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From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

The distinguishing best practice in application appliance computing is the absence of development programming. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Workforce Management, Development Tools, Human Resources, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy, SLA, Information Technology, Environment, Best Practice, Appliance Computing, Service Level Management, Data Centers, Mainframes, Strategy, Servers, It Operations, It service Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management

Blog posts 2008-10-17

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

The key thing differentiating the appliance computing community from the data processing one was its absolute focus on making the money, instead of on counting monies magically made by somebody else, somewhere else. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Data Center, Environment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Computer, Appliance Computing, Data Centers, Mainframes, Productivity, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-08-22

Appliance computing

Last week's comment on the increasing futility of fighting the PC security wars on current terms drew a comment from a discussion contributor I don't remember hearing much from before. Here's part of what "Gary" had to say: The problem is that we're fighting...

Tags: Productivity, Linux, Infrastructure, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-07-26

Additional Resources

Springsource releases Tomcat appliance

Turning an open source product into an enterprise product line takes real commitment, but it's the kind of commitment enterprise customers demand. In the manner of the old joke about breakfast it's bacon, not eggs. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Server, Apache Tomcat, Springsource, Open Source, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Who put the 'crap' in 'Crapintosh'?

Zack Whittaker has taken a few days off to "get his head together", so in the meantime his best friend, Elliot Harrison, has stepped up to the firing squad to cover this week. The hate campaign certain Windows users have against Macintosh users must ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Zack Whittaker, Desktops, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Tech CEOs: Will they step up in a downturn?

Technology CEOs worth their paychecks are going to use this economic downturn to revamp business models and position for the so-called post recession era. It sounds rather obvious, but why don't all CEOs follow this playbook? We've heard the mantra repeatedly: Reload in a downturn. And a...

Tags: Technology Company, Information Technology, CEO, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Social Networking, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Welcome to MegaTom

Tom Raftery, analyst at Greenmonk and another Irregular pinged me this morning to let me know about a new community: MegaTom. Born out of an idea from Gavin Starks and Simon Wardley, MegaTom seeks to act as the hub around which people can discuss the many green issues facing our...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Tom, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Openbravo to push open source ERP more aggressively in US

One open source project is giving thanks for reaching the one million download milestone and believes the worldwide financial crisis will only accelerate its growth. Openbravo, a purveyor of a popular open source ERP application and newly acquired open source POS solution for the small to medium-sized enterprises, predicts...

Tags: ERP, Openbravo, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Distributed and Parallel Database Systems

The maturation of Database Management System DBMS technology has coincided with significant developments in distributed computing and parallel processing technologies. The end result is the emergence of distributed database management systems and parallel database management systems. These systems have started to become the dominant data management tools for highly data-intensive...

Tags: Database Management System, Database Management, Database System, University Of Alberta, Databases, Storage, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2008-12-01

Chill-Off project tests various recipes for real-world data center cooling

It seems appropriate as I hunker down in my rather chilly office that I pen this post about the ongoing data center "Chill-Off" projects being run by the Association For Computer Operations Management AFCOM in Northern California. The intention of the Chill-Off demonstrations/tests is to monitor the effect of modular...

Tags: Data Center, Blog, Data Centers, Blogging, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-27

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Best Apple iPhone, iPod touch apps

Just about everyone seems to have either an iPhone or iPod touch these days and the companion App Store is chock full of over 5,000 great gift ideas. From powerful databases to file storage to music, this list has something for you. Can't decide? Give your special someone...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Database, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Apple iTunes, US$5, BeatMaker iPhone, Intua, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-26

I'm a PC and, yes, I love Vista

* Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Todd Hooper  It's true - I'm a PC. Searching through my 2006 emails recently reminded me it was two years ago this month when I loaded a beta of Windows Vista on...

Tags: Security, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Laptop Computer, NAP Agent, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Cassatt helps organizations implement in-house clouds

A crew of folks from Cassatt presented Active Profiling Service, a new service offering, and Active Response 5.2, a product update for the company's orchestration and automation product. I was very interested in learning more because Cassatt has long been helping organizations discover and then make best use of their...

Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Cassatt Active Profiling Service, Cassatt Active Response, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-26

I want an iPhoneStormDroid

Wind River's Multicore Software Hypervisor solution permits multiple embedded OSes to run on a single device. Wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to actually choose between an iPhone, a BlackBerry, or a Google Android? What if all those device operating...

Tags: Device, Operating System, RIM BlackBerry, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Cloud definitions and economics

Like Phil Wainewright, I attended the excellent CloudCamp in London several weeks back. Unlike Phil, I walked away with more questions than answers but with my enterprisey antenna on high alert. Two things struck me. Rhys Jones of Royal Bank of Scotland's assertion that while cloud computing...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., PeopleSoft Inc., James, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-11-25

News to know: Ubuntu; New Macbook; BlackBerry Storm; Google layoffs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Christopher Dawson: Are you sure you don't just want to use Ubuntu? Netbooks + Ubuntu: OS solid but... Robin...

Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Layoff, Apple MacBook, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Is Apple pricing itself out of education?

Fellow blogger, Robin Harris, wrote an interesting piece on the costly touches to the new MacBooks (design process, LED backlighting, etc.). Steve's history of putting form before function - or price - comes at a particularly bad time. The worldwide economic crunch - heckuva job, Greenspan! -...

Tags: Education, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Pricing Strategy, Steve, Netbooks, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Mid-range Apples that won't break the bank

If you've got a couple extra bucks in your budget this year there are a couple of middle priced (US$100-300) gifts that up that I want to recommend. If this isn't quite your price range, feel free to check out my list of Mac-related gift ideas under $100...

Tags: Bank, Apple iPhone, Battery, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Chumby, Novatel USB727, FastMac U-Charge Battery Charger, 3G, Engineering, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-24

TI execs ramp up green tech contributions, at work and at home

The trouble with the Green IT blog beat is there are literally hundreds of things that you could write about every day, often from the same company, but since this isn't the ONLY thing I do to put food on my table, I have to be really selective about which...

Tags: Green Technology, Texas Instruments Inc., Ogboenyiya, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-24

The case for Scala

Programming languages are like screwdrivers for developers. One size does not fit all, so good programmers keep several in their tool belt. The problem is, new languages are coming out all the time and you've only got so much room on your belt and in your schedule to learn them....

Tags: Function, Method, Functional Programming, Language, Scala, Seq, List, Scala System, HQ9+, env:Env, David J. Biesack, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-11-24