For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Modernization Decisions: Should Client Leave Adabas When It Leaves The Mainframe Platform?

by Phil Murphy, October 28, 2009

Applications professionals at a government agency had been operating a suite of custom Adabas applications for decades. The agency was facing mounting economic pressures, it was seeking avenues for cost reduction, and the large bill for the agency's shared-services . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

TechRadar™ For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals: Cloud Computing, Q3 2009

As Much Diversity Of Maturity Across Categories As Confusion Among Them

by James Staten, October 2, 2009

The No. 1 challenge in cloud computing today is determining what it really is. What categories of services exist within the definition and business model, and how ready are these options for enterprise consumption? Forrester defines cloud computing as . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009

Oracle, IBM, And Microsoft Lead, With Sybase Following Closely; Ingres Tops Open Source Databases In Current Offering

by Noel Yuhanna, June 30, 2009

In Forrester's 153-criteria evaluation of enterprise open source and closed source database management systems (DBMSes), we found that Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and Sybase lead the pack because each offers mature, high-performance, scalable, secure, and . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

DBMS Selection: Look Beyond Basic Functions

Advanced Features, Application Requirements, And Cost Play A Larger Role

by Noel Yuhanna, June 3, 2009

Application development and information and knowledge management professionals evaluating database management systems (DBMSes) will find that comparing basic features and functionality is unlikely to provide a clear picture of the best solution. DBMS . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

JAVA Under Oracle: Seven Things You Need To Know

Java Standards Will Narrow; MySQL, ADF, And JDeveloper Will Expand

by John R. Rymer, Noel Yuhanna, Jeffrey S. Hammond, Mike Gualtieri, May 8, 2009

Oracle's proposed purchase of Sun Microsystems (ticker symbol: JAVA) will give it control over two of the most widely used application development technologies in the industry: the Java platform and MySQL. Oracle can't say exactly what it intends to do . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Behind "Cloud" Is Your Future Application Environment: Ultra Modular Computing

Shift Cloud Excitement To Your Own Data Centers

by Charles Brett, Jeffrey S. Hammond, April 6, 2009

Cloud computing is all the rage, but its greatest benefit may be to teach IT organizations how to build flexible and cost-efficient private data centers. The technical foundations of cloud computing — commodity hardware, virtualization, elastic workload . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Platform-As-A-Service Is Here: How To Sift Through The Options

The Rewards And Risks Of PaaS For Application Development Shops

by John R. Rymer, April 1, 2009

The term platform-as-a-service describes many different approaches to developing applications that run in Internet data centers, and each of these approaches is suited to a limited number of application scenarios. These scenarios are evident in the developer . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Base Your Oracle "Red Stack" Negotiations Strategy On Your Oracle Adoption Strategy

Preparation And Product Expertise Are Key To Winning

by R "Ray" Wang, John R. Rymer, Noel Yuhanna, March 13, 2009

Amidst worsening economic conditions and a rapidly consolidating vendor landscape, applications professionals will have the opportunity to consolidate their own landscapes by committing to single-vendor "platform stacks." IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

TPC Benchmarks Don't Matter Anymore

Features And Cost Are Key Factors When Choosing A DBMS

by Noel Yuhanna, March 6, 2009

Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) benchmarks, once widely accepted as the standard DBMS benchmark, are becoming obsolete. Why? First, all top-tier DBMS vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase, and Teradata are delivering high performance . . .

For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

Q&A: SharePoint's Licensing Complexities

Licensing SharePoint, And How Federation And Virtualization Play A Role

by Christopher Voce, November 10, 2008

Microsoft's SharePoint continues to spread like wildfire, making it difficult for IT to respond with efficient ways to deploy and manage it. SharePoint is a component in Microsoft's broader infrastructure and collaboration offerings and carries complex . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

SQL Server 2008 Ups Pressure On Competitors

Microsoft Boosts Manageability, BI, Performance, Productivity, And Security

by Noel Yuhanna, September 22, 2008

Microsoft's latest version of SQL Server delivers greatly improved manageability, business intelligence, security, integration, and availability, making database administrators (DBAs) more productive and databases more optimized. In addition, SQL Server . . .

