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What have we done?

We are in deep doo-doo if people are only now discovering that Internet entrepreneurs need to get people to pay for things instead of just giving everything away for free. Is such a concept so novel? by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Geometry, Conventional Wisdom, Money, Fred Wilson, Blogging, Internet, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-02-07

Network Security 2.0: A Systems Approach to Threat Mitigation

The conventional wisdom in IT threat mitigation is to build a layered "Defense in-depth" approach with security technology such as firewalls, IPS, network access control, anti-x client software, alarm aggregation and event correlation, etc. And while the layered approach to defense is a useful threat mitigation strategy, the threat landscape...

Tags: Network, Network Security, Conventional Wisdom, Access Control, Lippis Enterprises, Networking, Security

White papers 2008-05-01

Additional Resources

Steve Jobs: Silicon Valley's Babe Ruth (and Fortune's CEO of the decade)

What no comment by NonZ? I hope he/she is not ill or something:PPagan jimThe P.T.Barnum of the Tech Industry......when is he going to cut the Chinamen that work for him in on the big cash flow?NZ will show up at some pointUnless he is on vacation.Or getting over the...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Steve Jobs, Babe Ruth

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

DRAM error rates: Nightmare on DIMM street

A two-and-a-half year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought -- a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year. This is the world's first large-scale study of RAM errors in...

Tags: DRAM, Error, DIMM, Hardware Failure, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-10-04

Ballmer: He knows when you're using a Mac

So what does Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer do when he faces a room of press and financial analysts toting a bunch of Macs. He counts Apple logos. The man knows when you're using a Mac. He knows when your Vista PC is awake. It's unclear if Ballmer...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Steve Ballmer, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Microsoft Windows 7, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Report: Americans dumber than a box of rocks about spam

Report: Americans dumber than a box of rocks about spamUse data that means somethingThe survey results might be more interesting or relevant if the data were normalized by population. Otherwise to me at a rough look seems that the percentage ranking for the most part would fall along the...

Tags: Cyberthreats, spam

Discussion threads 2009-07-20

SOA services still too constrained by applications they represent

It almost seemed as if the whole bottom-up versus top-down argument for SOA had been settled, once and for all. The best approach from now on would be bottom-up, with some middle-out, or something like that. None of this "big bang" stuff. Business units will build focused, ROI-generating projects which...

Tags: SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-26

EMC: Virtualization is ready to run the world's biggest applications

Typically, when IT departments decide to use virtualization in the data center, the big question is which workloads to virtualize. The conventional wisdom has been to avoid virtualizing anything that was too I/O-intensive, such as databases and e-mail systems. However, EMC wants to put that idea to...

Tags: EMC Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-05-20

SAP software revenue skids in first quarter; Maintenance terms tweaked

SAP's first quarter software revenue---an indicator of maintenance and services health skidded 33 percent due to a "difficult operating environment" and a tough year ago comparison. Meanwhile, SAP altered its maintenance pricing plans to allay customer concerns.  SAP on Wednesday reported first quarter net income of €204...

Tags: Software, Revenue, Customer, SAP AG, Dennis Howlett, Vinnie Mirchandani, Upgrades, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-29

iPhone lite and mediapad rumored from Apple

iPhone lite and mediapad rumored from AppleMediapad...if there's no keyboard on the mediapad, it will fail miserably.RE: iPhone lite and mediapad rumored from AppleNot interested, the iPhone is actually good enough for light web surfing and the simple games. Can't see lugging another device around unless the picture quality...

Tags: Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Apple iPhone, iPhone lite, Apple Inc., lite

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

Why Microsoft won round one of netbook wars

Why Microsoft won round one of netbook warsIt's round two they won.Remember? They didn't even show up for round one.I think you nailed an important point.I think you nailed an important point. Marketing is a huge factor in the OS wars. Apple and Microsoft are very good at it.Linux...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, Microsoft Corp., netbook war

Discussion threads 2009-04-14

iPhone could morph into a table at WWDC

iPhone could morph into a table at WWDCI've been waiting for a small tablet.I always liked the idea of tablet PCs, but all the ones I tried were a little bulky, and not enough software to justify them (OneNote, though, is almost that justification).I had a couple of PDAs way...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Keyboards, iPhone platform, Apple iPhone, tablet, GIMME, WWDC, netbook, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Sprint, T-Mobile expand options for wireless broadband on laptops

Sprint is on a roll this week. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal reported the company is making a big push to sell its network capacity wholesale for use in gadgets such as digital cameras, GPS receivers and MP3 players (it's already in the Kindle). Today the company announced expansion plans...

Tags: 4G, Network, Clearwire Corp., Broadband, T-Mobile, Sprint Communications, Laptop Computer, Wireless Broadband, Wireless, WiMAX, Modems, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Networking, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-03-25

SOA without service-enabled applications?

"SOA Possible Even Without Service-Enabled Apps." This is a statement that goes against the conventional wisdom, so, being a fan of things that go against conventional wisdom, I checked out this Q&A interview with Shailender Kumar, vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware for Oracle India, to see...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-03-19

Dawn of the New Data Center - Cisco TechWiseTV

What happens when experts from the server, virtualization, and networking realms are given permission to ignore conventional wisdom and build the perfect data center? The Cisco TechWiseTV investigative team interviews the developers to bring you the latest ground breaking developments in the Unified Computing System. Register now to view it...

Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-03-16

Not One Click for Security

Conventional wisdom holds that security must negatively affect usability. The paper has developed SCoopFS Simple Cooperative File Sharing as a demonstration that need not be so. SCoopFS addresses the problem of sharing files, both with others and with ourselves across machines. Although SCoopFS provides server authentication, client authorization, and end-to-end...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., SCoopFS, Security

White papers 2009-03-06

Rumor: New desktop Macs on 24 March

A World of Apple source claims that Apple is planning to hold a special event on March 24 to announce it's long-awaited desktop hardware updates. The source says that the event will be similar to the notebook event that Apple held last October. Apple is long-overdue to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Desktops, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Cablevision's New Online News Model May Be Optimum. Or Not.

This is a day you hope will be a turning point in the search for a sustainable business model online for the kind of journalism that requires sustained research, writing and editing. Original fact-finding and analysis based on that fact-finding. The Rocky Mountain...

Tags: Newsday, Cablevision Systems Corp., News, Times Select, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Vista gets a halo effect from Windows 7

Vista gets a halo effect from Windows 7Come now, Ed......you're not supposed to offer facts and figures. It confuses the FUDmongers.Seriously though, this isn't really a surprise to anyone following the sales figures.Come now, Sleeper ...Let's not bait them whlist they writhe in agony, foaming at the mouth at...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Patches, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-02-02

Vista gets a halo effect from Windows 7

Conventional wisdom says corporations have completely rejected Windows Vista. But I’m seeing evidence lately that Vista’s image is improving with age. A new report issued today by Benjamin Gray and his colleagues at Forrester Research confirms that Vista is getting a new lease on life in the enterprise. Ironically, Microsoft’s...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2009-02-02