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- Zoho Share(point?)
- If there's one thing I really like it is what I term 'self evident' applications. These are apps that have a clear purpose and which are blindingly simple to use. Zoho Share falls squarely in that category. The company prefers to think of...
- Tags: People Area, Bookmarks, RSS, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- IKEA's mixed bag of IT investments
- Last evening I read an interesting Gartner case study (registration wall warning.) It tells how IKEA Components, a company that is part of the iconic retailer of flat pack furniture used Lawson Software products to make significant across the board process savings and improvements. The business intelligence/process project makes great...
- Tags: IKEA, Information Technology, IT Investment, David Meerman Scott, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Dell bets on Salesforce.com's platform as a service
- Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called "spectacular," but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon. On Salesforce.com's second quarter conference call (earnings recap, InStranet acquisition) Benioff revealed that Dell signed a...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Marc Benioff, Billing, PaaS, Summer Sales Cycle, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Hyperic CloudStatus adds Google App Engine monitoring
- There are many factors that could be seen as impediments to the adoption of "cloud computing" architectures. One of them is the assumption by some suppliers that organizations are going to leap with both feet into running important applications offsite somewhere in the cloud. These folks haven't learned from what...
- Tags: Google Inc., Performance, Monitoring, CloudStatus, Hyperic Inc., Google App Engine, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- BigFix makes government's power management mandate more palatable
- For those of you readers who work within federal government agencies and have been faced with meeting mandated conservation policies, software vendor BigFix has negotiated a deal with the General Services Administration to offer its software at an annual license of $3 per computer for the first year of new...
- Tags: Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Sun release claims Sun Ray shipments nearly double
- Sun just issued a press release claiming that its shipments of Sun Ray "thin client" systems nearly doubled. The most exciting part of the announcement was that the document was sent not as a text message, not as an HTML formatted document, but as a Sun Staroffice document. I'm sure...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, Sun Ray Unit Shipment, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Thin Clients, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- HP delivers strong third quarter fueled by blades, international, notebooks
- HP on Tuesday reported fiscal third quarter earnings of $2 billion, or 80 cents a share, on revenue of $28 billion, up 10 percent from a year ago. Excluding items, HP reported earnings of 86 cents a share, 3 cents ahead of Wall Street estimates. Revenue also...
- Tags: Revenue, Notebook, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, Operating Profit, Earnings, Operational Accounting, Sales Strategy, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underway
- Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underwayGood article, Larry.Software companies are running out of ways to make you buy their latest version. There just isn't anything in newer versions that increase productivity. So they have to raise their revenue somewhere.I think it is better for companies to hire...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Internal IT, database manager, software, maintenance revolution
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?
- Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing?My boss likes to look at IT as a cost...center. I asked him the other day to turn off all computers then try to do business. He said he couldn't. Well then it looks like your IT is responsible for 100% of your revenue....
- Tags: IT IS, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underway
- There's a brewing backlash among software customers as big vendors raise their support and maintenance prices. Dennis Howlett has captured an emerging backlash among SAP customers over an enhanced support and its costs. Oracle is doing the same drill. And Mary Jo Foley detailed a "proactive" support...
- Tags: Software, Software Company, SAP AG, Inflation, Dennis Howlett, Dennis, Tools & Techniques, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Management, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Conversation with HP's Roberto Moctezuma
- I recently had the chance to speak with Roberto Moctezuma, VP, Desktop Solutions Organization for HP about the company's approach to providing its customers with desktop and client virtualization solutions. I've spoken with one of Roberto's team, Tad Bodman, and posted HP and Desktop Virtualization a while back. ...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- The beatings will continue until SOA governance improves
- The beatings will continue until SOA governance improvesnice article - added to thesoablog.comI added a link to TheSOABlog -- I have had the same experiences with governance as you.http://www.thesoablog.com/2008/08/soa-governance-must-improve.htmlGovernance is only one aspect of SOAIf SOA is not implemented correctly as part of the enterprise architecture, with services designed to...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, cloud computing, SOA, beating, SOA governance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Zoho's future in Google's hands?
- Earlier today, Zoho sent over an intriguing email with a whole bunch of numbers and spreadsheet demonstrating why Google in particular is not likely to be a threat to the company. It makes interesting reading. The argument goes something like this: Google's revenue and profit per...
- Tags: Software, Revenue, Google Inc., Zoho, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- IBM: Measure, measure and measure some more
- So far, the main green tech consulting offerings have emerged from the biggest of the big systems vendors and this latest service I'm referencing today out of IBM is no different. The new IBM Green Sigma offering, for those companies that do the Lean Sigma thing, focuses...
- Tags: Green Technology, Carbon, IBM Corp., Transportation, Research & Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Outsourcing, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Delivering the Olympics: Akamai and Limelight respond
- Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation facts are accurate and that it absolutely stands behind its words.Keep in mind that the two companies compete fiercely and have different takes on...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Network, Server, Akamai Technologies Inc., Content, Limelight Networks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Data Centers, Networking, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Russia, Georgia and NASA
- Russia, Georgia and NASASelf reliance is a good thingLet's be really glad we're not dependent on Russia for more important things... and yes, I do think that foreign countries should be wary of over-dependence on the US works both ways.I think Bill Nelson has done a good job over the...
- Tags: Self-Reliance, COTS, SpaceX, Orbital, NASA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- IBM: The mainframe is back
- IBM: The mainframe is backMainframe decision makers...As long as IT departments are headed by baby boomers who are in bed with IBM, the z series will continue to exist and propogate. There are a number of old systems (re: COBOL) that still meet the business needs, and will continue...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- An Event Apart 2008: Day 1
- The antique Palace Hotel in San Francisco houses An Event Apart, a collaboration of interactive presentations about web standards, user experience design, and best practices. The two-day conference features well-known speakers from around the world, including AEA's hosts Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer. ...
- Tags: Web, Framework, Web Design, Interfaces, Craftsmanship, D, Channel Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coder
- Torvalds: No picnic to become major Linux coderAll makes senseIf I was running a large open source project with thousands if not millions of people all over the world depending on me to get it right, I think I'd do things in much the same way.Certainly it makes sense to...
- Tags: Strategy, Torvalds, Linux, vision, Linux coder, open source, chef, picnic
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
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