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- Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services?
- Enterprise IT infrastructure & operations professionals have many cloud computing technologies to choose from today, and new solutions seem to appear all the time. What are all these technologies? How do you categorize them? Which are mature and which need a lot of work? Forrester is kicking...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, James Staten
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- News to know: University iPhones; Salesforce; Windows 7; Kindle app; DOJ
- 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: Forget the Kindle; University "requires" iPhone Christopher Dawson: Mandatory iPhones at UM worth a bit of...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Dana Blankenhorn, Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, U.S. Department Of Justice, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Engineering, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- Is open source politically attractive?
- Is open source politically attractive?Do you think Canadians are so obsessed with software...... that a reference to open source as software is significant?I suggest the endorsement is a statement of political principle. Though it may not be accurate, open source might be considered an expression of an old principle:...
- Tags: open source, Bloc Quebecois, voter
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Cloud Courting: Round One
- VMware and Citrix want to be your cloud infrastructure provider. The competing virtual infrastructure makers announced dueling cloud initiatives this week aimed at providing xSPs with simple to deploy and buy cloud computing platforms that come from very different angles and may serve to bifurcate the mid to small market...
- Tags: XSP, Citrix Systems Inc., VMware Inc., XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development, James Staten
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Citrix launches XenServer 5.0 and Citrix Cloud Center (C3)
- Citrix fired a one-two punch at VMware today by launching XenServer 5.0 and Citrix Cloud Center (C3). Let's look at each of the announcements separately. In short, Citrix is taking the open source Xen hypervisor and making it sing and dance. What Citrix had to...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., XenServer 5, Citrix C3 Solution, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- VMware (and Citrix) get cloud friendly
- Updated: VMware said Monday that it will launch a cloud computing initiative to bring enterprise class service to customers with more than 100 partners. The effort, called vCloud Initiative, will be launched at VMworld in Las Vegas (statement, Techmeme). In a nutshell, VMware is teaming up with...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., VMware Inc., C3 Platform, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- MacBook+Air+Diary%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%93Day+5%3A+Battery+observations
- MacBook+Air+Diary%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%93Day+5%3A+Battery+observationsThis is the second MBA battery test with conjecture[i]It's not the 5 hours that Apple promises, but not bad given the admittedly intense usage pattern. I think that it should be pretty easy to get 4 hours of battery life out of and MBA with a modicum of conservation.[/i]This is...
- Tags: Engineering, battery, Apple Inc., MBA
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- My top picks from Demo 08
- After two days of immersion in 6-minute product pitches from 77 companies, my head is still spinning from Demo 08. Like a centrifuge some of the material is coalescing, demos floating to the surface, which I presume are those that struck me as worthy of more than a passing glance....
- Tags: Collaboration, Performance, Network, Ribbit, Video, StackSafe, LiquidPlanner, Delver, Circos, Asankya, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Scaling for Success: How One Manufacturer Developed an Automated Sourcing Solution to Increase Productivity and Improve Metrics
- Haworth, Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of office environments, operates in more than 120 countries and employs nearly 9,000 members worldwide. In 2005, Dow Chemical selected Haworth to be the global solutions provider for furniture products and services. A new system was required to enable Dow,...
- Tags: Sourcing, The Dow Chemical Co., Purchasing & Procurement, Performance Management, Leadership, Manufacturing, Strategy, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Case studies 2007-07-19
- LucasArts tries to get back in the game
- LucasArts tries to get back in the gameIf it's from Lucas Arts I take a wait and seeLucas Arts games generally are really hit and miss. Even the good games are usually just a me too game with a Star Wars theme or such.The only game I thought was...
- Tags: Games, computer game, Crysis, game, Lucas Arts, PC, LucasArts
- Discussion threads 2007-05-03
- Live from the Adobe C3 launch event
- Live from the Adobe C3 launch eventCan mac users get everything?We use everything: Indesign, photoshop, illustrator plus dreamweaver, fireworks, flash but there doesn't seem to be an upgrade bundle that includes everything. Is that right?On the tredmill again... sorta like road but not exactly.Come on, why do i have...
- Tags: Channel management, Corporate communications, FULL VERSION, InDesign, video product, Fireworks, Apple Macintosh, Web, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-27
- Video: Is it time to throw away your servers?
- Video: Is it time to throw away your servers?cluster computingGreat video. It lays out the numbers for why cluster and grid computing stand poised to "revolutionize" the web services business. Rather than dealing in commodity computers, we will begin to deal in commodity computing cycles (C3), where we...
- Tags: Servers, Corporate communications, server, EC2, video
- Discussion threads 2007-03-24
- Be it resolved: release and revise is the way to go
- Be it resolved: release and revise is the way to goRephrase the ResolutionTesting should come as close to real-world use as possible without creating operational risk.In the case of an integrated air defense system (you're stray airbus example), or similar, you test it in the lab with pre-recorded sensor data,...
- Tags: Service level management, Process improvement, IT Services, Invariants, invariant
- Discussion threads 2007-03-21
- Excel Extract Data & Text Software 7.0 (Windows)
- Use this application to find and extract cell text in mulitple Excel files. Extract cells by the text they contain or by specific location such as C1, C2, C3. Extract between a starting and ending character in all cells. This program allows you to save all the extraction results to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Cell, Sobolsoft, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2006-11-20
- C3 Expo walkthru #2: Vein recognition, ruggedized notebooks, Bluetooth headgear, and more
- Here in NYC on the second day of C3 Expo, I blocked out the evening for a visit over to Pepcom's Digital Experience event at the Metropolitan Pavilion. Technically speaking, Digital Experience is not a C3 event. But Pepcom, it's organizer, has been running this event almost every...
- Tags: Fujitsu Ltd.
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- OnForce: When you need on-site IT services, and you need them now
- Here at C3 Expo in New York City, I bumped into Jeffrey Leventhal, CEO of OnForce.com. Until meeting Leventhal, I never even heard of OnForce. In a nutshell, OnForce is one of those intermediary match-making services where people who are in need of certain IT services (normally, labor...
- Tags: Go-to OnForce
- Blog posts 2006-06-28
- CompUSA to resell NetSuite and train SMBs to use it
- Did you hear the one about the software retail store that started selling software as a service? No really. I mean, how does that work? You walk into the store, go up to the display, and buy what looks like a box of software (sitting next to...
- Tags: CompUSA Inc., NetSuite Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-06-28
- An audio tour of C3's show floor
- It's always hard to figure out how to dive into a trade show. Do you go the appointment route and schedule nothing but back to back appointments who send you invitations ahead of time? Do you start at the first booth in the first row and work your...
- Tags: mashup
- Blog posts 2006-06-28
- SANS Institute embarrasses FBI
- Today's headlie (see my Dec 19th blog for the rules on these) is the third in the series: 2005: the missing headlies. Basically: the thing has to relate to IT and be both true and false at the same time. When the SANS Institute, in co-operation with the FBI,...
- Tags: FBI, SANS Institute, vulnerability
- Blog posts 2005-12-23
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