application infrastructure in comment and analysis
Richard Williams
CIO Profile As AstraZeneca CIO - a role he took up in April 2006 - Williams is responsible for worldwide application development, information management, tech infrastructure and telecommunications at the company. [11 Jun 2008]
Strategic Vision: Giga Information Group on... ebusiness
Comment In general, it is impossible to do a good job of managing the quality of IT service unless systems and network administrators can get a reasonable picture of what is taking place within the infrastructure and... [01 Sep 1999]
Analysis: Choosing enterprise portal technology
Comment The market can be divided roughly into two parts, the infrastructure and the application side. The line between the infrastructure vendors and the application vendors is... [24 Mar 2004]
EAI - everything you wanted to know...
Comment It is Microsoft and IBM who are forcing these changes on the EAI supplier community, by bundling more and more infrastructure technologies together into 'platforms'. The moves by these two companies have quickly been... [04 Jun 2003]
What's the fuss about... virtualised IT infrastructure?
Comment The increased bandwidth and reduced cost of internet access make outsourcing of applications or infrastructure increasingly attractive. Web services aren't the answer but taken together with enough bandwidth and managed... [20 Sep 2002]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Grid's a 'no-brainer'
Comment As management tools mature to better manage a grid environment - and to provision and de-provision the required stack of operating system, application server and services logic - the grid infrastructure... [18 Nov 2005]
Through the fog... The Functional Infrastructure
Comment So, to create a functional infrastructure, we need a good understanding of our business processes. We now have to move to a more functional infrastructure - whether this be hidden under the name of the... [01 Sep 2003]
Oracle - how to make friends and influence people
Comment It also creates broader market acceptance of Oracle's middleware, which could ultimately displace the infrastructure software from competitors as application customers make upgrades. SAP has developed... [25 Oct 2006]
Q&A: Microsoft's CIO on Linux, security and offshoring
Comment We talked about taking $100 million out of the cost of the infrastructure. Last year, with Exchange, Windows, and SMS - that really dealt with the IT infrastructure side. In a recent interview with... [15 Dec 2004]
The Ovum View: The rumble in the wireless applications jungle
Comment Telecommunications-centric behemoth technology suppliers like Openwave are coming to this market by expanding from their 'home territory' of delivering software infrastructure for delivering simple, relatively static... [15 Jan 2002]
Meta Group Quarterly: The five most important trends for CIOs
Comment As the typical development infrastructure for web services, this technology will underpin the new capabilities of these services. Designing from the business down, and implementing from the technology... [28 Mar 2003]
The Ovum View: 2002 - the year of MMS
Comment Although the value of the deal has not been disclosed, it involves the deployment of service infrastructure by nine of Vodafone's European operating companies. Unlike a telephone network, which is designed around the... [15 Mar 2002]
Why Sun cares about software
Comment The purchase of the Star Office suite, the Sun-Netscape iPlanet alliance and the acquisition of peer-to-peer software company InfraSearch are all part of plans to add infrastructure software to its servers. [29 Mar 2001]
The Ovum View: What will become of iPlanet?
Comment Software infrastructure is an increasingly important feature of the competitive landscape - be it application servers to support the development and deployment of multi-channel ebusiness applications... [15 Nov 2001]
The rise and rise of Infor
Comment Progress may not be a household name but it is a major supplier of database and other infrastructure software to the mid-market, much of it through partnerships with software application vendors such as... [06 Aug 2008]
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