GLG News by IT Infrastructure Software Experts

The enterprise software industry and business application vendors in particular will be watching closely the upcoming SAP 'A1S' Global Announcement Event in New York on September 19th, 2007. We all know that SAP's much talked about new product 'A1S' is aimed at small and medium sized businesses (SMBs),...

This article is very informative when it comes to the deadlines for how we can travel abroad, it gives us the cutoff and has some good links to get your passport updated/renewed... This article also gives us an open door to discuss and explore additional concerns that are being voiced about the technology...

Industry standards are meant to be universally accepted concepts, formats, structures, and/or capabilities which are commonly accepted amongst all users and vendors as the most appropriate way to do something. When a vendor like Microsoft attempts to create a standard the question that has to be asked...

1. If you have the Unix choice, there is very little if any advantage that IBM AIX and SUN solaris can provide. 2. IT talent has been flocking to Redhat and Windows for a decade now. 3. The Addition of JBOSS gives Redhat another tool to sell to existing customers

Sun Solaris 10 containers and LDOMS offer similar capabilities in the UNIX space. No other UNIX provider owns the chip the way Sun does SPARC. Virtualization may be a crowded space soon.

1.  Mixing the culture of a Open source company with a for profit company is a challenge. 2.  VMware lead is not in technology, but in the ecosystem and adoption.

Citrix will get a share of the virtualization market, but not enough to threaten VMWare’s domination.  Citrix “may” see a reasonable ROI on their $500M investment in XenSource, but it’s not likely to be comparable to EMC’s investment in VMWare.

Microsoft failed to get the ISO to recognize their Office Open XML as an ISO standard. They still have chances to change that vote, but the prospects don’t look promising for them.

The big will continue to get bigger; there is very little doubt about that trend continuing. The question will be who does it better? Financial institutions prefer to buy technology from large established providers. The SOX requirements to demonstrate a significant effort on vendor management drives...

Virtualization is moving from servers to desktops, but in a fragmented and disorganized fashion. The ubiquitous PC will not go away, but there remains plenty of room for a variety of desktop virtualization solutions.