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Welcome to panel discussion that examines the need for improved common defenses -- including advancing cooperation between enterprise architects and chief security officers -- to jointly defend against burgeoning cyber security threats. The risks are coming from inside enterprises, as well as myriad external sources.

From the panel, at The Open Group’s Security Practitioners Conference this week in Boston, we’ll learn more about the nature of these borderless, external, cyber security threats, as they emerge from criminal enterprises, globally competitive business sources, even state-based threats, and sometimes a combination of these. We’ll also hear recommendations on developing smarter processes for cyber security based on proven methods and pervasive policies.

To help broaden the scope of enterprise architecture, and to develop a leverage point for "mission architecture"-levels of security and defenses, we're joined by retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Harry D. Raduege Jr., chairman of the Deloitte Center for Cyber Innovation, and who co-chairs a cybersecurity commission under President Obama; Jim Hietala, Vice President of Security at the Open Group, and Usman Sindhu, researcher at Forrester Research. The panel is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Find the podcast on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: The Open Group.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast coming to you from the Ariba LIVE 2010 Conference in Orlando.

This podcast is a presentation of a May 25 stage-based panel event on the implications of cloud computing for procurement, supply-chain management, and a host of other business functions. For those of you unable to attend the actual conference, please now listen to this lively and informative panel by a group of noted industry analysts.

Here is the moderator of our discussion, Tim Minahan, Chief Marketing Officer at Ariba.

Minahan: When discussing heady topics like the cloud, procurement, and finance, and looking at the future of business-to-business (B2B) commerce, we thought it important for you to hear from the experts. So we have assembled a panel of the leading analysts -- the folks that you turn to to benchmark your performance, uncover best practices, and make IT buying decisions.

I'd like to welcome our panelists: Mickey North Rizza from AMR Research (a Gartner company), Chris Sawchuk from The Hackett Group, Robert Mahowald from IDC, and Bruce Guptill from Saugatuck Technology.

Find the podcast on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Ariba.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast, a event recap interview with  Anton Knolmar, Vice President of Marketing for HP Software & Solutions, conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

The one-on-one discussion comes to you from the HP Software Universe 2010 Conference in Washington D.C. We're here the week of June 14, 2010, to explore some major enterprise software and solutions trends and innovations making news across HP’s ecosystem of customers, partners, and developers.

Find the podcast on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast, an interview with Anand Eswaran, Vice President of Professional Services for HP Software & Solutions, conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

The one-on-one discussion comes to you from the HP Software Universe 2010 Conference in Washington D.C. We're here the week of June 14, 2010, to explore some major enterprise software and solutions trends and innovations making news across HP’s ecosystem of customers, partners, and developers.

At Software Universe HP announced the launch of a new portfolio element called Solution Management Services (SMS). It offers the ability to support the entire solution for the customer, which is different from the past, where software companies could only support the product. That’s the heart of what SMS means. It’s the first step in a very large industry transformation.

Find the podcast on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series, coming to you from the HP Software Universe 2010 Conference in Washington, D.C. We're here the week of June 14, 2010, to explore some major enterprise software and solutions trends and innovations making news across HP’s ecosystem of customers, partners, and developers.

Our next customer case study focuses on Motorola in the area of productivity, cost optimization, and their IT efficiency efforts -- a winner of HP's Excellence Award this year.

We're going to hear more about that from Judy Murrah, Senior Director of IT, at Motorola. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Find the podcast on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast, an interview with Bill Veghte, Executive Vice President of the HP Software & Solutions group, conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
The one-on-one discussion comes to you from the HP Software Universe 2010 Conference in Washington D.C. We're here the week of June 14, 2010, to explore some major enterprise software and solutions trends and innovations making news across HP’s ecosystem of customers, partners, and developers.

Find the podcasts on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast, an interview with Robin Purohit, Vice President and General Manager of the Software Products Business Unit for HP Software & Solutions, conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

The one-on-one discussion comes to you from the HP Software Universe 2010 Conference in Washington D.C. We're here the week of June 14, 2010, to explore some major enterprise software and solutions trends and innovations making news across HP’s ecosystem of customers, partners, and developers.

Find the podcast on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series, coming to you from the HP Software Universe 2010 Conference in Washington D.C. We're here the week of June 14, 2010, to explore some major enterprise software and solutions trends and innovations making news across HP’s ecosystem of customers, partners, and developers.

We're now joined by Anton Knolmar, Vice President of Marketing for HP Software & Solutions. The interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Find the podcast on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series coming to you from the HP Software Universe 2010 Conference in Washington, DC. We're here the week of June 14, 2010 to explore some major enterprise software and solutions trends and innovations making news across HP's ecosystem of customers, partners, and developers.

Our topic for this conversation focuses on the challenges and progress in conducting massive and comprehensive backups of enterprise live data, applications, and systems. We'll take a look at how HP Data Protector is managing and safeguarding petabytes of storage per week across HP's next-generation data centers.

The case-study sheds light on how enterprises can consolidate their storage and backup efforts to improve response and recovery times ,while also reducing total costs.

To learn more about high-performance enterprise scale storage and reliable backup, please join me in welcoming Lowell Dale, a technical architect in HP's IT organization. The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Find the podcast on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript. Sponsor: HP.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series, coming to you from the HP Software Universe 2010 Conference in Washington, D.C. We're here the week of June 14, 2010, to explore some major enterprise software and solutions trends and innovations making news across HP’s ecosystem of customers, partners, and developers.

Our next customer case study focuses on Delta Air Lines and the use of quality assurance tools for requirements management as well as mapping the test cases and moving into full production quickly.

We're joined by David Moses, Manager of Quality Assurance for Delta.com and its self service efforts, and John Bell, a Senior Test Engineer at Delta. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Find the podcast on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript. Sponsor: HP.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series, coming to you from the HP Software Universe 2010 Conference in Washington, D.C. We're here the week of June 14, 2010, to explore some major enterprise software and solutions trends and innovations making news across HP’s ecosystem of customers, partners, and developers.

This customer case-study focuses on McKesson Corp., a provider of certified healthcare information technology, including electronic health records, medical billing, and claims management software. McKesson is a user of HP’s project-based performance testing products used to make sure that applications perform in the field as intended throughout their lifecycle.
To learn more about McKesson’s innovative use of quality assurance software, we interview Todd Eaton,Director of Application Lifecycle Management Tools in the CTO’s office at McKesson. The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Find the podcast on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript. Sponsor: HP. 

Welcome to a sponsored podcast discussion on identifying the top reasons and paybacks for adopting cloud computing.

If cloud, in its many forms, gains traction -- like any other big change affecting business and IT -- adopters require a lot of rationales, incentives, and measurable returns to keep progressing successfully. But, just as the definition of cloud computing itself can elicit myriad responses, the same is true for why an organization should encourage cloud computing.

The major paybacks are not clearly agreed upon, for sure. Are the paybacks purely in economic terms? Is cloud a route to IT efficiency primarily? Are the business agility benefits paramount? Or, does cloud transform business and markets in ways not yet fully understood?

We'll seek a list of the top reasons why exploiting cloud computing models make sense, and why at least experimenting with cloud should be done sooner rather than later. We have assembled a panel of cloud experts to put some serious wood behind the arrow leading to the cloud.

Please join me now in welcoming Archie Reed, HP's Chief Technologist for Cloud Security and the author of several publications including The Definitive Guide to Identity Management and a new book, The Concise Guide to Cloud Computing; Jim Reavis, executive director of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and president of Reavis Consulting Group, and Dave Linthicum, Chief Technology Officer of Bick Group and also a prolific cloud blogger and author. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP.  

The latest BriefingsDirect executive interview centers on gaining visibility and control into the IT services management lifecycle while progressing toward cloud computing. We dig into the Cloud Service Automation (CSA) and lifecycle management market and offerings with Mark Shoemaker, Executive Program Manager, BTO Software for Cloud at HP.

As cloud computing in its many forms gains traction, higher levels of management complexity are inevitable for large enterprises, managed service providers (MSPs), and small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs). Gaining and keeping control becomes even more critical for all these organizations, as applications are virtualized and as services and data sourcing options proliferate, both inside and outside of enterprise boundaries.

More than just retaining visibility, however, IT departments and business leaders need the means to fine-tune and govern services use, business processes, and the participants accessing them across the entire services ecosystem. The problem is how to move beyond traditional manual management methods, while being inclusive of legacy systems to automate, standardize, and control the way services are used.

We're here with HP's Shoemaker examine an expanding set of CSA products, services, and methods designed to help enterprises exploit cloud and services values, while reducing risks and working toward total management of all systems and services. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: HP.

Today's headlines point to more sophisticated and large-scale and malicious online activities. For some folks, therefore, the consensus seems to be that the cloud computing model and vision are not up to the task when it comes to security.

To view a full video of the panel discussion on cloud-based security, please go to the registration page.

But at the RSA Conference earlier this year, a panel came together to talk about security and cloud computing, to examine the intersection of cloud computing, security, Internet services, and Internet-based security practices to uncover differences between perceptions and reality.

The result is a special sponsored BriefingsDirect podcast and video presentation that takes stock of cloud-focused security not just as a risk, but also as an amelioration of risk across all aspects of IT.

Join panelists Chris Hoff, Director of Cloud and Virtualization Solutions at Cisco Systems;  Jeremiah Grossman, the founder and Chief Technology Officer at WhiteHat Security, and Andy Ellis, the Chief Security Architect at Akamai Technologies. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. View the video. Sponsor: Akamai Technologies.

Our latest BriefingsDirect interview is with an executive from HP to look at proper planning and execution for massive application consolidation projects, specifically by examining an HP project itself.

By unpacking this multi-year application consolidation project across global supply chains, we learn about best practices and execution accelerators for such projects, which often involve hundreds of applications and impact thousands of people.

These are by no means trivial projects, and often involve every aspect of IT, as well as require a backing of the business leadership and the users to be done well. The goal through these complex undertakings is to radically improve how applications are developed, managed, and governed across their lifecycle to better support dynamic business environments. The stakes, therefore, are potentially huge for both IT and the business.

The telling case-study, the Global Part Supply Chain project at HP, was initially undertaken in 2006 but typically became bogged down by sheer scale and complexity. After some changes in management approach and governance, however, the project quickly became hugely successful.

We learn how and why from Paul Evans, Worldwide Marketing Lead on Applications Transformation at HP. The interview is conducted by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP.

The latest BriefingsDirect panel discussion centers on improving data-center productivity by leveraging all available sourcing options and moving to modernized applications and infrastructure.

IT leaders now face a set of complex choices, knowing that discretionary and capital IT spending remain tight, even as demand on their systems increases. Economists are now seeing the recession giving a way to growth, at least in several important sectors and regions. Chances are that demands on IT systems to meet this growing economic activity will occur before IT budgets appreciably go up.

So what to do? A panel of experts examines here how to gain new capacity from existing data centers through both modernization and savvy exploitation of all sourcing options. And -- by outsourcing smartly, migrating applications strategically, and modernizing effectively -- IT leaders can improve productivity while still under tightly managed costs.

One choice that may be the least attractive is to stand still as the recovery gets under way and demands on energy and application support outstrips labor, systems supply, and available electricity.

Learn more on managing for growth by examining three data-center transformation examples that uncover how effective applications and infrastructure modernization improves enterprise IT capacity outcomes. The panel also examines modernization in the context of outsourcing and hybrid sourcing, so that the capacity goals facing IT leaders can be more easily and affordably met, even in the midst of a fast-changing economy.

Please welcome the panel: Shawna Rudd, Product Marketing Manager for Data Center Services at HP; Larry Acklin, Product Marketing Manager for Applications Modernization Services at HP, and Doug Oathout, Vice President for Converged Infrastructure in HP’s Enterprise Services. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP.

This latest BriefingsDirect enterprise technology update discussion focuses on how technology suppliers can get the most from resource utilization and management in the global services economy.

Increasingly, sellers of IT are finding it harder to win large software and hardware capital purchases contracts, which traditionally followed three- to seven-year obsolescence and refresh cycles. The shifts in technology and business models accelerated by the recession are forcing these vendors in particular to adopt more of a professional services revenue model.

Buyers of technology, on the other hand, are moving to IT shared services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) models to get off of the capital outlays roller coaster. They want smoother and more predictable operating and charging models, beginning with long-term professional services and outsourcing engagements.

