Mon, 21 December 2009
This podcast discussion focuses on the economic benefits of cloud computing -- of how to use cloud-computing models and methods to control IT cost by better supporting application workloads.
As we've been looking at cloud computing over the past several years, a long transition is under way, of moving from traditional IT and architectural method to this notion of cloud -- be it private cloud, at a third-party location, or through some combination of the above.
Traditional capacity planning is not enough in these newer cloud-computing environments. Elasticity planning is what’s needed. It’s a natural evolution of capacity planning, but it’s in the cloud.
Therefore traditional capacity planning needs to be refactored and reexamined. So now we'll look at how to best right-size applications, while matching service delivery resources and demands intelligently, repeatedly, and dynamically. The movement to pay-per-use model also goes a long way to promoting such matched resources and demand, and reduces wasteful application practices.
We'll also examine how quality control for these applications in development reduces the total cost of supporting applications, while allowing for a tuning and an appropriate way of managing applications in the operational cloud scenario.
Here to help unpack how Cloud Assure services can take the mystique out of cloud computing econom
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:40am EST |
Fri, 18 December 2009
The crucial migration phase when moving or modernizing data centers can make or break the success of these complex undertakings. Much planning and expensive effort goes into building new data centers, or in conducting major improvements to existing ones. But too often there's short shrift in the actual "throwing of the switch" -- in the moving and migrating of existing applications and data.
But, as new data center transformations pick up -- due to the recovering economy and financial pressures to boost overall IT efficiency -- so too should the early-and-often planning and thoughtful execution of the migration itself get proper attention. This podcast examines the best practices, risk mitigation tools, and requirements for conducting data center migrations properly.
To help pave the way to making data center migrations come off without a hitch, we're joined by three thought leaders from Hewlett-Packard (HP): Peter Gilis, data center transformation architect for HP Technology Services; John Bennett, worldwide director, Data Center Transformation Solutions at HP, and Arnie McKinnis, worldwide product marketing manager for Data Center Modernization at HP Enterprise Services.
The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Read a full transcript of the podcast, or download a copy. Sponsor: HP.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:51am EST |
Thu, 17 December 2009
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Today's sponsored podcast delivers an executive interview with Robin Purohit, Vice President and
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:14am EST |
Wed, 2 December 2009
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Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 47. This periodic discussion and dissection of IT infrastructure related news and events, with a panel of industry analysts and guests, comes to you with the help of our charter sponsor, Active Endpoints, maker of the ActiveVOS, visual orchestration system, and through the support of TIBCO Software. Our topic this week on BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition centers on how to define, track and influence how people adapt to and adopt technology.
Any new information technology might be the best thing since sliced bread, but if people don’t understand the value or how to access it properly -- or if adoption is spotty, or held up by sub-groups, agendas, or politics -- then the value proposition is left in the dust.
A crucial element for avoiding and overcoming social and user dissonance with technology adoption is to know what you are up against, in detail. Yet, data and inferences on how people really feel about technology is often missing, incomplete, or inaccurate.
In this podcast, we hear from two partners who are working to solve this issue pragmatically. First, with regard to Enterprise 2.0 technologies and approaches. And, if my hunch is right, it could very well apply to service-oriented architecture (SOA) adoption as well.
I suppose you can think of this as a pragmatic approach to developing business intelligence (BI) values for people’s perceptions and their ongoing habits as they adopt technology in a business context.
So please join Michael Krigsman, president and CEO of Asuret, as well as Dion Hinchcliffe, founder and chief technology officer at Hinchcliffe & Co. to explain how Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0 works. Our panel also includes Joe McKendrick, prolific blogger and analyst; Miko Matsumura, vice president and chief strategist at Software AG; Ron Schmelzer, managing partner at ZapThink; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Sandy Rogers, independent industry analyst, and Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research.
The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. View a full transcript, or download a copy. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Also sponsored by TIBCO Software.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:05pm EST |
Mon, 16 November 2009
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Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 46. This periodic discussion and dissection of IT infrastructure related news and events, with a panel of industry analysts and guests, comes to you with the help of our charter sponsor, Active Endpoints, maker of the ActiveVOS, visual orchestration system, and through the support of TIBCO Software.
Our topic this week on BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition centers on "business commerce clouds." As the general notion of cloud computing continues to permeate the collective IT imagination, an offshoot vision holds that multiple business-to-business (B2B) players could use the cloud approach to build extended business process ecosystems.
