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Cloud in Context - The 451 Group's ICE Summit

As we've seen from IDG World Expo's recent OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld conference, putting on events is often a great deal of work. Outside events can make event the best planned event surprisingly interesting or totally irrelevant. In this context, I've been speaking with Rachel Chalmers, Director of The 451 Group's Infrastructure...

Tags: Event, Supplier, Conference, Budgets, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Strategy, Marketing, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-21

Gain Competitive Advantage Through IT Operational Excellence: Reducing Costs to Drive Investment in Innovation

Today's economic downturn is putting unprecedented stress on enterprises' IT organizations. Budgets are routinely cut. Workforces are constantly reduced. And cost-containment strategies are rigidly enforced. Yet businesses are more dependent on IT than ever before. And demands for more services delivered more quickly under more stringent Service Level Agreements SLAs...

Tags: Innovation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Competitive Advantage, Investment, Budgets, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-05-01

10 reasons to purchase new hardware during a recession

TechRepublic guest post: It may seem like the last thing you want to do in the midst of tough economic times is invest in new hardware. But IT consultant Erik Eckel suggests that trying to coast on failing or outdated equipment will cost you more in the long run. You...

Tags: Employee, PC, Recession, Server, Hardware, Organization, Budgets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-20

Conduct a Net Meeting With Your Clients to Save Time

In fast-paced, global world, web conferencing services are essential to the smooth operation and success of companies of all sizes and in all industries. Budgets are always tight and time is always short, so it's important to use conferencing solutions to maximize business efficiency and to use resources as effectively...

Tags: Web, Microsoft NetMeeting, InterCall, Budgets, Web Conferencing, Internet

White papers 2009-01-01

Get your IT budgets approved

An experienced IT manager offers eight tips for getting budgets approved that have been quite successful for him. A sample budget is provided for you to see his tips in action. As an IT manager, I have a pretty good record for getting my budgets approved. In fact, unless...

Tags: Budget, IT Budget, Information Technology, Plan, Budgets, Productivity, Strategy, Wi-Fi, Management, Wireless And Mobility, Financial Accounting, Finance, Steve Ediger

News items 2002-07-10

Managers Survey: Tech spending priorities for 2002

Budgets are tight but business must go on--find out where managers are spending their tech dollars in these lean times. CIO surveys are required reading these days, as everyone tries to guess where technology budgets are headed. Companies are pulling back across the board. Security is top of mind....

Tags: Customer, Survey, Budgets, Touch-screen Ordering System, David L. Margulius, Marketing Research, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Healthcare, Marketing, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Technology, David L. Marguluis

News items 2002-01-10

Additional Resources

Squirrel 0.8.2b3 (Mac)

Squirrel is a simple finance application for Mac OS X. It has been designed for users who want a simple way to track and plan their finances. Features: Budgets: Plan how much you allow yourself to spend on some categories History graph: full color graph that shows you the history...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Pacific Turtle, Squirrel, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-19

Disks: why size means performance

OK, Smarty pants...How do I use only the outer-most sectors of my 500GB disk?Performance != reliabilitySeagate has progressively gotten worse with reliability - that's why they cut the 5-year warranty back down to 3 years. Western Digital has made great strides with reliability though. WD isn't focussing on...

Tags: Serial ATA, SSD, SAS Institute, SAS Drives, performance, disk

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

AMD turbo boosts Flash Player 10.1 with ATI Stream technology

AMD seems to be the more viable choice nowThey certainly have improved their offerings over Intel and NVIDIA, which both seem to be up in the air at the moment. Intel isn't focused on offering good mainstream performance for the dollar - they're only working on Atom and the...

Tags: Chipsets, Processors, Semiconductors, Macromedia Flash Player, NVidia Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATI Technologies Inc., AMD 785G, GPU, AMD Athlon, chipset

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

AceMoney 3.17.3 (Windows)

AceMoney helps people organize and manage their personal finances quickly and easily. It supports all the features required for home or even small-business accounting needs: Manage multiple accounts of different types; Create and manage budgets; Track performance of investments; Do your financial math in multiple currencies; Track your spending habits...

