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Ford Otosan Builds on NetApp SAN and NAS Solution for Faultless Disaster Recovery in an Earthquake Zone

Ford Otosan is a joint venture between Ford Motor Company, the highly respected global automotive manufacturer, and Koc Holding, Turkey's leading conglomerate. The company wanted to support explosive growth and ensure uninterrupted availability. The company also wanted to ensure DR in an earthquake zone and streamline infrastructure management. A thorough...

Tags: NAS, SAN, Disaster Recovery, Ford Motor Co., NetApp, Ford Otosan, Storage, Hardware

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Trick out your fleet with fuel consumption monitors from Networkcar

Trick out your fleet with fuel consumption monitors from NetworkcarGood idea.For once I don't have a major complaint about your blog *GASP*!This is actually a very good idea :).Even if you can't afford something fancy like this, it's always a good idea to keep track of your mileage. I believe...

Tags: Networkcar, consumption monitor

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergencyThere are no engineersTheir parents made sure they went into business and got MBAs due to the wonders of globalization!Too many chiefs, not enough indians.-MWhy not just drill for more oil?I think it is simply amazing how everyone in Congress is standing around...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Total Cost, food

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency

They're even talking about it on the radio now--can Detroit automakers survive? If you listened to this show on NPR the future of Chrysler is south of bleak. Ford and GM may just be bigger and have more blood to lose. The local Detroit paper's headline: auto sales...

Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Automobile Company, Plug-in, Fuel Cells, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-die

Detroit auto industry going through shock therapy? As in electric shock? Sales numbers say this is real and this is do-or-dieAmerica is finishedThis latest downturn coupled with the internet and lax foreign ownership laws means that the devaluation of housing, which would normally ultimately let poor Americans back...

Tags: industry, Big 3, sales, therapy, Saturn

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

2009 Nissan GT-R

Photo gallery:2009 Nissan GT-R It must be Christmas, because a 2009 Nissan GT-R showed up in our garage. Just like how we spent 1973 transfixed by commercials for the Vertibird Rescue Ship toy, we slathered over every specification sheet and photo of the new GT-R since the concept was shown...

Tags: Games, Digital media, Digital music, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Corvette Z06, Nissan GT-R

Product reviews 2008-06-27

Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to Microsoft

Bill Gates bids a teary farewell to MicrosoftHe didn't dieYou guys make it sound like he died. As much as I bash MS, I do admire what Bill did by founding this company and guiding it to do what it's done for the world. I hope the company well in...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, UNIX, Strategy, Bill Gates, teary farewell, farewell, Billg, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the most

Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the mostBrilliance = Techie + Financial ManagerialI think one of the reasons Microsoft has been so succesful is that Bill Gates was adept not necessarily the best at both spectrums: the techie and the business side. Witness General Motors under the "Smith" bean counter tenure:...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Chrysler to offer Wi-Fi in 2009 autos

Chrysler to offer Wi-Fi in 2009 autosMaybe just maybeChrysler should start working on the quality of their cars and leave the installation of gizmos to car owners who like modding their cars. Back to the basics, a quality product that can hold a candle to the likes of Toyota. Disclaimer:...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Ford Motors, Chrysler LLC, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford

Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry FordDeservedly so. He is a modern day Henry FordLike HF, Bill Gates has truly made a historic impact on the high tech industry and his philanthropy work is already making an incredible difference.Good for him.Having said that, Microsoft has missed the internet boat...

Tags: INTERNET, Microsoft Windows, Leadership, Strategy, Bill G, personal computer revolution, Bill Gates, Billg, Henry Ford, modern day, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford

Bill Gates is arguably the individual who has had the biggest impact on the world of technology and his departure from Microsoft on 27 June will mark the end of an era. Bill Gates is arguably the individual who has had the biggest impact on the world of technology...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Professional Development, Career, Tim Ferguson silicon.com, Microsoft, Vista

News items 2008-06-25

Dashwire Mobile 2.0 client launches with GUI changes, Facebook/Twitter status, and more

It has been a few months since I last wrote about the Dashwire mobile client and I was very pleased to receive a note from Ford that the Dashwire Mobile 2.0 client for Windows Mobile is now available. This latest version offers a significant update to the GUI on your...

Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, GUI, Twitter, Dashwire Mobile 2.0, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-24

Too green? Too much information? Global warming a natural process? Give up yet?

Too green? Too much information? Global warming a natural process? Give up yet?...Disprove evolution.Disprove global warming.Then come back to us, until then shut up! You've got nothing but ill founded beliefs and theories as well.And round and round we go... when will the denial and ignorance end? When...

Tags: David Archibald, global warming

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Apple's Grand Central threat to Microsoft

Apple's quiet preview of OS X.6 - Snow Leopard - promises ". . . unrivaled support for multi-core processors . . . " through a "new set of technologies" named Grand Central. What makes Grand Central so powerful - and how can Microsoft respond? Fresh from Google's...

Tags: Performance, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-06-16

Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?

Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?RE: Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?I seriously doubt they were doing it deliberately, it's not like they could have done it without people realising.And as for anonymously bashing ebay, they were arguing against ebay cutting off other payment methods hardly surprising. They...

Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., App Engine, PayPal

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

Why Internet companies are attractive takeover targets: They can't manage

Are Internet companies so inefficient and clueless about management that have to be acquired? Lost in the commentary about Bernstein's "U.S. Internet -- The End of the Beginning" report, which concluded that Amazon and Google would be the dominant Internet duopoly, are the reasons why today's leading...

Tags: Internet Company, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-10

The CIO ledger: Pondering iPhone plusses and minuses

The CIO ledger: Pondering iPhone plusses and minusesNegatives!!!What negatives!?RE: The CIO ledger: Pondering iPhone plusses and minusesWho gives a shit what cio's think? aren't these the very same jerks whose stocks are plunging, without the iPhone? How many ford execs have Blackberries? enough said.RE: The CIO ledger: Pondering iPhone plusses...

Tags: Games, E-mail, Hacking, iphone, Pondering iPhone, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-10

Daily Debrief: Retouching 'The Godfather'

In Friday's edition of the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Jim Kerstetter discuss the digital retouching of classic film The Godfather. Hear exactly what director Francis Ford Coppola requested from the technicians cleaning up his masterpiece.

Tags: Film, Technician, News, kara tsuboi, jim kerstetter, godfather, francis ford coppola, dvd, bluray, hollywood, film restroation

Videos 2008-06-06

Size matters: Verizon Wireless buys Alltel; Will claim most subscribers

Verizon Wireless said Thursday that it will buy Alltel to beef up its network for about $28.1 billion. The deal surfaced on Wednesday via various press reports and Verizon Wireless just made it official statement. What's this deal about? Subscriber envy. Verizon Wireless wasn't...

Tags: Alltel Corp., Verizon Wireless, Mergers & Acquisitions, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-05

IBM's Zollar: SOA, Web 2.0 drive IT 'industrialization'

Last week, I posted some countervailing views on the topic of software industrialization. Some say it represents the inevitable future of IT operations and software development; others say software needs to have elements of craft, since it's so highly specialized. 'Industrialized' IT needed to handle the coming...

Tags: Web, Information Technology, SOA, IBM Corp., Zollar, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Internet, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-06-04