It's sort of like a marketplace in the cloud on steroids, on someone else's servers, perhaps to engage on someone's business objectives, and maybe even satisfy some customers along the way.
I, for one, can imagine a dynamic, elastic, self-defining, and self-directing business-services environment that wells up around the needs of a business group or niche, and then subsides when lack of demand dictates. It's really a way to make fluid markets adapt at Internet speed, at low cost, to business requirements, as they come and go.
The concept of this business commerce cloud was solidified for me just a few weeks ago, when I spoke to Tim Minahan,
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:16am EST |
Mon, 9 November 2009
Text-based content and information from across the Web are growing in importance to businesses. The need to analyze web-based text in real-time is rising to where structured data was in importance just several years ago.
Indeed, for businesses looking to do even more commerce and community building across the Web, text access and analytics forms a new mother lode of valuable insights to mine.
As the recession forces the need to identify and evaluate new revenue sources, businesses need to capture such web data services for their business intelligence (BI) to work better, deeper, and faster.
In this podcast discussion, Part 3 of a series on web data services for BI, we discuss how an ecology of providers and a variety of content and data types come together in several use-case scenarios.
In Part 1 of our series we discussed how external data has grown in both volume and importance across the Internet, social networks, portals, and applications. In Part 2, we dug even deeper into how to make the most of web data services for BI, along with the need to share those web data services inferences quickly and easily.
Our panel now looks specifically at how near real-time text analytics fills out a framework of web data services that can form a whole greater than the sum of the parts, and this brings about a whole new generation of BI benefits and payoffs.
Here to help explain the benefits of text analytics and their context in web data services are Seth Grimes,
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:42pm EST |
Fri, 30 October 2009
Data-center consolidation and modernization of IT systems helps enterprises reduce cost, cut labor, slash energy use, and become more agile.
But to gain the benefits of these large and strategic infrastructure undertakings, the impact on the network beyond the firewall has to be considered. User expectations for performance and IT requirements for reliability need to be maintained, and even improved. Fewer data centers means longer distances between servers and users.
Network services and Internet performance management therefore need to be brought
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:54pm EST |
Thu, 29 October 2009
This podcast forms the second in the series of three to examine Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line. A panel of experts discusses the rationale and likely returns of assessing the true role and character of legacy applications, and then assess the true paybacks from modernization.
To gain the most return on modernization projects, many enterprises are separating "core from context" when it comes to legacy enterprise applications and their modernization processes. As enterpri
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:08pm EST |
Mon, 26 October 2009
Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Volume 45. This periodic discussion and dissection of IT infrastructure related news and events with industry analysts and guests, comes to you with the help of charter sponsor, Active Endpoints, maker of the ActiveVOS and visual orchestration system, and through the support of TIBCO Software.
Our topic this week on BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition centers on Dave Linthicum's new
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:25pm EST |
Sun, 25 October 2009
This podcast is the first in the series of three to examine Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line. We'll discuss the rationale and likely returns of assessing the true role and character of legacy applications, and then assess the true paybacks from modernization.
The ongoing impact of the reset economy is putting more emphasis on lean IT -- of identifying and eliminating waste across the data-center landscape. The top candidates, on several levels, are the silo-architected legacy applications and the aging IT systems that support them.
We'll also uncover a number of proven strategies on how to innovatively architect legacy applications for transformation and for improved technical, economic, and productivity
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:21pm EST |
Thu, 15 October 2009
This sponsored podcast discussion focuses on enterprise IT architects making a leap from virtualization to cloud computing.
How should IT leaders scale virtualized environments so that they can be managed for elasticity payoffs? What should be taking place in virtualized environments now to get them ready for cloud efficiencies and capabilities later? And how do service-oriented architecture (SOA), governance, and adaptive infrastructure approaches relate to this progression or road map from tactical virtualization to powerful and strategic cloud computing outcomes?
Here to help hammer out a typical road map for how to move from virtualization-enabled server, storage, and network utilization benefits to the larger class of cloud computing
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:20am EST |
Wed, 14 October 2009
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Today's sponsored podcast is an executive interview with software-as-a-service (SaaS) upstart Workday, a human capital management (HCM), financial management, payroll, worker spend management, and workday benefits network provider.
We are here with Workday’s co-founder and co-CEO, Aneel Bhusri, who is responsible for the comp
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:08pm EST |
Fri, 9 October 2009
The popularity of the concepts around cloud computing have caught many IT departments off-guard.
