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- Educating IT decision makers
- When you tell a user decision maker that thing X will work better for some job than thing Y, are you an educator or an advocate? Think you know? try it with specifics: "Linux is better than Windows for web services." Education or advocacy? that is indeed the question...
- Tags: Information Technology, Linux, Professional Development, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Operating Systems, Software, Career, Enterprise Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-11-21
- Psystar: Cocaine, car crashes and a chance to beat Apple
- Monopoly Much?How has apple been able to get away with this? Microsoft gets sued for sending their browser with their operating system while not blocking anyone else's browsers on their systems. Apple does not allow anyone else to use their operating system on other hardware, not sure how...
- Tags: Operating systems, car, Apple Inc., operating system, hackintosh, Psystar
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Burnout - the Dangers of Remote Work Forces
- The problem is as old as work itself: you're working as part of a team and seem to be doing twice as much - or more - as your colleagues, yet no one seems to notice. It feels as though you're carrying the weight of entire projects on your back...
- Tags: Team, Burnout, Team Management, E-mail, Process Improvement, Management, Online Communications, Quality, Business Operations, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- Thin client questions? HP still quiet, but Wyse replies
- HP, you need to consider how to better support your customers who have technical questions about your products. The glowing marketing messages posted on your website rarely offer the detail an IT decision maker would like to have. While I know that you offer very responsive, helpful service to the...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Thin Client, Wyse Technology Inc., Thin Clients, Marketing Research, Hardware, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- CIO Jury: Will Snow Leopard boost Macs for business?
- Surprise to no-one hereLittle support for enterprise-level apps and CIOs won't adopt Apple? Color me surprised. This one I found amusing though:"The primary issue for us is always security and after that the need for applications to work reliably on the Mac OS."So volume-licensing of an AV/malware suite is more...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Vertical industries, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- SaaS for your business in the cloud
- Good Points Phil,Good article. I'm seeing the same dynamics "in the trenches" as the founder of a small but rapidly-growing SaaS firm.There is much less resistance from buyers to signing up for SaaS deals than there would have been two years ago. Part of this is because buyers...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, business benefit
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Is the new Canon EOS 7D a Nikon D300s killer?
- Missed a couple of thingsThe 7D also uses SDHC CF cards. Those appear to be required for the maximum burst rate. And according to the posted spec, HD video works not only at 30FPS, but also at 24 and 29.97. I want one.RE: Is the new Canon...
- Tags: sensor, Canon Inc., pixel, Nikon Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Window Maker Optimizes Infrastructure to Increase Agility and Efficiency, Lower Costs
- Pella Corporation has been a respected window and door maker for more than 80 years. As its product lines expanded, manufacturing plants multiplied, and competition stiffened, Pella found it difficult to promptly meet customer needs. The company made a strategic decision to optimize its entire IT infrastructure to create a...
- Tags: Pella, Window, Microsoft Corp., Manufacturing, Construction, Corporate Governance, Servers, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- The Google Voice app scandal: is Apple losing control over the iPhone?
- its rather a good thing no technologie suppliers should have any right over what you do with your device ...period ... RE: The Google Voice app scandal: is Apple losing control over the iPhone?SAM: "Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I?m a big Apple fan..."What a joke....
- Tags: Smart phones, Games, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- PC makers make (small) progress closing Apple's customer satisfaction gap
- Let me put on my flame proof suit.....Apple customers as a group are unique in their loyalty to Apple. PC customers are not very loyal at all to any particular PC brand. Apple customers, as a group also seem to put up with abuse by Apple, which in my opinion...
- Tags: Product marketing, PC customer, customer satisfaction number, Apple Inc., PC company, customer satisfaction
- Discussion threads 2009-08-18
- Don't rely on industry averages for cost of downtime
- On a weekly basis, I get at least one inquiry request from either a vendor or an end-user company seeking industry averages for the cost of downtime. Vendors like to quote these statistics to grab your attention and to create a sense of urgency to buy their products or services. BC/DR planners...
- Tags: Risk Assessment, Demographics, Industry, Downtime, BC/DR, Insurance, Financial Planning, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management, Stephanie Balaouras
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- BlackBerry Curve 8520 marks consumer, business power play for RIM [hands-on review]
- The first thought that springs from your mind when you pick up the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8520 is, "You know, I could get the hang of this." That's what Research in Motion, BlackBerry's maker, is hoping. The new Curve...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., BlackBerry Curve, RIM BlackBerry, Curve 8520, Lithium-cell Battery, Multimedia Menu, Handhelds, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- With Microsoft search deal Yahoo risks becoming AOL
- With Microsoft search deal Yahoo risks becoming AOLAOL's decline not due to outsourcing search...I understand the comparison, but AOL's decline was not due to outsourcing search to Google. It declined because it was too slow in migrating to broadband and because it kept charging for too long what other properties...
- Tags: INTERNET, Free trade, America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Search Deal
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- Virtualization hype cycle
- I've got hundreds of megabytes of presentation files from suppliers offering products or services targeting some one or more areas of virtualization technology. They promise the sun and the stars and sometimes only end up delivering the moon. It's fun to bring up last year's promises in this year's briefing...
- Tags: Supplier, Virtualization Technology, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Channel Management, Storage, Hardware, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Yes We Can -- improve records management
- Yes We Can -- improve records managementEDRMS - what are the dangers?I work in the Records Management Industry and I work towards full electronic records management with government BUT at the same time while I am encouraging people to capture documents I know that someone will need to assess those...
- Tags: Managerial accounting, Government, records management
- Discussion threads 2009-07-28
- Citrix and Fujitsu cuddle closer together
- Citrix and Fujitsu recently announced that they were taking their long-standing relationship to another level. Fujitisu has signed an OEM agreement with Citrix and will incorporate Citrix technology at a deeper level than ever before. The key questions are where these two companies think that they're going to get more...
- Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Customer, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitisu, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Data Centers, Recruitment & Selection, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- The echo chamber misreads another Windows 7 survey
- The echo chamber misreads another Windows 7 surveyVista after one year.....was about the same as XP after one year.http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=352Excellent article, Ed!Thanks for the great article! Just shows how biased many news sources there are on the 'net!unfreakingbelieveablethese writers are either terribly ignorant of how this stuff works or else...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 survey, Microsoft Windows Vista, adoption rate, Microsoft Windows, survey
- Discussion threads 2009-07-13
- Sun VirtualBox 3.0
- Sun Microsystems released VirtualBox 3.0 today. One goal of this release is supporting workloads, such as database management systems, some collaborative applications and many web-based applications that rely on multiple processes running simultaneously. Another is offering support for high performance graphics for desktop applications. Here's...
- Tags: Innotek VirtualBox, Hypervisor, Sun Microsystems Inc., VirtualBox 3.0, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware, Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Microsoft's IE8 "Get the facts" campaign - heavy on propaganda, light on facts
- Microsoft's IE8 "Get the facts" campaign - heavy on propaganda, light on factsHmmmYes, heavy on propaganda, however just a comment on CSS3. Just because most browsers are passing the ACID3 test, doesn't mean that that's the "standard". As far as I know CSS3 is still under drafting so features and...
- Tags: Web browsers, IEPro, Microsoft Corp., IE8
- Discussion threads 2009-06-18
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