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13 reasons IT hates metrics: I've blogged about the importance of establishing clear metrics to help align IT and business, especially in relation to areas such as project portfolio management. In a great counterpoint, Ed Yourdon has compiled a list of "13 common political problems associated with metrics initiatives." Ed's a...; Tags: Metrics, Information Technology, Perception, Metrics Initiative, Chances, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-03-10

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No e-commerce worries here? Amazon doubles earnings: Updated: Amazon's second quarter earnings doubled from a year ago as sales jumped 41 percent and executives said that the e-tailer may be benefiting from a slowing economy courtesy of its free shipping deals. On Wednesday, the company reported net income of $158 million, or 37 cents a share,...; Tags: Jeff Bezos, Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, E-business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?: Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?Sure it canIf you are using gnome (Ubuntu's default desktop envrionment) just go to gnomelook.org and look at the screen shots people have posted. There are a lot of creative folks out there. It's pretty easy to make gnome look and act like auqa....; Tags: Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Compiz-fusion, Even Linux, Ubuntu, operating system; Discussion threads 2008-07-23
Microsoft turns to users for new wave of Xbox games: Taking a page from Facebook and YouTube, Microsoft will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types of games available on its console. SEATTLE--Microsoft will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types...; Tags: Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Reuters, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox; News items 2008-07-23
How to lose customers by not even trying: How to lose customers by not even tryingSpot onThere is nothing more infuriating than trying to use a site that has been designed for a single specific browser that isn't yours.I truly appreciate how difficult it can be to get sites working consistently across all browsers. But it is surely...; Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Web browsers, Hertz Corp., Web site, Web browser; Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle: On July 7, the day before the release of the patch for the now infamous DNS design flaw, hacker Dan Kaminsky with the help of Black Hat conference organizers invited reporters to a press conference to "discuss the massive multivendor patch being released this Tuesday." "A synchronized...; Tags: Black Hat, DNS, Conference, Dan Kaminsky, Thomas Ptacek, Domain Names, Patches, Security, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-22
More big money for work on wind. Yes, that's $1 billion.: Finavera Renewables which has both wind and wave energy projects around the world has negotiated a deal with an unnamed corporate investor who plans to put up $1 bilion for wind power projects that will create up to 300 megawatts of capacity in British Columbia. The money...; Tags: Alternative Energy, Agreement, mW, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-22
SteelEye Protection Suite for Citrix XenServer: Bob Williamson, VP of Business Development for Steeleye, and I played a rousing game of telephone tag and meeting shuffle before finding a time that would work for a discussion of Steeleye's SteelEye Protection Suite. I was traveling making the task even more complex that it usually is. Since I've...; Tags: Clustering, Citrix Systems Inc., Virtual Machine, SteelEye Protection Suite, Citrix XenServer, Disaster Recovery Protection, Desktop Virtualization, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Spam coming from free email providers increasing: After analyzing three weeks of spam data between June 13 to July 3, 2008, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. found evidence that spam originating from the top three free email providers (Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) is increasing, with spammers in favor of abusing Gmail's privacy preserving feature of not including...; Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Gmail, Free Email Company, Anti-spam, Spammer, E-mail Company, IP, Service, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail Providers, E-mail, Phishing, Viruses And Worms, Security, Networking, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-18
My Awesome IT Job: Senior security engineer, VoIP carrier: Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from IT pros that love their work. "I...; Tags: Network, Information Technology, Hobby, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Security, Networking, Deb Perelman; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018: Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate fossil fuels as an electricity source by 2018Infogreat info...to bad most want to stay on the bandwagon...politically correct view...passing the LIE around...then understanding Global Warming is a political tools to keep those we dont want in power to stay there.RE: Gore's latest attention-getting challenge: Eliminate...; Tags: global warming, foreign oil, attention-getting challenge, latest attention-getting challenge, oil, Gore, dependence, fossil fuel; Discussion threads 2008-07-18
GE's Enterprise Collaboration Backbone: General Electric, the venerable multinational that was founded in 1878 in New Jersey, have at their core a hugely sophisticated enterprise collaboration system that is arguably the largest in the world. I was able to see Dr Sukh Grewal, Manager of GE's 'SupportCentral' collaboration...; Tags: Backbone, General Electric Co., SupportCentral, Collaboration, Groupware, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-07-17
AMD CEO Ruiz out; Can Meyer turn it around?: Updated: AMD CEO Hector Ruiz has stepped down and the chipmaker has named chief operating officer Dirk Meyer as its new leader. The news comes amid the latest financial miss for AMD--a second quarter loss that missed estimates by a wide margin. Meyer's job: Restore credibility. According...; Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Meyer, Product Momentum, Asset Management, Research & Development, Processors, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-17
The edge-centric Internet: Why isn't the edge of the network the center? More computes and storage gets shipped to consumers than to Internet data centers, so consumers should help power the Internet. And get paid for it. P2P vs Internet data centers A new project, spearheaded by National ICT...; Tags: Consumer, Internet Data Center, Data Center, Internet, Data Centers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-07-16
New hybrid delivery security architecture: Secure Computing's Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. “In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid...; Tags: Appliance, Software, Software-as-a-service, Platform, Information Technology, Advantage, Hardware, Model, Service, Architecture, Organization, Delivery Security Architecture, IT Security Professional, Delivery Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Management, CIO, SaaS, virtualization, IT appliances, service delivery, IT management, Ken Rutsky, Secure Computing; News items 2008-07-16
Yahoo! SearchMonkey Developer Challenge illustrates diversity: Back in May Yahoo! opened up their SearchMonkey platform, and kicked off a competition in which developers could put SearchMonkey through its paces. The whole Yahoo! open platform initiative continues to grow apace and largely unchallenged by Google and Microsoft, with BOSS rolling out earlier this month,...; Tags: Developer, Yahoo! Inc., StumbleUpon, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Sun Exec: Your 'Eco Data Center' doesn't have to cost millions. Some tips for getting there.: OK, so here's the $100 million question: Do you really want to spend that much to make your data center more green or at least more efficient? I thought not, which is why I agreed to speak with Sun Chief Technologist for EcoDC and Virtualization Services, Phillip Morris, about more...; Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Twitter going commercial?: Twitter going commercial?Can Twitter Stay Afloat??I think this is a very positive initiative by Twitter and may be one that will possibly end its dilemma. With popular sites like Youtube still struggling to monetize their popularity, i beleive this will help put twitter on some sound business footing and give...; Tags: Twitter; Discussion threads 2008-07-16
News to know: Apple vs. Psystar; Intel; Microsoft and multicore; Linux kernel: Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple sues Psystar Sam Diaz: Complaint: 'Invaluable good is being eroded' Larry Dignan: The end of the Mac clones? Jason D. O'Grady: Apple: See you in court Larry Dignan:Â Intel's second quarter delivers; Cheap laptop demand...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, Larry Dignan, Linux Kernel, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Twitter, Intel Corp., Virtualization, Linux, Channel Management, Mainframes, Open Source, Telecommunications, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Servers; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Sun's ZFS/Flash initiative: Sun's ZFS/Flash initiativeFlash sizes?What size flash are we talking about here? There is no way we are flash freezing a 200G database in any flash implementation that I know of.Leading to what?Will this work - as soon and as well -for ZFS on Linux? (and Mac?)If so cue AntonHow...; Tags: ZFS/Flash initiative, ZFS/Flash, Sun Microsystems Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-07-15