Both the buyer and seller of services therefore need to focus on the implementation and integration of solutions, placing a complex burden on the services delivery personnel themselves, as well as those who managing the services providers.

We’re here to find out some new, best ways of managing and automating these intellectual resources that support the professional services lifecycle. We’ll see how recent research shows that more of a just-in-time (JIT) methodology is required to keep the skills in balance with myriad project requirements and obligations.

To learn more about resource utilization and management in the global services economy, we're joined by Lori Ellsworth, Vice President of Changepoint Solutions at Compuware, the sponsor of this podcast, and by Mark Sloan, Chief Operating Officer of RTM Consulting. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Compuware.

For more information on resource utilization, read RTM's whitepaper "The ROI of Resource Utilization -- Measuring and Capturing the Real Business Value of Your People."

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The headlines these days are full of big, embarrassing corporate and government "gotchas."

These complex snafus cost a ton of money, severely damage a company’s reputation, and most importantly, can hurt or even kill people.

From global auto recalls to bank failures to exploding oil rigs, and cyber crime that can uproot the private information from millions of users, the scale and damage that technology-accelerated glitches can inflict on businesses and individuals has probably never been higher. So what is at the root?

Is it a technology run amok problem, or a complexity spinning out of control issue -- and why is it seemingly worse now?

A new book is coming out this summer that explores the relationship between glitches and technology, specifically the role of software use and development in the era of cloud computing.

It turns out the role and impact of governance over people, process, and technology comes up again and again in the new book.

BriefingsDirect's latest podcast discussion then focuses on the nature of, and some possible solutions for, a growing parade of enterprise-scale glitches.

We interview the author of the book as well as a software expert from IBM to delve into the causes and effects of glitches and how governance relates to the problem and fixes.

Please join guests, Jeff Papows, President and CEO of WebLayers, and the author of Glitch: The Hidden Impact of Faulty Software, and Kerrie Holley, IBM fellow and Chief Technology Officer for IBM’s SOA Center of Excellence. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: WebLayers. Learn more about the book and how to order a copy.

Today's sponsored podcast discussion delves into how to better harness the power of information to drive and improve business insights.

We’ll examine how the tough economy has accelerated the progression toward more data-driven business decisions. To enable speedy proactive business analysis, information management (IM) has arisen as an essential ingredient for making business intelligence (BI) for these decisions pay off.

Yet IM itself can become unwieldy, as well as difficult to automate and scale. So managing IM has become an area for careful investment. Where then should those investments be made for the highest analytic business return? How do companies better compete through the strategic and effective use of its information?

We’ll look at some use case scenarios with executives from HP to learn how effective IM improves customer outcomes, while also identifying where costs can be cut through efficiency and better business decisions.

To get to the root of IM best practices and value, please join me in welcoming our guests, Brooks Esser, Worldwide Marketing Lead for Information Management Solutions at HP; John Santaferraro, Director of Marketing and Industry Communications for BI Solutions at HP, and Vickie Farrell, Manager of Market Strategy for BI Solutions at HP. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: HP.

The latest BriefingsDirect podcast hones in on managing risks and rewards in the proper placement of enterprise data in cloud computing environments.

Headlines tell us that Internet-based threats are becoming increasingly malicious, damaging, and sophisticated. These reports come just as more companies are adopting cloud practices and placing mission-critical data into cloud hosts, both public and private. Cloud skeptics frequently point to security risks as a reason for cautiously using cloud services. It’s the security around sensitive data that seems to concern many folks inside of enterprises.

There are also regulations and compliance issues that can vary from location to location, country to country and industry by industry. Yet cloud advocates point to the benefits of systemic security as an outcome of cloud architectures and methods. Distributed events and strategies based on cloud computing security solutions should therefore be a priority and prompt even more enterprise data to be stored, shared, and analyzed by a cloud by using strong governance and policy-driven controls.

So, where’s the reality amid the mixed perceptions and vision around cloud-based data? More importantly, what should those evaluating cloud services know about data and security solutions that will help to make their applications and data less vulnerable in general?

We've assembled a panel of HP experts to delve into the dos and don’ts of cloud computing and corporate data. Please welcome Christian Verstraete, Chief Technology Officer for Manufacturing and Distributions Industries Worldwide at HP, and Archie Reed, HP's Chief Technologist for Cloud Security, the author of several publications including, The Definitive Guide to Identity Management and he's working on a new book, The Concise Guide to Cloud Computing. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP.

There's a huge drive now for improved enterprise data center performance. Nearly all enterprises are involved nowadays with some level of data-center transformation, either in the planning stages or in outright build-out.

We're seeing many instances where numerous data centers are being consolidated into a powerful core few, as well as completely new, so-called green-field, data centers with modern design and facilities coming online. The heightened activity runs the gamut from retrofitting and designing new data centers to the building and occupying of them.

The latest definition of data center is focused on being what's called fit-for-purpose, of using best practices and assessments of existing assets and correctly projecting future requirements to get that data center just right -- productive, flexible, efficient and well-understood and managed.

Yet these are, by no means, trivial projects. They often involve a tremendous amount of planning and affect IT, facilities, and energy planners. The payoffs are potentially huge, as we'll see, from doing data center design properly -- but the risks are also quite high, if things don't come out as planned.

This podcast examines the lifecycle of data-center design and fulfillment by exploring a successful project at Valero Energy Corp. We're here with two executives from HP and an IT leader at Valero Energy to look at proper planning, data center design and project management.

Please join me in welcoming Cliff Moore, America’s PMO Lead for Critical Facilities Consulting at HP; John Bennett, Worldwide Director of Data Center Transformation Solutions at HP, and John Vann, Vice President of Technical Infrastructure and Operations at Valero Energy Corp. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP.

Data protection has grown significantly more complex in recent years as workers have gravitated to notebook computers and the mobility they enable. The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion looks at protecting PC-based data in an increasingly mobile world.

We'll look at a use case -- at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY -- for HP Data Protector Notebook Extension (DPNE) software and examine how backup and recovery software has evolved to become more transparent, reliable, and fundamentally user-driven.

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Using that continuous back-up principle, the latest notebook and PC backup software captures every saved version of a file, efficiently transfers it all in batches to a central storage location, and then makes it easily and safely accessible for recovery by user from anywhere. That's inside or outside of the corporate firewall.

We'll look at how DPNE slashes IT recovery chores, allows for managed policies and governance to reduce data risks systemically, while also downsizing backups, the use of bandwidth, and storage.

The economies are compelling. The cost of data lost can be more than $400,000 annually for an average-sized business with 5,000 users. Getting a handle on recovery cost, therefore, helps reduce the total cost of operating and supporting mobile PCs, both in terms of operations and in the cost of lost or poorly recovered assets.

To help us better understand the state of the art remote in mobile PC data protection, we're joined by an HP executive and a user of HP DPNE software, Shari Cravens, Product Marketing Manager for HP Data Protection, and a user of DPNE, John Ferguson, Network Systems Specialist at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download the transcript. Sponsor: HP.

The latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 51, focuses on cloud computing and dollars and cents. Our panel dives into more than the technology, security, and viability issues that have dominated a lot of cloud discussions lately -- and move to the economics and the impact on buyers and sellers of cloud services.

When you ask any one person how cloud will affect their costs, you're bound to get a different answer each time. No one really knows, but the agreement comes when the questions move to, "Will cloud models impact how buyers and providers price their technology? And over the long-term what will buyers come to expect in terms of IT value?"

What comes when we move to a cloud based pay-per value pricing, buying, and budgeting for IT approach? How does the shift to high-volume, low-margin services and/or subscription models affect the IT vendor landscape? How does it affect the pure cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, and perhaps most importantly, how do cloud models affect the buy side?

Join the panel of Dave Linthicum, CTO of Bick Group, a cloud computing and data-center consulting firm; Michael Krigsman, CEO of Asuret and a blogger on ZDNet on IT failures as well as writer of analyst reports for IDC, and Sandy Rogers, an independent industry analyst.
 

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints.

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The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion comes in conjunction with The Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference held earlier this month in Seattle. We assembled a panel to examine service-oriented architecture (SOA) and cloud computing -- the relationships, the inter-reliance and the realities. Three years ago, the IT transformation poster child was SOA, and now we're well into the hype curve around cloud computing, but has one actually given way to the other? Are they linear in their relationship, or perhaps mutually dependent in some ways, and to what degree? We’ll explore now whether SOA has found new value and relevance as a foundation and perhaps catalyst for cloud computing, especially for so-called private clouds. And, we'll see how the emergence of SOA and cloud may be happening in different places inside of enterprises. Shouldn’t one hand get to quickly know what the other is up to and perhaps even work together? There are a series of podcasts from The Open Group conference: on cloud computing, enterprise architecture, business architecture, Archimate, and cloud security. Here with us now to plumb the depths of how SOA and cloud computing do or don’t come together, are Dr. Chris Harding, director of the SOA Work Group at The Open Group; Stephen G. Bennett, Senior Enterprise Architect at Oracle, and Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Search for Salesforce.com. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: The Open Group.

Nowadays, CIOs need to both cut costs and increase performance. Energy has never been more important in working toward this productivity advantage.

It's now time for IT leaders to gain control over energy use -- and misuse -- in enterprise data centers. More often than not, very little energy capacity analysis and planning is being done on data centers that are five years old or older. Even newer data centers don’t always gather and analyze the available energy data being created amid all of the components.

Finally, smarter, more comprehensive energy planning tools and processes are being directed at this problem. It reqiures a lifecycle approach from the data centers to more toward fuller automation.

And so automation software for capacity planning and monitoring has been newly designed and improved to best match long-term energy needs and resources in ways that cut total costs, while gaining the available capacity from old and new data centers.

Such data gathering, analysis and planning can break the inefficiency cycle that plagues many data centers where hotspots can mismatch cooling needs, and underused and under-needed servers are burning up energy needlessly. These so-called Smart Grid solutions jointly cut data center energy costs, reduce carbon emissions, and can dramatically free up capacity from overburdened or inefficient infrastructure.

By gaining far more control over energy use and misuse, solutions such as Hewlett Packard's (HP) Smart Grid for Data Center can increase capacity from existing facilities by 30-50 percent.

This podcast features two executives from HP to delve more deeply into the notion of Smart Grid for Data Center. Now join Doug Oathout, Vice President of Green IT Energy Servers and Storage at HP, and John Bennett, Worldwide Director of Data Center Transformation Solutions at HP. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Improved data center productivity now appears to be a natural progression from converged infrastructure. Many enterprise data centers have embraced a shared service management model to some degree, and now converged infrastructure applies the shared service model more broadly to leverage modular system design and open standards, as well as to advance proven architectural frameworks.

The result is a realignment of traditional technology silos into adaptive pools that can be shared by any application, as well as optimized and managed as ongoing services. Under this model, resources are dynamically provisioned efficiently and automatically, gaining more business results productivity. This also helps rebalance IT spending away from a majority of spend on operations and more toward investments, innovations, and business improvements.

This latest BriefingsDirect discussion explores the benefits of a converged infrastructure approach, and now how to better understand attaining a transformed data center environment. We'll see how converged infrastructure provides a stepping stone to private cloud initiatives. But, as with any convergence, there are a lot of moving parts, including people, skills, processes, services, outsourcing options, and partner ecosystems.

We're here with two executives from Hewlett-Packard (HP) to delve deeply into converged infrastructure and to learn more about how to get started and deal with some of the complexity, as well as to know what to expect as payoff. Please welcome Doug Oathout, Vice President, Converged Infrastructure at HP Storage, Servers, and Networking, and John Bennett, Worldwide Director, Data Center Transformation Solutions at HP. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

For more information on virtualization and how it provides a foundation for Private Cloud, plan to attend the HP Cloud Virtual Conference taking place in March. To register for this event, go to:
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Read a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

The next BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Volume 49, hones in on the predictions for IT industry growth and impact, now that the recession appears to have bottomed out. We're going to ask our distinguished panel of analysts and experts for their top five predictions for IT growth through 2010 and beyond.

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 business process management system.

