pm EDT

Dan Rueckert of HP Consulting Digs into ITIL's Role in Accelerating SOA, IT Service Management More enterprise IT departments are working toward Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) principles and reference models for running their organizations. Yet ITIL can provide more benefits than initially meets the eye, including accelerating service oriented architecture adoption, faster mean time to repair in operations, and more effective change management. Dan Rueckert, worldwide practice director for both the service management and security practices in HP's Consulting and Integration group, explains the direct and significant ancillary payoffs from ITIL adoption -- from establishing an IT service lifecycle to defining an overall IT service strategy. Listen to this ITIL overview podcast recorded at HP's Software Universe event June 18, moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner from Las Vegas. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:19am EDT

HP Software's David Gee On Next Generation Data Center Trends and Opportunities Enterprise CIOs face mounting challenges that are hard and getting harder. HP says it has a lifeline for these IT departments and leaders over the next five years by helping them to dramatically cut the size of IT budgets relative to the enterprises' total revenue. This allows a shift on IT spending from operations to innovation via next generation data centers. David Gee, vice president of marketing for HP Software, in a podcast interview from HP's Software Universe event this week, discusses the large global opportunity for enterprises and service providers to cut the relative size of IT budgets by investing in modern data centers that save energy, consolidate applications, leverage virtualization, and rely more on automation than manual upkeep processes. Listen to the interview podcast, moderated by your's truly from Las Vegas, for more on HP's plans for next generation data centers that focus IT on the businesses' interests. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:45pm EDT

HP's BTO Chief Ben Horowitz On How Application Lifecycle Optimization Enhances Next Generation Data Centers Ben Horowitz, vice president and general manager of HP’s BTO software unit, explains in this podcast from HP's Software Universe event the collaborative roles that business, security, operations and QA people will play in the design time-to-runtime lifecycle. Bringing more input into applications design, test and refinement, in a managed fashion, allows applications to better meet business goals, while also proving the data center operators better means to host those applications efficiently with high availability. Listen to the podcast, moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, for much more on HP's plans for and philosophy on how BTO and next generation data centers come together for application lifecycle optimization. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:47pm EDT

From HP Software Universe, Adaptive Infrastructure Head Duncan Campbell on Datacenter Energy Efficiency Enterprises are now energized to save energy, and HP's Adaptive Infrastructure program leader, Duncan Campbell, believes the path to automation and efficiency -- plus the need for modernization and consolidation -- present a '"perfect storm" for next generation datacenter adoption. Listen in this podcast from HP's Software Universe and Technology Forum conferences in Las Vegas, June 16-20, 2008, as Campbell explains the new NonStop Blade servers release and how HP's customers are seeking both lower costs and improved agility and performance. Moderator: Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:34am EDT

Live TIBCO Panel Examines Role and Impact of Service Performance Management in Enterprise SOA Deployments Myriad unpredictable demands are being placed on enterprise application services as Service Oriented Architecture (SOS) grows in use. How will the far-flung deployment infrastructure adapt and how will all the disparate components perform so that complex business services meet their expectations in the real world? These are the questions put to a live panel of analysts and experts at the recent TIBCO User Conference (TUCON) 2008. Listen as complex events processing and service performance management find common ground to help provide a new level of insurance against failure for SOA and for enterprise IT architects. To learn more about the future of SOA integrity, we spoke with Joe McKendrick, an independent analyst and SOA blogger; Sandy Rogers, the program director for SOA, Web services and integration at IDC; Anthony Abbattista, the vice president of enterprise technology strategy and planning for Allstate Insurance Co., and Rourke McNamara, director of product marketing for TIBCO Software. Our podcast is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: TIBCO Software. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/06/live-tibco-panel-examines-role-and.html.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:17am EDT

Apache CXF: Where it's Been and What the Future Holds for Web Services Frameworks More open source componentry and frameworks continue to emerge from developer communities and the major open source foundations. One of the latest, Apache CXF, an open-source Web services framework, graduated from incubation recently to become a full project. The progeny of the previous merger of the ObjectWeb-managed Celtix project and the XFire Project at Codehaus, CXF joins a growing pool of Apache and other open source projects supporting services oriented architect (SOA) infrastructure. Many, like CXF, also enjoy commercial support and associated commercial products, such as IONA Technologies' FUSE. To learn more about CXF and the direction for SOA, middleware and open source development, we spoke with Dan Kulp, a principal engineer at IONA who has been deeply involved with CXF; Raven Zachary, the open-source research director at The 451 Group, and Benson Margulies, the CTO of Basis Technology. Our podcast is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: IONA Technologies. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/06/apache-cxf-where-its-been-and-what.html.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:22pm EDT

BriefingsDirect Insights Analysts Probe the Future of Online Advertising and Find Transactional Lucre Lurking Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Insights Edition, Vol. 29, 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 May 9, 2008, our experts examine the future of online advertising, and how the gathering cloud of services hosts like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon will fare in the next era. The consensus moves toward an algorithmic meta-data driven future in which the winners will be taking a piece of many online transactions, from consumers and businesses. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Joe McKendrick, an independent analyst and ZDNet blogger; Tony Baer, principal at OnStrategies and blogger; and Phil Wainewright, independent analyst, director at Procullux Ventures and ZDNet SaaS blogger. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by Dana Gardner. Read a transcript of the podcast: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:03pm EDT

