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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 include...
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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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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on April 29, 2008
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 serve...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on April 29, 2008
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 En...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on April 28, 2008
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 h...
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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 o...
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Integration Software
by Scott Wilson on April 24, 2008
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 most of the blogosp...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on April 22, 2008
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 decision-making proce...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on April 21, 2008
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 t...
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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 com...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on April 21, 2008
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, improving back...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on April 19, 2008
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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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on April 18, 2008
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 ago.
Farec...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on April 18, 2008
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 n...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on April 16, 2008
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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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on April 15, 2008
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 January/Februar...
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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 fo...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on April 14, 2008
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 vi...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on April 14, 2008
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 ove...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on April 11, 2008
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 same...
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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 linked...
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SOA
by Scott Wilson on April 9, 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 announce...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on April 9, 2008
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 commu...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on April 8, 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 see...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on April 8, 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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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on April 7, 2008
I mean, I get that it can be as valuable to define something by what it isn't as by what it is. But I am struggling to understand the recent he-said/she-said debates over what does and does not co...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on April 5, 2008
This is no more than speculation, based largely on other speculation, itself based on an indescriminate statement Bill Gates made recently (as reported by CNET news) which may or may not have indicate...
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Help Desk And Support
by Scott Wilson on April 4, 2008
But you can feel the heat from it burning the exposed flesh at the back of your neck in many organizations if you suggest that perhaps IT should pull back from its traditional role of desktop manageme...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on April 4, 2008
At least as far as corporate customers are concerned, Microsoft's "drop dead" (which seems to be their message to users, as well) date for ending Windows XP sales will remain as previous...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on April 2, 2008
CNET news is reporting that current Google CIO Douglas Merrill is leaving the company to take the helm at music industry giant EMI's digital unit.
It hasn't been so long since February's ...
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General
by Scott Wilson on April 1, 2008
It's hard enough to separate fact from fiction on the 'net today so I'm not even going to try. Nor am I creative enough to come up with my own joke, so I'll just link to others I found...
