Monday, March 30, 2009
Who's gonna get Sun?
It has been a rumor that Sun Microsystem is going to be acquired by someone in the IT market. IBM is one of those in the listings. Someone else suggests that perhaps Cisco should get Sun in order to keep the market balanced. If it is IBM, I see a lot of confusions to both Sun and IBM technical people as they have been doing overlapping (or, competitive) works over the years. Oh, where is Microsoft in these days? Maybe they should take Sun and ensure that the "Java" technology dies out in the next few years.....
"Green" documents
A lot of people talk about Green IT nowadays. One straightforward way is to replace the current paper documents with "electronic document" in our computers. How the government and people backup this concept takes years. But it is a promising business direction. For example, EU is now considering a proposal of asking its countries to legally support electronic document. Due to a rough estimates, these proposals could save European organisations around EUR€18 billion, although this is calculated from the standard EU cost model to give the maximum mid-term reduction potential, and the real cost-saving figure is probably more conservative, but still significant.
There are many interesting directions for new business, in the "Green IT" world.
There are many interesting directions for new business, in the "Green IT" world.
Microsoft and Open Source
Interesting title, right?
After years and years of battle with open source community, MS is now changing its strategy towards the open source world. Throught its "Microsoft Web App Gallery," MS is deploying a "one-stop" site for all kinds of open source assets for web developers. It's a good start for the software giant to penetrate into open source developers' land. Interesting items on the site, www.microsoft.com/web/gallery, are, for example
After years and years of battle with open source community, MS is now changing its strategy towards the open source world. Throught its "Microsoft Web App Gallery," MS is deploying a "one-stop" site for all kinds of open source assets for web developers. It's a good start for the software giant to penetrate into open source developers' land. Interesting items on the site, www.microsoft.com/web/gallery, are, for example
- WordPress WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
- DotNetNuke® Community Edition DotNetNuke® is the ideal platform for building professional websites and web applications with dynamic content and interactive features.
- ScrewTurn Wiki ASP.NET-based Wiki Software; allows to build a lightweight Intranet/Internet knowledge base, supporting article versioning and rollback, a basic authorization scheme and simplified file sharing. More information.
- SilverStripe CMS Modern, user-friendly content management system. Extendable by web developers through PHP framework. More information.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
How about Microsoft EDW solution?
Microsoft, as a new comer in the EDW giant club, is struggling to put is SQL Server system as an Enterprise Data Warehouse tool. Can SQL Server qualify for the job? Well, compared to its competitors like Teradata, IBM, and Oracle, MS SQL Server 2005 is only capable of managing several terabytes. Hopefully, SQL Server 2008 can manage upto hundreds of TBs. Another problem with SQL Server, is that it works only on MS operating systems. Issues with MPP technolgies may be partially solved by the acquisition of DATAllegro. But how about the data federation, data quality, and metadata management tools?
In this game, MS is far away from being the market influencer.
In this game, MS is far away from being the market influencer.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
What's new in week 3, 2009
Sunday, 2009-01-18, Copenhagen
Security software giant Check Point Software Technologies has recently announced that it will acquire Nokia's security appliance unit for an undisclosed price. The acquisition will give Check Point a significant boost in its appliance capacity. During the financial crisis, we will continue to witness more interesting deals that reorganize the IT industry.
The battle between AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon has been coming to the classic factors of power consumption and performance. Whether or not who wins, the consumers will get the best benefit as long as the two vendors at kept closer in their competitions.
SQL Server 2008 provides a new feature called "Performance Data Collector." This is a performance collection and analysis tool. Briefly, this too help DBAs by acting as a central dta repository (called Management Data Warehouse), collecting selected SQL Server performance data, and reporting performance data.
Security software giant Check Point Software Technologies has recently announced that it will acquire Nokia's security appliance unit for an undisclosed price. The acquisition will give Check Point a significant boost in its appliance capacity. During the financial crisis, we will continue to witness more interesting deals that reorganize the IT industry.
The battle between AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon has been coming to the classic factors of power consumption and performance. Whether or not who wins, the consumers will get the best benefit as long as the two vendors at kept closer in their competitions.