While business and financial leaders have become enamored of the expected economic and agility payoffs from cloud models, IT planners often lack structured plans or even a rudimentary roadmap of how to attain cloud benefits from their current IT environment.
New market data gathered from recent HP workshops on early cloud adoption and data center transformation shows a wide and deep gulf between the desire to leverage cloud method and the ability to dependably deliver or consume cloud-based services.
So, how do those tasked with a cloud strategy proceed? How do they exercise caution and risk reduction, while also showing swift progress toward an "Everything as a Service" world? How do they pick and choose among a burgeoning variety of sourcing options for IT and business services and accurately identify the ones that make the most sense, and which adhere to existing performance, governance and security guidelines?
It's an awful lot to digest. As one recent HP cloud workshop attendee said, “We're interested in knowing how to build, structure, and document a cloud services portfolio with actual service definitions and specifications.”
Here to help better understand how to properly develop a roadmap to cloud computing adoption in the enterprise, we're joined by three experts from HP: Ewald Comhaire, global practice manager of Data Center Transformation at HP Technology Services; Ken Hamilton, worldwide director for Cloud Computing Portfolio in the HP Technology Services Division, and Ian Jagger, worldwide marketing manager for Data Center Services at HP.
View a full transcript of the discussion, or download a copy. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.
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Wed, 7 October 2009
Most enterprise networks are the result of a patchwork effect of bringing in equipment as needed over the years to fight the fire of the day, with little emphasis on strategy and the anticipation of future requirements. That's why it's necessary to reevaluate network architectures in light of newer and evolving demands, and overall moves to next-generation data centers.
Nowadays, we see that network requirements have, and are, shifting, as IT departments adopt improvements such as virtualization, software as a service (SaaS), cloud computing, and service-oriented architecture (SOA).
The network loads and demands continue to shift under the weight of Web-facing applications and services, security and regulatory compliance, governance, ever-greater data sets, and global-area service distribution and related performance management.
It doesn't make sense to embark upon a data-center transformation journey without a strong emphasis on network transformation as well. Indeed, the two ought to be brought together, converging to an increasing degree over time.
This sponsored podcast discussion brings together three thought leaders at HP on network transformation to help explain the evolving role of network transformation and to rationalize the strategic approach to planning and specifying present and future enterprise networks. They are Lin Nease, director of Emerging Technologies, HP ProCurve; John Bennett, worldwide director, Data Center Transformation Solutions, and Mike Thessen, practice principal, Network Infrastructure Solutions Practice in the HP Network Solutions Group. The podcast is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
View a full transcript, or download a transcript. Sponsor: HP.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:05pm EST |
Mon, 5 October 2009
The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion targets significantly reducing energy consumption across data centers. Producing meaningful, long-term energy savings in IT operations depends on a strategic planning and execution process.
The goal is to seek out long-term gains from prudent, short-term investments, whenever possible. It makes little sense to invest piecemeal in areas that offer poor returns, when a careful cost-benefit analysis for each specific enterprise can identify the true wellsprings of IT energy conservation.
In this discussion, we examine four major areas that result in the most energy policy bang for the buck -- virtualization, application modernization, data-center infrastructure best practices, and properly planning and building out new data-center facilities.
By focusing on these major areas, but with a strict appreciation of the current and preceding IT patterns and specific requirements for each data center, real energy savings -- and productivity gains -- are in the offing.
To help learn more about significantly reducing energy consumption across data centers, we are joined by two experts from HP: John Bennett, worldwide director, Data Center Transformation Solutions , and Ian Jagger, worldwide marketing manager for Data Center Services. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
View a full transcript or download a transcript. Sponsor: HP.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:35pm EST |
Mon, 5 October 2009
This sponsored podcast discussion centers on making the most of web data services for business intelligence (BI). As enterprises seek to gain better insights into their markets, processes, and business development opportunities, they face a daunting challenge -- how to identify, gather, cleanse, and manage all of the relevant data and content being generated across the Web.
In Part 1 of our series we discussed how external data has grown in both volume and importance across internal Internet, social networks, portals, and applications in recent years. As the recession forces the need to identify and evaluate new revenue sources, businesses need to capture such web data services for their BI to work better and fuller.
Enterprises need to know what's going on and what's being said about their markets across those markets. They need to share those web data service inferences quickly and easily across their internal users. The more relevant and useful content that enters into BI tools, the more powerful the BI outcomes -- especially as we look outside the enterprise for fast shifting trends and business opportunities.
