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Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft

The numbers don't lie An independent study found on-site Microsoft apps - Office and Exchange - cost 20x in capital dollars and 5x-6x more than Google Apps on a 3 year Total Cost of Ownership TCO basis. How can Microsoft compete? The debate Cloud, as...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Network, Data Loss, Downtime, Microsoft Corp., Business Problem, TwinStrata, SATA RAID 5, Capital Requirement, Update:Here, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Additional Resources

Now the fun starts on health reform

Tyranny wrapped up in compassionand you're a willing advocate. News flash for you. You won't get to be one of the rulers. Your life will wind up sucking just as badly as everyone else under the new system.A move to Canada is looking better and better every day. nt:-(Health Care...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, province, federal government, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Biodiesel's future

I recently spoke with Innovation Fuels CEO John Fox. His firm already makes biodiesel at plants in Milwaukee and New York Harbor. He says next year will see a growth in bodiesel production in the U.S. The 2010 federal requirement calls for all diesel oil--heating and vehicles--to...

Tags: Biodiesel, Innovation Fuels, John Fox, Soy, Diesel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-13

SAP's Schwarz & Sikka: The Road to More Agile Business Performance

Last week I had the opportunity to spend time with SAP CTO Vishal Sikka and separately SAP executive board member John Schwarz, and I've been ruminating on our conversations a lot since those meetings. Fortunately I was part of a group of bloggers who have been following SAP closely, and...

Tags: Performance, SAP AG, Financial Planning, Change Management, Performance Management, Strategy, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Why does 'complex event processing' have to be so complex?

I've always felt that "complex event processing" is a term that scares people away. Perhaps there needs to be a softer way to describe what this thing is -- perhaps just plain old "event processing" will do? Or perhaps "sense and respond, times 100,000"? You don't need...

Tags: Event, Financial Services, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-11

Today's Cloud: garbage; Tomorrow's? insanely great

Today's Cloud: garbage; Tomorrow's? insanely greatThere's interest from SMEsWe've had a few of our customers (all SME's) asking about this. One customer uses a hosting providing to run their public facing web site, which is mainly static content, but they also upload order tracking data on a daily basis, for...

Tags: SMB/SME, local storage, small and medium enterprise, storage

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Saves With Hosted Human Resources Solution

Blue Cross Blue Shield wanted to enhance productivity across the company's human resources functions, supporting the need for greater operational efficiency in the cost-conscious health insurance sector and consolidate segmented time-and-labor processes onto a single integrated system to extend visibility and streamline reporting. The challenge was to facilitate compliance with...

Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Oracle Corp., Payroll Solutions, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-03-01

Economic Challenge and Capacity Management: Increasing Value and ROI From Capacity Management - A Maturity Model

During times of economic stress, pressures on IT can become seemingly insurmountable. Requirements to "Ensure business services" and "Optimize availability" - challenging enough when budgets were more open, become extremely challenging. Spending freezes or significant reductions in capital infrastructure are common. However, just because the hardware or software acquisition budgets...

Tags: Business Service, ROI, Solution Labs

White papers 2009-01-29

Selling Unix in 2009 - much easier than in 2008?

Selling Unix in 2009 - much easier than in 2008?A PS3 on everyone's deskThe problem I have with your DumbRay solution is that you cannot do any processing on the desktop. This means that for FEA, you need to have dedicated "compute" servers in the old days those were Crays....

Tags: Linux, Workstations, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-12

Managing Capital Adequacy With the Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP) - Challenges and Best Practices

In addition to providing guidelines for calculation of minimum capital requirement and defining market disclosure requirements, one of the major objectives of the Basel II Accord is to improve risk management within the banks. As a result of Basel II, banks are faced with the task of developing internal procedures...

Tags: Bank, Best Practice, ICAAP, Basel II, Financial Services

White papers 2009-01-01

"Net neutrality" is stupid

"Net neutrality" is stupidThe problem, mixing social with business.The problem here is Robin is trying to treat a massive business investment billions in captial investment as if its a socialized publicly owned utility which it is not.Other countries subsidise connectivity/ISPs because they believe having broadband everywhere is critical to their...

