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- Twitter's race for stability: VP Mighdoll out
- Twitter's VP of engineering and operations Lee Mighdoll has reportedly left the company. According to Silicon Alley Insider, which has been doing a bang-up job staying on top of the Twitter corporate shuffling, Mighdoll has left the company. Silicon Alley Insider's Peter Kafka reports that Mighdoll and...
- Tags: Twitter, Silicon Alley Insider, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Leadership, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- MGM Mirage's IT green field: RFID meets alcohol; predictive modeling; bandwidth galore
- Very few technology executives ever get a green field to play with. MGM Mirage CIO Tom Peck has an $8 billion green field--actually massive construction project dubbed CityCenter--right in the middle of the Las Vegas strip. Peck was speaking at the Gartner Emerging Technologies Conference in Las...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Information Technology, MGM Mirage, SOA, Modeling, CityCenter, RFID, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Taobao.com Turns to Grid Computing to Improve System Performance and Reliability
- Founded in 2003, Taobao.com is the leading shopping Web site in China, with a 70% share of the market and more than 40 million registered members. Taobao.com wanted to design more and better promotions to attract customers and make better use of business data to inform decision making and Web...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Scalability, Grid Computing, Web Site Development, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Internet, It service Management, Networking
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- How Cisco Redesigned European Offices to Improve Workplace Flexibility
- On average, every week two real estate projects were opened and two churns took place in EMEA. The challenge for WPR and IT was sustaining the support of business growth and providing adequate space to meet this ongoing requirement while keeping real estate costs low. The introduction of Cisco AVVID...
- Tags: Cisco AVVID, Workplace, Microsoft Office, Cisco Systems Inc., Real Estate, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-12-18
- IT transformation - it's about destroying fiefdoms
- Larry Dignan thinks the key to IT transformation success is having the CEOs attention: These big technology architecture overhauls require CEO participation and folks like Cisco CEO John Chambers are on board. The CEO also can't blink when your SOA/consolidation/automation project doesn't go well. That's what makes HP's overhaul...
- Tags: History, Transformation, Information Technology, Kingdom, CEO, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- The secret of IT transformation: It's all about the CEO stupid
- One of the big takeaways from Hewlett-Packard's analyst meeting will be that the company's information technology overhaul serves multiple purposes. To wit: HP's IT consolidation is designed to save money; The teams are that are carrying out the consolidation are being trailed by...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Mark Hurd, CEO, Data Centers, Strategy, Team Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Yalumba Wine Upgrades ERP, Database to Sustain Growth
- Founded in 1849, Yalumba Wine Company is Australia's oldest family-owned winery. In August 2005, with Oracle's Fusion project underway, the winemaker decided to review its existing JD Edwards World Xe implementation and supporting environment to ensure the long-term viability of its information technology architecture. After a thorough evaluation, Yalumba decided...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., ERP, Databases, Enterprise Software, Storage, Strategy, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Management
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- Pitico Consolidates Information in a Single Database, Automates Processes, and Optimizes Productivity
- Pitico began operating in Mexico in 1972 and within a few years became the first self-service supermarket in the city of Oxaca. Pitico wanted to establish a stable and flexible data infrastructure to optimize performance throughout the organization and improve employee productivity. The challenge was to enhance the competitiveness and...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Pitico, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Storage, Databases, Sales, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Financials: An Excerpt From "IT Success!"
- While budget ownership by the client does give him the final say for IT purchases, it does not imply a passport to buy anything and everything without validation from a technology, architecture and resource perspective. The IT department as trusted advisor would normally provide this type of input as part...
- Tags: Information Technology, Advisor, Compuware Corp., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-11-01
- IBM Maximo Technology for Business and IT Agility
- This paper shows how the IBM Maximo software solution is the leading asset and service management software in the marketplace, through its highly flexible business components and technology architecture. This Internet-optimized component architecture leverages key Web concepts, standards and technologies, helping to ensure optimum compatibility with today's Web-based infrastructures. The...
