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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on April 30, 2009
It's usually a vendor that spills the beans, and in this case it seems to be Acer that is the culprit. Bobby Watkins of Acer UK is cited in this Pocket-lint story as saying, "23rd October is ...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on April 28, 2009
It's too early to say whether or not the swine flu will rise to pandemic proportions; so far, as is their wont, news media seem to be blowing the disease all out of proportion and public health ag...
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Information About
, The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on April 26, 2009
While those of us in the IT industry have been oohing and aahing (or, alternately, scoffing and spitting) at the pedestrian achievements of giants such as Amazon and Google in bringing us services and...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on April 24, 2009
I've read through all the press releases at least twice now for VMware's vSphere, and I'm still not clear on how it is much more than a routine upgrade from the company's VMWare Infras...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on April 22, 2009
An article by Bruce Perens just popped up on Slashdot discussing what he is calling a "Cyber-Attack" on April 9 in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties in Northern California. A slightly less...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on April 21, 2009
According to diverse media outlets, VMware is set to fire the next shot in the virtualization wars today by announcing their new VSphere product, which promises to allow businesses to create a "p...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on April 20, 2009
Oracle has announced this morning that it will acquire Sun, putting an unexpectedly quick capstone on what could have been another interminable walk through the desert after the Sun/IBM deal fell thro...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on April 16, 2009
It's not a new question, I know. And on the face of it, it may not seem terribly relevant to the average CIO, working for businesses which are generally wiling to pay for the services they consume...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on April 14, 2009
My first reaction, on seeing headlines such as "84% will not upgrade to Windows 7 in the next year" or "83% of Businesses Won't Bother with Windows 7" (what happened to that ot...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on April 13, 2009
ZDnet's Dion Hinchcliffe has a good (longish) post up considering the difficulties of determining the ROI of Enterprise 2.0. This is a good counter-point balancing my post least week title Enterpr...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on April 10, 2009
I found the most interesting part of Wednesday's TechExecs CIO Panel Forum to be, well, the panel forum. Moderated by Boeing System Analyst and University of Phoenix professor Bill Allen and compr...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on April 8, 2009
I left Seattle TechExecs CIO Panel Forum earlier today burning with unanswered questions.
The event was interesting and informative, but I couldn't help but feel that it didn't live up to its...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on April 8, 2009
I'll be at the TechExecs Seattle CIO Panel Forum today, listening to regional CIOs and technology executives presenting and discussing their takes on a variety of topical subjects, including socia...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on April 6, 2009
This time it's IBM and Sun instead of Yahoo and Microsoft (although Yahoo and Microsoft haven't gone away yet, much to my annoyance). What is up with these companies? Just roll over and be acq...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on April 2, 2009
YAAWS... I think it's got a certain ring to it, don't you. At the rate Amazon Web Services are rolling out new products, I feel the need for an acronym to lighten the typing load. It looks as ...