To help us gaze into the IT trends crystal ball we are joined by our panel:  Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and prolific blogger; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Brad Shimmin, principal analyst at Current Analysis; Dave Linthicum, CEO of Blue Mountain Labs; Dave Lounsbury, vice-president of collaboration services at The Open Group; Jason Bloomberg, managing partner at ZapThink, and JP Morgenthal, independent analyst and IT consultant. The discussion is moderator Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Disclosure: The Open Group is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.]

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints.

Security may be the hottest topic in IT. But it's also one of the least understood.

So BriefingDirect assembled a panel this week to examine the need for IT security to run more like a data-driven science, rather than a mysterious art form.

Rigorously applying data and metrics to security can dramatically improve IT results and reduce overall risk to the business. By employing and applying more metrics and standards to security, the protection of IT becomes better, and the known threats can become evaluated uniformly.

Standards like Information Security Management Maturity Model (SM3) are helping to not only gain greater visibility, but also allowing IT leaders to scale security best practices repeatably and reliably.

With standards and greater reliance on data, security practitioners can understand better what they are up against, perhaps gaining close to real-time responses. They can know what's working -- or is not working -- both inside and outside of their organization.

The security metrics panel and sponsored podcast discussion are coming to you from The Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Seattle on Feb. 2, 2010. The goal is to determine the strategic imperatives for security metrics, and to discuss how to use them to change the outcomes in terms of IT’s value to the business.

Our panel consists of a security executive from The Open Group, as well as two experts on security who are presenting at the consortium's Security Practitioners Conference: Jim Hietala, Vice President for Security at The Open Group; Adam Shostack, co-author of The New School of Information Security, and Vicente Aceituno, director of the ISM3 Consortium. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: The Open Group.

Our next podcast discussion looks at ArchiMate, a way of conceptualizing, modeling, and controlling enterprise architecture (EA) and business architecture.

ArchiMate provides ways to develop visualizations and control to beyond some of the confines of IT architecture to more swiftly obtain business benefits. To learn more, we interview an expert on this, Dr. Harmen van den Berg, partner and co-founder at BiZZdesign.

This podcast was recorded Feb. 2 at The Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Seattle the week of Feb. 1, 2010. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: The Open Group.

What's the difference between enterprise architecture (EA) and business architecture (BA)? We pose the question to Tim Westbrock, Managing Director of EAdirections, as part of a sponsored podcast discussion coming to you from The Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Seattle, the week of Feb. 1, 2010.

Enterprise business architecture is a set of artifacts and methods that helps business leaders make decisions about direction and communicate the changes that are required in order to achieve that vision, says Westbrock. Learn more from the podcast.

The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: The Open Group.

This live event podcast discussion comes to you from The Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Seattle, the week of Feb. 1, 2010.

The notion of enterprise architecture (EA) has been in works for 30 years. But now the evolving maturity of IT -- and the importance of IT in modern business -- makes this concept of enterprise architecture especially important.

We therefore examine the newer definitions and role of the IT architect and how that might be shifting with an expert from the Open Group, Len Fehskens, Vice President of Skills and Capabilities. The interview is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: The Open Group.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect dual webinar and podcast presentation, Real-Time Web Data Services in Action at Deutsche Börse.

As the culmination of a four-part series on web data services (WDS), we're here to examine a fascinating use-case for data services with Deutsche Börse Group in Frankfurt, Germany. An innovative information service recently created there highlights how real-time content and data assembled from various online sources scattered across the Web provides a valuable analysis service.

The offering supports energy traders seeking to track global fluctuations and micro trends in oil and other related markets. But, the need for real-time and precise data affects more than energy traders and financial professionals. More than ever, all sorts of businesses need to know what's going on in and what's being said about their respective markets, products, and services.

In this series with Kapow Technologies, we've examined the need for WDS and ways that WDS and related tools can be used broadly to solve these problems. Now, we are going to learn the full story of how Deutsche Börse took web data resources, and not only efficiently assembled knowledge from automated robots, cleansing tools, and analytics management, but from these capabilities they also created high value and focused WDS offerings onto itself.

Thanks for joining us, as we take an in-depth look at how the market for WDS has shaped up and then hear directly from the leader of the Deutsche Börse project, as well as from a key supplier that supported them in accomplishing their web services goal.

So, to learn more about WDS as a business, please welcome our guests, Mario Schultz, director of Energy Facts at Deutsche Börse Group, and Stefan Andreasen, CTO at Kapow Technologies. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.


 Read a full transcript or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies.

• Part 1 of 4: Web data services extend business intelligence depth and breadth across social, mobile, web domains
  
  
• Part 2 of 4: Web data services provide ease of data access and distribution from variety of sources, destinations
  
  
• Part 3 of 4: Web data services -- Here's why text-based content access and management plays a crucial role in real-time BI

What are the likely directions for cloud computing? Based on the exploration of expected cloud benefits at a cutting edge global IT organization, the future looks extremely productive.

In this podcast we focus on the thinking on how cloud computing -- both the private and public varieties -- might be used at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva.

CERN has long been an influential bellwether on how extreme IT problems can be solved. Indeed, the World Wide Web owes a lot of its usefulness to early work done at CERN. Now the focus is on cloud computing. How real is it, and how might an organization like CERN approach cloud?

In many ways CERN is quite possibly the New York of cloud computing. If cloud can make it there, it can probably make it anywhere. That's because CERN deals with fantastically large data sets, massive throughput requirements, a global workforce, finite budgets, and an emphasis on standards and openness.

So please join us, as we track the evolution of high-performance computing (HPC) from clusters to grid to cloud models through the eyes of CERN, and with analysis and perspective from IDC, as well as technical thought leadership from Platform Computing.

Join me in welcoming our panel today: Tony Cass, Group Leader for Fabric Infrastructure and Operations at CERN; Steve Conway, Vice President in the High Performance Computing Group at IDC, and Randy Clark, Chief Marketing Officer at Platform Computing. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Platform Computing.

The latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Volume 50, focuses on the fallout from the Google’s threat to pull out of China, due to a series of sophisticated hacks and attacks on Google, as well as a dozen more IT companies. Due to the attacks late last year, Google on Jan. 12 vowed to stop censoring Internet content for China’s web users and possibly to leave the country altogether.

This ongoing tiff between Google and the Internet control authorities in China’s Communist Party-dominated government have uncorked a Pandora’s Box of security, free speech and corporate espionage issues. There are human rights issues and free speech issues, questions on China’s actual role, trade and fairness issues, and the point about Google’s policy of initially enabling Internet censorship and now apparently backtracking.

But, there are also larger issues around security and Internet governance in general. Those are the issues we’ll be focusing on today. So, even as the U.S. State Department and others in the U.S. federal government seek answers on China’s purported role or complicity in the attacks, the repercussions on cloud computing and enterprise security are profound and may be long-term.

We’re going to look at some of the answers to what this donnybrook means for how enterprises should best protect their intellectual property from such sophisticated hackers as government, military or, quasi-government corporate entities and whether cloud services providers like Google are better than your average enterprise, or especially medium-sized business, at thwarting such risks.

We'll look at how users of cloud computing should trust or not trust providers of such mission-critical cloud services as email, calendar, word processing, document storage, databases, and applications hosting. And, we’ll look at how enterprise architecture, governance, security best practices, standards, and skills need to adapt still to meet these new requirements from insidious world-class threats.

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 business process management system.

So, join me now in welcoming our panel for today’s discussion: Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Jason Bloomberg, managing partner at ZapThink; Jim Hietala, Vice President for Security at The Open Group; Elinor Mills, senior writer at CNET, and Michael Dortch, Director of Research at Focus .The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download the transcript. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints.

BriefingsDirect now presents a sponsored podcast discussion on the ongoing activities of The Open Group’s Cloud Computing Work Group. We'll meet and talk to the new co-chairmen of the Cloud Work Group, learn about their roles and expectations, and get a first-hand account of the group’s 2010 plans.

Join us as we examine the evolution of cloud, how businesses are grappling with that, and how they can learn to best exploit cloud-computing benefits, while fully understanding and controlling the risks. These topics and ore will also be under discussion at The Open Group's Architecture Practitioners and Security Practitioners conferences this week in Seattle.

In many ways, cloud computing marks an inflection point for many different elements of IT, and forms a convergence of other infrastructure categories that weren’t necessarily working in concert in the past. That makes cloud interesting, relevant, and potentially dramatic in its impact. What has been less clear is how businesses stand to benefit. What are the likely paybacks and how enterprises can prepare for the best outcomes?

We're here with an executive from The Open Group, as well as the new co-chairmen of the Cloud Work Group, to look at the business implications of cloud computing and how to get a better handle on the whole subject.

Please join David Lounsbury, Vice President for Collaboration Services at The Open Group; Karl Kay, IT Architecture Executive with Bank of America, and co-chairman of the Cloud Work Group, and Robert Orshaw, IBM Cloud Computing Executive, and co-chair of the Cloud Work Group. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: The Open Group.

The growing interest and value in PC desktop virtualization strategies and approaches has its roots in both technology and economics. Recently, a lot has happened technically that has matured the performance and economic benefits of desktop virtualization and the use of thin-client devices.

At the same time as this functional maturity improved, we are approaching an inflection point in a market that is accepting of new clients and new client approaches like desktop virtualization.

Indeed, the latest desktop virtualization model empowers enterprises with lower total costs, greater management of software, tighter security, and the ability to exploit low-cost, low-energy thin client devices. It's an offer that more enterprises are going to find hard to refuse.

In desktop virtualization, the workhorse is the server, and the client assists. This allows for easier management, support, upgrades, provisioning, and control of data and applications. Users can also take their unique desktop experience to any supported device, connect, and pick up where they left off. And, there are now new offline benefits too.

Here to help us learn more about the role and outlook for desktop virtualization, we're joined by Jeff Groudan, vice president of Thin Computing Solutions at HP. The BriefingsDirect interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion delves into proper planning and implementation of data-center virtualization to gain strategic level advantage in enterprises.

Because companies generally begin their use of server virtualization at a tactical level, there is often a complex hurdle in expanding the use of virtualization. Analysts predict that virtualization will support upwards of half of server workloads in just a few years. Yet, we are already seeing gaps between an enterprise’s expectations and their ability to aggressively adopt virtualization without stumbling in some way.

These gaps can involve issues around people, process and technology and often, all three in some combination. Process refinement, proper methodological involvement, and swift problem management often provide proven risk reduction, and provide surefire ways of avoiding pitfalls as virtualization use moves to higher scale.

The goal becomes one of a lifecycle orchestration and governed management approach to virtualization efforts so that the business outcomes, as well as the desired IT efficiencies, are accomplished.

Areas that typically need to be part of any strategic virtualization drive include sufficient education, skilled acquisition, and training. Outsourcing, managed mixed sourcing, and consulting around implementation and operational management are also essential. Then, there are the usual needs around hardware, platforms and system as well as software, testing and integration.

So, we’re here with a panel of Hewlett Packard (HP) executives to examine in-depth the challenges of large scale successful virtualization adoption. We’ll look at how a supplier like HP can help fill the gaps that can hinder virtualization payoffs.

Please join me in welcoming our panel: Tom Clement, worldwide portfolio manager in HP Education Services; Bob Meyer, virtualization solutions lead with HP Enterprise Business; Dionne Morgan, worldwide marketing manager at HP Technology Services; Ortega Pittman, worldwide product marketing, HP Enterprise Services, and Ryan Reed, worldwide marketing manager at HP Enterprise Business. 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: Hewlett-Packard.

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The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion hones in on storage virtualization. You've heard a lot about server virtualization over the past few years, and many enterprises have adopted virtual servers to improve their ability to manage runtime workloads and high utilization rates to cut total cost.

But, as a sibling to server virtualization, storage virtualization has some strong benefits of its own, not the least of which is the ability to better support server virtualization and make it more successful.

We'll look at how storage virtualization works, where it fits in, and why it makes a lot of sense. The cost savings metrics alone caught me by surprise, making me question why we haven't been talking about storage and server virtualization efforts in the same breath over these past several years.

Here to help understand how to better take advantage of storage virtualization, we're joined by Mike Koponen, HP's StorageWorks Worldwide Solutions marketing manager. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

The latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Volume 48, centers on the IT job landscape for 2010. We interview David Foote, CEO and chief research officer, as well as co-founder, at Foote Partners LLC of Vero Beach, Fla.

