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Can Accenture learn to love SaaS?

Accenture and its competitors — both those based in US/Europe and the up-and-coming Indian IT services and outsourcing firms — are starting to take an interest in on-demand services. Even though they must be worried about the potential impact on their established business models, they can see on-demand revenues growing...

Tags: Accenture Ltd., Saas, on-demand

Blog posts 2006-10-20

AlwaysOn: U.S. lags China and Europe in new technology adoption

Bob Suh, chief technology strategist at Accenture, doesn't believe the U.S. has an innovation problem. "We have an adoption problem in the U.S.," Suh said. Speaking at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, Suh shared Accenture's recent survey of CIOs, which showed that the U.S. is falling behind China and Europe...

Tags: Bob Suh

Blog posts 2006-07-27

Additional Resources

News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08 Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan? Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Mice, Utility Computing, 3G, Open Source, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-07-22

(Dinosaur Sighting: Microsoft Bob)

(Dinosaur Sighting: Microsoft Bob)Idea for video gameI have sometimes envisioned a video game which would be a first person shooter, and the targets would be the various office assistants. Lots and lots of blood, too.

Tags: Games, Corporate communications, Dinosaur Sighting, Microsoft Bob, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer

Bob Williamson, VP of Business Development for Steeleye, and I played a rousing game of telephone tag and meeting shuffle before finding a time that would work for a discussion of Steeleye's SteelEye Protection Suite. I was traveling making the task even more complex that it usually is. Since I've...

Tags: Clustering, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Machine, SteelEye Protection Suite, Citrix XenServer, Disaster Recovery Protection, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-21

News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft

Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Top states with IPTV interest: Hawaii, New Jersey, North Dakota

Top states with IPTV interest: Hawaii, New Jersey, North Dakotapeoples are live in dakota...thats goodI live in New York. but I am originally from North Dakota and I am agreed with your comments. You have good information of this place. North Dakota is a evergreen state .there is a good...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, IP television

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

AMD CEO Ruiz out; Can Meyer turn it around?

Updated: AMD CEO Hector Ruiz has stepped down and the chipmaker has named chief operating officer Dirk Meyer as its new leader. The news comes amid the latest financial miss for AMD--a second quarter loss that missed estimates by a wide margin. Meyer's job: Restore credibility. According...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Meyer, Product Momentum, Asset Management, Research & Development, Processors, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Are solar-energy materials in short supply?

At the Intersolar and Greentech Media conferences, J. Michael Horowitz of the Stanford Group moderates a discussion on solar-thermal technologies and the challenges solar-energy companies face when acquiring materials. Panelists include Bob Cart of GreenVolts, Andrew McMahan of SkyFuel, Robert Morgan of Ausra, Suvi Sharma of Solaria, and...

Tags: Material, Solar

Videos 2008-07-17

Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'

The Linux creator has some harsh words for creators of the OpenBSD operating system, as part of a wider critique of what he sees as self-centered behavior in the IT security industry Linux creator Linus Thorvalds has labeled makers of the OpenBSD operating system a "bunch of masturbating monkeys",...

Tags: Information Technology, Industry, OpenBSD, Bug, Attack, Linux Creator, Torvalds, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Linux, Security, Software, Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel, Liam Tung, ZDNet Australia

News items 2008-07-17

Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it'

Seven SOA experts explain how to 'just do it'Refreshing Collaboration, No Hype!The great thing about this book is that the various authors focus 100% on SOA's practical implementation issues and 0% promoting their various SOA offerings.And by having different experts cover each aspect, the reader gets best of breed advice...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

Evaluating the cost of solar

J. Michael Horowitz of the Stanford Group moderates a discussion on ‘green‘ finance and operational and maintenance costs associated with new solar projects at the Intersolar Conference 2008 and Greentech Media conference. Panel guests include Bob Cart of GreenVolts, Robert Morgan of Ausra, Suvi Sharma of Solaria, and John...

Tags: Cost, Conference, Financial Accounting, Finance, Solar

Videos 2008-07-16

Bob the Builder - Can Do Zoo (exe)

Bob the Builder and his machine team are ready to tackle any project. As they hammer out solutions that lead to a job well done, Bob and the Can-Do Crew demonstrate the power of positive thinking, problem solving, team work and follow through. This version is the first release on...

Tags: Team, Brighter Minds Media, Team Management, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-16

Hammering at cost with open source

Irregular Bob Warfield riffs on Salesforce.com's decision to ditch Sun/Solaris in favor of Dell/Linux. In doing so, Bob makes the point that: ...for a SaaS company, the cost of service delivery is an absolutely critical factor.  Once you have software that runs well and scales horizontally on cheap commodity...

Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Open Source, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Last.fm app debuts on iPhone and iPod touch (video)

On the opening day of the App Store, a number of competing music streaming applications were available, including major brands AOL Radio and Virgin, along with a favorite of mine, Pandora. However, one notable admission on day one was the music social network and ad-supported streaming music service, Last.fm. That...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Video, Apple iPod Touch, Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-07-14

The iPhone 3G's yellow screen of warmth explained

Many people who purchased the new iPhone 3G on Friday noticed that it's got a noticeably yellower tint to the screen than the iPhone 2G. The yellow cast on the iPhone 3G screen was explained this way by Bob Borchers, senior director of product marketing for the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, iPhone 3G, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-13

Seagate announce first 1.5TB desktop hard drive

Seagate announce first 1.5TB desktop hard driveSeagate announce first 1.5TB desktop hard driveDamn thats a huge drive. Just think of all the adult entertainment you could store on that drive.Why?Give me a RAID 5 featuring four 500GB drives. Far more stable, faster, et cetera... of course, it...

Tags: RAID, Storage, first 1.5TB desktop hard drive, desktop hard drive, Seagate Technology LLC, desktop, hard drive

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targeting

A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday picked apart behavioral Web advertising as executives from the likes of Google, NebuAd and Facebook touted their privacy controls and even went as far as noting that ads are good for you. The hearing before the Senate Committee on Senate Committee...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Advertisement, Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Behavioral Targeting, Service Provider, U.S. Senate, Online Advertising, Internet Service, NebuAd, Privacy Law, Tom, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Microsoft to deliver SQL Server 2008 in August

The long wait for SQL Server 2008 is nearly over. At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston on July 9, Bob Kelly, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Infrastructure Server Marketing, told attendees that SQL Server 2008 will be on the August price list. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Databases, Enterprise Software, Operating Systems, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behavior

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is miffed. Microsoft crossed a line by ganging up on Yahoo with Carl Icahn. Arrington outlines his case, but the last sentence is what intrigued me: "I'm all for a merger. But I won't stand by quietly while Microsoft destroys what's left of...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Help Desk, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, It Operations, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-08