Outlook Series | Podcast Interviews - Business Value of IT

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End to End Virtualization

The business case for virtualization is based in part on server consolidation. But, in spite of an impressive growth rate, server virtualization has yet to become main stream. However, virtualization can drive capacity utilization, cost reductions, increased security, improved reliability and accelerate your response to business imperatives. The real challenge is to navigate the virtualization stack to enable the selection of the right strategic vendor with the best solution set for you business. This challenge can be meet by leveraging a complete, end-to-end virtualization solution. We interview Simon Crosby to gain Citrix's perspective on end-to-end virtualization.
Simon is the is the CTO of Citrix's Virtualization and Management Division. 40 Minutes

Semantically Connected Intelligence

When you’re making an important business decision or reacting to a developing emergency, you want to concentrate on crucial information. Leverage typical search tools, data warehouses or publish-subscribe systems, and you might end up with a vague analysis, a slow response, and an unsound decision. Optimizing your decision process requires information from multiple sources which come in different formats, and which is organized in conflicting ways. Needless to say, the potential for confusion is huge. To makes sense this real-time information jigsaw puzzle, you need technology that understands the context of data. We interview Daniel Reininger to gain Semandex Networks' perspective on Semantically connected intelligence.
Daniel is the CEO of Semandex Networks. 37 Minutes

Automated Testing

Quality assurance engineers are being asked to take on more complex projects than ever before. Application complexity has increased to the point that formerly simple test plans now encompass hundreds, if not thousands, of test cases that must be executed under stringent deadlines. These demands have resulted in quality assurance teams seeking higher efficiencies than traditional manual testing provides. However, while automated testing is often hailed as a panacea it may not necessarily be appropriate for every project. So, it’s important to let hard numbers be your guide to this important decision.

We interview Tom Cohen to gain Seapine Software's perspective on automated testing.
Tom is a Sr. Product Manager with Seapine Software. 30 Minutes

EA Road Mapping

Road maps are essential for aligning business planning with your technology strategy. Furthermore, to drive agility, road mapping manages the time dimension so you can react to predictable and unpredictable events. Moreover, and particularly for complex organizations, road-mapping enhances governance and collaboration. While the manual construction of road maps can help, they are a costly maintenance headache at the end of the day. Fortunately, this exercise can and should be automated.
We interview Dr. Ulrich Kalex to gain alfabet's perspective on EA road mapping.

Ulrich is the VP of Product Line Management at alfabet. 40 Minutes

Semantics Drives Critical Intelligence

Jessica Lunsford was murdered by a known sex offender who did not inform the police that he had moved into her neighborhood, and who had been released earlier by a state court that did not have access to parts of his criminal record. This tragedy has caused new information-integration technologies to be adopted by the Florida court system. Those semantic technologies link data from existing disparate systems to create a more common understanding.

We interview Howard Greenblatt to gain Metatomix's perspective on how semantics drives mission critical actionable intelligence. Howard is the CTO of Metatomix. 35 Minutes

ECM Web Services

With Oracle’s acquisition of Stellent and IBM’s acquisition of FileNET, it’s clear that the ECM, SOA relationship is tightening. In deed, there are technical and practical realties that enable this relationship, but there are also constraints. So, what are the technical consequences and impacts of ECM web services on the document life cycle? The answer to that question lies in the invocation and provisioning of web services. Not to mention the transport of metadata and document content via XML.

We interview Lloyd Dugan to gain IES' perspective on the implications of web services across the document lifecycle. Lloyd is Information Engineering Services' CTO. 54 Minutes

Streamlined Development With SCM

Software change and configuration management tools support the structured approval, assignment, monitoring, execution and reporting of changes to software products for teams. For small teams, simple versioning and configuration might suffice.
However, if you involve more than a couple of dozen participants, SCCM products are needed. Furthermore, measurable, enforceable, and repeatable SCCM techniques are critical to delivering quality software products on time. Leverage the right solution and you will have complete control over the software change process, a clearer view of the state of files, and streamlined parallel development. We interview Jeff Amfahr to gain Seapine Software's perspective on software change and configuration management. Jeff is a Senior Product Manager at Seapine Software. 38 Minutes

