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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on November 26, 2008
Not to minimize the very real human tragedy and other geo-political implications of the terror attacks currently paralyzing the Indian city of Mumbai, but the first technology related thought to cross...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on November 25, 2008
In the Cloud Computing Gold Rush of '08, IBM has decided to play the storekeep rather than the prospector, and stick with the reliable business of selling pickaxes to all parties instead of grubbi...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on November 20, 2008
Although the graphs are quite clear on the AppleInsider post which makes the claim, I put the question mark in the title because it seems to me that there is a line missing on it: Windows Mobile, anyo...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on November 20, 2008
I have to say that it's been off mine, of late; the economy, efficiency of operations, and innovation have been things which have taken up more of my focus recently. But off my custom security-re...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on November 18, 2008
Amazon Web Services today announced the release of Cloudfront, a poor man's global content distribution network deeply integrated with the existing Simple Storage Service (S3) offering from the co...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on November 17, 2008
Microsoft has announced today the general availability of their latest additions to their Online Services portfolio, hosted Exchange and Sharepoint services.
Exchange is the most significant componen...
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Data Storage
by Scott Wilson on November 14, 2008
Tell me that your secret CIO fantasy isn't to "appropriate" some of those funds painstakingly carved into your budget for replacement mice and build yourself one of these instead: a supe...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on November 12, 2008
As if having China encroaching on them weren't enough, the powerhouses of Indian IT outsourcing are feeling the impact of the global economic crisis.
Conventional wisdom, including that espoused ...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on November 10, 2008
Apparently I was mistaken regarding the venue of the Apple/IBM dispute over former IBM executive Mark Papermaster's non-compete; I had read that the matter was set to play out in California, a not...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on November 8, 2008
So now that Obama has been elected the inevitable speculation has begun around his potential cabinet appointments. This happens with every president-elect, of course, but this time around, CIOs have s...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on November 5, 2008
I don't think this really has many implications for CIOs to worry about, but since I've been half-heartedly following it in this blog up till now, I thought I should probably put the capstone ...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on November 4, 2008
You may have been, as I have, vaguely following the IBM versus Apple shootout (now seemingly destined for litigation after the opening press release bombardments have failed to budge either party) ove...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on November 4, 2008
While Microsoft and Amazon have been dominating the headlines of late when it comes to new cloud computing services, Salesforce.com is touting its existing accomplishments at this year's Dreamforc...
