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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on November 30, 2007
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 facil...
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Outsourcing
by Scott Wilson on November 29, 2007
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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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, has...
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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 Secur...
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Data Storage
by Scott Wilson on November 27, 2007
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), has...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on November 27, 2007
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 this...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on November 27, 2007
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 have...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on November 26, 2007
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 Win...
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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 for...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on November 21, 2007
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 ori...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on November 21, 2007
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 former...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on November 20, 2007
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 f...
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Outsourcing
by Scott Wilson on November 20, 2007
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 wa...
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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 el...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on November 18, 2007
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 Mi...
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Help Desk And Support
by Scott Wilson on November 16, 2007
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 malfunctio...
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Help Desk And Support
by Scott Wilson on November 16, 2007
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 th...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on November 15, 2007
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 bas...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on November 14, 2007
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, nays...
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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 harness...
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Outsourcing
by Scott Wilson on November 12, 2007
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 desig...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on November 12, 2007
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 incr...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on November 9, 2007
Perhaps it was just my low expectations but I didn't ever really see Vista taking off quite as explosively as Microsoft and even some industry analysts seemed to think that it would. Nonetheless, ...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on November 8, 2007
I don't want to turn this into a gossip blog, but it's been a slow tech news day, and Seattle P-I blogger Todd Bishop has turned up another interesting detail regarding the perhaps-not-so-sudd...
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Outsourcing
by Scott Wilson on November 8, 2007
I'm actually just guessing about that. It's probably impossible to compare the newly announced capability to host Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud service with ...
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Data Storage
by Scott Wilson on November 7, 2007
Amazon announced the expansion of their Simple Storage Service product into European markets yesterday. Although the existing S3 service could, by it's very nature, be used by anyone from anywhere...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on November 6, 2007
For "violating company policies" according to Todd Bishop at the Seattle P-I. That's a nice broad swath of possibilities that can cover everything from "we found kiddie porn on his ...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on November 5, 2007
I don't want to get on too much of a kick writing about security related topics here, lest people think I am paranoid, but prompted by a recent story on Slashdot I found myself thinking about how ...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on November 5, 2007
I don't think it rises quite to the level of SABRE-rattling, but some of Chinese president Hu Jintao's recent pronouncements on China's defense policy as it relates to information technolo...
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Networking
by Scott Wilson on November 2, 2007
One of the many niggling little issues that militated against the iPhone's use as a full-on business-oriented tool had been the outrageous rates for international roaming use. No more, reports Ars...
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Outsourcing
by Scott Wilson on November 1, 2007
No real commentary on it, but I thought I would point you to an interview posted at IT Business Edge with Jeff Jernigan of Instat, a communications market research firm that has been tracking the tren...