Messaging Security

Whether you are an enterprise, ISP, university, or government organization, you need to defend against inbound threats such as spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential information, and encrypt sensitive emails. Otherwise you will be become part of the statistics that show the global cost of spam alone reaching $100 billion in 2007. Furthermore, your messaging security solution must be flexible, scalable, and provide high performance. TCO reductions can be achieved by selecting a solution that easily integrates with any IT infrastructure, no matter how distributed it is. To work smarter, leverage dynamic capacity planning via virtualization to manage your email volume growth. We interview Andrés Kohn to gain Proofpoint's perspective on messaging security. Andrés is the VP of Product Management at Proofpoint. 45 Minutes

IT Lifecycle Management

The use and exposure of PCs has changed significantly. To address this change, IT Lifecycle Management solutions offer configuration functions through a single console and include consolidated reporting. Moreover, application virtualization and the convergence of security and operations are key drivers in this space. But, the key benefit is lowering your total cost of managing client systems. Furthermore, PC management can enhance business agility by reducing risk, enabling mobility, and speeding your time to market.

We interview Holger Maul to gain matrix42's perspective on IT Lifecycle Management.
Holger is the CEO of matrix42. 55 Minutes

SOA Mediation

Every service needs to combine a set of artifacts. Furthermore, leveraging SOA Assemblies is instrumental in simplifying most common SOA applications. Indeed, integrators need to implement an architecture which supports multiple input and output transports and is payload agnostic. Being able to connect to whatever data source is required and handle diverse set of content formats will enhance your flexibility. Moreover, SOA Assemblies allow integrators to rapidly process messages from a variety of sources and to apply mediations like logging, transformation, validation and routing. We interview John Maughan to gain Cape Clear Software's perspective on SOA Mediation. John is Director of Engineering at Cape Clear Software. 42 Minutes

Semantics Drives User Empowerment

Information workers have too many things to track across the Web and Enterprise. Furthermore, ignoring Information Fragmentation can cost you your competitive advantage. To meet this challenge, many companies are supercharging their knowledge management process by enabling a Web2.0 ecosystem within the enterprise. For example, Intelligent Software Agents can monitor, mashup and extract information from a variety of internal and external sources to deliver actionable insight. Collecting, aggregating and delivering normalized data from a broad range of structured and unstructured fast-changing sources is key to creating user empowerment. We interview Bruce Molloy to gain Connotate Technologies' perspective on information access technology. Bruce is the CEO of Connotate Technologies. 35 Minutes

Higher Business Performance

Enterprise BI solutions need to be efficient, reliable, and agile. To meet that requirement, leaders must leverage an architecture that is open and standards-based, platform neutral, location transparent, and that features peer-to-peer services that are loosely coupled, interface based, and coarsely grained. SOA, on the other hand, is ideal. Furthermore, with the right information-enabling technology and leadership, decision-makers can become performance managers. Reporting is key to catalyzing your performance management effort. We interview Meg Dussault, and Leah MacMillan to gain Cognos' perspective on turning information into higher business performance. Meg is the Director of corporate positioning, and Leah is the VP of product marketing both are with Cognos. 39 Minutes

EA Governance

IT planners face a tough challenge when it comes to project tracking and investment management. Fail to meet this challenge, and you will have an ineffectual enterprise architecture, and a poor alignment between IT and your business strategy. Application backlogs, outsourcing and off shoring tasks, and new government regulations can exacerbate your planning challenge. However, the successful management of all aspects of your activity cycle will balance the proportions of your IT budget that support operations and innovation. We interview Dr. Ulrich Kalex to gain alfabet's perspective on enterprise architecture governance. Ulrich is the VP Product Line Management at alfabet. 45 Minutes

The Journey to Web 3.0

Web 3.0 is a collection of concepts, and inventions that have yet to be adopted by the masses. Furthermore, the missing links of vocabulary and event processing are preventing current solutions around SOA and Business Intelligence from completely delivering on their promise of agility, customer retention and growth. SOA is the enablement platform for Web 3.0 and Semantics will play a key role in its functionality. We interview Sam Ceccola to gain BEA Systems' perspective on how Semantics is the glue binding Social Computing, Business Intelligence and SOA to create Web 3.0.
Sam Ceccola is the Deputy CTO of BEA Systems. 60 Minutes

