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There's something nasty lurking beyond the horizon - notes on life in Silicon Valley

It feels as if our economic version of Hurricane Katrina is building up energy, just off the coast of Silicon Valley. There is a definite feeling of something huge and nasty lurking just over the horizon. It's an ominous feeling highlighted by the fact that we...

Tags: Capital Efficiency, Chip, Corporate Communications, Financial, Financial Crisis, Hardware, Internet, Marketing, Public Relations, Recession, Semiconductors, Sequoia RIP Powerpoint Presentation, Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, VC, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2008-10-22

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Tracking efficiency

Array Technologies has been in the solar tracking business for a couple decades. And using GPS systems for solar tracking is nothing new. GPS itself is now an ancient tech dating back to 1993. Hell, it's older than even the public-access Internet. GPS itself is a...

Tags: Panel, Array, GPS, Handhelds, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

News to know: T-Mobile; Cloud computing; Oracle; HP; Apple

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. Andrew Nusca: HP revamps TouchSmart PCs with Windows 7; starts $899; will you ditch your desktop PC, HDTV? HP...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., PC, T-Mobile, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-13

Telecom to Cut Operating Expenses by 62 Percent, Power Consumption by 80 Percent

Warid Telecom International, a mobile telecommunications company, wanted to maximize uptime and energy efficiency in its call centers in Pakistan. To improve operations, it is deploying a virtual desktop infrastructure based on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. Warid Telecom increased uptime to 99.9 percent, cut support time by 40...

Tags: Power Consumption, Virtual Desktop, Uptime, Telecommunications, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware

Case studies 2009-10-01

Sustainable Cost Reduction: How Insurance Companies Can Embed Efficiencies for Long-Term Operating Improvement

The insurance industry today is facing an extraordinary confluence of adverse macroeconomic trends along with unique challenges and opportunities. As balance sheets weaken, revenue growth slows and margins come under pressure, the urgency for companies to reduce costs, strengthen risk management and stabilize their capital position is increasing. In addition,...

Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, Cost Reduction, Insurance, Financial Planning, Balance Sheets, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Financial Services, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting

White papers 2009-08-31

Foundation of our green future

I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...

Tags: Foundation Capital, Florida Power & Light, Construction, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Cisco's fourth quarter's crib sheet: Gauging enterprise spending

Cisco reports its fourth quarter results Wednesday and analysts are looking for a few signs that the enterprise business has stabilized and an outlook that's a touch optimistic. Cisco is expected to report fourth quarter earnings of 28 cents a share on revenue of $8.5 billion. Cisco...

Tags: Router, Cisco Systems Inc., Routers & Switches, Sales Strategy, Network Technology, Networking, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-05

HyundaiCard and Hyundai Capital Prepare for Global Expansion With Integrated HR Platform

HyundaiCard and Hyundai Capital wanted to standardize Human Resource HR systems to provide managers with a unified view of HR issues and integrate business processes and create seamless links between HR functions, with the aim of achieving improvements in all HR areas. The challenge was to create a single access...

Tags: Hyundai, Human Resources Inc.

Case studies 2009-08-01

Cox Communications Transforms Human Resources Processes to Boost Efficiency and Engagement

Cox's Human Resources HR department created a five-year vision in 2002 to unify HR systems and processes across the entire employee lifecycle and to drive employee engagement. The plan also involved delivering self-service functionality to increase efficiency and allow data capture closest to the source, providing consistency companywide without taking...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Human Resources Inc., Cox Communications Inc.

Case studies 2009-08-01

Building Scale for the Utility Company's Future

Utilities are entering a new era. Concerns about the aging delivery infrastructure, climate change, and energy security are driving investments in new and cleaner sources of energy - renewables, nuclear, demand response, and energy efficiency. With new investments in the intelligent grid come the promise and the challenge of the...

Tags: International Data Group, Roi/Tco, Investment, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2009-08-01

JCH Cuts Budget Planning Process From 130 Days to 80 Days With Centralized System

Due to rapid business expansion and intensifying competition, JCH found that its legacy budget management system did not offer the sophisticated features necessary for detailed planning and in-depth analysis. It did not provide the high quality data needed for informed decision-making on strategic and operational matters. This resulted in poor...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Strategic Planning, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

Intel commits $10M to five clean-tech companies

Intel Capital is sinking new and additional investment funds into five technology companies, most of which have some stake in the energy monitoring or monitoring marketplace. Here's a summary of who snagged the money: CPower, a New York company that provides energy management and demand response...

Tags: Renewable Energy, Monitoring, Clean Technology, Intel Corp., Intel Capital, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-29

CIT unraveling could be headache for Dell, Avaya, resellers

The U.S. government has drawn a line in the sand---it won't bail out debt-ridden CIT, a financial services firm that loans money to small and midsized business in part to buy and lease technology equipment. Unlike other financial company implosions CIT's potential demise could have a direct impact on technology...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Financing, Leasing, Avaya Inc., CIT, Capital Structures, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-16

Cloud and upgraded computing future brightens despite overcast economy, Microsoft-sponsored survey finds

Cloud and upgraded computing future brightens despite overcast economy, Microsoft-sponsored survey findsMore Benefits to Virtualization The current economic conditions have forced IT managers to look long and hard at every IT purchase. Naturally, virtualization has bubbled to the top as a popular investment for IT managers as it offers...

Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, Microsoft Corp., virtualization, computing future, hardware appliance, survey find, survey

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Human Capital Management Vendor Charts Growth Path With Technology Support Services

API Healthcare builds its software completely on Microsoft server software and technologies and develops the software by using Microsoft development tools. API Healthcare staff had to devote considerable time to support issue resolution. The company wanted to improve and expand training opportunities, and expedite and streamline problem resolution. API Healthcare...

Tags: Support Services, API, Human Capital Management, Microsoft Corp., API Healthcare, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2009-07-01

Lowering Costs and Improving Efficiency in Disaster Recovery Environments

In today's down economy, implementing and managing a disaster recovery solution is a critical challenge for most organizations. The attendee of this webcast will learn about EMC RecoverPoint bandwidth reduction and journal recovery capabilities as well as the EMC CLARiiON CX4 Virtual Provisioning feature that dramatically lowers capital and operational...

Tags: EMC Corp., Storage, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-06-30

News to know: iPhone OS 3.0; Text messaging; Social search; Morro; Palm

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. Mary Jo Foley: Former Softie to take real-time social-search startup public Matthew Miller: iPhone OS 3.0 update fails connecting...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Social Search, Palm Inc., Text Messaging, Corporate Communications, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Branding, Marketing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Green storage has limited ROI, but supports overall efficiency

I care deeply about the environment, certainly more than I care personally about money, so it pains me to say that in most cases, making storage decisions based on power expenditure alone is not rational behavior. The world is driven by economics, and the stark reality is that the cost...

Tags: ROI, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Reichman

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Accounting for success? Darwin meets the green eyeshade world…

Have you really looked at your options for finance & accounting lately? BPO business process outsourcing for Finance and Accounting has been going on for a time. The industry owes some part of its success to the shared services efforts of larger firms. When businesses created shared...

Tags: Software, Accounting, Firm, Darwin, F&A, F&A Executive, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Excerpt #2: Customer Experience - Chap 21 from CRM @ The Speed of Light, 4th ed.

I have to be straight with you. I'm entering the head down, grind it, drive to the goal line when it comes to CRM at the Speed of Light's 4th edition.  Which means that in other areas that I'm writing, I'm treading water. So there is a dual purpose to...

Tags: Expectation, Interaction, Customer, Customer Experience, CRM, Strategy, Management, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-04