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Nothing New Under the Business Commerce Cloud?

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 ...

From DANA GARDNER, E-Commerce Times,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ariba, Inc.,  Gartner, Inc.,  NYSE,  Apple, Inc.,  Google Inc.

IBM Savors Oracle-Sun Delay

You have to know when to hold them, and when to fold them. Chatting over drinks at the end of day one of the Software Analyst Connect 2009 conference in Stamford, Conn., IBM Senior Vice President and IBM Software Group Executive Steve Mills ...

From DANA GARDNER, The Street,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: IBM,  Oracle,  Larry Ellison,  New York Giants,  Rod Smith

IBM Gets Cozy on the Sidelines as Oracle / Sun Deal Languishes

You have to know when to hold them, and when to fold them. That's the (not just) slightly smug assessment by IBM executives as they reflect -- with twinkles in their eyes -- on the months-stalled Oracle (ORCL) acquisition of Sun Microsystems (JAVA), a ...

From DANA GARDNER, Seeking Alpha,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: IBM,  Oracle,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,  Larry Ellison,  New York Giants

IBM feels cozy on sidelines as Oracle-Sun deal languishes in anti-trust purgatory

Chatting over drinks at the end of day one of the Software Analyst Connect 2009 conference in Stamford, Conn., IBM Senior Vice President and IBM Software Group Executive Steve Mills told me last night he thinks the Oracle-Sun deal will go through, but ...

From DANA GARDNER, ZDNet,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: IBM,  Oracle,  Larry Ellison,  New York Giants,  Rod Smith

HP offers slew of products and services to bring cost savings and better performance to virtual desktops

These include thin-client and desktop virtualization solutions, as well as a multi-seat offering that can double computing seats. At the same time, the company targeted the need for data security with a backup and recovery system for road warriors. ...

From DANA GARDNER, ZDNet,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  Microsoft Corporation

Elastra beefs up automation offering for enterprise cloud computing

Relying on an increased level of automation, the enterprise edition: Automatically generates deployment plans and provisions sophisticated systems that are optimized to minimize operational and capital expenses. At the same time, applications are ...

From DANA GARDNER, ZDNet,  18 Nov 2009

BriefingsDirect analysts discuss business commerce clouds: Wave of the future or old wine in a new bottle?

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. It’s really a way to make fluid markets adapt at Internet ...

From DANA GARDNER, ZDNet,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ariba, Inc.,  Gartner, Inc.

ZapThink explores the four stages of SOA governance that lead to business agility

For several years now, ZapThink has spoken about SOA governance “in the narrow” vs. SOA governance” in the broad.” SOA governance in the narrow refers to governance of the SOA initiative, and focuses primarily on the service lifecycle. When vendors try ...

From DANA GARDNER, ZDNet,  16 Nov 2009

Text Analysis and the Next Generation of BI

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 ...

From DANA GARDNER, E-Commerce Times,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: IBM,  Twitter Inc,  NYSE

Here's why text-based content access and management play crucial roles in real-time BI

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, ...

From DANA GARDNER, ZDNet,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  IBM

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