Filed in archive Security by Scott Wilson on November 1, 2007

In the "More Unsurprising News" category we have today's article from Help Net Security detailing a recently released study which found that 35% of employees have violated their corporat...

As CIOs ride off into the sunset...

Filed in archive CIO by Scott Wilson on October 31, 2007

Dave Berlind finds himself with a few parting words to say before the theme music kicks in and the closing credits roll. Dave is commenting on a rather brief debate that was kicked off, at least in p...

Microsoft SOA roadmap

Filed in archive SOA by Scott Wilson on October 30, 2007

Microsoft today announced a new, amorphous project entitled "Oslo" which encompasses the corporation's "Software + Services" roadmap for the coming years. "Software + serv...

The real reason Leopard isn't ready for the enterprise

Filed in archive Enterprise Software by Scott Wilson on October 29, 2007

In a word: support. I went into this issue in more detail, and with earlier versions of Apple software, a few months ago. But the rash of blue screen (not a term traditionally associated with OS X......

Security lapses might cost you more than your reputation

Filed in archive Security by Scott Wilson on October 26, 2007

At least if new developments in the TJX data breach case play out in favor of the plaintiffs. Several banks are suing the company, which probably first came to your attention earlier this year as ye...

Firefighting IT

Filed in archive General by Scott Wilson on October 26, 2007

It must seem like Michael Krigsman is paying me off, considering how often I've been linking to him lately, but I swear, it's really just that he keeps posting stuff that piques my interest. ...

Leopard shows its spots

Filed in archive Enterprise Software by Scott Wilson on October 26, 2007

I'd have to search through the archives to be sure, but I doubt that Apple has ever been discussed much in this blog... there's always a faint whiff of amateurism in "professional" c...

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Silverlight sparks anti-trust concerns

Filed in archive General by Scott Wilson on October 18, 2007

Microsoft's Silverlight project, a browser-based Flash competitor, is apparently sparking some concern among the states which sued, and won, against the company based on anti-trust violations. Led...

Amazon EC2 service out of beta

Filed in archive SaaS by Scott Wilson on October 17, 2007

Amazon's EC2 virtual Computing resource service has ended its beta phase and is now available to all developers, according to Dan Farber at ZDnet. The service, particularly in combination with Am...

HP expands SaaS offerings

Filed in archive SaaS by Scott Wilson on October 17, 2007

Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to expand their Software as a Service offerings this week under their Business Technology Optimization umbrella. The BTO offering covers a variety of IT service man...

Behold, the humble business PC

Filed in archive CIO by Scott Wilson on October 16, 2007

Ah, the venerable beige box-one beneath every desk in corporate America before manufacturers discovered the color "black" and got all trendy on us. But perhaps no longer, according to Gartne...

Microsoft Launches Unified Communications

Filed in archive Integration Software by Scott Wilson on October 16, 2007

In San Francisco this morning Microsoft has announced the release of their Unified Communications family of software and hardware. I'm about halfway through watching the keynote now, enjoying the ...

Suing your business partner not so odd after all

Filed in archive General by Scott Wilson on October 16, 2007

Much of the speculation over the first Linux patent lawsuits filed last week against Red Hat and Novell revolved around whether or not Microsoft-famously vocal about its belief that its patents were b...

Random Ballmerisms

Filed in archive General by Scott Wilson on October 15, 2007

It's Ballmer Gone Wild at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando this past week, it seems... in addition to the previously described dust-up with analyst Yvonne Genovese, we are getting word now of Stev...

First Linux patent lawsuit has been filed

Filed in archive Enterprise Software by Scott Wilson on October 15, 2007

The first patent-infringement lawsuit against Linux has been filed in Texas against Red Hat and Novell as of last week. The patent holder, IP Innovation LLC, appears to be a subsidiary of Acacia Techn...

Storage for pennies

Filed in archive Data Storage by Scott Wilson on October 12, 2007

Whatever happened to micro-payments, you have to wonder on reading this blog entry about the inability of Amazon's S3 service to charge certain credit card companies for particularly small transac...

Two steps back in CIO reporting structure

Filed in archive CIO by Scott Wilson on October 11, 2007

Or so it would seem according to a new survey from the Society of Information Management, indicating that the number of CIOs reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer has dropped precipitously...

