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- HP Case Study: Porsche AG
- Porsche AG is the German sports-car manufacturer. The question was how to get cost-efficient barcode printing for environments as varied as R&D, stores, production, and sales, spread across a number of locations around Stuttgart. The JetCAPS BarDIMM is a plug-in card that actually extends the Printer Command Language used by...
- Tags: Porsche AG, Hewlett-Packard Co., JetCAPS BarDIMM, Printers, Research & Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Business Operations
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- Porsche Boosts IT Service Management Efficiency Through Automation
- Unlike the mainstream automotive industry, Porsche has seen strong and sustained growth in recent years. They needed diversity of system platforms, standards, and interfaces. They also needed to ensure 24 x nearly 7 availability of IT services on a global scale without additional IT staff and from one time zone...
- Tags: Porsche AG, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Automation, Strategy, Service Level Management, Management, It Operations, It service Management
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- HP Case Study: Porsche
- Porsche AG, with its headquarters in Stuttgart, emerged from an independent engineering firm, founded by Professor Ferdinand Porsche in 1931. Demands on Porsche's infrastructure have grown because of the introduction of new R/3 modules, model introduction new production plant was needed. Porsche's IT infrastructure needs to be able to support...
- Tags: Porsche AG, Hewlett-Packard Co., Engineering, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Servers, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Management
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- Codename of the day: Nitrogen
- Codename of the day: NitrogenCodeword - "Infection"Can't think why ZDnet aren't trumpeting Microsoft's latest embarassing achievement -Wonder if the US army's robots will be running 'Hasta La Vista'?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7583805.stmNasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a Windows virus known as Gammima.AG.The worm was...
- Tags: Games, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Nitrogen
- Discussion threads 2008-08-28
- SOA adoption down from 2006: if so, why?
- SOA adoption down from 2006: if so, why?The SOA Problem has moved elsewhereMy comments here.http://www.gandalf-lab.com/blog/2008/08/soa-adoption-down-from-2006-are-you.htmlI think the problem SOA tried to solve has moved elsewhere. With WOA ,SaaS and crowd sourcing the notion of a central body managing all enterprise services has diluted and hence you see a lot of...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA Problem, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- The Gammima Strain
- Photo: NASA Is the International Space Station just another bot in a botnet? Are criminal hackers tapping away in some dark warehouse now in control of critical command-and-control systems on board? No, that would make a good Michael Crichton novel, though. It seems some...
- Tags: NASA, Password, Board, Laptop Computer, Virus, SpaceRef, Cyberthreats, Corporate Governance, Viruses And Worms, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Malware detected at the International Space Station
- Malware is reaching new heights, and going into Space through a removable media carrying the W32.Gammima.AG password stealing malware to the International Space Station. According to SpaceRef.com : "W32.Gammima.AG worm is a level 0 gaming virus intended to gather personal information. Virus was never a threat to any of...
- Tags: Software, Space Station, NASA, Antivirus, Malware, Laptop Computer, Virus, Cyberthreats, Notebooks, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Words from the Woz
- Steve Wozniak is many things: electronics enthusiast, author of iWoz, former fifth-grade teacher, plane-crash survivor, ex-reality-TV-boyfriend of D-list comedian Kathy Griffin, and, oh yeah, co-founder of a company called Apple. You might have heard of it. Today, he put on the hat of former engineer as he...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Electronics, Apple Inc., Computer, Intel Developer Forum, Productivity, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- It's just a TPS Report: How to step away from your Desk Rage
- It's just a TPS Report: How to step away from your Desk RageReally?I mean, and I only say this 'cause I honestly want to hear your answer: Really?I Bet With Windows VistaIncidents of desk rage have increased tenfold ;).Desk Rage?you want desk rage?go to YouTube and search for "Angry...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Desk Rage, TPS Report, job
- Discussion threads 2008-08-16
- Not so idle: HP earns green transport logo for business products
- It takes more than better attention to energy-efficiency or attention to materials to classify some gadget or another as green tech. That's why Hewlett-Packard has made a concerted effort to have its products vetted as part of the Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay logo program, which focuses on the fuel consumption...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Emission, Product, Document Management, Supply Chain, Transportation, Monitors & Displays, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Business Operations, Hardware, Components, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do
- SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we dowhat else could he say? but SAP is a BLACK HOLE!!but just ask some customers that have had to dump millions into high price patches, maintenance, resources... SAP sap your bank account and then some...SAP is the BLACK HOLE of technology!!!!!!!!!!!!;)"near freezing...
