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Blog:Best In Cloud Award Winner - Congratulations From Forrester

  Computerwoche Germany has organized this week the second annual BestInCloud Award. I had the honor to be on a jury for this unique award again. The BestInCloud Award is really unique, as...

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Blog:Software AG On The Critical Path

Software AG announced today a significant change in their executive structure. After the acquisition of webMethods back in 2007, the second largest software vendor in Germany acquired IDS Scheer last...

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Blog:OpenWorld And Dreamforce: A Competitive Game

Actually, most customers do not directly compare Oracle with Salesforce.com, as organizations buy very different things from these two vendors. While Oracle has a diversified portfolio of middleware...

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Blog:PaaS Is Entering The Next Business Maturity Phase With AT&T

Forrester has done quite a number of reports in the last two years around platform-as-a-service (PaaS) from the long-term strategy perspective from me and from the application developer perspective...

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Blog:Cloud Bursting Stimulates New Cloud Business Models

An important prerequisite for a full cloud broker model is the technical capability of cloud bursting: Cloud bursting is the dynamic relocation of workloads from private environments to cloud...

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Blog:Informatica's Cloud Service Is Flying Under The Radar Especially For European Customers

Informatica is one of the traditional leaders when it comes to data quality and data integration. More than 4,000 customers trust Informatica's software products globally and drive more than...

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Blog:The Empire Strikes Back — But Who’s The Target?

It was only about a year ago when Larry Ellison was confusing the OpenWorld audience with the “cloud in a box” approach, and only a very few CIOs managed to turn a large Oracle landscape...

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Tool:Middleware Vendors SWOT Analysis: Cordys, Q3 2010

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Report:Building Business Network Platforms In The Cloud

Real-Time Sharing And Collaborative Tenancy Challenges Traditional Middleware, Platform, And Integration Vendors

Social networks revolutionized personal computing, allowing people to use PCs to engage with friends and family. However, until now, business collaboration hasn't seen such disruptive innovation....

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Blog:Will T-Systems Be Competing With Amazon Soon?

With its latest public cloud offering, T-Systems not only comes close to Amazon’s EC2 pricing, it might even be cheaper than Amazon. The €4 billion, German headquartered IT services firm...

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Report:Cloud Brokers Become Change Agents

Understanding The Cloud Broker Opportunity

The rapid innovation of technology and business models spurred by cloud computing provides CIOs, as well as external providers, with a unique opportunity to redefine their relationships with the...

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Report:Sizing The Cloud

Understanding And Quantifying The Future Of Cloud Computing

Building a solid cloud computing strategy and business plan requires insights into the future market size and growth dynamics of this still complex market. In this report, Forrester provides a global...

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Blog:FlexFrame Private Cloud Management For SAP – Revamped At Fujitsu Forum 2012

  Fujitsu’s annual Fujitsu Forum attracted about 13.000 in Tokyo and even about 10.000 people over the last two days in Munich. Fujitsu’s strength is still the competitive...

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Blog:Sizing The Cloud

Today, Forrester has published its report “Sizing The Cloud”. This report applies Forrester’s sizing methodology for emerging markets to the cloud computing market for the first...

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Blog:Nebula Is A Quantum Leap In Cloud Computing Industrialization (1/2)

Commoditization and economies of scale drive cloud computing. We've seen before what commoditization means to the IT industry: It stimulates standardization and consolidation to serve a volume...

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Report:Cloud Broker — A New Business Model Paradigm

Deriving More Business And Economic Models From Cloud Computing

One of the key principles of cloud computing is the sharing of resources across various infrastructure domains and locations. As more clients get to use the different resource pools available and...

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Tool:Middleware Vendors SWOT Analysis: Progress Software, Q3 2010

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Blog:Cloud Computing Disrupts Business Models: Fujitsu Reacts With A PaaS Strategy For ISVs

Forrester’s Forrsights Software Survey, Q4 2010 has quantified for the first time how enterprise demand is shifting from traditional licensing models to subscriptions and other licensing...

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Blog:Larry’s Elastic Cloud And Marc’s False Cloud

Oracle’s keynotes and salesforce.com’s presentation next door have never been more confusing and contradictory for large users than they were today. Larry Ellison gave the 41,000...

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Blog:Platform-As-A-Service: Cloud Providers' Silver Bullet?

I’ve been writing about platform-as-a-service (PaaS) since the beginning of 2009, and we published our first Forrester Wave™ on the PaaS market about 18 months ago. While the lines...

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Report:The Forrester Wave™: Platform-As-A-Service For App Dev And Delivery Professionals, Q2 2011

Microsoft And Salesforce.com Lead, With Cordys, LongJump, Caspio, And WorkXpress Close Behind

In Forrester's 149-criteria evaluation of 10 platform-as-a-service (PaaS) vendors, we found that Microsoft and salesforce.com led the pack because of their comprehensive features for application...

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Report:Multiple PaaS Flavors Hit The Enterprise

Understanding The Fragmented Platform-As-A-Service Market

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is a confusing category, as the term "PaaS" is applied to cloud services with very different capabilities — and new options are appearing every month. Many...

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Blog:B2B Meets Cloud Based Integration (CBI)

B2B communication, with its original form of EDI messages, is the oldest and unfortunately the least flexible form of integration between systems and different enterprises. Many enterprises run B2B...

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Report:The Hybrid² Integration Challenge

CIOs Are Juggling Heterogeneous Integration Silos And Cloud Apps

As current application environments get more complex and heterogeneous, the respective data and application logic is spread across a multitude of different environments — both on premises and...

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Blog:Axway Aquires Vordel: Why Does The Acquisition Of Security Experts By Integration Vendors Make Sense?

Axway just announced it will acquire the security specialist Vordel; and you might ask, does this make sense at all? I do believe it does! Actually, I was personally evaluating security vendors as an...