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- More evidence of the coming collision between home broadband and the smart grid
- Collision?Not the word I would have used.In any event, I think this is a positive and necessary direction to go. In order to manage more diversified, less dependable/consistent sources of energy, the demand side HAS TO be managed. Without it, we are just setting ourselves up for a lot of...
- Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, collision, home broadband, grid, smart grid
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Google: Firms can get rid of Office in a year
- In other words, Google Appsare still at that 1 to 2 percent mark.Good Riddance!It won't be missed.Man, so true, MS Office is a big hairball of baroque features to format for8.5x11. MS Office will be on a downward slide from here on out.In terms of what is need for the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-13
- News to know: AT&T, Verizon; T-Mobile; Microsoft CRM; Win7; datacenters; Sony-Ericcson
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy Matthew Miller: T-Mobile experiences...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Data Center, Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft CRM, Sam Diaz, CRM, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- "Most, if not all" Sidekick data recovered
- Well this is going to be interesting...So they had a catastrophic screw up and it looks like they worked their tales off to get it fixed.So that got a big black eye but at the same time it looks like they got it fixed. Whoever fixed this just got...
- Tags: Backups, backup
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business
- What a BS conclusion ...Are you serious or just plain delusional???Using a server is not using cloud computing. In fact, any decent professional company would never even think about anything "cloud" except for basic web hosting.Let me just give you the top two most logical reasons why real companies...
- Tags: Games, information technology, game, HTTP, crowdsourcing, Web, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-09-06
- Am I a big whiner about Gmail's downtime?
- Establish Down-Time Procedures. Move on.Google Apps is a GREAT resource.Whining for something you get for freeNTyes you areand on top of it you give the M$ shills something to hang on.I've never looked into it, but does Google Gears help......when / if Google Apps is down?Teachers are hardly unique...
- Tags: cloud computing, E-mail providers, Google Inc., big whiner, Google Gmail, whiner, Google Apps
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- The quest for the ultimate desktop experience
- The quest for the ultimate desktop experienceWide Screen Not Always UsefulWide screens look really cool, but the second photo with the portrait format screens may be more useful. I have two 22" widescreens, and I turned one vertical - I can put a copy of IE on the top,...
- Tags: Construction, Monitors & displays, ultimate desktop, desktop experience, monitor, widescreen, window, desktop
- Discussion threads 2009-07-20
- Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricing
- Microsoft announces its Azure cloud computing pricingCompared to Amazon...I compared the prices with Amazon's equivalent, the results are in my blog at http://bit.ly/OT7V8. Anyway, they seem to be approximately the same, which is probably the meaning that we should have associated with being "competitive" all along.Is that a lot or...
- Tags: Six Sigma, Pricing, TQM/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Microsoft Windows, Process improvement, cloud computing, Azure, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., pricing strategy
- Discussion threads 2009-07-14
- How do we measure high availability?
- Over the past 2 months, I've seen an increase in the number of end user inquiries regarding high availability and almost more importantly, how to measure high availability HA. HA means something different depending on whom you're talking with so it's worth a quick definition. I define HA as: ...
- Tags: Availability, Information Technology, High Availability, Downtime, High Availability Discussion, Strategy, Management, Stephanie Balaouras
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- BlackBerry's reduce broadband outage downtime
- I got in from the Orange Street Music Club yesterday evening, a famous jazz and live venue in here in my city, only to discover my broadband had cut out. After the crap day that I had, this just topped it off. (Only on the...
- Tags: Broadband, Downtime, RIM BlackBerry, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- News to know: Google; Facebook; HP battery recall
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Apple eliminates CanSecWest Pwn2Own flaws Larry Dignan: Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities Sam Diaz: Google outage...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Battery, Twitter, Engineering, Wireless And Mobility
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Do our Operating Systems need Search Failover?
- Do our Operating Systems need Search Failover?Update your post Jason, it wasn't AT&T faultn/tRE: Do our Operating Systems need Search Failover?If this existed, I'm sure someone will find a reason to sue Microsoft cause one Search provider is listed higher than the other.Oh I long for the glory days of...
- Tags: Web browsers, NOW IT, wait-time, Search Failover, failover, operating system, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-14
- Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft
- The numbers don't lie An independent study found on-site Microsoft apps - Office and Exchange - cost 20x in capital dollars and 5x-6x more than Google Apps on a 3 year Total Cost of Ownership TCO basis. How can Microsoft compete? The debate Cloud, as...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Network, Data Loss, Downtime, Microsoft Corp., Business Problem, TwinStrata, SATA RAID 5, Capital Requirement, Update:Here, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- An ERP Product Line in 18 months? NetSuite and Rootstock did it
- An ERP Product Line in 18 months? NetSuite and Rootstock did itSalesForce.com Link BrokenJust an FYI--Master JoeMove Over Legacy Applications - - - It's No ContestHaving launched one of the first ERP platforms for ERP in 2001, both we and our customers achieved economies of scale that our competitors couldn't...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), ERP, Rootstock, NetSuite Inc., ERP Product Line
- Discussion threads 2009-05-04
- Xangati offers DVR-like trouble ticket reporting
- The continued pursuit of a more efficient IT department has sparked some pretty innovative models, the latest coming from Xangati, which today is announcing its Visual Trouble Ticket portal. Xangati comes at the problem of reporting to the IT department what was happening at the time of...
- Tags: Information Technology, Digital Video Recorder, Strategy, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- AppAssure: Leveraging Virtualization for Application Assurance
- Business continuity. Application assurance. Virtualization. Consider that a mission?]critical progression. Business continuity is essential for business productivity. Bluntly put, if people can't get their work done, it's impossible to realize revenue. The applications that are most central to the productivity of every staff person in the organization are e?]mail and...
- Tags: Outage, Business Continuity, AppAssure Software, Application Assurance, Manufacturing, It Services, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2009-04-16
- What is Microsoft doing to add Java support to Azure?
- What is Microsoft doing to add Java support to Azure?Say what?The whole idea is that Java will go away in favor of MS.NETI'm surprised they're doing it at all.I'm surprised they're doing it at all. After the whole battle with Sun over their JVM, they pretty much gave up and...
- Tags: Programming languages, .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Azure, Microsoft Corp., Java, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Doing, Java Support
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
- Veritas CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor
- Symantec, a long time player in the virtualiation technology market, has just launched the Veritas CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor. It is designed to help organizations evaluate their disaster recovery plans by scanning the organization's IT infrastructure and comparing what it sees to a very large knowledgebase of potential problems. ...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Center, Knowledgebase, VERITAS Software Corp., Advisor, Tool, Disaster Recovery Advisor, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Security, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-04-08
- Salesforce announces Twitter app; further validates power of cloud
- It wasn't so long ago that Twitter was being mocked for being nothing more than a forum for people to share trivial things such as what they're eating for breakfast or what they're watching on TV. Suddenly, Twitter is getting some mainstream respect, the latest coming today in the form...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force, Twitter, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-22
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