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...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on July 31, 2008
© mandj98 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...
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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...
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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,...
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© GreyHobbit 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"...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Filed in archive 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...
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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...
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© brunkfordbraun 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...
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© John Vetterli 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...
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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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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...
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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...
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Filed in archive 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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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Andrew Dernie Of course they don't put it quite that way; instead, they are "Transitioning all customers to the Enterprise Support offering." Of course,...
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Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on July 18, 2008
© smith 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...
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© mskogly 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...
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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,...
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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...
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