As organisations plan their future budgets it's a case of back to basics - no longer wowed by the flashing lights and go faster stripes of so many products in the marketplace, it's return on investment (ROI) that matters.
In today's economic climate where fast ROI is the driving force, software businesses have to do something to speed up implementation times. It is often the implementation of such platforms that adds so much to overall time scales and reduces ROI.
The new platform also brings some of the features found on the 9900 Lightning high-end storage platform to the mid-range, including the virtualisation layer. HDS is launching a second series of pre-packaged products, the Thunder 9531 V, Thunder...
The transport for web services does not have to be HTTP. Other transport standards could be used, such as the JMS Java messaging standard, said O'Brien. Although some approaches to the problem use compression and other tricks to improve the...
That IP VPNs can lower operational costs - along a demonstrable ROI curve - but can also add a great deal of extra flexibility into the way a business works, is a double whammy for IT buyers eager to shine.
This attempts to take the existing IT environment as a set of vertical silos (for example, CRM, ERP, SCM), then layer across the horizontal process needs of the business and therefore turn the intersects into components.