Google reported today that they have released version 5 of their "Google in a box" enterprise search appliance. The new release adds support for Windows Integrated Authentication, secured...

If Mom had been an experienced former IBM consultant and current distinguished Vice President of Research at Gartner, that is. Gartner analyst Yvonne Genovese served up a warm helping of something to...

I wasn't aware of it when I posted yesterday, but apparently Amazon's new SLA for S3 followed on the heels of a similar offer from Nirvanix, and is due to be followed shortly by an even more...

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is out on the warpath again, spreading Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt about potential patent infringement issues in Linux. This time, he's targeting Red Hat...

Amazon announced yesterday that, effective October 1st, they are offering a 99.9% uptime service level agreement for their Simple Storage Service (S3). The full text of the SLA can be found here....

Interesting piece up by Rob Enderle over at IT Business Edge titled "Battle for the Corporate Phone." Enderle looks at PBX convergence in the corporate market and gives some perspective on...

It's been taken more or less as an article of faith that you can't get SOA in a box, and that the vendors who have been trying to package and offer it as such have been fishing for easy......

This post is apropos of nothing to do with CIOs or technology in general, but I just couldn't not say anything when I saw this gem on the Microsoft PR wire today: "Microsoft and Bungie...

Google announced today that they have completed their integration of Postini's e-mail compliance and security features to the Premier edition of their Google Apps service. Postini was acquired...

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....

A couple weeks ago I linked to a Dan Farber article on 3Tera's AppLogic grid processing application-a scalable, on-demand, commercially available processing platform for businesses that want to...

And I haven't seen it yet. But Larry Dignan over at ZDNet has! Quite a bit of information available in Larry's post. The big takeaways seem to be that Dell's star is diminishing while...

So odds are if you read this blog you are either a CIO or you aspire to become one, and in either case, the recent series of articles over at Information Week by bob evans, titled and themed...

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...

And thank God for it! Of course, most enterprises either have licensing arrangements that preclude their continued use of XP in the long term, or have the resources to continue deploying it...

Microsoft's "online" office offering, Office Live Workspaces is now accepting sign-ups for beta testing. I have "online" in quotes because it's not what most of us have...