SQL Server 2008 provides a new feature called "Performance Data Collector." This is a performance collection and analysis tool. Briefly, this too help DBAs by acting as a central dta repository (called Management Data Warehouse), collecting selected SQL Server performance data, and reporting performance data.
Monday, December 15, 2008
What's new in week 51, 2008
It has been a long while before I can find a bit time to write something on my blog. Working in an enterprise does not seem too easy for me. Maybe I am a bit over-committed to my work. :)
Monday, 2008-12-15, Copenhagen
Are big companies reducing offshore workers to save the domestic employees? Well, in the financial crisis time, this may happen in certain cases. Offshore software development has been proved to be working well by many cases. And people are aware of all the possible issues and problems to do offshore. Once the benefit is reducing too much, it will be for countries like China, India to re-think their strategy of gaining economy growth on IT development. Well, maybe oursource their work to USA?
Do you like Google Books? Well, it is a good tool based on great ideas. But there are still copyright issues. Recently Google has settled several such issues with Association of American Publishers in order to clear out the way for itself to provide online access to copyrighted books.
Microsoft is releasing parts of its Oslo modeling initiative in its recent Professional Developers Conferences. Seems that IBM rational tools will face more challenges in the near future. MS is quite good at providing friendly toos for developers. Hopefully the Oslo tools will bring more impressive experiences than the IBM tools.
Monday, 2008-12-15, Copenhagen
Are big companies reducing offshore workers to save the domestic employees? Well, in the financial crisis time, this may happen in certain cases. Offshore software development has been proved to be working well by many cases. And people are aware of all the possible issues and problems to do offshore. Once the benefit is reducing too much, it will be for countries like China, India to re-think their strategy of gaining economy growth on IT development. Well, maybe oursource their work to USA?
Do you like Google Books? Well, it is a good tool based on great ideas. But there are still copyright issues. Recently Google has settled several such issues with Association of American Publishers in order to clear out the way for itself to provide online access to copyrighted books.
Microsoft is releasing parts of its Oslo modeling initiative in its recent Professional Developers Conferences. Seems that IBM rational tools will face more challenges in the near future. MS is quite good at providing friendly toos for developers. Hopefully the Oslo tools will bring more impressive experiences than the IBM tools.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
What's new in week 44, 2008
Wednesday, 2008-10-29, Copenhagen
A few key words on establishing a SOA portfolio in an enterprise. First one needs to have SOA service enablement and orchestration. And there should be police and performance management, esp. the run-time management. And a proper governance model is also compulsory.
The European Parliament has adopted a series of new measures designed to increase the competition in the EU telecoms market and provide consumers with a wide choice of services.The EU assembly voted in favor of a proposal to force telecoms companies to split their network and retail services and run them as separate businesses that will provide competitors easier access to networks. This can be a great news to those small retail-based business that has more brilliant ideas on mobile-based services.
A few key words on establishing a SOA portfolio in an enterprise. First one needs to have SOA service enablement and orchestration. And there should be police and performance management, esp. the run-time management. And a proper governance model is also compulsory.
The European Parliament has adopted a series of new measures designed to increase the competition in the EU telecoms market and provide consumers with a wide choice of services.The EU assembly voted in favor of a proposal to force telecoms companies to split their network and retail services and run them as separate businesses that will provide competitors easier access to networks. This can be a great news to those small retail-based business that has more brilliant ideas on mobile-based services.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
What's new in week 41, 2008
Sunday, 2008-10-12, Copenhagen
It seems that Microsoft and HP are very confident on their business. Both giant IT vendors have announced buying-back large amount of their stocks. In this economy down time, these two are trying to boost their investor confidence.
After years of efforts, MicroStrategy is now recognized by Gartner in the leaders' quadrant in business intelligence platform. The wonderful idea of using Magic Quadrant has made Gartner the leading consulting firm of the IT market. But how can they be sure about these quadrants? It's just a business company, even not as responsible as CNN (which is already well-known for selling lies to fool people)
Here I found something very interesting: The 9 biggest cloud storage vendors.
1. Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition is a file storage and backup service that's priced starting at $2 per month per user, plus $0.15 per GB per month of storage used, $0.10 per GB of data uploaded and $0.17 per GB of data downloaded. For more on Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition, see Jason Brooks' review "Jungle Disk Aids Amazon Storage."
