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General
by Scott Wilson on March 1, 2008
I saw the same Seattle Times article as Nick Malik and had a similar thought to that expressed in his blog post: there ought to be an open source fix for this issue.
The issue, briefly, is one faced ...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on February 29, 2008
To be honest, the Vista price cuts Microsoft announced today don't mean a thing to you, the CIO. They affect retail box copies only, not the volume agreements you are using. They aren't even p...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on February 28, 2008
EDIT:
Well, it looks like the server ate my post again... which I don't have time to re-type from scratch at the moment. My apologies to those of you who saw just a link to Mosso here for however...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on February 27, 2008
That seems to be a bit of a theme today.
First up, on Slashdot, we have "Gaffes that keep geeks from the boardroom," a discussion of the various clothing, attitude, and personal hygiene cho...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on February 26, 2008
It's official: I talk about virtualization enough that I've added the subject as its own category finally. To inaugurate its new status, I will fittingly discuss the virtualization king, VMwar...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on February 26, 2008
If Microsoft's grand announcement last week of their new, broad commitment to openness and interoperability standards was intended as a sop to the European Union Court of First Instance to foresta...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on February 25, 2008
While Microsoft and other agencies have been busy reaching out into the virtual machine infrastructure and management sector, VMware has quietly been working to cement their own considerable lead. Tod...
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Integration Software
by Scott Wilson on February 23, 2008
Nothing major on this sunny Saturday, I just thought I would throw up a few links to the various reaction pieces from Microsoft's announcement last week detailing their new commitments to interope...
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Integration Software
by Scott Wilson on February 21, 2008
Microsoft held a conference call this morning with CEO Steve Ballmer, Senior VP Bob Muglia from the Server and Tools division, Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, and general counsel Brad Smith to dis...
Read more of Microsoft opens the kimono
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Outsourcing
by Scott Wilson on February 21, 2008
Larry Dignan has compiled a timeline showing Dell's recent acquisitions on the managed services front as the beleagured hardware vendor works to stay at part with arch-rival HP.
HP has been no sl...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on February 20, 2008
Tata Consultancy Services has landed a $120 million, multi-year deal to handle "comprehensive" IT services for the Chrysler corporation.
Although Tata's Manufacturing vertical is alread...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on February 20, 2008
Something we have seen with the widespread adoption of virtualized computing platforms, be they in-house or based in the cloud, is that one of the most complicated aspects has proven to be the provisi...
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Outsourcing
by Scott Wilson on February 20, 2008
Long-time enterprise hardware vendor Unisys has felt the winds of change blowing, and is moving further into the consulting and Services market with a twist: the company plans to remain neutral with r...
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Data Storage
by Scott Wilson on February 19, 2008
Apple gets short shrift in the server and storage market, but their Xserve and Xsan products are pretty slick and it would be a pity if no one noticed that they released version 2 of their Xsan softwa...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on February 18, 2008
To date, the only serious options for managing large-scale, spread-out virtual machine infrastructures has been to either roll your own management tools or to invest in VMWare's comprehensive Virt...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on February 16, 2008
Very brief interview up over at Information Week with Google CIO Douglas Merrill. Doesn't much go into the nuts and bolts of his domain at the notoriously secretive search giant, but he does talk ...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on February 16, 2008
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on February 15, 2008
On top of the problems earlier this week at Salesforce and Salesboom, the competing SaaS CRM providers, today Amazon's S3 storage service was down for around three hours this morning, dealing an a...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on February 14, 2008
I'm sure if you've been reading this blog long enough you have had a chance to hear some of my tired anecdotes about the idiocy of Microsoft's licensing programs, but today from Britain I ...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on February 13, 2008
The Microsoft Operation Framework version 4, still in development, has released a beta update to testers as of last Friday, covering all core modules with the exception of the Team Model Service Manag...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on February 12, 2008
It's been a while since Salesforce.com had a significant service disruption, so it made the news that several of their server clusters were out, on and off, over the course of about six hours yest...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on February 12, 2008
So says IBM in their recent 2007 X-Force Security report, released yesterday.
I haven't done a year to year comparison of spam on any of the systems I monitor yet, but personally I haven't no...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on February 11, 2008
It's probably just coincidence that I was hearing sirens out the window as I was reading Michael Krigsman's post on emergency vehicle manufacturer American LaFrance blaming IBM for its recent ...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on February 9, 2008
You have to know I've been waiting all week to use that title.
It looks like Yahoo has declined the first pass of Microsoft's buy out offer today, or so reports the Wall Street Journal, citin...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on February 8, 2008
Most CIO's feel the squeeze of hardware or software lock-in at some point, the overt or covert mechanisms which keep us from easily switching between technology products. For quite a long time, lo...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on February 7, 2008
Traditionally, software vendors have relied heavily on partnerships with vars and consultants as a reliable marketing channel to woo customers to their products. This had the worthy advantages of spre...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on February 6, 2008
Whatever concerns may have been sparked by the recent undersea communication cable service disruptions do not seem to have affected anyone's plans for investing in heavy growth in India-based IT c...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on February 6, 2008
Dell is nudging its way slowly into the IT services business, and took another step today with the announcement of a substantially altered support lineup called ProSupport. ProSupport replaces the tra...
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SOA
by Scott Wilson on February 5, 2008
Nick Malick has an interesting (long) post up today on Inside Architecture describing a conceptual framework for standardizing line-of-business (LOB) applications.
Nick's model breaks down into t...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on February 4, 2008
Sure, some might call me irresponsible, but the ninja theory is at least as credible as some of the others floating around out there right now attempting to make some sense of the suspicious rash of u...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on February 4, 2008
Although the topic seems to hold me and certain other bloggers with a morbid kind of fascination, it has been my experience that raids by the Business Software Alliance receive very little attention i...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on February 3, 2008
It's looking so far as if Indian outsourcing companies have dodged the bullet with respect to the potential catastrophe hinted at by the severing of two vital undersea data cables carrying traffic...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on February 2, 2008
I've heard quite a few arguments regarding the ethics of off-shore outsourcing, and quite a few others about the ethics of soaring gas and oil prices in a year of record profits by oil companies. ...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on February 1, 2008
I feel like I should say something about the whole Microsoft proposing to buy Yahoo today thing, but honestly I'm not sure that it ultimately will matter much to the average CIO. Certainly, as man...