Spam Fighter Drives Productivity

Spammers continue to assault e-mail inboxes around the world, and the spiraling global cost of their crimes is expected reach $100 billion in 2007. Furthermore, spam accounts for as much as 90% of all email, and much of it comes from the former Soviet Union and China. The spam frequently gets relayed in the United States by home and business computers infected with programs that turn computers into clandestine spammers. To combat this threat companies are leveraging tactics that include a perimeter defense against denial-of-service and directory harvest attacks. However, with a zero tolerance for lost email being the norm, false-positives need to be minimized while long-term spam block rates must be kept high. We interview Ron Longo to gain Red Condor's perspective on email security. Ron is the CEO of Red Condor. 35 Minutes

Securing Web 2.0 Applications

Web 2.0 is not a technical term, but a term more akin to an artifact of social science that has come to vaguely describe a new vision for the Web. Moreover, Web 2.0 Applications should not be understood as a new technology, but a new use of old technologies. However, if Web 2.0 applications are more functionally interactive, could it be that they are more vulnerable to application layer attacks? We interview Mandeep Khera gain Cenzic's perspective on the extra security risks associated with web 2.0. Mandeep is VP Marketing at Cenzic.
Mandeep is VP Marketing of Cenzic. 40 Minutes

Greater Productivity With SOAtest

Comprehensive quality management practices and tools should be leveraged when producing or consuming web services. The distributed nature, widely varying loads, and Internet exposure of Web services drive the need for automated regression, stress and security testing. Furthermore, it is critical that discipline be carried out throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
Additionally, ensuring secure, reliable and compliant Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) requires testing through multiple layers of business applications.
We interview Wayne Ariola to gain insight into achieving greater productivity through reduced software defects.
Wayne is Vice President of Corporate Development at Parasoft. 42 Minutes

Decision Services

When planning BPM systems and SOA, the role of business rules management needs to be examined and clarified. This is best achieved by creating a set of modular software applications that can work together and allow each component of the system to focus on what it does best. By leveraging SOA, organizations can create and implement new applications more quickly than with other development approaches. These new service-based applications can easily be designed to interact with other “services” both inside and outside of the organization. The next step in the SOA paradigm is to automate the answering of business questions for other services, applications or processes. We interview James Taylor to gain Fair Isaac's perspective on decision services. James is the VP of marketing at Fair Isaac. 46 Minutes

Distributed SOA Infrastructures

Service Oriented Architectures are by definition, distributed. The purpose of a service is to communicate remotely with another service, and typically to share data. The objective is to build applications that are developed and integrated by using assets from a collection of shared, reusable services. A distributed SOA infrastructure represents the easiest way to deploy and consume shared, reusable services. Alternatively, a centralized approach to SOA infrastructure can lead to poor system performance. That in turn may translate into lost customers, significant expenses and reduced services.

We interview Eric Newcomer to gain insight into Distributed SOA Infrastructures. Eric is IONA Technologies' CTO. 34 Minutes

Ajax Optimization

Ajax is emerging as the preferred development approach for web 2.0 applications. While the asynchronous nature of Ajax applications makes them fundamentally different from standard Web applications, Ajax applications are still built upon standard Web infrastructure. Moreover, Ajax behavior does not obviate the benefits of application acceleration. Indeed, this asynchronous behavior can make request switching and high-availability functionality more important to an Ajax application than to a standard Web application. We interview Prabakar Sundarrajan to gain Citrix Systems' perspective on optimizing Ajax applications.
Prabakar Sundarrajan is the CTO of Citrix Systems’ Application Networking Group. 36 Minutes

Collaborative Software Development

Distributed development organizations are often limited by conventional build and test processes that are not designed to provide the flexibility, optimization and processes to meet the operational challenges associated with building and testing software in highly distributed environments. To overcome this limitation, centralized LAN-based approaches are being displaced by a distributed Collaborative Development Environment (CDE) approach. The goal of a CDE is to unify project managers, developers, and business users within a single development environment accessible from anywhere in the world. We interview Nick Bonfiglio to gain COLLABNET's perspective on build and test governance capabilities.
Nick is the VP of Worldwide Operations for CollabNet. 40 Minutes

