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- Analysts interested in Intel's 2010, not just Q4
- The big buzz word in technology these days is efficiency. And even the quarterly earnings conference calls aren't immune from some change. Intel today altered the process a bit today when it issued its CFO's summary of the company's third quarter financials PDF ahead of the call, leaving more time...
- Tags: Analyst, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Sales, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers
- Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...
- Tags: Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- Google Edu Apps vs. Microsoft Web Apps: Should I have waited?
- Yet another article where you have nothing to say but simply praise Google because in your eyes they can do no wrong. Yes you should have waited. Microsoft is the world leader in office suites with years upon years of experience. Not only will they offer a better...
- Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web application, Microsoft Office, school district
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- 6 dirty tricks from enterprise vendors
- GET it in WRITING!If it is NOT in the contract then you made your first mistake.Well said.Contracts & Paper Trails are more precious than gold when something goes Tango-Ultra on you.I dont agree with #5Well I do, but to further clarify, *most* vendors will support at least 1-2 major revisions...
- Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), dirty trick, enterprise vendor, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- IBM: re-training for our future
- IBM and railroads. This is not a non sequitor. I recently spoke with Keith Dierkx who works for IBM in their expanding business providing services for planning, construction and operation of high-speed rail. Dierkx is in the process of relocating to Beijing where he and IBM will...
- Tags: China, Beijing, Rail, IBM Corp., Dierkx, Government, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- Eaton gives you more power over your power
- Power equipment manufacturer Eaton has compressed the design for a new three-phase data center uninterruptible power systems UPS, called the Eaton 9390IT, which is 61 percent smaller than units from rival manufacturers. The technology also uses a double-conversion process, which Eaton says helps the 40kVA UPS deliver efficiency of 99...
- Tags: Data Center, Eaton, Uninterruptible Power System, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Dangerous Microsoft DirectX vulnerability under attack
- Dangerous Microsoft DirectX vulnerability under attackOne of Us Misread the ArticleQuote1: "... to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in DirectShow, the APIs used by Windows programs for multimedia support."Quote2: "Also, we?ve verified that it is possible to direct calls to DirectShow specifically, even if Apple?s QuickTime which is not vulnerable is...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital music, Web browsers, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., sandbox, Apple QuickTime, Dangerous Microsoft DirectX vulnerability, Dangerous Microsoft DirectX, vulnerability, DirectShow, Microsoft Windows Vista, attack, Microsoft Internet
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- Using open source to reduce business risk
- Using open source to reduce business riskWhat the bottom line?The bottom line is that with Suns failure the open source argument is in trouble. As is two of the products you mention a business should consider switching to:OpenOffice is maintained by Sun. It has been maintained is such a way...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Databases, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, MySQL
- Discussion threads 2009-04-11
- Migrating to Amazon Web Services: The blueprint
- Moving your infrastructure to Amazon Web Services--or any other cloud platform--sounds like a no-brainer in many respects. You can scale up or down as needed and pay only for the computing and storage you use. The big question, however, is this: How exactly does a company migrate its infrastructure? ...
- Tags: Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Infrastructure, Helpstream, EC2, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Software As A Service (SaaS), Web Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Software Testing With Visual Studio Team System
- Adequate testing of software projects is critical to ensuring high quality. The attendee of this learn how the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System product family can be used to test the distributed application from end-to-end, through all stages of the application lifecycle, starting with the earliest development and reaching into...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Visual Studio, Team, Software Testing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Development Tools, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Webcasts 2008-10-18
- Surviving the recession with Free Enterprise OSes (Part 2)
- In Part 1, I discussed the four Free Linux distributions that are best position to provide extended support and ample functionality to an end user through a protracted recession, as well as having the characteristic "safeness" or "stability" factor in terms of being able to weather...
- Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 10, Red Hat Inc., Recession, Operating System, Novell OpenSuse, BSD, CentOS, Scientific Linux, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- SAP All-in-One implementations in less than 3 months?
- At the risk of sounding like an infomercial for SAP or turning Irregular Enterprise into 'SAPWatch,' I recently learned about a consulting shop that guarantees implementing SAP All-in-One in three months at a fixed price. I was skeptical given that the on-demand Business ByDesign implementations I'm hearing about are taking...
- Tags: SAP AG, Training, Workforce Management, Change Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08 Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan? Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Mice, Utility Computing, 3G, Open Source, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Terremark on target with green data center buildout near nation's Capitol
- This represents my final post this month about green data center buildouts that have been pitched to me in the past several weeks. I actually first wrote last fall about the facility in question, Terremark Worldwide's new NAP of the Capitol Region in Culpepper, Va. The new information in this...
- Tags: Data Center, Terremark Worldwide, Reserve, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- SAP Business ByDesign customers quietly confident
- While it is still early days, SAP Business ByDesign customers are quietly confident the service will deliver value. Earlier today, David Suntinger, corporate development at WIMA, a German engineering business with four locations employing 500 person discussed its implementation progress. The project has been running for a...
- Tags: Payroll, SAP AG, Operational Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- The key to Windows success? It's all about the drivers
- The greatest advantage of the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. The biggest problem with the Windows ecosystem is that there are so many choices. Ironic, isn't it? The sheer number of choices means you can almost certainly...
- Tags: Problem, Driver, OEM, Graphics Subsystem, Vista/Server 2008/Win7 Ecosystem, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Notebooks, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- A brief summary
- A brief summaryCompare with CFOIn many parts of the world, the CFO must be a chartered/certified accountant. In the US, this is now also essentially the case, due to SOx, and SOx is there as a result of accounting scandals.IT continues to disregard formal qualifications and licencing. Maybe the CIO...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Databases, IBM AIX, SOx, shareholder, AIX 5.3, Schwartz, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Change Prediction in Object-Oriented Software Systems: A Probabilistic Approach
- An estimation of change-proneness of parts of a software system is an active topic in the area of software engineering. Such estimates can be used to predict changes to different classes of a system from one release to the next. They can also be used to estimate and possibly reduce...
- Tags: Software, Object-oriented, Academy Publisher, Software System, Tools & Techniques, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2008-05-01
- The worst software failures are successes
- The worst software failures are successesIsnt this was "agile" is all about avoiding?Another common cause of problems that you dont mention: The spec was right at the time it was captured, but the business has moved on by the time the system is delivered. Too many development teams think they...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, software failure
- Discussion threads 2008-03-27
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