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Nonprofit Improves Efficiency, Saves Money, and Increases Productivity in Server: The organization has experienced major disruptions in system availability. In the worst case, staff could not work for the duration of the outage. Replacing older systems with new was increasingly difficult because of disruptions of services, missed deadlines, and resolution of issues tied to deployment. These issues sometimes led to...; Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Disruption, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Terminal Services, Microsoft Windows, Manufacturing, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; Case studies 2008-02-01
Video Internet: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption to the U.S. Peering Ecosystem: In previous research the authors documented three significant disruptions to the U.S. Peering Ecosystem as the Cable Companies, Large Scale Network Savvy Content Companies, and Tier 2 ISPs started peering openly. By peering with directly each other they effectively bypassed the Tier 1 ISPs resulting in improved performance, greater control...; Tags: Equinix, Disruption, Video, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing; White papers 2006-09-29
Software + Services: An Architectural Perspective: People are entering a time of rapid change in the IT industry that will cause considerable dislocation and change in the Enterprise, IT suppliers, and the way that people perceive and use technologies. This disruption is similar to the PC and Internet revolutions in terms of scope and effect; touching...; Tags: Information Technology, Disruption, Strategy, Web 2.0, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Management, Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-08-01
Proving Your Disaster Recovery Plan Work: Ever since 9/11, one has found an increasing emphasis by top management and government regulators on asking disaster planners to demonstrate that their plans will actually work. For an organization with even a limited amount of complexity this "Show me" requirement can seem overwhelming - in terms of cost, disruption,...; Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Disruption, Jupitermedia Corp., Disaster Recovery, Regulations, Data Management, Government; White papers 2006-03-16
Proving Your Disaster Recovery Plan Works: Ever since 9/11, the authors have found an increasing emphasis by top management and government regulators on asking disaster planners to demonstrate that their plans will actually work. For an organization with even a limited amount of complexity this "Show me" requirement can seem overwhelming - in terms of cost,...; Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Disruption, Jupitermedia Corp., Disaster Recovery, Regulations, Data Management, Government; White papers 2006-03-16

What's BCM All About Anyway?: The threat and the after-shock of terrorism in the US, Spain and the UK has certainly raised the profile of Business Continuity. The reality, however, is that disruption to business operations will most likely arise from events less shocking and confrontational. In January 2005, a UK survey of 440 managers...; Tags: Disruption, U.K., Homeland Security, It Services, Marketing Research, Government, Marketing; White papers 2006-02-14
Business Continuity Planning: Becoming the Resilient Enterprise: What happens to a company when a disruption occurs? When an earthquake hits its primary contract manufacturer? When labor strikes shut down a critical port? When a severe flu pandemic strikes? Regulatory and corporate boards are pressing executive teams to expand and strengthen their organization's resiliency. This webcast will explore...; Tags: Business Continuity Planning, Disruption, Penton Media Inc., Business Continuity, Business Security, Corporate Governance, Strategy, It Services, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management; Webcasts

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Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Icahn on board: Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Icahn on boardIcahnThe cancer of the communications industry. He's almost so big the body can't reject his attacks and soon the it will die along with it's customers, not to mention all the jobs lost. Maybe he will sell it's soul to another country before...; Tags: Corporate governance, board, Icahn, Yahoo! Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-07-21
First MISO, then GISMO, next GOAT?: Awhile back my Irregular chums came up with MISO as the acronym to describe the main enterprise players of the time: Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle. We also quipped that could change to include Google and so with a little creative thought we ended up with GISMO. Last week's Apple...; Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Steve Gillmor, Apple Inc., 3G, Operational Planning, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Marketing, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-07-14
A time and need for service innovation, education: The vision behind Service Science is to build a coherent body of knowledge for service innovation, says IBM's Jim Spohrer. Commentary--Services make the world go around. In modern day society, we are all connected to each other by either giving or receiving a service. ...; Tags: services, IBM; News items 2008-07-10
VMware: CEO Greene out; Revenue light: VMware on Tuesday swapped CEOs and said that its revenue growth would fall short of expectations. In a statement, VMware said that CEO Diane Greene has departed. She will be replaced by Paul Maritz right effective immediately. Maritz will also be president and sit on VMware's board....; Tags: Revenue, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Enterprise IT and the hypercompetition boom: Corporate information technology has led to more winner take all markets and a super competitive business environment where players often flame out as quickly as they showed up. That's the big conclusion from Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in this month's Harvard Business Review. ...; Tags: Laggard, Information Technology, Leader, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Oil climbs peak, economies plumb depressions and the future will not imitate the past: To maintain any modicum of modern life countries and individuals will increasingly turn to electricity generated from renewable sources. There is no way to dramatically increase the world's oil production, now or in some dreamy future. All the major fossil fuels will be in declining supply by 2025...; Tags: Oil, Coal, Energy, Fossil Fuel, Chris Nelder, Nelder, IEA, U235, Corporate Communications, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Laura Jones and the Gates of Good and Evil (exe): The famous adventurer Laura Jones gets a letter from Professor Adams about a strange ancient talisman. The talisman turns to be one of the keys to the Mystical Gates preserving the source of sacred powers of Art, Love, Strength, Will, Talent and Knowledge. These powers affect people all around the...; Tags: Power, SpinTop Games, Evil, Workforce Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Management; Software downloads 2008-06-20
Live Webcast: Beyond Basic Back Up...Disaster Recovery Continuum: Disruptive events don't have to be a major disaster to wipe out your business. They can be anything from a relatively minor malfunctioning network card to a devastating event such as a sudden regional disaster that not only destroys your data center but also shuts down surrounding roads, bridges, and...; Tags: Event, Webcast, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management; Webcasts 2008-06-18
CIOs need an efficiency mastery lifeline, say HP Software Universe keynote speakers: The big question facing HP now is how they make that disruption work for them more than it works against them. Today, in keynote presentations at the opening of the HP Software Universe conference at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas, part of the answer become clearer. by Dana Gardner; Tags: Software, Hewlett-Packard Co., Speaker, Mark Hurd, Tools & Techniques, Data Centers, Research & Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-06-17
XP era ends: Will Vista step up?: XP era ends: Will Vista step up?All software eventually expires and is upgraded.The operating system is no different.Personally, I think that this entire conversation has been missing the point.Most people, by which I mean consumers not IT staff, don't care what operating system is on their computer. They will use...; Tags: Service Pack 1, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system; Discussion threads 2008-06-16
Should we be teaching "productive IM"?: According to hothardware.com, researchers at Ohio State and UC Irvine have discovered that instant messaging can actually increase productivity in the workplace. The study theorizes that using IM enables individuals to "flag their availability." Doing so can limit when IM interruptions occur. Even if an IM interruption...; Tags: IM, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-06-12
Market disaster on Wall Street plays positive in Silicon Valley: You may think the U.S. is divided along political lines, perhaps you sense a rift in cultural values. But let me tell you that's peanuts compared to the coming brutal high-stakes rift over the core of the US economy. Will it be Pentagon contracts, oil and gasoline? ...; Tags: Clean Technology, Wall, Construction, Mortgages, Investment, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-06-07
Amazon.com was down; service restored: Update 5/6/08, 6:00 PM EDT: Amazon remains functional. An Amazon message board said the outage was caused by a "technical issue." The New York Times quotes an Amazon spokesperson: Amazon's systems are very complex and on rare occasions, despite our best efforts they may experience problems. We work to...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Corporate Governance, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-06-06