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Enterprise Applications

Enterprise Applications:

An enterprise application is a business application, obviously. As most people use the term, it is a big business application. In today’s corporate environment, enterprise applications are complex, scalable, distributed, component-based, and mission-critical. They may be deployed on a variety of platforms across corporate networks, intranets, or the Internet. They are data-centric, user-friendly, and must meet stringent requirements for security, administration, and maintenance. In short, they are highly complex systems. (Source: MSDN)

Big Data Congress Examines Strategic Challenges

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The Big Data World Congress is due to take place in London next week on 7 November and will examine all of the issues and challenges faced by companies who are looking for solutions to manage the vast amount of data collected in today's IT environment. The big data event will feature a number of keynote speakers and is designed to provide information on utilising and organising big data, no matter what the size of th ... read more

Big Data Drives IT Spending

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Analysts at Gartner say that big data will drive $28bn of worldwide IT spending this year and is forecast to drive £34bn in 2013. The researchers are to further analyse the use of big data at this year’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, USA, October 21-25. A recent report from Gartner found that most of the current spending in IT is being used to update traditional systems to adapt to big data dem ... read more

Enterprises Divided on BYOD

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A new study from Insight UK has found that opinion is still fiercely divided when it comes to BYOD schemes, with many suggesting that such schemes cause more problems in the workplace than they solve. Insight polled over 200 IT managers and directors in the UK with an average annual tech spend of between £50,000 to £100m, with up to 10,000 employees. Compa ... read more

Enterprises say No to Windows 8

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On top of the news this morning that Microsoft has reported its first quarterly loss in its history, a new survey has found that large enterprises are "less than enthusiastic” about the introduction of Windows 8 into their organisations. This could come as something of a blow to Microsoft’s tablet sales when Surface is released in October, as it’s commonly thought that the device is specifically aimed at the enterprise market. read more

Forrester Criticised for Oracle Report

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A report published by Forrester Research last week has come under heavy criticism from Oracle, after it suggested that most of Oracle’s customers won’t be interested in upgrading to the vendor’s next-generation Fusion Applications. The report said that Ora ... read more

Gartner Identify Top Information Trends for 2013

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A new report from research analysts at Gartner has identified the key trends that are expected to play important roles in modernising information management (IM) this year and moving forward. This, they say, will make the "role of information governance increasingly important”. "Information is one of the four powerful forces changing the way business is done," read more

Gartner Predict Real Time Analytics to deal with Big Data

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The latest research from Gartner says that "Actionable Analytics Will Be Driven by Mobile, Social and Big Data Forces in 2013”, ahead of their Gartner Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit 2013, due to take place in Sydney at the end of the month. Studies carried out by the analysts have found that whilst business intelligence (BI) and analytics continue to be an investment priority for CIOs, only 30% of users are adopting it within an organisation. However, Gartne ... read more

Half of World’s Companies will Require BYOD by 2017

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Approximately half of the world’s companies will require employees to participate in a BYOD scheme by 2017, with businesses no longer supplying devices to workers, analysts at Gartner have predicted. A global survey of CIOs by Gartner’s Executive Programs found that by 2016, 38% of companies said they would stop providing devices to employees, driving the use of mobile users with thier own devices in the workplace upwards. However, some of those asked said they may or may not pr ... read more

In-Memory Computing to Reach $1bn by 2016

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Research analysts at Gartner are to discuss the growth of the in-memory computing market in an upcoming summit to be held in London. The Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit 2013 will take place on May 16-17 and will examine how the "rapid maturation of application infrastr ... read more

IP Expo Tomorrow

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The IP Expo begins tomorrow at Earls Court, London and will run for two days with events and seminars surrounding a wealth of IT subjects, including virtualization and a host of keynote speakers. The only enterprise IT event to cover all subjects across IT is to include product launches and demonstrations and entry is free for those who pre-register attendance on the IP Expo website. It’s thought that the event will include ... read more

Microsoft Partner with Hortonworks to Adopt Hadoop

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Plans which have been in development for a year between Microsoft and Hortonworks have come to fruition this week, with free previews of its Apache Hadoop integration for Windows Server and Azure now available for download. The mix of open source and commercial software has been named Window Azure HDInsight Service and Microsoft HDServer for Windows, with the intention being that it will be easier to manage Hadoop in a Windows and Azure environment. The first previews were show ... read more

Microsoft to Launch ‘Office on Demand’

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Microsoft have announced that they are to offer Office 2013 on a "click to run” basis, which is an improvement on the current Office 365 and allows customers to use software, such as Word, Powerpoint and suchlike on demand. The software giant says that this is just one part of its strategy to bring Office apps "as an integrated part of our Software + Services offering read more

OpenStack Rolls Out to Customers

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Rackspace OpenStack software is finally being rolled out to customers, with the cloud provider saying it will "revolutionise the cloud industry". This is due to the open source nature of the platform, which Rackspace hopes will give customers more freedom as opposed to providers such as Amazon Web Services. Ideal for enterprises, with Rackspace OpenStack software, organisations have the ability to deploy cloud services wit ... read more

Oracle Acquires Eloqua

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Oracle Corp announced yesterday that it has bought cloud-based marketing automation company Eloqua, for $871m. Oracle reportedly paid $23.50 per share to acquire the company, representing a 31% increase in Eloqua’s share price at closing on Wednesday. The deal is expected to be finalised in the first half of next year "pending regulatory and shareholder approval”. The idea is for Oracle to be able to provide a "Customer Experience Cloud” so that marketers can provide a better ... read more

Organisations must push towards an increased standardisation of IT infrastructure, says Gartner

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A report from research analysts at Gartner says that organisations must push towards an increased standardisation of IT infrastructure. This, the report says, should include apps and business processes, as well as "expanding and more comprehensive provider ecosystems”. This means that service-led solutions will gradually displace traditional sourcing approaches up until 2015. Therefore, in order to "remain relevant”, service suppliers must "must bridge legacy offerings and new s ... read more

Over-planning Makes Big Data Useless

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Big data seems to be the buzzword of the year, but according to IDC, it’s been around for a while and they "have known about the exponential growth of data volumes for some time”. However, whilst this just applies to the growth of big data, other aspects to it are "indeed new”. This is due to the growing variety of data sources, such as that gleaned from social media and the increased "velocity” at which such data is being collected. read more

Providers Respond to Users’ Desire for Transparent Cloud Security Standards

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Over 400 enterprise IT and security managers were questioned in a March 2011 survey by cloud service provider Savvis. Among those surveyed, security was overwhelmingly cited as their primary concern. Chris Richter, V.P. of managed security services at Savvis, said, “We’ve seen hesitance in moving enterprise applications into the cloud for fear of security. A lot of CIOs…don’t believe they know enough about the cloud.” Microsoft’s Tim Rains identified a sign ... read more