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Enterprise 2.0 Is About Transparency, So Share Already
Not too long ago, while working on a freelance piece for a vendor that sells some pretty cool technology targeted to the financial services industry, I heard several interesting examples of automated transactions at bank branches while interviewing one of the vendor's clients. Yet none of those...More >
Dennis ByronEnterprise Software
“ I do believe Oracle's claim that it is gaining share on SAP in the applications market, even as SAP gains share on Oracle in middleware. But that's not an apples-to-apples comparison, either.”
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07.02.09
2009 IT, Enterprise Software Spending to Trend Down More Outside U.S. Than In
Forrester gets credit, by my superficial reading of the news wires, for being first out of the blocks with revised 2009 information technology spending projections. Such revisions are typically released in late July or August each year after the IT analyst and market research firms have seen... More >
7/1/2009 7:55:00 AM
Cloud Computing Blogosphere Takes Enterprise Software out of Context
I recently finished up some research on “Business Process Management (BPM) in the Cloud,” a synopsis of which appears on ebizQ at the adjacent link. As a result, my little Google alert keeps raining cloud-computing-related articles on me. The confusion between technology, business model and... More >
From regulatory compliance to corporate governance structure, everyone is involved
07.02.09
Securities and Exchange Commission Focuses on Informing Investors
In an open meeting Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to approve three changes: A proposal to require companies receiving federal money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program ( ) to allow their shareholders to have a say in how their executives are compensated A... More >
7/2/2009 9:47:00 AM
Compliant Transcription from LegaLock
When I spoke to about the president's BlackBerry and the security issues it raised, he stressed that information classified in the government system as confidential, top secret, secret, classified or sensitive compartmentalized can only be transmitted or received via devices that are... More >
Data center and networking architecture to keep your data safe and moving
07.02.09
Next-Gen IOV Getting Ready for the Cloud
Right from the start, it was obvious to everyone involved in virtualization that multiple machines on a single server were going to wreak havoc on the I/O infrastructure. It's the equivalent of stripping the HBAs out of individual servers in favor of a single unit on the back of a rack. So it was... More >
7/1/2009 3:47:00 PM
Less Power to the PC
The EPA issued its new Energy Star ratings for PCs and peripherals this week, but the question remains whether enterprises will respond to the new system or look elsewhere to lower their energy bills. The are not mandatory, although any manufacturer that wants to apply the ES label to their... More >
Observations about Microsoft, the world’s largest software vendor
06.25.09
Windows 7 Has the Touch
Some of the folks anxious to see how the coming launch of Windows 7 goes over are those hoping that the operating system's touchscreen or multitouch capabilities will increase demand for their touch-based applications. IdentityMine, for example, has kept employment levels steady while others in... More >
6/18/2009 5:02:00 PM
Microsoft's 'Browser for the Better' Mines for Millennials
Over in the discussion area of our Knowledge Network, Lisa Orrell, author of "Millennials Incorporated," is fielding questions from readers about millennials in the workplace , as well as broader generational career topics. What's great about reading her responses so far, as well as her recent... More >
The real truth about technology and IT
07.02.09
The IBM System x Series: Strategic Again
Ever since IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo, there has been the belief that that sale would be the first of two dropped shoes, the second being the X86 server division, also known as the System x Series of products. For much of the time after the acquisition closed, and capped by a ... More >
6/30/2009 9:18:00 AM
The T400S, ThinkPad, and Finding the Perfect Laptop
The IBM , now Lenovo , ThinkPad has long been thought to be the closest thing to the perfect laptop. This is the line that the other OEMs are typically measured against, and it just released a new hybrid product, the T400S , which is a blending of the T400 and X301 in an apparent... More >
Begin with business processes and then progress into leading-edge technologies
07.02.09
Will You Still Need Systems Integrators with SaaS?
