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, Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on September 30, 2008
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 usual...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on September 29, 2008
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 rig...
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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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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on September 27, 2008
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 behi...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on September 25, 2008
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 gro...
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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, S...
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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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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on September 22, 2008
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 more...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on September 19, 2008
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 powerful, and mingle with the...
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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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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on September 18, 2008
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 the...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on September 17, 2008
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 flur...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on September 16, 2008
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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CIO
by Scott Wilson on September 16, 2008
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 of raw inf...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on September 16, 2008
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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Management
by Scott Wilson on September 15, 2008
First they partner with Novell. Then they openly publish all their protocol specifications, putting them up there on the web right out there in front of ESR and everybody. Now the Microsoft Operati...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on September 15, 2008
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 CIO responsible for hiring and firing such staff...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on September 13, 2008
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 subsequen...
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Enterprise Hardware
by Scott Wilson on September 12, 2008
"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 appa...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on September 11, 2008
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 ab...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on September 9, 2008
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 prepar...
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Events
by Scott Wilson on September 9, 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 Muglia,...
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Events
by Scott Wilson on September 8, 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 cu...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on September 8, 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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CIO
by Scott Wilson on September 6, 2008
CIOs have long had to put up with derogatory views of their position in corporations, typecast as burn-outs or incompetents at the end of their trajectory ("Career Is Over"), frequently disr...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on September 5, 2008
Sun's acquisition of MySQL AB earlier this year carried with it the prospects that all such acquisitions of successful, smaller, open-source companies do, both positive and negative. The up side ...
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Events
by Scott Wilson on September 5, 2008
You be the judge:
Feeling more or less likely to go out and buy Microsoft products now? Frankly, I am just feeling confused and hungry for churros.
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on September 4, 2008
It's time for another episode of "Duelling Analysts," where we here at the CIO Weblog take two analyst reports from competing firms, released on the same day and on the same general topi...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on September 4, 2008
Tucked into an announcement made yesterday regarding the release to manufacturing of version 4.5 of App-V, Microsoft's application virtualization product (itself probably worth of a separate blog ...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on September 3, 2008
I've been seeing a number of "day after" articles on Google's new chrome web browser suggesting it is largely irrelevant and that the release is considerably overblown in terms of an...
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Virtualization
by Scott Wilson on September 2, 2008
The increasing adoption of virtualization technologies has left hardware manufacturers in something of a bind: while it's clearly an aggressively expanding trend which they would like to jump on t...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on September 2, 2008
That's basically the reaction of the blogosphere today reacting to Google's announcement that they have developed and will be releasing (in beta form, keeping to Google tradition) a new, fresh...
