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Management
by Scott Wilson on March 31, 2009
Perhaps predictably, my praise of HP's handling of the recession touched a raw nerve, particularly among HP (or former HP) employees.
Unfortunately this morning is also when our comments and edit...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on March 31, 2009
I've spent my share of time haranguing all the companies out there who are busily and arbitrarily slashing costs and headcounts in response to the financial crisis; now it's time to acknowledg...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on March 30, 2009
It's a bit of an open question as to how much corporate culture actually matters to the success or failure of the products produced by the company. Certainly it's always a factor; the question...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on March 27, 2009
It used to be an accepted truism that it was worth waiting for Service Pack 3 before adopting any new Microsoft operating system. In the last few years, they've managed to knock that back to SP1 a...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on March 25, 2009
I don't have any particular comment on the prospect; I use Sharepoint for some solutions and like it a lot, and I find it cumbersome and outmoded for other tasks, but if you are a CIO looking for ...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on March 25, 2009
All Things Digital has posted an internal memo from recording industry giant EMI's CEO Elio Leoni-Sceti announcing the departure of recently hired ex-Google CIO Douglas Merrill from the label'...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on March 23, 2009
Mary Jo Foley has posted some excerpts of a quick Q&A between herself and Julius Sinkevicius, Director of Product Management for Windows Server on her blog, excerpts which seem to indicate that Mi...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on March 20, 2009
So I'm finally getting around to looking at Cisco's Project California announcement today, and what do you know, it looks like old news already despite having just come out on Monday.
The pro...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on March 18, 2009
I'm sitting here watching AIG CEO Ed Liddy testify before the House Financial Services Committee insisting that he had to pay out massive bonuses to a bunch of people who, rightly or wrongly, are ...
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General
by Scott Wilson on March 18, 2009
Just a quick note; this is my first post since the change over yesterday of the CIO Weblog to run using Amazon's EC2 and S3 systems on the back-end. I can feel it running faster already!
The blog...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on March 17, 2009
Derrick Harris, posting on GigaOm yesterday, postulates that the introduction of cloud computing to the IT industry will put a lot of information workers out on the streets in the same way that the au...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on March 16, 2009
Ghosts in the machines? Wandering monsters? Or just your regular old everyday software, phoning home spilling corporate secrets or violating privacy policies?
ISC handler Lorna Hutcheson pointed out ...
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Information About
, Security
by Scott Wilson on March 13, 2009
It's funny, usually the criminals and malcontents on the Internet are among the first to adopt new technology trends. But we had them beat with the whole aaS (as a Service) phenomena... until now....
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Information About
, Management
by Scott Wilson on March 11, 2009
If you haven't seen this Forrester blog post yet, go over and give it a read. No, I'll wait.
Okay. Well, what did you think? Although they didn't put his name on the article (perhaps yo...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on March 9, 2009
There's no question that the economic crisis creates an environment with the potential, or even likelihood, of great upheaval for the outsourcing market. You can find all perspectives on just what...
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Information About
, The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on March 6, 2009
I asked on last week if rapid web-application development tools were good or evil and received a couple of interesting responses.
Ed Loessi, CEO of PaaS provider Faulkner Technologies, represents o...
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CIO
, Management
by Umair Khalid on March 4, 2009
Meridith Levinson posted an editorial yesterday calling on job-seekers to stand up to employers who are doing background research on the Internet and demand respect for their privacy.
Your first thou...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on March 2, 2009
One of my favorite SMB/SME IT operations and support management suites has made the leap to SaaS land: ManageEngine by Adventnet (better known in most circles for their Zoho SaaS platform) is now part...
