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    IT Project Failures

  • Salesforce Chatter: Something to talk about

    Michael Krigsman
    18 Nov 2009 | 5:56 pm
    In a major update to its product set, Salesforce.com introduced an enterprise-level social networking platform, called Chatter, which was inspired by Twitter and Facebook. I think the announcement is exciting, but the picture is not entirely perfect. Here are some first impressions, based on conversations with Salesforce executives, independent analysts, and bloggers. I plan to follow up with the company’s customers to gain a more complete view of this platform. On the surface, Chatter seems rather unexciting. After all, enterprise social computing products aren’t new; for…

  • Dreamforce: Quick first impressions

    Michael Krigsman
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:48 am
    Sitting here in the audience at the annual Dreamforce conference of Salesforce.com, a couple of quick impressions come to mind. This post is mid-stream during the first keynote speech, so there will be more later. A few observations: Salesforce.com is indeed a force to be reckoned with. One of the largest software vendors in the world, with an annualized run rate of $1.3 billion in revenue, no one can deny the inroads that cloud computing has made in the enterprise. 19,000 people registered for this conference, an obvious indicator that something serious is going on. The company has developed…

  • Resistance to change: The real Enterprise 2.0 barrier

    Michael Krigsman
    16 Nov 2009 | 10:29 am
    Large organizations continue to embrace Enterprise 2.0 as a viable addition to the corporate business process toolbox. As evidence, look no farther than the rapid growth of The 2.0 Adoption Council, which was founded this past June and currently boasts more than 100 member organizations, each of which has more than 10,000 employees. Despite clear interest from the enterprise, discussion persists around obstacles to large-scale adoption of Enterprise 2.0 approaches, tools, and methods. ZDNet’s Joe McKendrick summarized key obstacles in blog post at Fast Forward: Resistance to change 52%…

  • Enterprise unplugged: Riffing on failure and performance

    Michael Krigsman
    9 Nov 2009 | 7:39 pm
    My favorite part of blogging is the opportunity to learn from fascinating people who are at the top of their game. I recently chatted about enterprise issues and IT failure with Naomi Bloom and Nenshad Bardoliwalla, two articulate folks whose expertise is matched only by their willingness to share what they know. Listen to the podcast to hear how their conversation ebbed and flowed like a great jazz improvisation. Nenshad Bardoliwalla is a creative entrepreneur who most recently was CTO for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) at SAP. Nenshad is…

  • 18 truths: The long fail of complexity

    Michael Krigsman
    6 Nov 2009 | 5:55 am
    Enterprise systems are inherently complex, often involving many business processes, people, and organizations across a company. Given this built-in complexity, it’s no surprise that failures abound; it’s amazing these systems function at all. We could make these same comments about any complex, mission critical system. For example, look no further than the space program or health care delivery. In both cases, massive complexity is connected to a need to get things right: failure means potential loss of life. To say that complicated systems are more prone to break down than simpler…
 
 
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    CIO: News

  • Global Warming Research Exposed After Hack

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    An anonymous hacker has posted private e-mails, files and other documents belonging to a noted climate researcher, sparking an international debate between skeptics of global warming and those who see it as an urgent problem.

  • Chrome Shines, Gore Opines, Staffs Decline

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Google's Chrome OS captured a lot of headlines and hype this week after the company invited the media in to have a look-see, setting off a whole lot of opinions about whether it will be any good. Microsoft, predictably, doesn't think so. Otherwise, Al Gore offered his opinion on the role supercomputers can play to quell climate change, and for the first time we can recollect there were not one, but two, cat-related IT stories that caught our attention.

  • Some Nook E-Readers Won't Make it for the Holidays Either

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Just two days after Sony said that its wireless e-reader, the Daily Edition, might not make it to buyers before the end of the year, Barnes & Noble said its Nook e-reader is sold out.

  • Silicon Valley Abuzz About Tech Video That Lets You Command a Computer With Gestures

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    No mouse, no keyboard, no computer screen. It's all about hand gestures.

  • Twitter Turns on Geolocation Functionality

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Twitter is now allowing its externally built applications to provide geolocation features to end users, after announcing its intention to do so in August.
 
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    Software as Services

  • Can the Economist entirely be trusted?

    Phil Wainewright
    15 Nov 2009 | 3:16 pm
    I think a publication with the renowned integrity and impartiality of The Economist would have the sense to put its hand on its heart and say, ‘We try our best and we’re the best there is, but no, you can’t entirely trust any source.’ But if it were put in a position of asserting its trustworthiness against alternative publications it would surely have no choice but to speak out with a resounding voice in its own favor. Thus I ask all my readers to vote a resounding ‘no’ to the proposition in the current Economist Debate, “This house believes that the…

  • Microsoft cuts BPOS price to squeeze Lotus

    Phil Wainewright
    5 Nov 2009 | 2:13 am
    While most observers portray Microsoft’s sortie into online email and collaboration services as a titanic battle to keep Google off its productivity applications turf, the real target of this week’s price reductions is IBM’s Lotus unit. In a briefing earlier this week, Ron Markezich, corporate VP, Microsoft Online Services told me that most of his team’s customer wins are at the expense of the IBM division: “Seventy-five percent of our enterprise customers are coming from a non-Microsoft platform — predominantly [Lotus] Notes.” The half-price reduction…

  • Cloud cuts everyone's cost of ownership

    Phil Wainewright
    29 Oct 2009 | 8:14 pm
    Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several attendees a-twittering. He revealed that the SaaS provider’s multi-tenant application infrastructure supports its 2,850+ customers and 5.4+ million users on just 150 servers. The ability to achieve such enormous economies of scale demonstrates the huge power of multi-tenancy and gives the lie to the line, so often peddled by the conventional on-premise software vendors, that SaaS is just a delivery option. SuccessFactors would not be able to…

  • Box.net wants to be the Switzerland of data

    Phil Wainewright
    22 Oct 2009 | 6:41 am
    Today, online file storage and collaboration provider Box.net launches integration with Salesforce.com. As TechCrunch explains: “… businesses will be able to add a Box.net app to their Salesforce accounts, allowing them to quickly access their documents, media, and other files from directly within their CRM … businesses need to sign up for Box.net’s enterprise plan, which includes free access to the Salesforce app. As an added bonus, any businesses using the new Salesforce integration will be eligible for unlimited storage on Box.net …” The move is a first…

  • What EuroCloud means for SaaS in Europe

    Phil Wainewright
    20 Oct 2009 | 4:14 am
    Today EuroCloud, a new industry organization that aims to promote cloud and SaaS, launches in seven European countries. I’m involved in the initiative, having agreed to act as UK co-ordinator for the launch. Other groups are launching in France, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain, and the launch has the backing of almost thirty SaaS and cloud vendors, ranging from giants like Amazon, Salesforce.com, Microsoft and McAfee to up-and-coming local players including Huddle, INES, Mimecast, NTRGlobal and Twinfield. Full details are on the website and in the launch press release…
 
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  • Legacy Enterprise Software is not strategic

    sig
    17 Nov 2009 | 5:01 am
    Despite being involved with some radically different Enterprise Software I have been fortunate enough to be frequently invited to study the wares and future plans of many legacy systems vendors.So again last week, with some of my EI friends, enjoying the latest and shiniest offer from a major SaaS vendor.And of course I'll be the first to admit that most of the stuff is very good indeed, albeit rather mature and not exactly what Hugh  was thinking of when he used the term "being fucking amazing is job one!". Being very good seems to suffice for the best ones.Core enterprise…

  • E 2.0 - not joining the debate, but...

    sig
    6 Nov 2009 | 10:21 am
    Being 'diplomatic' I'm not going to step into the debate featuring Dennis, Susan, Nenshad and others... but I've been waiting and waiting for one benefit to be touted, an important but unplanned benefit (the only one?) I've seen in practice myself: Years ago I was chairman-and-investor-in-residence at a electronic games company. Starting in 1995 it gained about 50 new employees every year, doing games on Nintendo and Sega platforms, later Sony and online - all developed by a great gang of mostly boys with an average age of 20. No kidding, our first Xmas party…

  • A case for rethinking the data model - reporting from SAP TechEd

    sig
    3 Nov 2009 | 6:09 am
    Yet another TechEd is over, again definitely worth the time and effort.Mike and Stacey did amazing work yet again, my good blogger and SAP Mentor friends were a treat as always, and the management of SAP displays an amazing openness towards us unruly bloggers. Sometimes I even suspect they're having a good time despite the barrage of ad-hoc and prying questions! Are we such a nice bunch? But of course... ;)New this year was an "NDA" note in regards some of the themes, and not being a trained journalist I had to watch my mouth and think hard in follow up discussions. Too bad,…

  • Work processor

    sig
    1 Nov 2009 | 1:12 am
    On Friday I was asked to give a presentation of Thingamy to an audience of non-techies. My preparation and energy was a tad hampered by a bad cold and three days of non-stop meetings at SAP TechEd.  The presentation format was seven minutes which accentuated the issue of getting over a simple message of what Thingamy really is. No time for a half hour demo, no time to take the horse buggy and whip makers out on a ride in the Daimler automobile prototype in 1886. But looking into baffled faces certainly kicks you into thinking mode. Lot's of ideas and paper use ensued. Until this morning…

  • Do something instead of doing things to get something done

    sig
    20 Oct 2009 | 5:43 am
    What if we could shift the whole world to renewable energy sources, feed and educate all children at no extra cost nor resource use? What if you could double your bottom line without cutting costs?All possible. Now.Of all things, the solution lies within a segment for Enterprise Software not yet tackled, namely unstructured, ad-hoc, untamed, manual or barely Repeatable Processes (BRP). BRP is a massive pit of wasted resources and lost effectiveness. And you're reminded of it every day as you spend all that time on "doing things to get something done" - planning, meeting,…
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  • Where there are clouds, there is often a rainbow

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:29 pm
    Marc Benioff likes to talk about how salesforce is "democratizing" technology by making large enterprise class IT infrastructure and application management affordable for even the smallest companies. But at Dreamforce this week, I saw a much wider view of his...

  • The maturing of salesforce.com

    17 Nov 2009 | 5:42 pm
    So, I am walking near Moscone Center - in town for Dreamforce - and the guy tempts me with the offer of a free convertible. Got my attention - see the sign "work for a consulting company whose name you...

  • Sapience 2009: TCO Management Event for SAP customers

    17 Nov 2009 | 4:45 am
    "Sapience 2009, an event for CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, and IT Decision makers seeking to escape the limitations of a strongly vendor controlled application landscape will take place December 8-9, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, MA." says the PR Several...

  • HP, the disruptor?

    16 Nov 2009 | 5:29 pm
    Why would Cisco move down into 25% mainstream server margin business when its networking business has yielded it 65%? That is the question many asked as Cisco announced its Unified Computing System in early 2009. Its marketing said it “..represents...

  • Dont take a Coke can into Pepsi HQ

    16 Nov 2009 | 4:48 pm
    I wrote earlier “if you are Steve Ballmer's (Microsoft) kids you dare not use Google or try an iPod. I imagine his salesfolks dare not use salesforce.com...” Zoli writes about Don Dodge moving from Microsoft to Google: Thanks Microsoft Outlook,...
 
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  • Twitter for Trainers

    Marcia Conner
    8 Nov 2009 | 6:04 pm
    The article is reprinted from the August 2009 T+D Think Twitter is just for narcissists with too much time on their hands? Think again. Workplace learning professionals have begun to realize a learning return. If you’re not part of this social networking phenomenon, you risk getting left behind. Stephen Hart, a corporate trainer specializing in recruitment and management training, read about Twitter in a computer magazine. He questioned the value of the “microblogging” tool and its 140-character messages. Yet he was curious and signed on. After a month of dipping in and out, he still…

  • Part 2: Twitter Lists: Developers and Applications

    Adele McAlear
    19 Oct 2009 | 6:34 am
    This is Part 2 of a 3-part 4-part series cross-posted from adelemcaler.com Read Part 1: What Are Twitter Lists? Unfortunately, if you are not part of the Beta roll out, Twitter will not allow you to see the URLs of lists, even if they’ve been tagged as public. For the benefit of everyone, I will include screen shots, where practical, in addition to the link. WHY DID TWITTER LISTS LEAVE DEVELOPERS OUT? In the September 30th blog announcement, Nick Kallen, the project lead on Twitter Lists, stated on the Twitter blog that there will be a Lists API. “This will allow developers to add…

  • Part 1: What are Twitter Lists?

    Adele McAlear
    16 Oct 2009 | 6:18 am
    This is Part 1 of a 3-part series cross-posted from adelemcalear.com WHAT IS IT? Back on September 30th, Twitter announced on their blog that they would be launching their new Lists feature to a small group of users to beta test. Lists allow Twitter users to organize the people they follow into groups. By segmenting your following list into groups, you can then filter tweets from your main stream and just view the tweets originating from a selected list. You can also subscribe to other people’s lists. HOW DOES IT WORK? There is a new section in the right-hand sidebar for List…

  • oneforty what?

    Marcia Conner
    30 Sep 2009 | 9:25 pm
    When Laura Fitton (@pistachio) told me she was starting another company, “An appstore for Twitter,” I knew my life was going to change. Perhaps that seems too dramatic. Hear me out. What she’d envisioned wasn’t just about to change my life. It was about to change the landscape of Twitter, a tool many of us find indispensable and turn to each day as our virtual water cooler, classroom and mental gym. Her idea was poised to improve the productivity of all of us braving the new frontier. OK, that seems overly dramatic. Yet that’s how I felt. In the grand scheme of…

  • Twitter as the Virtual Watercooler

    Bill Ives
    27 Sep 2009 | 8:08 am
    In some companies there remains a socialmedia-phobic culture which spends millions to block access to sites such as Twitter and Facebook. There are many reasons for this mistrust of social media but it also reflects a distrust of employees and their ability to use their time constructively. One fear is there will be a waste of time. At the same time, though, most companies allow for breaks in the work routine by providing water coolers, coffee rooms, and other similar spaces. The byproduct of such spaces is the ability of workers to establish better working networks and share useful…
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  • Hitachi Data Replicator and Much More

    Hu Yoshida
    17 Nov 2009 | 4:15 am
    This morning Hitachi Data Systems announced the addition of the Hitachi Data Replicator to our portfolio of replication and data protection software. This product is the result of a partnership with InMage Systems which was founded by our good friend Kumar Malavalli, founder and CTO for Brocade Communications and Rajeev Atluri from Gadoox. The Hitachi Data Replicator is a software replication solution that is targeted at the midrange market where a simple, cost effective, disaster recovery solution is required for a heterogeneous server and storage environments. An installation of HDR will…

  • Is the future of storage scale up or scale out?

