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Mashups: The next major new software development model?

At last weeks Mashup Ecosystem Summit held in San Francisco and sponsored by IBM with an invited assemblage of leading players in this space, I gave an opening talk about the current challenges and opportunities of mashups. And there I posed the title of this post as a statement...

Tags: Gadgets, Enterprise Wikis, Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise Mashups, Enterprise 2.0, Collaboration, Business Process Management, Business Models, Blogs, Badges, Ajax, Global SOA, Lightweight Service Models, Mashups, Open APIs, Products, Rich Internet Applications (RIA), RSS, SaaS, Small Pieces, Loosely Joined, SOA, Social Software, Tolerance Continuum, Web 2.0, Web as Platform, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA), Widgets, Wikis

Blog posts 2007-05-14

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Ad-To-Ad Combat

Ad-To-Ad CombatSounds like malware bumping off the competition.Friend of mine got a drive by download that got pop ups of his computer may be infected and go to this website to download their dubious spyware removal utility.In the end it doesn't fight anything. Your database is sold to someone else...

Tags: Web browsers, Targeted Ads, advertisement, AdBlock

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Vista To Win in the Enterprise, The Ugly Way

Vista To Win in the Enterprise, The Ugly Wayre: Winning Ugly[i]Why should Microsoft be any different? If you look at how enterprise software vendors have traditionally dealt with upgrades to their software products, the general tendency has been to put the vendor’s interests well ahead of the user. Upgrades to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, Yes Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

Demographics forging a new Net market: It's not your kids' Web

It's easy and fashionable to talk about "digital natives" that have grown up online, but the demographics of the United States are shifting radically to the grey and Web services developers should heed that news and make changes in their products and plans as a result. Old coots, like me,...

Tags: U.S., Web, Web Service, Advertising Age, West, Channel Management, Marketing, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-07-07

No crazies: 10 steps to kill IT failures

No crazies: 10 steps to kill IT failuresRe: exit stragegiesI think that, in regards to the first point of making it possible to pull the plug easily, that piece of advice should be given considerable thought before being acted upon. It is a sound, responsible thing to do to...

Tags: Backups, information technology, backup plan

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeFault toleranceIn these two quotes, discovering a difference in word usage leads to impacable hostility:Talk about vouchers to someone in Payroll and you won’t be sharing any understanding of the term as it is used in Accounts Payable; and, of course, the...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Operational accounting, IBM Corp., Murph, voucher, data-processing, IBM mainframe, mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?

Edit: Just a couple of grammatical tweaks. This series of entries, called diversITy, continues from the previous topic, all concerning the diversity of people within the IT industry. This time, I'd like to put forward: sexual orientation in the workplace, can it set you back? ...

Tags: Workplace, Career, Diversity, U.K., IT Industry, LGBT, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-23

diversITy: the lack of women in the IT industry

This series of entries, called diversITy, will cover a number of topics all concerning the diversity of people within the IT industry. Whether we discuss women in industry, sexual orientation in the workplace, religion or ethnic background; these are all topics which will have an effect on students, if not...

Tags: Women, Information Technology, Industry, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-21

Live Webcast: Beyond Basic Back Up...Disaster Recovery Continuum

Disruptive events don't have to be a major disaster to wipe out your business. They can be anything from a relatively minor malfunctioning network card to a devastating event such as a sudden regional disaster that not only destroys your data center but also shuts down surrounding roads, bridges, and...

Tags: Event, Webcast, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-06-18

MySpace plays more spam Whac-a-Mole; Wins $6 million settlement

MySpace has won a $6 million spam settlement against an affiliate network called Media Breakaway and its CEO Scott Richter. The MySpace victory comes a month after it won a $230 million settlement against well-known spammers Stanford Wallace and Walter Rines. In its latest victory,...

Tags: Settlement, MySpace, Cyberthreats, Spam, Litigation, Security, Spam And Phishing, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-16

You have SOA answers; we have questions

Here's a pop quiz to test your knowledge of the inner workings of SOA. How acquainted are you with the origins of SOAP and XML, or the essential commands of REST?  What's the story with UDDI?  What the heck is a "stateless" service? ebizQ...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-06-11

Is Virtual Storage required for datacenter agility?

Is Virtual Storage required for datacenter agility?Is this a problem or an opportunity?From what I know about Cassatt and all the other systems, they help virtualize everything. So if you are monitoring all of your systems and making them fault tolerant including the servers that are running the virtual storage,...

Tags: Data centers, datacenter agility, Virtual Storage, storage, data center

Discussion threads 2008-06-09

Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?

Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?Why can't you have a five eprson team iplement UK health recordIf you design UK, Canada, or any centralized health system country's health record system, you will have to insure access to tens of millions of persons worth of records on a 24/7 basis...

Tags: Government, E-health, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, bureaucracy, open source

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

IBM's Zollar: SOA, Web 2.0 drive IT 'industrialization'

Last week, I posted some countervailing views on the topic of software industrialization. Some say it represents the inevitable future of IT operations and software development; others say software needs to have elements of craft, since it's so highly specialized. 'Industrialized' IT needed to handle the coming...

Tags: Web, Information Technology, SOA, IBM Corp., Zollar, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Internet, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-06-04

ZUKMAR Pictorial Continuum (exe)

ZUKMAR Pictorial Continuum is deceptively simple and yet dramatic. It creates a continuum of art from any source image easily. These 'pictorial strategies' transform your image on-the-fly. Example: load an interesting digital photo, type a number between 01 and 14, watch the image fade-in or change. Use the spacebar to...

Tags: Art, Screensaver, Photograph, VBC Design, ZUKMAR Pictorial Continuum, Keyboards, Digital Cameras, Strategy, Hardware, Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

Software downloads 2008-06-02

Handicapping Windows 7's effect on Vista upgrades

Handicapping Windows 7's effect on Vista upgradesNot a good enough reasonReally, the fact that Windows 7 is not anything new is hardly a reason to upgrade to Vista. When you are supporting 15000+ clients workstations and laptops, why break what's already working? Users tend to hate fundamental changes...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Yes Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2008-05-28

Really Really Fast Failover for SAP With Veritas Cluster File System High Availability From Symantec

SAP is viewed by many as a mission-critical application, with low tolerance for down-time. Organization can benefit from really fast failover by using a robust, datacenter-proven, highly scalable file system. The listener will hear how SAP down-time can be significantly reduced.

Tags: Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Failover, High Availability, SAP AG, Security

Webcasts 2008-05-28

Live Webcast: Best Practices for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Business Continuity BC and Disaster Recovery DR practices go hand-in-hand. Likewise, both the BC & DR solutions you choose must closely align with the needs of your business. To meet these requirements and satisfy your organization's tolerance for downtime and data loss, you need to implement a recovery strategy based...

Tags: Webcast, Failover, Continuous Data Protection, XOSoft, Computer Associates International Inc., Best Practice, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management

Webcasts 2008-05-21

Business imperatives theme dominates Forrester's IT Forum conference opener

Forrester Research, the Cambridge, Mass. market research and analysis firm, kicked off its influential IT Forum conference today in Las Vegas with a keynote address by founder and Chairman George Colony on CEO success imperatives. What the success imperatives do you have? Colony asked a series of...

Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF

Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's company, Garlik, offers a product called DataPatrol that helps UK consumers track information about themselves...

Tags: Tom Ilube, QDOS, Social Networking, Semantic Web, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-05-16