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Silicon Valley gone dark - day two

I certainly hope your weekend was better than mine. The weather here in Silicon Valley is at peak levels over 100 degrees and the power in our neighborhood along with tens of thousands of others went out. Last I heard, there were about 60,000 customers affected though some...

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Blog posts 2006-07-24

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The Disaster Recovery Items Few Consider

How Too Much of a Disaster Screws Up the Best Plans I spent a lot of time one night this week with the CFO of a coastal Texas organization that's based between Houston and Galveston. That phone interview yielded some surprising observations about disaster recovery and how...

Tags: Phone, Disaster, Laptop Computer, CFO, Disaster Recovery, Telecom & Utilities, Notebooks, Data Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-09-21

Top-growing US web sites in US in March 2008

Mar-08 Apr-08 Growth, & Rank Total Internet 188,010 190,728 1 N/A PlayList.com 5,548 7,632 38 137 MLB.com 9,799 13,318 36 76 IRS.gov 17,311 23,354 35 34 TheStreet.com Sites 3,733 4,667 25 238 Chrysler LLC...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Site, Internet, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Don't insulate, Nansulate, says Florida cleantech company

Don't insulate, Nansulate, says Florida cleantech companywhat about other uses e.g. Space Shuttle, airplanes, etc?If this stuff is so good NASA should be buying it by the bucket to insulate their flight vehicles including the Back To The Moon Lander.What about Boeing using it for airplanes instead of whatever they...

Tags: Nansulate, R-Value, cleantech company, clean technology

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

TJX. Un-answered questions.

Repercussions from the biggest reported data breach incident in history are still being felt. Last month's arrest of a dealer in stolen credit cards in Istanbul is just one example of how information stolen from TJX Companies is still being used by criminals. As I prepare for a talk...

Tags: Security, Breach, Credit Card, Arrest, Florida, TJX, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2007-09-09

How to raise executive awareness?

In one form or another I have heard this question posed hundreds of times. It is always an expression of frustration on the part of some IT security practitioner. This time the question was posed to an IDC analyst at an event I attended this week in Zurich. The...

Tags: Security, Eric, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2007-08-31

Idiot frustrations

Idiot frustrationsPretty hardto record the sound of a broadband modem downloading packets :) It's called artistic licenceThat's not a common way people searchI find very very few people who would search using [u]Gerard “canyon shake” metal roof OR roofing cost[/u].Most people I have ever seen would use at...

Tags: INTERNET, Freight, canyon, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-07-13

Open source revenues expected to soar -- but what of the savings?

Open source revenues expected to soar -- but what of the savings?ASSUMPTIONS is the mother of all ****upsThe TCO of open source being less by a factor of 25% is just not true. Its precisely for this reason that Microsoft software prices have not come down. Infact if you look,...

Tags: Operating systems, Linux server growth, open source, Linux, Linux HAS, Unix, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-06-01

Retailers haven't learned from TJX - still running WEP

When I blogged earlier this week about TJXs failure to secure their wireless LAN and how it may end up costing TJX a billion dollars, I knew that it was merely the tip of the iceberg with so many retailers still running WEP encryption. As if WEP wasnt already...

Tags: Servers, Security, Networking, Mobile/Wireless, Hardware, Desktop

Blog posts 2007-05-10

FBI's data management headaches escalate with Patriot Act

A Justice Department audit found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation misused the USA Patriot Act to obtain personal information about people. Within that 126 page audit is evidence of the FBIs still is struggling to manage its data. ...

Tags: General, Government, IT Management, Legal, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-03-09

Home Depot plots IT, supply chain improvements

Home Depot plans to invest an additional $900 million on logistics and $500 million on technology between 2007 and 2010 to improve its supply chain. The returns could be impressive, according to executives speaking at Home Depots analyst meeting. For instance, every one-tenth improvement...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, Supply chain, IT Management, General

Blog posts 2007-02-28

Gadget owners beware: Daylight-saving time has changed

Gadget owners beware: Daylight-saving time has changedI hope that......somebody akes a look at energy consumption before and after this change and determines whether DST has any value. It would also be a good idea to compare that value with the cost of making changes like this.Presumably, after everybody switches...

Tags: Daylight Saving Time, DST Update, manualy, DST

Discussion threads 2007-02-16

Me to my Sprint EV-DO: You're fired

Me to my Sprint EV-DO: You're firedmathI'm not trying to be a wanker by saying this, but...Sixteen months * $59.99 = $959.84 (not the $840 you mentioned in the article)You're saving more than you think. :)Motorola E815I've got a Verizon Motorola E815 bluetooth cell phone, which is EV-DO VCAST...

Tags: Cellular phones, Cingular Wireless, EVDO, Verizon Communications Inc., Sprint Communications

Discussion threads 2007-01-27

Home Depot's CEO switch could alter IT strategy

Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli just resigned and most will focus on his $210 million severance package. But its worth watching how the retailers information technology strategy develops under new leadership. Often when a CEO leaves a new CIO isnt far behind. ...

Tags: information technology, Home Depot Inc., Robert Nardelli, Bob DeRodes

Blog posts 2007-01-03

Retailing's future: Real-time local inventory via Web searches

Sharing real-time inventory data among thousands of small businesses and making it available via a Web search has the potential to seriously change retailing. The issue: Its like herding cats. Thats one of the takeaways from the Kelsey Groups Interactive Local Media conference Wednesday...

Tags: Google, Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, General, Rubinstein, inventory data

Blog posts 2006-11-29

Ballmer: Windows releases must come more quickly

Ballmer: Windows releases must come more quicklyThat's an easy answer!"[B]Microsoft has not said when Vista's successor, code-named Vienna, might ship or what features it will contain.[/B]"It will ship in 2012 and contain all the stuff missing from Vista! ]:)Duh-uh!On one hand, he's right - the NEXT version of Windoze should...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2006-07-28

AMD's lawyers call on Skype

AMD's lawyers call on SkypeIntel shoots themselves in the foot.: )Intel, can make the processors so bribethe software and service companies to work exclusively with your CPU. And so many people claim the PC is an open platform, oh please.I DARE SkypeI [b]*DARE*[/b] Skype to prove to me my...

Tags: Semiconductors, PCI, Network technology, Processors, Kudo, Group Think, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Skype Technologies S.A., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-02-28

Home Depot moves to expand online sales

Home Depot moves to expand online salesWebsite needs improvementIf they want to increase online sales the first thing should be an improvements made to their website. This is the most difficult website to navigate and find products I have ever seen.Have to have items listed on site in order to...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Sales strategy, Product marketing, Home Depot Inc., Web site, customer service, sales

Discussion threads 2006-02-21

Google in China, Badware, Pixney, Sun and more...(The Dan and David Show)

Google in China, Badware, Pixney, Sun and more...The Dan and David ShowAnother tought choice for Google - Free Muni Wifi that is not traceableGoogle created their own problem by collecting this information in the first place....Will they repeat their mistake as they create Municipal Wireless solutions for Mountain View and...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Google Inc., RFP, homeland security

Discussion threads 2006-01-26

Sony threatens PSP importers in Britain

Sony threatens PSP importers in BritainHow can this be illegal?I just don't see how selling P2Ps like this is illegal. I mean you buy the PSP from the US and you sell it. Is Sony saying that if you buy a PSP then you can never sell it again? I...

Tags: Internet, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation Portable, Corporate America

Discussion threads 2005-06-03