Monday, February 15, 2010

Stuff in the press that entered my awareness feb 8-12 2010

BriefingsDirect analyst panelists peer into crystal balls for latest IT growth and impact trends

http://briefingsdirectblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/briefingsdirect-analyst-panelists-peer.html


BriefingsDirect Analyst Panelists Peer into Crystal Balls for Latest IT Growth and Impact Trends

http://interarbor.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=579681


The Forrester Wave™: Predictive Analytics And Data Mining Solutions, Q1 2010
By James G. Kobielus


Sybase To Acquire CEP Firm Aleri


PGP Enters Identity Management Space with Acquisition


Real-Time Analytics Makes for Happy, Loyal Customers
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/69276.html


Die, desktop, die: Desktop virtualization looms


Advancing understanding of cloud-use benefits for enterprises


Solid state storage fixes data center bottlenecks -- for a price


KXEN Named a Leader in Predictive Analytics and Data Mining by Independent Research Firm


Zoho slows frantic growth, works on integrating Web apps instead


The Engine That Powers BI

http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/08/data-warehouse-appliances-technology-business-intelligence-

kobielus.html?boxes=Homepagechannels


The Data Mining Renaissance

http://www.salon.com/tech/giga_om/tech_insider/2009/04/10/the_data_mining_renaissance/


IBM Unveils New POWER7 Systems to Manage Increasingly Data-Intensive Services http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4178011&access=EH


IBM Rolls Out Power7 As Rivals Converge


Oracle To Buy AmberPoint


How Microsoft Went Wrong


IBM launches eight-core Power7 processor, servers


Amazon Web Services: Quietly Staking Out the Cloud

37 Enterprise Mashups - The Challenge

'SOA 2.0' Means Best Practices


Gartner Reveals Five Social Software Predictions for 2010 and Beyond


How will Oracle shape its hardware strategy?
http://go.techtarget.com/r/10830320/2433922

Oracle's data warehouse strategy unclear after Sun acquisition

http://searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid91_gci1380808,00.html?track=NL-338&ad=748289&asrc=EM_USC_10830323&uid=2433922


Is 'cloud computing' hurting cloud computing?


Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail


Government Technologist: What's the ROI Of Open Government?


Amazon's SimpleDB Not Your Typical Database


Sybase Acquires Event Processing Vendor Aleri


IBM Acquires MDM Vendor Initiate Systems


Information Builders Upgrades RStat Analytics Module


BI's Next Frontier: Geospatial Cloud Computing

The Rise of the Stealth Cloud


If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present

http://ow.ly/15zRK


Social Networking Landing In Your Gmail Inbox


SAS Record Revenue Of $2.3B


Google Buzz: More Social Nonsense


Social Networking Goes Vocal: Bubble Motion Launches 'Bubbly' - A Voice-Blogging Service for Mobile Phones http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4179145&access=EH


Business Intelligence and Analytics, Big Time


Terracotta, Eucalyptus Team For Turnkey Private Clouds


Amazon's SimpleDB Not Your Typical Database


Google's Buzz Skips webOS?


CERN's evolution toward cloud computing


Enterprise Business Modelling Revisited


Google's 'Social' Gmail: Could It Really Work?
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/879566/5553367/52661/0/

Google Eyes Social Net Role for Gmail
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/879566/5553367/52662/0/


IBM Launches Academic Cloud to Speed Delivery of Technology Skills to College Students http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4179989&access=EH


Solid-state storage fixes data center bottlenecks -- for a price


Google Buzz: A visual tour


Oracle launches worldwide cloud-computing tour


The ROI of High-Quality Decision Support Infrastructure


Forrester Research Reports Fourth-Quarter And Full-Year Financial Results


Tableau Launches Free Software to Make Data Social http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4180590&access=EH


Oracle Continues Acquisition Spree


Can Google's Buzz Top Facebook, Twitter?


Google Plans Ultrafast Internet Broadband


10 Past Microsoft Acquisitions And What They Mean Now


Real-time web data services in action at Deutsche Borse


David Intersimone: The end of SQL and relational databases? (part 2 of 3)


Is Gartner's Quadrant the Problem, or Is It How It's Used?


5 Opportunities and 3 Threats for Oracle


Can Microsoft Catch Up by Giving Away Azure?

Quick Thoughts on Sybase/Aleri

Clarabridge Asks, Are You Customer Experienced?


DataFlux Achieves 30% Revenue Growth in 2009 as Organizations Invest in Data Management


Cordys is Leading a Set of Emerging Vendors in Cloud Orchestration


Teradata Announces 2009 Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Results http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4180724&access=EH


Microsoft takes last step toward release of Visual Studio 2010


Oracle buying Convergin and its telecom tech


IBM announces massive NAS array for the cloud


Google Buzz: Intrusive social networking?

Google Buzz criticized for disclosing Gmail contacts


Federal CIO Launches 'TechStat'


Google Buys Aardvark


IBM Brings Business-Grade Social Software to iPhone, Macs http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/latest.jsp?resourceid=4181269&access=EH


Oracle Beefs Up SOA with AmberPoint Deal


Joe McKendrick: CEP Enables "Process Monitoring on Steroids"


Michael Poulin: Technical SOA: The Hat Leads the Head, Again

Joe McKendrick: SOA Fuels the Digital Self-Care Revolution

37 Enterprise Mashups: The Challenge


Google Buzz Socializes Gmail, Challenging Facebook, Twitter


Tableau Aims To Socialcast Data Visualization

New definition of enterprise architecture emphasizes 'fit for purpose' across IT undertakings

Salesforce Puts Process Development in the Cloud
http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/systems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222700862


Forget mashups: Tableau Software wants data junkies to do the 'viz'


Is Google moving too far (from search) too fast?


How identity governance solves the compliance
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/6160231/7006273/262877/0/


Identity wish list includes stronger authentication


Aardvark Gives Google Valuable Business Tool
http://lm.pcworld.com/t/884144/5553367/53752/0/


Google's New Buzz: Not Exactly Light Years Ahead
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69326.html