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- Data Processing
- (1) Processing information by machines. Data processing was the first name used for the information technology business, and it is still used as an umbrella title. In the...
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- Staffing for Linux, not distribution X
- Back in the mid to late 1970s the battle for control of corporate IT was in full swing. One side, the corporate data processing group in Finance, maintained an almost absolute ideological purity with deep commitments to one vendor and the One Right Way while, on the other, line...
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- BlackBerry Patent app would automate adding Contact physical address info to Address Books
- Technology in a BlackBerry Patent application published just this morning would extract physical address information from incoming BlackBerry emails, and then automatically add that information to profiles of individuals already in the user's BlackBerry Address Book.The Abstract for the Patent app entitled "Method and system for updating a BlackBerry address...
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- The nastiest, most pernicious, Windows advantage yet
- Back in the 1980s everybody with any serious management experience assumed that IT development projects would fail to meet budget, timeline, and functional expectations but would eventually deliver something - and something, of course, was believed to be better than nothing. That expectation of failure resulted from experience: most...
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- Development vs. Coding
- It seems to me that a lot of the responses to last week's blogs on using prototypes in development reflect an assumed set of distinctions between coding and application development that themselves ultimately reflect organizational assumptions. Note that I'm talking about the traditional business application -many users, CRUD transactions...
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- The (traditional) disaster recovery plan
- Aka the business continuity plan and rather less well known as the "risk action plan," this is a document whose existence and table of contents are subject to audit - but which, like most data processing control artifacts, doesn't have to bear much resemblance to reality. In theory, of course,...
- Blog posts 2006-08-14
- Evolution, risks, controls, and strategies
- The thin client transition offers considerable benefits in terms of processing risk reduction, auditability and the imposition of relatively low level usage controls. Indeed the biggest organizational risk incurred by this transition results from the fact that it speeds up the move to centralized computing and allows the IT...
- Blog posts 2006-08-02
- The meaning of 'relational'
- A lot of talkback contributors and others have muttered about the general failure of most application developers to make full and effective use of relational technology in their work. My guess, however, is that not too many of these people would agree to the same set of assertions either about...
- Blog posts 2006-06-06
- IT Customer Service
- A lot of people complain about the arrogance of IT people and our general failure to understand either the customer or the business. So what happens when IT is the business? or, at least, where IT has a clear role on the customer service delivery side? Well it depends first...
- Blog posts 2006-06-01
- Virtualization, old and new
- There are two very different kinds of virtualization making headlines these days. The second one, resource virtualization for management purposes, seems wholly laudable. Whether used to manage storage, processing, or networking a virtual system constructed as kind of unified console for two or more pieces of real hardware can reduce...
- Blog posts 2006-05-22
- Using SOX to devalue computing
- It's long been possible to use a Sun box in place of a mainframe: running traditional CICS style jobs faster and at a much lower cost. Sun, in fact, has a whole bunch of people dedicated to selling this kind of thing. But there's a problem: the data processing...
- Blog posts 2006-04-27
- The IT Commandments:
- The IT Commandments:SOx handcuffsThe new SOx regulations have further eroded the traditional system admin's role. Instead of being the one-stop-shop keeper of root, the system admin is being pidgeonholed into "roles" - where root access is locked up, and sysadmins get some sort of "pseudo root" access. Those "data processors"...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-21
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt honor and empower thy (Unix) sysadmins
- In data processing your machine operators are nobodies - essentially semi-skilled labour invisible to anyone outside the glass room. In science based computing (i.e. Unix), however, your sysadmins are the people who work with the user community to make and implement the day to day tactical decisions characterizing successful systems...
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- Microsoft recapitulates IBM
- This is part two of an answer to talkback contributor Carl Rapson's question about why, if dumb terminals were dumb then, would they be smart now? This isn't an easy question, and to get to the answer I need to start with a long digression on history. Please bear with...
- Blog posts 2005-09-20
- Moore's Law - and Murphy's corollary
- I have a cynical corollary on Moore's law as commonly understood to predict rapid, evolutionary, change in microprocessors. It goes like this: "in computing, as elsewhere, expertise decays in the presence of technical change, leaving only out-dated reflexes and organizational position in its place." I've worked, for example, for a...
- Blog posts 2005-08-11
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- Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
- There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Comcast, Cox block BitTorrent 24/7
- Comcast and Cox are blocking BitTorrent traffic, regardless of the time of day or day of the week, students from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems report. And despite suggestions that BitTorrent blocking is widespread across ISPs, the Institute's Glasnost test found that the two cable...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack
- Microsoft won't be delivering database backup as one of the new features promised for the first "PowerPack" update for Windows Home Server when it ships later this year. The independent "We Got Served" Home Server blog acknowledged the feature cut in a May 9 entry. According to...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Facebook: Google Friend Connect violates our privacy standards
- The social networking ground war is well underway. Facebook said Thursday that it will block Google's Friend Connect services because it "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge." Facebook's Charlie Cheever writes regarding Google Friend Connect: We're excited that our industry partners...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- EU has privacy concerns over Street View
- The EU is not too happy with the upcoming launch of Google Maps' Street View in Europe. The problem: privacy. The AP quotes the EU's top data protection supervisor, Peter Hustinx: "I would encourage Google to think about how to do this," Hustinx told...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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