In this podcast, Part 2 of the series with Kapow Technologies, we identify how BI and web data services come together, and explore such additional subjects as text analytics and cloud computing.
So, how to get started and how to affordably bring web data services to BI and business consumers as intelligence and insights? Here to help us explain the benefits of web data services and BI, is Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research, and Stefan Andreasen, co-founder and chief technology officer at Kapow Technologies. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
View a full transcript, or download the transcript. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:57pm EST |
Thu, 1 October 2009
Welcome to a podcast discussion on how to make the most of cloud computing for innovative solving of industry-level problems. As enterprises seek to exploit cloud computing, business leaders are focused on new productivity benefits. Yet, the IT folks need to focus on the technology in order to propel those business solutions forward.
As enterprises confront cloud computing, they want to know what's going to enable new and potentially revolutionary business outcomes. How will business process innovation -- necessitated by the reset economy -- gain from using cloud-based services, models, and solutions?
Early examples of applying cloud to industry challenges, such as the recent GS1 Canada Food Recall Initiative, show that doing things in new ways can have huge payoffs.
We'll learn here about the HP Cloud Product Recall Platform that provides the underlying infrastructure for the GS1 Canada food recall solution, and we will dig deeper into what cloud computing means for companies in the manufacturing and distribution industries and the "new era" of Moore's Law.
Here to help explain the benefits of cloud computing and vertical business transformation, we're joined by Mick Keyes, senior architect in the HP Chief Technology Office; Rebecca Lawson, director of Worldwide Cloud Marketing at HP, and Chris Coughlan, director of HP's Track and Trace Cloud Competency Center. The dicussion is koderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
View a full transcript or download the transcript. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:44pm EST |
Wed, 30 September 2009
This latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion tackles the high -- and often under-appreciated -- cost for many enterprises of doing nothing about aging, monolithic applications. Not making a choice about legacy mainframe and poorly utilized applications is, in effect, making a choice not to transform and modernize the applications and their supporting systems.
Not doing anything about aging IT essentially embraces an ongoing cost structure that helps prevent new spending for efficiency-gaining IT innovations. It’s a choice to suspend applications on ossified platforms and to make their reuse and integration difficult, complex, and costly.
Doing nothing is a choice that, especially in a recession, hurts companies in multiple ways -- because successful transformation is the lifeblood of near and long-term productivity improvements.
Here to help us better understand the perils of continuing to do nothing about aging legacy and mainframe applications, we’re joined by four IT transformation experts from Hewlett-Packard (HP). Please welcome: Brad Hipps, product marketer for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Applications Portfolio Software at HP; John Pickett from Enterprise Storage and Server marketing at HP; Paul Evans, worldwide marketing lead on Applications Transformation at HP, and Steve Woods, application transformation analyst and distinguished software engineer at HP Enterprise Services. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
View a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:46am EST |
Mon, 21 September 2009
Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion on the future of business intelligence (BI) -- on bringing more information from more sources into an analytic process, thereby getting more actionable intelligence out.
The explosion of information from across the Web, from mobile devices, inside of social networks, and from the extended business processes that organizations are now employing all provide an opportunity, but they also provide a challenge.
This information can play a critical role in allowing organizations to gather and refine analytics into new market strategies, better buying decisions, and to be the first into new business development opportunities. The challenge is in getting at these Web data services and bringing them into play with existing BI tools and traditional data sets.
So, what are Web data services and how can they be acquired? Furthermore, what is the future of BI when these extended data sources are made into strong components of the forecasts and analytics that enterprises need to survive the recession and also to best exploit the growth that follows?
Here to explain the benefits of Web data services and BI is Howard Dresner,
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:46pm EST |
Fri, 18 September 2009
Welcome to a podcast discussion on helping CIOs make the right decisions and adjustments in both strategy and execution as we face a new era in IT priorities. The combination of the down economy, resetting of IT investment patterns, and the need for agile business processes, along with the arrival of some new technologies, are all combining to force CIOs to reevaluate their plans. CIOs are shifting in their priorities and making real-time adjustments. So what should CIOs make as priorities in the short, medium, and long terms? How can they reduce total cost, while modernizing and transforming IT? What can they do to better support their
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Wed, 16 September 2009
The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion comes to you from The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference and associated 3rd Security Practitioners Conference in Toronto.
We're going to talk about security in the cloud and decision-making about cloud choices for enterprises. There has been an awful lot of concern and interest in cloud and security, and they go hand in hand.
