Author Archives: Info-TechDBAs: Not a Dying Breed
December 19, 2012With an ever changing technological environment, there is always the difficulty of positions being redefined, expanding, diminishing, and evolving. One position going through these growing pains is the Database Administrator (DBA). Many organizations may find themselves asking “Do we really … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, Research, What's New in Research | Tagged Application DBA, Database administrator, database management, Database Management Systems, DBA, DBAs, SQL, System DBA | Comments Off
What is SDN? I hear so much about it!
December 10, 2012There has been a lot of buzz of a new concept emerging in the network community– software defined networking (SDN). SDN is glamorized as the network’s latest push towards a more streamlined and cost-efficient solution compared to the physical infrastructure … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, What's New in Research | Tagged abstraction, API, Application, architecture, Brocade, Cariden, cisco, commoditization, control plane, controller, data plane, DDoS, decouple, hp, ibm, Infrastructure, interoperability, Juniper, layer 2, layer 3, microsoft, network, network architect, Open Networking Foundation, OpenFlow, OSI, physical, router, SDN, software defined networking, stack, standards, switch, traffic flow, utilization, virtual, virtualization, VMWare | Comments Off
Mid-Market Project Portfolio Management: Where Collaboration Meets PPM
November 20, 2012Social collaboration is everywhere these days. We have Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and countless other solutions available for general use. Enterprise collaboration tools also are on the rise, such as Socialtext, SAP StreamWork and the list goes on (if interested have … Continue reading
Posted in Infrastructure, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged agile method, application management, AtTask, Clarizen, collaboration, Daptiv, Innotas, LiquidPlanner, planning, Prioritization, product development, professional services automation, project-management, psa, resource management, sciforma, Wrike | Comments Off
Failure to Launch
October 22, 2012It is not a new concept that organizations use data to make verifiable business decisions, but why then has the governance of data only gained popularity recently? This question is a misconception; data governance has always been important, and most … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, What's New in Research | Tagged bi, big data, business-intelligence, buy-in, cloud, compliance, data accountability, data definitions, data governance, data integrity, data issues, data metrics, data owner, data standards, data steward, data-integration, data-management, data-quality, DI, master-data-management, policies, privacy, procedures, process, social-media, sponsorship, stakeholders, steering-committee | Comments Off
Mobile Development Strategies
October 22, 2012Mobile devices are here to stay, and with that comes a myriad of newer mobile operating systems, and hardware form factors. From all the hype you’d think we’re entering into some brave new uncharted world. Stepping back, however, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Applications, What's New in Research | Tagged Applications, development, form factor, HTML5, MEAP, mobile, native app, platform, smartphone, tablet, web app | 1 Comment
