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Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier of software and cloud productivity trends and new IT business growth opportunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the emerging software development and enterprise infrastructure arenas for the last 18 years. Gardner tracks and analyzes a critical set of enterprise software technologies and business development issues: Cloud computing, SOA, business process management, business intelligence, next-generation data centers, and application lifecycle optimization. His specific interests include Enterprise 2.0 and social media, cloud standards and security, as well as integrated marketing technologies and techniques. Gardner is a former senior analyst at Yankee Group and Aberdeen Group, and a former editor-at-large and founding online news editor at InfoWorld. He is a former news editor at IDG News Service, Digital News & Review, and Design News.

HP Software delivers integrated management for apps deployment, banking on simpler approach to navigating cloud choice

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Often lost amid the talk of cloud deployment models and hybrid hosting efficiencies is the actual task of properly deploying enterprise applications. Deploying applications touches so many aspects of IT systems and business processes, and requires ongoing updates and management, that only the enterprise IT staffs can really do the job. So if cloud is … Read More

Thomas Duryea Consulting provides insights into how leading adopters successfully solve cloud risks

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Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: VMware. The next BriefingsDirect IT leadership discussion focuses on how leading Australian IT services provider Thomas Duryea Consulting made a successful journey to cloud computing as a business. We’ll learn why a cloud-of-clouds approach is providing new types … Read More

Ariba and Discover to transform B2B payments with cloud-based AribaPay

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Ariba, an SAP Company, and Discover Financial Services today unveiled Ariba Pay. The new service, to be offered by Ariba, is expected to transform B2B payments by eliminating paper transactions, providing better visibility into cash flow, and producing rich remittance information that improves reconciliation processes for buyers and sellers. The cloud-based service. announced at the … Read More

Ariba, Dell Boomi to unveil collaboration enhancements for networked economy at Ariba LIVE conference

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Collaboration will take center stage next week when Ariba, an SAP company, holds its Ariba LIVE conference in Washington, DC. In an effort to fuel greater collaboration between companies through new capabilities and network-derived intelligence, Ariba will announce an enhanced set of tools, as well as a joint offering with Dell Boomi. Leading the list … Read More

Dell’s Foglight for Virtualization update extends visibility and management control across more infrastructure

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Dell Software this week delivered Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition to extend the depth and breadth of managing and optimizing server virtualization as well as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and their joint impact on such IT resources as storage. Building on the formerly named Quest vFoglight Pro virtualization management solution, Dell re-branded vFoglight to Foglight … Read More

Service Virtualization brings speed benefit and lower costs to TTNET applications testing

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Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP. Welcome to the latest edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series. Our next discussion examines how TTNET, the largest internet service provider in Turkey, with six million subscribers, significantly improved applications deployment while cutting costs and … Read More

Rush to enable enterprise mobile development pits native against container approaches

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Both enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs) know the software-development game’s changed. Not only do they need to rapidly develop and deploy more mobile apps across multiple interfaces and device platforms, but they need to really rethink all of their client development — and even try and come up with a singular approach to most … Read More

Data complexity forces need for agnostic tool chain approach for information management, says Dell Software executive

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Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Dell Software. A data dichotomy has changed the face of information management, bringing with it huge new data challenges for businesses to solve. The dichotomy means that organizations, both large and small, not only need to manage all … Read More

nCrypted Cloud adds security and privacy to cloud-based storage services for consumers and enterprises

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Boston-based startup nCrypted Cloud recently launched software of the same name designed to address the security and privacy concerns that have emerged with the use of popular cloud-based storage services. Available in consumer basic, consumer pro, and enterprise editions, nCrypted Cloud encrypts information stored on popular cloud services such as Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft’s … Read More

On the road to Sydney: The Open Group gets to the bottom of the latest in business architecture and enterprise transformation

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Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: The Open Group. Later this month, The Open Group’s first conference in Australia will focus on “How Does Enterprise Architecture Transform an Enterprise?” With special attention devoted to enterprise transformation, speakers and a variety of sessions will place the transformation in the context … Read More