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IBM Acquisition of Green Hat and the APM Market

February 2, 2012

In early 2012, IBM acquired Green Hat to round out its own cloud-based testing offering. The acquisition, which completed January 11, 2012, gives further validation to the growing market of virtual cloud testing. Green Hat’s solution creates a virtual testing environment for developers that can simulate a range of IT infrastructure elements. It becomes a [...]

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Business Intelligence Brings Light to Corporate Performance

January 26, 2012

When it comes to politics some have said that sunlight is the best disinfectant. It’s pretty much the same when it comes to business. Routing out poor performing products, services, or business lines takes the ability to shine a light on them. That’s where business intelligence (BI) is increasingly coming in. Business intelligence has performed [...]

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Enablon Enables Enterprise Social Networking For Sustainability

December 21, 2011

We’ve written a lot about both enterprise social networking and sustainability. But now we’re seeing the emergence of enterprise social networking tools for furthering sustainability initiatives. For example, Enablon, a leader and ten-year veteran in corporate sustainability solutions, recently launched Wizness (wise business). Wizness is a social networking platform that seeks to help companies promulgate [...]

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More Social Media Tools

December 13, 2011

Social media tools are becoming an increasingly important part of most enterprise IT and business strategies. Read our latest enterprise social media column at IT Briefcase for an update on tools like Tibr, Oracle WebCenter, and IBM Connections.

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IBM Ups Its Cloud Commitment

December 8, 2011

IBM recently upped its commitment to cloud computing, with an announcement of a portfolio of private cloud offerings. The offerings have been designed from the ground up for enterprises, and seek to eliminate some of the concerns that large enterprises have over the security and readiness of the cloud for business-critical computing. The offering, called [...]

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Extrahop Application Performance Management

December 8, 2011

With all types of applications moving to the cloud, it’s never been more important for organizations to consider their application performance management strategy. In fact, new approaches to application performance management such as ones offered by ExtraHop Networks offer organizations a way to ensure their applications are performing and scaling at the speeds needed. ExtraHop [...]

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Enterprise Social Media Tools

October 28, 2011

We’ve blogged in the past about the growing importance of Enterprise Social Media tools. Well, the market continues to grow and change, so we’ve put together a round up of some of the important enterprise social media players to help CIOs understand the dynamics of the market and how each of the vendors are attempting [...]

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Free Software Configuration Management (SCM) – Is It Worth It?

October 3, 2011

Software Configuration Management (SCM) is a critical core infrastructure tool for all software development organizations. While often taken for granted or below senior management’s radar, SCM is an extremely important component of an organization’s software infrastructure. Historically, a significant number of organizations have used open-source SCM, such as RCS, CVS and more recently Subversion, to [...]

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Carbon Disclosure Report Driving Sustainability?

September 29, 2011

There’s no doubt that sustainability issues are more important for some companies than others. But perhaps the recent annual report from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) might change that. The CDP’s report reveals a surprising trend in corporate sustainability. For the first time since it began reporting on sustainability practices in the S&P 500 in [...]

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Cisco Adds to Enterprise Social Networking with Versly Acquisition

September 26, 2011

Enterprise social networking continues to be an increasingly important factor for many companies. While companies continue to search for the best way to incorporate the new collaboration functionality into an already crowded enterprise software environment, software vendors are adding new combinations of technology to their offerings. Recently, computing giant Cisco announced an acquisition that moves [...]

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