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End User Computing: What it is and why you should care
EUC stands for end user computing, and it’s any non-tangible computing resource that lives, or may live, on the desktop of an end user.
A new episode in the life of the Mainframe
These days, you should think of the mainframe as a very performant, flexible server with good parallel processing and virtualisation capabilities.
Park Place Technologies – A real “out of left-field approach” to...
While Paul Bevan belives that Park Place Technologies isn’t talking, out loud at least, about AIOps, he thinks they will soon be playing in that space.
A Simple and Elegant Solution
While global interconnect providers like Equinix provide powerful and effective on-ramps to multiple cloud providers, there is a bigger challenge.
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Identity and Trust
Identity and access management tools are key weapons in any organisation's arsenal for protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of sensitive information.
Identity and access management tools are key weapons in any organisation's arsenal for protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of sensitive information.
Bloor TV
Bloor TV brings analyst insights and reports to life in a new, easily consumable way with a range of live stream and video programmes.
Bloor TV brings analyst insights and reports to life in a new, easily consumable way with a range of live stream and video programmes.
ArchOps
A combination of tools, practices and cultural philosophies, that increases an organisation’s ability to design, implement and manage agile IT infrastructure.
A combination of tools, practices and cultural philosophies, that increases an organisation’s ability to design, implement and manage agile IT infrastructure.
Data Movement
Data movement does what its name suggests and there are multiple ways of doing so and of avoiding do so.
Data movement does what its name suggests and there are multiple ways of doing so and of avoiding do so.
Trust in Data
There are various data tools that enable us to trust, specifically data profiling, data quality and data preparation.
There are various data tools that enable us to trust, specifically data profiling, data quality and data preparation.
Operational Databases
An operational database is designed to run the day-to-day operations or transactions of your business.
An operational database is designed to run the day-to-day operations or transactions of your business.
Data Discovery and Catalogues
Both data discovery and data cataloguing are designed to allow you to know what you have and how it is related.
Both data discovery and data cataloguing are designed to allow you to know what you have and how it is related.
Graph Databases
Graph databases store data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities.
Graph databases store data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities.
Data Warehousing
A data warehouse is a database implementation that supports the storage and analysis of historic data, with the aim of understanding what happened in the past or predicting what will happen in the future.
A data warehouse is a database implementation that supports the storage and analysis of historic data, with the aim of understanding what happened in the past or predicting what will happen in the future.
Blockchain
A blockchain is a distributed ledger, implemented across many servers, consisting of a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked across the whole network and secured using cryptography.
A blockchain is a distributed ledger, implemented across many servers, consisting of a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked across the whole network and secured using cryptography.
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
At its simplest it is using computers to run algorithms that give them the ability to undertake reasoning that was previously seen as the preserve of humans.
At its simplest it is using computers to run algorithms that give them the ability to undertake reasoning that was previously seen as the preserve of humans.
Endpoint Detection and Response
EDR technologies vastly improve visibility into not only which endpoints are on the network, but also their security posture, allowing for advanced threat detection and response to counter even the most sophisticated threats.
EDR technologies vastly improve visibility into not only which endpoints are on the network, but also their security posture, allowing for advanced threat detection and response to counter even the most sophisticated threats.
Test Design Automation
This paper describes the test design automation space and evaluates the products therein.
Tricentis Tosca
This paper describes and evaluates Tricentis Tosca, a test automation offering from Tricentis.
Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer
This paper describes and evaluates Agile Requirements Designer, Broadcom’s test design automation offering.
Original Software TestDrive
This paper describes and evaluates TestDrive, Original Software’s test automation offering.
Eggplant AI
This paper describes and evaluates Eggplant AI, Eggplant’s test design automation offering.
TurnKey Solutions Test Design Automation
This paper describes and evaluates TurnKey Solutions’ test design automation offering.
Curiosity Software Ireland Test Modeller
This paper describes and evaluates Test Modeller, Curiosity Software Ireland’s test design automation offering.
Smartesting Yest and Orbiter
This paper describes and evaluates Yest and Orbiter, Smartesting’s test design automation offerings.
Conformiq Creator and Transformer
This paper describes and evaluates Conformiq Creator and Transformer, Conformiq’s test design automation offerings.
Dimensional Analytics
This paper explores “dimensional analytics”, by which we mean analytics that requires an understanding of the dimensions of time and space.
Application Quality Assurance at Broadcom
In this Bloor InContext report, we discuss and evaluate Broadcom’s solution for application quality assurance.
AnalyticOps
AnalyticOps is about the reduction of friction around the delivery, operationalisation and ongoing monitoring and (change) management of analytic models.