    Hu Yoshida
    9 Nov 2009 | 10:20 am
    What do we mean by scale up versus scale out? If you go to Wikipedia you will find a section under the definition for scalability for “Scale vertically vs. horizontally”. Here is what it says: Scale vertically (scale up) To scale vertically (or scale up) means to add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. Such vertical scaling of existing systems also enables them to leverage virtualization technology more effectively, as it provides more resources for the hosted set of Operating Systems and Application modules to…

  • What’s more cost effective than a $30k Virtualization engine?

    Hu Yoshida
    30 Oct 2009 | 10:55 am
    SearchStorage ANZ’s Simon Sharwood posted an article referencing a NetApp presentation which was posted on a public RSS feed that NetApp provides for its user community. According to Sharwood’s article, the presentation was dated 2008 and published October 28, 2009. It was a marketing presentation that gave guidance on selling NetApp’s V-Series storage virtualization product as well as an assessment of their competition. From the assessment of the slides, NetApp’s strongest competitor for the V-Series product was HDS and the reason given was price. That may be…

  • Loading Up on Virtual Servers

    Hu Yoshida
    26 Oct 2009 | 4:19 pm
    I visited a customer last week who was trying to run four 6 node ESX clusters with 200 to 240 instances per cluster on a large modular storage system.  It was not surprising that the modular storage system could not support that workload. That type of workload  needs to be run on a monolithic storage array that can scale up. Since the reason for server virtualization is to consolidate servers to save costs,  they did not want to run this on an expensive monlithic DMX. The only solution is to run this workload on a USP V with low cost modular storage virtualized behind it.  The USP V has…

  • Switch IT On II

    Hu Yoshida
    20 Oct 2009 | 10:38 am
    In April I wrote about our “Switch IT On” program, which provides free software licenses to help current and new USP V customers leverage virtualization across their existing HDS and third party storage assets. The program has proven to be so successful that HDS decided to add Switch IT On II, and both programs will run through the end of March 2010. For details on both programs please visit here. The key feature for this extension to Switch IT On is the addition of the USP VM, which is our modular, rack mount version of the USP V storage virtualization controller. If you have existing FC…
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  • Enterprise 2.0 is Not THAT Big a Deal

    amcafee
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:05 am
    I’ve been thinking about what to write in the wake of the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference. One more summary seems unnecessary, since there have been so many good ones already. And the debates are starting to feel a little trumped up and warmed over, and so less fun to wade back into. And then I got inspiration from Greg Lloyd, President and co-founder of Traction Software and longtime technologist. In addition to running his company Greg finds time to write a great blog, and his post after the conference was called “Enterprise 2.0 Schism.” In it, he likens the current E2.0…

  • A Good Book for Your Boss

    amcafee
    13 Nov 2009 | 6:29 am
    My latest post over at HBR.org is about MIT’s use of student bloggers on its admissions website. This kind of unfiltered presentation to the wide world of an organization’s internal voices was pretty novel when the Institute launched the blogs four years ago, but it’s become more common. It’s still far from universal, though. I’d bet that the majority of organizations still have ‘brochureware’ websites –  simple, largely static descriptions of what the company is and does, written in standard Press Release English (have all the people that write those taken the same…

  • Gradually, Then All at Once

    amcafee
    12 Nov 2009 | 10:01 am
    On a recent trip to Munich I got to visit the geek paradise that is the Deutsches Museum, the largest science, technology, and engineering museum in the world. Its enormous collections were almost totally lost on me, though, because I spent just about all my time in the wing devoted to calculating devices. This was not the plan. I intended to move on after checking out a few highlights like the Enigma machines (the legendary WWII German code machines deciphered by Polish and British brilliance) and the astonishing miniature Curtas (perfected while the inventor was an inmate in Buchenwald).

  • Shameless Self-promotion

    amcafee
    30 Oct 2009 | 12:49 pm
    I’m sorry, but the title of this post is accurate. A bunch of my work is hitting bookstores, newsstands, and the Interwebs at present, and I feel the need to publicize it all here. I promise to revert to less self-regarding blog posts after this one. I came back from a trip to find the first copy off the press of my book Enterprise 2.0 waiting for me in my office. I’ll leave it to others to discuss its content (hopefully in uniformly glowing terms); I just want to say that Harvard Business Press did a fantastic job on the book itself. It looks great, and I’m really grateful…

  • Colonizing the Outer Rings

    amcafee
    22 Oct 2009 | 6:54 am
    As I looked back over some recent blog posts and thought about some recent conversations, I realized that they’ve been pointing to a single broad conclusion. I think it’s time to state it explicitly instead of having it remain in the penumbra of the discussion around Enterprise 2.0. Before doing this, I need to re-draw my E2.0 target picture, which I explained a while back: “The… figure below is an extremely simple and not-to-scale representation of the relative size of [four groups of people], from the perspective of our focal knowledge worker. The small core of…
 
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    The Enterprise System Spectator

  • Killer combination: open source ERP and cloud computing

    Frank Scavo
    19 Nov 2009 | 8:04 am
    I honestly can't understand why this has not gotten more attention. Opentaps, an open source ERP project, is now available on Amazon's Elastic Compute (EC2) cloud. Si Chen, of Open Source Strategies, has put up a Youtube video that shows how anyone can go to Amazon and install a working instance of opentaps in less than 10 minutes.Although Si plays it straight, if you have any experience at all

  • Oracle layoffs, November 2009

    Frank Scavo
    13 Nov 2009 | 1:23 pm
    A reader emailed me today indicating he had received word from a friend, who works for Oracle, that Oracle Consulting had a sizable layoff today. He mentioned a specific percentage that I won't repeat here, without some confirmation.A quick check of my webstats shows a pickup in web referrals today searching under the key words "Oracle layoffs," "Oracle Consulting layoff," and "Oracle layoffs,

  • Epicor's Shared Benefits program: watch for unintended consequences

    Frank Scavo
    9 Nov 2009 | 12:49 pm
    Epicor is holding its Perspectives user conference this week in Las Vegas, and one big announcement this morning was concerning Epicor's new Shared Benefits Program. According to the press release, the program is "aimed at helping companies eliminate risk and avoid excessive cost overruns that can plague conventional enterprise resource planning (ERP) system deployments."The press release goes on

  • The inexorable dominance of cloud computing

    Frank Scavo
    31 Oct 2009 | 8:35 am
    Cloud computing is not just one more way to deploy information systems. It represents a total shift in how IT resources are delivered and ultimately will replace most of not all internally-maintained IT infrastructure.At least that's the view of Nicholas Carr, who gave a talk at a one-day conference on cloud computing organized last week in London by Google. If you've read Carr's work in the past

  • Out of recession: US economic review and forecast

    Frank Scavo
    27 Oct 2009 | 8:03 am
    Maria Simos at E-forecasting has put together an excellent slide show on her firm's forecast for US economic activity, in light of history since the mid-1800s. This is a must-see for anyone interested in where we're headed in the near future.Bottom line: we're already out of recession.Some key points:US GDP is estimated at 3.6% growth in Q3, marking end of recessionSix month growth rate in
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    Digital Landfill

  • For your holiday reading -- a COMPLETE 8 things list... and looking for #SharePoint authors

    John Mancini
    19 Nov 2009 | 12:39 pm
    Check out 8 Reasons You Need a Strategy for Managing Information -- Before It's Too Late or our new e-book 8 secrets of an effective content or records implementation. FREE.Our next e-book will be on SharePoint -- here's what we have so far.  Want to participate?  Give me your advice, concerns, best practices, worries and watch-lists re SharePoint.  No product pitches. Contact me HERE.  Target publication date = about December 14. 8 things you need to know about SharePoint governance  8 things SharePoint 2010 needs to be a true ECM…

  • 8 Steps to an Effective ECM Archive Migration

    John Mancini
    17 Nov 2009 | 1:11 pm
    Al Tufts is the Practice Manager for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Migration and a 20 year veteran at Xenos Group Inc. He is responsible for the overall direction and leadership of ECM migration opportunities and is often involved in discovery sessions, planning outlines, content analysis and staff management.8 Steps to an Effective ECM Archive MigrationWith the vast number of disparate systems in an organization, along with their relative complexity and enormous amounts of data, ECM migrations can be daunting, to say the least. This brief list of eight considerations in…

  • Twitter poll on #ECM

    John Mancini
    16 Nov 2009 | 9:15 am
    Testing out the TWTPoll functionality, but also reminding everyone to download our new e-book -- 8 secrets of an effective content or records implementation.  Also, coming soon -- a SharePoint e-book.  So if you have those vendor agnostic SharePoint articles (both pro and con) , e-mail them to me.

  • 8 Ways to Use SharePoint for Social Computing

    John Mancini
    16 Nov 2009 | 3:29 am
    An integral part of Risetime’s Managing Consultant Team, Joe Cromer enjoys the challenge of staying up on the latest Microsoft technologies. Joe and his team have completed a wide variety of Microsoft SharePoint consulting projects. A few notable clients include, as Dollar General, Ariel Investments, Suzlon Wind Energy, Global Lead, McHenry County, and Lake County.Since 1984, Risetime has been serving the needs of organizations looking for a strong partner to provide business and technology solutions and services. Headquartered in Chicago and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Risetime…

  • 8 Things to Remember When Implementing an E-Mail Policy

    John Mancini
    12 Nov 2009 | 1:47 pm
    Thomas Bahr and Karsten Seifert work on projects for Enterprise Content Management within the Information Management Competence Group of BearingPoint. They have more than 10 years experience in ECM software. BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consultancy. Owned and operated by its Partners throughout Europe, BearingPoint is offering its clients the best possible value in terms of tangible, measurable results by leveraging business and technology expertise. The company currently employs 3.250 people in 14 European countries and is serving commercial, financial and…
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    Schneier on Security

  • Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Discovered

    schneier
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:57 pm
    An expedition to study seamounts in the Indian Ocean has discovered some new species, including some squid.

  • Interview with Me

    schneier
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:21 am
    Yet another interview with me. This one is audio, and was conducted in Rotterdam in October.

  • FailBlog on Security

    schneier
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:11 am
    Funny: career fair fail.

  • Denial-of-Service Attack Against CALEA

    schneier
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:11 am
    Interesting: The researchers say they've found a vulnerability in U.S. law enforcement wiretaps, if only theoretical, that would allow a surveillance target to thwart the authorities by launching what amounts to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against the connection between the phone company switches and law enforcement. The University of Pennsylvania researchers found the flaw after examining the telecommunication industry standard ANSI Standard J-STD-025, which addresses the transmission of wiretapped data from telecom switches to authorities, according to IDG News Service. Under the 1994…

  • A Taxonomy of Social Networking Data

    schneier
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:51 am
    At the Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh this week, there was a conversation on social networking data. Someone made the point that there are several different types of data, and it would be useful to separate them. This is my taxonomy of social networking data. Service data. Service data is the data you need to give to a social networking site in order to use it. It might include your legal name, your age, and your credit card number. Disclosed data. This is what you post on your own pages: blog entries, photographs, messages, comments, and so on. Entrusted data. This is what you…
 
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    Content Management Connection

  • Here's What My 3 Year-Old Bought From The AppStore

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:58 pm
    Note to self..log out of the AppStore before letting son play with iPhone. And what kind of message does it send to companies trying to capture attention in crowded app stores? Ok so he's only three, but his purchases were driven by the icons of the apps and of course by the screenshots included. Pay attention to detail and represent your brand/company at every turn like it's the last time anyone will ever see you. Permalink | ...

  • Google's Creeps Into The Real Estate Industry

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:58 am
    via fastcompany.com "The information includes location info, photographs, video Street View scenes containing the property, local transport info, and adWords adverts. Basically it's all the info you'd need to help you make a choice on looking at a property in person when you're on the market to buy a new home" Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • Thought of the Day: November 20, 2009

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:13 am
    A business enterprise is really nothing more than a large community. The organization, like any healthy community, is formed around a clear, common purpose and actively works to create specific outcomes. If that purpose is forgotten or becomes irrelevant, the company will slowly decay and, ultimately, fail. The implication of this observation is that corporate managers [...]

  • IBM'er Loses benefits over Facebook photos [CBC News - Montreal]

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:56 am
    via cbc.ca "Nathalie Blanchard, 29, has been on leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Que., for the last year and a half after she was diagnosed with major depression. The Eastern Townships woman was receiving monthly sick-leave benefits from Manulife, her insurance company, but the payments dried up this fall. When Blanchard called Manulife, the company said that "I'm available to work, because of Facebook," she told CBC New...

  • Are CMO’s Clueless?

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:38 am
    fGiven the exposure that social technology has and continues to have it appears as though CMO's are not fulfilling their responsibilities to the organizations they represent. That being true most will be looking for a job soon. Related posts:Do You Copy Or Create?To create a new bandwagon requires you to think by...Social Media Force FieldsThe reason is that the power of communications has been...5 Things You Must Ask About Social MediaTo e...
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    Confessions of an eBiz Junkie

  • The Transforming Enterprise

    Len Devanna
    3 Nov 2009 | 3:10 pm
    Things have been a tad busy of late, and I've been neglecting my blogging duties - Sorry for that. If it's any excuse, I've been working all-out with a very talented bunch of folks to help deliver this, this and this. Which reminds, with this now in the past, I really have to start working on my presentation for this. If you haven't been following, EMC, Cisco and VMware today announced the Virtual Computing Environment coalition. The past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind of activity, and have given me an opportunity to witness firsthand the transformation of the traditional…

  • Innovation Day at EMC

    Len Devanna
    14 Oct 2009 | 11:16 am
    I have the absolute pleasure today of participating in EMC's Innovation Conference. It's hard to imagine a year has passed since our last event. As I type this, I sit in our Santa Clara facility (California) watching a live broadcast from Bangalore, India where EMC CTO Jeff Nick is opening the days ceremonies. Santa Clara is but one of 13 satellite sites across the globe participating in the days activities. Breakthrough thinking, adding value to our customers, adding value to EMC, improving the industry at large and identifying ways to further encourage innovation are all among the criteria…

  • New FTC Guidelines and Social Marketing

    Len Devanna
    7 Oct 2009 | 1:48 pm
    On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission approved revisions to the guidelines it gives advertisers on appropriate use of endorsement and testimonial ads. The update includes new examples to reinforce the notion that connections between advertisers and endorsers (connections that may not be obvious to consumers) must be disclosed. These are timely updates with the continued emergence of word of mouth marketing via the social web. From my point of view, this is a welcomed update. We continually work to understand the online behaviors of our audience. Peer to peer content continues to be among…

  • Are your ears burning?

