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- Microsoft CRM Online: not so sharp
- Microsoft CRM Online: not so sharpDisclosure?[i]But I can’t agree with Josh Greenbaum’s assertion last week that the product is going to be a big challenge for Salesforce.com this year [disclosure: Salesforce.com is a client].[/i]I'm afraid your whole post is compromised. What is the value of your opinion of your...
- Tags: Sales force management, Tools & Techniques, Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise software, Microsoft CRM, razor, Microsoft Corp., CRM Online, Salesforce.com Inc., software, razor blade, CRM
- Discussion threads 2008-04-22
- The deadly problem of hospital logistics
- The deadly problem of hospital logisticsPriorities[i]But when lives are on the line, don’t you think you’re worth the same attention as a package of razor blades?[/i]Where in the process does my opinion enter in?It's not like I'm part of the process or anything -- I'm the product. Cost minimization,...
- Tags: hospital logistic, razor blade
- Discussion threads 2008-01-10
- Virus hunter: It's a 'horrible world'
- Virus hunter: It's a 'horrible world'Another Lucky 'Businessman'Johnson is another enterpreneur who is very happy to provide the plaster to close all the holes -- of 'varying shape and size' -- in the s/w written by the s/w giant.Security is one of the main dimensions in the design and implementation...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, virus, Johnson, S/W, razor blade
- Discussion threads 2003-12-09
Additional Resources
- Workday: a tipping point?
- Larry Dignan is enthusiastic about Workday's 200,000 person deal it won to supply Flextronics with HR functionality, adding in the Chiquita 26,000 person deal as validation for what he suggests is a 'tipping point' for Workday. I'm a little more cautious. Next week, Workday will release update...
- Tags: Workday, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- HP partners with Desktone to advance virtualized desktops as a service
- Desktone, the desktop as a service DaaS provider, has lined up a powerful ally in Hewlett-Packard HP, which has signed on as the first member of Desktone's partner program for desktop virtualization technology. Desktone announced HP's involvement at the same time it unveiled its service provider...
- Tags: Desktop Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, Service Provider, Desktone, Virtual-D Platform, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- New AMD Opterons are good news for schools
- AMD, a company that has been struggling to compete meaningfully with Intel in the last year, announced new "highly efficient" quad-core processors for blade and rack servers. With energy costs increasing drastically and no relief in sight, schools looking to shave costs, as well as green their IT departments,...
- Tags: Desktop, Data Center, Performance, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Thin Clients, Performance Management, Storage Management, Storage, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Consolidation Through Virtualisation With Sun x64 Servers
- IT organisations must complete an almost impossible juggling act. Delivering more services at less cost. Increasing performance, yet managing fewer systems. Buying the right server for the job, yet adapting to change at a moments notice.As this Sun whitepaper explores, the Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Blade modular systems...
- Tags: Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Virtualization, Sun Solaris, Servers, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Operating Systems, Processors, Hardware, Software, Storage, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2008-05-13
- Microsoft adding 10,000 new datacenter servers a month
- Microsoft adding 10,000 new datacenter servers a monthWell, MS probably did not want anybody to know this. They sure do now wantto appear to be agreeing that cloud computing is the way to go while they try to hold on to the twin cash cows as long as possible. But,...
- Tags: Data centers, Servers, Blade servers, Virtualization, Utility computing, new datacenter server, datacenter server, server, data center, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Live Webcast: Don't Go Half Way: Blade Server or Virtual Server = Virtual Storage
- Every CEO and company owner asks two things of their people and vendors: How are you going to save me money and how are you going to make me money? Responding to those two business requirements is the current wave of server architecture changing from rack-based servers to blade...
- Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Blade Server, Webcast, Blade, Server Architecture, Servers, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-05-08
- ClearCube Spins off VDIworks
- ClearCube has long offered an interesting desktop virtualization environment that is based upon its VMware-enabled ClearCube PC blades with its Sentral™ management software. When combined, the two create a very usable virtual desktop environment. Each PC blade can be used as a computing resource for multiple users. My post...
- Tags: ClearCube Technology, VDIworks, Desktops, Blade Servers, Hardware, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- BLADE Networks and Network Virtualization
- I don't often get the opportunity to speak with companies offering a different take on network virtualization, a blade networking approach. A week ago, I had a chance to speak with Dan Tuchler, VP of Strategy and Product Management, for BLADE Network Technologies BLADE about network virtualization for blade servers....
- Tags: Network, Blade, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Microsoft CRM Online: not so sharp
- Let me start off by offering grudging congratulations to Microsoft, which took the wraps off CRM Online today, for finally acknowledging that it has to totally re-architect its software to be able to offer it on demand. Tim O'Brien, senior director of platform strategy for Microsoft, spelt it out in...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Razor, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft CRM, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Would you roll out Mac clones?
- Would you roll out Mac clones?What about a legal alternative?Think about this: ship an Intel PC with an EFI Bios, withuot any preinstalled OS. Then let the customers have the option to choose XP, Vista, Linux, or Mac OS X. They would be violating Apple's agreement, but Apple can't easily...
- Tags: Desktops, Apple Inc., Mac-clone, EFI BIOS, Apple Macintosh, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- Could 3Leaf's Virtual Compute Environment Grow on You?
- B.V. Jagadeesh, CEO of 3Leaf Systems, and I had a long, interesting discussion of what it would take to create the proper hardware platform for an agile, highly reliable, high performance environment using industry standard components when and wherever possible. It was pretty clear that that path requires the creation...
- Tags: Data Center, Environment, I/O, Industry Standard, Industry, 3Leaf Systems, Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- San Quentin prison: IT failure is life or death
- San Quentin prison, which holds California's most dangerous criminals, is a technology time capsule: Typewriters and dot-matrix printers are the norm. And this time warp is untenable because it's killing prisoners who get lost in a health care paper shuffle. The solution: An overhaul of the prison's information system where...
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, Kim, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Dell rolls out AMD quad-core servers; AMD lands VMware certification
- AMD plans to announce Wednesday that Dell is offering five quad-core Opteron server platforms and that the chipmaker has received VMware certification. Adding Dell to the fold brings the total number of OEM AMD quad-core systems to 13. Dell's AMD lineup is already surfaced on the PC...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Certification, Quad-core, AMD Opteron, VMware Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Mitsubishi HC6000
- Mitsubishi's HC6000 replaces last year's model, the HC5000, as the company's entry-level 1080p home theater projector. The main improvement is higher contrast ratio due mainly to improved black level performance. It also delivers on its 1080p resolution promise for the most part, with video processing courtesy of Silicon Optix and...
- Tags: Projectors, menu system, Auto Iris feature, color temperature, Mitsubishi HC6000, projector, Mitsubishi Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-04-15
- A 100-million-year dragon killer
- Komodo dragons are one of the largest living species of lizards, growing to a length of up to 3 meters and weighing around 70 kilograms. They're living on several central Indonesian islands for more than 100 million years. Why are they still alive? According to an international team of researchers,...
- Tags: Researcher, Species, Komodo, UNSW, Productivity, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- The Linux lesson Windows needs
- Gartner analysts are running about in Las Vegas, hair on fire, shouting that Windows is collapsing. Or about to collapse. Or something. This is easy to get snarky about, but there is a real issue here. With each new release of Windows, it adds capability, it adds...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- Sears and the dishwasher that didn't
- Sears and the dishwasher that didn'tI figured it out right away....I saw "Sears" and "Dishwasher" and pretty much figured out that it had nothing to do with virtualization. I also figured out that it's Dan's blog and that he can write about whatever the hell he wants to write...
- Tags: Financial services, Sears Roebuck & Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
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