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Building the Road to a Real-Time Infrastructure

The vision of a real-time IT infrastructure offered by industry analysts and IT vendors is compelling. If implemented, it promises to deliver a number of highly-prized enterprise value propositions: services will be provided to the business with the same availability as utilities, such as electricity and water; cost reductions will...

Tags: Unisys Corp., Information Technology, IT Executive, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-04-01

New ways emerge to head off datacenter problems while improving IT operations

Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Integrien. Complexity in today's IT systems makes previous error prevention approaches for operators inefficient and costly. IT staffs are expensive to retain, and are increasingly hard to find. There is also insufficient information about what’s going on in the context of an...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Problem, Operator, IT Staff, IT Executive, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-02-05

An IT executive's guide to surviving a start-up

The Internet has leveled the playing field sufficiently to permit a handful of young innovators to make a big splash. What information technology executive wouldn't love to shepherd such a venture to success? But the growth of start-ups tends to follow a precarious path, and that path can clobber both...

Tags: Information Technology, Start-up, IT Executive, Strategy, Management

Download resources 2005-06-23

Comdex goes decidedly downscale

The convention, once the pinnacle of corporate ostentation, has decidedly gone downscale. If IBM announced it were throwing a kegger in a parking lot, it wouldn't raise an eyebrow. LAS VEGAS--A company called HTPC Works is using Comdex Fall 2002 to show off...

Tags: Hilton Hotels Corp., Las Vegas, IT Executive, Mortgages, Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Capital Structures, Management, Investment, Michael Kanellos, Hardware

News items 2002-11-19

IT circa 2008: Spin your crystal balls

Readers debate remote versus local computing, and most just say no to thin clients. Dan Farber shares your technology forecasts. Thanks to the dozens of you who sent me your views on Gartner's 10 predictions on the future of IT. While I can't reflect all of your opinions,...

Tags: Processor, Information Technology, Broadband, Gartner Inc., Computing, E-business, Odlyzko, User Experience, IT Executive, Telephony, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Storage, Networking, Hardware, Dan Farber

News items 2002-10-18

Analyzing Total Cost of Ownership for Internal vs. Hosted Fax Services

IT executives are under constant pressure to do more with less. While they have addressed costs in most technology areas over the past few years, one area of potential savings that is often overlooked is sending and receiving faxes. In most cases this is because faxes are not really considered...

Tags: Fax Service, TCO, IT Executive, Fax

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Ballmer: Windows 7 sales on a roll

Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft's shareholder meeting on Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a "fantastic start." Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft's shareholder meeting on Thursday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a "fantastic start." ...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Windows 7, Microsoft, Ballmer, Ina Fried CNET News

News items 2009-11-20

Managing a growing threat: An Executive's Guide to Web Application Security

Traditionally, companies have relied on perimeter defenses to keep their networks and data secure. Unfortunately, network firewalls and network vulnerability scanners can't defend against application-level attacks. Cyber-criminals are leveraging relatively simple application exploits to gain access to sensitive information for fun and profit. It's more important than ever to...

Tags: Web, Network, Web Application, IBM Corp., Cyber-criminals, Scanners, Networking, Hardware, Peripherals

White papers 2009-11-19

Next year is THE year for cloud computing

Here is what Indu Kodukula, CTO of SunGard Availability Services thinks how cloud computing is likely to transform the computing industry landscape in 2010. Commentary - Yogi Berra had it right - it?s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. It?s especially difficult...

Tags: CIO, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, cloud, Indu Kodukula

News items 2009-11-17

The emergency room myth busted

ok Dana 1 troll 0 This is a real sucker punch that i never saw coming ....Dana you are getting nastier by each post what next chomsky on the reading list :)thx for they excellent link well its hurt Racism at the heart of healhcare reform opposition.Who are more likely...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, emergency room myth, Odds Ratio

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Cloud, consumers give Skype enterprise boost

Skype's Dan Neary says in the past online consumer apps would never be considered business grade But with the cloud, those apps have become secure enough that you trust. SINGAPORE--The cloud computing revolution and momentum consumers have driven toward technology adoption are helping consumer- or Web-based businesses such as...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, cloud, Skype, Vivian Yeo CNET Asia

News items 2009-11-12

Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity

Sounds like excuses to me.If it can't be shown on the bottom line, its useless.IT really needs to be aligned with business needs.From what I have heard talking with several managers, IT needs to come out out the silo and focus on delivering business needs and services. From what...

Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, IT Operations, information technology, customer service

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Collaborating on Cost Savings: A Scalable Software Whitepaper

It should surely therefore come as no surprise to anyone that IT executives are unlikely to own up to years of unnecessary expenditure, indeed it is more likely that they deny it and thus perpetuate it, if they feel to confess now would put them at the front of the...

Tags: Firing, Information Technology, Cost Savings, Scalable Software, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-11-11

Logitech Buys LifeSize. Now what about Polycom?

A few weeks after Cisco's Tandberg acquisition, peripheral manufacturer Logitech has announced that it was acquiring LifeSize for $405 million in cash. LifeSize provides high definition HD video communication solutions. The video acquistion positions Logitech with a comnplete range of video conferencing equipment. Last year, the company acquired...

Tags: Video Conferencing, Logitech, Video, Polycom Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-11-10

New tool aids .Net developers in writing Linux, Mac OS X apps

Windows only applications will be a thing of the past before long.We could also use some good tools for porting general Win32 apps to Mac and Linux using WineLib.Agree, but, for the transition, these kinks of tools will helpNTmore reasons to avoid NovellThese proprietary apps that work only with M$...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, .NET, Operating systems, tool, Linux, Microsoft .NET, Mac OS X app, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Thunderbird 3: Near-final version due next week

Thunderbird 3, an update to the email software Mozilla hopes will give it some of the advantages its Firefox browser has enjoyed, is due to arrive in near-final form next week. Thunderbird 3, an update to the email software Mozilla hopes will give it some of the advantages its...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Corp., E-mail Clients, Web Browsers, Software, Internet, Mozilla, Thunderbird, e-mail, Stephen Shankland CNET News

News items 2009-11-06

18 truths: The long fail of complexity

Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...

Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Water, water everywhere. So why not use it to create steam?

Here is a lesson on how little we can put in the blog...and still call it our own. Could you write less and still get paid ???sheshEver heard of Nuclear powered ships? They heat water that flashes into steam and thus turns the turbines.This short article.I think the...

Tags: Fuel cells, hydrogen, steam

Discussion threads 2009-11-02