We're going to find out about some early activities among several groups, including the Jericho Forum. They are seeking ways to help organizations and guide them through this process of approaching cloud with security in mind.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:44pm EST |
Tue, 15 September 2009
Welcome to a podcast discussion on Green IT and the many ways to help reduce energy use, stem carbon dioxide creation, and reduce total IT costs -- all at the same time. We're also focusing on how IT can be a benefit to a whole business or corporate-level look at energy use.
We'll look at how current IT planners should view energy concerns, some common approaches to help conserve energy, and at how IT suppliers themselves can make "green" a priority in their new systems and solutions.
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Mon, 14 September 2009
Welcome to a podcast interview coming to you from The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Toronto. Our topic for this podcast, part of a series from the summer conference, centers on The Open Group itself.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:57am EST |
Tue, 8 September 2009
This latest BriefingsDirect podcast uncovers how to quickly harness the technical benefits of cloud computing approaches. We examine how enterprises are increasingly focused on delivery and consumption of cloud-based infrastructure and services.
The interest in cloud adoption is being fueled by economics, energy concerns, skills shortages, and complexity. Getting the best paybacks from cloud efforts early and often and by bringing them on-premises, can help prevent missing the rewards of cloud models later by being unprepared or inexperienced now.
We expect that the way the clouds are built will be refined for more and more enterprises over time. The early goal is gaining the efficiency, control and business benefits of an everything-as-a-service approach, without the downside and risks.
Yet much of what makes the cloud tick is already being used inside of many data centers today.
So now, we'll examine how many of the technical underpinnings of cloud are available for organizations to leverage in their in-house data centers -- whether it’s moving to highly scalable servers and storage, deeper use of virtualization technologies, improved management and automation for elastic compute provisioning, or service management and governance expertise.
Here to help us better understand how to make the most of cloud technologies are four experts from Hewlett-Packard (HP): Pete Brey, worldwide marketing manager for HP StorageWorks group; Ed Turkel, manager of business development for HP Scalable Computing and Infrastructure; Tim Van Ash, director of software as a service (SaaS) products in the HP Software and Solutions group, and Gary Thome, chief strategist for infrastructure software and blades at HP.
The discussion is moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript of the discussion, or download the transcript. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:58pm EST |
Wed, 2 September 2009
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Welcome to a sponsored BriefingsDirect podcast discussion on the importance of performance monitoring and governance in any move to cloud computing. Most analysts expect cloud computing to become a rapidly growing affair. That is, infrastructure, data, applications, and even management itself, originating as services from different data centers, under different control, and perhaps different ownership.
What then becomes essential in moving to cloud is governance, and the use and characteristics of these services to manage the complexity and relationships in order to harvest the expected efficiencies and benefits that cloud computing portends.
To learn more on accomplishing such visibility and governance at scale and in a way that meets enterprise IT and regulatory compliance needs, we're joined by two executives from Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) Software and Solutions Group, Scott Kupor, former vice president and general manager of HP's software as a service (SaaS) operations, and Anand Eswaran, vice president of Professional Services. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
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Tue, 1 September 2009
Our next BriefingsDirect podcast discussion comes from The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference and the associated 3rd Security Practitioners Conference in Toronto.
We're delving an emerging updated standard called XDAS, which looks at audit trail information from a variety of systems and software across the enterprise IT environment.
This is an emerging standard that’s being orchestrated through The Open Group, but it’s an open-source standard that is hopefully going to help in compliance and regulatory issues and in the automation of heterogeneous environments. This could be increasingly important, as we get deeper into virtualization and cloud computing.
Here to help us drill into XDAS (see a demo now), we're joined by Ian Dobson, director of the Security Forum for The Open Group, as well as Joël Winteregg, CEO and co-founder of NetGuardians. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
View a transcript of the podcast, or download a transcript. Sponsor: The Open Group.
Direct download: BriefingsDirect-XDAS_Auditing_Standard_Podcast.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:58am EST |
Mon, 31 August 2009
Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion on caution, overcoming fear, and the need for
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:10pm EST |
Mon, 31 August 2009
Welcome to a sponsored podcast discussion on better managing server virtualization
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:12am EST |
Fri, 28 August 2009
Welcome to a sponsored podcast discussion on the importance of business process management (BPM), especially for use across a variety of existing systems, in complex IT landscapes, and for building flexible business processes in dynamic environments. The current economic climate shows how drastically businesses need to quickly adapt. Many organizations have had to adjust internally to new requirements and new budgets, but they have also watched as their markets and supplier networks have shifted and become harder to predict. To better understand how business processes can be nimble to help deal with such change, we're joined by a panel of users, BPM providers, and analysts. Please join me in welcoming David A. Kelly, senior analyst at Upside Research; Joby O'Brien, vice president of development at BP Logix, and Jason Woodruff, project manager at TLT-Babcock. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript of the podcast, or download the transcript. Sponsor: BP Logix.
