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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on January 31, 2008
The undersea cables that carry the vast majority of Internet data between continents have often been seen as potential weak links in the system; expensive to install, complicated to troubleshoot and f...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on January 30, 2008
In case you're not hopping on the whole SaaS, off-shore, outsource your Web 2.0 social network services bandwagon these days, if you're one of those old-school CIOs with an affinity for large,...
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SOA
by Scott Wilson on January 29, 2008
First, an aside; do you think that I wind up putting up a bunch of posts about one company within a week because I somehow become attuned to their name particularly, or do you think that there is some...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on January 28, 2008
I mentioned HPs new "green" business desktop line-up last week, two PC models which cut power consumption by means of enhanced efficiency hardware, power monitoring software, and a solid-sta...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on January 28, 2008
As most of you probably know, for a variety of reasons the planned phase-out of Windows XP from Microsoft's distribution channels was pushed back from January of this year until June 30. Now, not ...
Read more of Windows XP's retirement plans
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Security
by Scott Wilson on January 25, 2008
I haven't seen a lot of detail about this yet, but fellow CW blogger Sue Walsh reports some additional information about the supposed Linux/Apache based exploit that may be infecting a surprising ...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on January 25, 2008
Hewlett-Packard announced the introduction this week of two new business-oriented PC desktops with ultra-energy efficient designs, one of them including a solid-state hard drive to completely eliminat...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on January 25, 2008
Although most people tend to relate off-shore IT outsourcing market growth to Stateside staff reductions, the latest suggestion is that the growth is being driven more by demand from other off-shore o...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on January 24, 2008
One might imagine (at least, I have certainly always imagined) that being CIO for a professional sports team, particularly one of the most successful teams in the NFL, might be a pretty exciting job. ...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on January 23, 2008
IBM had been hinting at some expanded Web 2.0 capabilities being added to its Lotus line of mail and collaboration software and unveiled it today at Lotusphere in Florida (and you thought that the pri...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on January 23, 2008
I just saw an excellent post from Todd Bishop at the Seattle P-I analyzing the speech patterns of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates during their respective keynote speeches this past week. It seems like a bit...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on January 22, 2008
AT&T has unveiled new business pricing plans for Apple's iPhone today, furthering the cause of those who are attempting to bring the stylish smartphone further into the corporate fold.
Althou...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on January 22, 2008
Perhaps spurred by VMware's acquisition last week of application virtualization company Thinstall, Microsoft has whipped out the checkbook and kicked its own virtualization strategy into high gear...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on January 21, 2008
I suppose that it was just a matter of time, but there is finally the first official word of Internet based attacks disrupting major public utility services. Unlike the shadowy attacks on Estonia last...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on January 19, 2008
Well, I have finally worked my way through last week's 37 page report released by the Burton Group recommending Microsoft's Office Open eXtended markup language (OOXML) over the Open Document ...
Read more of Burton Group ODF/OOXML report
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on January 17, 2008
You can stop holding your breath. Microsoft has selected former Disney CIO Tony Scott as the new head of their internal IT organization. The rest of you are no longer in the running. Sorry.
Scott rep...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on January 17, 2008
Analyst firm IDC is spreading the love with their most recent report on PC sales data. "Dell Tops HP as Largest PC Supplier in US" trumpets CIO Magazine over the numbers, while HP modestly m...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on January 16, 2008
VMWare has announced the acquisition of application virtualization provider Thinstall, adding considerable flexibility to their virtual systems portfolio and buying their way in to the next big virtua...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on January 16, 2008
The big news this morning is Sun's one billion dollar acquisition of MySQL AB, the German company behind the popular open-source database of the same name, which also may be one of the most broadl...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on January 16, 2008
Or it will, anyway, on February 12th as Microsoft pushes out a patch via Windows Software Updates Services that is absent the increasingly omnipresent Window Genuine Advantage validation checks for so...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on January 15, 2008
If you're not yet entirely bored with the subject, and want to see what may be up with the next version beyond Vista (tentatively referred to as "Windows 7"... let's see, is 7 before...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on January 15, 2008
It is starting to verge on redundant to point out some other agency or company taking a pass on Vista, but Becta, the organization responsible for IT strategy for the UK public school system and other...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on January 12, 2008
Bryan Crynes, Chief Information Officer for Starbucks, the multi-national coffee giant based out of Seattle, Washington, finds himself out on the street today as part of a general corporate shake-up i...
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Events
by Scott Wilson on January 10, 2008
Microsoft has announced today that long-time employee and current president of their Business Division Jeff Raikes will retire from the company in September. Raikes, who currently presides over one of...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on January 10, 2008
Although much of the hoopla over outsourcing and offshoring technology functions has died down in the press lately (a bit odd, considering the Election year spooling up here in the US), the market con...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on January 9, 2008
I love it every time when Nick Carr pulls out his lighter and sets fire to someone's sacred cow, not because he is always right, but because the ensuing controversy almost always manages to pull s...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on January 8, 2008
Microsoft announced today that they have made an offer to acquire enterprise search solution provider FAST for $1.2 billion. This represents a significant move in a market the Redmond software giant h...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on January 8, 2008
apple announced today the next version of their Xserve server platform, a 1U, $3000 unit which nearly doubles the speed of the previous version.
The Leopard version of OS X Server provided a much nee...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on January 8, 2008
Mary Jo Foley brought up the interesting point yesterday that Microsoft's ongoing problems with the popular XBox Live service might have implications for the company's other Live or hosted sof...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on January 7, 2008
It was only a matter of time, but now the geeks over at Slashdot have gotten wind of Nick Carr's The Big Switch, and they're not kindly disposed to it.
This is in contrast to some of the exce...
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Events
by Scott Wilson on January 7, 2008
It's always been sort of an open secret that Bill Gates is a terrible public speaker, and his traditional role as presenter of the opening keynote at the massive Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on January 5, 2008
The Google Docs team has posted an update discussing some recently released features for their Presentations component and a few minor updates to their core document management components.
If you are...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on January 4, 2008
Apparently smelling blood in their perpetual battle with Linux for the server market, Microsoft is going for the jugular by relaxing licensing restrictions in their next release of Windows Server Web ...
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Integration Software
by Scott Wilson on January 4, 2008
Just about the only significant trend that I have not yet seen some random pundit proclaim that 2008 will be a "break-out" year of "explosive growth" for is virtualization. Despite...
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Data Storage
by Scott Wilson on January 4, 2008
...they just have support for their formats withdrawn. Or at least some older Excel, PowerPoint, and third-party file formats have been given the axe by Microsoft with the release of Office 2003 Servi...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on January 3, 2008
Let me say "no" immediately so as not to engender accusations of hopping on the sensationalism bandwagon (I think it is stuck over at Scoble's house today anyway).
But Matt Asay's p...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on January 3, 2008
A curious fact (or maybe not so curious) that I have noticed in the inevitable spate of new year prognosticating is that everyone seems to believe that the field about which they are prognosticating i...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on January 2, 2008
I'm not much at specific predictions and I'm not going to get into the business of offering any up now, but if you're in the business of offering advice in the field of Information Technol...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on January 2, 2008
I've got my first "Vision Thing" post! After all, nothing better deserves the category than a book originally subtitled "Our New Digital Destiny" (later changed to a more buzzw...
