Last year, Big Blue issued a blueprint describing the different aspects of its autonomic computing vision. As part of this, IBM last year submitted a Common Base Event format - a way to define and report glitches in complicated systems - to the...
Now if there is one thing that a few decades in IT teaches you, it is that simply buying technology achieves very little. Things rapidly degenerated as it turned into a technology project, to be implemented with little thought about overall...
It also has a tool called Sonic Stage which will let users convert non-protected MP3, WMA and WAV files into Atrac format. The Network Walkman NW-HD1 can only read one format - Atrac - with Sony unlikely to want to loosen its grip.
Busy managers concentrating on business objectives don't want to see every detail from individual projects but they do want a bird's-eye view provided by feeding key performance indicators from the projects up to a central dashboard.
The ideal solution is one which costs nothing, takes no time and achieves immediate, maximum benefit. By considering these stages in turn, we can look at what's been done and whether the objectives are being achieved.
Panellists speaking today at silicon.com's breakfast briefing, Orchestrating the 360-degree business, agreed that applications can help handle the vast amounts of information - such as financial data, timelines and objectives - involved in...