Information Age (London, UK) articles from November 2004

Information Age (London, UK) archives from November 2004

Real-time response.(TIBCO Software Inc., real-time enterprise architecture )
November 10, 2004... Don Adams, chief technology officer (CTO) of Tibco spent 23-years in the United States Air Force. And, he says, if an aeroplane cockpit was like an IT system, he would not like to think of the consequences. Traditional systems, he argues,...

Native intelligence.
November 10, 2004... Most service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects have a single but critical failing, says Shantanu Narayen, executive vice president of worldwide products at graphics and publishing software company Adobe: they do not take into account the...

Storage.(Brief Article)
November 10, 2004... Worldwide sales of external storage systems grew to $3.5 billion in the second quarter, up 8% over the same period in 2003, according to analyst company IDC. Much of that growth was driven by demand for networked storage, as organisations...

Security.
November 10, 2004... Businesses continue to place a high priority on protecting their infrastructures from cyber-attack, according to analyst group Canalys, with the latest spending patterns showing corporate security budgets up by a third in Europe, the Middle...

Black Hat.(Brief Article)
November 10, 2004... The 'dark side' of Internet security is often exaggerated by vendors with a vested interest in protecting their clients' IT. But whether or not their scare stories frighten people into making investments in the latest 'breakthrough' technology,...

The Real-Time Enterprise.( The Real-Time Enterprise: Competing on Time Using the Revolutionary Business SEx Machine)(Book Review)
November 10, 2004... As technical innovation accelerates and the realities of the global market start to sink in, simple formulae for success are much in demand. One of the most popular is business process management (BPM), and this book sets out to explain how it...

The Mobile Messaging Challenge.
November 10, 2004... Throughout the summer of 2004, the UK's major mobile phone networks started an all-out marketing blitz for their 3G services. And the application the networks have used most prominently to hook business users is email on the move. But...

Disruptive integration.
November 10, 2004... "Why is everyone getting so excited? We had ESB [enterprise service bus] technology 15 years ago," said Ram Menon, the chief marketing strategist for Tibco, the integration software company, during a recent conference call. Menon is a...

Blade Servers.
November 10, 2004... Smaller, faster, more efficient Blade servers are designed to address one of the thorniest problems faced by data centre managers today: a rampant proliferation of application servers over the past decade as organisations have scrambled to...

Merger and Aquisitions.
November 10, 2004... Keen to raise its position in the services hierarchy, HP pounced on the UK's Synstar, offering [pounds sterling]163 million in cash, a 28% premium on Synstar's stock market value. Most of Synstar's [pounds sterling]223 million revenues...

Financial results report - August 2004.
November 10, 2004... In June 2004, as part of its drawn out legal battle to buy PeopleSoft, Oracle revealed a shortlist of other acquisitions it has considered. Predictably Siebel and BEA were on the list, but there was one surprising entry business intelligence...

Re-inventing SAP.
November 10, 2004... At Sapphire, the SAP users' annual conference in New Orleans this year, Hasso Plattner, chairman and co-founder of the enterprise software giant, described an experiment he had conducted. Earlier this year, he assembled a small group of...

Mobile Enterprise.
November 10, 2004... 3G: And then there were four Three of the UK's mobile operators have now joined 3 in offering next generation services. The highlight of the summer of 2004 - at least for mobile industry watchers - was the quickening of pace for 3G...

Convergence glue.
November 10, 2004... This year, according to a recent research report, 25% of Europe's largest companies will begin migrating their separate voice and data networks on to a single, unified IP (Internet protocol) network. To most, IP-based network convergence is...

The BBC.(Interview)
November 10, 2004... Information Age(IA): Negotiating an outsourcing deal is a major undertaking, especially one of this scale and complexity. What have the last few weeks been like for you? John Varney (JV): Intense. Very, very intense. It's a complicated...