application servers critical s in comment and analysis
Losing control in the SaaS lane
Comment As a small and highly distributed business, with neither the time nor the inclination to install and run servers, we have been committed to the SaaS approach for a couple of years now to provide messaging, collaboration... [16 Jan 2008]
How BI can help IT win over the board
Comment Many companies might simply check the logs to ensure that no critical overloading occurred but with business intelligence tools, they could find out how much capacity was left unused on average across the entire range of... [05 Oct 2006]
Opinion: 2006 - the year for open source
Comment Both are less factors of the underlying operating system than the applications and services that support the servers. OSS enthusiasts may be pleased to hear that following a well-attended Westminster presentation by my... [09 Jan 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Who's to blame for IT failures?
Comment While DOS was the dominant operating system for personal systems, it was possible to put the bare minimum of software on the desktop machine, with applications and data held on central servers. It aimed to create an... [30 Nov 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.06.03
Round-Up The problem for BT is that this apparent flaw has seen it blacklisted by DSBL - the Distributed Server Boycott List - which protects people against receiving email from poorly configured servers which could expose them... [06 Jun 2003]
Through the fog... Buying an application server
Comment Application servers are becoming an essential component of a networked computing environment, as more and more applications are written to run on an application server platform, rather... [20 Mar 2003]
The Ovum View: Using Oracle to run your email
Comment The company argues that by moving email into the enterprise database, it can improve the security and scalability of email services and, because it can reduce the number of servers needed, reduce the cost of providing... [15 Jan 2003]
Analyst advice: How to choose an app server
Comment Because the core functionality of all application servers has now reached commodity status, vendors have to differentiate their products by using value-added features and/or services to enhance the... [10 Jun 2002]
App servers - what you should know, what you should do
Comment Think about application servers if you have lots of mission critical applications or if your applications don't mesh well or if they are using too much bandwidth. What are... [31 May 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: ERM, Microsoft wants Unix converts and our old friend information overload
Comment In every day language, this equates to providing a route for Unix applications to be hosted on Windows 2000 servers, providing a potential migration route away from Unix to cheaper Wintel systems. The tool also provides... [20 May 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Revenge of the mainframe
Comment Blade servers improve matters to some extent but still involve a good deal of complexity. But it could be that we will wake up one day soon to find that the computing in our lives is based around ubiquitous access to... [14 May 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM's big blues, Citrix's ASP success, and boo.com's deepening crisis
Comment The NetVista PC systems are expected to be available within a month and these will be followed closely by a range of S80 mid-range servers that are expected to compete strongly against Sun's mid-range... [15 May 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: NT clusters, open source in healthcare and Bezos' brand new dilemma
Comment While most of the industry is looking to towards high availability through special-purpose hardware, the ability to deploy commodity servers with a software-managed high availability potential will be very attractive to... [10 Apr 2000]
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