Sat, 30 January 2010
![]() 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.
Direct download: BriefingsDirect-Storage_Virtualization_Comes_of_Age.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:56pm EDT |
Fri, 29 January 2010
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.
Direct download: BriefingsDirect-IT_Jobs_Market_for_2010.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:28am EDT |
Mon, 18 January 2010
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
![]() Access the regional Asia Pacific conference, the EMEA conference, or the Americas event.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.
Direct download: BriefingsDirect-Mainframe_Alternatives_v2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:58pm EDT |
Tue, 5 January 2010
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 paralle
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Direct download: BriefingsDirect-Architectural_Advances_Take_Data_Analytics_to_New_Heights.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:46pm EDT |
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