David closely tracks the hiring and human resources trends across the IT landscape. He'll share his findings of where the recession has taken IT hiring and where the recovery will shape up. We'll also look at what skills are going to be in demand and which ones are not. David will help those in IT, or those seeking to enter IT, identify where the new job opportunities lie.

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 business process management system, and through the support of TIBCO Software. I'm your host and moderator Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Read a full transcript or download a copy. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Learn more. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Also sponsored by TIBCO Software.

Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight.

Gain additional data and analysis from Foote Partners on the IT jobs market.

A growing number of technical and economic incentives are mounting that make a strong case for modernizing and transforming enterprise mainframe applications -- and the aging infrastructure that support them. IT budget planners are using the strident economic environment to force a harder look at alternatives to inflexible and hard-to-manage legacy systems, especially as enterprises seek to cut their total and long-term IT operations spending. The rationale around reducing total costs is also forcing a recognition of the intrinsic difference between core applications and so-called context -- context being applications that are there for commodity productivity reasons, not for core innovation, customization or differentiation. With a commodity productivity application, the most effective delivery is on the lowest-cost platform or from a provider. The problem is that 20 or 30 years ago, people put everything on mainframes. They wrote it all in code. The challenge now is how to free up the applications that are not offering any differentiation -- and do not need to be on a mainframe -- and which could be running on a much more lower cost infrastructure, or come from a completely different means of delivery, such as software as a service (SaaS). There are demonstrably much less expensive ways of delivering such plain vanilla applications and services, and significant financial rewards for separating the core from the context in legacy enterprise implementations. This discussion is the third and final in a sponsored series that examines "Application Transformation: Getting to the Bottom Line." The series coincides with a trio of Hewlett-Packard (HP) virtual conferences on the same subject.

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Helping to examine how alternatives to mainframe computing can work, we're joined by John Pickett, worldwide mainframe modernization program manager at HP; Les Wilson, America's mainframe modernization director at HP, and Paul Evans, worldwide marketing lead on applications transformation at HP. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript of the discussion or download a copy. Sponsor: HP.

New architectures for data and logic processing are ushering in a game-changing era of advanced analytics. These new approaches support massive data sets to produce powerful insights and analysis -- yet with unprecedented price-performance. As we enter 2010, enterprises are including more forms of diverse data into their business intelligence (BI) activities. They're also diversifying the types of analysis that they expect from these investments. At the same time, more kinds and sizes of companies and government agencies are seeking to deliver ever more data-driven analysis for their employees, partners, users, and citizens. It boils down to giving more communities of participants what they need to excel at whatever they're doing. By putting analytics into the hands of more decision makers, huge productivity wins across entire economies become far more likely. But such improvements won’t happen if the data can't effectively reach the application's logic, if the systems can't handle the massive processing scale involved, or the total costs and complexity are too high. In this sponsored podcast discussion we examine how convergence of data and logic, of parallelism and MapReduce -- and of a hunger for precise analysis with a flood of raw new data -- are all setting the stage for powerful advanced analytics outcomes. To help learn how to attain advanced analytics and to uncover the benefits from these new architectural activities for ubiquitous BI, we're joined by Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research, and Sharmila Mulligan, executive vice president of marketing at Aster Data Systems. 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: Aster Data Systems.

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 economics and to lay the foundation for cost control through proper cloud methods, we're joined by Neil Ashizawa, manager of HP's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Products and Cloud Solutions. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript, or download a copy. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

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.

Today's sponsored podcast delivers an executive interview with Robin Purohit, Vice President and General Manager for HP Software and Solutions. The cost-containment conundrum of "do more for less" -- that is, while still supporting all of your business requirements -- is going to be with us for quite some time in the economic recovery. So this discussion centers on how CIOs are grappling with implementing the best methods for higher cost optimization in IT spending, while also seeking the means to improve innovation. "Every CIO needs to be extremely prepared to defend their spend on what they are doing and to make sure they have a great operational cost structure that compares to the best in their industry," says Purohit. The 25-minute interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript, or download a copy. Sponsor: HP.

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, chief marketing officer at Ariba. I've invited Tim to join us to delve into the concept, and the possible attractions, of business commerce clouds. We're also joined by this episode's IT industry analyst guests: 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 Sandy Kemsley, independent IT analyst and architect. 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. Special offer: Download a free, supported 30-day trial of Active Endpoint's ActiveVOS at www.activevos.com/insight.

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, principal consultant at Alta Plana Corp., and Stefan Andreasen, co-founder and chief technology officer at Kapow Technologies. The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. View a full tranascript. Or download a copy. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies.

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 considered to produce the desired effect of topnotch applications and data delivery to enterprises, consumers, partners, and employees at far lower cost. Here to help us better understand how to get the best of all worlds -- that is, high performance and lower total cost from data center consolidation -- we're joined by James Staten, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research; Andy Rubinson, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Akamai Technologies, and Tom Winston, Vice President of Global Technical Operations at Phase Forward, a provider of integrated data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety. The panel is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Akamai Technologies.

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 enterprises seek to cut their total IT costs, they need to identify what legacy assets are working for them and carrying their own weight, and which ones are merely hitching a high-cost -- but largely unnecessary -- ride. A widening cost-in-productivity division exists between older, hand-coded software assets and replacement technologies on newer, more efficient standards-based systems. Somewhere in the mix, there are core legacy assets distinct from so-called contextal assets. There are peripheral legacy processes and tools that are costly vestiges of bygone architectures. There is legacy wheat and legacy chaff. With us to delve deeper into separating the two among legacy enterprise applications is Steve Woods, distinguished software engineer at HP, and Paul Evans, worldwide marketing lead on Applications Transformation at HP. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Register here to attend the Asia Pacific event on Nov. 3. Register here to attend the EMEA event on Nov. 4. Register here to attend the Americas event on Nov. 5.

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 book, Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise: A Step-by-Step Guide. We're here with Linthicum to dig into the conflation of SOA and cloud computing. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. View a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsors: Active Endpoints and TIBCO Software.

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 outcomes. The podcasts coincidentally run in support of HP virtual conferences on the same subjects. Join Paul Evans, worldwide marketing lead on Applications Transformation at HP, and Luc Vogeleer, CTO for Application Modernization Practice in HP Enterprise Services, as we examine the how and why of transforming legacy enterprise applications. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Register here to attend the Asia Pacific event on Nov. 3. Register here to attend the EMEA event on Nov. 4. Register here to attend the Americas event on Nov. 5.

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 agility and efficiency, we are joined by two thought leaders from HP: Rebecca Lawson, director of Worldwide Cloud Marketing, and Bob Meyer, the worldwide virtualization lead in HP’s Technology Solutions Group. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. View a full transcript or download . a copy. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Get a free copy of Cloud for Dummies courtesy of Hewlett-Packard at www.hp.com/go/cloudpodcastoffer.

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 company’s overall strategy and day-to-day operations. Together we'll look at how Workday is raising the bar on employee life-cycle productivity by lowering IT support costs through the SaaS model. More than that, Workday is also demonstrating what many consider a roadmap to the future advantages in cloud computing. The interview is conducted by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript, or download a copy. Sponsor: Workday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, president and founder of Dresner Advisory Services. We're also joined by Ron Yu, vice president of marketing at Kapow Technologies. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript of the discussion, or download the transcript. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies.

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 business requirements? In a nutshell, how can they best prepare for the new economy? Here to help us address new questions during a very challenging time, and yet also a time in which opportunity and differentiation for CIOs begins, is Lee Bonham, marketing director for CIO Agenda Programs in Hewlett-Packard's (HP’s) Technology and Solutions Group. The interview is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript of the discussion, or download the transcript. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

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. Learn more about a journey toward safe cloud adoption in this interview with Steve Whitlock, a member of the Jericho Board of Management. 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: The Open Group.

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. Here to help us better understand the Green IT issues, technologies, and practices impacting today's enterprise IT installations and the larger businesses they support, we're joined by five executives from HP: Christine Reischl, general manager of HP's Industry Standard Servers; Paul Miller, vice president of Enterprise Servers and Storage Marketing at HP; Michelle Weiss, vice president of marketing for HP's Technology Services; Jeff Wacker, an EDS Fellow, and Doug Oathout, vice president of Green IT for HP's Enterprise Servers and Storage. 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.

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. We're talking with Allen Brown, president and CEO of The Open Group, about the organization and its recent fast growth and its priorities around new standards, cloud computing and security. The interview is conducted by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript of the discussion, or download the transcript. Sponsor: The Open Group.

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.

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. View a full transcript of the podcast, or download the transcript.

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.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion on caution, overcoming fear, and the need for risk reduction on the road to successful cloud computing. In order to ramp up cloud-computing use and practices, a number of potential security pitfalls need to be identified and mastered. Security, in general, takes on a different emphasis, as services are mixed and matched and come 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? Is there such a significant cost and productivity benefit to cloud computing that being late or being unable to manage the risk means being overtaken by competitors that can do cloud successfully? More importantly, how do companies know whether they are prepared to begin adopting cloud practices without undo risks? To better understand the perils and promises of adopting cloud approaches securely, we're joined by three security experts from Hewlett-Packard (HP). Please welcome Archie Reed, HP Distinguished Technologist and Chief Technologist for Cloud Security; Tim Van Ash, director of software-as-a-service (SaaS) products at HP Software and Solutions, and David Spinks, security support expert at HP IT Outsourcing. The panel is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. View a full transcript of the dicussion, or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Welcome to a sponsored podcast discussion on better managing server virtualization expansion across enterprises. We’ll look at ways that IT organizations can adopt virtualization at deeper levels, or across more systems, data and applications, at lower risk. As more enterprises use virtualization for more workloads to engender productivity from higher server utilization, we often see what can be called virtualization sprawl, spreading a mixture of hypervisors, which leads to complexity and management concerns. In order to ramp up to more, but advantageous, use of virtualization, pitfalls from heterogeneity need to be managed. Yet, no one of the hypervisor suppliers is likely to deeply support any of the others. So, how do companies gain a top-down perspective of virtualization to encompass and manage the entire ecosystem, rather than just corralling the individual technologies? Here to help us understand the risks of hypervisor sprawl and how to mitigate the pitfalls to preserve the economic benefits of virtualization is Doug Strain, manager of Partner Virtualization Marketing at HP. The podcast is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript of the discussion, or download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett Packard.

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.

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. Who can instrument these changes, and, in a sense, be a new kind of leader in the transition and transformation of IT and the enterprise? To help us sort through who takes on the mantle of grand overseer as IT expand its purview, we're joined by James de Raeve, vice president of certification at The Open Group; Len Fehskens, vice president, Skills and Capabilities at The Open Group; David Foote, CEO and co-founder, as well as chief research officer, at Foote Partners, and Jason Uppal, chief architect at QRS. The discussion is moderated by me, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. View a full transcript of the discussion. Download a transcript. Sponsor: The Open Group.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Businesses of all stripes need better means of access, governance, and data lifecycle best practices, given the vast ocean of new information coming from many different directions. By getting a better handle on information explosion, enterprises can gain clarity in understanding what is really going on within the businesses, and, especially these days, across dynamic market environments. The immediate solution approach requires capturing, storing, managing, finding, and using information better. We’ve all seen a precipitous drop in the cost of storage and a dramatic rise in the incidents of data from all kinds of devices and across more kinds of business processes, from sensors to social media. To help better understand how to best manage and leverage information, even as it’s exploding around us, we’re joined by Suzanne Prince, worldwide director of information solutions marketing at Hewlett-Packard (HP). The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/07/seeking-to-master-information-explosion.html. Download a transcript at http://interarborsolutions.books.officelive.com/Documents/InfoExplosionPDF.pdf. Sponsor: HP.

PC security has proven a thorny and expensive problem for users, small businesses, enterprises and providers alike. But PC security can be enhanced and delivered as services. New offerings around cloud-based anti-virus and security protection services are on the rise. Furthermore, Internet-delivered security provides a strong business opportunity for resellers and channel providers to those businesses trying to protect all of their PCs, regardless of location. Here to help us delve into the benefits of security as a service, and explore the cloud strengths of managing malware protection more centrally from the Web, we're joined by Phil Wainewright, independent analyst, director of Procullux Ventures, and a ZDNet SaaS blogger, as well as Josu Franco, director of the Business Customer Unit at Panda Security. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/07/rethinking-virtualization-why.html. Download a transcript at http://interarborsolutions.books.officelive.com/Documents/PandaPDF714.pdf. Sponsor: Panda Security.

