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Whatever happened to CMP?

When this decade dawned, the big three technology news publishers were International Data Group, Ziff-Davis and CMP Media. Now, Ziff-Davis has been split into multiple pieces, including this site owned ultimately by CBS. And the initials “CMP” are nowhere to be found. The business that brings you...

Tags: Acquisition, Information Week, CMP Media, United Business Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Thin Clients, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-09

E-Commerce Unleashed

Dot-com businesses may be falling by the wayside, but the percentage of commerce happening via the Web continues to grow. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of cellular subscribers worldwide are gaining access to new wireless data choices, including Web-enabled cell phones, handheld computers and PDAs. One should combine these two facts,...

Tags: CMP Media, E-business, PDAs, Channel Management, Sales Channel, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Hardware, Marketing, Sales

White papers 2001-01-22

Risk-Assessment Strategies

Risk management enables sound judgment when taking risks, and affords a level of contingency planning should a risk become a reality. Understanding the risks to company assets is the starting point of a risk-management process. Once you understand the risks to your business, you'll be able to make sound decisions...

Tags: Risk, CMP Media, Risk Management, Strategy, Financial Planning, Security, Financial Services, Management, Finance

White papers 2000-10-30

Best Practices in Network Security

Information systems security, computer and network security, internet security - it is a complex world, and growing more so every day. With these changes, some truths and approaches to security remain the same, while others are new and radically different. Developing a sound security strategy involves keeping one eye on...

Tags: Network, Network Security, CMP Media, Best Practice, Security

White papers 2000-03-20

Additional Resources

Will meaningful use go down CCHIT rabbit hole?

Will meaningful use go down CCHIT rabbit hole?Whoosh!Zowie, Dana, this post has greater link density than most spam comments. :–) I certainly feel that meaningful use must be defined in a meaningful way! And I mean, like, when a crisis hits YOU, will what we've done today make you...

Tags: Government, Strategy, CCHIT, CCHIT rabbit hole, rabbit hole, counter-argument

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Open source thrives in downturn

Collaboration initiatives are all about streamlining business processes, and the interfaces between legacy closed systems and open source stacks are an increasingly common place to find business collaboration environments. According to research firm Gartner, open source software is present in 85% of enterprises and the...

Tags: Intalio Inc., Collaboration Initiative, Alfresco, Open Source, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-12-03

The Once and Future McGovern: IDG's New Web-Centric Numbers

It was the day after April Fool’s Day, last year. InfoWorld published its last print edition. Sturm and drang ensued at Patrick McGovern’s International Data Group. This was an 180,000-circulation publication. IDG couldn’t possibly replace its profit and revenue, by operating it solely online. But this McGovern...

Tags: Revenue, Web, InfoWorld, International Data Group, Operational Accounting, Channel Management, Finance, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-09

NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns abound

NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundGluteus maximus I suspect you mean ;-)Unless America has its own stupid version of that too.RE: NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundEmjoyed the English (and correct spelling ;)) of the glutus maximus area.Boo WhooI should feel bad the media is being...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Yahoo! Inc., media, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-02

Farewell to ZDNet (and CNET)

If you were an auditor asked to examine the human resources records of CNET parent company to ZDNet, you'd discover that even though the company was officially founded in 1992, that there's a handful of employees whose hire dates actually precede that year. My colleague Dan Farber is one...

Tags: CBS Interactive Inc., David Berlind, Human Resources, Media Business

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Web 2.0 Summit - reflections after a trans-Atlantic flight and a day off!

Last week's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco was pretty intense, all things considered. It's therefore lucky that this week is the Half Term school holiday in this particular corner of the UK, and peppered with days off to do various non-work things. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Facebook, Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-01

Mastering Storage Complexity

Data center complexity in today's enterprise continues to grow at a dizzying rate. Data volumes are doubling every two years, while storage utilization rates hover at 33%. And data is needlessly duplicated - CMP Media Research estimates by as much as 50 to 500 times. Consequently, space, power, and cooling...

