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From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

The controls that developed around the 360 environment were all predicated on the primary concerns expressed by Finance management: that nothing interrupt processing critical to Finance. Thus virtually all of them derive from, or are subsidiary to, the service level agreement. by Paul Murphy

Tags: SLA, IBM Mainframe, Data Center, Mainframe, Data-processing, IBM Corp., CoBiT Framework, CoBiT, Systems Documentation, Disaster Plan, Data Centers, Service Level Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It Operations, It service Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Additional Resources

Is Google working on the synchronization problem?

ReadWriteWeb has a post up about the fact that Zoho has added offline access to Zoho Mail using Gears. Zoho continues to do a really good job of innovating when it comes to Ajax-based RIAs. They were very early to the game in creating offline support for Zoho Docs before...

Tags: Google Inc., Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., ReadWriteWeb, Zoho Mail, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Cisco SONA

Cisco caught my attention by asking me if I wanted to see the results of a study indicating how organizations are seeing Web 2.0 and/or Service Oriented Architecture SOA application adoption. Having executed dozens of studies of this nature while I was at IDC, I was interested in the results,...

Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-08

ITIL - Service Approach for Siemens Enterprise Communications

The structure of ITIL is evolving from Version 2 to Version 3; understand how the adoption and application of the ITIL framework can add value to your enterprise, and how Siemens is taking the ITIL model and using it to drive portfolio and proposition development, alongside global service delivery capabilities....

Tags: Siemens AG, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2008-10-08

Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homework

Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homeworkVista needs a better UIBut I wouldn't know that personally as I have never used it and instead relied on the anecdotes of others (well I have fiddled with it in stores and found it was very different yet had no compelling...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Mac OS X, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2008-10-07

With Systinet 3.0, HP broadens SOA governance role to encompass services lifecycle, business processes, IT service management

The movement is to expand SOA governance, but perhaps more importantly, expand governance in general across more of what IT touches. Rules, roles, business context, policy, development-to-deployment lifecycles, operational efficiency, projects and services -- all need to be brought into a contextual whole. Not by a common product set, but...

Tags: Business Process, Registry, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, IT Service Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Systinet Corp., HP SOA Systinet 3.0, HP Software, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Mono 2.0...why not Microsoft?

Mono 2.0...why not Microsoft?Mono is an IP trap. Don't touch it with a barge pole.ntStrategic options[i]What I sometimes wonder, however, is why Microsoft has no interest in doing such a thing themselves.[/i]According to Scoble, MS management is reserving the option of suing non-MS versions into oblivion, as discussed at...

Tags: .NET, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Other Software, Mono, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft .NET

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

Mono 2.0...why not Microsoft?

The release of Mono version 2.0, the open source implementation of .NET that is available for use on Mac, Linux and Windows platforms, is an achievement in itself. I often wonder, however, why Microsoft has no interest in releasing a cross-platform, fully-supported version of the .NET framework themselves. by...

Tags: Mono, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Development Tools, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Improve your failed IT culture

Improve your failed IT cultureRisk and rulesWhat's the connection between your suggested steps to improve projects and the problem identified?Is it possible to deal with the problem identified in the following quoted quotes without using the word "blame"?Creating a culture for risk management is a challenging proposition for most firms....

Tags: Strategy, Financial Planning, Computer Services, Anton, risk management, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

October promises to be hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, Ubuntu

October is promising to be a big month for open source releases. As the page on the calendar turned, Acquia launched of its commercially supported version of the popular Drupal open source social publishing system. And over the weekend, Novell-sponsored Mono project announced the...

Tags: Mono, Ubuntu, Drupal, October, Linux, OpenOffice, .Net, Open Source, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Book2 English - Spanish (zip)

book2 is free and contains 100 lessons that provide beginners with the basic vocabulary. With no prior knowledge of Spanish you will soon learn to fluently speak short sentences in real-world situations. The book2 method successfully combines audio and text for effective language learning. book2 corresponds to the Common European...

Tags: School, Knowledge, Language, Goethe-Verlag, Book2, Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2008-10-06

Book2 English - French (zip)

Book2 is free and contains 100 lessons that provide beginners with the basic vocabulary. With no prior knowledge of French you will soon learn to fluently speak short sentences in real-world situations. The book2 method successfully combines audio and text for effective language learning. book2 corresponds to the Common European...

Tags: School, Knowledge, Language, Goethe-Verlag, Book2, Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2008-10-06

Book2 English - Russian (zip)

Learn Russian quickly and easily with 100 downloadable audio (mp3) files! book2 is free and contains 100 lessons that provide beginners with the basic vocabulary. With no prior knowledge of Russian you will soon learn to fluently speak short sentences in real-world situations. The book2 method (www.book2.de) successfully combines audio...

Tags: School, Audio, Language, Goethe-Verlag, Book2, Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2008-10-06

Book2 English - Dutch (zip)

Book2 is free and contains 100 lessons that provide beginners with the basic vocabulary. With no prior knowledge of Dutch you will soon learn to fluently speak short sentences in real-world situations. The book2 method successfully combines audio and text for effective language learning. book2 corresponds to the Common European...

Tags: School, Knowledge, Language, Goethe-Verlag, Book2, Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2008-10-06

I'm Cookoo about Cucku Backup

I recently discovered this great application, Cucku Backup at the Pepcom Holiday Spectacular party a few weeks ago. Cucku differs from other network-based personal backup solutions such as Carbonite  or Iron Mountain SOHO in that the software is free and leverages existing peer-to peer technology from the Skype VOIP network....

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Cucku, Backups, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Android has power of a clean sheet

Android has power of a clean sheetMaybe Android is a big deal?When I first started seeing stories about Android, I figured it was an iPhone wannabe. But, more and more it sounds like my kind of device (os?).This could be the killer app (os?) for phones/PDAs/mp3 players/image viewers.Wow.The key...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Programming languages, Nokia Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Ballmer previews 'Windows Cloud'

Speaking to developers in London, Steve Ballmer says Microsoft will announce a cloud-based operating system within a month--with a catchy new name. Microsoft will launch an operating system for the 'cloud' in four weeks, chief executive Steve Ballmer told delegates at a Microsoft-sponsored developer conference in London....

Tags: Application, Operating System, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software As A Service (SaaS), Software, Emerging Technologies, Ballmer, Microsoft, cloud, developer

News items 2008-10-03

Informatik xPrint (msi)

xPrint acts like a printer driver. The program convert any printable document to TIFF, PDF or other graphics files. Multipage support for TIFF and PDF files. The program features extensive markup options, like freehand drawing, shapes, arrows, redactions, highlighting, text bubbles, watermarks, text inserts, and image inserts. The procedure is...

Tags: Adobe PDF, TIFF, Graphics, Informatik, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-10-02

Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave

Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal waveStallman sounds panicIf FOSS folks believe they can compete with proprietary software, why not build their own FOSS cloud and then take the battle right to the other proprietary cloud platforms?Ever been in a restaurant kitchen ?How old is the food ? Where have...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Cable, OPEN SOURCE, Stallman, cloud computing, tidal wave, TV

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Silver lining 1: lousy economy would spur demand for IT architecture professionals

Silver lining 1: lousy economy would spur demand for IT architecture professionalslousy US economy means lousy global economyI was having a similar conversation last night at dinner with a fellow architect from India. He was describing how off-shore development shops in India are worried that the economic slow down...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-10-01