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Thu, 27 August 2009
Welcome to a sponsored podcast discussion coming from The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Toronto. This podcast, part of a series from the July 2009 event, centers on the issue of the enterprise architect (EA) -- the role, the responsibilities, the certification, and skills -- both now and into the future. The burgeoning impact of cloud computing, the down economy, and the interest in projecting more value from IT to the larger business is putting new requirements on the enterprise IT department.
Direct download: BriefingsDirect-Open_Group_Skills_Panel_Podcast.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:41pm EST |
Tue, 25 August 2009
Welcome to a sponsored podcast discussion on the implications cloud computing has on companies in the manufacturing industry. We'll look at how to best define cloud options and how specific businesses can use these new means to add flexible sourcing to gain new business agility. The goal is not to define cloud by what it is, but rather by what it can do, and to explore what cloud solutions can provide to manufacturing industry companies. Here to help uncover the specifics of cloud-enabled business outcomes is Christian Verstraete, Chief Technology Officer for Manufacturing & Distribution Industries Worldwide at Hewlett-Packard (HP); Bernd Roessler, marketing manager for Manufacturing Industries at HP; and Mick Keyes, senior architect for Business Critical Systems at HP. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. View a full transcript of the discussion. Download a transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard.
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:08pm EST |
Mon, 24 August 2009
Complexity of data centers escalates, managed service providers face daunting performance obligations, and the budget to support the operations of these critical endeavors suffers downward pressure. In this podcast, we explore how IT search and systems log management as a service provides low-cost IT analytics that harness complexity to improve performance at radically reduced costs. We'll examine how network management, systems analytics, and log search come together, so that IT operators can gain easy access to identify and fix problems deep inside complex distributed environments. Here to help us better understand how systems log management and search work together are Dr. Chris Waters, co-founder and chief technology officer at Paglo, and Jignesh Ruparel, system engineer at Infobond, a value-added reseller (VAR). The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. View a full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/08/it-and-log-search-as-saas-gains.html. Download the transcript at http://interarborsolutions.books.officelive.com/Documents/Paglo.pdf. Sponsor: Paglo.
Direct download: BriefingsDirect-Paglo_IT_Search_as_SaaS_Podcast.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:47pm EST |
Sun, 23 August 2009
Welcome to a sponsored podcast discussion on how to better understand the standards and methods around ITIL Version 3. We'll unlock the secrets behind ITIL 3, and debunk some common misunderstandings about ITIL and how it can be best used. We're joined by three experts on ITIL who will show how IT leaders can leverage IT Service Management (ITSM) for better efficiency and operational accountability. Please join David Cannon, co-author of the Service Operation Book for the latest version of ITIL, and an ITSM practice principal at HP; Stuart Rance, service management expert at HP, as well as co-author of ITIL Version 3 Glossary; and Ashley Hanna, business development manager at HP and a co-author of ITIL Version 3 Glossary. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. View a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/08/itil-3-leads-way-in-helping-it.html. Download a transcript at http://interarborsolutions.books.officelive.com/Documents/ITILv3.pdf. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard.
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Thu, 20 August 2009
The current economic downturn has highlighted how drastically businesses and their IT operations need to change, whether in growth, reductions, or transformation (or all three). As IT budgets react to change, leaders need to better understand managing change, and not have change manage them. One strong way to be on top of change is by employing IT portfolio management techniques, products, and processes. To learn more about helping enterprises better manage their IT costs and priorities while preparing for flexible growth when the economic tide turns, we welcome Lori Ellsworth, Vice President of Changepoint Solutions at Compuware and David A. Kelly, senior analyst at Upside Research. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. View a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/08/portfolio-management-techniques-help.html. Sponsor: Compuware.
