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- What AMD, EMC, and HP are doing to help customers go green
- This is basically a part II to the blog post I put up earlier today regarding how Moore's Law could finally be failing us. The premise of that theory, put forth this morning by Uptime Institute chief analyst Bruce Taylor, is basically that, even though the performance of chips...
- Tags: Processor, Hewlett-Packard Co., Memory, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., EMC Corp., Chip, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Sullivan takes me to the woodshed for a spankin'
- Sullivan takes me to the woodshed for a spankin'Hold on, you ripped Scobble for "not getting the facts".And now you make excuses when you don't???Huh?What facts didn't I get? I stand by what I wrote. As far as I'm concerned, and judging by the results I get in my...
- Tags: Channel management, Sullivan
- Discussion threads 2005-09-23
- Sullivan takes me to the woodshed for a spankin'
- In a post (see Yes, Google does alert you to new blog finds) that rips my coverage to shreds and then goes on to question whether my objectivity has been compromised by some personal vendetta against Google, SearchEngineWatch.com blogger Danny Sullivan says that I got it all wrong...
- Tags: Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-09-23
- Ex-WorldCom financial chief gets five years
- Ex-WorldCom financial chief gets five yearsWay to go, JudgeThese sentences, 5 years for Sullivan and 25 years for Ebbers, seem very appropriate for the level of the crime. While the article did not mention this, I hope that both "gentlemen" will be relieved of their personal ill-gotten gains via...
- Tags: Ex-WorldCom financial chief, Ex-WorldCom, financial chief, Sullivan, financial
- Discussion threads 2005-08-11
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- Converged Solutions white paper from Stratecast/Frost & Sullivan
- In the communications industry, convergence refers to the integration of communication - voice, video, and data - onto a single (IP-based) network. From convergence, more advanced and efficient means of communication emerge. This paper from Stratecast describes the attributes of a true customer-centric convergence solution. From...
- Tags: Sprint Communications, Convergence, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- White papers 2008-06-06
- Informatica is on the block say senior sources
- I have heard from two senior sources in the software industry that Informatica [INFA] is on the block and it has approached Oracle [ORCL]. I don't know what the possible acquisition price would be or any further details. Informatica's share price closed at $16.45 on Friday May 9. It's...
- Tags: Informatica, Oracle Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Business systems for a faster, flatter world
- One of the biggest problems facing enterprises today is that the world is communicating faster than their IT systems can keep up with. This is particularly obvious in businesses that operate multinationally. Their managers collaborate and communicate daily across timezones and geographies by phone, email and Web conference, but their...
- Tags: On-demand, NetSuite Inc., OneWorld Option, Sales Strategy, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Microsoft gets its first award for HealthVault
- Microsoft HealthVault has won its first industry award, from Frost & Sullivan, as the company ramps up the marketing of its hospital computing solutions. The award is a "Best Practices" honor for the HealthVault platform which, analyst Priyanka Gouthaman writes, gives Microsoft "a distinct early-mover advantage" to "gain...
- Tags: Peter Neupert, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft HealthVault, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Fat is a market on fire
- Obesity has gotten so big, and so many people are now getting surgery to fight it, that Frost & Sullivan has broken out its first marketing report on the subject. (Picture from Medicalook.com) The "U.S. Obesity Surgery Devices Markets" further divides this market into four pieces: ...
- Tags: Obesity, Productivity, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- The future of SaaS billing
- In the past few weeks, all of a sudden, I've been approached by any number of vendors wanting to tell me about their billing, settlement and subscriber management offerings to the SaaS market. I must say, it's about time. For the past ten years, SaaS vendors have struggled to manage...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Billing, LeCayla, Vindicia, Enterprise Software Buyer, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Google should close down "evil" Performics business
- Google should close down "evil" Performics businessChange in search has been noticeableI definitely noticed a change in search behavior in, say, the last 6 months with Google's search results. I agree the paid inclusions are polluting my search results. Alas, I still find it leaps and bounds better than the...
- Tags: SEARCH, Marketing research, search engine optimization, Google Inc., Performics
- Discussion threads 2008-03-18
- Google should close down "evil" Performics business
- Google's recent acquisition of ad network Doubleclick means it is also owner of Doubleclick's Performics, a leader in search engine optimization SEO services. Google is in constant battle with SEO companies because they go beyond its basic SEO rules and trick its algorithms into a higher rank for a web...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., Performics, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Windows Vista (In)capable
- Windows Vista IncapableOn 915 graphics.I have a Dell D620 (Not even Vista basic recommended but possible, this via Dell's site) running PCLinuxOS, it flies, including with Beryl turned on.There is no reason why I, and others with even more modest video capabilities can run Beryl smoothly, with 100x for Wow...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Vista Capable Sticker, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-03-02
- HIMSS moving on interoperability roadmap
- One of the big problems in hospital computing has long been simple interoperability. Given the high sales cost and high value of a hospital sale, vendors resist this. Proprietary protections make the HIMSS show floor look like a trip back to the 1980s. There are big booths...
- Tags: Open Standard, Goal, Workflow, Hospital Computing, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Colombian telecom market reached $5.48 bln in 2006
- Colombian telecommunications services market earned revenues of over $5.48 bln in 2006 and estimates this to reach $7.12 bln in 2012. Going forward, the voice over Internet Protocol VoIP segment is likely to emerge as the fastest growing market segment, followed by the broadband and Internet access segment. During the...
- Tags: Segment, Telephony, Telecommunications, Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Networking, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- The Grady tragedy and what it means
- While candidates are fretting about the plight of the middle class in health care, the safety net of the poor is unraveling. For decades that net consisted of a string of public "charity" hospitals in major cities around the country, funded by local taxpayers. Many doubled as...
- Tags: Hospital, Trauma, Charity Hospital, Healthcare, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Latin-American next-generation enterprise voice to earn $775.8 mln by 2012
- Hosted IP and next-generation enterprise voice services market in Latin America earned revenues of $37.0 mln in 2006 and estimates this to reach $775.8 mln in 2012, Frost & Sullivan reports. by AM
- Tags: Voice, Frost & Sullivan, Operational Accounting, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Finance, AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-16
- NetSuite's numbers are not what they appear
- NetSuite's numbers are not what they appearOfficial response from NetSuite to inaccurately cited customer dataDennis, some points of clarification:1. On our call and in our filings we talk about active customers. Customers are not considered "active" until they go live with the product. Since customers choose their own...
- Tags: Blogging, Dennis Howlett, NetSuite Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- NetSuite's numbers are not what they appear
- During yesterday's earnings call, I was struck by the way CEO Zach Nelson got an easy ride from the Wall Street folk. Today, Jason Carter dropped a bomb which the financial folk should have spotted: Over the last 5 years this company has lost more customers than it has...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, Construction, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- SaaS hoster OpSource buys billing partner
- Specialist SaaS hoster OpSource today has announced the acquisition of SaaS billing vendor LeCayla Technologies. OpSource has a number of partners that offer services to its customers, some of them integrated into its real-time service bus — including Aria Systems, another billing vendor — but this is the first time...
- Tags: Web, Acquisition, Software-as-a-service, Billing, Partnership, Aria Systems Inc., OpSource, LeCayla Technologies, Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-02-11
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