    Len Devanna
    9 Sep 2009 | 7:37 am
    Anyone every ask you if your ears were burning? If so, it means they were talking about you in some fashion or another. I often wonder in what context my name came up? Was it good or bad? Who else was in on the discussion? Imagine if I could have a tool that let me know when such conversations were taking place... Letting me know when I'm being talked about and in what vein... I'd use it - you? Readers of this blog know that we're focusing energy on driving awareness and subsequent proficiency within the 2.0 world across our global employee population. No small feat. We've used channels like…

  • Cool Opps at EMC

    Len Devanna
    8 Sep 2009 | 9:08 am
    Two really cool opportunities still posted on EMC.com that are likely of interest to readers of this blog. Strangely, links to each results in 'cookies disabled' errors for some so I wanted to duplicate the content here. If interested, use the Requisition ID below to find the relevant opp and submit your credentials. BusinessDocumentumLocation(s)US - California - PleasantonTitleSocial Media ManagerRequisition ID44934BRJob DescriptioncLet’s face it, information and people are the most important assets companies have. EMC’s Content Management and Archiving division is revolutionizing the…
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  • No podcast this week

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:44 am
    We worked at it, we really did. I made special arrangements to be able to Skype in from my hotel room, Zach called in from home and Rich recorded everything at his home office. It all worked out. Or so we thought. When Rich went back to edit the podcast he found that his software had failed without warning and all he had recorded was his own audio, which might be interesting as a funny aside some day, but hardly makes for a satisfying podcast. We’ll back next week. I’m still on the road, Rich will be doing the recording again, but this time he’ll be recording to a secondary…

  • Masking vs. Truncating

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    12 Nov 2009 | 8:02 pm
    I don’t get a ton of questions about PCI sent to me, but from time to time someone asks a question that deserves a blog post.  Earlier today I received a question from a reader, Michele, that reflects a common misunderstanding in the PCI sphere: I was reviewing the PCI DSS 1.2 section 3.4 yesterday, and was surprised to see that “masking” was not an option for PAN at rest / storage.  Am I interpreting it correctly that it must be encrypted while stored, but upon display it would be decrypted and masked?  To further that thought, if we receive PAN already masked and…

  • Network Security Podcast, Episode 173

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    10 Nov 2009 | 3:09 pm
    It’s one of those glorious days we all look forward too; all of the regular hosts of the podcast are on the road and in most cases thousands of miles from home.  Luckily we planned ahead and this week Martin is joined by Adrian Lane of Securosis instead of the usual cast of characters.  We recorded a couple of days early so that we’d have a podcast out, even though we probably missed one or two breaking stories.  Not that we’d know, since we’re all on the road and have limited access to our news feeds and Twitter.Network Security Podcast, Episode 173,…

  • Simple worm RickRolls jailbroken iPhones

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    8 Nov 2009 | 10:36 am
    I knew it had to be just a matter of time before someone took advantage all of the jailbroken iPhones and created another malicious tool to pwn them.  This time the attacker has been RickRolling iPhone users, changing the background on the phones to a picture of Rick Astley.  The worm is fairly simple and uses the default password set up on the SSH daemon when you jailbreak your iPhone, so if you’ve taken the 5 minutes required to change the password, you’re perfectly safe from the effects of the worm.  Of course, it’s written by someone in Australia going by…

  • Ethics of spilled COFEE

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    8 Nov 2009 | 9:06 am
    Last year Microsoft released a tool called COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) to law enforcement agencies around the nation and around the world a couple of years ago.  While COFEE is a professional tool, it’s meant for the average police officer who may not have a lot of experience with computers; you just plug a USB key with COFEE installed and if autorun is enabled on the computer, it will run a series of diagnostics, writes a report and generally gives a quick and dirty analysis of the computer.  It’s not an exhaustive tool and most of the commands…
 
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  • DslBookRoadmap

    Martin Fowler
    I've hit an important milestone in the development of my DSL book, so thought it was time for an update. That milestone is that I have what I refer to as the First Review Draft. This is a reasonably coherent draft of the whole book that's suitable for technical review by a panel of sharp edged reviewers. As I write this I'm preparing this to go out to them.There's still a fair bit to go. They have to have time to mull on this, I have to then deal with their comments. I usually go then for a second round of reviews. One difference with that second round is that at that point, we'll probably…

  • TechnicalDebtQuadrant

    Martin Fowler
    There's been a few posts over the last couple of months about TechnicalDebt that's raised the question of what kinds of design flaws should or shouldn't be classified as Technical Debt. A good example of this is Uncle Bob's post saying a mess is not a debt. His argument is that messy code, produced by people who are ignorant of good design practices, shouldn't be a debt. Technical Debt should be reserved for cases when people have made a considered decision to adopt a design strategy that isn't sustainable in the longer term, but yields a short term benefit, such as making a release. The…

  • FeatureBranch

    Martin Fowler
    With the rise of Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) such as git and Mercurial, I've seen more conversations about strategies for branching and merging and how they fit in with Continuous Integration (CI). There's a bit of confusion here, particularly on the practice of feature branching and how it fits in with CI. Simple (isolated) Feature Branch The basic idea of a feature branch is that when you start work on a feature (or story if you prefer that term) you take a branch of the repository to work on that feature. In a DVCS, you'll do this in your personal repository, but the same…

  • UpcomingTalks

    Martin Fowler
    Summer is coming to a close, and there's a bunch of conferences coming up in the next few months..Before the summer does end, I'll be going to Agile 2009 in Chicago. I'm not speaking at the conference, but I will be hanging around the corridors and helping host some ThoughtWorks activities. We've long had an office in Chicago and we have a lot of speakers at the conference.In October I'll be in Europe and as usual at this time of year I'll be at JAOO. Again Rebecca Parsons and Neal Ford will be joining me for our all-day DSL tutorial. We've worked a bit on rejigging it as my book gets more…

  • DigitalSLR

    Martin Fowler
    Like many geeks I'm into photography. We geeks like photography because it provides the veneer of an artistic endeavor while allowing us to indulge in lots of technical details and spend money on expensive toys. A friend recently asked about my camera buying decisions, a question that prompted me to write them down. I got my first digital SLR a year ago. Before that I had owned a film SLR for many years, but started using digital cameras around 2000. I found the convenience of digital to be compelling and stopped using the film camera. I toyed with getting a digital SLR in 2004, but instead…
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  • Rant - Common Sense?

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:06 am
    Had lunch with a fellow BA the other day. Apparently their organization is going through some changes. We talked and wondered where common sense has gone. In his own words - he was a tad frustrated: I know I've been no fan of Agile but we've once again changed paths and now we are at the mercy of the most A-retentive waterfall methodology I have ever seen in my life. We've been "developing"

  • STOP - are you smelling the roses

    19 Nov 2009 | 3:07 am
    We do have today....

  • Be The Problem Solver

    16 Nov 2009 | 8:35 am
    You're writing papers now and doing all sorts of good things. Now choose a few roles and play around with them in your projects. As you expand your knowledge base and gain BA maturity you will begin speaking out more and be the interactive player who gets results. Here are some skills to practice: 1. Intermediary Was in a phone meeting and the architect was explaining something

  • Updates from the songwriting side of life...

    16 Nov 2009 | 2:26 am
    House concerts, new music, a band, and the CD

  • Consulting - Getting The Word Out

    11 Nov 2009 | 1:01 am
    From $0 to $5,000/$10,000 per month in 12-18 weeks.
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  • Savvy From The Beginning: Application of SocMed Starts Young - Yes It Does

    Paul Greenberg
    16 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm
    Metaphors and stories are powerful things - far better than numbers at showing how powerful human interactions can be and how much they impact the world at large - or sometimes in the small. When it... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news from CRM at the Speed of Light author Paul Greenberg

  • The CRM Playaz FutureShock & See Y'all After Amsterdam

    Paul Greenberg
    10 Nov 2009 | 9:46 am
    Hey all. I'm heading off to Amsterdam in a few hours to speak at the CRM Association Benelux nations "national" conference (regional national, I guess). I'm also getting a chance to meet up with Wim... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news from CRM at the Speed of Light author Paul Greenberg

  • Organic Social Networks, The Yankees & ...Wha? (UPDATE: WE WON OUR 27TH WORLD SERIES!)

    Paul Greenberg
    4 Nov 2009 | 3:28 pm
    Needless to say, being a Yankees fan of the entirely driven and committed sort, I'm biting every nail on my hands off and frankly, if I could reach my feet, would go at those nails too (Ugh.). I do... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news from CRM at the Speed of Light author Paul Greenberg

  • Competing in the Social Customer's World - Getting Hotter

    Paul Greenberg
    6 Oct 2009 | 1:53 pm
    When I wrote the margin of utility a few weeks ago, that was only one of a series of posts that I want to present to y'all on "how to engage customers." I think, regardless of what we want to... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news from CRM at the Speed of Light author Paul Greenberg

  • Meetup? Embarking on a 41,000 mile Tour

    Paul Greenberg
    5 Oct 2009 | 4:23 am
    Okay. Here's my calendar for the next six weeks if anyone wants to hook up. I have some already planned (meetings, meetups, meat eating) for at least Oracle Open World but I'm cool with hooking up... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news from CRM at the Speed of Light author Paul Greenberg
 
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  • BizTechTalk Briefs 11/19/2009

    Dan Keldsen
    19 Nov 2009 | 5:30 am
    INNOVATION: ARE YOU TALKING THE WALK OR WALKING THE TALK?The Bangkok Post Business section picked up on our Innovation Management research, and used a few of the findings to kick off an article on Innovation. "INNOVATION: ARE YOU TALKING THE WALK OR WALKING THE TALK? These days, it's impossible to read the business news without finding articles referring to the world of innovation. Companies proclaim they will grow faster than their competitors because they are going to innovate better products. Self-proclaimed "innovation experts", who in the past sold marketing, benchmarking and Six Sigma…

  • BizTechTalk Briefs 11/18/2009

    Dan Keldsen
    18 Nov 2009 | 5:30 am
    Failure to create buy-in – is that “resistance”? « actedge | Innovating Engagement | Arno HesseA reference to our 2.0 Adoption research - Resistance is Real (and always has been, BTW) "As Enterprise 2.0 and social business technologies work their way through the Hype Cycle, the resistance to change understandably receives more attentions. A 2.0 Adoption Council study proclaims “Resistance is Real”. Culture has always been on the radar screen, now it’s right into the practitioner’s face again."tags: adoption, enterprise2.0, e20, resistance, collaboration, dan_keldsen,…

  • BizTechTalk Briefs 11/17/2009

    Dan Keldsen
    17 Nov 2009 | 5:30 am
    Resistance to change: The real Enterprise 2.0 barrier | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.comGood to see that our work is getting wider play - above and beyond the keynote we had done live at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Stay tuned for more on this research. "It should not surprise us that the top issue is resistance to change. Readers of this blog know that business projects of every kind suffer from issues related to poor communication, conflicting agendas across information silos, and related organizational causes of failure. A recent study from Information Architected and The…

  • BizTechTalk Briefs 11/14/2009

    Dan Keldsen
    14 Nov 2009 | 5:30 am
    Google Wave Bots - WikiGood (and growing) list of Google Wave bots - interesting to see how people are extending wave beyond humans and pure system-to-system mashups, to include realtime bots.tags: googlewavebots, 2.0, e20, enterprise2.0, web2.0, bots, automation, collaboration, wikiEU Data Protection Directive and Cloud Computing - Journal - enterprise 2.0Implications and concerns for E2.0 deployments in general, and "in the cloud" (SaaS, hosted, etc.) in particulartags: data, protection, eu, privacy, security, 2.0, e20, enterprise2.0Vale to build biodiesel plant to fuel own operations |…

  • BizTechTalk Briefs 11/13/2009

    Dan Keldsen
    13 Nov 2009 | 5:30 am
    Tough Questions And Great Answers: General Mills Steps Up To The Open Innovation Plate | Stefan Lindegaard: Leadership+InnovationOpen Innovation stories from General Mills - classic tale of needing to get out of your own R&D mindspace, and directly engage a larger audience than "the usual suspects"tags: openinnovation, open_innovation, innovation, innovation_management, general_mills, casestudySOMESSO » Swiss Re - one of the smart companiesLarge-scale "2.0-style" collaboration stories are somewhat difficult to find, but getting easier every week. As the research partner for Susan Scrupski's…
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    LANs / WANs

  • Who cares

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:08 pm
    How does this crap keep getting published...please write about something else

  • QoS?

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:17 pm
    Terabit Ethernet eh? Please remind me again why we need QoS?

  • How much revenue growth did Cisco really earn from Flip and TelePresence?

    Brad Reese
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:49 am
    Lately, I've been trying to put into perspective the "dollar amount success" for 2 of Cisco's much ballyhooed products, the Flip video camcorder and the Cisco TelePresence video solution. Since I don't have any inside information on which to make dollar amount conclusions, I've had to rely totally on what Cisco has made available to the public, for instance, during Cisco's F1Q10 earnings call, John...

  • 10G DC

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:36 am
    Cisco will lead the industry with its 10 G FCOE, Nexus switches and UCS.

  • CodySafe Admin Pack & Launcher: The Swiss Army Knife of portable admin apps

    Ron Barrett
    19 Nov 2009 | 11:10 am
    I have written the past about portable applications that Admins can carry with them. I came across a new 'suite' of portable applications that are being touted as the Admins Swiss Army Knife, and for good reason. The CodySafe Admin pack hosts 75 portable administrative tools into a single suite that installs onto a portable device and takes up less than 63MB of space. Within this tiny package...
 
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    EMC Blogs

  • Cloud Building: New Internal User Community

    19 Nov 2009 | 10:30 pm
    I've read (and written) quite a bit about private cloud this year. One of the private cloud aspects that I find most interesting is the fluidity of IT resources and the promise of seamlessly migrating applications between clouds.Earlier this week I noticed the formation of a new social media community sprouting up on our internal EMC ONE platform.  The community is called "RTP2 - EMC Data Center Migration". The formation of this community is in direct response to the recent announcement of 400 new North Carolina jobs and a recently purchased EMC data center facility in Research Triangle…

  • Iomega ScreenPlay Director. A first look.

