By John Pickett We hear from data center managers about their growing concerns about energy in the data center. According to US Environmental Protection Agency, data center energy consumption has doubled from 2000 to 2006, and expected to double again by 2010 . Some may think the only option for increasing...
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Legacy Transformation - the cost of doing nothing
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11-04-2009
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Hi. My name is Steve Woods and I work in HP Enterprise Services Application Modernization. I’ll be posting on topics that involve how we use some fairly innovative approaches to legacy transformation. In particular, I’ll discuss our Visual Intelligence Tools. Let me begin by covering the...
I should have posted this earlier but here's the details for a useful event if you have an interest in Apps Transformation & Modernization. We have a star-studded line-up of speakers, some of whom will be available for chat during the event. You can here from Geoffrey Moore, Crossing the Chasm...
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Legacy Transformation - the cost of doing nothing
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pevans@hp.com
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11-02-2009
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Filed under: transformation, legacy, visualization, modernization, mainframe, MFA, source code, steve woods, cobol, asymmetrical, inferential statistics, decompostion, hp, modernisation, mainframe alternative, apps, paul evans, visualization tools, application, john pickett, lower costs
At the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting, neuroscientists are interested in the tricks magicians use to fool us ( http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/48544/title/Magic_for_neuroscientists ). It seems that magicians are keenly aware of issues we humans have. How we perceive is a very...
In his book, How to Measure Anything , Douglas W. Hubbard laments the reluctance of IT organizations to use inferential statistics for measurement. Hubbard poses the question of how to measure the number of fish in a lake. Many IT decision makers might respond just to drain the lake, kill the fish, then...
Eschewing Symmetry: The Joy of Asymmetrical Thinking Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry I hear it often from our transformation customers. We have X million lines of legacy code and we want to transform it to a modern architecture. We’ve spoken with several vendors who have transformation...
I just read the article “ Mainframe cheerleaders caution big iron defectors against x86 ”, where an analyst is quoted as saying: " PCs are not mainframes ...". Let’s stop there - because thinking that PCs are synonymous with x86 servers shows an immature understanding of the...
As member of this application transformation blog, I’ll be sharing my views of the infrastructure component aspect of the equation, specifically as it pertains to mainframe transformation. The 1970s & 80s, ushered in the growth era for mainframe. During this time, the mainframe developed a...
I thought I’d start out my first blog entry on the legacy transformation puzzle. I’m Steve Woods and I’ve been working in applications modernization for about five years here at HP. I’ve truly enjoyed the work, but it’s not for everyone. I suppose you really have to have...
HIMA_V4.pdf I had the opportunity to present to the Houston Interactive Marketing Association (HiMA) a couple of weeks ago. This group is really a fantastic organization dedicated to teaching and providing guidance to teh Houston marketing community. We had a very lively discussion with 200 or so marketers...
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The Changing Face of Digital Media & Marketing
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Scott Berg
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07-02-2009
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Thought you might like to see the video Michael Mendenhall showed this week at the Cannes International Advertising Festival. Some very interesting statistics and trends. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CwQGay_tEw Scott