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Vendor Snapshot: Illuminate Solutions Breaks Through Traditional BI Barriers

by James G. Kobielus, August 8, 2008

Illuminate Solutions is a young Spain-based analytic database vendor that offers a compelling new approach optimized for complex, dynamic, ad hoc queries. Illuminate's correlation database uses what it calls "value-based storage" to greatly reduce the . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Database-As-A-Service Explodes On The Scene

DaaS Delivers An Easy-To-Use, Low-Cost Alternative Database Resource

by Noel Yuhanna, July 31, 2008

Enterprises must support hundreds or even thousands of applications to meet growing business demands, but this growth is dramatically driving up the cost of running and managing the databases under those applications. The stress this puts on the IT budget . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Market Update: Open Source Databases

Open Source Databases Remain A Viable Choice For Business Applications

by Noel Yuhanna, July 17, 2008

Open source databases continue to grow in adoption, offering enterprises a reliable and low-cost alternate solution for supporting small to moderately sized applications. Although the rip-and-replace method of trading a commercial database management . . .

For Enterprise Architecture Professionals

Sybase ASE Remains A Strong Enterprise DBMS

Reliability, Support, And Innovation Are Behind Sybase's Increased Growth

by Noel Yuhanna, March 5, 2008

Over the past year, Forrester interviewed 65 Sybase customers who use Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE). A majority of these customers rated Sybase ASE as a highly reliable database management system (DBMS) with strong database features, very good . . .

For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals

Case Study: A Large European Bank And Oracle Agree A Unique Contract Amendment

by Duncan Jones, February 29, 2008

A large European bank was considering adopting Oracle as its enterprisewide database choice, but its corporate legal policy for software purchases conflicted with Oracle's terms and conditions. Forrester cannot divulge details, for client confidentiality . . .

For Technology Product Management & Marketing Professionals

What OSes Are North American Enterprises Using For Their Key Databases?

Windows Server Leads For Databases But Not As Strongly As For Apps

by Frank E. Gillett, November 12, 2007

Server and independent software vendor (ISV) marketers often debate what operating systems (OSes) are best or most popular for running databases; so, we surveyed North American IT decision makers to find out what's out there. Software decision-makers . . .

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Database Archiving Remains An Important Part Of Enterprise DBMS Strategy

by Noel Yuhanna, August 13, 2007

Although database management system (DBMS) technology continues to advance, huge databases driven by enormous data volume growth are bringing major challenges in manageability, performance, availability, and security. Terabyte-size transactional databases . . .

For Business Process & Applications Professionals

Data, Data Everywhere!

Very Large Database Issues And Implications For Business Intelligence

by Boris Evelson, July 23, 2007

The information revolution is producing mountains of digital data that are becoming more and more challenging to process and analyze. Not only are businesses generating more data every day, but our approach to data analysis (structured databases, indexes, . . .

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

MySQL's Transparency Sells Itself

by Michael Goulde, Jennifer Albornoz Mulligan, March 6, 2007

MySQL AB leverages open source to get its database into as many users' hands as possible. Community users experiment with the code and learn, while enterprise users love the easy access and transparency of the database but need help integrating with other . . .

For Security & Risk Professionals

Enterprise Databases Need Greater Focus To Meet Regulatory Compliance Requirements

by Noel Yuhanna, January 24, 2007

Over the past few years, regulatory compliance requirements and increasing security breaches have put significant pressure on enterprises to take stronger data security measures. Today, basic database management system (DBMS)-level security includes authentication, . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

Six Database Initiatives That Can Save Money

by Noel Yuhanna, September 7, 2006

As more databases are deployed to support growing business requirements, manageability and complexity not only increase, but so do IT costs. Enterprises can save money through automation, open source, standardization, outsourcing, consolidation, and utilizing . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

How Sybase Has Thrived In The Shadow Of Giants

Technology Marketing Lessons Learned

by Merv Adrian, September 7, 2006

Sybase has demonstrated remarkable staying power in the face of daunting obstacles. Once dismissed as being on an inevitable downward course, the data management and mobility software vendor has survived and restarted its growth in tough times with some . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

MySQL Is A Strong Leader In Open Source Projects

The Forrester Wave™ Project Summary, Q2 2006

by Michael Goulde, June 28, 2006

MySQL is one of the four components of the popular LAMP stack and is widely used on the Internet as well as on other applications. As a result, there are many developers skilled in using MySQL, and a lot of training material is available. The most recent . . .

For Application Development & Program Management Professionals

PostgreSQL Is A Strong Performer In Open Source Projects

The Forrester Wave™ Project Summary, Q2 2006

by Michael Goulde, June 28, 2006

PostgreSQL is an open source project with a long history. Its roots can be traced to the pioneering object-relational database work of Dr. Michael Stonebraker as a follow-on to his Ingres technology. Postgres95, released in 1995, was the first version . . .