Tags: Accounting, Financial, Microsoft Windows, Small Business, MechCAD Software, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-17

My new daughter is a lot like Linux

OK...I promise, this will be my last post this week about my new little daughter. Really. No matter what cute things she does, I'll limit my oohing and ahhing to Twitter. However, as I was changing her diaper for the umpteenth time today, I got to thinking...

Tags: Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-15

iFinance 3.1 Beta 2 (Mac)

iFinance 3 offers a comprehensive and efficient approach to easily manage your personal finances. iFinance 3 conveniently manages your entire cash flow over multiple accounts. The completely redesigned graphic user interface GUI helps you keeping an eye on all relevant information -- at all times. Quick access to your data...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Beta, Synium Software GmbH, iFinance 3, Personal Finance, Operational Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-14

Leading CIOs speak out on hottest IT trends and 2010 budgets [video]

At SIMposium 09 this week I asked six of the world's best CIOs about the hottest IT trends and 2010 spending. See what they had to say. by Jason Hiner

Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Video, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Management, Marketing, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-11-12

SIM survey: 52% of CIOs reported diminished IT budgets in 2009, but only 28% for 2010

Tax & trade and more taxesWait till the Bush tax cuts go out, you will see unemployment go higher thanthe bogus 10% it is really 16%...Since the past month 500,000+ jobs werelost and I am sure with Cap & Tradewe will be enjoying more unemployment!CHANGEYes, change the greatest country on...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, information technology, tax, SIM card, survey, IT budget

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

SIM survey: 52% of CIOs reported diminished IT budgets in 2009, but only 28% for 2010

As part of the "IT Trend Survey" released at SIMposium 09 in Seattle on Monday, 52% of CIOs reported 2009 budgets that were smaller than 2008. The numbers for 2010 look a little better. by Jason Hiner

Tags: SIM Card, IT Budget, CIO, Information Technology, Survey, Marketing Research, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-11-09

60 Minutes: We're not ready for a cyber war

Just like 9/11 thousands will have to die Before we give a damn. It's really a shame.and everything workshow's that possible?Unfortuantely, it will take a disasterIn the US, until disater strikes no one will do anything. Once it does happen then there will be screaming for heads to role....

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Regulations, FERC, Obama, hacker, Bush

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

CoreBudget 1.1.6.1 (Windows)

CoreBudget is a powerful, simple to use personal financial management and budgeting system. CoreBudget allows you to import your financial transactions from nearly any bank or credit union account and then easily perform detailed analysis on your financials. You can view detailed chronological listings of your financial transactions for any...

Tags: Bank, Financial, Budgeting, Financial Transaction, Microsoft Windows, CoreBudget, Software System, Financial Services, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-09

House due for its health reform vote tomorrow

Once whatever passes passes (or doesn't) employers know the environment into which they're putting a major portion of their budgets, and can firm decisions on whether to hire, or how much, next year. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Blog posts 2009-11-06

Business Functions 1.53 (Windows)

This Excel add-in has 500+ high-performance functions and is a comprehensive toolkit for business planning and analysis. It is designed to make financial models such as business plans and budgets faster to build, less error-prone, and easier to understand and maintain. It does this through integrated families of functions, in...

Tags: High-performance, Microsoft Windows, Business Functions, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Leadership, Office Suites, Software, Management

Software downloads 2009-11-06

Client virtualization will help you create your next generation desktop

Full circle to dumb terminal or network appliance right?RE: Client virtualization will help you create your next generation desktopAs always, speed is the unquantfied variable. If its good, then the apps will run great with no significant degradation. If not (as is usually the case with cost cutting companies now...

Tags: Terminal services, dumb terminal, Client virtualization, generation desktop, desktop, virtualization

Discussion threads 2009-11-02