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One of the annoying things I get to do is watch successful companies that should know better design in failure. I could argue that many of the problems Microsoft has faced this decade go back to bad ... More >
We are starting the final countdown toward Black Friday, the huge shopping day after Thanksgiving here in the States, and I thought I would do a series on gift ideas for different groups of people. ... More >
I’m at the EMC analyst event this week and it is filled with the typical briefings on new products and services. Much of this I can’t talk about because of the required NDA but there is an overarch... More >
Lowering Your IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2This white paper identifies the key capabilities a database management solution needs to successfully deliver more information with higher quality of service, make more efficient use of IT budgets, and reduce the risk of change in data centers.
Software Forum: Information On Demand Virtual ExperienceThis interactive virtual forum presents leading IT experts providing the insights you need to turn your information into a strategic driver for innovation, business optimization and competitive differentiation.
If I told you that you could save a third of the gas you use by cutting of one-third of your engine, you’d look at me like I was nuts. But if I said you could save a third of your employee costs by l... More >
Some weeks are quiet and some not so much. EMC pulled together one of the most powerful partnerships this week, from an enterprise standpoint. Dell acquired Perot Systems and became a true enterprise... More >
Recently Steve Ballmer has been under a microscope. Dan Lyons wrote a Newsweek piece called the “Lost Decade: Why Steve Ballmer is no Bill Gates” and he is right. Ballmer is no Bill Gates. But th... More >
I got a number of questions both in this blog and in e-mail as a result of writing about the first big Windows 7 deployment. I thought it might be more interesting to address them in another post. Th... More >
I’ve been rather confused about the entire concept of net neutrality for some time. This is because, like anything else that is bounced between political parties and large industries, the politics ... More >
At the Windows 7 launch, I interviewed two companies in depth about their deployment plans. Given the ITIC survey results indicating that 30 percent of businesses would upgrade within six months of... More >
This is Windows 7 launch week and I just finished going over much of the marketing creative that’ll you’ll see in a few days. This is some of the best work I’ve seen, and the fact that it is coming ... More >
Yesterday it was reported that Acer, a strong global consumer-focused PC maker, passed Dell, the strongest U.S.-focused corporate PC maker, for the number 2 spot. While the market for PCs grew slight... More >
One of the most frightening sentences in business is “We’re from the government and we’re here to help.” This is because, over the years, we’ve learned that while governments often have the best of ... More >
If I were to describe a company that built a very profitable vertically integrated solution and was aggressive at preventing clones in order to protect margins, you’d think I was talking about Apple.... More >
Last week was Nvidia’s first large developers conference for GPU computing. The San Jose Fairmont hotel had around 1,500 people attending the event, with the majority connected in some way to a GPU d... More >
Down markets often create massive companies. Cisco wasn’t exactly tiny as we entered this downturn, however, it is suddenly much larger, having picked up Tandberg, one of the oldest and largest video... More >
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