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2009-10-21
A new report is out by Forrester Research claiming that Microsoft's Windows 7 Means the End of XP for Business. Within 18 months of the release, or with the release of the first Windows 7 service pack, "the OEM licenses bundled with every PC will no longer carry downgrade rights to Windows XP. If you’re an IT or Business decision maker—get ready to start seeing Going Google ads as about as much as you see your family. That’s because you are Google’s target market for its Going Google advertising initiative aimed at switching you over to their collaboration software, Google Apps. You can expect to see the messages at train stations, airports, and in print and online publications in the U.S., as well as in Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Singapore and the U.K. A survey sponsored by 1E and the Alliance to Save Energy found that one in six servers - about 4.7 million worldwide - are doing nothing useful, costing businesses as much as $25 billion a year. The survey of global IT professionals also found that many are lacking the necessary tools and know-how to find and get rid of unused servers.
2009-10-02
We’ve all been in this situation, we have a hot new application that will drive an important new business process. The application development process has been shortened to where the pilot is completed in 60 days or less, now IT finds out that deploying and provisioning the servers, storage, and network links for the hardware to support this new application is going to take 45-90 days! And that just won’t do. Using standard infrastructure that can easily and quickly accommodate and support new hardware is critical to lowering that cycle time.
2009-09-15
Watch this instructional video and learn how you can easily create a basic Java application using the open-source JBoss Seam tool, with EnterpriseDB’s Postgres as the back-end database. Seam ties together a number of different JBoss and Java frameworks in order to create a quick and simple database-driven CRUD application, which can be used to build your business applications. Watch EnterpriseDB Chief Architect Jim Mlodgenski show you step-by-step how, by tying in the Postgres database, this reverse-engineering approach enables you to avoid having to create boilerplate code, letting the framework handle this process for you.
2009-09-15
How much longer can your organization afford to pay the high costs associated with supporting an Oracle database? In this instructional video, you’ll learn how to seamlessly migrate an Oracle database to EnterpriseDB’s open-source Postgres Plus Advanced Server - and save lots of money in the process. EnterpriseDB Director of Sales Engineering Craig Silveira takes you through the process step-by-step. You’ll learn how you can take advantage of the Oracle compatibility that EnterpriseDB has built into the PostgreSQL open-source database, as well as use the migration tools that EnterpriseDB provides to make the migration process quick and painless.
2009-09-15
What could your IT staff do with an extra five hours? Watch this video and learn how you can use open-source Pg_Migrator to profoundly cut the time it takes your team to upgrade from an old release of Postgres to a new one. In the past, a Postgres upgrade required users to dump and reload data in order to move from one major version of Postgres to another. Watch EnterpriseDB Senior Database Architect and Postgres core developer Bruce Momjian show you what Pg_Migrator is, what it does, and how it works to slash what used to take five hours for a traditional dump-and-reload Postgres upgrade process to just 23 seconds for a 150GB database.
2009-08-24
This video is intended for executives and managers and tells how Sun servers equipped with Flash-enabled solid-state drives offer dramatic improvements to HPC, Web 2.0, and data center application performance.
2009-07-20
Today’s data centers need to boost energy efficiency, lower costs, and increase their performance and reliability to stay competitive in a global marketplace. Sun’s Solaris Operating System, combined with Sun servers running on the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, meets all of these needs: Higher performance, increased efficiency, top-notch reliability, and lower costs of ownership and operation.
The Solaris OS takes advantage of the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series’ speed enhancements to deliver unprecedented performance. It also works with Intel’s power management features to match electrical consumption to workload, reducing wasted energy. Additionally, the Solaris Fault Management Architecture and Predictive Self Healing features can diagnose, isolate, and help recover from hardware and application faults, making high availability a reality.
2009-07-07
Dell has announced sweeping additions to its virtualization solutions suite, paying particular attention to accelerating the delivery of benefits to its corporate clientele. In an interview with Ziff-Davis Enterprise Contributing Editor Steve Kovsky, Dell Solutions Director Anthony Dina explains that in the past, customers were frustrated by the length of time it took for a new technology investment to pay for itself. Dell’s new approach emphasizes quicker returns and better measurement of each customer’s ROI. "There’s a lag time between when a person decides they want to get after the advantage, and when they actually get the advantage, so with this announcement, we put a lot of effort into what we call ‘the fast track to efficiency’," Dina said. That fast-track approach calls for a combination of pre-configured hardware and software packages, bundled with advisory and consulting services that are designed to let companies plan, deploy and manage their server virtualization investment with a minimum of downtime or delay.
2009-07-01
The 2009 Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston brought together vendors, analysts and customers looking for the best ways to take cutting edge web technologies such as social networking and Twitter-style micro-blogging and apply them to the challenges of business. While many companies recognize the value of these technologies for business use, they are hesitant to apply public services like Twitter and Facebook for sensitive business use. Many products at the conference focused on providing these types of features in a secure business friendly environment.
2009-06-18
In-house software installations are hard to deploy and even harder to manage. Software as a service, or SaaS, takes the burden off your IT department and enables your company to leverage the expertise of dedicated service providers whenever utility applications are needed. Hosted Microsoft Exchange from Intermedia, for example, lets you save money on server hardware and licenses, eliminate tedious backup and updating chores, and take full advantage of Exchange’s advanced features. SaaS lets you take a capital expense and move it to the operations column. It also brings peace of mind, because your critical data is stored securely in a fully redundant and world-class data center. Watch this video to learn more about Intermedia’s hosted Exchange and full Business Productivity Suite of office tools.
2009-06-08
Learn how to deliver accurate and timely data analysis essential to business process optimization. Discover how to leverage and maximize trusted information to develop new products and create scalable strategies. The need for trusted information inside any organization is more important than ever. The problem is that most organizations already possess a wealth of information, yet struggle to utilize this information in ways that grow efficiency and capture more ROI.
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Based on tests of new beta versions, neither Firefox 3.6 nor Google Chrome 4.0 will be major steps forward for the browsers. The only significant new feature in the Chrome 4.0 beta is Bookmark Sync. The Firefox 3.6 beta boasts more new features than the Chrome 4.0 beta, but none are groundbreaking.
The free SeaMonkey suite is very similar to the old Mozilla software while keeping the underlying technology up-to-date. The new SeaMonkey 2.0, for example, adds the capabilities of Firefox 3.5's underlying browsing engine while maintaining the old Mozilla look and feel. eWEEK Labs' tests show that SeaMonkey 2.0 takes some getting used to but has some compelling features, especially for organizations that want an all-in-one Internet suite.
Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard deserves a top spot on IT managers' evaluation list for system updates in creative departments where Macs predominate. Snow Leopard Server could be considered for general enterprise deployment, but its built-in creative and communications functions make the operating system best suited for use where high-value content is produced. Of note are the updates to the Podcast Producer, Wiki and Mobile Access components.
Microsoft recently provided a limited-access technical preview of its Office Web Apps suite. eWEEK Labs' tests so far show that the Office Web Apps suite, while studded with its fair share of tech preview warts, signals that Microsoft's counterattack on the online office encroachment of Google, Zoho and others is off to a solid start.
Unlike Web-based Office productivity apps such as Zoho Office and Google Apps, OpenGoo is distributed under an open-source license and can be run from any LAMP server. The do-it-yourself OpenGoo is also offered in a commercial version called Feng Office that provides technical support. OpenGoo is fairly polished for its age, but it has some catching up to do to compete with rivals' functionality.
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