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_Compuware_on_IT_Portfolio_Management.mp3
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Tue, 18 August 2009
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Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 44. Our latest topic centers on Software AG's bid to acquire IDS Scheer for about $320 million. We'll look into why this could be a big business process management (BPM) deal, not only for Software AG, but also for the service-oriented architecture (SOA) competitive landscape that is fast moving, as we saw from Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Another topic for our panel is the seemingly inevitable trend toward Web oriented architecture (WOA), most notably supported by Google's announcement of the Google Chrome operating system (OS). Will the popularity of devices like netbooks and smartphones accelerate the obsolescence of full-fledged fat clients, and what can Google hope to do further to move the market away from powerhouse Microsoft? Who is the David and who is the Goliath in this transition from "software plus services" to "software for services"? Listen in as we go round-robin with our IT analyst panelists: Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Brad Shimmin, principal analyst at Current Analysis; Jason Bloomberg, managing partner at ZapThink; JP Morgenthal, independent analyst and IT consultant; and Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and ZDNet blogger. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/08/briefingsdirect-analysts-discuss.html. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Sponsor: TIBCO Software.
Direct download: BriefingsDirect-Analyst_Insights_Vol_44.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:07pm EST |
Wed, 12 August 2009
Welcome to a special sponsored podcast discussion coming from The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Toronto. This podcast, part of a series from the July 2009 event, centers on cloud computing security. Much of the cloud security debate revolves around perceptions. ... For some cloud security is about seeing the risk glass as half-full or half empty. Yet security in general takes on a different emphasis as services are mixed and matched from a variety of internal and external sources. So will applying conventional security approaches and best practices be enough for low-risk, high-reward, cloud computing adoption? Most importantly, how do companies know when they are prepared to begin adopting cloud practices without undo security risks? Here to help us better understand the perils and promises of adopting cloud approaches securely, we welcome our panel: Glenn Brunette, distinguished engineer and chief security architect at Sun Microsystems and founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA); Doug Howard, chief strategy officer of Perimeter eSecurity and president of USA.NET; Chris Hoff, technical adviser at CSA and director of Cloud and Virtualization Solutions at Cisco Systems; Dr. Richard Reiner, CEO of Enomaly; and Tim Grance, program manager for cyber and network security at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. View a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/08/panel-discussion-is-cloud-computing.html. Download a transcript at http://interarborsolutions.books.officelive.com/Documents/TOGSecureCloud.pdf. Sponsor: The Open Group.
Direct download: BriefingsDirect--Open_Group_Cloud_Security_Panel.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:31pm EST |
Wed, 12 August 2009
This sponsored podcast discussion centers on using cloud computing technologies and models to improve the test and development stages of applications' creation and refinement. One area of cloud computing that has really taken off and generated a lot of interest is the development test and performance proofing of applications -- all from an elastic cloud services fabric. The build and test basis of development have traditionally proven complex, expensive, and inefficient. Periodic bursts of demand on runtime and build resources are the norm. By using a cloud approach, the demand burst can be accommodated better through dynamic resources, pooling, and provisioning. We've seen this done internally for development projects and now we're starting to see it applied increasingly to external cloud resource providers like Amazon Web Services. Here to help explain the benefits of cloud models for development services and how to begin experimenting and leveraging external and internal clouds -- perhaps in combination -- for test resource demand and efficiency, are Martin Van Ryswyk, vice president of engineering at Electric Cloud, and Mike Maciag, CEO at Electric Cloud. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. View a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/08/cloud-computing-proves-natural-for.html. Download a transcript at http://interarborsolutions.books.officelive.com/Documents/Electriccloud.pdf. Sponsor: Electric Cloud.
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Fri, 7 August 2009
Welcome to a special sponsored podcast discussion coming from The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Toronto. This podcast, part of a series from the July 20, 2009 event, centers on the fast-changing role and expanding impact of enterprise architecture (EA). The enterprise architect role is in flux, especially as we consider the heightening interest in cloud computing. The down economy has also focused IT spending to seek out faster, better, and cheaper means to acquire and manage IT functions and business processes. As service components and use shift in their origins and delivery models, the task of meeting or exceeding business requirements based on these services becomes all the more complicated. The new services era calls for powerful architects who can define, govern, and adjust all of the necessary ingredients that they must creatively support and improve upon during a lifecycle over many years. Yet who or what will step into this gulf between the traditional means of IT and the new cloud ecology of services? The architect's role, still a work in progress at many enterprises, may well become the key office where the buck stops in this era. What then should be the role and therefore the new opportunity for enterprise architects? Here to help us lead the way in understanding that complex and dynamic issue, we're joined by our panel, Tim Westbrock, managing director of EAdirections; Sandy Kemsley, an independent IT analyst and architect; and John Gotze, international president for the Association of Enterprise Architects. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. View a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/08/cloud-pushes-enterprise-architects.html. Download a transcript at http://interarborsolutions.books.officelive.com/Documents/EAScope.pdf. Sponsor: The Open Group.
