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February 8, 2010

IBM Power7 and Apple's ARM A4: The Advantages of Having Your Own Processor

A lot of things change in a decade. At the end of the '90s, it seemed clear that Intel's Itanium was going to dominate the UNIX world and that the proprietary processors would give way to the inevi... More >

February 4, 2010

How iPad Potentially Drives Employee PC Ownership Trend

The iPad, as with all Apple products, isn’t really focused on business use yet. Much like the iPhone, it will find its way into corporations through employees who buy them, though.   Over at our... More >

February 2, 2010

Can Google or Microsoft Compete with the iPad?

Even with Apple’s success with the iPhone, success with the iPad isn’t a given . The company has left a lot of openings with its first-generation product, which has clear limitations . This sugge... More >

De-Risking Data Migration: The Case for Data Quality Technology

This white paper provides practical advice that will help the reader understand the pivotal role data quality technology must play in a data migration, including clear evidence for the need to — and the benefits of — adopting the right data quality approach in data migration projects.

A Dynamic Solution to Processing Paper

Discover a document management system that preserves company profits by reducing the overhead of paper invoices, utilizing employee time effectively, and significantly reducing collection cycle times.

January 28, 2010

Snorkel (Sun + Oracle) vs. IBM: The Enterprise Battle of This Decade?

In some ways Oracle, by acquiring Sun, has created a company that on paper looks very similar to the direction that IBM was going in the 1960s but with software, not hardware, in the lead. However, t... More >

January 25, 2010

At the Core of Why Apple is Outperforming Microsoft

If I were to describe two companies, one that is heavily leveraged by partners with global consumer and corporate scope and another that is largely U.S.-centric and largely limited to the consumer ma... More >

January 21, 2010

Apple Tablet Dance: Rise of a More Powerful Apple or a New Decline?

Next week begins the post PC era, what could be the one of the most important events in technology since the launch of the Apple II. Apple launched a revolution and then watched other companies tak... More >

January 18, 2010

Sun-Oracle: Death by Bureaucracy

The combination of Sun and Oracle (Snorkel), is increasingly looking like the company that can never be. After it finally appeared to get through EU approvals , now Russia is threatening to block ... More >

January 15, 2010

Haiti Earthquake: Revisit Your Disaster-Preparedness Plans

When a catastrophic disaster happens like the one in Haiti, it should serve as a reminder to look at our own disaster-preparedness plans. This is so we can test them against the event we are observ... More >

January 12, 2010

Get Ready for the Post-PC Era

Based on CES this year, it looks like the next decade will be defined by appliance-like devices and the cloud services that support them. PCs are off the bubble and smartphones, slates, smartbooks,... More >

January 8, 2010

How to Turn Microsoft Around: A Primer, Part 3

I started out this series of posts by looking at the foundation for Microsoft , and any company, and arguing that Microsoft has a varied group of parties that it treats as if they were customers who... More >

January 6, 2010

How to Turn Microsoft Around: A Primer, Part 2

In my last post I talked about the problem at the core of Microsoft’s flat performance last decade as being an inability to determine who its customers were. But I left out one well-defined group t... More >

January 4, 2010

How to Turn Microsoft Around: A Primer, Part 1

  One of the first things I read this morning as I opened my eyes to face the first week of 2010 was a piece in InformationWeek on the seven things Microsoft Must Do in 2010 . Each was a good... More >

December 31, 2009

The Next Decade for Apple, Google and Microsoft CEOs

  Boy, talk about three companies in vastly different positions in their life cycles. Apple is finishing a rebirth, Google is reaching maturity, and Microsoft seems to be dropping into old age. ... More >

December 29, 2009

Air Travel Security: Is It Time to Start Over?

My grandmother used to tell a story about a not particularly smart lady who put salt instead of sugar in her tea. She then added herbs to the tea to offset the salt, but the tea only got worse. She w... More >

December 28, 2009

Delta Terrorist Showcases Need for Causal Analysis

When I see the lack of causal analysis of travel security policies, which seem to be based on the theory that the more uncomfortable and annoyed the passenger is the safer they are, I wonder about ... More >