Three important considerations are needed when moving to enterprise virtualization adoption, and they often amount to a rethinking of virtualization. How do enterprises manage and control how network interconnections are impacted by widespread virtualization? Second, how can configuration management databases help in deploying virtualized servers? And third, how can outsourcing help organizations get the most bang for their virtualization buck? Here to help us rethink virtualization to attain a sustainable virtualization strategy, please welcome three executives from Hewlett-Packard (HP): Michael Kendall, worldwide Virtual Connect marketing lead; Shay Mowlem, strategic marketing lead for HP Software and Solutions, Ryan Reed, a product manager for EDS Server Management Services. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/07/rethinking-virtualization-why.html. Sponsor: HP.

The global economic downturn has accelerated the need to reduce total IT costs. IT consolidation, modernization, and virtualization play self-supporting roles alone and in combination for enterprises looking to improve how they deliver services to their businesses. Yet these initiatives also play a role in reducing labor and maintenance costs, and have much larger benefits -- including producing far better server utilization rates -- that ultimately cut IT costs in total. Here to help us dig into the relationship between a modern and consolidated approach to IT data centers and total cost, we welcome John Bennett, worldwide solution manager for Data Center Transformation Solutions at Hewlett-Packard (HP). The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/07/consolidation-modernization-and.html. Sponsor: HP.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the week of June 15, 2009. Quality early sounds nice, but making it happen brings significant cost savings, repeatable QA processes, user satisfaction, and shorter development cycles. The results reward developers and IT operators alike. To better understand the journey to quality assurance for new applications -- and the processes that work best -- BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner interviews Michael Cooper, director of enterprise quality management, at HP Software and Solutions Excellence Award winner T-Mobile USA. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/t-mobile-ramps-up-quality-based.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

The global economic downturn has accelerated the need to reduce total IT cost through identification and elimination of wasteful operations and practices. At the same time, IT departments need to better define and implement streamlined processes for operations and also for proving how new projects begin and unfold. Knowing the true cost and benefits of complex and often sprawling IT portfolios quickly helps improve the financial performance of how to quantify IT operations. Gaining real-time visibility into dynamic IT cost structures provides a powerful tool for reducing cost, while also maintaining and improving overall performance. Holistic visibility across an entire IT portfolio also develops the visual analytics that can help better probe for cost improvements and uncover waste. Here to help us understand how to bring improved financial management capabilities to enterprise IT departments we're joined by two executives from Hewlett-Packard Software and Solutions: Ken Cheney, director of product marketing for IT Financial Management, and John Wills, practice leader for the Business Intelligence Solutions Group. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/it-financial-management-provides.html. Sponsor: HP.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the week of June 15, 2009. As services pervade how and what IT delivers, quality assurance early and often becomes the gatekeeper of success -- or the points of failure. IT's job is evolving to make sure all services really work inside business process -- regardless of their origins and sourcing. Quality of component services is assurance of quality processes, and so such pervasive quality is no longer an option. Part of making quality endemic becomes organizational, of asserting quality in everything IT does, quality in everything IT's partners do. It even now means quality in how the IT department is run and managed. To better learn how service-enabled testing and quality-enabling methods of running IT become critical mainstays of IT success, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner interviews Robin Purohit, Vice President Software Products, at HP Software and Solutions. Read a full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/in-everything-as-service-era-quality-of.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the week of June 15, 2009. When people think of Software as a Service (SaaS) Web delivery, they often envision business applications. But HP has been delivering quality assurance and applications performance management functions via SaaS for years. As interest in cloud computing ramps up, the ability to deliver more aspects of IT lifecycle and quality management, along with project and portfolio oversight values, also ramps up. A missing ingredient for IT innovators has been how to begin and how to organize these changes effectively. To better understand the expanding role of SaaS within IT, and how professional services can newly help in transitions to SaaS use by IT departments, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner interviews two executives from HP's Software and Solutions, Scott Kupor, Vice President and General Manager of Software-as-a-Service, and Anand Eswaran, Vice President, Professional Services. Read a full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/consulting-insights-poised-to-help-it.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the week of June 15, 2009. In many companies, IT departments remain in a silo, often not reporting to the CEO, and often unfortunately disconnected from the main business imperatives. Now, the combination the down economy, tight IT budgets, and the advent of more cloud sourcing and data center architecture options offer two paths to IT leaders: Remain on the alienated edge, or move to center-stage in how businesses adapt to their changing markets. HP at its Software Universe conference has provided a unified people, process and product roadmap for how to transform IT, and therefore better help transform the business. To more deeply understand the transformative challenges facing IT and business leaders alike, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner interviews Andy Isherwood, Vice President and General Manager of HP Software and Solutions. Read a full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/hps-andy-isherwood-on-running-it-like.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the week of June 15, 2009. Quality early sounds nice, but making it happen brings significant cost savings, repeatable QA processes, user satisfaction, and shorter development cycles. The results reward developers and IT operators alike. To better understand the journey to quality assurance for new applications -- and the processes that work best -- BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner interviews IT executives at FICO, Gevity and JetBlue. Read a full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/winning-quality-war-hp-customers-offer.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the week of June 15, 2009. HP's purchase last year of EDS came just as talk of cloud computing options ramped up. So how does long-time outsourcing pioneer EDS fit into a new cloud ecology? Is EDS a cloud provider? And how will IT departments factor their decisions on what to keep on-premises in data centers versus placing on someone else's cloud infrastructure? We pose these and other "fluid sourcing" future questions to David Gee, Vice President of Marketing at EDS, in an interview by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/edss-david-gee-on-spectrum-of-cloud-and.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect podcast series from the Hewlett-Packard Software Universe 2009 Conference in Las Vegas the week of June 15, 2009. IT departments are nowadays having to do more with less, gaining additional productivity while spending less money. It sounds simple, but is very complex. How do IT departments and companies approach this problem? To probe deeper into the new IT economies of performance, BriefingsDirect sat down with Anton Knolmar, Vice President of Marketing for HP Software & Solutions, for a discussion moderated by Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/hp-software-marketing-head-anton.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 42. Our latest topic centers on governance as a requirement and an enabler for cloud computing. We discuss more than IT governance, or service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance. The goal is really more about extended enterprise processes, resource consumption, and resource-allocation governance. In other words, "total services governance." Any meaningful move to cloud-computing adoption, certainly that which aligns and coexists with existing enterprise IT, will need to have such total governance in place. We see a lot of evidence that the IT vendor community and the cloud providers themselves recognize the need for this pending market need and requirement for additional governance. Listen then as we go round-robin with our IT analyst panelists on their top five reasons why service governance is critical and mandatory for enterprises to properly and safely modernize and prosper vis-à-vis cloud computing: David A. Kelly, president of Upside Research; Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and ZDNet blogger, and Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/analysts-define-growing-requirements.html. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Sponsor: TIBCO Software.

Enterprises are seeking cloud computing efficiency benefits, lower total costs, and a heightened ability to deliver services that support agile business processes. So-called private clouds, or those flexible computing models that enterprises can control on-premises, have a lot in common with longstanding mainframe computing models and techniques. New developments in mainframe automation and other technologies support the use of mainframes for delivering cloud-computing advantages -- and help accelerate the ability to solve recession-era computing challenges around cost, power, energy use and reliability. In this podcast, we'll learn how mainframe is the cloud. We're joined by Chris O'Malley, executive vice president and general manager for CA's Mainframe Business Unit. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the interview at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/mainframes-provide-fast-track-access-to.html. Sponsor: CA.

The impact of cloud computing is most often analyzed through its expected disruption of IT vendors, or the media, or as an economic balm for developers and Web 2.0 start-ups. Yet cloud computing is much more than a just newcomer on the Internet hype curve. The heritage of what cloud computing represents dates back to the dawn of information technology (IT), to the very beginnings of how government agencies and large commercial enterprises first accessed powerful computers to solve complex problems. So how does cloud computing fit into the whole journey of the last 35 years of IT? What is the context of cloud computing in the real-world enterprise? How do we take the vision and apply it to today's enterprise concerns and requirements? To help understand the difference between the reality and the vision for cloud computing, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Frank Gillett, vice president and principal analyst for cloud computing topics at Forrester Research. Watch a video of the interview at http://www.akamai.com/cloud. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/06/dana-gardner-interviews-forresters.html. Sponsor: Akamai Technologies.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 41. Our latest topic centers on the next era of information technology (IT). Suddenly, cloud computing is the dominant buzzword of the day, but the current confluence of trends includes much more. There is business process modeling, business intelligence, complex event processing, service-oriented architecture, software as a service, Web-oriented architecture, and even Enterprise 2.0. How do all of these relate? Or if they don't relate, is there a common theme? Is there an overriding uber direction for IT that we need to consider? The cloud computing moniker just doesn't include enough and doesn't bring us to the next stage. In the words of Huey Lewis, we need a "new drug." Join our panel of guests and analysts to help dig into the new era of IT: Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Brad Shimmin, senior analyst, Current Analysis; Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and ZDNet blogger, and Ron Schmelzer, senior analyst at ZapThink. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/05/briefingsdirect-analysts-take-pulse-of.html. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Sponsor: TIBCO Software.

Bringing enterprise applications effectively out to mobile devices has required some harsh trade-offs for developers. To gain access to devices, you lose functionality and portability, for example. But thanks to the sizable impact that the Apple iPhone and its WebKit browser have had in the market -- and the lure of new business opportunities around mobile application stores -- the mobile Web has suddenly become more attractive and attainable for mainstream developers. Such technologies as HTML 5, Android, WebKit and advances in scripting and open source tools are allowing developers to target mobile devices better than ever. To learn more about how the development field for mobile Web applications is shaping up and how targeting the modern mobile Web browser may be removing some of the harshness from the trade-offs of the past, we assembled a panel of development experts. Join Stephen O'Grady, founder and analyst at RedMonk; Wayne Parrott, vice president for product development at Genuitec, and David Beers, a senior wireless developer at MapQuest as we unpack the mobile Web. The podcast is moderated by IT industry analyst Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/05/rise-of-webkit-advances-mobile-webs.html. Sponsor: Genuitec.

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, held its 22nd annual Enterprise Architecture Practitioner's Conference in London, England in April 22. This panel discussion podcast, "Resisting Short-term Thinking: Rationalizing Investments in Enterprise Architecture During a Recession," uncovered insights into how enterprise architects can help businesses and IT departments during periods of turmoil. The challenge for EA is to be able to balance the long-term goals against the pressing short-term needs of the business. There are intense commercial pressures right now to reduce costs at a time when capital expenditure is severely constrained. Operational efficiency has become an imperative, but agility and speed to market are equally as important. Join Kevin White, contributing editor to Computer Business Review in the UK, as he moderates the panel. Guests include Henry Peyret, principal analyst at Forrester Research; Phil Pavitt, the group CIO for Transport for London; Thomas Obitz, a principal architect at Infosys; Mike Turner, enterprise architect at Capgemini, and Terry Blevins, a senior principal information systems engineer at MITRE and Open Group Customer Council Board member. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/05/enterprise-architecture-strategy-aligns.html. Sponsor: The Open Group.

Our topic on BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 40, centers on platform as a service (PaaS), part of the cloud computing taxonomy that pertains to software and services development over the Internet. Developers can use tools and testing apparatus as a service on someone else's data center, building and refining their applications and services, and even putting them through some real world performance testing, before going into production and use. We've seen a great deal of interest by the developers in using Amazon's Web services for PaaS. We've also seen a lot of action and interest from the likes of Google, Microsoft, and even IBM. Yet a lot of enterprise operators and mangers don't even see PaaS on their radar. They're much more interested in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) components of cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS). So, what is PaaS good for and how will it impact enterprises? We're joined by a panel of guests and analysts to help dig into the enterprise role of PaaS: Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; David A. Kelly, president of Upside Research; Mike Meehan, senior analyst at Current Analysis; Jonathan Bryce, co-founder of Mosso at Rackspace, and Rourke McNamara, product marketing director at TIBCO Software. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/05/briefingsdirect-analysts-unpack.html. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Sponsor: TIBCO Software.

