Posts tagged with the "CAST" tag
Managing Risk, Avoiding Disruption
June 6, 2011 | Be the first to comment! I’ve written quite a bit about the spate of businesses that have suffered some form of disruption over the last few months – security breaches at Sony, Android malware attacks, system outages at the London Stock Exchange, operational system failures on London’s East Coast Line and numerous others. All these …Read More
CAST Highlight Gives Enterprises a Kick in the Apps
May 25, 2011 | Be the first to comment! System outages, software failures, security breaches and IT maintenance costs are all rapidly on the rise. It seems like not a day goes by that we don’t read about one company or another announcing that their system went down or revealed personal data to hackers. Couple that with published estimates …Read More
Forecast Upbeat for CAST
May 12, 2011 | Be the first to comment! I’d like to begin by offering a resounding THANK YOU to CAST’s worldwide roster of customers and partners. It’s because of you that the good news just keeps coming from CAST! A couple weeks ago, we announced that Gartner had named us to their “Cool Vendors” list, counting us among the …Read More
Yeah, We’re Cool
April 29, 2011 | Be the first to comment! We’ve known it all along, and now the rest of the Tech industry has been told thanks to the folks at Gartner who earlier this month named us to their “Cool Vendors in Application Services, 2011” report. For this report, Gartner selects vendors that “approach the application services market with fresh …Read More
Non-Risky Business: Using Static Analysis to Ensure Software Quality
April 1, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Earlier this week, our own Jitendra Subramanyam joined industry luminary Capers Jones, Chief Scientist Emeritus of Software Productivity Research (SPR) to co-host a webinar on curbing application software outages like the ones seen in the financial sector over the past couple months. The webinar, titled “Stop High-Profile Outages by Quantifying …Read More
Gartner Tech Trends for 2011…Or Rather the One They Forgot
March 11, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Recently, Gartner Research VP and Fellow David Cearley hosted a webinar to discuss his group’s take on the top strategic technology trends for 2011. The webinar followed closely the trends Gartner had announced in conjunction with its Symposium/ITExpo last October in Orlando. Many of the initiatives on the list have become …Read More
Don’t Dawdle on Debt: Establishing a Technical Debt Action Plan
February 25, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Recently, Gartner Analyst Andy Kyte made quite a stir when he published a report that brought to the forefront just how expensive the cost of software maintenance is becoming for the IT industry. As reported by Patrick Thibodeau in Computerworld, Kyte cited what he called IT Debt as already standing …Read More