2. Box.net Enterprise is a file sharing and storage service that's priced starting at $15 per user for 15GB. For more on Box.net Enterprise, see Chris Preimesberger's story "Symantec Acquires Online Backup Service."
3. MozyPro is an online backup service that's priced starting at $3.95 plus $0.50 per GB per month for desktop licenses, or $6.95 plus $0.50 per GB per month for server licenses. For more on MozyPro, see Chris Preimesberger's story "EMC Upping Prices for MozyPro Online Backup."
4. Carbonite is an online backup service that's priced starting at $49.95 for a one-year, unlimited subscription. For more on Carbonite, see Larry Seltzer's column "Backup Becomes a Standard PC Feature."
5. Egnyte is an online backup and file sharing service that's priced starting at $15 per user per month, with unlimited storage for accounts with three or more users.
6. Swapdrive is an online backup service that's priced starting at $36 per month or $360 per year for 1GB. For more on Swapdrive, see Chris Preimesberger's story "Symantec Acquires Online Backup Service."
7. Evault is an online backup service whose Web site doesn't disclose pricing information. For more on Evault, see Chris Preimesberger's story "Why We're Starting to Trust Storage in the Cloud."
8. Windows Live SkyDrive is an online file storage service that's priced starting at nothing for 5GB of file storage. For more on Windows Live SkyDrive, see Frank Ohlhorst's story "Microsoft's Pie in the Sky Play with SkyDrive."
9. Symantec Online Backup is an online backup service that's priced starting at $9.99 for 10GB of storage. For more on Symantec Online Backup, see Brian Prince's story "Symantec Builds Out SAAS Business with Remote Access Control.
It seems that Microsoft and HP are very confident on their business. Both giant IT vendors have announced buying-back large amount of their stocks. In this economy down time, these two are trying to boost their investor confidence.
After years of efforts, MicroStrategy is now recognized by Gartner in the leaders' quadrant in business intelligence platform. The wonderful idea of using Magic Quadrant has made Gartner the leading consulting firm of the IT market. But how can they be sure about these quadrants? It's just a business company, even not as responsible as CNN (which is already well-known for selling lies to fool people)
Here I found something very interesting: The 9 biggest cloud storage vendors.
1. Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition is a file storage and backup service that's priced starting at $2 per month per user, plus $0.15 per GB per month of storage used, $0.10 per GB of data uploaded and $0.17 per GB of data downloaded. For more on Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition, see Jason Brooks' review "Jungle Disk Aids Amazon Storage."
2. Box.net Enterprise is a file sharing and storage service that's priced starting at $15 per user for 15GB. For more on Box.net Enterprise, see Chris Preimesberger's story "Symantec Acquires Online Backup Service."
3. MozyPro is an online backup service that's priced starting at $3.95 plus $0.50 per GB per month for desktop licenses, or $6.95 plus $0.50 per GB per month for server licenses. For more on MozyPro, see Chris Preimesberger's story "EMC Upping Prices for MozyPro Online Backup."
4. Carbonite is an online backup service that's priced starting at $49.95 for a one-year, unlimited subscription. For more on Carbonite, see Larry Seltzer's column "Backup Becomes a Standard PC Feature."
5. Egnyte is an online backup and file sharing service that's priced starting at $15 per user per month, with unlimited storage for accounts with three or more users.
6. Swapdrive is an online backup service that's priced starting at $36 per month or $360 per year for 1GB. For more on Swapdrive, see Chris Preimesberger's story "Symantec Acquires Online Backup Service."
7. Evault is an online backup service whose Web site doesn't disclose pricing information. For more on Evault, see Chris Preimesberger's story "Why We're Starting to Trust Storage in the Cloud."
8. Windows Live SkyDrive is an online file storage service that's priced starting at nothing for 5GB of file storage. For more on Windows Live SkyDrive, see Frank Ohlhorst's story "Microsoft's Pie in the Sky Play with SkyDrive."
9. Symantec Online Backup is an online backup service that's priced starting at $9.99 for 10GB of storage. For more on Symantec Online Backup, see Brian Prince's story "Symantec Builds Out SAAS Business with Remote Access Control.
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