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Nortel has a burn the boats strategy says CTO

The clap and rumble of thunder is followed within seconds by the sound of a torrential, tropical downpour. Im sitting in the Tonga Room, in the bowels of the swank Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, with John Roese, CTO of Nortel, the $11bn Canadian telecoms equipment giant.The thunder and lighting...

Tags: Business strategy, Enterprise IT, Top interviews

Blog posts 2007-02-13

Interview: ProCurve chief downplays HP connection in enterprise vision launch

Hewlett-Packards ProCurve Networking, the second largest enterprise network equipment vendor, recently announce its vision for the next five years: Adaptive Networks. I met with John McHugh VP and general manager of ProCurve Networking. This HP business has been growing at about 25 per cent per year over the past five...

Tags: Enterprise IT, IT strategy, Top interviews, ProCurve, Mr McHugh, network

Blog posts 2007-02-05

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EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-20

SharePoint Statistics: The Real Reason Behind SharePoint's Price Tag

What would you say is the most expensive part of a SharePoint deployment? A recent study by InfoTrends, a consultancy, identified where the money is being spent on SharePoint and where it's not. The results may surprise you. So I was speaking the other day...

Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-10-14

'Lean IT': another buzzphrase for something we've been trying to do all along?

Just another word of the day, month, year....That's all it is.Someone trying to get themselves "published" or some "important" interviews, or their name placed somewhere somewhat prominent.More fodder for Buzzword Bingo!;)Hard to be lean in a Windows shopThe sheer complexity works again any kind of "lean" structure. But it...

Tags: Lean IT, PHB

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

SAP and Oracle going head to head

This week gives SAP and Oracle watchers an opportunity to see these giants go head to head in the entertainment stakes as each holds major conferences. SAP is in Phoenix with TechEd while Oracle takes over the Moscone Center and a lot of the surrounding area...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-12

Blue Microphones Snowball

Getting a great recording into your computer requires a great microphone. Unfortunately, the amount of effort it takes to adapt a professional microphone for use with your computer can be a daunting task, often involving outboard sound cards, bulky pro-audio cables, and cumbersome microphone mounts. To bridge the gap between...

Tags: microphone, Snowball

Product reviews 2009-08-31

Journalism ... and other inappropriate relationships

Journalism ... and other inappropriate relationshipsEssenceI find my self agreeing with the logic of your argument ... but disagreeing about the essence.Some of your lamentation appears to be about journalism in a traditional newspaper. A dying medium - so move on. There is still room for journalism in other forms...

Tags: Blogging, feedback feature, inappropriate relationship

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Nova Spivack interviews Wolfram Alpha's Russell Foltz-Smith

Radar Networks attracted a fair degree of attention with their roll-out of Twine, and the company's CEO has built a reputation as one of the more thoughtful thinkers in the space. Nova took to the stage at the Semantic Technology Conference today, not to talk about his own company or...

Tags: Knowledge, Wolfram Research, Ontology, Nova Spivack, Strategy, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Rock On Altitude - Verizon (Mobile)

ROCK ON ALTITUDE is your one stop video shop for everything new in Rock, Pop, Metal, and Indie music. ROCK ON ALTITUDE delivers the hottest new music videos, exclusive live performances, backstage interviews, breaking news, and gives you a front row seat to all the biggest music festivals featuring the...

Tags: Performance, Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., Video, Music, GoTV, Altitude, Corporate Communications, Performance Management, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-06-17

Hip Hop Official - Verizon (Mobile)

Hip Hop Official is the only hip hop music and culture video channel you need. Watch the latest music videos & live performances, as well as in-depth and exclusive interviews with hip hop's hottest stars. Keep in tune with our daily updates of hip hop news, fashion and breaking artists...

Tags: Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., Artist, Video, GoTV, Hip Hop Official, HHO, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-17

ES Musica - Verizon (Mobile)

ES Música is the first ever made-for-mobile Latin channel on major U.S. carriers. ES Música features Latin Pop, Rock, Hip-hop, Reggaeton, Regional Mexican and more providing music videos, behind-the-scenes footage, live performances and more from today''s biggest and brightest Latin artists. If it''s happening in Latin Music, you will find...

Tags: Mobile, Verizon Communications Inc., Artist, GoTV, ES Música, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-17

HP unveils financial planning and analysis solutions designed to both optimize and modernize IT operations

LAS VEGAS -- Hewlett-Packard HP today unveiled its new HP Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) solutions, aimed at recession-beleaguered IT executives who need to cut costs, prepare for a service-based future, and run their departments like a business -- all at the same time. FP&A is part...

Tags: Financial Planning, Hewlett-Packard Co., Financial, Information Technology, Analysis, FP&A, Business Leader, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Open letter to all HR software vendors

HR products haven’t really evolved much the last decade. Sure, many have changed their business and delivery models to become SaaS software as a service vendors but the functionality is still little changed from the 1990s. Yes, I know that talent management has seen some changes over the last few...

Tags: Human Resources, Boss, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Bain survey finds tech and telecom execs are least worried

Bain & Company released its 12th Bain’s Management Tools & Trends Survey results from interviews with 1400 top executives around the world. One of the findings was that tech and telecom execs were the least concerned about long-term impact from the recession and are the most...

Tags: Bain, Recession, Telecommunications, Survey, Exec, Workforce Management, Productivity, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Microsoft to show off new search: Will it matter?

If a company with 8 percent market share revamped its search engine would anyone notice? That's the looming question as Microsoft prepares to unveil its search upgrade at the D: All Things Digital conference next week.  John Paczkowski writes: The long-awaited upgrade to Microsoft’s search engine...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Conference, John Paczkowski, Search, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-20

Scalia gets a schooling in online privacy

Scalia gets a schooling in online privacyI agree with ScaliaI've been saying for years now how the idea of "privacy" through anonymity on the Internet is incredibly ignorant. It's like saying that anytime I leave my house I can put on a costume and take off my car's license...

Tags: NOW IT, Scalia, schooling, online privacy

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

Rock On Altitude - Sprint (Tall Rotating Screen) (Mobile)

ROCK ON ALTITUDE is your one stop video shop for everything new in Rock, Pop, Metal, and Indie music. ROCK ON ALTITUDE delivers the hottest new music videos, exclusive live performances, backstage interviews, breaking news, and gives you a front row seat to all the biggest music festivals featuring the...

Tags: Performance, Mobile, Video, Sprint Communications, Music, GoTV, Altitude, Corporate Communications, Performance Management, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-05-08

Hip Hop Official - Sprint (Tall Rotating Screen) (Mobile)

Hip Hop Official is the only hip hop music and culture video channel you need. Watch the latest music videos & live performances, as well as in-depth and exclusive interviews with hip hop's hottest stars. Keep in tune with our daily updates of hip hop news, fashion and breaking artists...

Tags: Mobile, Artist, Video, Sprint Communications, GoTV, Hip Hop Official, HHO, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-05-08

ES Musica - Sprint (Tall Rotating Screen) (Mobile)

ES Msica is the first ever made-for-mobile Latin channel on major U.S. carriers. ES Msica features Latin Pop, Rock, Hip-hop, Reggaeton, Regional Mexican and more providing music videos, behind-the-scenes footage, live performances and more from today's biggest and brightest Latin artists. If it's happening in Latin Music, you will find...

Tags: Mobile, Artist, Sprint Communications, GoTV, ES Msica, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-05-07