The advent of widespread virtualization in Enterprise IT has lead to some interesting conundrums in the matter of software licensing. Traditional, if arbitrary, methods of licensing server software...
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Michael Krigsman over at ZDnet has a good article up discussing the predictability and prevention of project failures in IT riffing off of some of the basic principles of Agile Development. While...
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At least not if you are an AT&T employee, according to a recent Network World article. The communications giant, recently merged with other communications giant SBC, is apparently reversing...
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Prompted by some recent posts and the subsequent conversations over at Michael Krigsman's ZDnet Project Failures blog, I've dug in and written a lengthy treatise on consultants and incentives...
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Paul Murphy and his contrarian, plain-spoken ways are at it again, this time pointing out that vendor-written contracts and EULAs have no clothes. Or at least, nothing that will fit the buyer....
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Couple of new resources on the subject of getting up to speed and appropriately managing IT projects today, so I thought I would throw up a quick article with some links. First, from Information...
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Just wanted to throw up a quick link to Nick Malik's recent post on MSDN on the benefits and pitfalls of IT involvement in business process management functions. I think he's dead-on in his...
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And I have to admit I was hoping for more detail on that most important of matters when I started in on this CIO magazine article on the pitfalls of making strategy stick. But it's worth a quick...
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So what about the folks on the other side of the wire from you, the CIO, and your loyal army of IT staff? How do they feel about all this stuff that we are talking about all the time,......
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by prashanth on August 21, 2007
Infoworld has an article highlighting a report by Nucleus Research, below are excerpts from the same: In a study entitled "Benchmarking: Service-Oriented Architecture," Nucleus Research and...
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EDS' Senior Executive Vice President of Applications Services, Charlie Feld, spoke at the JPMorgan 35th Annual Technology Conference, Below are some excerpts from the transcript. Demand for IT...
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AMR Research's most recent survey showed 46% of companies are considering or implementing their first service-oriented architecture (SOA) project within the next two years. (Dated starting of...
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by prashanth on April 29, 2007
CIO Magazine Tech Poll results as highlighted by Computerworld: IT spending projections declined in March, as CIOs predicted spending increases of 5.1% for the next 12 months, down from 5.8% in...
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by prashanth on April 10, 2007
Sean Sweeney of Forrester has a report with the same title, below are some interesting excerpts from the same: Consulting rates in 2007 have increased slightly compared with 2006 because of demand in...
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by prashanth on March 31, 2007
There has been a lot of talk about talent shortage in India, during the investor presentation of Wipro they covered a section on talent management here are some excerpts: Source: 1 Prashanth Rai......
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by prashanth on March 23, 2007
IBM recently announced the findings of a new study which concludes that in order for multinational companies to succeed in China they will need to develop strategies that focus more on China's...
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by prashanth on March 19, 2007
Morrisons is to invest £110m over the next three years to improve its IT infrastructure - but don't expect any radical changes from the supermarket chain. Mark Bolland, chief executive officer...
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by prashanth on March 12, 2007
EDS today announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire RelQ Software Private Ltd., a privately owned Bangalore, India-based software testing company. Over time, RelQ will be fully...
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by prashanth on February 26, 2007
Excerpts from Mckinsey article titleld "Divide & Conquer: Rethinking IT Strategy" Focusing exclusively on bottom-line costs, however, limits the top-line potential. By forgoing...
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by prashanth on February 18, 2007
The theme of IT Skills shortage is becoming a truly global one, in a recent IDC Teleconference titled "IDC Predictions:European Services, 2007" by Marianne Kolding & Mette Ahorlu, there...
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by prashanth on January 24, 2007
For sometime now we havent had this discussion and than recently i saw this report from Frost & Sullivan, titled "Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Windows 2003 versus Linux in Indian...
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by prashanth on January 09, 2007
No I really haven't lost it, this is what occurred to me after reading Irving Wladawsky-Berger's blog post yesterday, this is just an initial brain dump of thoughts will flesh it out in posts...
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