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Data Synapse Builds in Flexibility at the Application Layer THE CLIPPER GROUP
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Published Since 1993 Report #TCG2006109RL December 21, 2006
DataSynapse Builds in Flexibility
at the Application Layer Analyst: Anne MacFarland
Management Summary Organizational and operational flexibility is essential for business survival in competitive times. This flexibility can be built in at many levels. Where you need it depends of what is driving the change to which your organization must respond. . Do you need to respond to rapid growth - in the markets you serve or some part of them? That kind of change may demand a change in the amount of infrastructure dedicated to certain operations. That is a challenge of scale. . Is it the growth of impatience that must be addressed? This is often a competitive risk - if your competitors can do something faster than you can, you are disadvantaged. In this case, it is the performance of your technology infrastructure that must be optimized. This is a challenge of infrastructure optimization. . Perhaps your industry is changing rapidly, due to an influx of new players or to a change in the regulatory environment. This may be reflected, in your IT infrastructure, in a change in applications, and in the way the applications interact. This is a challenge of complexity. . Perhaps your organization is suffering, instead, from a change in users - perhaps due to a merger or acquisition, a corporate decision to address new markets, or adoption of a new distribution channel strategy. This will involve application integration and data federation. It is a challenge of heterogeneity. . Perhaps the change is more subtle - a change in what you user community does. More interactive capacity needed at the enterprise edge. More analytics here, there, and everywhere. More collaboration and collaborative spaces. This is a challenge of enrichment. All these different kinds of challenges exhibit themselves most painfully - and can be addressed most effectively - at the application layer. One way to address them is through application virtualization that delegates the details of scheduling, provisioning, and deploying applications to a management application. This kind of delegation of authority has been the basis of human organizations for many centuries - almost back to the beginning of time. It has an equally long heritage in software, in relation to the decades during which software has been written. IN THIS ISSUE A company named DataSynapse, based in ¾ Business Thrives at the New York City, offers application virtualiza- Application Layer.................................... 2 tion software to address many of the problems ¾ GridServer ............................................... 2 listed above at the application tier. For more ¾ FabricServer............................................ 2 details on how they do it, read on. ¾ Conclusion .............................................. 2 ‹The Clipper Group, Inc. - Technology Acquisition Consultants Strategic Advisors ‹ ‹ ‹ ‹ ‹888 Worcester Street Suite 140 Wellesley, Massachusetts 02482 U.S.A. 781-235-0085 781-235-5454 FAX ‹Visit Clipper at www.clipper.com Send comments to editor@clipper.com TMDecember 21, 2006 The Clipper Group Navigator Page 2
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