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Help Desk And Support
by Scott Wilson on July 31, 2008
I received a briefing last week from Persystent Technologies, the new kid on the block in the desktop imaging market, which left me deeply conflicted: is it best to eliminate the sloppy system archite...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on July 31, 2008
Not Kel Hoffmann of Whitebirch Planning. The president of the 9 year old strategic financial planning software vendor, which offers both SaaS and stand-alone versions of its Whitebirch Planning produc...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on July 30, 2008
With the recent spurt of growth in the Chinese IT industry already poised to encroach on India's undisputed position atop the global offshoring dogpile, the latest developments in Bangalore are su...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on July 29, 2008
Two counter-claims spotted in the blogosphere today causes me to revisit this seemingly quiet battlefield again, although I bring no conclusions or opinions to the matter. You be the judge!
First, Su...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on July 29, 2008
In the wake of last week's outage at Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3), which left many customers hanging for more than six hours while internal "communications" issues were corre...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on July 29, 2008
EDIT: Looks like the server ate my post again. The original was a witty and brilliant riff on this CIO Magazine article attempting to explain cloud computing, wherein I demonstrated that it shouldn...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on July 28, 2008
A Goldman Sachs survey of CIOs indicates the likelihood of significant decreases in IT jobs, both with in-house and contract staff, as well as low demand for utility or "cloud" computing ser...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on July 28, 2008
Amazon has posted a post-mortem analysis on last week's extended Simple Storage Service (S3) outage, if it matters. I suppose it's a good indication that the company is continuing its committm...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on July 25, 2008
Next Monday, VMware's ESXi hardware-integrated hypervisor goes from a list price of $495 to nothing, in a move apparently calculated to strike a blow against Microsoft's recently released comp...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on July 24, 2008
How is this for alignment? Eye care company Bausch & Lomb has named Alan Farnsworth as CIO... and Senior Vice President of Customer Service. I've heard of CFOs doubling as CIOs. A COO doubling...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on July 23, 2008
Microsoft has just announced the departure of Platforms and Services division president Kevin Johnson and the reorganization of the division into two new business units, Windows/windows live and Onlin...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on July 23, 2008
New developments are emerging this morning in the case of the IT engineer who allegedly shanghaied San Francisco's high speed fiber network by installing his own backdoor passwords in the system a...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on July 22, 2008
Since the introduction of agile development methodologies as an identified alternative to classic waterfall style development in the late nineties (agile methods themselves not being an entirely new i...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on July 21, 2008
Predictably, yesterday's extended Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) outage has elicited a flurry of Monday morning responses from bloggers and media. The reactions range from the incensed to the ...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on July 21, 2008
I wouldn't have thought so, looking at any of the numbers in recent off-shoring trends: revenue up, customer numbers up, hiring up, and the traditional driver of off-shore outsourcing, domestic co...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on July 20, 2008
The issue still hasn't been corrected as of this writing, but today's six-plus hour outage of Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) continues to cast doubts as to the suitability of not onl...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on July 19, 2008
Of course, no one is really suggesting that, except in that sly way that we bloggers often do to be provocative by saying "Now, I'm not really suggesting..." and then going on to suggest...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on July 18, 2008
Of course they don't put it quite that way; instead, they are "Transitioning all customers to the Enterprise Support offering." Of course, Enterprise support is more expensive than Stand...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on July 18, 2008
That is the sort of thing that 911 operators may be seeing flashed across their screens soon, or at least so I imagined when I read this recent news article on the implementation of texting as an acce...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on July 17, 2008
A San Francisco computer engineer has been accused of creating a private backdoor in their new FiberWAN system and jailed with $5 million bail.
The city is still assessing the damage and determining ...
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Integration Software
by Scott Wilson on July 17, 2008
Apparently spurred on by the sudden burst of press surrounding Apple's new iPhone AppStore, which provides easy one-stop shopping for all third-party applications for the trendy mobile phone, Micr...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on July 16, 2008
Kensho may be a bit over-reaching to describe Citrix's recently announced toolset allowing the creation and migration of hypervisor-independent virtual application workloads, but that's the na...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on July 16, 2008
Deploying new applications is among the most fraught duties of the CIO. Change in IT, despite its constancy, is always loaded with the potential for badness, and new applications make for a lot of cha...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on July 15, 2008
VMWare has been spitting out a flurry of press releases of late, perhaps to try to smother all the bad news about earnings and CEO ousters. I'll give them a hand by talking instead about their lau...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on July 12, 2008
According to a recent UK survey, CIOs are still the red-headed step-children of the enterprise. Although almost 48% of respondents indicate that the CIO in their organization has a seat on the board (...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on July 11, 2008
I blogged a couple of weeks ago about a manager's perspective on telecommuting, a perspective provided by IT Business Edge's Ken Hardin, who viewed the prospect with considerable skepticism ba...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on July 10, 2008
Drawing a line in the sand and pulling out the checkbook, Microsoft has signalled that it doesn't intend to continue standing by quietly and allowing Vista to be sullied by ads, pundits, and rando...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on July 9, 2008
Former Microsoft exec Paul Maritz has replaced company co-founder Diane Greene as CEO of VMWare in a move which coincides with a warning of lower expected revenue forecasts for 2008.
While VMWare has...
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Information About
, Management
by Scott Wilson on July 9, 2008
When automated processes break down in the modern enterprise, who gets the blame - is it the internet security software??
The IT department, of course, with you, the CIO, called on the carpet to ex...
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Integration Software
by Scott Wilson on July 7, 2008
Last week I talked about how the increasing degree of integration in IT wasn't busy destroying innovation, as some other authors have been suggesting. Integration and top-down control are not, how...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on July 4, 2008
Red Hat is already intimately involved with Amazon's Electronic Computing Cloud (EC2) service, having offered red hat enterprise linux (RHEL) as a supported option for EC2 instances since November...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on July 3, 2008
That's an over-simplification of the argument, of course, as all title lines are, but when you get right down to it, that's the implication of Jonathan Zittrain's concept of "generati...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on July 2, 2008
Microsoft last week released their Hyper-V virtualization server for Windows 2008, finally showing all their cards in the latest round of betting against dominant virtualization platform provider VMwa...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on July 2, 2008
That seems to be the implication in Senior VP Bill Veghte's letter to Microsoft customers announcing the ship date for windows 7 (around about January 2010... all those 2009 rumors needed to be gu...
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Integration Software
by Scott Wilson on July 1, 2008
I first wrote about eXpresso, the online collaboration solution for Excel, last year and left off with a question about such focused, non-integrated collaboration solutions: do you solve the problems ...
