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Every new IBM mainframe says something about the times we live in, and today’s latest mainframe release is no different. The zEnterprise system, as it is now called, has become a cross-platform management system, a sovereign of other systems.
IBM has given its new mainframe, announced today, the ability to manage Power and x86 IBM blade [...]

EMC’s announcement this week of plans to purchase data warehousing vendor Greenplum represents a harbinger of things to come for that market, as well as related areas like BI (business intelligence) and data integration, according to some analysts.
“I see the data warehousing space consolidating this year and next year,” said Forrester Research analyst James Kobielus. [...]

Apple’s iPad may soon put a stake in the heart of netbooks, research analysts said this week.
The momentum is rapidly shifting from netbooks to tablets, said experts at Forrester Research and DisplaySearch in notes issued today and last Tuesday, respectively. And Apple’s iPad is leading the charge.
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Web video without ads? No one would mind that. However, iPad users viewing the popular New York Times site are finding out that not having to sit through ads has a price: fewer videos to watch.
Here’s why: Apple won’t allow Flash based videos to run on an iPad. The Times and thousands of other sites [...]

Web video without ads? No one would mind that. However, iPad users viewing the popular New York Times site are finding out that not having to sit through ads has a price: fewer videos to watch.
Here’s why: Apple won’t allow Flash based videos to run on an iPad. The Times and thousands of other sites [...]

Oracle’s ULAs (unlimited license agreements) can make great sense for companies that want to use a lot of the vendor’s software, but a number of potential pitfalls can get buried in the fine print, according to a new report from Forrester Research.
The topic of ULAs is especially timely, as Oracle is in its fourth fiscal [...]

HTML5, the budding specification for multimedia in Web applications, will not displace proprietary rich Internet technologies, such as Adobe Flash/Flex or Microsoft Silverlight, anytime soon, an analyst report released this week said.
Based on data gathered from three IT surveys in 2009, Forrester Research does not see obsolescence for the single-vendor-driven plug-in platforms.
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Is your CTO one of the best? If so, nominate him or her for the 2010 CTO 25 Awards presented by InfoWorld.com, the Web site focused on modernizing IT through effective use of business technlogy. Nominees may have the CTO title or an equivalent title such as IT director, VP of [...]

Got issues? Enterprise software sure does. That’s according to a new report from Forrester Research’s principal analyst Paul Hamerman, appropriately titled “Enterprise Apps Customers Have Issues.”
What issues, you might ask? Respondents to the 2009 survey on business process and applications pros from 111 enterprises cite their top five:
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Got issues? Enterprise software sure does. That’s according to a new report from Forrester Research’s principal analyst Paul Hamerman, appropriately titled “Enterprise Apps Customers Have Issues.”
What issues, you might ask? Respondents to the 2009 survey on business process and applications pros from 111 enterprises cite their top five:
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