    19 Nov 2009 | 8:00 pm
    While a lot of people reading this are all about the Home NAS I'm all about the Home Media. Earlier this month Iomega announced and started shipping the ScreenPlay Director in Europe. I had previously bought the ScreenPlay HD for my parents and the ScreenPlay Pro for myself. As the Director is to the Pro, the ScreenPlay Plus is to the HD. A device for every price point, capacity and need. The Director has a similar form factor to the ScreenPlay Pro but the dimensions are slightly different to accommodate a roomy 2TB Drive, also, the reflective buttons have taken on a more matte effect…

  • Quotables on Modern Management and Web 2.0

    19 Nov 2009 | 6:13 am
    Some notable quotables from a presentation I was in this morning as they relate to workplace organizational models and the movement away from the industrial era norm of "Command and Control:""'Policies' are for the 1% who do bad things. 'Guidelines' are for the 99% of your adult workforce population."~~People have said to me, "I've worked my entire career to get to the top and tell people what to do. Now you're telling me to collaborate?!" [Visuals from an EMC presentation the organizational model shifts taking place today.]"People will not raise their hand and say they do not agree unless…

  • Avamar v5.0

    18 Nov 2009 | 10:57 am
    Today EMC formally announced the availability of Avamar 5.0, which is loaded with new features and functionality. I am going to briefly review some of them here, focusing on the changes that I think will be most significant from a customer's point of view. Having said that, please don't hesitate to ask questions or post feedback in the comments section if any of you are interested in any clarification on the material. So what is new? The big news is: bigger nodes, best server side task scheduling, more efficient checkpoints, new clients, desktop and laptop support, major performance…

  • The Parting Shot

    18 Nov 2009 | 12:02 am
    I've started a rapid fire blog deeper in the site. It's rough looking at the moment but will host Tech clippings and thoughts on those clippings, usually posted from a smartphone, so don't expect length or too much getting into the weeds. Anything important or in the need of weed whacking will just bubble up here to the top level. As the name suggests any comments I'll have are the one's you make as you head out the door. The RSS feed is aggregated on the sidebar and I promise I'll give your feed reader a work out so be aware of that if you choose to subscribe.
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    NetApp - Analyst Reports

  • Analyst Reports Full Library

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:43 am
    View the entire NetApp Analyst Reports Library

  • Gartner Report: Midsize Businesses and 100% Server Virtualization

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:36 am
    Server virtualization is a significant trend and top initiative in the midmarket (companies with 100 to 1,000 employees) because of its immediate cost savings and rapid payback on their investment. Server virtualization has established itself as a standard infrastructure component in approximately 60% of midsize businesses' server environments in North America. We believe that Western European midsize businesses have the same intentions as their North American counterparts in relation to server virtualization; however, Asia/Pacific midsize businesses are lagging behind U.S. and European…

  • Gartner Research Highlights

    19 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
    NetApp is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. NetApp revolutionized information storage by pioneering storage appliances: simple, scalable systems focused on storing and serving information. The elegance and simplicity of NetApp solutions will optimize your business and technical applications, increasing productivity throughout your enterprise. In an effort to continue to simplify the IT environment, we are happy to provide you with this digest containing recent Gartner Research. We hope that you find this resource of value in your on-going…

  • ESG White Paper: Deploying Microsoft SQL Server with NetApp Networked Storage

    1 Nov 2009 | 8:36 am
    This paper highlights key aspects of SQL Server, the data storage market, NetApp customer interviews and ESG Lab comments. It details NetApp's capabilities that help drive storage efficiencies, reduced cost and complexity for SQL Server implementations.

  • Forrester report: The Total Economic Impact™ Of NetApp's Storage Solutions For Server Virtualization

    26 Oct 2009 | 8:36 am
    In early 2009, Forrester Research started work on a research project commissioned by NetApp that focused on examining the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by adopting NetApp’s storage solutions for server virtualization in conjunction with VMware's ESX server and virtualization platform.
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  • Non-active Facebook Account Will Be Deleted

    gc
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:42 pm
    -------------------- (no subject) Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated,there have been many members complaining that Facebook is becoming very slow. Records show that the reason is that there are too many non-active Facebook members and, on the other side, too many new Facebook members. We will be sending this message around to see if members are active or not. If you are active please send to at least 15 other users using Copy+ Paste to show that you are still active. *Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks will be deleted without hesitation to create more space.* Send…

  • QAI Software Testing Certifications -CMST, CSTE and CAST

    John Morrison
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:02 pm
    Posted at my blog - http://www.techmanageronline.com/2009/11/qai-software-testing-certifications.html

  • Photos from SC09

    rchrd
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:48 pm
    Here are some images from the Sun booth at SC09: From Portland SC09 Click on the image to see the pictures on Picasaweb

  • Java SE 6 Update 18 b05 is now available

    Roger Yeung
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:23 pm
    The early access build of Java SE 6 Update 18 (6u18ea-b05) is now available for download. For more information, please see the release note. Please report any bugs to http://bugreport.sun.com and share your comments with us at our 6uN Early Access Forum. You may subscribe to our 6uN RSS feed or if you prefer emails, enter your email address here:

  • Sun Blade X6275 cluster delivers leading results for Fluent truck_111m benchmark

    11111
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:25 pm
    A Sun Blade 6048 Modular System with 16 Sun Blade X6275 Server Modules configured with QDR InfiniBand cluster interconnect delivered outstanding performance running the FLUENT benchmark test suite truck_111m case. A cluster of Sun Blade X6275 server modules with 2.93 GHz Intel X5570 processors achieved leading performance for the largest truck test case, truck_111m. The Sun Blade X6275 cluster delivered the best performance for the 64-core/8-node, 128-core/16-node, and 256-core/32-node configurations, outperforming the SGI Altix result by as much as 8%. NOTE: These results are will not be…
 
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  • Moving of internal blog entries here

    Jeremy Oosthuizen
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:12 pm
    I have been writing a blog about OUBI for the better part of 2 years. That has only been available internally to Oracle personnel, but we have decided to create this blog for the reading pleasure (or so we hope) of customers and partners. Contributors will be members of the OUBI Product Development and Product Management teams, and we welcome your comments as well. Pushpa has already written a few entries, and we will be adding to those as our respective muses attack us. I will also be copying some of my ramblings from my internal blog here. I haven't yet decided whether I'll be keeping that…

  • 週末はちょっとおしゃれな外苑前でスキルアップ 2/2 - ストレージ管理&チューニング -

    takashi.hitomi
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:26 pm
    あ週末はちょっとおしゃれな外苑前でスキルアップ 1/2 - アプリ・テスト -でも書きましたが、勉強熱心なエンジニアは週末を有効活用しています。 オラクル・データベースのストレージ管理・チューニングのセミナーは、12：30－18：00（ディスカッション＋懇親会付き（自由参加））という長時間にも関わらず、100名ほどの方が三されています。 【Storage Weekend】Oracle Database ストレージ管理・チューニング 講師は3名、「Oracle…

  • 週末はちょっとおしゃれな外苑前でスキルアップ 1/2 - アプリ・テスト -

    takashi.hitomi
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:42 pm
    2つの集中セミナーが開催されています。 【DBA2.0 Weekend】Oracle Application Testing Suiteハンズ・オン・セミナー Application Testing Suite担当の中島さんは、10月末に刊行となった「Oracle アプリケーション品質管理技法 Webアプリケーション/ Oracle…

  • Parallel Processing in ODI

    Christophe Dupupet
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:11 pm
    This post assumes that you have some level of familiarity with ODI. The concepts of Packages, Interfaces, Procedures and Scenarios are used here assuming that you understand them in the context of ODI. If you need more details on these elements, please refer to the ODI Tutorial for a quick introduction, or to the complete ODI documentation for detailed information. ODI: Parallel Processing A common question in ODI is how to run processes in parallel. When you look at a typical ODI package, all steps are described in a serial fashion and will be executed in sequence. However, this same package…

  • A Time/Hour Selector in ADF Faces - Did you know?

    shay.shmeltzer
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:04 pm
    I must admit that I wasn't aware of this and I'm guessing that if this is news for me it might be news for other people so I wanted to blog about it. Turns out that the af:inputDate components in ADF Faces can actually allow your customers to select a time(hour/minutes/seconds) as well as a date. All you have to do to see it in action is give your ADF BC EO date field the type of Timestemp instead of Date, and possibly add a nice format mask under the UI hints like: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss and you should get a calendar popup that looks like this: While we are on the subject of date and time, I'll…
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  • Pervasive predictive analytics

    James Taylor
    19 Nov 2009 | 11:21 pm
    Copyright © 2009 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorAfter posting on the 10 analytic truths/myths earlier today I was reminded that I had not posted about Fern Halper’s post: Is it Possible to Make Predictive Analytics Pervasive?. I enjoyed Fern’s post and meant to blog about it but then got distracted. She makes the key points well – we increasingly do not need PhD mathematicians to build models (as Neil Raden cogently argued on his blog) as models are becoming easier to build and we do not need people to use them explicitly if they are embedded in operational processes…

  • Analytic truth and myth

    James Taylor
    19 Nov 2009 | 2:14 pm
    Copyright © 2009 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorAlison Bolen posted a nice list of analytic truths, or perhaps myths, on the SAS blog today and asked what people thought. I was, of course, unable to resist: To make analytics successful, the CEO has to have a personal interest in it. MYTH While it is true that the only companies I see who have made it to what Tom Davenport called “analytic competitor” are those that have CEOs who are involved with the analytics, I do not believe that CEO involvement is central to all analytics success. Line of business managers and other…

  • Make Better Decisions

    James Taylor
    16 Nov 2009 | 11:17 pm
    Copyright © 2009 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorTom Davenport published a new article recently in the Harvard Business Review titled Make Better Decisions. In it he gives some examples of bad decisions and asks why this decision-making disorder? First, because decisions have generally been viewed as the prerogative of individuals—usually senior executives. The process employed, the information used, the logic relied on, have been left up to them, in something of a black box. Information goes in, decisions come out—and who knows what happens in between? This is, of course, a critical…

  • Some new analytics blogs

    James Taylor
    16 Nov 2009 | 7:51 am
    Copyright © 2009 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorMy partners over at Marketelligence have launched a new blog – marketelligent.blogspot.com/ – that should be worth following. Anunay and I are giving a webinar on getting started with your first predictive analytic model – you can register here. I also met Michael Berry, author of some fabulous books on data mining including Data Mining Techniques and his company, Data Miners, has a blog too. Enjoy.

  • Predictive analytics panel at Business Analytics Summit

    James Taylor
    16 Nov 2009 | 6:53 am
    Copyright © 2009 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorI hosted a panel last week on predictive analytics at the Business Analytics Summit. I was joined by Richard Boire of the Boire-Filler Group, Jean-Paul Isson of Monster.com and Michael Berry of Data Miners (and author of Data Mining Techniques, one of my favorite Data mining books). I asked a series of questions and we got some great answers from the experts: How is your organization using predictive analytics and what has been the business value of doing so? Richard’s customers use predictive analytics for acquisition models that target not…
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  • Managing Internet Computing Projects

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:35 pm
    Ensure delivery of a quality project in a cost and time effective manner. Specific objectives are to: · plan the project in detail and mobilize the project team, · manage the delivery of a quality project, · ensure satisfactory completion o...

  • Checklist for Managing Internet Computing Projects

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:27 am
    CHECKLIST FOR MANAGE INTERNET COMPUTING PROJECT   Yes No N/A Remarks ...

  • Developing a Launch Plan

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:11 am
    Develop the plan to guide the introduction of the internet computing initiative. Gather Information Determine the roll-out timing requirements and constraints. Identify the timing for the pilot deployment so that the launch plan timing can be synch...

  • Checklist for Developing a Launch Plan

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:40 am
    CHECKLIST FOR DEVELOP LAUNCH PLAN   Yes No N/A Remarks ...

  • Constructing the Application Pilot

    19 Nov 2009 | 3:34 pm
    Design, build and deploy the pilot application release. This pilot release is special in that it is initiated early in the project, but follows the same incremental build life cycle as subsequent releases. Depending on the objectives of the release, ...
 
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  • Curse of the Were-Laptop

    19 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    Richmond, Virginia - Sunday 8:00 PM ET The storm outside sent wave after wave of heavy rain drops that banged on the large window, trickling down into the garden bushes below. Distant thunderclaps rolled, making the glass vibrate every other minute, not before the bright flashes of lightning lit Jack's study.

  • Social Networking and the Government -- Weighing the Benefits vs. the Pitfalls

    17 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    Organizations everywhere have been rapidly adopting the use of social networking tools over the last couple of years and recent data suggests that the use of these tools has exploded exponentially in enterprises during the last six months of 2009. For more on that phenomenon, see this recent story in Government Computer News. During its first year, the Obama Administration has encouraged the adoption of social networking tools by federal government agencies to help increase information sharing, improve collaboration, and foster more transparency in government.

  • Speaking of Security #169

    17 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    Click to Download/Listen This week's Speaking of Security podcast presents an interesting discussion on healthcare data and the fraudster underground.

  • The Heist

    12 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    A stealthy hack into a financial system; manipulation of data by exploiting hidden vulnerabilities; an international cash-out operation of gargantuan proportions reminiscent of Al-Qaeda multiple-attack plan. FBI agents working internationally to trace the criminals and bring them to justice. All the elements of a good Hollywood Heist film, except it happened for real.

  • When Renegotiation is a Bad Thing: MITM Attacks on SSLv3/TLS Protocol

    11 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    Over the last few days, an attack against the SSLv3/TLS protocol was made public.  The following is my opinion based on public information and industry discussion. TLS is the current version of a protocol that was originally developed by Netscape (under the name of SSL).  The protocol was originally developed to secure connections between a web browser and a web server.  The protocol has since found application in areas as diverse as protecting email services to virtual private networks.  It is the Internet standard for communication between programs running on different…
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  • Nothing Virtual About Virtual Distance

    Carl Frappaolo
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:12 pm
    Today I had the great fortune to attend the Center for Information Management Studies (CIMS) program at Babson College.  I almost didn’t go – having just returned from the Enterprise 2.0 conference, I was feeling a bit “full” of talk on collaboration and technology. But luckily three things coerced me into attending.So I decided to go. WOW – OMG am I glad I did. Find out why ...

  • Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco - ER Sums it Up

    Carl Frappaolo
    11 Nov 2009 | 6:30 am
    Last week, like hundreds of others, I attended the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. In this blog post I provide an overall impression of the conference, that in-turn lends insight into the state of the Enterprise 2.0 market in general. After attending the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston last June, I blogged that for me, the show came down to an acronym – CIT, which stood for Culture, Innovation and Twitter. This time the conference is summed up in an even shorter acronym – ER. No I am not referring to the popular use of ER as in Emergency Room, inferring that the show needs…

  • E-Healthcare Provides a Prescription for Universal ECM

    Carl Frappaolo
    28 Oct 2009 | 6:45 am
    Yesterday AIIM NE held their fall kickoff event. In a word WOW.  In many words: Once again, AIIM NE delivered. We had two guest speakers, Girish Kumar Navani and David Cochran. I now refer to them as the dynamic duo. Check out their resumes – their qualifications and experience are most impressive, and they both delivered excellent presentations. Although both gentleman hail from the e-medical records/healthcare vertical, the update they provided on the state-of-the-market concerning e-medical records was nothing short of a primer on the ECM market in general. The challenges faced by…

  • E-Gov - E-gads

    Carl Frappaolo
    23 Oct 2009 | 2:59 pm
    Yesterday I voted in the upcoming Boston City Councilor and Mayoral election – two weeks early.  Why?  Because I will be on the road making presentations at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on Election Day, actually all that week. But that is not why I am blogging about it.As often happens to ECM geeks like me, we experience ECM moments in doing everyday things such as “voting”.  When I arrived at the election department in Boston City Hall, much to my surprise I had to wait in queue. (Apparently absentee voting is more prevalent than I thought. It was my…

  • IT meets KM meets E2.0 meets Innovation in the Boston Subway

    Carl Frappaolo
    6 Oct 2009 | 6:27 am
    Yesterday I was preparing for an Innovation Management training session I will be doing later this week. The sponsor, after reviewing my credentials asked “How you make the leap from information and knowledge management to coaching/developing innovation skills?  … Your background seems to be IT.” I provided what I hope was not too lengthy a response. In essence it stated that I view Innovation management as a fully ingrained component of KM, and IT as a strategic facilitator of both. Its interesting, but to many friends, family and colleagues my background appears disjointed. To…
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    StorageMojo

  • Consolidated I/O for virtual data centers

    Robin Harris
    17 Nov 2009 | 2:26 pm
    Xsigo (see-go) produces an I/O consolidation appliance whose elegance impresses. I/O clutter Typical blade servers have several I/O adapters for networks and storage. Today’s multi-CPU – each multi-core – mobo’s need much bandwidth to stay busy, thus 2-4 GigE or 10GigE network ports and 2 or more SAS or FC HBAs configs are common. Each HBA/HCA eats slots and power, adds cost and makes I/O a pain to upgrade or replace. Xsigo offers an alternative. Big cheap pipe Built on 20 Gb/s DDR Infiniband, Xsigo replaces physical NICs and HBAs with virtual ones configured on the…

  • Price lists down up?

    Robin Harris
    14 Nov 2009 | 10:28 am
    Update: All -I think – the links have have been reset using a fresh batch of WordPress grout. If any still don’t work please let me know. End update. I’m told that the StorageMojo price lists are down because the pages were switched to permalinks. I didn’t knowingly do that. Once I’m back in the office tomorrow I’ll see about fixing it. Welcome help from anyone who knows WordPress. Robin Copyright © 2009 StorageMojo. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking…

  • Storage weather forecast: much coolness

    Robin Harris
    13 Nov 2009 | 6:55 am
    Spending the week in Silicon Valley catching up on storage progress. Short takes: Hyper-V storage virtualization. Software now in beta that dramatically increases the Microsoft virtualization layer’s storage chops: cheap snapshots; high-performance I/O with multiple VMs; and an almost invisible UI. Snaps into the management bus as a standard VHD with a map magic smart driver behind it. A NAS test appliance that replaces a lab full of equipment with a single server box that can generate millions of NFS connections and drive GB of traffic. CIFS too. Swifttest. Update from Parascale: some…

  • Redundant array of inexpensive servers

    Robin Harris
    8 Nov 2009 | 8:52 pm
    A recent post on the dumb disk fallacy argues that enterprise storage isn’t overpriced. That misses the point: enterprise arrays may not be overpriced – but they overshoot most market requirements. That’s why there’s so much innovation in the high capacity/low cost end of the market. And why high-end monolithic arrays are the mainframes of tomorrow. Background Disk drives are only 5-10% of an array’s cost. Since dual-parity arrays protect against 2 drive failure/read errors, the logical question is “why not just replicate the data 3x for 15-30% of the…

  • StorageMojo in Silicon Valley next week

    Robin Harris
    4 Nov 2009 | 4:20 pm
    I have some openings Tuesday and Wednesday – 10th , 11th – for folks who’d like to engage. Let me know in the comments or at my email. Thanks! Update: my schedule is full. Watch this space for future travel info. Copyright © 2009 StorageMojo. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@storagemojo.com so we can take legal action immediately.Plugin by Taragana Related posts:StorageMojo at NAB next week Consumerization…
 
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  • The Three Database Clustering Users

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:22 pm
    The PostgreSQL community and the database industry have a bewildering profusion of clustering product and projects, utilizing a plethora of technologies and optimized for a diversity of different requirements. Clusters are single-master, multi-master, middleware, database engine, application-based, statement-based, group communication, distributed table, partitioned database, federated, shared disk,

  • Managing Internet Computing Projects

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:35 pm
    Ensure delivery of a quality project in a cost and time effective manner. Specific objectives are to: · plan the project in detail and mobilize the project team, · manage the delivery of a quality project, · ensure satisfactory completion o...

  • Checklist for Managing Internet Computing Projects

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:27 am
    CHECKLIST FOR MANAGE INTERNET COMPUTING PROJECT   Yes No N/A Remarks ...

  • Developing a Launch Plan

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:11 am
    Develop the plan to guide the introduction of the internet computing initiative. Gather Information Determine the roll-out timing requirements and constraints. Identify the timing for the pilot deployment so that the launch plan timing can be synch...

  • Checklist for Developing a Launch Plan

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:40 am
    CHECKLIST FOR DEVELOP LAUNCH PLAN   Yes No N/A Remarks ...
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  • The Three Database Clustering Users

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:22 pm
    The PostgreSQL community and the database industry have a bewildering profusion of clustering product and projects, utilizing a plethora of technologies and optimized for a diversity of different requirements. Clusters are single-master, multi-master, middleware, database engine, application-based, statement-based, group communication, distributed table, partitioned database, federated, shared disk,

  • Collaborating on Clustering

    19 Nov 2009 | 5:42 pm
    For the last several years, PostgreSQL has suffered from having numerous, incomplete, unpolished, and poorly-publicized clustering and replication tools. It's time to fix that.

  • Rant - Common Sense?

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:06 am
    Had lunch with a fellow BA the other day. Apparently their organization is going through some changes. We talked and wondered where common sense has gone. In his own words - he was a tad frustrated: I know I've been no fan of Agile but we've once again changed paths and now we are at the mercy of the most A-retentive waterfall methodology I have ever seen in my life. We've been "developing"

  • STOP - are you smelling the roses

    19 Nov 2009 | 3:07 am
    We do have today....

  • Look out, you're running out of storage!

    18 Nov 2009 | 4:05 pm
    Wouldn't it be great if someone could jump out from behind your processor to tell you that you were running low on available storage below the 2 GB bar rather than waiting for a failure to let you know? DB2 may have the next best idea.
 
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    BACK UP CENTRAL

  • Macworkstwo:EXTREMELY abusive, unprofessional ebay seller

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:56 am
    After being treated about as unprofessionally as possible on a simple ebay purchase, and feeling extremely underwheled with the redress that ebay offers, I decided to use this bully pulpit to publicly shame them for their behavior.  This has nothing to do with backups, but it is quite a story.

  • Tape still going strong

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:12 am
    As a person who has spent a good portion of the last couple of years talking about disk backups, one might think that I've given up on tape.  Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, I'm encouraged by my friends over at Spectralogic that just released the industry's largest tape library.

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  • Is dedupe to tape crazy?

    24 Oct 2009 | 1:48 pm
    Dedupe to tape is definitely crazy.  But is it crazy good or crazy bad?  I spent two days in (lovely?) Oceanport, New Jersey surrounded by a bunch of CommVault Kool-Aid drinking, Frank Slootman hated, but seriously technical people that knew their product very well.  Over those two days, I had every question I had about CommVault answered, and one of the questions was: "Why the heck would you want to dedupe to tape?"

  • ZL files lawsuit against Gartner

    21 Oct 2009 | 3:36 pm
    Email archiving software vendor ZL (who, by the way, I never heard of until this lawsuit) is suing Gartner for saying that they're a "niche player."   According to the lawsuit (http://www.zlti.com/courtdocs/docs/ZL_v_Gartner_Complaint.pdf) they bring this action "in its individual capacity and on behalf of the general public," as Gartners actions have harmed "the creative forces of American innovation, and, consequently, the long-term competitiveness of the American economy." While I appreciate ZL's attempt to look out for me (as a member of the general public) and its concern for…
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    An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology

  • PayPhrase Attacks Paypal! News at 11.

    3 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    If you sign up, the system will generate a phrase for you. I didn't like mine as there is no way I would ever remember it. They also list some suggestions but I didn't like those. Almost every suggestion included the word "bread". They trying to tell me something? I swear I've cut back on the carbs!

  • Column-oriented MySQL for VLDB

    2 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    There are plenty of things to like about InfiniDB - Multi-threaded and designed for multi-cpu/cores, ACID compliant, recoverable, supports SQL standards and online DDL, MVCC, dynamic data compression, and FREE! What attracted me first though was the open source implementation of the columnar storage.

  • On Quitting a job - Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

    30 Oct 2009 | 5:00 am
    A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein

  • What is a SCALAR Sub-Query?

    29 Oct 2009 | 4:00 am
    From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology I got a question the other day about whether to use a scalar sub-query or a join. I think we all know what a join is (if not, I have posted on it before), but what exactly is a scalar sub-query. Well, what does scalar mean? I looked up the definition of scalar and get: Noun 1. scalar - a variable quantity

  • Amazon EC2 Price DEcrease and bigger boxes!

    28 Oct 2009 | 5:00 am
    How often does a vendor REDUCE their prices, and thereby lowering your bill, without some nasty contract renegotiation? In my experience, never. One more reason to really like Amazon's web services.
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  • Managing Internet Computing Projects

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:35 pm
    Ensure delivery of a quality project in a cost and time effective manner. Specific objectives are to: · plan the project in detail and mobilize the project team, · manage the delivery of a quality project, · ensure satisfactory completion o...

  • Checklist for Managing Internet Computing Projects

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:27 am
    CHECKLIST FOR MANAGE INTERNET COMPUTING PROJECT   Yes No N/A Remarks ...

  • Developing a Launch Plan

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:11 am
    Develop the plan to guide the introduction of the internet computing initiative. Gather Information Determine the roll-out timing requirements and constraints. Identify the timing for the pilot deployment so that the launch plan timing can be synch...

  • Checklist for Developing a Launch Plan

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:40 am
    CHECKLIST FOR DEVELOP LAUNCH PLAN   Yes No N/A Remarks ...

  • Constructing the Application Pilot

    19 Nov 2009 | 3:34 pm
    Design, build and deploy the pilot application release. This pilot release is special in that it is initiated early in the project, but follows the same incremental build life cycle as subsequent releases. Depending on the objectives of the release, ...
 
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    You Had Me At EHLO...

  • Transitioning Client Access to Exchange Server 2010

    Exchange
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:41 pm
    By now most of you have heard about the release of Exchange 2010.  Those of you that are upgrading from Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 or a mixture of the two, are probably curious about the client access upgrade strategy.  To satisfy your curiosity, we are releasing a series of blog articles on the subject.  The first in this series provides a summary of the steps that are required to introduce Exchange 2010 within your environment from a client access perspective.  More detailed information about the upgrade process is discussed in TechNet and within the Deployment…

  • How to Manage Groups that I already own in Exchange 2010?

    Exchange
    18 Nov 2009 | 1:43 pm
    This one can be a bit counter intuitive for folks coming from any legacy version of Exchange... Issue You got your shiny new Exchange 2010 download and excitedly installed it on your 2010 hardware. You have setup all your CAS server settings, your DAG is up and running. Your pilot users have been moved over and everything went well. Now you move over the executives and not two days later they are in your office complaining that they can't manage the distribution groups that they own. They were able to do it previously but now it isn't working. A little bit of testing later and you see that…

  • RBAC and the Triangle of Power

    Exchange
    16 Nov 2009 | 2:58 pm
    Introduction Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is the new permissions model in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. With RBAC, you don't need to modify and manage access control lists (ACLs), which was done in Exchange Server 2007 and earlier. On the flip side - as with anything new, RBAC can seem a bit intimidating at first. I am going to try an explain how to think about RBAC, and the order to create things in so that you end up with a working RBAC setup that does exactly what you want. As we go thru each piece we will be setting up a custom role so feel free to follow along with the commands in…

  • Morgan Keegan & Company Cites Cost Savings as #1 Reason they are moving to Exchange 2010

    Exchange
    16 Nov 2009 | 2:18 pm
    By now you have seen our interviews with both Global Crossing and Lifetime Products and you've heard what excites them most about moving to Exchange 2010 àcheck out the video interviews with Global Crossing and Lifetime Products. We headed down to Memphis to visit one more  customer, Morgan Keegan & Company to get their take about why they too moved to Exchange 2010.  Morgan Keegan CIO John Threadgill, says the number one reason they chose to move to Exchange 2010 was the cost savings their organization expects to  see. (insert video here) Wall Street and Technology …

  • Exchange anti-spam myths revealed

    Exchange
    13 Nov 2009 | 12:43 pm
    In Microsoft CSS (Customer Service and Support) we deal with many anti-spam questions. While the anti-spam features that come out of the box with Exchange 2007 provide a robust level of protection against unwanted garbage in your inbox, there is still a lot of confusion out there as to how all the parts work together. The purpose of this post is to dispel some misconceptions about the E2007 AS features (where applicable differences introduced in Exchange 2010 will be pointed out as well). I present you the top 6 SMTP anti-spam myths - revealed! (drum roll) Myth 1: Creating a hub transport…
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  • Microsoft Security Advisory 977544 Released

    MSRCTEAM
    13 Nov 2009 | 3:08 pm
    Today we released Security Advisory 977544 to provide information, including customer guidance, on a publicly reported Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting Server Messaging Block (SMB) Protocol. This vulnerability, in SMBv1 and SMBv2, affects  Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 are not affected.   I want to be clear that this is a DoS vulnerability that is unrelated to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-050 which addressed a remote code execution vulnerability in the SMBv2 protocol. This…

  • November 2009 Security Bulletin Webcast

    MSRCTEAM
    13 Nov 2009 | 2:29 pm
    Hello. This is Jerry Bryant letting you know that the questions and answers from our November Security Bulletin webcast have been posted and the video from the webcast is below. We did not get very many questions this month and the ones we did get covered various topics and were not focused in one particular area. One very good question we received had to do with the Microsoft Word bulletin, MS09-068. The user asked if an attack could execute via the Outlook 2007 preview function. This function allows a user to preview certain document types from within Outlook as demonstrated in these screen…

  • November 2009 Security Bulletin Release

    MSRCTEAM
    10 Nov 2009 | 8:55 am
    Summary of Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Release for November 2009 Today, we released six security bulletins addressing a total of 15 vulnerabilities. Four affect Windows and Windows Server and two affect Microsoft Office products (Excel and Word). As we do every month, we have prepared our Risk & Impact and our Deployment Priority guidance to help customers assess risk to their environments and prioritize the deployment of this month’s updates. Risk & Impact is a snapshot of the cumulative severity and exploitability index ratings for each bulletin. This month, MS09-065 is the…

