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I wandered lonely as an unmanaged cloud service
Blog Would you be suspicious if a company told you that Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce etc.were suffering from management and monitoring gaps and that their product filled those holes? Would you be suspicious if a piece of software claimed to be...
[November 12, 2008, 7:47 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Symantec to announce Altiris product
Blog Symantec bought the SOA management company in April, and both companies have been quietly following their product roadmaps since then. Apparently, the product will extend Altiris' playing field into the firewall area, while adding inventory...
[September 12, 2007, 14:52 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Is Freeware the new Open Source?
Blog One has to ask the question after seeing news emanating from VMworld San Francisco this week that virtualisation management specialist Vizioncore has just positioned half their product line as freeware.
[September 2, 2009, 12:47 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Symantec reveals Endpoint Protection
Blog In what quickly become a raft of new product anouncements, Symantec also announced Veritas NetBackup 6.5 -- the latest version of its data management product. Symantec also announced Storage United, a software product which Symantec claims will...
[June 12, 2007, 18:56 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Getting 'Close & Personal' Is Key To Online Retail
Blog According to the research, this is particularly true in the management of large product ranges where consumers only want to be offered products and services that are relevant and appropriate to them, as an ‘edited choice’, in order to benefit from...
[July 17, 2009, 20:03 in Social Networking by christian harris]
Software compliance & the marathon runner’s ‘wall’
Blog Knowing that I needed to propose a management-friendly product that guided developers but still allowed them to use their tools of choice, I could feel myself being sucked in by the marketing-speak and suddenly phrases like “self-documenting...
[April 9, 2009, 9:27 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Gandi’s mantra for cloud computing
Blog The product is called Watchdog and it claims to provide a monitoring service that allows customers to set certain thresholds on key server performance metrics such as CPU usage, load average, or network traffic.
[August 2, 2009, 21:11 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
IBM announces Rational Team Webtop
Blog It's a web-based collaboration tool that delivers application lifecycle management information with an appreciation for complex product engineering design needs. With IBM's Rational Software Developer Conference 2009 less than a month away now, the...
[May 7, 2009, 14:00 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Sybase breaks ‘new’ ground with ‘In-Database’ business analytics
Blog To support this story, last night I interviewed Joydeep Das, a senior product manager at Sybase for his take on the news. The new ‘in-database’ analytics processing capabilities in this product enables organisations to deploy analytics to drive...
[July 14, 2009, 14:00 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Virtuous virtualisation vicissitudes
Blog But I’ll go the obvious route and mention VMWare as its Stage Manager product is in precisely this space. So does their latest product address those issues and manage change for services within an environment where bags of virtualisation...
[January 22, 2008, 19:31 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Red Hat's desktop strategy is now based on Windows?
Blog RHEL Desktop has existed for a long while, but it's not had any major marketing that I've seen, and the company recently stepped back from making a consumer desktop product. Fedora is not a product," the Red Hat CTO and president answered.
[September 11, 2008, 9:31 in News Blog by PeterJudge]
Prototype holographic storage device unveiled
Talkback First generation product will be directed to the hard drive market, with second and third generations being directed to flash memory. Capacity of the first generation product will be similar to common corporate SAN areal densities.
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[January 10, 2005, 8:46]
Get your filthy hands off my code!
Blog Built on its Jazz platform, IBM’s new product (which it describes as a collaborative "hub") is focused on integration and version control for quality management with a quality manager that it says will, “Ensure it is no longer the sole...
[November 25, 2008, 14:01 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
VMworld Europe: Conference Blog Day 2 (part 1)
Blog Blowing the dust off the product announcements, we hear that VMware has four new virtual machine management products for automation and business continuity to announce. There’s also a business continuity product announcement this week in the form...
[February 27, 2008, 9:06 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Microsoft Hyper-V ready to go?
Blog Interestingly though Microsoft's Hyper-V news comes out just after server OS rival Red Hat announced its own hypervisor product. Launched on the first day of the company's annual user conference in Boston, the Embedded Linux Hypervisor is currently...
[June 25, 2008, 15:31 in News Blog by Andrew Donoghue]
Show blog day 2: IBM Rational Software Developer Conference 2008
Blog The new Jazz platform and Rational Team Concert product are open and process-aware and that’s a good thing,” said Cohen. The company announced a product called Prevent for C# which uses an analysis engine designed specifically for detecting defects...
[June 3, 2008, 23:47 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Fine tuning the virtual engine
Blog We get the idea - you have a neat product that looks slick and works great, so how does it do what it does then? CiRBA’s web site talks about data-level integration enhancements that enable its product to be used as a centralised repository for...
[January 27, 2009, 23:19 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
The core role of application lifecycle management in software development
Blog Due to time-constraints and lack of funding, most customers choose not to incorporate a software development plan that would result in a solid product. Instead, quite frequently, a buggy prototype becomes the finished product.
[July 25, 2007, 13:19 in by Adrian Bridgwater]
Extreme Networks BD8500 edge switch modules
Blog Extreme Networks claims a complete system is cheaper than either of its competitors' equivalent products, and that its per-port prices is $180 against HP's $182, and Cisco's $231 or $277, depending on product chosen.
[October 7, 2009, 10:48 in Reviews Blog by First Take]
With Intel in Prague
Blog Next up was VMware's Douglas Philips (Senior Product Marketing Manager, Management & Automation, EMEA), who made pointed reference to the fact that VMware has been delivering some key virtualisation services, such as the live migration of running...
[September 17, 2008, 17:30 in News Blog by Charles McLellan]
