Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on August 30, 2008

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 awa...

Internal security is the most important security

Filed in archive Security by Scott Wilson on August 30, 2008

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 sensit...

Knock off early, go to PAX

Filed in archive Events 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.

Can Ballmer deliver the SOA market for Microsoft?

Filed in archive SOA 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 w...

Google manning up for August outages

Filed in archive SaaS 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. Mos...

HP seals EDS deal

Filed in archive Market Perturbations by Scott Wilson on August 27, 2008

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 indu...

iPhone issues not all down to Apple

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on August 26, 2008

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...

CIOs marginally worse off under CFO

Filed in archive CIO by Scott Wilson on August 25, 2008

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 IT service delivery to the company. A rece...

Death throes of the corporate data center

Filed in archive Outsourcing by Scott Wilson on August 22, 2008

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 occa...

Hyperic's CloudStatus

Filed in archive The Cloud by Scott Wilson on August 22, 2008

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 devel...

Android in the enterprise?

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware , Information About by Scott Wilson on August 22, 2008

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 ...

The question of Apple's enterprise potential

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on August 21, 2008

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 t...

Windows Server Version saga continues

Filed in archive Enterprise Software by Scott Wilson on August 20, 2008

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 h...

The economics of SaaS

Filed in archive SaaS 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 worth...

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Datacenter Blues

Filed in archive Enterprise Hardware by Scott Wilson on August 11, 2008

Forbes has published a rather dense (and by dense, I mean packed with information, rather than mentally deficient) article by Kenneth Brill examining the explosion in data center construction and the ...

Wiki-spy

Filed in archive Enterprise Software , Information About by Scott Wilson on August 9, 2008

Speaking of Enterprise 2.0, it seems that the CIA is well on board with the trend. I don't know if the director filled out the recent McKinsey survey or not. But the organization seems to be ahe...

Keeping your COBOL?

Filed in archive Enterprise Software by Scott Wilson on August 8, 2008

The last time that COBOL (that's COmmon Business Oriented Language, A 1950's era mainframe programming language) got this much press was just prior to Y2K, when the effort to purge legacy code...

Enterprise 2.0 updates

Filed in archive Integration Software by Scott Wilson on August 7, 2008

EDIT: I've recovered and reposted this entry from Google's cache. So, not long after I mention my general skepticism of CIO surveys, I am building yet another article around one... because ot...

MyCMDB: the cool BSM software with the funny name

Filed in archive The Vision Thing by Scott Wilson on August 7, 2008

I made fun of Managed Objects new social-networking influenced CMDB interface product myCMDB when it was announced last month, critiquing both the kindergarten playground name of the software and the ...

Are we firing people here, or what?

Filed in archive CIO by Scott Wilson on August 6, 2008

The great thing about writing about information technology is that you can always find a controversy... and data to support your side of it. So, while last week I posted that a recent Goldman Sachs su...

AT&T to enter ranks of cloud providers

Filed in archive The Cloud by Scott Wilson on August 5, 2008

It looks as though Sun isn't the only big player with spare network capacity anxious to get in on the cloud computing hype. AT&T has announced, by way of a deal with the US Olympic Committee t...

The consultant as a CIO

Filed in archive CIO by Scott Wilson on August 5, 2008

Would that more CIOs come from the ranks of consultants! It's a bit like cops and criminals, I suppose; the best detectives are those who can put themselves in the place of the criminal, underst...

Sun moving to save its cloud?

Filed in archive The Cloud by Scott Wilson on August 4, 2008

Sun's floundering utility computing initiative, Network.com, is being spun off into a separate business unit, reports the Register. The move seems likely to form the first step in an effort to st...

IBM strengthening cloud computing resources

Filed in archive The Cloud by Scott Wilson on August 1, 2008

IBM announced today that it will be investing more than $400 million on two new data centers dedicated to cloud computing purposes, one opening in their Research triangle Park facility in North Caroli...