  • November 2009 Bulletin Release Advance Notification

    MSRCTEAM
    5 Nov 2009 | 8:12 am
    Advance Notification for the November 2009 Security Bulletin Release To help customers plan and prioritize for this month’s security updates, we wanted to let you know that we will be releasing 6 bulletins (three critical and three important) addressing 15 vulnerabilities, affecting Windows and Microsoft Office products. Customers should plan a restart for the Windows bulletins. The Office bulletins may not require a restart if the components being updated are not in use. More information about the upcoming security updates can be found on the TechNet Web site. The target release day is…

  • Update released for MS09-054

    MSRCTEAM
    2 Nov 2009 | 2:01 pm
    Today we released an update 976749 that addresses two issues with MS09-054 that a limited number customers reported to us through our Customer Service and Support (CSS) group.  These two issues can affect the proper display of web pages. For additional details, please refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base article 976749. Security update MS09-054 was released as part of the October Security Bulletin Release cycle and protects against the vulnerabilities outlined in the bulletin. Also, we’re not currently aware of any attempts to attack the vulnerabilities. While the number of…
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    SQLBlog

  • Wrinkly Entropy

    merrillaldrich
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:44 pm
    So, found this incredible freeware program on Codeplex with a really simple UI to handle performance optimization for SQL Server: I was gonna post the link here but I lost it, and now the site seems to have been taken down... OK, I am obviously lying. Wouldn't that be sweet, though? I do have a hunch there are developers working on, or at least philosophically aiming for, that level of automation around index tuning and partitioning, etc, but it's a long way off. It's worth considering this dichotomy,...(read more)

  • Connect Digest : 2009-11-20

    AaronBertrand
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:43 pm
    SSMS needs to support today's (and tomorrow's) number of cores Apparently when you try to get to the server properties page where CPUs are displayed, the UI is not equipped to handle 96 cores. Man, I wish I had a 96-core instance of SQL Server handy to try and reproduce that; sadly, I'll have to take his word for it for now. I've actually done some work on some 48-core servers recently, but they are Hyper-V hosts and the SQL Server instances within the guest VMs obviously don't have 48 CPUs. :-)...(read more)

  • The Scope of Transaction Isolation Levels

    Jonathan Kehayias
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:21 am
    This week a forums post had some incorrect information in it about the scope and effect of SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL during query execution. I tried to politely correct the information, but I also thought I’d blog about it as well. The incorrect information was: CREATE PROCEDURE Mysp AS BEGIN SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED BEGIN TRAN --you are changing isoloation level from default read commited to read uncommited SELECT * FROM mytable COMMIT TRAN --back to default isolation...(read more)

  • PIVOting dense data may speed up your queires

    Alexander Kuznetsov
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:53 am
    Of course, PIVOting uses up some CPU. However, if the data is dense (all the cells in the pivoted result set are not NULL), then the size of the pivoted result set may be significantly less. As a result, the overall time to retrieve a pivoted result set and transmit it over the network may be less. Here are my benchmarks. Let us create a helper table with 1M numbers: CREATE TABLE dbo.Numbers ( n INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY ); GO TRUNCATE TABLE dbo.Numbers ; INSERT INTO dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES ( 1 );...(read more)

  • Installing Service Packs / Cumulative Updates on a SQL 2005 cluster

    AaronBertrand
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:56 am
    In our environment, we run the task scheduler as a cluster resource, so that scheduled tasks always run on the active node. (In ancient history, we would have scheduled tasks that weren't cluster aware - in the event of a failover, we'd have to manually disable task scheduler on the now passive node, and manually enable it on the active node.) Unfortunately, when you run in this mode, the service pack or hotfix can't patch both nodes, because the patching of the passive node is achieved by remotely...(read more)
 
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  • Paul McCullagh answers your questions about PBXT

    Morgan Tocker
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:29 am
    Following on from our earlier announcement, Paul McCullagh has responded with the answers to your questions – as well as a few I gathered from other Percona folks, and attendees of OpenSQL Camp. Thank you Paul! What’s the “ideal” use case for the PBXT engine, and how does it compare in performance?  When would I use PBXT instead of a storage engine like MyISAM, InnoDB or XtraDB? Unfortunately it is not possible to point to a specific category of applications and say, “PBXT will be better here, so try it”.  PBXT is a general purpose transactional storage…

  • Rare evil MySQL Bug

    peter
    19 Nov 2009 | 11:21 pm
    There is the rare bug which I ran into every so often. Last time I’ve seen it about 3 years ago on MySQL 4.1 and I hoped it is long fixed since… but it looks like it is not. I now get to see MySQL 5.4.2 in the funny state. When you see bug happening you would see MySQL log flooded with error messages like this: 091119 23:03:34 [ERROR] Error in accept: Resource temporarily unavailable 091119 23:03:34 [ERROR] Error in accept: Resource temporarily unavailable 091119 23:03:34 [ERROR] Error in accept: Resource temporarily unavailable 091119 23:03:34 [ERROR] Error in accept: Resource…

  • How innodb_open_files affects performance

    peter
    18 Nov 2009 | 6:58 pm
    Recently I looked at table_cache sizing which showed larger table cache does not always provides the best performance. So I decided to look at yet another similar variable – innodb_open_files which defines how many files Innodb will keep open while working in innodb_file_per_table mode. Unlike MyISAM Innodb does not have to keep open file descriptor when table is open – open table is purely logical state and appropriate .ibd file may be open or closed. Furthermore besides MySQL table_cache Innodb maintains its own (called data dictionary) which keeps all tables ever accessed since…

  • 5.0.87-build20 Percona binaries

    Aleksandr Kuzminsky
    18 Nov 2009 | 2:04 am
    Dear Community, We are pleased to present the 20th build of MySQL server with Percona patches. Comparing to the previous release it has following new features: The build is based on MySQL-5.0.87 innodb_rw_lock.patch is ported from InnoDB Plugin 1.0.3 To be compatible with RedHat RPM repository, the naming scheme has changed to <rpm name>-<mysql version>-<percona build version>.<buildnumber>.<redhat version>.<architecture>.rpm Example: MySQL-server-percona-5.0.87-b20.29.rhel5.x86_64.rpm See release notes for earlier changes. Since the build 20 MySQL server…

  • table_cache negative scalability

    peter
    16 Nov 2009 | 6:18 pm
    Couple of months ago there was a post by FreshBooks on getting great performance improvements by lowering table_cache variable. So I decided to investigate what is really happening here. The "common sense" approach to tuning caches is to get them as large as you can if you have enough resources (such as memory). With MySQL common sense however does not always works - we've seen performance issues with large query_cache_size also sort_buffer_size and read_buffer_size may not give you better performance if you increase them. I found this also applies to some other buffers. Even though having…
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  • VRM Impact

    Doc Searls
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:48 am
    The shot above was made at the Kynetx Impact conference, which is the first one I’ve been to where VRM was a serious topic on its own — an acronym thrown around by participants, in ways that made clear that they knew what it was. No explanation required. In other words, this wasn’t a VRM conference, but one where VRM was a central issue. The fact that the 140 people who packed the room included lots of developers, some of whom working right there on all kinds of stuff, including VRM. I’ll have much more to say about the conference later. Right now I’m waiting for…

  • Advertising in Reverse

    Doc Searls
    16 Nov 2009 | 3:24 am
    Here in the VRM development community we’ve been talking (and in some cases working) for several years on the Personal RFP. Technically an RFP is a “buyer-initiated procurement protocol” for businesses doing business with businesses: B2B as they say. With VRM the buyer is an individual. Hence, Personal RFP. Not a great label, but one that businesses understand. Now comes Scott Adams (Dilbert’s cartoonist), with Hunter Becomes the Prey. His compressed case: Shopping is broken… Google is nearly worthless when shopping for items that don’t involve technology.

  • Intention Economy Traction

    Doc Searls
    15 Nov 2009 | 6:41 am
    My thinking out loud about what came to be called VRM began with The Intention Economy at Linux Journal, which I posted from a seat amidst the audience at the 2006 eTech in San Diego. The money ‘graphs: The Intention Economy grows around buyers, not sellers. It leverages the simple fact that buyers are the first source of money, and that they come ready-made. You don’t need advertising to make them. The Intention Economy is about markets, not marketing. You don’t need marketing to make Intention Markets. The Intention Economy is built around truly open markets, not a…

  • Event horizons

    Doc Searls
    21 Oct 2009 | 6:05 am
    Photo galleries from the VRM West Coast Workshop and VRooM Boston 2009 are up. Tim Hwang has an excellent follow up (Geek Insurance! — go read it) to the Getting Personal With Data panel, which turned (as we had intended) into a round-table discussion involving everybody in the room (including Adriana Lukas, via live video from London) that lasted two hours. In discussions since VRooM, some of us have started thinking that a better approach to VRM events is to pick single topics (health care, governance, search, VRM+CRM, personal RFP, personal informatics, whatever) and have separate…

  • Real Estate and VRM

    Doc Searls
    10 Oct 2009 | 5:49 pm
    Bill Wendel of Real Estate Cafe is one of the first people I met after becoming a fellow at the Berkman Center three years ago. What he’s been doing for a long time is right up the VRM alley: equipping users (whether buyers or sellers) with the means to become independent of controlling institutions and ways of doing business — and improving the marketplace while saving themselves money and hassle. Bill will be at VRooM Boston 2009 and has told me he would like to bring up real estate as a session topic. I encouraged Bill to do that, and I encourage others to jump in and talk…
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  • Numbers of Mass Distraction

    JP
    29 Oct 2009 | 5:16 pm
    2009 Is Record Year For UK Singles Sales Innovation boosts record label income as licensing and rights deals generate £195m in 2008 New business models boost income for British record labels: licensing and multiple rights deals net £122m in 2007 New BPI Stats show strength of digital music Just some of the headlines from a group of people not known for their progressive thinking when it comes to music and downloads and filesharing. But let’s not look at the headlines. Let’s look at the facts: 2009 has already become the biggest ever year for UK singles with more than 117m sold…

  • Musing about downloads in the UK

    JP
    28 Oct 2009 | 4:22 pm
    Some of you may have noticed that I like my cricket. And one of the things I like about cricket is the cricket story; the history of cricket is festooned with anecdotes and tales and apocrypha, filling a very large number of books. As with most other stories, over time, these stories gain a life of their own, with a series of embellishments and accoutrements; this is particularly noticeable when the story is about  larger-than-life characters, something that cricket’s cup runneth over with. One such story involves one of the largest of the larger-than-life characters: Freddie Trueman.

  • Musing about culture and customers and choice: the eBaying of “content”

    JP
    11 Oct 2009 | 4:12 pm
    I have the privilege of spending time with many startups, in a variety of guises: as incubator, as advisor, as investor, as chairman, as well-wisher, friend and supporter. The startups differ widely and wildly: they range in size from a handful of people to hundreds;  they have annual burn rates in the thousands and in the millions; they have different strategies and different ways of executing them; the motives that drive them are different, the things that keep them awake at night differ as well. They make different types of products and services, for different markets, with different…

  • Musing gently about choice in the enterprise

    JP
    1 Oct 2009 | 2:59 pm
    [Photo credits: guitars: fotobicchio and shoes: Orin Zebest] For some time now, phrases like “the customer’s in control” have been floating around the marketplace, yet “enterprise people” haven’t taken a blind bit of notice. You can’t expect them to. Many of them can’t understand what choice means in the context of the services they receive. And what they don’t experience they can’t express to others. But it’s all changing, and changing fast. As consumerisation drives innovation from the consumer to the enterprise, and as the…

  • Swiftly going West: Digital parody comes of age

    JP
    17 Sep 2009 | 3:04 pm
    I know my readership is “old” but most of you are not as old as I am. So that means you’re more than likely to have heard about the Kanye West/Taylor Swift incident a few days ago. I heard about it, found it at least mildly distasteful, despite Kanye’s apology; I was therefore glad to hear about Beyonce’s touch of class later. But that’s not the point of this post. Why would I write about two people I don’t listen to, on a programme I don’t watch, and whose lives I have no interest in? Simple. I write because of this video: Chris Messina tweeted…
 
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  • Why Twitter Implemented Retweets

    Ross Mayfield
    12 Nov 2009 | 7:56 am
    In a thoughtful post, Ev explains the thoughts behind why twitter implemented Retweets. There are a lot of good reasons for adapting this user generated convention into mainstream use. MG Siegler, Sean Bonner and others provide some insight into how this adaptation may have gone to far, but I wanted to explore why this feature was implemented the way it was. Two weeks ago Twitter partnered with Bing and Google to provide the real time firehose for inclusion in their search indexes. Most likely these deals are providing the majority of Twitter's revenue to date. Form follows funding, which…

  • Links for 2009-11-06 [del.icio.us]

    7 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda some crock in this post i should find time to comment on Is Enterprise 2.0 a Savior or a Charlatan? In this post, I want to describe what I saw at the conference, what I believe to be the missing components of the full Enterprise 2.0 picture, and also discuss how becoming "Driven to Perform" by understanding Strategy-Driven Execution is the best way to justify the value of Enterprise 2.0 in your organization.

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    3 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
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  • From Enterprise 2.0 Adoption to Business Value

    Ross Mayfield
    2 Nov 2009 | 10:13 am
    In 2006, Enterprise 2.0 gained a definitional framework with Andrew McAfee's seminal article. But then the conversation quickly shifted to adoption frameworks. In part this was needed for something that was both new and powered by people. But unfortunately it has caused a perception problem, to the detriment of the industry. It's time to elevate the conversation from adoption to business value.There isn't a shortage of budget for Enterprise 2.0, but quipping the I in ROI is nominal doesn't cut it. At Socialtext, we've been hard at work combing through our customer stories…

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    1 Nov 2009 | 11:00 pm
    Leveraging Social Networking for Enterprise, butHOW? Loic Le Meur Blog: 30 predictions for the future of Twitter
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  • The Role of Social Techniques in Search & How It Impacts Your Organization: KM World Session Notes

    Bill Ives
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:53 am
    This is another in a series of notes from the 2009 KM World.These notes are done real time so please excuse typos.  It is titled: The Role of Social Techniques in Search & How It Impacts Your Organization by Charlene Li,  Partner, Altimeter Group ( @charleneli ).  Here is the session description. “Social technologies are transforming the way that people use the web and, with it, the way that companies engage with their customers and employees. Search is certainly being affected by the increasingly social nature of online activities. Impacting the socialization of search are the…

  • Resetting the Enterprise With 2.0 Collaborative Tools: KM World Session Notes

    Bill Ives
    18 Nov 2009 | 8:20 am
    This is another in a series of notes from the 2009 KM World. This is the Opening Keynote: Resetting the Enterprise With 2.0 Collaborative Tools by Andrew McAfee. Here is part of the session description. “Andrew McAfee focuses on how emergent social software platforms are benefiting enterprises, and how smart organizations and their leaders are making effective use of them to share knowledge, inspire innovation, and enable decision making. He shares strategies, stories, and real-world examples of successful enterprise collaboration using 2.0 tools.” Andy began with his definition of…

  • Top Dogs Say Social Networks Have a Bite !

