Research
HP’s Financial & R&D Woes
HP’s latest report on its financial results raises some serious questions about the company’s future direction. Let’s quickly recap the highlights (or sad points). It’s fair to say that except for services (up 1%) and software (up 30%, but software is a small part of HP), the rest of HP’s businesses is in decline. Business [...]
Practical Analytics Improves Project Management and Increases Success for PRISA
Overview In any market economy, vendors and service providers face the perennial challenge of having to deal with competition pursuing customers and threatening market share. The response is to develop product enhancements, additional service features or new offerings that retain and attract customers. The problem arises in determining which development project merits scarce development funds [...]
Leveraging CA IDMS™ for Innovation
Business and IT executives acquire and use technology innovation to drive future growth. They also wish to avoid disrupting current operations as they leverage technology. CA Technologies has a track record in product innovation that embraces and extends their existing products to take advantage of advances and emerging technologies, e.g. Cloud, zIIP processors and automated [...]
Leveraging CA Datacom® Improves Business Agility and Performance
Existing enterprise technologies, such as CA Datacom® are often processing workhorses supporting current revenue streams and delivering high-performance operational benefits to their organizations. Yet these technologies must also prosper within rapidly changing datacenter environments, which are populated with dynamic web and mobile applications, new software architectures and innovative business projects. While Ptak, Noel & Associates [...]
ITCAM for Microsoft Applications Customer Implementation Review
No matter what is driving a project, it is important for implementers to understand how to sidestep trouble by learning from prior experiences. This paper describes the experiences of an early adopter of IBM Tivoli’s Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) for Microsoft Applications. ITCAM for Microsoft Applications is built using the same enterprise class base infrastructure [...]
Should IBM Power Platform & Oracle database users be concerned?
Oracle decision to drop support for Itanium may have raised a question in the minds of some IBM users of the Oracle database on IBM Power 7 systems. Should they concerned or be planning for the possibility that Oracle might be planning to drop support for Power systems? If Oracle were to drop its Power [...]
Zeus customers speak out about their move from appliance-based application delivery
Application delivery solutions sit at the nexus that connects users to business services and data, therefore, selecting between solution options is not a decision made lightly. Switching from time-tested solutions and rock-solid suppliers is simply not done without compelling reasons. This is precisely what Zeus’ customers have done. Our goal with this research was to [...]
Everybody Wins With Integrated IT Search
Summary Everyone in IT has different challenges. The CIO must cut costs by consolidating management solutions and manage the resulting organizational changes. Security managers must complete an ever-expanding set of real-time and forensic analysis. Operations teams worry about preventing and resolving performance and availability issues. This paper explores how integrated search capabilities in ArcSight Logger [...]
2009 Mainframe Linux Workloads Survey
This report contains an analysis of the results of the survey titled “2009 Mainframe Linux Workloads.” Ptak, Noel & Associates in partnership with Z/Journal conducted the survey. Five thousand readers of z/Journal were asked to participate. Almost 5% agreed to participate which is an excellent hit ratio. Two hundred and twenty nine (229) responses were [...]
The Secret to Comprehensive Business Computing Security
The convergence and integration of operations and security management is an emerging and evolving reality for many enterprises today. Reasons for this convergence are being found in and documented by industry expert opinions and vendor-sponsored research, and solution-provider marketing collateral. Theory and market-speak describe the driving forces of complexity, technological sophistication and market pressures. However, [...]
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