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Introduction to BIT

This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...

Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Additional Resources

What do Green IT, the economic crisis, and best selling author, Thomas Friedman, have in common? Poor accounting

Consider the following questions posed by Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, and more recently, Hot, Flat And Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America: “Was it an...

Tags: Accounting, Friedman's Inc., Financial, PC, Information Technology, Environment, Green IT, Economic Crisis, Printing, Strategy, Management, Doug Washburn

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference: Aggregate and Organize

I finally made it to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference with my record intact. That record would be that I have NEVER in 15 years of flying to Boston a hundred times, NEVER, repeat again, NEVER been on time both ways.  This one was resolved quickly because my flight...

Tags: Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-24

eBay scammers try to scam security expert

eBay scammers try to scam security expertIt sounds like the system works quite well!Since in both cases the scammer failed, I would have to say that the system works quite well. What this story does tell us though is that sellers might want to hold off a day before sending...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail, security, PayPal, eBay Inc., Internet Service Provider

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

US Embassy joins in the Green Dam fray

US Embassy joins in the Green Dam frayUh?Did our embassy forget that China is a communist country underneath it all? As sad as it is, the Chinese government can do practically anything it wants. Good luck. RE: US Embassy joins in the Green Dam frayAnd this from...

Tags: Manufacturing, Green Dam, Green Dam fray, Embassy, manufacturer, fray

Discussion threads 2009-06-22

Why SOA really, really matters in a cloud computing world

Back in early 2006, I published a piece on the impact of delivering SOA-ready services via online, on-demand venues such as online marketplaces. Here is an update on the piece, revised to meet today's cloud computing realities. Since I wrote the first piece, we have seen many of the principles...

Tags: On-demand, SOA, Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Services, Managed Hosting, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-10

China demands new PCs carry spyware

China demands new PCs carry spywareI don't think that anyone thinks that China's government has changed its position on freedom of speech.RE: China demands new PCs carry spywareWait for something like this to come our way in the US. Except under the guise of protection against software piracy.RE: China demands...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, COMPANIES, spyware, government

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th Edition

I'm going to try something out here. I am ready to cringe as the tomatoes and old iPods are thrown at me, or the praise is showered on me...oh, wait, that's someone dumping buckets of tar over my head. I'm providing an advance excerpt of Chapter 13 of CRM...

Tags: Advertisement, Attention, CRM, New Competition, Engagement Rating, Marketers, Marketing Professional, Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-29

News to know: Google; Facebook; HP battery recall

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Apple eliminates CanSecWest Pwn2Own flaws Larry Dignan: Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities Sam Diaz: Google outage...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Battery, Twitter, Engineering, Wireless And Mobility

Blog posts 2009-05-15

Oh, it's on: Apple counters Microsoft's 'Laptop Hunters' ads with 'Megan'

Oh, it's on: Apple counters Microsoft's 'Laptop Hunters' ads with 'Megan'5 viruses already, including the famous Izombie Bot net and......a new worm that ZDNet has already written about just yesterday. how many viruses/worms did OSX have? None, untill a couple of months ago.Yesterday, a 10.5.07 just came out, with a...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Cyberthreats, Desktops, Notebooks, Viruses and worms, PC commercial, Apple Inc., Laptop Hunters, advertisement, virus, Apple Macintosh, laptop computer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-13

Global piracy on the rise

Global piracy on the riseWhat's a loss?Does the loss include dropping your prices to be more inline with the economy of the country you're selling in? Did the drop in piracy coincide with a drop in prices or an increase in enforcement? Or both? Is the BSA...

Tags: software key, piracy, software

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

NEXT09: deconstructing the enterprise gulf

Attending NEXT09 was a breath of fresh air for me. As seems to be the way, there's always a good showing by controversial polemicists. You won't for example get two more strident and different speakers than Jeff Jarvis and Andrew Keen. As an enterprisey guy, Keen's assessment...

Tags: Google Inc., Social Computing, Conference, CODA, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Book Review: Why New Systems Fail

Phil Simon has a new book out called “why new systems fail â€" theory and practice collide”. I read through it quickly this weekend. Here’s my review: I’ve pored over systems failures much of professional IT career. In fact, I was...

Tags: Project, Phil Simon, Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Leadership, Blogging, Professional Development, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Internet, Career, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Poking for holes in Silicon Valley's future

Every time Silicon Valley goes through a downturn we see stories about how it is losing its lead. Here is the BBC with a long story headlined: "Silicon Valley crown up for grabs. It has one source to make this claim, Tom Siebel, the retired founder of Siebel Systems. ...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Leadership, Strategy, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Management, Hardware, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-05-04

eDiscovery Legal Minefield Migraines

With compliance discovery typically averaging out at a million US dollars per legal case, the whole area of retrieving all digital dialog around a dispute is the time and money sink that stresses IT staff and slows line of business technology adoption. Legal...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, Electronically Stored Information, E-mail, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Online Communications, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-28

The Pirate Bay torpedoed

The Pirate Bay torpedoedThe Pirate Bay verdict ...... thoughts?Even if TPB was completely shut down it wouldn't matter.Piracy will remain as strong as ever and just morph into something even harder to stop.RE: The Pirate Bay torpedoedGood. Enough with the theft of copyrighted material.They may not be so innocent... but...

Tags: Piracy, TPB, Pirate Bay

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

Top 10 lessons for iPhone adoption in the enterprise

Is your company ready for the iPhone? Or better, is the iPhone ready for your company? New Forrester research suggests that Apple's iPhone is a worthy platform for delivering content and collaboration applications to an increasingly mobile workforce -- and that there's a case to be made...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Advertising & Promotion, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-14

Enterprise 2.0 promise is years off...if it materializes

Enterprise 2.0 promise is years off...if it materializesLooking at the chartHey, aren't those types of value accruded the same as what they said about SOA? I mean what they said about Net 2.0? Oh I meant to say Web 2.0? I mean cloud computing? Now it's enterprise 2.0? Gee,...

Tags: NOW IT, Enterprise 2.0, E2.0

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

Vista/7 more secure than Linux and Mac OS X

Vista/7 more secure than Linux and Mac OS XOfficially... NoIt has yet to be RTM'd. It's only been released as a trial.well said... the MS business model has created a coupleof cultures. The actual users of MS software and the folks that exploit it. Patch Tuesday was never...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Patches, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, software, Microsoft Corp., patch management, Linux, software repository

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

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