    Jon Husband
    18 Nov 2009 | 8:16 am
    If attendees at KMWorld 09 needed any further convincing that working in interconnected environments where people operate in social networks is an important issue, here’s some brand new research out today from the Society for New Communications Research suggesting that C-level execs are increasingly taking this new set of conditions seriously! Via ZDNet .. Wow! Top execs say they are influenced by social networks This is a new research study from the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) is very important because it shows that company executives are influenced by their…

  • Fundamentals of Enterprise Search: KM World Session Notes

    Bill Ives
    16 Nov 2009 | 11:48 am
    This is the first in a series of notes from the 2009 KM World. These are real time notes so please forgive typos. Fundamentals of Enterprise Search was a preconference workshop. It was led by Avi Rappoport, Principal – Search Tools Consulting Editor, SearchTools.com. She is an independent consultant not connected with a vendor. Here is the session description. “Search engines, big and small, have certain standard elements and processes. The more you understand them, the easier to tune them to solve your real information needs. This practical overview provides a big picture view of…

  • Looking to the Past for Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Principles

    Jon Husband
    14 Nov 2009 | 9:24 am
    These days there are incessant debates about the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 platforms, tools and practices. We’ve been here before … we just did not have the infrastructure or the tools, nor the awareness or skill levels of large numbers of people. As information technology first began its relentless march into the daily lives of people in the areas of work (mainframes, early integrated systems, desktops computers in the workplace) and general information-seeking (early days of websites and the Web), thinkers and organizational development conultants began paying attention to the…
 
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  • Gold, Commodities and Procurement Strategy — A Big Disconnect

    Jason Busch
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:18 pm
    We scanned a familiar headline in The WSJ earlier today that gold was up yet again. Specifically, “Gold for December delivery, the most actively traded contract, rose 0.2% to $1,144.10 an ounce … [and is] set to end the week higher by more than 2%.” And according to Kitco, the current gold spot price was up 54.22% for the past 12 months as of 12:55 PM CT on Friday. But where does this particular gold rush leave other commodities? Not to mention actual demand from a manufacturing and industrial standpoint? In our view, there’s never been a greater disconnect between the…

  • Chatter from (and About) Salesforce.com

    Chris Selland
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:12 am
    I spent a lot of time this week (unintentionally) tuned into Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff’s extremely enthusiastic – and extremely long – DreamForce keynote address and (intentionally) thinking about the implications of the company’s ‘biggest breakthrough ever’ which is destined to ‘revolutionize the workplace’.  The announcement of Salesforce Chatter – the company’s newly announced Collaboration Cloud platform. Yet at SiliconANGLE, at what I consider to be the pre-eminent site for cutting edge thinking on everything ‘2.0′, I was surprised to find – nothing. …

  • Friday Rant: Mattel — Proving That a Few Chips of Lead Paint is Worth $50 Million+

    Jason Busch
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:01 am
    Just a few years back before anyone thought that Chinese suppliers would make a regular thing of cutting corners and putting lives at risk by shipping tainted toys, food- and baby-products and drywall, there was an original incident that stopped everyone in their global sourcing tracks. And it got us at the time to at least start thinking about the product quality risks associated with demanding ever-cheaper products from China without sending in the requisite supplier development and quality resources. What was the incident you ask? It was Mattel’s initial lead paint recall (which…

  • Numbers, Volume 34

    Michael Coté
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:30 am
    While we “don’t do numbers here at RedMonk, I come across many interesting ones each week. Here are some: IBM Connect 2009 This week, all of RedMonk was at the IBM software group’s Connect event (see my notes on the event as well as James’ note). These events always have a blur of fun numbers, here are some: “IBM’s software business contributes $20B of IBM’s revenue and 40% of its profits” (from a June 2008 bio of SWG head, Steve Mills). On Lotus Connections installs, from James: “Lotus Connections: 385k seats at HSBC [another figure], 40k Coke Cola. 20k at Sogeti, 16k at…

  • The Future of ERP in a Disrupted Market

    Tom Foydel
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:25 am
    Thomas Wailgum writes some good articles and is frankly one of the few writers on the subject of ERP and enterprise software who appears to have some real knowledge of this market. His most recent piece on The Future of ERP is a sound reporting of the happenings of the last year since the world’s asset bubbles burst. A few of the ideas in this article really standout. First, we have been as guilty as anyone of taking a Bridge to Far in our ERP thinking. Simply put, we believed strongly, and still have intense moments of remorse since we changed, in the idea of a single instance. A single…
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  • Enterprise 2.0 is Not THAT Big a Deal

    amcafee
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:05 am
    I’ve been thinking about what to write in the wake of the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference. One more summary seems unnecessary, since there have been so many good ones already. And the debates are starting to feel a little trumped up and warmed over, and so less fun to wade back into. And then I got inspiration from Greg Lloyd, President and co-founder of Traction Software and longtime technologist. In addition to running his company Greg finds time to write a great blog, and his post after the conference was called “Enterprise 2.0 Schism.” In it, he likens the current E2.0…

  • A Good Book for Your Boss

    amcafee
    13 Nov 2009 | 6:29 am
    My latest post over at HBR.org is about MIT’s use of student bloggers on its admissions website. This kind of unfiltered presentation to the wide world of an organization’s internal voices was pretty novel when the Institute launched the blogs four years ago, but it’s become more common. It’s still far from universal, though. I’d bet that the majority of organizations still have ‘brochureware’ websites –  simple, largely static descriptions of what the company is and does, written in standard Press Release English (have all the people that write those taken the same…

  • Gradually, Then All at Once

    amcafee
    12 Nov 2009 | 10:01 am
    On a recent trip to Munich I got to visit the geek paradise that is the Deutsches Museum, the largest science, technology, and engineering museum in the world. Its enormous collections were almost totally lost on me, though, because I spent just about all my time in the wing devoted to calculating devices. This was not the plan. I intended to move on after checking out a few highlights like the Enigma machines (the legendary WWII German code machines deciphered by Polish and British brilliance) and the astonishing miniature Curtas (perfected while the inventor was an inmate in Buchenwald).

  • Shameless Self-promotion

    amcafee
    30 Oct 2009 | 12:49 pm
    I’m sorry, but the title of this post is accurate. A bunch of my work is hitting bookstores, newsstands, and the Interwebs at present, and I feel the need to publicize it all here. I promise to revert to less self-regarding blog posts after this one. I came back from a trip to find the first copy off the press of my book Enterprise 2.0 waiting for me in my office. I’ll leave it to others to discuss its content (hopefully in uniformly glowing terms); I just want to say that Harvard Business Press did a fantastic job on the book itself. It looks great, and I’m really grateful…

  • Colonizing the Outer Rings

    amcafee
    22 Oct 2009 | 6:54 am
    As I looked back over some recent blog posts and thought about some recent conversations, I realized that they’ve been pointing to a single broad conclusion. I think it’s time to state it explicitly instead of having it remain in the penumbra of the discussion around Enterprise 2.0. Before doing this, I need to re-draw my E2.0 target picture, which I explained a while back: “The… figure below is an extremely simple and not-to-scale representation of the relative size of [four groups of people], from the perspective of our focal knowledge worker. The small core of…
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  • Where there are clouds, there is often a rainbow

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:29 pm
    Marc Benioff likes to talk about how salesforce is "democratizing" technology by making large enterprise class IT infrastructure and application management affordable for even the smallest companies. But at Dreamforce this week, I saw a much wider view of his...

  • The maturing of salesforce.com

    17 Nov 2009 | 5:42 pm
    So, I am walking near Moscone Center - in town for Dreamforce - and the guy tempts me with the offer of a free convertible. Got my attention - see the sign "work for a consulting company whose name you...

  • Sapience 2009: TCO Management Event for SAP customers

    17 Nov 2009 | 4:45 am
    "Sapience 2009, an event for CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, and IT Decision makers seeking to escape the limitations of a strongly vendor controlled application landscape will take place December 8-9, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, MA." says the PR Several...

  • HP, the disruptor?

    16 Nov 2009 | 5:29 pm
    Why would Cisco move down into 25% mainstream server margin business when its networking business has yielded it 65%? That is the question many asked as Cisco announced its Unified Computing System in early 2009. Its marketing said it “..represents...

  • Dont take a Coke can into Pepsi HQ

    16 Nov 2009 | 4:48 pm
    I wrote earlier “if you are Steve Ballmer's (Microsoft) kids you dare not use Google or try an iPod. I imagine his salesfolks dare not use salesforce.com...” Zoli writes about Don Dodge moving from Microsoft to Google: Thanks Microsoft Outlook,...
 
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  • What's New in 'Social"

    Rachel Happe
    17 Nov 2009 | 8:43 am
    I was on a panel this morning with Mike Lewis and David Armano for Social Media Breakfast NYC titled Business is Social, Now What? (Thanks to Selina McCusker for organizing).  Maybe it is that we are at the end of conference season and I've been hearing a lot about social media, social software, E2.0, and social business lately and I'm a bit jaded (and yes, I've been contributing my fair share to this general conversation). But I struggled with what to say that would really cause the audience to think differently or provide inspiration that hasn't been said before. What…

  • It's the Trough of Disillusionment and So Much More

    Rachel Happe
    26 Oct 2009 | 3:03 pm
    We're in for an interesting ride. The social software market is going through a bumpy patch. The 'trough of disillusionment' is the third phase of Gartner's Hype Cycle and I think we are in its valley in the social software market.  For those that aren't familiar with the model, it's below:Why are we here? Well everyone got pretty excited about social tools ability to spread information and the adoption rate by individuals has been phenomenal. If you need a refresher on adoption rates, re-view What is Social Media (not for polite company but gets the point…

  • The Social Media Fear Factor

    Rachel Happe
    29 Sep 2009 | 2:55 pm
    For social media enthusiasts, it is sometimes hard to understand the trepidation and anxiety that social media engenders in others, particularly in the business world. The truth is - and this is coming from someone who is pretty immersed in it - social media does a lot of exposing. There are not only a lot of potential critics out there, there are also a lot of prospects and competitors out there. If you are not on your best behavior, they may see you at a moment of weakness and they may not stick around to see if that is who you really are or not.Starting a business has reinforced and…

  • The Opportunity Cost of Being Ungrateful

    Rachel Happe
    15 Sep 2009 | 7:28 pm
    In business contexts, where we are often paying for things and delivering products or services based on contractual terms, it is pretty easy to forget the social graces that we might otherwise employ. I certainly have been guilty of this in my haste or impatience to finish something or get something done more 'expediently'.  And, in general, that is still an OK way to proceed if everyone understands and is playing by the rules.The problem? We as humans crave appreciation so while it is OK to process a transaction with a vendor or a customer and not think anything more of it... …

  • The Company Your Targets Keep

    Rachel Happe
    8 Sep 2009 | 4:40 am
    In the past, because relationships and influences used to be so hidden from view, we had few options but to go directly to the person we were hoping to influence - whether to sell them something, convince them of a course of action, get support, etc.  Interestingly enough, except for people who are primed and ready to be influenced that tactic doesn't work all that well. So this is where advertising has traditionally come in - something that gets in front of people, makes them aware, and warms them up.  But it also annoys most people because it gets in the way of something else they…
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  • Additional Postings

    Chuck Hollis
    16 Nov 2009 | 1:56 am
    For the last few weeks, I've divided my blogging time between this site and a new one I've been helping with: privatecloud.comThought I'd give you  quick view into some of my more recent posting over there -- if you're interested! "A Real Private Cloud" -- I interview Matt Coviello of EMC who has successfully built and operated a private cloud for internal use."The Economist Debates Clouds" -- an interesting discussion from outside the industry, but useful insight into alternative perspectives."The Industrialization of IT" -- fresh from a…

  • Top Ten Vblock Questions -- So Far!

    Chuck Hollis
    12 Nov 2009 | 1:04 pm
    So, I've been in front of lots of customers since the VCE Coalition announcement, and a lot of them focus primarily on the Vblock itself.I thought I'd share the questions I'm getting -- and how I'm answering them.Note: in addition to customer/partner focused questions, there's been a whole lot of snarky sniping from various competitors and others who may have a different agenda.  All part of the fun.  I'll try and cover their concerns later, but -- for now -- we'll focus on the people who pay the bills! #1 -- Why Did You All Do This?Most every…

  • Is 2010 The Year Of Widespread Desktop Virtualization?

    Chuck Hollis
    10 Nov 2009 | 6:49 am
    Many of think this could be the case.  It looks like a "perfect storm" cloud be shaping up in the industry to fundamentally change this piece of the IT landscape.The thought is timely, given VMware's recent VMware View 4 announcement.  Check out the details from VMware here, or see Chad's excellent writeup here.So, let's look at the enablers -- and the inhibitors -- and how they might play out in the very near future. Desktops Can Be The Bane of ITOf all the things that enterprise IT organizations have to do, desktop support is probably the least…

  • Getting To Good: Vblock + Acadia Customer Reaction

    Chuck Hollis
    6 Nov 2009 | 8:57 am
    So, I now have been in front of 6 different senior IT audiences since Tuesday's announcement.Note: this might give you a sense of how frequently I have the privilege of interacting with customers.I've been able to present the case for VCE, focusing on Vblock and Acadia, and I"m starting to see a consistent pattern in the reaction -- at least so far.Thought I'd share it with you, because I think we're going to see more of this going forward. The BasicsAdmittedly, this is a small sample size, and it's skewed towards very large IT organizations in the financial sector,…

  • The VCE Coalition: Redrawing The Landscape

    Chuck Hollis
    4 Nov 2009 | 9:19 am
    So, everyone has had a bit of time to digest yesterday's news.And -- as expected -- there are those that are recognizing that the lines in our industry have been redrawn in a subtle but important way.Put differently: there's a new "stack" to consider. Need To Catch Up?Plenty to go read up on between news sources, blog posts and the Twitterati.  I tried to keep up with all the commentary, and simply gave up towards the end of the day -- there was just too much to go read.If you'd like my summary take on it, please see here.Customers, partners, and analysts were…
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  • Book Stolen! A good sign?

    14 Nov 2009 | 9:10 pm
    This email by a co-worker was sent to everyone in the NY Razorfish office on Wednesday. As off Friday evening the book hadn't been returned! I'm flattered that the book is considered worth stealing but I do hope it'll lead to more buying and less stealing. Maybe its a sign that the book will sell well.I'll let you know if that book is ever found.