Mastering Discovery

With the amount of and demand for information growing exponentially, it is clear that users want more access, better discovery and the ability to participate. Traditional search solutions are not sophisticated enough to accurately guide users through the data that must be navigated in order to generate relevant results. By enhancing access, discovery and participation, organizations can gain a more intuitive and personalized navigation experience. Relational navigation lets users explore the full scope of relationships between information, which generates the actionable context that is critical to relevance and real discovery. We interview Bradley Allen to gain Siderean Software's perspective on mastering discovery.
Bradley Allen is the CTO of Siderean Software. 48 Minutes

EA Migrations

Enterprise Architecture Planning can help improve asset productivity and lower costs. Leveraging a SOA and web services framework is key to succeeding with that plan. The framework should help break bigger activities into manageable smaller ones that connect. Consequently, SOA and Web Services technologies can provide powerful tools and capabilities to effect migration towards an Enterprise Architecture (EA). We interview Lloyd Dugan to gain IES' perspective on EA migrations.
Lloyd is Information Engineering Services' CTO. 50 Minutes

SOA integration and BPM

Companies that are adopting (SOA) are realizing that one size does not fit all of their requirements. Furthermore, enterprises are looking for flexibility to scale to increasing complexity as the scope increases to multi-domain or multi-enterprise applications.
However, most companies are initially choosing light-weight ESB products to avoid the risk of huge up-front investments. The problem is that they ultimately need these products to scale with their growing business needs. Moreover, companies would like to seamlessly transition to an Enterprise-class BPM to solve the growing complexity of long-running and human oriented processes. We interview Dale Skeen to gain Vitria Technology's perspective on SOA integration and BPM.
Dale is the Chairman and CTO of Vitria Technology. 50 Minutes

Semantic Tech Drives Actionable Insight

Semantic technology intelligently links customer data from existing disparate systems to create a common understanding of your customer across the enterprise. Using this contextual understanding, semantic solutions enable real-time analysis and insights, orchestrating coordinated responses amongst existing systems to optimize customer response and relationships. Furthermore, the semantic approach intelligently integrates existing systems in real-time to optimize and implement decisions based on the best data available.
We interview Colin Britton to gain Metatomix's perspective on how turn data into actionable insight. Colin is the CTO of Metatomix. 32 Minutes

Universal Viewer Drives DI Productivity

The growing need for businesses to create, capture, store, and manage information has led to the evolution of variety of electronic document formats. Regardless of which formats your organization works with, there is a good chance that productivity and profitability is negatively effected if your users depend on a multitude of creator applications to access, display, annotate, or print their documents. Document and asset management technology providers have addressed this workflow issue by converting an organization's documents to a portable format, or by implementing a viewing application with built-in support for multiple formats. We interview Simon Wieczner to gain Snowbound Software's perspective on viewing, converting, and manipulating documents. Simon is the CEO of Snowbound Software. 42 Minutes

Better Decisions With Semantic Tech

Service Oriented Architectures are driving the adoption of real-time enterprises which allows executives and managers to reach across their distributed and disparate data sources for immediate, actionable information. A real-time enterprise architecture allows organizations to respond more quickly to changing market needs, but it also introduces a new set of problematic semantic differences. To meet these new challenges, a new technology is surfacing; one that will dramatically increase productivity in both Business Intelligence and in system interoperability.
We interview Chris Davis to gain insight into Semantic Technology. Chris is Semantra's CEO. 49 Minutes

Machine Self Dependency

Complexity is driving the high cost and time-intensive nature of machine management. However, this challenge can be met with automated M2M intelligence which leverages a standardized semantic web communication format. This universal language is being applied to provide a more 'machine readable' format for Machine-To-Machine Intelligence. Consequently, it is taming Complex Adaptive Systems such as Grid, Internet Multimedia Systems (4G IMS), Financial Services (Risk), and The DoD’s Global Information Grid. We interview Geoff Brown to gain m2mi's perspective on Machine Self Dependency.
Geoff is the CEO of m2mi. 35 Minutes

Mass Market SOA And Web 2.0 Apps

Rich Enterprise Applications arise from the convergence of two major trends in the development of Web applications. Those applications have become more complex, and any project that is targeting the goal of “retiring” an old outdated system often ends up, not only replacing the old functionality, but actually adding many new functions to the system. Furthermore, enterprise developers must serve two demanding groups of masters at the same time: consumers desiring all of the user interface aspects of Web 2.0 and businesses wanting more and more functionality.