The Australia-based IT Channel site, ARN, recently ran a package on SaaS and why it's succeeding now – as opposed to the sad failure of its earlier incarnation, ASPs. While the feature article is excellent, what are really worth reading are the three articles drawn from a roundtable... More >
7/1/2009 12:15:00 PM
Rules and Commandments for Make-Your-Own Integration Poster
I believe in motivational posters. When I was the editor of a college newspaper, I found a comic book picture of a vampire leaping onto a fallen victim, who looked frightened and helpless. I scanned it and added new text to the vampire's word bubble: “ You dare miss your deadline?!? ” Like... More >
Companies’ communications strategies must be agile in a rapidly evolving market
07.02.09
Deploy VoIP, Video and UC on a Firm Foundation
The key to a successful service deployment is to stay away from wishful thinking and pie-in-the-sky expectations and deal with cold, hard reality. What can go wrong will go wrong. If the infrastructure isn’t checked and vetted, it most likely will throw more curves at IT than a major league... More >
7/1/2009 6:42:00 PM
The Broadband Stimulus Hits a Milestone
We are at the beginning of the next phase of the broadband stimulus process, which is a good time to remember just what the money is intended to do. Vice President Joe Biden was set to visit Seneca High School in Erie, Penn., to announce that guidelines -- in the form of government... More >
Securing your data and network, inside and outside the perimeter
06.30.09
Comparing Comprehensive Solutions vs. Best of Breed
At the beginning of the month, I said that throughout June, I would post about identity and access management. Well, we have reached the end of the month and I think some final thoughts are in order. In my last post about the topic, I said that I would talk about best of breed versus a single... More >
6/29/2009 10:05:00 AM
Weak Password Situation Spreads from Data Center to Mobile Devices
Password management, I hate it! After 25 years in the business, I still don't have a great way to handle a large amount of passwords. I recently upped he number of personal accounts that I directly manage. I now have 22 accounts that I get to remember a login and password for. This does not include... More >
Managing a business in a technology-driven world
06.23.09
Quick Wins and the Long View
It's funny, the way your memory associates things. As I was reading Loraine Lawson's post from last week about the I could not stop thinking about one of my all-time favorite Warner Bros. cartoons, "Show Biz Bugs," from 1957. Like I said, funny. Like Loraine, I was briefly... More >
6/5/2009 3:05:00 PM
Homework Vital Before Kicking Off on the Road
I am preparing for a business trip next week. I feel oddly guilty about it, since we opine on a weekly basis that technology is making physical locality a minor detail in getting work done. However, this trip – to discuss a potential new product offering with one of our key suppliers –... More >
Expert tech insight and advice for small businesses with big goals
07.02.09
The Promise and the Pain of Open Source
I must confess I was somewhat taken aback by the amount of interest generated by my recent blogs exploring the use of , , and even the use of . For today, I thought it would be fun to play the devil's advocate, and highlight some common problems that can, and often do, arise from the... More >
7/1/2009 3:13:00 PM
Update: Important Windows 7 Caveats
I last wrote about Windows 7 just last week, when I put together a list of pertinent facts about Microsoft's upcoming operating system, in a . I realized this week that a couple of important facts were missed, one of which could affect how you might proceed with your SMB's purchasing strategy.... More >
06.25.09
Tapping WordPress for Internal Communication
I wrote recently about the and in a couple of blogs. In the former piece, I suggested that the many popular Web-based applications built on PHP could be of value to the SMB. Today, I want to specifically introduce the idea of tapping into the popular WordPress platform and... More >
07.01.09
Cloud Computing Blogosphere Takes Enterprise Software out of Context
I recently finished up some research on “Business Process Management (BPM) in the Cloud,” a synopsis of which appears on ebizQ at the adjacent link. As a result, my little Google alert keeps raining cloud-computing-related articles on me. The confusion between technology, business model and... More >
06.22.09
Vineet Nayar on 'Unemployable' Americans: Even Smart People Say Dumb Things
By most accounts, Vineet Nayar sounds like a very smart man. In a recent interview with BusinessWeek , for example, the CEO of HCL Technologies speaks of the importance of helping the outsourcing company's North American clients transform their businesses, not just cut costs. Peter Allen,... More >
06.30.09
The T400S, ThinkPad, and Finding the Perfect Laptop
The IBM , now Lenovo , ThinkPad has long been thought to be the closest thing to the perfect laptop. This is the line that the other OEMs are typically measured against, and it just released a new hybrid product, the T400S , which is a blending of the T400 and X301 in an apparent... More >
06.25.09
Windows 7 Pricing: Microsoft Responds to Snow Leopard Threat with Hot Deal
Windows Vista was a huge advantage for Apple -- since it launched and up until last quarter, Apple was aggressively taking market share from Microsoft. Last quarter, Microsoft responded with a strong marketing campaign and stopped the erosion. Apple got a bit more aggressive in the second quarter... More >
06.22.09
HP Announces Cloud-Based Linux Appliance Revolution
Most of the companies backing the cloud, from EMC to IBM, are focused like lasers on the back end. But the cloud also means changes on the client side. The cloud suggests the growth of focused clients, even thinner than the initial idea of thin clients in that they would do a limited number of... More >
06.24.09
It's a Good Thing: The Commoditization of AV Software
I am asked all the time which I prefer. I tell folks to pick one, it really does not matter. I am serious. AV software is a commodity today, and they all do the job. We can have a debate over which one perhaps has less of a performance impact, or which vendor is the first to release a new... More >
06.30.09
Burton Group: Why Bust Data Silos When You Can Bridge Them?
