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- Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform
- In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-08
- Don't discount network technology in the energy-efficiency equation
- I haven't much thought about the role of networking equipment in more energy-efficient data centers. But switch maker Voltaire, a specialist in InfiniBand technology, is now co-opting this rallying cry. What gives it the right? Well, for starters, it's worth noting that some flavor of the company's...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Network, Network Technology, Voltaire Inc., Data Centers, InfiniBand, Storage, Networking, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- New details on Apple tablet emerge; two versions, Jan. 2010
- Apple SurpriseI'm reminded of the hype running up to the introduction of the iPhone. There were all sorts of predictions of how it would fit into an already mature and crowded smart phone marketplace, how it would fail, how it would be a niche player. If the iTablet follows in...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Smart phones, Apple Inc., tablet, Apple iPhone, Apple Tablet, iTablet
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- It's Official: Avaya Acquires Nortel Enterprise
- Now What Can Nortel Customers ExpectOkay now that is over, we are all now interested in product rationalization that is going to occur. RE: It's Official: Avaya Acquires Nortel EnterpriseThis seems like it will be very interesting over the next several months. I think that Nortel Customers can expect to...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Wireless and Mobility, Avaya Inc., Avaya Acquires Nortel Enterprise, Nortel Networks Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- What the EU delay means for Oracle, Sun and us
- My Guess, as requested.Insofar as the EU seems to be tardy in the extreme when investigating monopoly considerations (e.g. why have they waited 10 years to tackle M$ about bundling Internet Explorer with Windows?) I would agree with you completely. Why didn't they start proceedings in a timely fashion to...
- Tags: Strategy, Backblaze, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Dell partners with Brocade to compete in data center war
- The latest developments in the data center wars comes this time from Dell and Brocade, which are announcing a partnership today that includes Dell reselling Brocade networking equipment under its name as part of an "end-to-end" data center offering. In today's competitive data center landscape, the networking...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Network, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Savvis on Cisco's Unified Computing System
- Bryan Doerr, Chief Technology Officer, Savvis and I communicated about Cisco's Unifed Computing System UCS. Here are his answers to some questions that were posed to him. Since Savvis currently operates 29 data centers (a total of 1.4 million square feet of space), his views could be seen as...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Environment, Cisco Systems Inc., Savvis Communications, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Pitney Bowes branded community reduces customer support costs
- During the 2007 postal rate change Pitney Bowes, which provides postal equipment and services to businesses, received more than 415K support phone calls on the rate change alone, all in under a month. This was in addition to the company's usual flow of customer calls, so its support teams were...
- Tags: Community, Pitney Bowes Inc., Lithium Technologies Inc., Team Management, Social Networking, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- The Cost of the Free Internet
- The outpouring of interest in and passionate argument about IAC chairman Barry Diller’s declaration last week that the delivery of content over the Internet ‘absolutely’ will become a ‘paid system’ was instructive. First, it shows the power of the “free†Internet, as it is currently constructed. A...
- Tags: Payment, Video, Cable, Programming, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Twitter Trust #Fails
- There's a big difference between a 'Trust Fall' and a 'Trust #Fail' to use the increasingly tiresome valleygirl slang #word Twitter users assign to stuff that doesn't meet their high standards. A 'Trust Fall' is a trust-building exercise often conducted in turns in...
- Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Metal Sludge, Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Private sector necessary to achieve infrastructure growth, U.S. CTO says
- Private sector necessary to achieve infrastructure growth, U.S. CTO saysCap & TradeYes, and the Cap & Trade errr. Tax & Trade will destroy the economy as well.Good luck...Private investors just got slaughtered over ChryslerAnd you think anyone of them would be dumb enough to get involved w/ government any more?RE:...
- Tags: Vertical industries, infrastructure growth, government
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it)
- The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it)King Canute Must DieI am persuaded by the ideas generally found in OPLAN discussions:1. The 5 major industrial revolutions in the last 200 years have all followed the same pattern: the previous incumbents have been swept away having...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, wireline business implosion, business implosion, Verizon Communications Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-18
- Emulex to Broadcom's merger overture: No thanks
- Emulex on Monday said its board has rejected Broadcom's unsolicited takeover offer at $9.25 a share. In a statement, Paul Folino, chairman of Emulex's board, said the Broadcom offer was an "opportunistic attempt" to get the company on the cheap. Emulex argued that Broadcom knew that the...
- Tags: Merger, Broadcom Corp., Emulex Corp., Proposal, Company, Corporate Governance, Data Centers, Manufacturing, Storage, Leadership, Investment, Networking, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- Cisco takes Letterman-style approach to push Unified Computing System savings
- Cisco raised the stakes today in the Great Data Center War of 2009 - and it didn't involve a new product or strategy announcement. Instead, the marketing department took to the Web in a David Letterman-type format to explain to a live audience why its new Unified...
- Tags: Marketing, Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- News to know: IBM, Open Cloud Manifesto, Web 2.0 Expo, Conficker, Microsoft ad
- 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. Larry Dignan: IBM revamps server lineup based on Intel's Nehalem Larry Dignan: Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Advertisement, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Web 2.0, Strategy, Internet, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- 10 ways to be a good manager during a recession
-  Guest post via TechRepublic's Polly Schneider Traylor. For more posts like this see the 10 Things blog. It’s clear that the current recession is not going to be a fleeting phenomenon. Managers need to learn how to lead under extraordinary marketplace pressures and...
- Tags: Layoff, Recession, Staff, Polly Schneider Traylor, Workforce Management, Professional Development, Benefits, Human Resources, Career, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- One Cisco Unified Computing System beats 15 coal-fired energy plants
- So what's the power of one Unified Computing System being rolled out by Cisco Systems and partners such as EMC, VMware and Intel? Hard to be precise, but the memory capacity and power savings should capture the attention at least of the Internal...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Cisco's big data center plans: Assessing winners and losers rack by rack
- Cisco on Monday rolled out its long-awaited vision of data center architecture, including multiple partners, a wire-once approach to link computing, virtualization, storage and networking and a call to lower costs. Let's assess the winners and losers of this rack-by-rack data center battle. As background, Cisco's Unified...
- Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Set-up, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Cisco: 'We're going to compete with HP'
- Cisco: 'We're going to compete with HP'Bad news mainly for HP, but Dell and IBM alsoThe big question isn't the technology, it is whether or not Cisco can compete on price. They have charged premium prices for their networking gear for so long, how well are they going to do...
- Tags: Blade servers, Servers, Utility computing, Cisco Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., blade, server
- Discussion threads 2009-03-15
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