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Bookmarks for August 7th through September 4th

in General

These are my links for August 7th through September 4th:

  • 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
  • Next Generation Business Intelligence Tools – Next-generation BI has four factors are driving it:

    Predictive Analysis: 2007 bestseller ‘Competing On Analytics’, by Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris, perked up the interest in companies to improve their profit by peering into the future. BI vendors that lacked analytic tools have rushed to integrate them into their BI suites.

    Monitor And Analyze In Real Time: Faster business activity monitoring, and ultra-low-latency event processing is making BI ‘near real time’. Functionality typically include instant alerts so people can react when a particular threshold, event, or pattern is seen.

    Commit To In-Memory: Much faster analysis now now viable because of in-memory calculations. In-memory tools can quickly slice and dice large data sets without resorting to summarized data, pre-built cubes, or IT-intensive database tuning.

    SaaS: With easy deployment and upgrade SaaS promises to further alter the BI market by helping companies get these next-generation systems running more quickly.

  • IBM Plans Cloud Service to Take on Microsoft, Google & Salesforce – GigaOM: So clouds don’t need to be virtualized?

    Clementi: Google is not virtualized and virtualization is not sufficient to qualify as a cloud — it’s a better use of the physical infrastructure, but the real bang comes from modeling out the whole data center and taking energy, labor, software, and hardware and acting on all those levels. It’s like Google’s idea that the data center has become the computer.

  • Tivoli Business Service Management Community – The Tivoli Business Service Management Community encourages our Customers, Business Partners, Thought Leaders and IBM Employees to collaborate on Tivoli Business Service Management Solutions. Post relevant questions and resources that are related to marketing, selling, using, deploying and supporting our products and solutions.