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Far from quiet on the virtual front

Comment Although most of Vizioncore's effort will no doubt still be in the VMware camp, the broadening of its offerings to a more heterogeneous environment hedges its bets over competing technologies and is a good move.

Tags: viridian, xen, vmware, virtualisation

[05 Sep 2007]

Q&A: SAP CEO Henning Kagermann

Comment But if I met such a customer, I would tell him that over time he will spend more money because it's very difficult to manage such a heterogeneous environment of point solutions - even if it's on top of an open platform.

Tags: henning kagermann, sap

[18 Apr 2006]

3GSM Diary: Ballmer n Branson, O2 guerrillas and Craig David

Comment On the plus side, we saw how products such as the mobile version of Office Communicator will bring the power of presence to millions of people and heard nuggets such as: "We do recognise and understand that the world is a heterogeneous world.

Tags: branson, o2, 3gsm, ballmer

[15 Feb 2006]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: We must simplify SOA

Quocirca's Straight Talking: We must simplify SOA

Comment Of all the players, IBM should be able to simplify the SOA message, because it has many of the pieces of the puzzle and has the strength of being able to demonstrably work in a heterogeneous environment.

Tags: utility computing, grid computing, soa, ibm

[23 Jul 2004]

Analysis: Choosing enterprise portal technology

Analysis: Choosing enterprise portal technology

Comment A portal is a thin layer in a heterogeneous environment," explains Peter Matthews, technology strategist, Office of CTO at Computer Associates. And heterogeneous is the way of the world. An enterprise portal (EP) can come from a wide variety of...

Tags: portals

[24 Mar 2004]

Butler on: Enterprise portals - still de rigueur

Comment Mergers and acquisitions by organisations have increased the heterogeneous nature of data centres. Three years ago, every application with a piece of HTML code was labelled by its developer, or vendor, as a portal.

[24 Mar 2004]

Is McNealy's vision realistic? The future of Sun

Comment So Sun is pitched as "the company that has all the pieces", an antidote to a heterogeneous, mixed-up world. But, Tony Hallett asks, does his vision of vertically-integrated technology and simplified computing stack up?

Tags: servers, prospect, storage, microsystems

[30 Jul 2003]

Who’s winning the web services war?

Comment Meanwhile, if you approached the subject cold, presentations from both Microsoft and Sun would have left you thinking theirs was the only ingredient necessary to fulfil the potential of web services - though of course this potential rests on...

Tags: sutor, hapner, eema, web services

[19 Jun 2003]

Through the fog... Storage as a service

Comment There is no universally agreed management standard (reference Bluefin versus Widesky), debate continues about the impact of new protocols (such as Storage over IP), and no single company has yet managed to provide a single point of management for...

Tags: virtualization, virtualisation, falconstor, san

[04 Apr 2003]

The Bloor Perspective: EMC's declaration of independence, the insecurities of the board and diminishing mobile mania

Comment There is certainly a demand from the end user community for highly skilled, high-value advice on how to build and manage heterogeneous storage systems. In light of the growing importance of managing storage, this week EMC and Accenture joined...

[15 Jul 2002]

The Bloor Perspective: ERM, Microsoft wants Unix converts and our old friend information overload

Comment In the company's own words: "Services for Unix 3.0 helps customers by providing seamless interoperability between Unix and Windows for effective coexistence in a heterogeneous network environment, as well as a powerful set of tools for smooth...

[20 May 2002]

The Ovum View: The reality of end-user IT circa 2002 - PART TWO

Comment One of our US clients, in manufacturing, echoes a sentiment felt by many when she says: "Middleware was supposed to hide the complexity created by heterogeneous systems, not expose my developers to more complexity of a different kind!

[20 Jan 2002]

The Ovum View: The rumble in the wireless applications jungle

Comment Of course, the value proposition only works if the underlying technology landscape is highly heterogeneous: if a de jure or de facto standard emerges the value of the middleware technology diminishes quickly.

[15 Jan 2002]

Why software giants are hooked on middleware glue

Comment But coming from a heterogeneous IT environment, users may do better to look around. Oracle is pushing to take market share from BEA. At the same time BEA is more interested in trying to maintain a lead over IBM.

[04 Jun 2001]

The Bloor Perspective: Oracle marches on, Oftel's dilemma and Sun storage under the microscope

Comment The StorEdge range is designed to plug into AIX and Windows NT networks as well as Sun's own Solaris OS environments - the goal is to provide open, scalable storage to work in heterogeneous environments.

[26 Aug 2000]

The Bloor Perspective: telecoms charges, dot-coms and their customers, and IBM-Novell rumours

Comment Both believe strongly in heterogeneous platforms, so their software is designed to run over many major hardware and software systems. Throughout Europe, they have looked to protect revenues from established services.

[21 Aug 2000]

Mind your language: Is English holding back ecommerce?

Comment Europe is a large, heterogeneous marketplace and a northern European customer sees online marketing differently compared to her southern counterparts. It isn't hard to get the impression companies from the US and UK conduct the lion's share of...

[11 Aug 2000]

The Bloor Perspective: AOL's challenge to Microsoft, IBM's challenge to Oracle, and optical fibre - the next challenge for the Internet

Comment The integration of Oracle within the DB2 environment (including heterogeneous database optimisation) Following the recent judgement against Microsoft, the time may be right for some competitors to take Microsoft on directly.

[17 Apr 2000]

Windows 2000 Special: Safe as houses?

Comment Security is a heterogeneous issue," Storey warned. Not a great claim considering the track record of its predecessor. So can you rely on the new OS? And what extra features does it provide? An increasingly relaxed attitude to encryption from the US...

[18 Feb 2000]

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