Tags: Data Volume, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-10-23

Pepcom to CNET: If you organize any get-togethers after our events, we'll ban you

Pepcom to CNET: If you organize any get-togethers after our events, we'll ban youRealisation Sets InThe feedback that I expect they received was something along the lines of how good the aftershow was.Suddenly realisation sets in and they wonder how long it will be before vendors stop paying for stands...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Pepcom, Showstoppers

Discussion threads 2007-08-06

Microsoft OCS SIP an advantage over Cisco?

We start by noting Microsoft Business Division president Jeff Raikes' remarks last Thursday that Office Communications Server 2007 and the Office Communicator client are now code complete.The promise of this combination is that VOIP, IM, conferencing and presence will all be under one solution.Office Communications Server 2007, in public beta...

Tags: microsoft, Avaya

Blog posts 2007-07-30

Black Hat RFID hacking demo threatened

Another Black Hat conference, another vulnerability disclosure debate.IOActive's Chris Paget's plan to explain why RFID technology is "insecure and untrustworthy" has run into a legal stumbling block after secure card maker HID Corp. raised objections in a letter that claims possible patent infringement.InfoWorld's Paul Roberts is reporting that HID sent...

Tags: Wi-Fi security, Pen testing, Black Hat, Exploit code, Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Cisco, Vulnerability research, Oracle, Hackers, Zero-day attacks, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-02-27

Web 2.0 definition updated and Enterprise 2.0 emerges

The annual Web 2.0 Conference starts this Tuesday and with it comes an important update of the vision of the next generation of networked applications.  Thus, the major event during the leadup to the conference is not the pending renaming of the conference to the Web 2.0 Summit, but the...

Tags: Web 2.0, Design Patterns, Business Models, Collective Intelligence, SaaS, Mashups, Architecture of Participation, The Long Tail, Customer Self-Service, Web as Platform, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, Lightweight Service Models, Cost-effective scalability, Collaboration, Right To Remix, Two-Way Web, Enterprise Web 2.0, Social Software, RSS, Social Computing, Encouraging Unintended Uses, Enterprise 2.0, User Generated Content, Web

Blog posts 2006-11-05

Universal Desktop Daily - Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Happy Halloween! I'm mostly recuperated from Las Vegas and the MAX conference, so after taking the week off, the UDD is back. I'm going to divide this first list into new items and items I missed last week. New Items Wal-Mart goes Rich Internet Application with OpenLaszlo....

Tags: AJAX, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., RIA strategy, Brightcove, partnership, video

Blog posts 2006-10-31

XP MCE 2005 plus Vista premium at $110 now

For all those people saying Vista will cost $300 or more, here is a dose of reality.  You can now buy Windows Media Center Edition 2005 for $110 and get a free upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premium edition. Note that this is NOT a recommendation to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista

Blog posts 2006-10-28

Sun's Phipps makes a scarecrow argument

Sun's Phipps makes a scarecrow argumentPhipps needs some cold water thrown on him.Perhaps you mean [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchanted_Forest_Chronicles]soapy water with a little lemon juice[/url]?Everybody is wrong, I know everything and I am right - thats your attitudeSimple question - if you know so much, what are you doing sitting and writing a...

Tags: Ubuntu LTS, F/OSS, Phipps, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., software, Even Microsoft

Discussion threads 2006-06-28

Watching Windows Vista decay

Watching Windows Vista decayGrain of saltI don't doubt Vista is buggy, but how [i]reliable[/i] do you think the Reliability Monitor is?I have to say one thing here.....I have been using Redhat Linux since 6.0 and have my RHCT in RHEL3 paid for by work and Fedora Core 5 has bugs...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Right Now IT, Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, beta software, monitor

Discussion threads 2006-06-22

A Cure for the Summertime Blues

First Dave Winer highlights the one sentence in this blog that actually seemed to sound positive. You know, the angry old man, etc. Then a spate of crap from the trolls highlighted by one Paul Montgomery, a Down Under journalist his word who slimes all US journalists on his way...

Tags: Attention, Doc

Blog posts 2006-05-27