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- Sharing your login is a criminal offence
- It looks like security-as-a-service is going to be one of the themes I cover here next week, and meanwhile I'm mulling a new post about SaaS and software pricing. So it seemed like a good moment to relay a comment that I heard from one of the panelists speaking back...
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- Does it blend? Zoho and Google
- The announcement earlier today that Zoho has added an import capability for those using GoogleDocs to its Writer apps is great news. It is something I asked for a short while ago and is an excellent example of how an agile cloud computing vendor can respond to a need when...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Key Strategies for Beating the Commoditization Curve
- To avoid the commoditization trap and distinguish their services from their competitors, MSPs need to develop a two-pronged strategy that involves developing a mature managed services practice that will enable them to deliver higher-value services that yield greater profit margins and drive down service delivery costs so MSPs can effectively...
- White papers 2007-05-03
- The commoditization of systems management
- The commoditization of systems managementHyperic and systems management commoditizationHi Phil,Don't write off agents entirely ;)Hyperic has addressed many of the issues you bring up.http://www.hyperic.org/blog/hyperic/?p=38-John MarkCommunity DevelopmentHyperic, Inc.Big Vendors also are AgentlessPhil,I agree that traditionally companies like BMC Software PATROL, Tivoli, CA and HP provided agent based systems management solutions. But...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- Gartner: User-controlled content delivery to set enterprise expectations
- Following his explanation of why commoditization in the consumer sector would wag the enterprise IT strategy dog, Gartner research chief and distinguished analyst Steve Prentice talked a bit about how software componentization and ease of user control over those software components might have a similar effect on IT strategy. ...
- Blog posts 2006-05-15
- Gartner: Commoditization means consumers will wag the enterprise IT dog
- As one of the four major pairs of themes underlying Gartner Symposium/ITxpo here in San Francisco, Gartner research chief and distinguished analyst Steve Prentice explained to attendees why the commoditization and consumerization of technology is not to be ignored an an enterprise's strategic information technology roadmap. Prentice's presentation was...
- Blog posts 2006-05-15
- Virtualization and SOA
- "The word architecture is generally quite misleading for describing what most companies have today," write John Hagel and John Seely Brown in their new book The Only Sustainable Edge. "Architecture calls forth images of the neat schematics of an architect who is carefully thinking through in advance all the needs...
- Blog posts 2005-07-05
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- Get ready for Oracle's 100 days of press releases aka innovation
- It's a while since I read Bruce Richardson, chief research officer at AMR but a couple of his most recent posts rang bells with me. The first: Who Drives Software Innovation? The “Best-of-Breed vs. Giants†Debate raises a donkey's year old discussion where he concludes: Call me cynical, but...
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- Microsoft may rename 'netbooks' to longer, less catchy term
- Microsoft may rename 'netbooks' to longer, less catchy termMicrosoft may rename 'netbooks' to longer, less catchy termThe new name won't catch on. Netbooks is a lot easier to say. The only time you will see it listed as ?low cost small notebook PC" is when Microsoft describes the hardware...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th Edition
- I'm going to try something out here. I am ready to cringe as the tomatoes and old iPods are thrown at me, or the praise is showered on me...oh, wait, that's someone dumping buckets of tar over my head. I'm providing an advance excerpt of Chapter 13 of CRM...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Tough Love: When IT Security Hurts Your Business
- As the pace of IT commoditization accelerates in response to laws like Sarbanes-Oxley, some security departments find themselves at odds with IT and the business. One solution that seems to work is to engage more with the business and devolve some security functions into day-to-day operations. Service Management concepts, like...
- White papers 2009-05-20
- The Effect of Intellectual Property Commoditization on Business Strategy
- In the early 21st century a greater focus on intangible assets is gaining ground. This marks a paradigm shift in how intangible assets - specifically, Intellectual Property IP - are viewed from an economic standpoint. Patents, while once viewed as tools used primarily for the prevention of copying of inventions,...
- White papers 2009-05-11
- Google on the defensive as book deal starts to come apart
- Google on the defensive as book deal starts to come apartall books should be free in electronic formCan't the publishers see the tidal FOSS wipping out proprietary software?They don't realize that there is an analogy between copyrighted books and proprietary software that points to their demise.It's already happening with the...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- Google on the defensive as book deal starts to come apart
- With the Google Book settlement showing signs of coming apart at the seams, Google has taken to its blog to make its case for the deal. Background: The settlement, reached in October between Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, would create a...
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Will Cisco's data center push ignite IT price war?
- Cisco System's introduction of its Unified Computing Center system consisting of an 8-blade server, data storage and network system designed to run virtualization software will likely ignite a price war as IT vendors battle for smaller IT budgets. It is an aggressive move by Cisco to break into new...
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- I've Seen the Future of Computing: It's a Screen.
- In the not so far off future, computing for most of us will be reduced to remotely delivered subscriber services, running on cheap, commodity high-definition display units. The last few weeks have been a rush of virtualization and cloud-based announcements. In December, IBM...
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Is BI recession-proof, or are we just bracing for the next shoe to drop?
- The economic outlook isn't all gloom and doom. Bright spots remain in some substantial IT growth sectors--most important, in the sprawling business intelligence BI market. In the past month, we've seen solid financials--in some cases, record growth and profitability numbers--from leading BI vendors, including SAP Business Objects,...
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- Dell I15-157B
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Winter 2009 Retail Roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores. Dell's middle-of-the-road 15-inch Inspiron laptops have long been an excellent go-to choice for basic computing, especially if you take the time to configure a system...
- Product reviews 2009-01-29
- The great certification debate
- The great certification debateRHCE means a lot!I am a RHCE and it is performance based, either you know it or you don't...Doing hands on is the way to base skills, bubble test are memorization and easier.It seems that the statement most associated with SAP is"...projects often run over time and...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-23
- Amazon EC2 launches Web-based management console
- Amazon EC2 launches Web-based management consoleElasticfox?While this is good news for hard core IE users we've been really impressed with Elasticfox, a Firefox extension for interacting with Amazon EC2.We've been using this for a while to manage our EC2 usage while building out a Silverlight 2 collaboration application called colaab.Bobhttp://colaab.comThe...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-09
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