Filed in archive General
by Scott Wilson on February 29, 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...
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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...
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Filed in archive 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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Filed in archive 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...
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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,...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 already...
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Filed in archive 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Filed in archive 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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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on February 16, 2008
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Filed in archive 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...
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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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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...
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Filed in archive 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...
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Filed in archive 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...
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