Google releases updated version of search appliance

Filed in archive Data Storage by Scott Wilson on October 11, 2007

Google reported today that they have released version 5 of their "Google in a box" enterprise search appliance. The new release adds support for Windows Integrated Authentication, secured cr...

Just like Mom used to make

Filed in archive General by Scott Wilson on October 10, 2007

If Mom had been an experienced former IBM consultant and current distinguished Vice President of Research at Gartner, that is. Gartner analyst Yvonne Genovese served up a warm helping of something to ...

SLA stampede in web services market?

Filed in archive SaaS by Scott Wilson on October 10, 2007

I wasn't aware of it when I posted yesterday, but apparently Amazon's new SLA for S3 followed on the heels of a similar offer from Nirvanix, and is due to be followed shortly by an even more a...

Bang the FUD drum slowly

Filed in archive General by Scott Wilson on October 9, 2007

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is out on the warpath again, spreading Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt about potential patent infringement issues in Linux. This time, he's targeting Red Hat specificall...

Amazon offers SLA for S3 service

Filed in archive SaaS by Scott Wilson on October 9, 2007

Amazon announced yesterday that, effective October 1st, they are offering a 99.9% uptime service level agreement for their Simple Storage Service (S3). The full text of the SLA can be found here. SL...

Showdown at the "Press Zero for assistance" Corral

Filed in archive Integration Software by Scott Wilson on October 8, 2007

Interesting piece up by Rob Enderle over at IT Business Edge titled "Battle for the Corporate Phone." Enderle looks at PBX convergence in the corporate market and gives some perspective on w...

SOA in a box

Filed in archive SOA by Scott Wilson on October 8, 2007

It's been taken more or less as an article of faith that you can't get SOA in a box, and that the vendors who have been trying to package and offer it as such have been fishing for easy money ...

Evolving the Public Relations frontier

Filed in archive General by Scott Wilson on October 5, 2007

This post is apropos of nothing to do with CIOs or technology in general, but I just couldn't not say anything when I saw this gem on the Microsoft PR wire today: "Microsoft and Bungie Studi...

Google Apps Premier edition gets secured

Filed in archive SaaS by Scott Wilson on October 5, 2007

Google announced today that they have completed their integration of Postini's e-mail compliance and security features to the Premier edition of their Google Apps service. Postini was acquired onl...

The devil in the details

Filed in archive Management by Scott Wilson on October 4, 2007

Paul Murphy and his contrarian, plain-spoken ways are at it again, this time pointing out that vendor-written contracts and EULAs have no clothes. Or at least, nothing that will fit the buyer. I'...

3Tera and the future of The Grid

Filed in archive Market Perturbations by Scott Wilson on October 4, 2007

A couple weeks ago I linked to a Dan Farber article on 3Tera's AppLogic grid processing application-a scalable, on-demand, commercially available processing platform for businesses that want to le...

UBS CIO survey released

Filed in archive CIO by Scott Wilson on October 3, 2007

And I haven't seen it yet. But Larry Dignan over at ZDNet has! Quite a bit of information available in Larry's post. The big takeaways seem to be that Dell's star is diminishing while HP&...

The Ultimate Demise of the CIO

Filed in archive CIO by Scott Wilson on October 2, 2007

So odds are if you read this blog you are either a CIO or you aspire to become one, and in either case, the recent series of articles over at Information Week by bob evans, titled and themed "Are...

Surviving the cold wastelands of IT projects

Filed in archive Management by Scott Wilson on October 2, 2007

Couple of new resources on the subject of getting up to speed and appropriately managing IT projects today, so I thought I would throw up a quick article with some links. First, from Information Week...

Windows XP Sales window extended

Filed in archive Enterprise Software by Scott Wilson on October 1, 2007

And thank God for it! Of course, most enterprises either have licensing arrangements that preclude their continued use of XP in the long term, or have the resources to continue deploying it internally...

Microsoft Office Live beta sign-up begins

Filed in archive SaaS by Scott Wilson on October 1, 2007

Microsoft's "online" office offering, Office Live Workspaces is now accepting sign-ups for beta testing. I have "online" in quotes because it's not what most of us have com...