The next BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Volume 49, hones in on the
predictions for IT industry growth and impact, now that the recession appears
to have bottomed out. We're going to ask our distinguished panel of analysts
and experts for their top five predictions for IT growth through 2010 and
beyond.
This periodic discussion and dissection of IT infrastructure related news and
events with a panel of industry analysts and guests, comes to you with the
help of our charter sponsor Active Endpoints, maker of the ActiveVOS business
process management system.
To help us gaze into the IT trends crystal ball we are joined by our panel:
Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Joe McKendrick,
independent analyst and prolific blogger; Tony Baer, senior analy... (more)
I was a bit distracted from the Apple iPad news due to the marathon Oracle
conference Wednesday on its shiny new Sun Microsystems acquisition.
But the more I thought about it, the more these two companies are extremely
well positioned to actually fulfill what other powerful companies tried to do
and failed. Apple and Oracle may be unstoppable in their burgeoning power to
dominate the colle... (more)
Weblogic at Cloud Expo
TIBCO Software will release in 2010 software that lets people search for and
then track corporate information by subject matter in a similar way to how
they might follow people on Twitter.
This is a clear sign that the enterprise software and social software worlds
are munging. Get ready to see a lot more.
The idea behind the tibbr – the name an obvious play on “Twit... (more)
This live event podcast discussion comes to you from The Open Group’s
Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Seattle, the week of Feb.
1, 2010.
We examine the definition of enterprise architecture (EA), the role of the
architect and how that might be shifting with an expert from the Open Group,
Len Fehskens, Vice President of Skills and Capabilities. The interview is
moderat... (more)
The latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Volume 50, focuses on
the fallout from the Google’s threat to pull out of China, due to a series
of sophisticated hacks and attacks on Google, as well as a dozen more IT
companies. Due to the attacks late last year, Google on Jan. 12 vowed to stop
censoring Internet content for China’s web users and possibly to leave the
country altoge... (more)