The productivity and perils of open source software has been a topic pretty much beaten to death. Yet the landscape in IT, as always, is shifting -- because of the recession and because of a white hot interest in cloud computing. It's time again, then, to look at the pluses and minuses of open source software models in the context of tight IT budgets and the advent of cloud-based services for enterprises. Our latest analyst roundtable examines open source in the context of economics, complexity, competition, and the disruption of the shifting business models in software. The major question is: Does using open-source software pay off in a total cost sense, compared to commercial offerings today? Furthermore, how will this change over the coming several years as cloud model take hold? Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; JP Morgenthal, independent analyst and IT consultant, and David A. Kelly, president of Upside Research. Out guests are Paul Fremantle, the chief technology officer at WSO2 and a vice president with the Apache Software Foundation, and Richard Seibt, the former CEO at SUSE Linux, and founder of the Open Source Business Foundation. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/04/open-source-software-and-cloud-curse-or.html. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Sponsor: TIBCO Software.

The paybacks from designing a strong IT architecture can now be enjoyed by more than the enterprises that build them. Increasingly, enterprises are reaping the fruits of good IT architectures that their SaaS and cloud providers have developed. Think of it as a multiplier effect of IT modernization -- everyone using the services benefits. In essence, by building good applications and infrastructure, SaaS providers are providing more than applications and services -- they are delivering business agility as a service. To learn more about IT architectural best practices can achieve added benefits for the users -- at greatly reduced total costs -- BriefingsDirect examines the experiences and approaches of Workday, a human capital management (HCM) SaaS provider. Join Stan Swete, CTO of Workday, in a podcast discussion moderated by IT industry analyst Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/04/saas-providers-advanced-architecture.html. Sponsor: Workday.

Virtualization has become imperative to enterprises as they better manage resources, cut total costs, reduce energy use, and improve IT agility. But virtualization is more than just installing hypervisors. The effects and impacts of virtualization cut across many aspects of IT operations. The complexity of managing virtualization IT runtime environments can easily slip out of control. A proper level of planning and management, however, can assure a substantive economic return on virtualization investments. This podcast examines how virtualization can be applied as a larger process, with sufficient tools for governance that allow for rapid, but reasoned, virtualization adoption. Providing an in-depth look at how virtualization best practices make for the best economic outcome, we're joined by Bob Meyer, the worldwide virtualization lead in HPs' Technology Solutions Group. The discussion is moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/03/hp-advises-strategic-view-on.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Doing more for less in IT? Sure, easier said than done. But who said it couldn't be done? BriefingsDirect took the question of how to cut IT costs in the downturn to five analysts and consultants, who can both say and do. The result is the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 38, a periodic discussion and dissection of IT infrastructure related news and events with a panel of industry analysts and guests. In this episode, recorded March 13, 2009, our analyst guests make their top five recommendations for cutting enterprise IT costs amid the economic downturn. How does IT adapt and adjust to the downturn? Is IT to play a defensive role in helping to slash costs and reduce its own financial burden on the enterprise? We ask our panel to list the top five ways that IT can help reduce costs, while retaining full business -- or perhaps even additional business -- functionality. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Joe McKendrick, independent IT analyst and prolific blogger; Brad Shimmin, principal analyst at Current Analysis; JP Morgenthal, independent analyst and IT consultant, and Dave Kelly, founder and president of Upside Research. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/03/briefingsdirect-analysts-list-top-5.html. Charter Sponsor: Active Endpoints. Sponsor: TIBCO Software.

Welcome to a special BriefingsDirect presentation, a podcast created from a recent Nexaweb Technologies Webinar on application modernization. Learn how enterprises are gaining economic and productivity advantages from modernizing legacy and older client-server applications. The logic, data, and integration patterns' value within these older applications can be effectively extracted and repurposed using tools and methods, including those from Nexaweb. That means the IT and business value from these assets can be reestablished as Web applications on highly efficient platforms. Examine how a number of companies have attained new value from legacy and client-server applications, while making those assets more easily deployed as rich, agile Web applications and services. Those services can then be better extended across modern and flexible business processes. We hear from Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions; David McFarlane, COO at Nexaweb, and Adam Markey, solution architect at Nexaweb. Listen or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/03/webinar-modernization-derives-new-value.html. Sponsor: Nexaweb Technologies.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 37, 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 Feb. 13, 2009, our guests examine the essential topic of bringing human activity into alignment with IT supported business processes. We revisit the topic of BPEL4People, an OASIS specification. The need to automate and extend complex processes is obvious. What's less obvious, is the need to join the physical world of people, their habits, needs, and perceptions with the artificial world of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process modeling (BPM). This will become all the more important, as cloud-based services become more common. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Michael Rowley, director of technology and strategy at Active Endpoints; Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; and JP Morgenthal, independent analyst and IT consultant. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the podcast: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/03/briefingsdirect-analysts-discuss.html. Charter sponsor: Active Endpoints. Additional underwriting: TIBCO Software.

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in February held an Enterprise Cloud Computing Conference in San Diego. A panel of experts was assembled at the conference to examine how cloud computing aligns with what real enterprises will need to do in terms of savings and productivity in the coming years. In essence, this is a discussion about real-world cloud computing. To gain deeper insights into how IT architects can bring cloud computing benefits to their businesses, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner queried panelists Lauren States, vice president in IBM's Software Group; Russ Daniels, vice president and CTO Cloud Services Strategy at Hewlett-Packard, and David Linthicum, founder of Blue Mountain Labs. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/02/cloud-computing-and-enterprise.html. Sponsor: The Open Group.

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in February held its first Security Practitioners Conference in San Diego. A panel of experts was assembled at the conference to examine how enterprise security intersects with enterprise architecture. Aligning the two deepens the security protection across more planning- and architectural-level activities, to make security pervasive -- and certainly not an afterthought. To gain deeper insights into how IT architects can bring security and reduced risk to businesses, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently queried panelists Chenxi Wang, principal analyst for security and risk management at Forrester Research; Kristin Lovejoy, director of corporate security strategy at IBM; Nils Puhlmann, chief security officer and vice president of risk management of Qualys, and Jim Hietala, vice president of security for The Open Group. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/02/effective-enterprise-security-begins.html. Sponsor: The Open Group.

Apache Software Foundation open source projects, OSGi, service-oriented architecture (SOA) developments, and cloud computing trends are converging. In this podcast we talk with some thought leaders and community development leaders to assess the patterns of adoption and use-case scenarios around SOA and open-source projects. We'll learn about the context of the ServiceMix ESB in some of the other Apache activities, and how the FUSE support offerings from Progress are getting more traction in interesting ways. To better understand the role of OSGi, SOA, and Apache software, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Guillaume Nodet, software architect at Progress Software and vice president of Apache ServiceMix at Apache, and Adrian Trenaman, distinguished consultant at Progress Software. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/02/interview-guillaume-nodet-and-adrian.html. Sponsor: Progress Software.

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in February delivered TOGAF 9, an enterprise architecture framework. TOGAF 9 represents a departure for enterprise architecture frameworks in general. It's larger, more mature, and modular to allow folks to enter it from a variety of perspectives. It takes on a much more significant business services and accomplishments perspective. While IT practitioners and architects will be looking over TOGAF 9 deeply, it’s also going to be of interest to the business side of the enterprise and offers a way for them to understand more about how IT can service their business needs. To gain deeper insights into how IT architects can bring value to businesses, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Robert Weisman, CEO and principal consultant for Build The Vision, and Mike Turner, an enterprise architect at Capgemini. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/02/togaf-9-advances-it-maturity-while.html. Sponsor: The Open Group.

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in February delivered TOGAF 9, an enterprise architecture framework. As part of the festive opening ceremony for TOGAF 9's arrival, a panel of experts examined the value and role of IT architecture in light of a dynamic business environment. The topics also addressed how IT can better communicate and collaborate with the business interests around them. To gain deeper insights into how IT architects can bring value to businesses, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner moderated the panel discussion at The Open Group's 21st Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in San Diego on Feb. 2. Panelists included Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Janine Kemmeren, enterprise architect at Getronics Consulting and chair of the Architecture Forum Strategy Working Group in The Open Group; Chris Forde, vice president and technology integrator at American Express and chair of the Architecture Forum in The Open Group; Jane Varnus, architecture consultant for the enterprise architecture department at the Bank of Montreal, and Henry Peyret, principal analyst at Forrester Research. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/02/strong-it-architecture-doubly-important.html. Sponsor: The Open Group.

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium, in February delivered TOGAF 9 at the organization's 21st Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference. At the juncture of this new, major and free release of the enterprise IT architecture framework, it made sense to examine the present and future of The Open Group itself, some of its goals, and what it does for its members. The global organization is actively certifying thousands of IT architecture practitioners, while using the commercial license to increase the contributor flow of best architecture practices back into TOGAF. To better understand how The Open Group operates and drives value to its members, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Allen Brown, president and CEO of The Open Group. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/02/interview-open-groups-ceo-allen-brown.html. Sponsor: The Open Group.

As established enterprise IT expectations meet up with cutting-edge cloud delivery models, there's a clear need for additional trust and maturity in order for enterprises to further adopt cloud-based services. Enterprise IT expectations on visibility, control, and security to software as a service (SaaS), and cloud-based applications delivery need tools that manage the applications use and the use patterns for providers. This podcast examines how one SaaS provider, Innotas, has developed a more matured view into services operations and application programming interfaces (APIs) and how they can extend the benefits from that visibility to their customers. We'll hear how Innotas, an on-demand project portfolio management (PPM) service, derives more analytics from network activity and thereby provide mounting confidence in how services are performing. To better understand how Innotas has used solutions from Sonoa Systems to provide better managed services based on service level agreements (SLAs), BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Tim Madewell, vice president of operations at Innotas, as well as Chet Kapoor, CEO of Sonoa Systems. Listen here or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/01/visibility-and-control-over-use-and.html. Sponsor: Sonoa Systems.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 36, 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 Jan. 12, 2009, our guests examine what keeps SOA alive and vibrant, the ability for the architectural approach to grow inclusive of service types like service-oriented communications (SOC). We also visit the purported demise of large-scale SOA to calibrate the life span of SOA -- dead or alive? Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Todd Landry, vice president of NEC Sphere; Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and prolific blogger; Dave Linthicum, founder of Linthicum Group; JP Morgenthal, senior analyst at Burton Group, and Anne Thomas Manes, vice president and research director 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/2009/01/briefingsdirect-analysts-discuss.html. Charter sponsor: Active Endpoints. Additional underwriting: TIBCO Software.

When large businesses need to change fast, the IT systems need to do more than keep up with change -- they need to manage, define and secure it. Multiple enterprise systems of record that must quickly operate together as result of mergers and acquisitions are being effectively orchestrated using IT repositories. Using such repositories, IT and business assets that need to be quickly federated and integrated can be brought into alignment and managed via policies and governance definitions, even in far-flung operations. To better understand the value and opportunity in using IT repositories to manage change in complex business environments, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently defined a case study at Wachovia, which is now merging with Wells Fargo. The case study emerges in a discussion Gardner has here with Harry Karr and Hemesh Yadav, both IT architects at Wachovia. Listen or read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/01/it-repositories-help-financial-giant.html. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.

Bringing more enterprise data to the mobile tier has been a thorny problem for many years now. This podcast examines innovative ways to extract and make enterprise data ready to be accessed and consumed by mobile device users. Kapow Technologies is focusing on the Web browser on the mobile device to allow data to be much more efficiently delivered via mobile networks beyond the limited range of traditional enterprise applications. To provide an in-depth look at how more enterprises and their data can be packaged and delivered effectively to more users, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke to JP Finnell, CEO of Mobility Partners, a wireless mobility consulting firm; Stefan Andreasen, founder and chief technology officer at Kapow Technologies, and Ron Yu, head of marketing at Kapow. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/01/enterprises-seek-new-ways-to-package.html. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies.