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, Net Neutrality, Google Inc., service level, telecommunications company, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-12-16

Did the iPhone kill satellite radio?

Did the iPhone kill satellite radio?Plus, we're also now in a period where......people are looking to cut superfluous expenses from their lives. High capital-startup costs combined with high overhead, a requirement that users purchase additional hardware, and a monthly fee for something that for a critical mass of potential...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Digital music, Network technology, radio, satellite radio, satellite, Sirius, Apple iPhone, XM Satellite Radio Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

GRC in the current economy

Interview with OpenPages executive Gordon Burnes A couple of weeks ago, I ran a blog post concerning the recent Wall Street crisis and the role that compliance legislation like Sarbanes-Oxley had to play in preventing it. I contended that Sarbanes-Oxley failed and that the problem could be...

Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Compliance, Risk Management, Openpages Inc., GRC, Gordon, Sarbanes-Oxley, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-03

From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture

From Chapter Three: The Windows CultureOne application per serverThis model is pathetic. Mainframes can run more than one application at a time. So can UNIX machines. Windoze CAN run more than one application at a time, but the more apps you run simultaneously - the higher the risk of failure.This...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Operating systems, hardware, mainframe, Microsoft Windows, server, software, Microsoft Corp., United Parcel Service of America Inc., operating system

Discussion threads 2008-10-31

Intuit pushes deeper into cloud, points to its track record.

Intuit pushes deeper into cloud, points to its track record.Any company willing to put their accounting...records on the cloud has got to be plain stupid. It's a disaster waiting to happen.Intuit could port Quickbooks Enterprise client to Linux not just the server if they are looking to pick up...

Tags: Taxes, Backups, Free trade, Financial services, PERSONAL COMPUTERS, Intuit Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-13

Doubletake Customer Profile: Chickasaw Nation

I recently had the chance to communicate with Rob Jacks, Chief Information Technology Officer for the Commerce Division of the Chickasaw Nation. The Commerce Division uses Double Take's data protection software and was willing to speak about their experiences with the technology. About Commerce Division...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Casino, Technology, Rob Jacks, Commerce Division, CNDC Core Competency, H/A, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Games, Storage Management, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Personal Technology, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-04

FCC slaps Comcast's wrist over network neutrality; Sets precedent

FCC slaps Comcast's wrist over network neutrality; Sets precedentif comcast is truly guiltythey should be fine and severely monitor and audit for a period of time . so they walk straight. FCC should make a example out of them so other should fear FCC for realRE: FCC slaps Comcast's...

Tags: Federal government, Internet service providers (ISPs), NOW HERE, Comcast Corp., FCC, wrist, network neutrality, Internet Service Provider, network

Discussion threads 2008-08-01

Grumpy old man gets happy--how can this be? Isn't the U.S. economy hopelessly doomed?

I'm a grumpy old man. It's very easy to get really angry or completely depressed blogging about cleantech, or the need for it. From the global warming arguments to whole nations--like my own and China--stubbornly refusing to move to new technologies, this seems to be an era of...

Tags: U.S., McKinsey & Co., Clean Technology, Energy, Conservation, Deron Lovaas, Greenness, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Google's app war vs Microsoft: About to ramp?

Google's app war vs Microsoft: About to ramp?Google is trying to keep it all under wrap, but, sooner or later will comeout swinging, with offline access, a Google Apps Appliance, etc. There will be a Java based run-time added to Gears to make it all work. Google is also being...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

TextWise offers $1million for an American semantic hack

TextWise offers $1million for an American semantic hackSemantic HackHi,Just pointing out that the entire semantic hack projectmay be simple theft, see www.tsert.com/white-papers/nlp.pdfRegards,Tsert.comPierre InnocentRE: TextWise offers $1million for an American semantic hackGive me a break! A company thinks they have a great tool, and they have to pay somebody $1M...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, TextWise, semantic hack, promoter

Discussion threads 2008-03-19