Microsoft and off-shoring mega-consultancy Infosys announced today that they will be slipping further into bed together, as Infosys creates a dedicated 400 seat facility (a "vendor offshore...
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The big conundrum in the question of outsourcing is in deciding what is a core business process that must be handled in-house in order to deliver value to the customer, and what is peripheral and can...
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Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on November 29, 2007
Take a page from ex-Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott, change industries and job title! Scott, dismissed in early November for "violation of corporate policies" at the Redmond software company,...
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Filed in archive Security
by Scott Wilson on November 28, 2007
Apparently, IBM is so incredibly secure that they can't even decide which of their security divisions is the most secure. In two different studies released today, the company's Internet...
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The Wall Street Journal has an article up discussing Google's plans for an online storage service. Such a service, popularly called Gdrive (although Google itself has advertised no such name),...
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Michael Krigsman over at ZDnet has a good article up discussing the predictability and prevention of project failures in IT riffing off of some of the basic principles of Agile Development. While...
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Yesterday at it's annual Software Universe conference in Barcelona, HP unveiled the product at the end of the rainbow arc of recent IT and management support software vendor acquisitions, and...
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Part of the reason that many CIOs aren't jumping on the Vista bandwagon are reports such as this Computerworld article showing Vista twice as slow running the company's own Office suite as...
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Filed in archive Security
by Scott Wilson on November 26, 2007
This eWeek article got me thinking-how many of us do our disaster planning in a vacuum? I know I am often guilty of this, and it's hard not to be-you have a single company that you are working...
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As I was looking into Azyxxi for a post last week, I came across this short article in the Washington Post about the original development of the software. This detailed how the software came about...
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At least not if you are an AT&T employee, according to a recent Network World article. The communications giant, recently merged with other communications giant SBC, is apparently reversing...
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Although Linux devotees, by virtue of their oppressed minority status in the enterprise software market, have been forced to band together in the public sphere and make common cause against the dark...
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The outsourcing support deal for Google Apps for your Domain between Google and Capgemini received a fair bit of coverage both here and elsewhere when it was announced early in September. Microsoft...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on November 19, 2007
IBM announced last week their entry into the lofty realm of cloud computing with the introduction of a program called "Blue Cloud" for corporate data centers. Blue Cloud, running on (what...
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As wise companies do after a major product roll-out, Microsoft seems to be engaging in some introspective after-action reports on the Vista development and release process. Mary Jo Foley chats with...
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A small non-profit I have been consulting for lately has been having quite a lot of problems with support issues revolving around their primarily remotely located users and their constantly...
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I put up a fairly lengthy post on my Status blog today about the lamentable state of usability in IT today (although this has admittedly been improving) and the problems of attempting to address it...
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Microsoft announced today that Azyxxi, their big foray into the healthcare information market, has landed a significant coup: it will be adopted by the St. Joseph Health System, a large West Coast...
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It has been difficult, through all the marketing spin, to determine what has actually been happening in the enterprise with Windows Vista. Microsoft claims strong sales numbers and rosy outcomes,...
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Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on November 13, 2007
According to Marc Andreesen, "In general, there are two kinds of IT departments - call them "early adopters" and "stuck in the mud". "Early adopters" want to...
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HP has been moving fast and strong into services and have continued the trend with today's acquisition of EYP Mission Critical Facilities, a consulting firm specializing in large data center...
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Microsoft has released pricing and other new information on their upcoming (February) release of Windows Server 2008. The announcement states that prices across the board on the Server line will...
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