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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on December 31, 2008
This is so odd I just had to post it: macminicolo.net
Yes, that's right: a co-location host specializing in Mac minis, the smaller-than-a-shoebox low-end desktop-in-a-box device introduced by App...
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, Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on December 29, 2008
It's no secret that times are tough in tech, but the industry's top dog has been consistently optimistic about its own situation. Microsoft has publicly stated that it will continue to grow ...
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, Security
by Scott Wilson on December 24, 2008
Michael Krigsman at the ZDNet IT Failures blog turned up an interesting and somewhat frightening survey conducted recently by security firm Cyber-Ark. According to the survey (available for download...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on December 23, 2008
Microsoft, having quietly thrown in the towel on the fight to convince die-hard XP proponents (or plain-old Vista haters) to upgrade before the release of Windows 7 some time in the next year or so, h...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on December 19, 2008
I was just getting ready to give up on finding some real, sinister meaning behind last January's suspicious undersea telecommunications cable breaches when all of a sudden, it's all happening ...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on December 17, 2008
All the buzz today in the blogosphere is about Apple's calculated dissing of the Macworld Expo, a traditional venue for Steve Jobs keynotes announcing new Apple products or initiatives. Senior VP ...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on December 15, 2008
The best kind to have, aren't they? So I thought, hey, those folks in the Financial sector who have reportedly been having trouble filling their IT positions in 2008 have to be feeling pretty good...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on December 11, 2008
So say a significant chunk of the 450 respondents comprised of CIOs, CFOs, and HR professionals surveyed by "modernisation solution" provider MicroFocus in a report released earlier this mon...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on December 10, 2008
The FBI, at least, does not seem to subscribe to the oddly popular notion that the catastrophe on Wall Street was caused or significantly contributed to by poor IT leadership. Or at least they seem no...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on December 8, 2008
Google's quest to turn the web into the computer has taken another interesting turn today with this announcement from the company detailing a new technology they are calling "Native Client&qu...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on December 3, 2008
Entellium has filed for bankruptcy protection in an attempt to keep operations running while company assets are sold off and customers... well, while something is done with customers; what exactly tha...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on December 2, 2008
The quiet achiever of the SaaS world, Zoho, has announced a new service called CloudSQL offering direct ODBC/JDBC access to certain cloud-hosted data with common SQL syntax. The service will also be a...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on December 1, 2008
Despite commitments from some large outsourcing players to continue their India-based operations, a more widespread perception of the dangers raised by the Mumbai attacks which I wrote about last week...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on December 1, 2008
Michael Krigsman has posted a podcast interview on his Project Failures blog with Brian Sommer on the subject of project management and system integrators or "consultants" as they like to ca...