Data silos are inevitable, according to Lyn Robison of the Burton Group. Silos are a natural part of decentralized IT systems, he argues, existing not just because of decentralized information systems, but because of the departments, groups and teams that are part of everyday, enterprise life. ... More >
06.30.09
AP Latest to Wrestle with Social Media Guidelines
In May I wrote about the to its employees, making the point that they were about control rather than collaboration. I agreed with Time writer James Poniewozik that Dow Jones was missing the opportunity to make its reporting more collaborative. Even though increased collaboration with readers... More >
07.01.09
Less Power to the PC
The EPA issued its new Energy Star ratings for PCs and peripherals this week, but the question remains whether enterprises will respond to the new system or look elsewhere to lower their energy bills. The are not mandatory, although any manufacturer that wants to apply the ES label to their... More >
06.30.09
Optical Fiber Preps for High-Bandwidth Data Center
When it comes to enhancing the network capabilities of the data center, most of the attention goes to hardware like HBAs and NICs, or advanced protocols like 10 GbE and Fibre Channel. But there is a fair amount of activity taking place on the infrastructure itself -- that is, the wiring and... More >
06.18.09
Oracle-Sun Update: Why IBM May Have a Reason to Celebrate
Oracle is an expert at acquisitions. Few do it better, but with Sun, it got a bunch of unique problems ( including a processor that no one seemed to want ), and they seem to be bleeding the value out of the company before Oracle can take control. Anecdotally, IBM, which had originally been trying... More >
06.29.09
Putting Storage on the Private Cloud
Storage has emerged as one of the primary applications for public cloud services, so it should come as no surprise that it has become the target of an increasing number of private cloud platforms as well. The past few months have seen a rising swell of private cloud offerings optimized for... More >
07.02.09
Will You Still Need Systems Integrators with SaaS?
The Australia-based IT Channel site, ARN, recently ran a package on SaaS and why it's succeeding now – as opposed to the sad failure of its earlier incarnation, ASPs. While the feature article is excellent, what are really worth reading are the three articles drawn from a roundtable... More >
07.02.09
Deploy VoIP, Video and UC on a Firm Foundation
The key to a successful service deployment is to stay away from wishful thinking and pie-in-the-sky expectations and deal with cold, hard reality. What can go wrong will go wrong. If the infrastructure isn’t checked and vetted, it most likely will throw more curves at IT than a major league... More >
07.02.09
Next-Gen IOV Getting Ready for the Cloud
Right from the start, it was obvious to everyone involved in virtualization that multiple machines on a single server were going to wreak havoc on the I/O infrastructure. It's the equivalent of stripping the HBAs out of individual servers in favor of a single unit on the back of a rack. So it was... More >
07.02.09
The Promise and the Pain of Open Source
I must confess I was somewhat taken aback by the amount of interest generated by my recent blogs exploring the use of , , and even the use of . For today, I thought it would be fun to play the devil's advocate, and highlight some common problems that can, and often do, arise from the... More >
07.02.09
The IBM System x Series: Strategic Again
Ever since IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo, there has been the belief that that sale would be the first of two dropped shoes, the second being the X86 server division, also known as the System x Series of products. For much of the time after the acquisition closed, and capped by a ... More >
07.02.09
Securities and Exchange Commission Focuses on Informing Investors
In an open meeting Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to approve three changes: A proposal to require companies receiving federal money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program ( ) to allow their shareholders to have a say in how their executives are compensated A... More >
07.02.09
2009 IT, Enterprise Software Spending to Trend Down More Outside U.S. Than In
Forrester gets credit, by my superficial reading of the news wires, for being first out of the blocks with revised 2009 information technology spending projections. Such revisions are typically released in late July or August each year after the IT analyst and market research firms have seen... More >
07.02.09
Enterprise 2.0 Is About Transparency, So Share Already
Not too long ago, while working on a freelance piece for a vendor that sells some pretty cool technology targeted to the financial services industry, I heard several interesting examples of automated transactions at bank branches while interviewing one of the vendor's clients. Yet none of those... More >
07.02.09
Compliant Transcription from LegaLock
When I spoke to about the president's BlackBerry and the security issues it raised, he stressed that information classified in the government system as confidential, top secret, secret, classified or sensitive compartmentalized can only be transmitted or received via devices that are... More >
07.01.09
The Broadband Stimulus Hits a Milestone
We are at the beginning of the next phase of the broadband stimulus process, which is a good time to remember just what the money is intended to do. Vice President Joe Biden was set to visit Seneca High School in Erie, Penn., to announce that guidelines -- in the form of government... More >
07.01.09
Less Power to the PC
The EPA issued its new Energy Star ratings for PCs and peripherals this week, but the question remains whether enterprises will respond to the new system or look elsewhere to lower their energy bills. The are not mandatory, although any manufacturer that wants to apply the ES label to their... More >
07.01.09
Update: Important Windows 7 Caveats
I last wrote about Windows 7 just last week, when I put together a list of pertinent facts about Microsoft's upcoming operating system, in a . I realized this week that a couple of important facts were missed, one of which could affect how you might proceed with your SMB's purchasing strategy.... More >
07.01.09
Rules and Commandments for Make-Your-Own Integration Poster
I believe in motivational posters. When I was the editor of a college newspaper, I found a comic book picture of a vampire leaping onto a fallen victim, who looked frightened and helpless. I scanned it and added new text to the vampire's word bubble: “ You dare miss your deadline?!? ” Like... More >
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