|
|
|
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.
2009-05-06
IBM Lotus Foundations Start is an all-in-one small business appliance - your server, applications, security, and storage are all built-in. All the essential software your business needs is included - giving you peace of mind that there won’t be any surprise costs associated with the need to buy additional IT functionality. It repairs itself automatically, protects your systems, and backs up your data. These capabilities help prevent problems from happening in the first place, making IBM Lotus Foundations Start an ideal solution for a business with little or no IT.
The solution also enables you to share information internally and with customers and clients, manage calendars, and schedule meetings. It also serves as a platform to run a wide variety of business applications. And with the included VPN (virtual private network) software, you can conduct business in the office, at home, or anywhere in between.
2009-03-19
Sun Cloud Group CTO, Lew Tucker sat down with eWEEK during the 2009 CommunityOne conference in New York to discuss Sun’s announcement of its upcoming Sun Open Cloud Platform, a set of core technologies, APIs and protocols that Sun will make available to both public and private clouds starting sometime this summer.
Sun is also introducing the Sun Cloud, its first public cloud, intended for use by the enterprise, students, developers and others. The company already uses the Sun Cloud internally.
Predicting "a world in which there will be many clouds," Tucker discussed how Sun’s cloud computing efforts will intermix with those of Google, Microsoft and other companies; cloud computing’s prospects for the enterprise; and who will benefit the most from this technological evolution.
2009-02-25
Cisco Systems and Accenture are teaming up to create a new group designed to help larger enterprises improve their data center operations and business processes through the use of such technologies as virtualization, collaboration and unified communications.
There is now more competition than ever in the smartphone market...but one company is setting themselves apart from the pack with their creative and simplistic advertising, advertising that doesn’t even focus on the phone itself. Our apple watch expert/editor Joe Wilcox gives us the low down.
Although CeBIT is considered the largest consumer IT show in Europe, eWEEK reporter Chris Preimesberger, who is covering the event from Germany, is reporting that it too is feeling the effects of the worldwide recession.
2009-02-25
The Lenovo ThinkServer RD120 rack mountable dual socket server makes a good branch office or departmental server. See how baffles channel air through the front, the fans, over the CPU heat sinks, and out the back. Watch in awe as I snap 10 fans in and out with but a single hand!
2009-02-23
In the last few weeks, Windows 7 has been dominating the headlines. Microsoft promises that the new OS will deliver improved simplicity and reliability, and its beta release is gaining new fans every day. But what many people don’t know is that Windows 7 is actually built on the same core software as Windows Vista, and it’s designed to be a seamless step-up for hardware that’s already running the Vista OS. What about machines that aren’t running Vista? Well, the transition might not go as smoothly. Businesses, especially, will face deployment and compatibility challenges when upgrading to Windows 7 if they are not prepared. This video not only tells you why and how, but also lets you in on the problems your company may face if you skip vista.
2009-02-19
Increasingly, companies are discovering that simply getting messages in one place isn't enough. A message must be delivered on the right device at the right time to the right person - a person who can respond immediately.
Some companies have used presence to realize significant costs savings. And many see presence delivering much more value to their organization by improving business processes. And still more, hope to go a step further by leveraging the collaboration that presence can deliver through its ability to find experts.
2009-02-12
David Heit, Director of Enterprise Product Management for RIM sits down with eWEEK reporter Nicholas Kolakowski to discuss the roadmap for RIM for enterprise over the next three-to-four years, focusing in particular on device integration into the enterprise, the RIM Enterprise Server 5.0, and a bit of VoIP.
2009-02-04
Richard Campione, SAP Senior Vice President, Business Suite Solution, speaking about the benefits for businesses of adopting SAP Business Suite 7, which was released for ramp-ups on Nov. 21, 2008 and will begin general adoption at some as-yet-undefined point this summer. SAP's launch partners for Business Suite 7 include IBM, Atos Origin and Wipro; this upgrade from SAP Business Suite 6 is a library of business processes, delivered to clients in modular steps, with an eye towards helping companies create and manage efficient and flexible processes with lower costs.