HP Creates Security Reference Model to Better Manage Enterprise Information Risk We live in an age where there is so much exposure to networks and the World Wide Web that when something goes wrong, and the data gets out -- it gets out in a big way. Security breaches are becoming routine in the media, and those are the ones we hear about. So how do large, complex companies and governments protect themselves? How do they manage new and fast-changing compliance regulations? Surprisingly, the answer has more to do with management methodology than security technology. In this sponsored podcast discussion learn from HP security expert Tari Schreider how a comprehensive new security management approach, called Information Security Service Management (ISSM) and its reference model, offers companies a framework with which to finally come to grips with risk and needed compliance. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/04/hp-devices-reference-model-for-managing.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:27pm EDT

BriefingsDirect Insights Analysts Examine WOA-SOA Continuum With Keen Eye on Cloud Computing Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Insights Edition, Vol. 28, 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 April 24, 2008, our experts examine the welling interest and discussion around Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) and Services Oriented Architecture, and how the two relate. The group also evaluates the Microsoft Live Mesh announcement, as well as Google App Engine and the ongoing Microsoft-Yahoo acquisition saga. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Joe McKendrick, an independent analyst and ZDNet blogger; Tony Baer, principal at OnStrategies and blogger; Brad Shimmin, principal analyst at Current Analysis, and Phil Wainewright, independent analyst, director at Procullux Ventures and ZDNet SaaS blogger. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by Dana Gardner. Read a transcript of the podcast: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/05/briefingsdirect-soa-insights-analysts.html.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:47am EDT

XML-Empowered Documents Extend SOA’s Connection to People and Processes Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) should dramatically improve the relationship between people, processes, and IT. Yet the potential for SOA remains clouded due to a gulf between worker knowledge and the new services automation benefits, which remain focused on structured data and existing applications. New advances in documents-based technology, management, and dynamic content enrichment offer a promising lifeline to help solve SOA’s tenuous relationship to people and task-oriented knowledge. Listen as the relationship between SOA and dynamic documents is explored in this sponsored podcast. Dana Gardner interviews Jake Sorofman, senior vice president of marketing and business development, for JustSystems North America. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/03/xml-empowered-documents-extend-soas.html. Sponsor: JustSystems North America.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:02am EDT

'Platform as Service' Enables Cloud-Based Software Development and Deployment Lifecycle On demand applications and cloud computing often mean different things to different people. For developers, software as a service (SaaS) is quickly evolving not only as a means to deliver applications -- but as the means to develop them, too. Taking the notion of "development as a service" to its full potential is the logic behind Platform as a Service (PaaS). To help understand the power of PaaS, we speak in this sponsored podcast to one of the early PaaS pioneers and providers, Bungee Labs. Learn how software development is entering a new era in this discussion with Phil Wainewright, independent analyst and ZDNet SaaS blogger, as well as Alex Barnett, the vice president of community at Bungee Labs. Moderation from Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/04/platform-as-service-enables-cloud-based.html. Sponsor: Bungee Labs.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:00pm EDT

New Eclipse-Based Tools Offer Developers More Choices, Migrations and Paths to Latest IBM WebSphere The arrival of the IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 presents Eclipse-oriented developers with some big decisions. The newest version of this popular runtime will depend largely on Rational Application Developer (RAD) for tooling. However, as enterprise architects and operators begin to adjust to this major new release from IBM, Genuitec is now delivering MyEclipse Blue Edition as an alternative upgrade path for tools. MyEclipse Blue Edition is not competing with IBM as much as catering to an under-served market of people that may not be able to afford the quick and full Rational tool adjustment. To help us better understand the upgrade issues and full cost-benefit analysis of WebSphere Application Server 6.1, Dana Gardner of Interarbor Solutions recently chatted with James Governor, a co-founder and industry analyst at RedMonk, as well as Maher Masri, president of Genuitec. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-eclipse-based-tools-offer.html. Sponsor: Genuitec.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:10pm EDT

Integrien Alive Improves IT Operational Performance While Heading Off Future Datacenter Reliability Problems Complexity in today's IT systems makes previous error prevention approaches for operators inefficient and costly. IT staffs are expensive to retain, and are increasingly hard to find. There is also insufficient information about what’s going on in the context of an entire systems setup. Operators are using manual processes -- in reactive firefighting mode -- to maintain critical service levels. It simply takes too long to interpret and resolve IT failures and glitches. IT executives are therefore seeking more automated approaches to not only remediate problems, but also to get earlier detection. These same operators don’t want to replace their system’s management investments, they want to better use them in a cohesive manner to learn more from them, and to better extract the information that these systems emit. To help us better understand the problems and some of the new solutions and approaches to remediation and detection of IT issues, Dana Gardner of Interarbor Solutions recently chatted with Steve Henning, the Vice President of Products for Integrien, in this BriefingsDirect podcast. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-ways-emerge-to-improve-it.html. Sponsor: Integrien.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:24am EDT

IBM and Kapow on How Enterprises Exploit Application Mashups and Lightweight Data Access The choices among enterprise application development and deployment technologies has never been greater. But what's truly different about today's applications is that line of business people can have a greater impact than ever on how technology supports their productive work. By exploiting mashups, situational applications, Web 2.0 techniques and lightweight data access, new breeds of Web-based applications and services are being cobbled together fast, cheap, and without undue drain on IT staffs and developers. While many mashups still happen outside of IT's purview, more IT leaders see these innovative means as a productivity boon that can't be denied, and which may save them time and resources. The trick is to manage the people and new processes without killing off the innovation. To help weed through the agony and ecstasy of Enterprise 2.0 application development and deployment in the enterprise, Dana Gardner of Interarbor Solutions recently chatted with Rod Smith, Vice President of Internet Emerging Technologies at IBM, and Stefan Andreasen, the Founder and CTO of Kapow Technologies in this BriefingsDirect podcast. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/01/enterprises-seek-ways-to-exploit-web.html. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:02pm EDT