We interview Fima Katz to gain insight into meeting the Web 2.0 challenge with a components-based approach. Fima is the CEO of Exadel. 43 Minutes

Asset and Workforce Management

Having the ability for a device or machine to talk to one other is vital. Indeed, the emerging market of machine-to-machine solutions is key to gaining the competitive advantage that drives your profitability. Furthermore, M2M (machine-to-machine) solutions and tools support the exchange of real-time information between hardware assets, mobile workers, back-office management and key stakeholders in mission-critical departments. The result is an efficient and intuitive system that better manages employees and devices, regardless of their location. We interview Mike Stramaglio and Ramiro Trevino to gain MWA Intelligence's perspective on asset and workforce management. Mike is the CEO, and Ramiro is the VP of Engineering both with MWA Intelligence. 37 Minutes

Can ECM and SOA Forge A Marriage?

Can SOA and ECM be bought together in a Technological Marriage?

Particularly, should ECM technologies be run on or as part of the SOA infrastructure?

Furthermore, what roles do the platform vendors, and niche ECM vendors play in this paradigm.

We interview Lloyd Dugan to gain insight into integrating records management with SOA.
Lloyd is Information Engineering Services' CTO. 59 Minutes

Java for Hard Real-Time Systems

Traditionally, resource-constrained and hard real-time applications have been developed with C and C++. However, as system and software complexity increase, C and C++ have driven up the cost of development with problematic behaviors. Java on the other hand, has already displaced C/C++ as the most popular programming approach for desktop, enterprise, and mobile applications. Previously, the use of Java for embedded applications has been limited to those applications with loose memory and timing constraints. Fortunately, new technology is now allowing Java developers to cross that bridge, addressing the entire range of embedded systems.

We interview Kelvin Nilsen to gain insight into Java for Hard Real-Time Systems. Kelvin is Aonix's CTO. 44 Minutes

Provisioning Composite Applications

In the coming months and years, composite applications will play a key role in the transition to a more dynamic business environment, and will allow organizations to deliver on the needs of service oriented architectures. However, the outdated provisioning processes developed around traditional mainframe and packaged applications is becoming an increasing liability, leaving IT Operations groups unable to cope with a more dynamic and demanding change and release environment.

We interview Annie Weinberger to gain insight into provisioning composite applications.
Annie is a Product Marketing Manager with Interwoven. 30 Minutes

Copyright Compliance

Collaborating teams have replaced the traditional silo structure inside and outside organizations. That collaboration is being driven by forces that include the convergence of scientific research, faster life cycles of today's products and a more global commercial and intellectual environment. This presents a great opportunity for today's organizations to achieve innovation. However, that collaboration requires that knowledge workers develop a more sophisticated understanding of the important issue of Intellectual Property (IP) use and reuse in our Internet-enabled culture.
We interview Bill Burger to gain insight into Copyright Compliance.

Bill is the VP of Marketing of the Copyright Clearance Center. 44 Minutes

ESB Driven On Demand Integration

More services are being made available via the Web. These are either provided by Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors or by traditional businesses providing new ways for their customers to access their services. Customers may be using multiple services in conjunction with their existing IT systems creating a need to synchronize data between them. As part of a Service Oriented Architecture, the provider may provide Web Service interfaces to its main business functions, thus enabling customers to automate their interactions with the provider. However, the service provider may not be able to isolate themselves from this integration task, particularly in a market where they compete for customers. We interview James Pasley to gain Cape Clear Software's perspective on ESB driven on demand integration. James is Cape Clear Software's CTO. 30 Minutes

Globally Accessible ALM

Enterprises are realizing that their traditional software development tools and approaches can no longer deliver an end-to-end solution for application lifecycle management. In a geographically distributed environment, it has become essential for CIOs to set, measure, and improve their development processes and for project teams to understand and complete their specific development tasks in view of the overall lifecycle. To meet this challenge, enterprises need to bring their people, ideas, processes, and development partners together in one Collaborative Development Environment.
We interview Chris Clarke to gain insight into ALM. Chris is Director of Solution Architecture for COLLABNET. 44 Minutes

Beyond Search

The mission of enterprise search is to help people find information quickly and easily. However, search alone is no longer enough to address the entire scope of information access needs. To realize greater productivity, better quality decisions and improved customer service you must get beyond search to leverage navigation and discovery.

