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- The cloud: no place for amateurs
- Interesting but...Phil... it may be a contentious argument but neither of these two examples (IBM/Air New Zealand and Sidekick/Danger) are really cloud computing.My definition of cloud computing is in keeping with the utility model. Using the analogy of electricity supply, one power station going down does not greatly affect my...
- Tags: Storage, Managed hosting, cloud computing, Hitachi Ltd., electricity supply, Hitachi HDD, hard drive, amateur
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- News to know: AT&T; Apple; Google; Verizon; Microsoft
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: Weak passwords dominate statistics for Hotmail's phishing scheme leak Larry Dignan: The Android army: Verizon Wireless, Google...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Wireless, Wireless Coverage Data, Microsoft Windows, Mobile Operating Systems, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Wireless And Mobility, Handhelds, Wi-Fi, Mobile Applications, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing
- Some facts and inferences should be updatedAccenture's Consulting revenue dropped 12% and Outsourcing grew by 1%http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/Accentures-Future-Remains-Bright-ACN-IBM-HPQ1005.aspxSome of the issues you highlighted around process innovation, dated technology, etc will continue to remain. However, the nimbler players will also adopt the benefits of innovations like SaaS and Cloud platform.Underlying platform is an...
- Tags: Managed hosting, Business process outsourcing (BPO), Programming languages, outsourcing, BPO, COBOL, outsourcing company
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- Dell and Perot: What this means
- Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...
- Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Perot, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Siemens cans SAP support
- I still believe that hiring your own IT...staff to provide service like this could be a better alternative for a lot of companies. SAP is overpriced and they are wanting to get pricier. In todays economy, outsourcing pricing is becoming less elastic. The only way to completely control these prices...
- Tags: Outsourcing, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), SAP AG, Siemens AG, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-09-13
- IBM, Wipro, Tata, Infosys win BP IT outsourcing deal
- IBM and a band of Indian outsourcing companies have won a 5 year contract to manage and run BP's enterprise applications. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: BP Plc, Wipro Technologies, IT Outsourcing, Infosys Technologies Ltd., IBM Corp., Outsourcing, Managed Hosting, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?
- Are there more layoffs in Microsoft's future?Define "making money"If a unit in and of itself loses $1 billion a year, but another unit benefits by $$3 billion a year as a result of that unit's existence, do you close it? And how do you make such measures reliably?Example: Internet Explorer.If...
- Tags: Workforce management, He/She/It, Microsoft Corp., layoff, future layoff
- Discussion threads 2009-07-24
- Sitting "Shiva" For My Dead Laptop
- Sitting "Shiva" For My Dead LaptopSomeone from HP will read thisand email you with an apology and some effort to correct this. I hope you do not take them up on their offer since it would never be extended if you weren't blogging for ZDNet. It has taken some time...
- Tags: Notebooks, Hewlett-Packard Co., laptop computer, HP Laptop, Shiva Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-14
- To the Moon: The Integrators
- The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...
- Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- It’s official: SaaS is now mainstream
- It must be mainstream if Unisys and IBM are blessing it Lately, I’ve done a couple of briefings with some large, serious, mainstream firms who have whispered their SaaS software as a service plans to me. Let’s start with Unisys. Unisys is a...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, CIO, Unisys Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- News to know: Morro reviewed; RIM; Intel; Windows 7
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: How good is Microsoft's free antivirus software? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Security Essentials: What wannabe testers need...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows 7, Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Cloud Computing, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Cloud computing and open source face-off
- Cloud computing remains one of the big topics in software this year despite considerable and ongoing concerns over lock-in, lack of control, and security. The siren song of ease-of-development, reduced costs, highly elastic scalability, and next-generation architectures has many in IT and in the Web community carefully weighing the...
- Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Virtualization, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- IBM expects Linux to make money
- IBM expects Linux to make moneyFuture is Linux devices, appliances & distro'sLinux is modular and it is the future platform it already powers the Internet, the future will be smart appliances not huge monolithic closed source dinosaur operating systems such as 'Windows'...;) A smartphone-like app storeDesktop Linux REALLY needs a...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Canonical/Ubuntu, Linux, IBM Corp., OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- IBM takes social networking to its channel partners
- IBM takes social networking to its channel partnersIBM-RU-KIDDING? Outsourcing US projects like 'water management, broadband infrastructure, smart grids, digitizing health records, energy metering and transportation architecture' sounds like a fabulous idea.... if you're on drugs.dishwashing engineer
- Tags: channel partner, social networking, IBM Corp., network
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really about
- H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really aboutDICK DURBINYou link to his page right in that top paragraph... yet you still can't get his name right?RE: H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really aboutThere are thousands of highly skilled Americans that are unemployed that are willing to take...
- Tags: Obama, H-1B, H-1B legislation, worker
- Discussion threads 2009-06-05
- Thinking rationally. Some ideas from IBM about consolidating data centers
- Sorting through some notes from the Uptime Institute's recent IT Symposium in New York and wanted to share some comments and observations from the presentation made by Steve Sams, who is the company's vice president of global site and facilities services. Sams has been behind the massive...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, IBM Corp., Sams, Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- Google replies to cloud computing concerns
- A post on this blog last week asked the question: Is adopting the cloud a money-losing mistake? After all, a McKinsey & Co. study called "Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing" concluded that adoption of the cloud model would be a money-losing mistake for most large corporations...
- Tags: Google Inc., McKinsey & Co., Data Center, IBM Corp., Cloud, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Behind the Microsoft skepticism on Health IT
- Behind the Microsoft skepticism on Health ITIs this like the internet all over again?Wasn't it Microsoft who said the internet is a useless fad right up until they released internet explorer?Sometimes, letting others make the mistakes first is wise.And when it comes to IT health care there are thousands of...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Health IT, health care, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-23
- Is Oracle serious about hardware?
- Is Oracle serious about hardware?The tech landscape is starting to look like the oil industryWhere 3 or 4 companies own it all. Its not all bad as long as innovation continues. But i hate to see open source products whenever they get popular get sucked into the mix....
- Tags: Oracle Corp., hardware, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-21
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