I've been resisting adhering to various attempts people have been making to classify or particularly define "cloud computing" because I have felt that it's a concept that is still...
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Filed in archive SOA
by Scott Wilson on May 27, 2008
I have recently discussed my skepticism over the use of mashups as business tools, but there isn't much question that such products are well in the offing and will be pushed hard on businesses in...
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Call me crazy, but that wouldn't be my first choice for a mega-datacenter looking to triple the current industry standard for computing capacity per square foot. Particularly not right next to one...
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There have been quite a few rumors and some compelling logical arguments put forth which have combined to indicate the release of the next version of Windows (widely referred to as "Windows...
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Why not? It sounds like the new frontier, reading this ComputerWorld article on opportunities for Mandarin speaking folks with managerial experience in the burgeoning Chinese IT market. While India...
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Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on May 20, 2008
© miss_rogue It seems pretty widely accepted in CIO circles that much of the bad rap that often accrues to IT comes not so much from the IT department (although IT people certainly have their...
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© Insegrevious1 If you're detecting a slightly lower frequency of posts here, there is a good reason for it: namely, I am taking a two month sabbatical and sailing north up the Inside Passage to...
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In all fairness, the latest Microsoft run at Yahoo at least makes some sense; you wonder if someone finally got to Ballmer with a reality check, or if it's pure happenstance, and Icahn's...
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After I posted this article last week discussing cost-cutting measures and briefly mentioning that CIOs who had structured their departments to make significant use of outsourced services had a much...
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Filed in archive SOA
by Scott Wilson on May 16, 2008
© fsse8info I've historically been pretty bullish on the whole concept of mashups, particularly end-user mashup technologies which promise to offer the next step in offering the average user...
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John Halamka recently posted this list of ideas on How to be a Great Boss. As always with John's posts, it's worth a read, but I can't help but wonder in going through it whether or not...
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Dell and VMWare have announced a robust disaster recovery solution combining VMWare's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) software with Dell's EqualLogic storage arrays. SRM is a significant...
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Hewlett Packard today confirmed that it is in negotiations to buy IT services giant Electronic Data Systems (EDS) for an undisclosed amount. Major hardware vendors from Dell through IBM have been...
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Since I'm trying to poke holes in things today, I thought it may be worthwhile to highlight this Information Week article alleging that Windows Vista is 37% less secure than Windows 2000. Being...
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According to this CIO.com article, you are all carrying 40% greater costs in your departmental budgets than you need to. Time to break out the long knives. The thing about this is that while I find...
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 was released with little fanfare on Wednesday and the usual panopoly of bugs and incompatibilities are rearing their heads through the latter part of the week as people...
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Dell launched two new server products yesterday which it is touting as being virtualization-optimized, the R805 and R905 models. Apparently "optimized" simply means beefed-up memory and I/O...
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Although he couches it in terms to suggest he is saying otherwise, the Naked CIO has trotted out an article suggesting that open source has crawled into its grave and is waiting for someone to come...
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Personally, I think we are some way away from the day when Apple truly enters the mental "options available" list of the average CIO, but I don't think there is much question that the...
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Microsoft finally withdrew itself from the brink of madness yesterday by formally withdrawing its proposal to purchase Yahoo, a conclusion which always seemed the likely one but which puts an end to...
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The Microsoft Operations Framework team posted yesterday to announce the release of version 4.0 of their product. I imagine I'll have more to comment on this topic after I've had a chance to...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on May 03, 2008
IBM yesterday announced its intention to develop and deploy a web-based application marketplace called the "Blue Business Platform" targeted primarily at the SMB market. The...
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