Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Google Apps Move Helps Contractors Connect With Customers | PCWorld Business Center

Google Apps Move Helps Contractors Connect With Customers | PCWorld Business Center: "Gone are the days when running a small business meant outfitting each worker with a desktop PC, then loading up each one with individually licensed software. Thanks to services that live on the Internet, there's a swifter way to empower workers with productivity and communication tools.


Google and Microsoft are the major players in so-called 'cloud' suites designed for a mobile, always-online workforce."

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

As business services continue to drive new requirements for IT organizations, the need for operational flexibility and service delivery remain top priorities

Stockwatch: "Business Need for Workload Automation Growing in 2011

In a recent BMC survey about workload automation, more than 73 percent of the respondents expect their workload capacity to increase over the next 24 months. And 38 percent of the companies are servicing requests from 50 or more business users that generate hundreds of service requests monthly.

Finally, showcasing the importance of IT having workload automation aligned to business service delivery, 60 percent of the respondents identify growing business volumes as the primary reason for the growth."

JAMS Job Scheduler Dialed Up to Issue Phone Alerts

Four Hundred Stuff--JAMS Job Scheduler Dialed Up to Issue Phone Alerts:

"MVP recently announced that JAMS version 5.3 can deliver voice and text messages over the phone. The new feature, which is enabled through integration with Twilio's Web-based voice and SMS offerings, gives JAMS customers another way to alert administrators and operators to problems encountered by the cross-platform job scheduler."

SMA Comes Out of the Blue with IT Automation Tools

Four Hundred Stuff--SMA Comes Out of the Blue with IT Automation Tools:

 "Labeling SMA's flagship product a job scheduler does not do the product justice. While scheduling batch jobs across multiple platforms is its core responsibility, OpCon/X5 does a whole lot more, SMA officials say, including: monitoring message and spool file queues; initiating and executing file transfers; executing commands through replay scripting; monitoring resources and forecasting; and automated report scanning and data capture."

Monday, May 16, 2011

ActiveBatch® To Extend Virtual/Cloud Provisioning Through 'Intelligent Automation' -- MORRISTOWN, N.J., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

ActiveBatch® To Extend Virtual/Cloud Provisioning Through 'Intelligent Automation' -- MORRISTOWN, N.J., May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --:

 "Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI), maker of ActiveBatch® Workload Automation and Job Scheduling Software, is taking the next step in simplifying cloud computing by announcing its intent to expand its 'Intelligent Automation' capabilities to predictively manage and automate virtual and cloud computing environments. Advanced Systems Concepts is pleased to announce a new program that will provide users with these capabilities to help customers make the transition to hybrid or cloud computing environments while reducing costs and increase scalability within virtualized and cloud computing environments"

Insurance Technology - BMC Sees Growth in Workload Automation

Insurance Technology - BMC Sees Growth in Workload Automation:

 "The concept of workload automation is becoming more prevalent as traditional job schedulers need to react to the dynamic demands of IT. Workload automation needs to be able to coordinate—in real-time—a varied set of workload types with complex dependencies across a broad spectrum of operating systems and application platforms."

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

CA enables move to next level of cloud computing | ITWeb

CA enables move to next level of cloud computing | ITWeb:

 "“While we all understand that dynamic provisioning of servers is the first part of a cloud solution, the step beyond that involves managing workloads for virtual machines (VMs) and handing off peak workloads to other servers or even third-party services,” says Andrea Lodolo, CTO at CA Southern Africa.
“This is generally described as cloudbursting and the new release of CA Workload Automation simplifies this process, making it both time- and cost-effective."

Senior Scheduling Engineer, UK - Greenford, Middlesex - CareerStructure/JDGL108255 - 50489824 - CareerStructure.com

Senior Scheduling Engineer, UK - Greenford, Middlesex - CareerStructure/JDGL108255 - 50489824 - CareerStructure.com:

"Senior Scheduling Engineer, UK

Our client, based in the UK, is an international Oil & Gas company with operations based all over the world.

Here are the specific details regarding the vacant position:

Carry out planning and scheduling functions in a professional manner in accordance with company standards. Job responsibilities are related to the execution of major capital projects in support of the Company's Capital Program. Included are analysis and evaluation of proposed project execution, resource requirements and potential impacts at the project and

program levels"

Mainframe of the Future Looks Like A Cloud, IBM Chief Systems Engineer Guru Rao Says - Bank Technology News

Mainframe of the Future Looks Like A Cloud, IBM Chief Systems Engineer Guru Rao Says - Bank Technology News:

 "over the past year I've spoken to many bankers at institutions of all sizes, from Citi to State Street to Highland Banks in Maple Grove, Minn., who are making substantial investments in mainframes.
Rao, who dropped by our office last week, says that both mainframe sales and the capacity of existing mainframes are growing.
'The installed inventory of mainframe capacity has been steadily growing ever since we started keeping records way back in the early 2000s,' Rao says. 'This is an indication that people are moving more work to it. We also know the work that's being done is a combination of traditional work and new workloads, for instance Linux-based based computing and transaction processing.' The reason IBM knows this is because its latest mainframe model, the System z, offers specialty engines for Linux workloads (Integrated Facility for Linux), database work and Java-based application serving work. 'By knowing how many of these things customers are using and buying, we have a handle on what mainframes' traditional workload capacity is versus the new workloads,' Rao says. 'The mainframe is alive and well and accepting new workloads.'"