I certainly hope we don't see many more articles in this vein coming out, which suggest that Information Technology may bear some of the blame for the current market crisis. The post, by the...
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As it seems inevitable that we are going to have a significantly down market at this point (previous prognostications over the sustainability of IT in recession or low growth economy are obviously...
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Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on September 27, 2008
Some CIOs, born geeks, don't have this problem, but others, from less technical backgrounds, from time to time find themselves lacking in "street cred" when they get out and mingle with...
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I've been so hung up on watching China as the possible next big center for enterprise off-shoring that I seem to have missed the fact that the Phillipines have already shot up to second place...
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I think the recent release of Google's Chrome browser has opened a lot of eyes to Google's ambitions to break into the enterprise software market... an ambition that has been questioned on...
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Filed in archive The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on September 24, 2008
I'm still not sure what they are doing in all of them, but IBM is aggressively expanding its portfolio of so-called "cloud computing centers" again, adding centers in Bangalore, Hanoi,...
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Filed in archive The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on September 23, 2008
Amazon and Oracle have announced that the popular enterprise database will now be available in pre-packed instances for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). A variety of versions are available,...
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I suggested several months ago that India-based off-shoring operations might have something to worry about in new competition from China as a center for technology outsourcing, and today there is...
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© therapycatguardian Today is a good day to get out of your office, descend the gilded staircase from your lofty ivory tower where you typically spend your days among the corporate mighty and...
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Filed in archive General
by Scott Wilson on September 19, 2008
Short housekeeping message here... I have noted a few times when the blogging software here has eaten my previously published posts, and this seems to be the case with yesterday's "Is VMWorld...
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Although people have been saying it's an exciting event and indicating their commitment to VMWare, no one has been able to point to anything yet that much distinguishes what is being presented...
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I've been keeping half an eye peeled on VMWorld this week, waiting to see what the virtualization leader's response to last week's Microsoft Get Virtual launch would be, but despite a...
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Your own shiny corporate super-computer, that is. And now you can afford it, with the new Cray CX-1 (running Windows HPC Server 2008, of course, so your current network admin can manage that bad boy)...
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Filed in archive CIO
by Scott Wilson on September 16, 2008
© kjay.rm The Olympics have always been a bastion of athleticism and the triumph of human spirit, but only in recent years have they also become a tremendous focus for the generation and distribution...
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InternetNews.com is reporting that leaked internal Microsoft calendars show that the release of Windows 7 is slated for June of 2009, rather than sometime in 2010 as the company has publicly stated....
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Frank van den Bergh First they partner with Novell. Then they openly publish all their protocol specifications, putting them up there on the web right out there in...
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Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Sharon Dominick There is a typically contentious article up on Slashdot this morning discussing the subject of testing IT job candidates, which is worth a read for the...
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I don't want to make too much out of the information I am about to relay, but I do want to point it out as an example of the sort of detrimental effect that the badly botched release and......
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"Cheap" is never the first word that comes to mind when I think "iPhone" (or "Apple" for that matter... although I find most of their products worth the premium) but...
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I know that I have mentioned application virtualization as a potential "next big thing" here a couple of times, but with Microsoft getting seriously into the field now I think its time is...
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I should start a new category called "More Bad News for VMWare." It would be seeing some heavy use this week. After yesterday's scene of Microsoft rolling up its shirt sleeves in...
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Filed in archive Events
by Scott Wilson on September 09, 2008
The message in Bellevue yesterday was clearly "VMware! We're coming for you!" at the Microsoft "Get Virtual" launch event, hosted by Microsoft executives Bob Kelly, Bob...
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Filed in archive Events
by Scott Wilson on September 08, 2008
So, I'm out and about today, at Microsoft's Get Virtual virtualization launch event in Bellevue. Just had lunch after a lackluster morning ra-ra event and a ho-hum presentation, following a...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on September 08, 2008
Last month I put up a post regarding the economics of the B2B SaaS market, responding primarily to an interesting post on Zoho's blog regarding the matter. I have been entirely remiss in posting...
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