We interview Dave Haucke to gain insight into how to capitalize on enterprise search.
Dave is the VP of Global Marketing for ISYS Search Software.

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ID Theft Law Compliance

California’s security breach notification law calls for notification of California residents following some kinds of security breaches, and requires businesses to protect certain personal information. Moreover, companies must implement reasonable security procedures and practices to prevent the unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure of that personal information. Assessing your application security vulnerabilities is key to complying with those ID theft laws. And application security tools play a crucial role in preventing unauthorized disclosure of personal information available through web applications
We interview Mandeep Khera to gain insight into application security tools.
Mandeep is VP Marketing of Cenzic 31 Minutes

Warding Off Web App Attacks

The dynamic nature of Web applications can increase the number of high-value transactions. However, there is a dark side to this technology. If web applications are improperly implemented, people with malicious intent can turn it against the enterprise to cause considerable damage to a company’s bottom line and reputation. To meet this challenge, enterprises have turned to many different security technologies that front-end the Web applications. But, to achieve a complete web application security program, enterprises must leverage Web application code security testing.
We interview John Weinschhenk to gain insight into secure enterprise applications.

John is Cenzic's CEO. 24 Minutes

Improving User Interaction With RIA s

While the web deployment model has reduce the cost of software deployment, it has also created a community of underserved business users that long for a return to the usability and responsiveness of desktop and client/server applications. Fortunately, forward-looking IT professionals are now turning their attention to design patterns and technologies that can improve the client side of the equation. As a result, we are now seeing widespread deployment of rich Internet applications (RIAs), which combines the responsiveness and interactivity of desktop applications with the broad reach and ease of distribution of the web.
We interview Duane Nickull to gain insight into web development with actionable blueprints. Duane is a Technical Evangelist with Adobe Systems 58 Minutes

Better Decisions With BI Reporting

A sales meeting is in full swing, but it immediately stalls because none of the sales figures in the PowerPoint presentation match the data compiled by the sales managers. Then reports generated within HR show an alarming increase in the rate of turnover. But further investigation uncovers information indicating that retention is at an all-time high. Which set of data is right? These scenarios are real and occur every day in businesses around the world. So what can be done to get consistent, trusted data to the people who need it?
We interview Tim Lang to gain insight into how to make better decisions with embedded reporting.
Tim is is a vice president of developer programs for Business Objects. 49 Minutes

Accelerating SOA Applications

As businesses strive to bring new solutions to their customers more quickly, they depend on the IT organization’s ability to deliver new services, reuse existing services and streamline the provisioning and deployment of SOA or composite applications. However, business agility may be stymied by the heterogeneous nature of the typical large enterprise's IT environment. Moreover, existing infrastructure solutions were not designed to manage composite applications or SOAs in environments with divergent technology portfolios. We interview Todd Scallan to gain insight into to managing the SOA life cycle.
Todd is the VP of Product Management for Interwoven. 36 Minutes

Smarter Decisions with EDM

The need to make decisions with greater precision, consistency and agility is the driving force behind enterprise decision management. EDM leverages predictive analytics and business rules management to ramp up business intelligence to the next level from reporting to the execution of decisions. Adding EDM to BI extends the value of analytics driven insights, and allows businesses to make smarter strategic, tactical and operational decisions.

We interview James Taylor to gain insight into to making smarter decisions with EDM.
James is the VP of marketing at Fair Isaac. 43 Minutes

T he Embedded Edge

The embedded computing supply chain is long and complex. It reaches from the smallest components up to the largest and most complex machines on the planet. At every point in this complex ecosystem are hundreds of companies, which manufacture components, assemble computer boards and integrate final systems. A failure by any one means the whole system breaks down. Consequently, the supply chain is only as strong as its weakest link. We interview Rob McKeel to gain insight into the complex environments that embedded systems serve.

Rob is a Vice President with GE Fanuc Embedded Systems. 30 Minutes

Ramping Up Packet Processing

Advances in semiconductor technology are making way for low-power multi-core processors. This transition enables embedded and communications applications to more broadly deploy systems with multiple execution cores due to the more favorable economic