Internet-scale data gathering, swarms of sensors outputs, and content signals from the mobile device fabric -- as well as enterprises piling up ever more kinds of metadata to analyze -- have stretched traditional data-management models to the breaking point. Yet advances in parallel processing using multi-core chipsets have prompted new software approaches such as MapReduce that can handle these data chores at surprisingly low total cost. What are the technical underpinnings that support the new demands being placed on, and by, extreme data sets? What economies of scale can we anticipate? To provide a technical look at how parallelism, modern data infrastructure, and MapReduce technologies come together, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke with Joe Hellerstein, professor of computer science at UC Berkeley; Robin Bloor, analyst at Hurwitz & Associates, and Luke Lonergan, CTO and co-founder at Greenplum. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/01/technical-look-at-how-parallel.html. Sponsor: Greenplum.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Listen as innovative retailers Alibris and QVC deal with huge demands on their systems and processes to meet the holiday peak season fulfillment. With the help of global shipping services providers like UPS, these retailers wrestle with a 3-times increase in orders despite rising customer expectations on fast and dependable holiday shipping. The feat of satisfying some 870,000 orders per day is nothing short of a modern miracle. Even Santa would be impressed. Join Mark Nason, vice president of operations at Alibris, and Andy Quay, vice president of outbound transportation at QVC, as we hear how the online peak season comes together in this sponsored podcast moderated by Dana Gardner, president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/12/peak-season-for-retailers-like-alibris.html. Sponsor: UPS.

The Android open source mobile platform made a splash in October when Google announced it, along with the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). The impact of such a platform on cell phones has been debated, yet the implications for an entirely new class of mobile internet devices has received less attention. In this podcast, John Bruggeman, chief marketing officer of Wind River Systems, digs in to the technical, business model and open source implications of Android and OHA -- but he goes a step further. Android will lead, he says, to a new class of potentially free mobile internet devices (MIDs) that do everything a PC does, only smaller, cheaper and in tune with global mobile markets that favor phones over PCs for web connectivity. Listen as Interarbor Solutions Principal Analyst Dana Gardner interviews Bruggeman on the long-term disruptions that may emerge from the advent of Android. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/12/wind-rivers-john-bruggeman-on-google.html.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 27, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Oct. 26, 2007, our experts examine the Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference and debate the results as SOA or MOA (Microsoft-Oriented Architecture). The group also evaluates SOA in Green IT and how power utilization supports SOA ROI. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus, principal analyst at Current Analysis; Neil Macehiter, principal analyst at Macehiter Ward-Dutton; and Joe McKendrick, an independent analyst and blogger. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the podcast at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/11/briefingsdirect-soa-insights-analysts.html.

Listen as global trade experts and UPS executives explore how small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs) can better market their goods internationally. UPS is helping to change the face of global shipping by being first to market with a solution called UPS Paperless Invoice, which uses the Internet to define commercial shipment invoice data for border clearance, eliminating the customer's chore of manually applying three paper invoice copies to each shipment. UPS will also soon deliver UPS Returns in 98 countries so shippers can use digital technology and UPS solutions to prepare the proper return labels so goods can be easily returned back across borders when necessary. Join Laurel Delaney, founder and president of GlobeTrade.com, and Stu Marcus and Scott Aubuchon, both directors of new product development at UPS, for this SMB globalization opportunity podcast moderated by Dana Gardner, president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/11/ups-to-debut-new-customs-clearance-and.html. Sponsor: UPS.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 26, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Oct. 19, 2007, our experts examine the potential acquisition by Oracle of BEA, the probable acquisition of Business Objects by SAP, the recent Information On Demand conference from IBM, and the relationship and tension between enterprise-wide SOA and more discrete Web-Oriented Architecture -- what we like to call Guerilla SOA. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus, principal analyst at Current Analysis; JP Morgenthal, CEO of Avorcor; and Tony Baer, principal of onStrategies. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the podcast at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/10/briefingsdirect-soa-insights-analysts.html.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 24, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Aug. 13, 2007, our experts examine virtualization trends through the acquisition by Citrix of XenSource. We also discuss the $1.6-billion purchase of Opsware by HP as a way of analyzing IT management, automation and operations, and their impact on SOA. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus, principal analyst at Current Analysis; Neil Macehiter, research director at Macehiter Ward-Dutton; Dan Kusnetzky, principal analyst and president of the Kusnetzky Group; Brad Shimmin, principal analyst at Current Analysis; Todd Biske, enterprise architect at Monsanto, formerly with MomentumSI; JP Morganthal, CEO of Avorcor; and Tony Baer, principal of onStrategies. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the podcast at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/09/insights-24-briefingsdirect-soa.html.

Listen as SOA experts explore how IT management will evolve in the world of service-based applications. The discussion delves into issues of new standards, how SOA demands that performance management and change management augment and elevate the role of systems management, and how the integrity of services delivery requires a deep and wide approach to "management in total" across a service's lifecycle. Panelists consist of Jason Bloomberg, managing partner and senior analyst at ZapThink, and Dana Gardner, president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Moderating the discussion is Martin Milani, chief technology officer at Tidal Software. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/10/harvard-club-discussion-on-soa.html. Sponsor: Tidal Software.

Change is afoot for the role and requirements of integration for modern software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers and enterprises adopting shared services models. Reuse is becoming an important issue, as are patterns of automation. The notion of reuse of integration -- with added emphasis on integration as a service -- has prompted a different approach to integration infrastructure. The new demand is driven by ecologies of services, some from the Web "cloud," and also the need to efficiently scale the delivery of services and applications composed of many disparate component services. Integrations require reusable patterns, high performance, as well as many different means of access from clients. To help better understand the new landscape for integration models, join a sponsored podcast discussion with Phil Wainewright, an independent consultant, director of Procullux Ventures, and ZDNet SaaS blogger, as well as Annrai O’Toole, CEO of Cape Clear Software. Moderator: Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/09/integration-infrastructure-approaches.html. Sponsor: Cape Clear Software.

Rather than losing control to ever-increasing complexity -- and gaining less and less insight into the root causes of problematic applications and services -- enterprises and on-demand application providers alike need to predict how systems will behave under a variety of conditions. By adding real-time analytics to their systems management practices, operators can fully determine the normal state of how systems should be performing. Then, by measuring the characteristics of systems under many conditions over time, datacenter administrators and systems operators gain the ability to predict and prevent threats to the performance of their applications and services. As a result they can stay ahead of complexity, and contain the costs of ongoing high-performance applications delivery. Here to help us understand how to manage complexity by leveraging probabilistic systems management and remediation, we are joined in the podcast by Mazda Marvasti, the CTO of Integrien Corp. Moderator: Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the podcast: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/09/probabilistic-it-analysis-predicts.html. Sponsor: Integrien Corp.

It seems that businesses, whether they're small or global 2000 concerns, are buying more supplies using search at some point in the procurement process. Some people begin and end a procurement journey with search. They actually buy the products through a strictly search-dependent process. Yet many still use a combination of word-of-mouth, search, and traditional information gathering to guide them to the best deals on the most goods. To find out just how much B2B buying behaviors are shifting, Enquiro Search Solutions conducted a survey earlier in 2007. They found that online search was consistently employed throughout the entire buying process, from awareness right through to purchase. There’s still a lot of back and forth: Offline factors influence online activity, and vice-versa, for a merging of the online and the offline worlds. This audio podcast, and accompanying video-podcast, plumb the depths of Enquiro's findings and vet them through the experiences of B2B search engine ZoomInfo. Join Gord Hotchkiss, President and CEO of Enquiro, and Bryan Burdick, COO of ZoomInfo, with moderation by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, for a deep dive discussion on B2B search trends and analysis. Sponsor: ZoomInfo. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/09/briefingsdirect-podcast-transcript-on.html. View a full-length, multi-media movie of the discussion at http://www.interarbor-solutions.com/Video/IAS_ZIESS_006.html.

The impact that Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) has on an organization is deep and wide. The changes required to bring SOA to fruition and make it as productive as possible affect the way both IT leaders and business managers think and operate. To provide a solid foundation on how SOA impacts a business, Dr. Paul Brown, a principal software architect at TIBCO Software, wrote "Succeeding with SOA: Realizing Business Value Through Total Architecture." The book emphasizes a "Total Architecture" perspective for SOA and advocates how business processes are the real focus. Brown calls on businesses to define, fully grasp, control, manage and adjust business processes as the rudders that steer business agility, powered by SOA methods. In this podcast, Dr. Brown is interviewed about his book by Enterprise Architect Todd Biske, with moderation by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: TIBCO Software. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/08/total-architecture-means-aligning.html.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 18, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded May 11, 2007, our experts examine the still-maturing technology around Rich Internet Applications (RIA), as well as Microsoft's Silverlight offering. Please join noted IT industry analysts Joe McKendrick, enterprise architect Todd Biske, and independent blogger Barb Darrow for our discussion, hosted and moderated by Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the podcast at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/09/briefingsdirect-soa-insights-analysts.html.

There is an entire universe of suppliers and vendors that support the delivery of applications as services. Indeed, the Software as a Service (SaaS) model is attracting more than end users who acquire their IT via user-per-month service subscriptions. Also attracted to the SaaS market are those vendors creating the means to produce and deliver such services well and efficiently. We're seeing more Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) support vendors focus their sales on SaaS providers and hosts, with the understanding that SOA may well emerge in the SaaS universe first, and then extend to enterprises more generally. To help understand the SaaS market, what SaaS providers want and what those seeking to support those providers can deliver, we recently spoke with Colleen Smith, managing director of Software as a Service for Progress Software. The resulting podcast, hosted and moderated by Dana Gardner, offers some great insights and better appreciation of the swelling ecology of vendors and providers devoted to SaaS delivery. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/08/saas-providers-now-seek-solutions-from.html.

One size fits all has its limits. Most developers prefer to cherry-pick their infrastructure resources, keep them lightweight, and remain as agile as they can. Taking a clue from this philosophy the Apache Software Foundation has dozens of projects under way to build out the discrete infrastructure assets through open source community involvement, while also providing a needed balance between choice and automation. One such project, Apache Camel, a sub-set of Apache ActiveMQ, is nearing maturity milestones that will make it a unique approach to middleware services mediation and routing. Learn more about Apache Camel and its value to developers and operators in this sponsored BriefingsDirect podcast with James Strachan, technical director of engineering at IONA Technologies, and longtime Apache developer and committer. Moderated and hosted by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/08/apache-camel-addresses-need-for.html. Sponsor: IONA Technologies.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 23, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode we record a special podcast of "Insights Edition," before a live audience at the July 23, 2007 plenary session of the Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Austin, Texas. The panel consists of Eric Knorr, executive editor-at-large at InfoWorld; Tony Baer, principal at onStrategies; Todd Biske, principal architect at MomentumSI, and, Beth Gold-Bernstein, vice president of ebizQ Learning Center. The discussion is hosted and moderated by Dana Gardner. Together we explore the "The Future of SOA." Read a full transcript of the podcast at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/08/soa-insights-analysts-discuss-likely.html.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 21, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded June 29, 2007, our experts are joined by guest Jim Ricotta, vice president and general manager of appliances within IBM’s software group. Together we explore the role and definition of IT infrastructure appliances and the impact on SOA. Other topics addressed include the BPEL4People specification, as well as the arrival of the GPL v3 open source license. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Tony Baer, Jim Kobielus, Brad Shimmin and Todd Biske for our discussion, hosted and moderated by Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the podcast at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/07/briefingsdirect-soa-insights-analysts.html.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 17, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded April 27, 2007, our experts examine the importance and implications of the semantic web (sometimes called Web 3.0), what Adobe's open source moves around Flex mean, and how UDDI is becoming more about politics than policy. Please join noted IT industry analysts Joe McKendrick, Jim Kobielus, Dave Linthicum and Todd Biske for our discussion, hosted and moderated by Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the podcast at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/07/17-briefingsdirect-soa-insights.html.

In my work covering enterprise application development and deployment strategies, I often also find myself witnessing a sea-change in how software companies and providers market their values. Software has always been a challenge to market, and many of the most innovative thinking in online marketing has come from the software industry. Creating and distributing good content is essential to getting the word out about any product or service these days. I recently had a podcast conversation with Sam Whitmore, editor and proprietor of Sam Whitmore's Media Survey, in which we discuss the burgeoning role of RSS, community, conversations, and search. Together we wonder whether the "public relations" commnity will soon gain a new cohort, the "search relations" person. Want media coverage? Get good search results first and foremost. Search is the new media. Listen here to the podcast or read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/07/content-becomes-king-once-more-this.html.