- Tags: Strategy, SAP AG, Oracle Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Dell throws down the green gauntlet, again. Fulfills carbon-neutrality pledge
- When was the last time you heard about a high-tech company reaching a promised delivery date AHEAD of schedule? And, yet, that is exactly what Dell says it has done. Last fall, it pledged to achieve carbon-neutrality by the end of 2008. Well, it's just the start...
- Tags: dell computer corp., investment, finance, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-10
- HP reincarnates old ink cartridges as key part for new printer
- Here's a fun use for discarded ink cartridges: turn them into the printhead of a new printer. That's what Hewlett-Packard has done with its HP Photosmart D5460. The printhead of the new product is made up of 55 percent recycled PET plastic, which is made out of...
- Tags: Cartridge, Hewlett-Packard Co., Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- MacBook Pro graphics chips failing prematurely
- MacBook Pro graphics chips failing prematurelyImagine thatntWouldn't this imply that ....... Apple is using the same faulty parts as Dell and HP and not the superior parts that Laff and others claim?How can this be?Just yesterday we were being told how Apple used better quality parts in their systems.Though since...
- Tags: Notebooks, Semiconductors, Video cards, chip, Apple MacBook Pro, graphics, graphics chip, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-08-08
- Bright idea: Verdiem offers free energy-monitoring software
- I've written a fair amount about Verdiem, which sells enterprise power management software called Surveyor that happens to be loaded up onto some of Hewlett-Packard's green-er PC models. Well, this week the company is releasing a free consumer application called Edison that can be used to manage your desktop computer's...
- Tags: power management, pc, kwh, edison, microsoft windows, desktops, data centers, microsoft windows xp service pack 2, operating systems, software, hardware, storage, data management, heather clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- When IT culture changes with or without you
- When IT culture changes with or without youLast paragraph is the punch lineIf the cultural changes aren't in sync with your ethics and higher ups aren't listening, then it's time to hand in the resignation. Otherwise, assuming you can stand it, adapt, positively influence the culture as best you...
- Tags: corporate value, IT culture change, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- Has Dell lost its mind?
- Has Dell lost its mind?Dell has lost it's wayAnd Michael isn't the guy to bring it back. Making colorful boxes isn't the way either.Your solution is spot on, but it's too simple! They can't see past the BS like "cloud computing". WTF does that mean to someone who is shopping...
- Tags: cloud computing, XP1, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-07
- The social media corporate identity crisis
- The recent "hijacking" of the ExxonMobil brand for Twitter use made a whoosh as the news traveled around the socialsphere. It also brought into view a lot of questions around brand validity and responsibility in terms of social networking. Joel Postman, principal of Socialized, authored this guest piece on the...
- Tags: brand, social media, twitter, joel postman, popeyes chicken, q., branding, social networking, marketing, online communications, advertising & promotion, jennifer leggio
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- HP Pavilion dv5-1002nr
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The HP Pavilion dv5 is a member of the company's new Pavilion lineup, introduced in June. The ID of the product doesn't differ very much from previous...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion
- Product reviews 2008-08-04
- Potential green tech corporate role models for you to research
- There are two new resources out for those of you who crave more case-study-type information to guide your corporate green initiatives. The first is a $399 guidebook from PR News that is an online resource containing case studies about companies small and large that have rearchitected some part of their...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Lifecycle Management, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-02
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