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- Corporate Innovation . . .
- Late last week I caught part of SDForum's SDForum's first "Corporate Innovation and Research Fair." Here is an edited video of the lunchtime panel: From left to right: Roger Meike, Sun Microsystems Harold Yu, Orrick David SMith, Tynax Deborah Magid, IBM Roy...
- Tags: Innovation, Dr., Leadership, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- News to know: IDF; Office 14; Google; Flash flaw; MobileMe; Zoho
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason O'Grady: MobileMe subscribers get a 60 day extension Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Is the "killer app" argument dead? More info on USB 3.0 emerges ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Attack, Flaw, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Office Suites, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released
- Â Guest editorial by Rob Fuller DEFCON, the 9000+ attendee hacker conference in Vegas has become a sort of hydra conference. It has become more like a global fair than what most people think of conferences; even the badge is highly...
- Tags: Tool, E-mail Address, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- IBM: Measure, measure and measure some more
- So far, the main green tech consulting offerings have emerged from the biggest of the big systems vendors and this latest service I'm referencing today out of IBM is no different. The new IBM Green Sigma offering, for those companies that do the Lean Sigma thing, focuses...
- Tags: Green Technology, Carbon, IBM Corp., Transportation, Research & Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Outsourcing, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- IBM: The mainframe is back
- The company claims the mainframe is finding its way into emerging markets and holding strong globally, despite a shortage of related skills among IT workers The mainframe is finding its way into emerging markets and is still holding strong globally, according to an IBM executive. ...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Servers, Hardware, Vivian Yeo ZDNet Asia, mainframes, IBM, datacenters, emerging markets
- News items 2008-08-18
- Question from a reader - What notebook/OS for college?
- Question from a reader - What notebook/OS for college?Check with the college to see what is their preference...If there isn't one then being as I'm from a Windows IT background that moved over to Mac I'd chose the Mac. If you do need Windows you can run Boot Camp, VMware,...
- Tags: Desktops, Notebooks, college life, Apple Macintosh, notebook, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- It's official: OOXML is a standard
- It's official: OOXML is a standardA right decisionYou can only FUD so much.Now......we get to see who's going to implement it and how much of it will be implemented. Note that if multiple vendors are using the same MS-Windows API to support OOXML, they're not creating independent implementations of...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Fast Tracking, Office Open XML, oXML, OSI, Microsoft Corp., open source
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeWhen everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.W.S. Gilbert, Gondoliers.So many managers. An employee without a management title will feel overlooked.Murph, you outline the functional groups for your organization based on the leader. That means the effectiveness of each one...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, disaster recovery, leader, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp., job, data-processing, mainframe
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- IBM Australia faces strike action
- A section of under 100 employees who work in the "Flightdeck" at Baulkam Hills, Australia want a collective agreement granting them better pay and work conditions. IBM's Australian operation is facing the possibility of strike action among its workforce after a secret ballot opened yesterday for employees in a...
- Tags: Ballot, Agreement, IBM Corp., IBM, workforce, strike, Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet.com.au
- News items 2008-08-15
- News to know: Windows 7; Graphic card upgrades; Psystar; Netflix outage
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Where on earth are these Microsoft patches? Ed Bott: Sinofsky dishes on Windows 7 Mary Jo Foley: Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7? Wishful thinking System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making ...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Open Source, Health Care, Apple iPhone 3G, Outage, Microsoft Windows, 3G, Corporate Governance, Vertical Industries, Operating Systems, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- What the CoBIT framework does is establish minimal guidelines for data center operational documentation -as distinct from the actual operation. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: IBM Mainframe, PC, Mainframe, Data-processing, IBM Corp., Data Management, Help Desk, Data Centers, Service Level Management, Call Centers, Desktops, Storage, It Operations, Hardware, It service Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Apple market capitalization tops Google
- Apple market capitalization tops Googleit means nothingEasy comes, easy goes, that number is just that, a number; prosperity doesn't always last forever...This news comes as great relief to manyThis will totally make up for the fact that MobileMe doesn't work, the iPhone 3G doesn't work, Mac video cards don't work,...
- Tags: Investment, Apple Inc., market capitalization, Apple market capitalization, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the making
- System Center Online: Another Microsoft-hosted cloud service in the makingIT management SaaSIt’s good to see the discussion of SaaS being broadened. It is interesting to note that the majority of the movement in SaaS continues to be by companies that are focused on either the front or back office. There...
- Tags: IT management SaaS
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Are "instant on" notebooks the future?
- Are "instant on" notebooks the future?Instant boot into full OS...I imagine there has to be a way to perform this instant Linux boot while loading the full OS in the background and seamlessly giving you the full OS functions once its loaded. Now if the Linux community concentrated on that...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, notebook, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Get kids to touch type!
- When I see kids hunting and pecking, especially by the time they hit secondary school, I cringe. Unfortunately, the keyboarding classes that many of us took as kids are long gone in favor of applications courses. These classes were usually offered in high school anyway, though, which is...
- Tags: Kid, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- Linux, user interfaces and copying Apple
- Bob Sutor of IBM thinks that Linux needs to make innovative user interfaces, pointing to Apple as proof that charting your own path is beneficial. Apple, however, has certain aspects of its business that simply do not apply to Linux, making it harder for the business-focused operating system to...
- Tags: Linux, Apple Macintosh, User Interface, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Desktop Computer, Desktops, Hardware, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- When the going gets tough, will the tough go to Web 2.0?
- A few months back, in a post over at the FastForward Enterprise 2.0 site, I pondered if new, on-demand technologies would change the dynamics of economic downturns. The post garnered some interesting reactions, and it's still extremely timely, so I thought I'd share it with readers here as well: ...
- Tags: Web, Economic Downturn, Recession, Worker, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Supporting the long tail of open source
- Supporting the long tail of open sourcePerhaps a good start......would be for "good developers" to not consider people with questions as "stupid".Carl RapsonMixing modelsIt depends on what "model" or paradigm or whatever you want to call it produced the piece of OS software.Was it the IBM / Redhat "we'll professionally...
- Tags: Development tools, open source, WAS IT, developer, software, Carl Rapson, long tail
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- An iGeneration view of TLAs
- Over on Enterprise Alley, I've been joined by Zack Whittaker. Zack's a computer science student so is ideal for providing a fresh pair of eyes on the world of enterprise application startups. I was interested to get his take on three letter acronyms - TLAs - something upon which the...
- Tags: computer science, erp, enterprise application, zack, enterprise resource planning (erp), enterprise software, software, dennis howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
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