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- Cloud computing
- I recently read the post, When Is the Right Time to Launch Your Own Cloud? and thought Alistair Croll was on to something. We're all hearing quite a bit of media chatter about "cloud computing." Sometimes suppliers may use other terms such as "Mesh computing" or "Elastic Cloud Computing." All...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Supplier, Organization, Data Centers, Channel Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Budget cut? Bring on Guerrilla SOA!
- Alistair Bathgate responded to Dave Linthicum's post on SOA being on the budget chopping block at some companies with the observation that the managements of many companies -- which famously think short-term anyway -- may become really obsessive about immediate returns on projects emphasis mine: "There is no point...
- Tags: ROI, SOA, Guerrilla SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Roi/Tco, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'
- U.K. government reveals its 'biggest privacy disaster'Not arrived in the UK yet?Where do you live? The disease has been here for much longer than anywhere else.What is a Government? Even if it is prefaced by Her Majesty's. Can any unelected government be wrong ever? Ask George W not Washington, Bush!...
- Tags: Biometrics, Financial services, privacy disaster, U.K. Government
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- IT security failure causes UK Revenue & Customs (HMRC) chairman to resign
- Two weeks ago, I raised serious questions about IT governance in the UK at HM Revenue & Customs HMRC. At that time, the agency lost a CD containing private information belonging to 15,000 people in the UK. Today, the agency acknowledged a far worse situation: two computer discs, containing 25...
- Tags: Revenue, IT Security, Agency, Information Technology, Tax, U.K., Committee, HMRC, Taxes, Free Trade, Security, Financial Planning, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Update: ZFS will be in Leopard--sort of
- InformationWeek is reporting that contrary to prior reports, a version of ZFS will be included in Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard.Brian Croll, senior director of Mac OS X product marketing, previously said that ZFS is "not happening" for Leopard. Now Croll is clarifying what he meant by "not happening":"ZFS...
- Tags: Sun, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- No ZFS for Leopard but maybe for later Mac OS
- Earlier this week Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz said the Apple would adopt ZFS, Sun's open source file system. But Steve Jobs' didn't say anything about ZFS during his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote while highlighting the forthcoming Leopard release of Mac OS X.Watch the video InformationWeek talked to Brian Croll, senior...
- Tags: Sun, General, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Build a communicating, cooperative software development team
- Successful software projects require that the members of development teams notice important events and to be both willing and able to communicate to others what they notice. In this sample chapter from Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game, Second Edition explore the effect of the physical environment,...
- Tags: Software, Team, Addison-Wesley, Chapter Coverage, Software Development, Team Management, Development Tools, Software/Web Development, Management
- Book chapters 2007-04-19
- Increase your level of security with Active Directory access policies and auditing
- This chapter excerpt from Active Directory, Third Edition explains how permission to access can be allowed or denied to entire domains or individual properties of a single object. One way to improve security in an enterprise network running a Microsoft Windows Server is by establishing access policies...
- Tags: Security, Permission, Auditing, O'Reilly Media Inc., Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Book chapters 2006-03-31
- Yellow is the new black
- One of the things I'm most excited aboutcoming out of Lotusphere 2006 is that Lotus marketing has kicked it upa notch in so many ways. The internal enthusiasm has infused thewhole marketplace -- in a way I haven't seen in years. Lotuspherealways reinvigorates...
- Tags: Lotusphere
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
- Live blogging from the Lotusphere opening session
- I'll be occasionally blogging live on thisthread and others from the Lotusphere 2006 opening session. If you'rehere, feel free to add your thoughts on this post!Notes licenses are up -- 125 million licenses sold71,000+ downloads of Notes/Domino 7Double-digit growth6,000attendees at Lotusphere (some are in...
- Tags: IBM Lotus Notes
- Blog posts 2006-01-24
- Learn what's new in Active Directory in Windows Server 2003 and how to upgrade
- Get an in-depth look at the upgrades and additions that have been made to Active Directory in Windows Server 2003 in this chapter from the O'Reilly book Active Directory, 2nd Edition. This includes explanations of the new features, changes to Domain Functional Levels, and a walkthrough of how to upgrade...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, O'Reilly Media Inc., Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Directory Services, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware
- Book chapters 2005-04-07
- Brush up your Shakespeare
- The law has been a key ingredient in corporate competition for generations.Big companies always have better lawyers than small ones. When they dont they hire the other guys lawyers away.This is especially true in the world of contracts. Its the letter of the contract, and what you can convince a...
- Tags: open source, IBM Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-01-28
- Microsoft commentary slams EU ruling
- Microsoft commentary slams EU rulingThe "victim"?MS starts off the paper by trying to turn reality on it's head:"First, when does a firm with a dominant position have a legal duty to license its pro-prietary technology and intellectual property rights to its competitors so that they can incorporate that very same...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Intellectual property, Digital music, Microsoft Windows Media Player, Microsoft Corp., software
- Discussion threads 2004-04-21
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