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The Scoop on the New CCNA and CCNP Specializations

There has been a lot of interest among students lately on the details surrounding the CCNA specializations and their relationship with the corresponding CCNP specializations. These specializations were introduced in the summer of 2008. The purpose of this white paper is to put all the related information into one concise...

Tags: CCNA, Specialization

White papers 2009-08-25

Riding the hockey stick: Scaling Web 2.0 software

Riding the hockey stick: Scaling Web 2.0 softwareIt's time to move to fabless Web 2.0Dion,Thanks for raising this very important issue (and for mentioning 3Tera :-)). Debra Chrapaty's belief that "operational environment will be a key differentiator" is, of course, completely self-serving. We have seen this movie before.20 years ago,...

Tags: Semiconductors, Channel management, Today most Web site, horizontal specialization, hockey stick, chip, Web 2.0, specialization, differentiator, Web

Discussion threads 2006-07-19

Additional Resources

Disposable iPhone apps

Is Oh Noes Done Yet?Well. Isn't that like books, with the exception that, for the near-term, the one retailer welcomes self-published works?Every where I look, one has to write the thing. One has to wrap it and ship it. And one has to market his or her butt off to...

Tags: Apple iPhone, app store business model, developer

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Albert Gonzalez was hacking in high school...where were the safety nets?

I agree.....Most of our schools are not equipt for the new age of computers and programming. Most of our schools but not all are still stuck in the liberal arts mode of teaching and not letting students focus on their strengths. Its all about well rounded B-S. ...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, hacking, Albert Gonzalez

Discussion threads 2009-08-20

A buy side response to the enterprise buyer's Bill of Rights (and a partial solution)

My first post of today pointed towards an all too familiar enterprise project 'fail' and the documented experiences of one project person trying to reach completion on a now two year implementation. Coincidentally (I didn't know this was in the pipe), Mike Krigsman provides a critique of Forrester's Enterprise Software...

Tags: Consultant, SAP AG, Bill, Principle Reason, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Using selfishness to put crowds to work for you

Using selfishness to put crowds to work for youGood griefHave we become this ignorant where the concept of Adam Smith's invisible hand is counter-intuitive and surprising?No wonder we've elected a freaking marxist as president.Code without good documentation has difficulty reaching critical massWhile some simple utilities can get by without documentation,...

Tags: Wiki, Investment, Self-Interest, good documentation, selfishness

Discussion threads 2009-05-07

I haven't had a good rant recently

However, a colleague sent me this quote from CNN.com this morning note that the more grievous errors have since been corrected: "Somehow they have managed to get thousands of gigantic magnets, get them arranged so that they're within a few microns of where they're supposed to be,...

Tags: Zero, Blogging, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Cisco CTO's 5 Predictions for the Future of Collaboration

Padmasree Warrior is, to quote her biography on their company blog "Cisco Systems’ Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, she is responsible for helping drive the company’s technological innovations and strategy, and works closely with its senior executive team and board of directors to align these efforts with Cisco’s corporate goals....

Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Cisco Systems Inc., Padmasree Warrior, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-25

CRIKEY! He can swallow whole companies! But not communities.

CRIKEY! He can swallow whole companies! But not communities.Basic flaw of free software"If a project no longer meets their requirements, be it from a licensing or political perspective, they simply cease working on it and go onto other things that interrest them instead."Basically, there is no real tie to those...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft development tools, Crikey, software

Discussion threads 2009-04-21

QuickArrow taking PSA to the small business market

A solution tailored for its users I spoke recently with QuickArrow’s CEO Kevin Bury and learned a fair bit about their firm’s newest product line: QuickArrow Small Business Edition. The company actually took the time to study this market segment in detail before...

Tags: Product Line, Small Business, Small Business Edition, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-04-20

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source CultureGNUI had always heard that "GNU" was a recursive acronym for "Gnu's Not Unix". It wasn't just me who thought that. For example, Eric Smith used the same naming scheme for his Atari ST OS, called MiNT Mint is Not Tos, and...

Tags: Operating systems, open source, Unix, GNU, Stallman

Discussion threads 2009-03-13

Twitter authority frenzy led to Twitter phishing meltdown

Folks like to know where they stand, and in recent weeks people on Twitter have been, well, all a-twitter about the idea of Twitter Authority. They want to know who is most influentialâ€"a repeat of the phenomenon that swept the blogosphere a while back. It's a human thing, but it...

Tags: Twitter, Twitterverse, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-01-05

Patterns for Application Firewalls

Enterprise applications are typically implemented as web applications and may use web services. This provides a flexible architecture suitable for B2B communication but it may introduce new security threats. This paper discusses here an analysis pattern for an Application Firewall, intended to protect the applications from some of these threats....

Tags: Application Firewall, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking

White papers 2009-01-01

What do we do with those classroom computers?

What do we do with those classroom computers?I've often wondered thisI left school just before broadband became standard in Australia, and computers were only used for basic assignment research for history mainly and typing assignments.I've yet to see or hear of a school implement an IT system or software which...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, tablet PC, PC, computer

Discussion threads 2008-12-21

Making Man As Super As His Computer

Worst case, Steve Wallach figures it costs $10,000 to buy a blade server that can execute 50 billion floating point operations in a second. By that measure, it would take $200,000 to buy 20 of the blades, to handle a trillion operations a second in a heavy-duty scientific or financial...

Tags: Programmer, Computer, Steve Wallach, Convey Computer, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Harnessing a multicore future

Harnessing a multicore futureThe Java Response?It is certainly going to be interesting to see how the Java community responds to the need to abstract away the complexities of parallel processing from programmers. If the community doesn't do it right, developers will be jumping ship like crazy to .Net.The desktopYour 10th...

Tags: Processors, Games, CPU, multi-core, desktop, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-03

My Awesome IT Job: Enterprise Architect, IBM

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 an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: Paris, Information Technology, IBM Corp., Strategy, Team Management, Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-10-31

My Awesome IT Job: Chief Technology Officer, Attivio

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 an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Web 2.0, Strategy, Research & Development, Financial Planning, Internet, Management, Business Operations, Finance, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-10-17

My Awesome IT Job: Director of Rich Media Group at Microsoft

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 an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Rich Media, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

My Awesome IT Job: Vice President of Security, SuccessFactors

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 an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: Security, QA, SuccessFactors Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-09-26