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Dana Gardner

Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier of software and cloud productivity trends and new IT business growth opportunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the emerging software development and enterprise infrastructure arenas for the last 18 years.Gardner tracks and analyzes a critical set of enterprise software technologies and business development issues: Cloud computing, SOA, business process management, business intelligence, next-generation data centers, and application lifecycle optimization. His specific interests include Enterprise 2.0 and social media, cloud standards and security, as well as integrated marketing technologies and techniques.Gardner is a former senior analyst at Yankee Group and Aberdeen Group, and a former editor-at-large and founding online news editor at InfoWorld. He is a former news editor at IDG News Service, Digital News & Review, and Design News.

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TOGAF 9 certification reaches 25,000 milestone

The open group has reached a significant milestone in its certification program for enterprise architects.

September 3, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Government

Spot buying automated by Ariba gives start-up Koozoo a means to shop more efficiently

Using Ariba, Koozoo was able to make sophisticated decisions on small-batch purchases of unfamiliar products.

August 29, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Collaboration

Advanced IT monitoring delivers predictive diagnostics focus to United Airlines

United Airlines used predictive diagnosis to better track thousands of systems and applications from its newly merged company. It also had to dig deeper and orchestrate an assortment of management elements to produce the right diagnostic focus.

August 28, 2013 by Dana Gardner in After Hours

Combining big data and cloud capabilities for ecommerce matches buyers and sellers like never before

Ohio-based LLT Barcode & Label, has found powerful new ways to develop sales and leads inexpensively using Ariba Discovery to better connect with qualified new customers.

August 22, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Big Data Analytics

Knowing what it takes to generate a minimum lovable product

It's time to start thinking about the minimum lovable product instead of the minimum viable product.

August 21, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Enterprise Software

Dell updates virtualization suite, makes VMware support a priority

Just in time for VMworld, Dell's virtualization operations management suite aims to streamline virtualization, storage and cloud-computing initiatives.

August 20, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Virtualization

VMware powers journey to zero-cost apps for City of Melrose

When Melrose transitioned from nearly 100 percent server virtualization to a novel cloud capability built on VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, they discovered that they could not only host their own applications, but also those of nearby communities for an ongoing fee.

August 19, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Cloud

Here's Why Healthcare Businesses Must Efficiently Manage Their Suppliers, Purchases and Processes

MedAssets, in partnership with Ariba, an SAP company, has found ways to improve health provider and supplier compliance, reduce costs, and develop better accuracy.

August 9, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Collaboration

T-Mobile swaps manual cloud provisioning for HP-powered services portal

Moving to a centralized service portal to manage and deploy infrastructure has allowed T-Mobile to improve their service offerings across multiple platforms and enabled a lifecycle approach to delivering advanced cloud services.

August 8, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Cloud

HP Vertica's General Manager on the next generation of anywhere analytics platforms

Vertica is poised to advance beyond its MPP column store database origins into a next generation anywhere analytics platform with ease in cloud deployments and appliance delivery, as well as new features coming later this year.

August 6, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Risk and complexity: Businesses need to get a grip

The Open Group is shepherding a series of standards and initiatives to provide better tools for understanding and managing true operational dependability.

July 31, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Security

HP Vertica architecture gives massive performance boost to toughest BI queries for Infinity Insurance

Infinity Insurance Companies in Birmingham, Alabama has been deploying a new data architecture -- native column store databases -- to improve productivity for their analysis and business intelligence queries.

July 22, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Big Data Analytics

Research: Spot buying automation delivers greater B2B procurement efficiency

According to Hackett research, collaborative spot buying provides an ad-hoc and agile, yet managed, approach for companies to acquire goods and services at low volume.

July 16, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Collaboration

The Open Group conference emphasizes healthcare as key sector for ecosystem-wide interactions improvement

Healthcare industry organizations are seeking large-scale transformation, and improved cross-organizational collaboration. Such trends as big data and cloud computing are helping to make healthcare more responsive and efficient.

July 12, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Big Data Analytics

HP-fueled application delivery transformation pays ongoing dividends for McKesson

McKesson Corp. accomplished a multi-year, pan-IT management transformation that has enabled it to better leverage an agile, hybrid cloud model.

July 12, 2013 by Dana Gardner in Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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