Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on April 30, 2008
Although I think most of us realize that the traditional IT department is not quite as much under attack from outsourcing, SaaS, and social networking pressures as various pundits (this pundit...
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Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on April 29, 2008
CNET News is reporting that Google will name former Morgan Stanley executive Benjamin Fried as it's CIO in May, replacing the departed Douglas Merrill who left for EMI last month. So what does it...
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CIO blogger John Halamka of Harvard Medical School has posted a narrative of his IT team's recent tour of Dell's facilities in Texas. As Dell remains a major player in many IT department...
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Shoring up an oft-lamented and widely noted deficiency in their enterprise software portfolio, Microsoft announced last week their acquisition of FAST Search and Transfer. Microsoft's existing...
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Mary Jo Foley has obtained and now published an internal Microsoft memo detailing some of the links and plans between the next version of Windows and the windows live hosted services which Microsoft...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on April 24, 2008
In the mad rush to offer things called "SaaS" to the market, IBM is now offering "Security as a Service" to mid-sized businesses via it's X-Force division. This comes as part...
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© Martin Kingsley The buzz is all about Microsoft's Live Mesh software and File synchronization platform this week. Live Mesh, brainchild of industry legend Ray Ozzie, probably strikes you, like...
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© jvumn It's no secret to most CIOs that managing the IT department in any major company is as much politics as technology. The question of which factor is ascendant in the corporate...
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This time from Jason Hiner at TechRepublic in his blog appropriately titled "Tech Sanity Check." Hiner suggests that Microsoft will actually encourage this course of action by accelerating...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on April 21, 2008
Perhaps it was only a matter of time after significant PR damage from outages earlier this year, but Amazon's Web Services have finally been accompanied with some real support options from the...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on April 21, 2008
© One_From_RM IBM announced last week that they have acquired Diligent Technologies, a Framingham, Massachusetts based company which specializes in developing software for de-duplicating backup data,...
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I recently wrote a post on my other blog reacting to a story I had read about a New York consulting firm using Google Apps' Gmail as an emergency replacement mail server for a client whose single...
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© donjd2 This is probably only of interest to the frequent flyers among you, but I thought I'd post it because I've been intrigued by the site Farecast.com since its inception a year or two...
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Actually, if you have ever heard Steve Ballmer speak in person, you'll know that he's never unplugged. Today at Microsoft's annual Most Valuable Professional Global Summit in Seattle was...
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There was quite a lot of reporting and commentary last week over Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Neal McDonald's recent presentation alleging that Windows is collapsing. I stayed out of it; I...
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You may recall the disruption of Internet service to India and the Middle East which caused a great deal of consternation (but little practical degradation of off-shored services) last...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on April 15, 2008
Google and Salesforce announced yesterday the introduction of a joint product called "Salesforce for Google Apps" which combines Salesforce's chocolate with Google's peanut butter...
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Amusing anecdote from Sun's Jonathan Schwartz today with a cautionary lesson for CIOs everywhere buried in it. The upshot is that, not long after Sun acquired MySQL, Schwartz and his team were...
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Last month Bill Gates appeared before the House Committee on Science and Technology to appeal for an increase in the number of H1B work visas issued for specialty workers brought in to the US from...
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It hadn't occured to me until I read this article that I have never heard of a security breach at Google. Sure, people game the search results system from time to time, but that's not the...
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Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on April 11, 2008
Larry Dignan and Jason Perlow have been covering Gartner's Emerging Technologies conference in Las Vegas for the past week or so and have turned in some posts worth reading. They're all...
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Filed in archive SOA
by Scott Wilson on April 09, 2008
Maybe it's just the way I am wired, but all this social networking stuff, all the time, is starting to get on my nerves. So perhaps I was predisposed to react poorly when I saw IBM's...
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Not all of their pledges, perhaps, it's a bit early yet to see what the ultimate outcome will be from their surprise February announcement committing to better relations with the open source...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on April 08, 2008
I thought I would give a brief overview of other reactions to Google's announcement today of its App Engine cloud computing offering, first mentioned here. As expected, most of the discussion...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on April 08, 2008
The hidden force behind Google's dominance of search and advertising has always been their back-end server farms. The company has been historically reluctant to discuss in much detail the massive...
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