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Tailored Briefing Helps Local Government Make Smart Technology Decisions

The City of Arlington had a long list of questions about how to approach future business and technology decisions. To get its questions answered by technology experts, a team from the city attended a customized one-day Strategy Briefing at a Microsoft Technology Center. As a result of the briefing, the...

Tags: Technology Decision, Microsoft Corp., Government, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Vertical Industries, Management

Case studies 2008-06-01

Movie-Theater Giant Acts on Technology Decisions With Input From Experts

A mix of older technology began to hinder business users and technical staff at AMC Entertainment. The company needed a new infrastructure and considered both Microsoft and open-source solutions. AMC attended several Microsoft Technology Center MTC engagements, which provided their team with the technical insight and support to make a...

Tags: Technology Decision, Microsoft Corp., Open Source

Case studies 2007-06-01

Additional Resources

Gartner wins in ZL lawsuit: but is it a pyrrhic victory?

I try to act the opposite...of what Gartner recommends. I truly believe they do not have a clue about real world IT. Their recommendations are based on personal opinions and ideas that are not backed up by hard data and research. Sometimes it sounds as though they feel like they...

Tags: Gartner Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

HP takes converged infrastructure a notch higher with new data warehouse appliance

HP isn’t just betting on a market whim. Recent market research it supported reveals that more than 90 percent of senior business decision makers believe business cycles will continue to be unpredictable for the next few years â€" and 80 percent recognize they need to be far more flexible in...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Hewlett-Packard Co., Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Sophos Anti-Virus 7.1.0 (Mac)

Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X, part of Sophos Endpoint Security and Data Protection, has been engineered to provide complex, multi-platform networks with totally reliable protection on Macintosh servers, desktops and laptops. Our powerful Sophos malware detection engine scans all entry points and also detects non-Mac viruses that could be...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Sophos Anti-Virus, Sophos Plc., Virus, Cyberthreats, Desktops, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-01

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

Survey: cloud interest grows triple-fold; cost may not be main factor

buble bust...anyone learns from 2000 and so IT burst?Current interest in private cloudsHi Joean interesting piece, and thanks for the link to my post? This current enthusiasm for private Clouds is also interesting? and I am left wondering how long it will continue.It's presumably a mix of security concerns (real...

Tags: Marketing research, cloud computing, survey

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Apple iMac 27-inch

If we could, we'd take points away from this iMac simply because by giving it a 27-inch display Apple threatens our livelihood. You don't need our input to simply walk past the 27-inch iMac on a store shelf and recognize that it's the largest all-in-one currently available, and that it...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Inc., screen size, Apple iMac

Product reviews 2009-10-21

Demand this from software vendors

I was getting a briefing last week from a software executive. We got to a point in the conversation where the discussion was focusing on existing products. I moved the conversation to a different space, though. If you're getting a pitch from a vendor, you should move the conversation, too!...

Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Art of the software deal can get messy

Software buyers and vendors are increasingly butting heads amid a budget squeeze and increasingly aggressive sales tactics, according to Gartner. In a series of presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium in Orlando, analysts walked buyers through a few negotiating tactics with the likes of SAP, Microsoft, Oracle,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Gartner Inc., Customer, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Negotiation, Software Audit, Software-as-a-service Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Free Trade, Sales Strategy, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Uptime Institute Seminar

I'm on my way to the Uptime Institute's How to Plan, Justify, and Manage a Major Data Center Project seminar in Atlanta, GA. I hope to meet some of the attendees as well as members of the Institute's staff. Who is the Uptime Institue? Here's how the Institute...

Tags: Data Center, Uptime, Uptime Institute, Institute, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Two Views of the Software Market

A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...

Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Why I moved to iPhone

The other day I was griping about the non-availability of the iPhone in Spain. I solved that in the UK by buying a pay as you go model and then jailbreaking it. Why would I do that when there are perfectly good Blackberry's or Android phones? A...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Burnout - the Dangers of Remote Work Forces

The problem is as old as work itself: you're working as part of a team and seem to be doing twice as much  - or more - as your colleagues, yet no one seems to notice. It feels as though you're carrying the weight of entire projects on your back...

Tags: Team, Burnout, Team Management, E-mail, Process Improvement, Management, Online Communications, Quality, Business Operations, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-11

Republicans protest net neutrality rules, fearing a chilling effect on broadband investment (or was it profits?)

Let the whining by the Neo-Cons begin. nt:-(RE: Republicans protest net neutrality rules, fearing a chilling effect on broadband investment (or was it profits?)bingoKeep your damn politics out of itCan't we just discuss technology issues without injecting our political views? There are valid arguments on both sides; let's focus...

Tags: Network technology, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, net neutrality rule, broadband investment, broadband, Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Two bars at home; three at work. Wireless coverage data is going granular

Say goodbye to those no-help coverage maps that the wireless carriers use to show you how great their coverage is from one coast to the other. So hello to granular maps, those that measure the true signal as well as the actual data coverage down to the Google Maps street...

Tags: Phone, Coverage, Cell Phone, Carrier, Wireless, Wireless Coverage Data, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Why on ZDnet?

Tech has a huge role to play in combating global warming, and, in just using energy more efficiently. Harry is doing a great job keeping us informed, and I really do like his blogs. And, it is just a style thing as to how much or even if the bloggers...

Tags: Blogging, blog, talkback

Discussion threads 2009-10-04

CDW: Small businesses slowly embracing Green IT

Although small businesses have been slow to adopt green IT policies, a new survey from CDW suggests that is about to change. So far, the data shows, only 23 percent of smaller companies with fewer than 100 employees have embraced Green IT practices. Approximately 31 percent plan...

Tags: Green IT, Small Business, CDW Corp., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-01

More schools using SocMed: are we asking for trouble?

I noticed an article this morning out of The Oregonion, not for any particular nostalgia for my days growing up in the Pacific Northwest, but because the headline in my RSS feed caught my eye: "Schools use Facebook, Twitter to get out their message." Well sure they...

Tags: School, Twitter Inc., School District, Social Media, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Top Down Weather 1.1.1 (Mobile)

Top Down Weather is a tool for convertible owners who don't want to constantly watch the weather to determine if it's a good day to have their top down. Top Down uses up-to-date precise weather technology to alert you in multiple ways of approaching rain. It features unique forecast windowing,...

Tags: Mobile, Radar, Weather, Matthew Lilius, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing

Software downloads 2009-09-29