As the use of mashups sweeps the IT industry, the concept of converging Web services has expanded to a deeper role. Why not extend SOA itself by embracing more integration services that help vendors, ISVs, and service providers bring more elements of business processes together, too? The budding notion of integration-as-a-service allows enterprise business leaders to "shop around" for their services, regardless of hosting, and opens up the prospect for a thriving new ecology of services and integration models. The advancement to SOA for many companies may well be accelerated by more choices on means of connection. Join Annrai O'Toole, CEO of Cape Clear Software, and Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, for an eye-opening discussion on how early adopters are outsourcing integration, and what the future may hold. Read a full transcript of the discussion at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/07/transcript-of-briefingsdirect-podcast.html. Sponsor: Cape Clear Software.

Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 16, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded April 6, 2007, our experts examine Software AG's acquisition of webMethods, Web 2.0 and SOA convergence, and the purported SOA hype curve. Please join noted IT industry analysts Steve Garone, Joe McKendrick, Jim Kobielus, Tony Baer, and Todd Biske for our discussion, hosted and moderated by Dana Gardner. Read a full transcript of the podcast at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2007/06/briefingsdirect-soa-insights-analysts_28.html.

Not many things last for 20 years in the software business, but high-technology PR firm Lois Paul & Partners (LP&P) is this summer celebrating its 20th anniversary. I thought LP&P's anniversary would provide a great springboard for a trip down memory lane, as a way to assess just how much things have changed -- or not -- in the PC and enterprise software businesses. So I gladly moderated this 40-minute podcast with LP&P founder, Lois Paul, as well as Chris Shipley of Guidewire Group and the DEMO conferences, and also Dean Goodermote, CEO of Double-Take Software. Join us for some interesting anecdotes and insights into, for example, the early Ray Ozzie (now chief software architect at Microsoft), how IT magazines used to pay for news tips, and when the very definition of IT news and PR were being re-invented back in 1986. The period -- when Lotus Development Corp. was the world leader in desktop applications and most press releases were delivered via fax -- was an era, like today, full of fast change and media disruption. Feel free to read the transcript, too, at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2006/07/full-transcript-of-dana-gardners.html.

There's a looming threat to Internet commerce and general Web usage the world over. The underlying protocols that the modern Internet is built upon are inadequate to the task of providing secure and reliable packet traffic. Because the world is growing more dependent on the Internet for more aspects of business, government, communications, and broad societal functions, this vulnerability to criminal and terrorist attack could have dire consequences. This all according to Professor Tom Leighton, co-founder and Chief Scientist at Akamai Technologies. He's also professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT and -- especially in the context of this discussion -- the former chairman of the Cyber Security Sub-Committee of the U.S. President's IT Advisory Committee (PITAC). In this Akamai-sponsored BriefingsDirect podcast, Leighton and show moderator Dana Gardner explore the situation around cyber security, and what needs to be done by both the business community and U.S. government to reduce the risk to the global Internet infrastructure. While the U.S. government has cut basic research into creating the next generations of Internet technology, a time bomb of potentially catastrophic proportions is ticking away. Have a listen to the podcast, or read the transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2006/06/full-transcript-of-dana-gardners.html.

Eclipse is being used by two-thirds of Java shops today, and has taken the market for IDEs by storm over the last two years. Part of that adoption growth has been due to large ISVs dropping their own IDEs in favor of Eclipse. But why would they do that? I recently moderated a sponsored BriefingsDirect podcast on the impact of Eclipse Foundation on the development market -- taking a look at infrastructure ISVs, those large vendors that are using Eclipse instead of their own development environments, and why. Joining me on the podcast are representatives from two major software vendors: From BEA Systems, Bill Roth, the vice president of the BEA Workshop Business Unit, and from Wind River, Steve Heintz, the director of product management for developer technologies. Have a listen as we learn why very different large software tools, platform, and runtimes providers are hip to Eclipse. And they also see Eclipse as a model of other software projects to come. In addition to listening, feel free to look over the full transcript at http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2006/06/transcript-of-briefingsdirect-podcast.html. Podcast sponsor: Eclipse Foundation.

Selling SOA economics inside of enterprises is as important as executing on SOA deployments. Learn how to begin the analysis. Join executives from Hewlett-Packard's (HP's) Consulting and Integration Division for a high-level discussion on making the business case for SOA. Terri Bennett Schoenrock, executive director of SOA services and consulting integration and J2EE open source programs, along with Andrew Pugsley, worldwide lead for SOA service development, join Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, to examine the pay-offs and opportunities from moving to SOA, ramping-up with HP's assessment processes and advacement methodologies, as well as some user-case studies on how to measure success. Podcast sponsor: HP.

The latest BriefingsDirect podcast takes the pulse of how podcasting is being perceived as a business communications tool, with guests Barb Heffner, a partner and founder of CHEN PR, and Sam Whitmore, editor of MediaSurvey. The discussion comes on the heels of CHEN PR's news that it is creating a podcast service within its IT and life sciences communications offerings, using Interarbor Solutions, and yours truly, as a sub-contractor for production services and analyst moderator services. We discuss the unique relationship and how PR agencies are increasingly reaching out with viral marketing services to their clients. Curious about how podcasting fits into communications, marketing, viral marketing and quality information sharing? The guests offer some powerful insights and examples based on their businesses and value propositions. The discussion also delves into the balance of editorial authenticity and balance in B2B podcasting, and how the needs and interests of both sponsors and listeners must be maintained. Have a listen.

Dr. Richard Soley, chairman and CEO of the Object Management Group (OMG), joined me last week for a BriefingsDirect podcast on OMG's latest activities and the status of the ongoing counter-force to complexity -- standards. Indeed, OMG through its auspicious history has developed a methodology for federating standards, which themselves often spin off into a maze of overlapping complexity. By balancing interests and encouraging buy-in from multiple often competing or orthogonal participants, OMG has built consensus around models of various technologies and vertical industry particulars. Those efforts nowadays, among other targets, are increasingly aimed at SOA and business process management. The goal is to abstract out enough complexity so that IT, business, users, and discrete communities can work together productively. Dr. Soley provides keen insights and education into what it takes to conjure and cajole that elusive critical beast: the neutral but authoritative industry third party. Have a listen.

I began working with Barb Darrow back in 1988 at bi-monthly engineering trade pub Design News, and always respected her tenacity, verve, and newshound instincts. Barb went on to InfoWorld in 1993 but had left by the time I got there to run news for the website in 1995. Now as longtime Industry Editor at CRN, she's the Helen Thomas (in only the best possible way) of the IT press corp. So it seemed fitting to sit down with Barb and chew the fat on what's up in IT vendor shortcomings and victories ... what some call IT vendor sports. For some great "inside baseball" insights on what is top of mind (or should be) for Microsoft, HP, IBM, SAP, Oracle ... and the rest of the gang, have a listen to this BriefingsDirect podcast with myself and the mistress of scoop, Barb Darrow of CRN.

Enterprise IT systems management is about to face an onslaught of complexity. As heterogeneity jacks up due to open source stacks and extended B2B ecologies, and as virtualization blurs the lines between platform, hardware, and applications, and also as SOA adoption grows -- so grows the complexity of managing availability and cost for administrators and operators. This week at Interop, CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (NSM) is tagging up with Spunk to assist in accessing and managing server performance data. As a prelude to the announcement, I conducted a sponsored briefing podcast with Mell Estrada, senior business and product manager in CA's Enterprise Systems Management business unit, and Michael Baum, chief executive Splunker. In the discussion we examine the swiftly ramping up (Mell says it's going from a 5 to a 9 on a scale of 10) problem-solution set facing enterprise IT systems management practitioners, as well as how the CA-Splunk combination adds value to the equation. Have a listen.

With some six million installations, MySQL is a fabulously popular database. All sorts of users, developers, system adminstrators, and database administrators (DBAs) are deploying and managing MySQL. The question is how to make that administration as simple and straightforward as possible for these myriad types of users, many of whom don't want to be professional DBAs. In this sponsored podcast discussion, we delve into the issues of MySQL management with Brian Aker, director of architecture at MySQL, and Michael Baum, chief executive Splunker at Splunk.

Follow the money, my mother always told me. Venture capitalists and angels don't have that luxury, however -- they need to lead with the money. So that's why it's strong and beneficial medicine for enterprise IT strategists to gain insights into where the VCs see the next big opportunities. My discussion here (37 minutes) with Jeff Clavier, founder and managing partner of SoftTech Venture Consulting, Palo Alto, CA, and editor of the Software Only blog, squarely hits the mark on insights. Listen as we dive into VC activites in 2005, what defines Web 2.0 for the enterprise, and where viral ecommerce and knowledge commerce are heading.

Reams of log data streams from datacenter and network components every second. Splunk has developed an indexing and search solution to mine and organize that data to help administrators better monitor and repair their systems and reduce downtime. But now Splunk has introduced Splunk Base (http://www.splunk.com/base), an open, Wiki-driven, global repository for administrators to collectively share knowledge on how systems behave, ways to best manage them, and up-to-date maintenance tips. In this sponored podcast, Dana Gardner interviews Chief Executive Splunker Michael Baum and Chief Community Splunker Pat McGovern (formerly of SourceForge) on what Splunk Base is, how it can become a powerful tool for eliminating downtime, and a one-stop destination for quickly identifying operational solutions.

Based on a recent IBM poll of CEOs, everyone is talking about business process management, but no one is doing much about it. Guest analysts Neil Macehiter and Neil Ward-Dutton join Dana Gardner on a high-level discussion of how enterprises can prepare for BPM, even if they can't quite buy it out of a box yet.

AJAX seems ready-made for SOA, yet SOA could use some business-case mojo from simple-client AJAX. So are SOA and AJAX the peanut butter and chocolate mashup to the next best IT treat? Join Sphere of Influence's Dion Hinchcliffe and Dana Gardner on a deep-dive discussion into the best use- and business ROI-case scenarios for the ultimate mashup: AJAX and SOA, now on BriefingsDirect.

Dana Gardner discusses with Scott Mace of Calendar Swamp how calendar interoperabilty is a topic ripe for an awakening. Mace explains how the inertia afflicting shared extranet group calendaring will soon get a nudge toward broader inclusion -- Google or no Google. There is a huge potential market for a good and broadly sharable calendar service. Listen to the trends background and subsequent forecast of how broadly but carefully shared calendars will soon inject higher productivity into most daily business and home workflows.

Are the forces reshaping how IT is created, marketed, and distributed a seachange, or a blip? Public relations and marketing maven Sam Whitmore of Sam Whitmore's Media Survey (www.mediasurvey.com) joins Dana Gardner of Interarbor Solutions to flesh out the impacts on selling software wrought by blogs, RSS, and podcasting. Sam advices IT marketers to embrace and extend, not phase out, traditional marketing by exploiting the new modalities and viral distribution avenues gaining ground today. It's a lively and enlightening 45 minutes with an IT industry veteran.

Cape Clear Software CEO Annrai O'Toole discusses the balance between simplicity and breadth in the ESB market in this sponsored BriefingsDirect podcast with Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. O'Toole takes exception to IBM's ESB strategy while staking out a goal of making the Cape Clear ESB the core of a larger SOA platform solution announcement next year.

Guest analyst Maurene Caplan Grey, founder of Grey Consulting, parses the messaging and collaboration trends of 2005, while raising expectations for an innovation burst in 2006. Will messaging become an infrastructure function? Are common data stores closer to reality? Join moderator Dana Gardner of Interarbor Solutions for a lively discussion of the messaging market in the latest BriefingsDirect B2B informational podcast.

Join Akamai Chief Scientist and co-founder Tom Leighton as host Dana Gardner of Interarbor Solutions moderates an exciting look into the growth of the Internet and the role performance-enhanced Web applications play. This sponsored BriefingsDirect B2B informational podcast examines the growth of Akamai over the past seven years, and the evolution of the company into a leading provider of business application delivery services and infrastructure -- allowing the Internet to truly live up to its business and consumer expectations.

Independent industry analysts from the UK Neil Macehiter and Neil Ward-Dutton join BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner for a dissection of SOA trends in 2005 and some predictions for 2006. The role of enterprise Java diminishing? The analysts hash it out, while wondering if simplicity is a victim to the latest Services Component Architecture (SCA) announcement. Analysts on Skype on analysts on Skype, now on BriefingsDirect.

BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner discusses the fast evolution of the definition for SOA platform with Infravio's Miko Matsumura. Is there an open source UDDI registry brewing? Find out in this B2B informational podcast.