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Reviewing your pandemic plans has just become job #1

Guest post: With the focus on bird flu in recent years, it’s sort of unexpected to hear that the latest pandemic might, in fact, not come from flying descendents of dinosaurs but might be the result of a combination of human, bird and swine influenza viruses that have evolved inside pigs and...

Tags: Job, Outbreak, Flu, Contingency Plan, VPNs, Remote Access, Network Security, Telecommunications, Security, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

City of Austin Emergency Contingency Plan Includes Dell

In addition to its normal workload of supporting the City of Austin's increasing population, the city's Communications and Technology Management department was suddenly tasked with providing technology resources for thousands of New Orleans evacuees relocated to Austin after Hurricane Katrina. The department created a Technology Response Team consisting of volunteers,...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Austin, Contingency Plan

Case studies 2008-02-01

101 project management tips

Inside CRM has a list of 101 tips for being a better manager. Here are my picks for the ten best: Only promise what you can realistically deliver. Don't create deadlines that you know you can't meet. By only promising what you know you can do, you'll ...

Tags: Project Management, Milestone, Ethics, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-08-28

Oracle Case Study: America Leasing S.A

With 10 years of experience and customers in every sector of the economy, Peruvian-based America Leasing S.A. specializes in capital equipment leasing. The company wanted to ensure a reliable, affordable, and secure data infrastructure that enables the company to serve its growing client base and fulfill contingency plan requirements established...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Contingency Plan, Capital Structures, Smb/Sme, Finance

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Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' data

I lost my contacts for a few days. Give me ONE HUNRED BILLION DOLLARS!!!Says with pinky raised to mouth.RE: Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick users' dataI don't feel sorry for anyone who owns a Sidekick and lost their data. It is moronic to purchase a device that...

Tags: Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Reformulating Murphy's law

Reformulating Murphy's lawInteresting thoughtsIt's saddening that thought is such a rare thing among us humans.Imagine how different the world might have been.[i]"The applications to IT are less obvious but equally compelling. If you believe, for example, in the achievability of wintel security, you?ll spend lots of money setting your employer...

Tags: Operating systems, Wintel, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-08-01

IT lessons from Facebook's user name launch

Facebook has detailed some of the backend moves as it prepared to roll out usernames to 200 million users. The blog post is the latest in Facebook's effort to allow us peak behind the scenes a bit. Facebook allowed its 200 million users to pick names while...

Tags: Facebook, Information Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-02

EMC spars with NetApp over Data Domain

EMC has swooped in Monday with an $1.8 billion, or $30 a share, offer for Data Domain. The rub: Rival NetApp already had a plan to buy the company for $25 a share, or $1.5 billion.  EMC said its all cash offer is a 20 percent premium...

Tags: NetApp Inc., Joe Tucci, Domain, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Inside Dell's command center

If there’s a hurricane forming in the Caribbean, a major freeway closure in Los Angeles or flight delays out of Chicago, chances are that Jason Allen knows about it. Allen is in charge of Dell’s five worldwide Global Command Centers, around-the-clock operational centers where technicians are constantly...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Center, Command Center, Allen, Team Management, Web Technology, Data Centers, E-business/E-Commerce, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer

Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayerYou're missing the pointWe should not permit single point of failure networks to be built. Besides, there's over 80 million miles of fiber in the U.S. alone, and it simply is not possible to monitor all that cable, or...

Tags: Network technology, WikiAnswers, cable, prayer, Internet-infrastructure

Discussion threads 2009-04-10

TomTom, Microsoft settle: Who caved?

TomTom, Microsoft settle: Who caved?It almost seems like TomTom was expecting this... as fast as they reacted.. seems like they had a contingency plan. I imagine they also wanted to ensure their stock didnt crumble.Its interesting how fast MS agreed though. Maybe it wasnt that big of a...

Tags: TomTom, Microsoft Corp., patent

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

Will Tim Cook be the next Steve Jobs?

Last month, after a press event at Apple's Cupertino headquarters, I made an off-the-cuff observation about the future leadership of the company. In short, I commented on how Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, who took a portion of stage time from Jobs to talk about new notebooks, was wearing blue...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CEO, Leadership, Outsourcing, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Microsoft wants you to move: To IE 8, Vista...

A visit to the Microsoft booth at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo is full of subliminal messages urging technology executives to move up to more modern products. One part of the booth rides shotgun with a research note from Gartner of course making sure you "understand the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-16

The Disaster Recovery Items Few Consider

How Too Much of a Disaster Screws Up the Best Plans I spent a lot of time one night this week with the CFO of a coastal Texas organization that’s based between Houston and Galveston. That phone interview yielded some surprising observations about disaster recovery and how...

Tags: Phone, Disaster, Laptop Computer, CFO, Disaster Recovery, Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Data Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-09-21

Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn's plan goes kaput

Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn's plan goes kaputWhat happens if...Icahn's slate wins this is still a serious possibility and MS still isn't interested in buying, or would only be willing at a greatly reduced price? I would think that Icahn would have no choice but to run Yahoo...

Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Yang, Google Search, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

How an Apple store was transformed into a Best Buy in 10 minutes

How an Apple store was transformed into a Best Buy in 10 minutesThat is true[i]We pay a lot for our hardware / software so we have a right to be annoyed more than people buying $400 laptops, right?[/i]I agree. When you are not dealing with the higher volumes of people...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple Store, Best Buy Co. Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-22

Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.

Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.And this is whyWeb 2.0 will die. Only a fool trusts sensitive data to a third party they have no control over.Service interruptions inevitableI don't care who it is. Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com, MSFT...everyone is going to have an outage. ...

Tags: Manufacturing, Corporate governance, RAID, outage, Amazon.com Inc., BAD BAD new, Amazon S3 web service, Amazon S3 web services down, BAD BAD, AWS, white board, board, backup, Web service

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

Middle East Internet outage: Do you have backups for your offshore ops?

Countries across the Middle East are sans Internet connections due to a cable break on Wednesday. Two lessons: The Internet in some areas lack redundancy and telecommunications infrastructure is weak. And companies that outsource customer service operations offshore need to plan ahead. Egypt's Minister of Communications and...

Tags: Offshore, Customer Service, Call-center, Backup, Outage, Egypt, Internet, Outsourcing, Cable, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Manufacturing, Call Centers, Product Marketing, Network Technology, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-31

New IT project failure metrics: is Standish wrong?

New IT project failure metrics: is Standish wrong?Failure ratesThis is great stuff, but there's a huge issue of methodology that the researchers apparently overlooked: By interviewing project managers, they automatically excluded all the projects that don't *have* PMs (and that's a lot of them). The projects that are run by...

Tags: Standish, failure metric, New IT

Discussion threads 2007-12-07

NYC cabbie strike: Try an ad share

New York City cabbies launched a two-day strike on Wednesday to make life difficult to millions of New Yorkers. The fix? An advertising revenue share. Here's the deal: New York wants cabbies to install GPS systems, video screens and touch screen credit card processors in their cabs....

Tags: Advertisement, Traffic, New York, GPS, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-09-05