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Solera Networks - a different take on management and security

I was contacted recently by an old acquaintence, Alan Hall, formally from Novell and now with Solera Networks. Hmm. That didn't come out right. Alan is someone I've known for a while. I'm not saying he's old. Alan wanted me to hear about a different way to...

Tags: Security, Network, Network Traffic, Analysis, Alan, Solera Networks Technology, Packet Capture, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-06

The nightmare of buying enterprise software

Enterprise software is an easy target for criticism: it's expensive to buy, hard to implement, and often performs decidedly un-sexy functions like back office accounting. This complexity can make enterprise software a nightmare to purchase. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Consultant, Alan, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Making sense of VRM

For many months, I have been reading the Project VRM list hosted by Doc Searls and Harvard. The putative Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web has addressed this challenge, as well, but misses in ways similar to VRM, because of the implicit relationships between social web service...

Tags: Relationship, Information, Alan, Tools & Techniques, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Channel Management, Management, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2007-10-11

Alan's Euchre 1.2 (Mac)

Euchre is played with a deck of 24 cards (9 thru Ace in each suit). The game is played with 4 people, which make up 2 teams. Partners sit across from each other. In this version of Euchre both of your opponents and your partner are handled by the computer....

Tags: Card, Team, Apple Macintosh, Mike DeWalt, Alan, Euchre, Points, Games, Team Management, Personal Technology, Management

Software downloads 2001-09-30

Alan's Solitaire 1.0.6 (Mac)

An obscure form of solitaire that's mind numbingly simple, yet nearly impossible to win.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Form, Ewalt Enterprises, Alan, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2000-05-27

Additional Resources

10 things I'd like to see in the next version of Windows

Now that IT pros have started kicking the Windows 7 tires, it makes sense to consider the next round of improvements. Alan Norton shares his list of the changes he hopes to see.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.

Tags: Alan Norton, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Blogging, Operating Systems, Software, Internet

Download resources 2009-11-08

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Calling all innovators: Google hangs "Help Wanted" sign

Google is hiring again. And in case you hadn't heard, the company is known for having some pretty sweet perks for its employees. And we're not just talking free meals and on-site dry cleaners. In a blog post titled "Investing in Innovation at Google," the company goes...

Tags: Hiring, Google Inc., Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-11-03

Don't cry for me Joe Lieberman

the patriots are rising against the socialist billThe Obamacare is gasping for air while the liberals are preparing to be booted out of the congress in 2010.The real Americans have risen again and upheld the values of the founding fathers against dangerous foreign socialist ideeas.End Socialism Now!Enough with the Commissar's...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Obamacare, patriot, socialist, socialism, reconciliation, Joe Lieberman

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Contour 1.2.1 (Mac)

Contour... Developed in collaboration with Emmy Award-nominated Jeffrey Alan Schechter, Contour is a proven story development system that streamlines the process of turning movie ideas from first glimmer to full outline. The Contour story development system teaches the writer how to use the same character-based structure that all blockbuster movies...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Movie, Mariner Software, Contour Story Development System

Software downloads 2009-10-30

Motorola Tundra VA76r (AT&T)

The Tundra Had A lot of Potential. Unfortunately, it Needs Work.PLEASE READ AND DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE ON THIS PHONE. TRUST ME. This phone has some major issues. Yes, it's durable. But that's about the only good selling point. First off, the ear piece...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, call quality, phone, Tundra, AT&T Corp., battery, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

FTC endorsement rules were inevitable

wishfull thinkingenforcement of this rules is virtually impossible since you can't spy on what the blogger in PJ gets in the mail.The only way arround is to force the companies to reveal their special promo/giveaways to select people.Wishful ThinkingConcur. There is no way to enforce this without enforcement becoming intrusive.Hey...

Tags: Blogging, INTERNET, FTC, endorsement rule, blogger

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Web data services extend data access and distribution beyond the RDB-BI straightjacket

Newly Expected Trend CompassI am sending you links on the newly expected Trend Compass which is still in our Lab.http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/babyboomers/http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/bank-trx/http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/advertising/Tell me what you think of the new look and feature.RE: Web data services extend data access and distribution beyond the RDB-BI straightjacketEpic Systems has developed a Data Visualization software "Trend...

Tags: Web, advertisement, RDB-BI, Compass, Web Data, data access, Epic Systems

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Democrats threaten to grow backbones over health reform

Good analysis.ntthis bill is DOA!Thanks to the efforts of real Americans in Congress and townhalls, the road to socialism in America has been blocked for now.The liberal plan to take over our healthcare and turn it into an expensive third world healthcare has been foiled, but the real test comes...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, Reform, health care

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Social Business in Action - Establishing Excellence

Human interaction is as old as humanity, and nothing beats personal contact. We can learn more from a few seconds of personal contact and get a 'gut feel' about someone or a situation experientially in person than we can from hours of research and remote contact....

Tags: Web, Team, Information Technology, Human Interaction, Cohen, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Team Management, Strategy, Internet, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Google calls Apple on their lies

In repsonse to Apple's response of the FCC inquiry regarding the rejection of the Google Voice application, Google sent the FCC another letter. The full response was made available today -- in which Google basically called Apple on their lies. Google says that Apple in fact...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Federal Government, Government, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-09-18

Learn why 250GB is not ever reported as 250GB

Upon close examination of your typical hard drive in Microsoft Windows, you will notice that the number of gigabytes actually available is not as much as advertised. There is a technical reason for this and Alan Norton explains it.

Tags: Examination, Alan Norton, Microsoft Windows, Construction, Operating Systems, Software

Download resources 2009-09-04

Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers: a group test

Intel's Xeon 5500 processor has made a big splash in the server world as the major manufacturers each have their own brands featuring the 45nm Nehalem architecture. But which one is best? ZDNet UK's Alan Stevens puts the top models to the test and chooses a winner: ...

Tags: Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Prices, HP ProLiant DL380 G6, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Andy Smith

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Apology solicited for death of computing founding father Turing

Point of clarification He was convicted of sodomy, not homosexuality. There is a difference.Indeed he wasHe was convicted of sodomy - but as I wrote, this was covered under an act of law (which for the life of me, cannot find a link or a name of the act of...

Tags: monarch, homosexuality

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Apology solicited for death of computing founding father Turing

Alan Turing can rightly be called the founding father of computing. But after he was convicted of homosexuality in 1952, he committed suicide. There is now a call for him to be posthumously exonerated, and rightly so. by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Computing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-09-01