2009-02-02
While Java is one of the earliest examples of an RIA, the technology played little part in the recent rise of RIAs, until now. With the release of JavaFX 1.0, Sun is hoping to bring Java into the cutting edge of the Web. eWEEK’s Chief Technology Analyst Jim Rapoza takes a look at the JavaFX 1.0 and its effect on the RIA market.
2009-01-20
IBM's Sean Poulley, vice president of online collaboration at IBM, discusses LotusLive, IBM's latest push into SAAS (software as a service), with eWEEK senior writer Clint Boulton at Lotusphere 2009. Poulley says LotusLive will provide enterprises with a more integrated social networking and collaboration portfolio, where all the parts move together more seamlessly than they do in the Google Apps and Windows Live competing suites. One of the key differences is that LotusLive will integrate with IBM customers' current on-premise investments in Lotus Notes, Sametime, etc. Out of the chute, LotusLive this year will integrated with Salesforce.com, LinkedIn and Skype, exposing the platform to as many as 400 users. In particular, he sees the LotusLive integration with Skype as an instant rival with Google's voice and video chat feature in Gmail.
2009-01-14
eWEEK's Scott Ferguson sits down with Lenovo's Director of Thinkpad Product Marketing, Tom Ribble at CES 2009 in Las Vegas, where Lenovo was debuting its new W700 DS notebook. The DS is an extension of the W700 that was announced earlier this year. The new DS features and integrated color calibrator and it’s also the first notebook to offer an integrated second display.
|
| Read More Enterprise Applications News Articles |
| ST. BERNARD RESOURCE CENTER |
Cut Your Web Filtering Expense and Get a T-shirt!
Dude, where's your Surf control? Catch the next wave in Web Filtering with iPrism. Sign up for a Web Demo today and get a free WIPEOUT T-shirt. Plus, you may be elgible for a free Surfboard!
Brought to You By
| |
 |
|
In the last year, Firefox has faced challengers in areas in which it was always comfortably ahead. However, with the release of Firefox 3.5, Mozilla has addressed many of the biggest problems of its Web browser. Most of the changes are under the hood, but the improvements are enough to make Firefox one of the most compelling browsers available, and enough to earn the new version an eWEEK Labs Analyst's Choice award.
Opera Unite is essentially a Web server embedded within a browser. This has the potential to make the exchange of data on the Web more efficient, but any Web server carries with it security risk--especially one on end users' systems.
During eWEEK Labs' review of the iPhone 3.0 software upgrade, the remote wipe feature worked great. Unfortunately, the restore feature did not. But a trip to the Apple Store brought surprisingly fast relief.
Open-source software allows a great deal of flexibility and configurability, and can help organizations avoid vendor lock-in, but it has to be the right open-source software. Open-source enterprise applications such as Zimbra that provide hosted, on-premises and independent options are the most attractive.
REVIEW: The open-source Concrete5 content management system trails its rivals in terms of templates but offers a powerful API. The free CMS offers strong administration features, and companies will be able to quickly customize sites.
|
|
|
|
|
| FEATURED SPONSORED MESSAGE |
New White Papers from Sun and Intel
Brought to You By
 | |
|
| FEATURED SPONSORED MESSAGE |
Xeon Assesment Tool
When comparing 4-year old server technology to servers based on the Intel Xeon 5500 series, you can experience a ROI in under 12 months.
Intel offers an easy to use tool to determine how replacing older server technology can provide a positive return on your technology investment.
Learn More
Brought to You By
 | |
|
|
|
MOST READ ENTERPRISE-APPLICATIONS STORIES
PAST 7 DAYS
MOST READ ENTERPRISE-APPLICATIONS STORIES
PAST 30 DAYS
|
|
|
 |
EWEEK E-MAIL NEWSLETTERS bring you reliable, timely
information to stay on top of the business of technology -- and
technology in business -- and get more out of the Web.
Make your choices and start your subscriptions today!
| 
|
 |
EWEEK RSS NEWS FEEDS contain a daily feed of our latest stories from over 30 different categories including Enterprise Apps, Business Intelligence, Security, VOIP and more!
Subscribe to our RSS feeds today for free...
| 
|
|
|
Enterprise Applications Videos 