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Fri, 7 August 2009
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Losing control over information sprawl at enterprises can cause long-term inefficiencies. But it's the short-term legal headaches of not being prepared for E-discovery requests that have caught many firms off-guard. Potentially massive savings can be had from thwarting legal discovery fulfillment problems in advance by governing and managing information.
In this sponsored podcast, we examine how the well-managed -- versus the haphazard -- information oversight approach reduces legal risks. These same management lifecycle approaches bring long-term payoffs through better analytics, and regulatory compliance, while reducing the cost of data storage and archiving.
Better understand the perils and promise around information management with guests Jonathan Martin, Vice President and General Manager for Information Management at HP, and Gaynelle Jones, Discovery Counsel at HP. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner.
Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/07/proactive-vs-reactive-approach-to.html.
Download a transcript at http://interarborsolutions.books.officelive.com/Documents/eDiscoveryPDF.pdf. Sponsor: HP.
Direct download: BriefingsDirect-HP_Information_Management.mp3
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Tue, 21 July 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect-Managing_Information_Explosion.mp3
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Fri, 26 June 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_HP_IT_Financial_Management_Offerings_Update.mp3
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Sun, 21 June 2009
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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:09pm EST |
Sun, 21 June 2009
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Direct download: BriefingsDirect_SWU_2009_Kupor-Eswaran.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:41am EST |
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Fri, 19 June 2009
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Fri, 19 June 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_SWU_2009_Anton_Knolmar.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:10am EST |
Wed, 10 June 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_Analyst_Insights_Vol_42_-_Governance.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:26pm EST |
Tue, 2 June 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_CA_on_Mainframe_as_Cloud_Podcast.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:59am EST |
Mon, 1 June 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_Forrester_Interview_Podcast.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:45pm EST |
Thu, 21 May 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_Analyst_Insights_Podcast_Vol_41_--_IT_Renaissance.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:21am EST |
Wed, 20 May 2009
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Direct download: BriefingsDirect-Mobile_Web_Benefits_Smartphone_Developers.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:26pm EST |
Mon, 18 May 2009
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Direct download: BriefingsDirect_--The_Open_Group_London_Panel_Podcast.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:44pm EST |
Sun, 3 May 2009
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Mon, 13 April 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_Analysts_Insights_Vol_39_-_Open_Source_Value.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:31am EST |
Tue, 7 April 2009
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Direct download: BriefingsDirect-Workday_Delivers_Business_Agility_as_a_Service.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:19am EST |
Sun, 29 March 2009
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Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_The_Economics_of_Virtualization_With_HPs_Bob_Meyer.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:16pm EST |
Sun, 22 March 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_Analyst_Insights_Edition_Vol_38_on_Cutting_IT_Costs.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:08pm EST |
Sun, 22 March 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_Podcast_from_Webinar_on_Application_Modernization.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:55am EST |
Wed, 11 March 2009
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Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_Analyst_Insights_Vol_37_on_BPEL4People_Workflow.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:24am EST |
Wed, 18 February 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_How_Cloud_Computing_Aligns_With_Enterprise_Architecture.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:46am EST |
Sat, 14 February 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_Open_Group_Panel_on_Security_Through_Architecture.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:05pm EST |
Fri, 13 February 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_Progress_FUSE_Trends_Interview.mp3
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Thu, 12 February 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_TOGAF_9_Delivery_and_History.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:29pm EST |
Mon, 9 February 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_Open_Group_Architecture_Event_Live_Panel.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:05pm EST |
Mon, 9 February 2009
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Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_Open_Group_CEO_Allen_Brown_Interview.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:27pm EST |
Wed, 28 January 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_Sonoa_Software_on_Role_of_APIs_in_Cloud_Computing.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:32pm EST |
Mon, 26 January 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_Analyst_InsightsEdition_Vol_36.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:33pm EST |
Thu, 22 January 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_Wachovia_Uses_SOA_Repositories_to_Manage_Complexity.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:18pm EST |
Tue, 20 January 2009
Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_Take_Enterprise_Data_Mobile_With_Kapow.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:03pm EST |
Mon, 5 January 2009
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Direct download: BriefingsDirect_-_A_Technical_Discussion_on_MapReduce_and_New_Data_Architectures.mp3
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