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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...
- Tags: Software, Commoditization, Pricing Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Marketing Research, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Management, Phil Wainewright
- 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...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Commoditization, Abundance, Zoho Writer, Business Services, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), OpenOffice, Management, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Dennis Howlett
- 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...
- Tags: Commoditization, N-able Technologies, Managed Hosting, Strategy, It Services, Management
- 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...
- Tags: IT Services, Network administration, Software as a Service (SaaS), systems management, agent, commoditization, BMC Software Inc.
- 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. ...
- Tags: broadband
- 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...
- Tags: Steve Prentice
- 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...
- Tags: commoditization
- Blog posts 2005-07-05
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- Stinks to be the CIO: The 2010 IT budget may spike to 2006 resource levels
- Welcome to 2010 with the same resources you had back in 2006 and 2007 (if you're lucky). Now go out and be useful to the business. That cheery outlook was delivered by Gartner in its 2010 CIO Agenda talk. Some pep talk, guys. Gartner analyst Mark McDonald...
- Tags: IT Budget, CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Will online education kill the university?
- More to Harvard than the ClassesWhile I'm a big proponent of online and hybrid courses, I don't think that the residential college will go away entirely. People go to places like Harvard and Yale not just because they might learn more (and they might, depending on a lot of...
- Tags: Harvard, education
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- 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...
- Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., Bruce, Simon Wardley, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- 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...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, netbook, Microsoft Corp., catchy term, PC, notebook
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- The Perfect Storm for Enterprise-Class Clouds
- Cloud computing is not an overnight sensation. The weather conditions have forecasted its arrival over the last two decades. Early pioneers, such as e-Bay and Amazon took the "e-Commerce" model and applied a massively scalable architecture in their data centers. Creating this type of scalable architecture was only possible because...
- Tags: Unisys Corp., Data Centers, PDAs, Mainframes, Network Administration, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Handhelds, Servers, Networking
- White papers 2009-06-01
- 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...
- Tags: Advertisement, Attention, CRM, New Competition, Engagement Rating, Marketers, Marketing Professional, Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Greenberg
- 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...
- Tags: Global Knowledge, Information Technology, IT Security, It Services, ITIL, Management, Security, Strategy
- 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,...
- Tags: Asset, Business Strategy, Nerac, Asset Management, Intellectual Property, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Research & Development
- 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...
- Tags: INTERNET, Google Just, Google Inc., book deal
- 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...
- Tags: Google Inc., Book Search, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- 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...
- Tags: Blade Server, Data Center, Virtualization, Network, Blade, Information Technology, ZDNet, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco System, Data Centers, Utility Computing, Blade Servers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- 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...
- Tags: Hypervisor, Thin Client, Virtual Desktop, Computing, Josef Konsumer, Screen, Linux, Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- 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,...
- Tags: Analytics, MicroStrategy Inc., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, James Kobielus
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
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