I never really thought so, and from my own briefing with Persystent Technologies I didn't get the impression that was the solution they were peddling, but that seems to be what Sam Diaz takes...
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You have to consider the source, but it probably shouldn't surprise anyone who has been in the industry very long that a substantial portion of IT staff would plan to walk out the door with...
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by Scott Wilson on August 29, 2008
No, it's not a tech conference, and has nothing at all to do with your average CIO, but hey, get out and live a little. I am! Penny Arcade Expo. Get your gamer on.......
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by Scott Wilson on August 29, 2008
That is the interesting assertion that Nicholas Petreley makes in this article at CIO Magazine, but I am hard pressed to see the argument for it even after reading through it twice. Petreley starts...
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by Scott Wilson on August 28, 2008
The Google Apps Team has sent out an e-mail to customers promising a full SLA credit for Apps Premier customers for the month of August to cover for a series of outages on the 6th, 11th, and 15th....
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Hewlett-Packard's bid to purchase it services company EDS, initiated in May, has finally born fruit after clearing regulatory hurdles in both the US and EU. One of the largest mergers in the...
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At least one of the two questions I posed last week with respect to Apple's entry into the enterprise hardware market appears to have been answered over the weekend, to Apple's advantage. The...
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by Scott Wilson on August 25, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Steve Luker There is finally some shred of real evidence to back up my long-held suspicion that placing the CIO subordinate to the CFO has detrimental effects on overall...
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Well, they're not quite here yet, and I am not so sure they ever will be, regardless of what Dion Hinchcliffe thinks. It may come as some surprise to anyone who has noted my longstanding and...
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This may be old news, but I thought I'd put it out there, anyway: the first of what are sure to be many third-party services dedicated to monitoring various cloud computing services is being...
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The iPhone has been getting all sorts of attention as the possible Blackberry-killer in the enterprise market of late. But the device has faced objections from corporate IT departments based on its...
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There are two questions, actually: one, is Apple's rapid expansion into the phone business and reconsideration as a business platform causing quality problems in its product lines? And two, will...
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When I said, a couple days ago, that the Windows Server naming confusion indicated "...internal discord, and consequentially a lack of discipline and organization..." I didn't know the...
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by Scott Wilson on August 19, 2008
Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu posted an entry yesterday entitled "Why we compete with Google," going into some detail on the economics of the business software market in the process. It's...
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EDIT: Updated at 08/19/08 18:38 PDT to reflect clarification from Microsoft regarding the name of the next major version of Windows Server. So it turns out what I posted this morning was a bunch of...
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I don't know how I missed hearing that they applied for this back at the beginning of the month, but then I didn't realize that they own the domain cloudcomputing.com (note that they still...
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EDIT 08/18/08 13:39 PDT- Mary Jo has retracted her initial information regarding the demise of Windows 2008 Revision 2; it appears that it is still on track as originally planned, and Windows Server...
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So, Paul Murphy got me thinking with his recent post challenging the conventional wisdom of making feature comparisons when judging open-source versus Microsoft applications. Or, actually, a...
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I thought I would throw a quick link up for the new, officially sanctioned Windows 7 blog run by Windows Engineering chief Steven Sinofsky and Windows Core OS Division head Jon DeVaan. The blog joins...
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I'm sure Steve Jobs is vastly relieved. Actually, I don't think he probably cares; Gartner is in some sense delivering a blessing on a relationship already consumated in sin. The iPhone is...
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It continues to seem like VMware is set on being their own worst enemy in the battle to dominate the enterprise virtualization market. After firing their CEO, dropping revenue expectations, and doing...
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We've seen the headlines before, most recently in the Russia/Estonia dispute which never escalated to armed conflict, but they're coming out again in the fighting between Russia and Georgia...
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Virtual Iron announced the release yesterday of version 4.4 of its eponymous software package with a new feature called LivePower which aims to reduce power consumption in large virtual server farms...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Quavondo Nguyen Every silver lining's got a touch of grey - The Grateful Dead Yesterday's Gmail outage, affecting both individual and Apps corporate customers,...
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