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What's Ahead for Users on the Enterprise Infrastructure Battlefront? (7 Pages)
by Olin Thompson and P.J. Jakovljevic
May 24, 2005 Abstract : The battle between Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and IBM goes far beyond applications -- it goes right into the technology stack or the enterprise infrastructure. As a result, these vendors are drilling down deeper to compete with each other.
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IBM Taking on Sun in Web Infrastructure? (3 Pages)
by R. Krause
May 19, 2000 Abstract : IBM has decided to take on Sun in the Internet infrastructure arena. What do they bring to the table? And who will win the war of words?
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Are You Adequately Protecting Your IT Infrastructure Components Inside the Firewall? (3 Pages)
by Teresa Wingfield
Aug 16, 2006 Abstract : Components such as applications, databases, web servers, directories, and operating systems rely mostly on built-in security features. But password and privileges are hardly enough, considering that many users have elevated privileges and fail to follow established corporate procedures.
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Using Business Intelligence Infrastructure to Ensure Compliancy with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (4 Pages)
by Lyndsay Wise
Apr 6, 2006 Abstract : The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) has affected organizations, their data, and their reporting processes, putting a strain on how their financials are managed. Business intelligence solutions provide answers to these issues, allowing organizations to address SOX compliancy.
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The Future of SOA-based Applications and Infrastructure (5 Pages)
by Olin Thompson and P.J. Jakovljevic
May 7, 2005 Abstract : The ultimate winner in the SOA market will have to provide industry-specific solutions solving essential problems that others cannot. Focus must move away from technology lock-in and vendor dependency, to best solutions for customers, even if it means customers can use competitor products.
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SOA as a Foundation for Applications and Infrastructure (5 Pages)
by Olin Thompson and P.J. Jakovljevic
May 6, 2005 Abstract : SOA promises interoperability in the heterogeneous business world by promoting loosely-coupled architecture, reusing software, and ending vendor-dependency. However, to be viable, dominant vendors must redesign and expose the hundreds of application functions as services. How are they meeting this challenge?
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SOA-based Applications and Infrastructure--The Next Frontier? (5 Pages)
by Olin Thompson and P.J. Jakovljevic
May 5, 2005 Abstract : Leading enterprise applications vendors believe it is crucial to quickly complete the transition to a service oriented architecture (SOA) from monolithic client/server architectures. For the 'Big Few' the 'stack' race, including applications, databases, application server and middleware, has intensified.
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Fault Meets Performance -- Comprehensive Infrastructure Management Part 2: The Solution (3 Pages)
by Fred Engel
Mar 29, 2002 Abstract : Seamless integration of real-time problem detection and historical trend analysis helps companies keep their IT infrastructures delivering peak performance.
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Fault Meets Performance -- Comprehensive Infrastructure Management Part 1: The Problem (4 Pages)
by Fred Engel
Mar 26, 2002 Abstract : Customers, suppliers, partners and other business needs dominate IT decision making, so when these business partners complain about slow applications or interminable downloads, IT listens ヨ or else. Catching and correcting the innumerable faults and performance problems that bring down IT environments is more important than ever.
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