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 yet...

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....

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"...

Prompted by some recent posts and the subsequent conversations over at Michael Krigsman's ZDnet Project Failures blog, I've dug in and written a lengthy treatise on consultants and incentives...

Citrix's recent acquisition of virtualization software company XenSource is finally bearing fruit for the company. Monday, the company announced the release of a new line of products titled...

As reported here last week Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service is now out of beta and available for general use; now, a new service is out which begins the mind-bending journey of...

Microsoft announced today that it would not appeal the decision recently made against it in the European Union anti-trust case. After nearly ten years, the company has agreed to comply with decisions...

It's refreshing to read about IT issues from overseas from time to time, particularly when they are liberally peppered with bollocking and crikeys and codswallops, and so I give thanks to this...

Gartner's IT Symposium in Orlando last week generated the usual amount of news and interest from that annual gathering and the last gasp has been summed up in this Baseline article, "CIOs...

This topic has some direct bearing on another recent post, the one regarding the future of Microsoft, but it's really its own story, which Microsoft just happens to own a small piece of. The...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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......

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...