- Tags: Software, Service Management, Information Technology, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, It Services, Management
- White papers 2007-09-01
- Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Keeps SPACE Property Agents Safe as Houses
- SPACE Property Agents operates in a fast-paced market which rewards creative selling and strong service. To stay on top of the game, the company contacted Rampant Technology, Microsoft Partner and Small Business Specialist, to provide a new technology infrastructure that would grow with the demands of the business. Rampant Technology...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Agent, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, SPACE Property Agents, Real Estate, Business Structures, Microsoft Windows, Business Operations, Finance, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2007-07-16
- Microsoft's 4th of July Trans-Atlantic assault on document standards
- On what is normally a slow period for news, Microsoft launched a concerted campaign to displace ODF and PDF as document access and retention standards on both sides of the Atlantic. Microsoft has proposed and lobbied for OOXML as an alternative to ODF and XPS as an alternative to Adobe's...
- Tags: Standards, OOXML, ODF, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- The IT behind the Cancer Genome Atlas
- This month the National Cancer Institutes Cancer Genome Atlas will start receiving tissue samples which will be used to map the genetic data embedded in cancer cells. The side effect...
- Tags: Utility computing, Software Infrastructure, Science, Open Source, IT Management, Innovation, Hardware Infrastructure, Government, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Ballmer's Macaca moment
- Ballmer's Macaca momentallISONPlease at least get the name right.It's worse than usual -- Jeremy reads and posts here.paying billsI'm a software engineer. I have spent time and money getting degrees from Universities. I also spend time learning more about software and programming. These skills are not easy to learn and...
- Tags: Development tools, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Gaffe, Microsoft Corp., programmer, OSS, patent, Unix, Steve Ballmer
- Discussion threads 2006-12-21
- Service Oriented Architectures and the Mainframe
- Service Oriented Architecture SOA is a technology architecture that has gained mass appeal throughout the IT industry. The basic promise of an SOA is the development of reusable services that abstracts the capabilities of underlying IT applications. Each of these services should represent an atomic business transaction and be constructed...
- Tags: Business Transaction, Mainframe, SOA, OpenConnect Systems Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-09-28
- Next Generation Virtualization Stack for Intel Virtualization Technology: Architecture, Implementation, and Optimizations
- This presentation provides architecture of next generation virtualization stack and discusses implementation and challenges for the next generation virtualization stack. The presentation takes a look at the performance data of next generation virtualization stack and reviews future steps.
- Tags: Optimization, Intel Corp., Presentation, Generation Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- Presentations 2006-09-21
- Hot trends in state and local contracting
- Top IT projects among state and local governments in the coming year, according to WashingtonTechnology:Medicaid: There is a "backlog of states that need new Medicaid systems or are hiring a company to run their systems. But Rishi Sood, Gartner research vice president, said the need...
- Tags: Medicaid, human service, local government
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- Will ITIL make SOA governable?
- Will ITIL make SOA governable?ITIL Version 3 will help...As a UK Blogger on ITIL (http://www.ITServiceBlog.com) I recently featured a post on what's coming up in the next Version of ITIL - V3.It's clear that the inclusion of four new core texts: IT Service Design, IT Service Strategies, IT Service Introduction...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Process improvement, IT Services, Web services, Enterprise software, Middleware, IT Operations, ITIL, SOA, information technology
- Discussion threads 2006-03-27
- What's the biggest risk with external Web services?
- It's not security; and I'll get to that in a moment. A new survey specific to the insurance industry finds that 90 percent of carriers have adopted some form of Web services within their information technology architecture, and 58 percent of those have adopted the industry-specific ACORD (Association for Cooperative...
- Tags: risk, XML, Web service
- Blog posts 2006-01-25
- Making The Abundant Relevant: Solving Today's Learning Challenges Through A Next Generation Technology Architecture
- There are two major challenges facing SkillSoft customers today: the need to integrate a wide variety of technology systems and content types, and the need to present content in a way that is relevant to the individual learner. These problems are getting more difficult as the number of content types...
- Tags: SkillSoft, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-12-01
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