  • Q&A about Social Media Marketing for Dummies, MediaPost

    13 Nov 2009 | 7:31 pm
    I was interviewed by MediaPost about my new book and discussed how its a book not just for dummies but for marketers with all levels of expertise and in organizations large and small. The interview is republished below.Upon the release of Social Media Marketing for Dummies, the latest edition to the "Dummies" series, Online Media Daily posed a few questions to its author -- Shiv Singh, vice president and global social media lead, at Razorfish. Singh has been with the agency since 1999, working in the Boston, New York, San Francisco and London offices. But now that his book is out, brands may…

  • Wibya, my new favorite social utility for websites

    11 Nov 2009 | 12:18 pm
    My new favorite utility is the Wibya one. If you look at the footer of my blog, you'll notice the horizontal bar that makes it extremely easy to share the contents of this blog post. But more than that, it also links you to the Facebook community for my book and to my tweet streams. It is a light and easy way to share content, search the blog, connect with me on Facebook or through Twitter and get a better sense of the community. It is the glue that binds my blog to the rest of the social web. Why is this special? Because all of a sudden, it is extremely easy for you to link your website with…

  • FEED: We engage with Twitter for the deals

    8 Nov 2009 | 4:51 pm
    FEED, The Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report was just published. Primarily authored by @gschmitt who shares the credit for it generously, FEED focuses on how consumers are engaging with brands in an increasingly digital world. Here are my favorite findings. The full report is available here.65% of consumers report having had a digital experience that either positively or negatively changed their opinion about a brand. Yes, we all talk about social monitoring but I'd argue maybe not even enough as yet. You need to understand your consumers beyond the perspectives that they share…

  • Tuesday BMA Panel: When Social Media Worlds Collide

    8 Nov 2009 | 3:33 pm
    This Tuesday I'll be on an 8:00am panel discussing how the social media worlds are beginning to collide. On the panel with me will be Todd Defren, (CEO, Shift Communications), Adam Hirsch (COO, Mashable), Mike O'Toole (President, PJA Advertising) and Emily Riley (Senior Analyst, Forrester). This should be a good panel as we're quite a mix of people - from analysts and agency types, to PR  and publishers. You can bet I'll be discussing the different types of influencers and lamenting the fact that we don't pay enough attention to them. This is part of the BMA (Business Marketing…
 
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  • The Role of Social Techniques in Search & How It Impacts Your Organization: KM World Session Notes

    Bill Ives
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:53 am
    This is another in a series of notes from the 2009 KM World.These notes are done real time so please excuse typos.  It is titled: The Role of Social Techniques in Search & How It Impacts Your Organization by Charlene Li,  Partner, Altimeter Group ( @charleneli ).  Here is the session description. “Social technologies are transforming the way that people use the web and, with it, the way that companies engage with their customers and employees. Search is certainly being affected by the increasingly social nature of online activities. Impacting the socialization of search are the…

  • Resetting the Enterprise With 2.0 Collaborative Tools: KM World Session Notes

    Bill Ives
    18 Nov 2009 | 8:20 am
    This is another in a series of notes from the 2009 KM World. This is the Opening Keynote: Resetting the Enterprise With 2.0 Collaborative Tools by Andrew McAfee. Here is part of the session description. “Andrew McAfee focuses on how emergent social software platforms are benefiting enterprises, and how smart organizations and their leaders are making effective use of them to share knowledge, inspire innovation, and enable decision making. He shares strategies, stories, and real-world examples of successful enterprise collaboration using 2.0 tools.” Andy began with his definition of…

  • Top Dogs Say Social Networks Have a Bite !

    Jon Husband
    18 Nov 2009 | 8:16 am
    If attendees at KMWorld 09 needed any further convincing that working in interconnected environments where people operate in social networks is an important issue, here’s some brand new research out today from the Society for New Communications Research suggesting that C-level execs are increasingly taking this new set of conditions seriously! Via ZDNet .. Wow! Top execs say they are influenced by social networks This is a new research study from the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) is very important because it shows that company executives are influenced by their…

  • Fundamentals of Enterprise Search: KM World Session Notes

    Bill Ives
    16 Nov 2009 | 11:48 am
    This is the first in a series of notes from the 2009 KM World. These are real time notes so please forgive typos. Fundamentals of Enterprise Search was a preconference workshop. It was led by Avi Rappoport, Principal – Search Tools Consulting Editor, SearchTools.com. She is an independent consultant not connected with a vendor. Here is the session description. “Search engines, big and small, have certain standard elements and processes. The more you understand them, the easier to tune them to solve your real information needs. This practical overview provides a big picture view of…

  • Looking to the Past for Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Principles

    Jon Husband
    14 Nov 2009 | 9:24 am
    These days there are incessant debates about the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 platforms, tools and practices. We’ve been here before … we just did not have the infrastructure or the tools, nor the awareness or skill levels of large numbers of people. As information technology first began its relentless march into the daily lives of people in the areas of work (mainframes, early integrated systems, desktops computers in the workplace) and general information-seeking (early days of websites and the Web), thinkers and organizational development conultants began paying attention to the…
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  • Friday review - What happened last week 20th November 2009

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    With the inclusion of posts on the Posterous Cafe,  this will be a regular weekly consolidation post highlighting some of the key entries made on the Posterous Cafe that may have escaped your attention: Business Intelligence - A Practitioner's Thoughts: Bounded Rationality, BI and Beyond -10 'Did You Know?'s related to BI and the BI marketplace. Wonder how much of this applies to BPA/BPM as well? I would imagine the sections on the cloud are particularly relevant BPM: Something for Everyone - BPM from a Business Point of View - More from BPM Basics for Dummies, but don't let that put you…

  • Testing Time-Management Strategies - WSJ.com

    19 Nov 2009 | 5:44 am
    Are things you need to get done falling between the cracks? Does taking an entire day off seem impossible? Maybe you need a time-management system. via online.wsj.com Using GTD, Pomodoro and FranlinCovey's Focus methods to determine which is more useful in managing time. (The answer is: Whichever works for you is the best - take bits from every one). A good read for you - especially if you don't have time to read it. Autoposted from The Posterous Cafe

  • Pay me now - pay me more later

    18 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    Here's the situation: You've documented some of your current processes, created your organisation chart, got a small team together to define your future state and now you're pushing them to finish this because you have an ERP solution waiting to be implemented with your processes. Congratulations you've fallen into the trap of "Pay me now, Pay me more later".  This trap occurs when you try to short-cut the whole process definition stage. You'll recognise this when you hear phrases such as "Why do we need a current state?", or "Let's define what we want our organisation to look like then…

  • 'In Any Business, 60-70 % are Non Value Activities

    16 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    A recent article I read was headlined "In Any Business, 60-70 % are Non Value Activities". Further investigation outlined the fact that this was related to the Indian health care system, but it did get me thinking about whether there is a similar percentage for other industries. I don't think anyone would argue with me if I said that all industries have some sort of non-value added activities in their processes. My interest is in minimising these activities. Of course Six Sigma specialises in identifying and minimising these, but the problem I have with Six Sigma is that it tends to focus on…

  • Friday review - What happened last week 13th November 2009

    13 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    With the inclusion of posts on the Posterous Cafe,  this will be a regular weekly consolidation post highlighting some of the key entries made on the Posterous Cafe that may have escaped your attention: TechPRSpider - Software: Skelta BPM unveils the Worlds 1st Hosted Business Process Management Evaluation Portal – QuickStart™ - A quick look at Skelta's hosted evaluation portal 'QuickStart'. Might be worth a look How do I pair BPM modeling tools with an SOA?- Some interesting thoughts and opinions on this complex topic Ten strong hints your enterprise may not have a BI strategy -…
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    CIO: Research & Analysis

  • Supply Chain Data on Holiday 2009 Hotties: Zhu Zhu Pet 'Hot,' Hannah Montana 'Not'

    18 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    New supply-chain import data analyzed by Panjiva, as well its new Trends product, shows who's hot and who's not this holiday gift-giving season. Watch out kiddos: Coal imports are on the rise!

  • CIOs Fear Mass IT Turnover Following Economic Recovery

    17 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Robert Half Technology and Deloitte Consulting report that IT leaders are worried high-tech workers will seek employment elsewhere, leaving their companies at a disadvantage in terms of business-technology initiatives.

  • Top 10 Twitter Lists for Techies

    16 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Twitter Lists help you organize the people whom you follow into groups that are shareable with others. Here are 10 of our favorite lists helpful to every techie.

  • The Future of ERP, Part II

    16 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Clouds, SaaS, Enterprise 2.0, Modules, Analytics, Enhancements, Fusion, Business ByDesign, Leo, Larry -- Oh My! In CIO.com's continuing analysis of the ERP market, we look at the future of ERP: Companies struggling to make sense of all their enterprise information, the rush to uncover ERP and BI analytics data, and the supervendors' future.

  • Business Strategy: The "Best Determinant" of Project Success

    16 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    New project management research indicates that to be successful, projects must tie directly to business strategy, and project managers must understand how the project supports the strategy.
 
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    Smart SaaS

  • SaaS Business Profile: Cast Iron Systems

    Kevin Dobbs
    12 Nov 2009 | 5:40 am
    Company:         Cast Iron Systems Started:             2001 Located:            Mountain View, California Geography:       Global Market:              SaaS and Cloud Integration Products:           Cast Iron Integration Solutions Key CustomersAllianzBritish American Tobacco (BAT)Amerisource BergenEmersonIBA MolecularKrueger InternationalPeet’s Coffee & TeaPGP Corporation, and salesforce.com Website:            Cast Iron Systems Twitter:             @Castironsystems Recent News: Cast Iron Systems Reports 12th Consecutive Quarter of…

  • SaaS Business Profile: i365

    Kevin Dobbs
    3 Nov 2009 | 6:10 am
    Company:                i365 – A Seagate Company Started:                    1997 (EVault) Located:                   Santa Clara, California Geography:              Global Market:                    Cloud-based Storage Products:                 Data backup, eDiscovery, and Data Recovery Key Customers:      ArtsMemphis, Meritan, CBRE and People’s First Community Bank Website:                  i365 Recent News: i365®, A Seagate Company, Launches EVault® Offsite Replication Storage Service for Cloud-Based Protection Medical…

  • Reflections From OracleWorld: Does Oracle Finally Get SaaS … Sort of, kind of, almost

    Kevin Dobbs
    26 Oct 2009 | 9:11 am
    When I was learning to drive many, many years ago, I remember my dad telling me to pay attention to not only where the other driver’s eyes were looking but also to where their wheels were pointed. So it was with my search for SaaS at the recent Oracle OpenWorld event in San Francisco.Amid the hundreds of exhibitors and sessions, Cloud Computing in the form of SaaS based applications was being called out, acknowledged and exhibited.There were “campgrounds” of SaaS based applications exhibiting and the normal spread of CRM On Demand sessions.Clearly, Oracle senses the need to position…

  • SaaS Business Profile: Responsys

    Kevin Dobbs
    22 Oct 2009 | 7:24 am
    Company:         Responsys Started:             1998 Located:            San Bruno, California Geography:       Global Market:             Business to Consumer Marketing Automation Products:          Responsys Interact Key Customers:   Continental Airlines, Corel, Carlson Hotels, E-Loan, RSA and Salesforce.com Website:            Responsys Recent News: Responsys Wins Prestigious OMMA Award for Creative Excellence Responsys Expands Email Marketing Program for Continental Airlines Responsys Continues Strong Growth in First Half of 2009 Responsys…

  • Oracle Fusion Apps Announcement - Rope-a-Dope?

    Kevin Dobbs
    15 Oct 2009 | 3:41 pm
    Wednesday October 14th During Larry Ellison’s keynote yesterday afternoon, his last topic was probably the most anticipated of the Oracle Open World conference - availability of the new Oracle Fusion Applications. The day before, Thomas Kurian who is responsible of all of Oracle’s product development, spent his nearly 2 hours of keynote time discussing all the capablities of the Fusion middleware platform, but not a word about applications.  The new Oracle Fusion platform release, 11g, has incorporated many of the leading capabilities of BEA and other acquired assets to create a…
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    CA on Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)

  • 201 CMR 17: What is it? And why are we hearing so much about it now?

    Rob Toner
    19 Nov 2009 | 11:00 am
    First off, the formalities: 201 CMR 17.00, it’s a lovely name, but what does it mean?  201 is the code for the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, CMR stands for Code of Massachusetts Regulation and finally 17 is their 17th published Commonwealth regulation.  Most of us in the United States live in a “State,” in Massachusetts they eat chow-dah (New England...  

  • IT GRC: Towards a Common Definition

    Sumner Blount
    17 Nov 2009 | 7:10 am
    Whenever a new market emerges, analysts often disagree about the structure and taxonomy of that market.  This has been true about the GRC market, and its sub-market, IT GRC.  So, I thought I would look at how this market is viewed, and see if there’s a common thread that runs through all of these approaches.   First, let’s look at how two major analysts view the broad...  

  • The Relative Adoption of FISMA

    Allan Gajadhar
    12 Nov 2009 | 6:05 am
    Since the adoption of the Federal Information Security Act (FISMA) in 2002, its provisions around managing the IT security of Federal information systems have been adopted beyond the Federal government.  The reasons for this vary; for example over 50% of state governments in the U.S. have adopted FISMA as a standard for information security (the other 50% use the ISO framework).  Why...  

  • One Small Win For the “Little Guy”

    Sumner Blount
    10 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    I came across an interesting article recently that illustrates what I believe is a slight but discernible trend towards increasing regulatory accountability on the part of business.  In effect, businesses are being held more accountable for providing customer environments in which they meet not only the letter, but the spirit of any given regulation. In this case, a customer of a...  

  • CA Speaking at ISACA Information Security and Risk Management Conference Next Week

    Christine Needles
    6 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
      Attending the ISACA Information Security and Risk Management Conference (ISRMC) in Amsterdam next week?  According to ISACA, this new event is an adaptation of the Network Security Conference and the Information Security Management Conference that combines elements of each to be an all encompassing security event.  The goal is to merge network security, information security...  
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    Venture Chronicles

  • Get Ready for the Much Smaller AOL

    Jeff
    19 Nov 2009 | 8:55 am
    AOL’s strategy, the latest new one, is to shift away from being an ISP to being a “next generation publishing” entity. Without parsing what it means to be “next generation” when you are doing what Yahoo has been doing for years, this sounds like a reasonable strategy but the anchor that weighs it down is that the bulk of AOL’s traffic comes from AOL’s ISP customers and there is no data that suggests a meaningful shift in where site traffic is coming from. People login to AOL and follow links to AOL sites which generates the traffic that underpins the…

  • Reporting from the Echo Chamber

    Jeff
    18 Nov 2009 | 7:02 am
    I read this short Reuters piece on President Obama’s Fox interview last night and simply thought “who are these people?” Here’s my edited version of the full piece: BEIJING, Nov 18 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession. His crack team of economic advisors made the previously undiscovered link between deficit spending and negative economic consequences on Tuesday night and defended the $3…

  • Three Card Monty at GM

    Jeff
    17 Nov 2009 | 12:33 pm
    I read this and shook my head in amazement at the limited financial acumen of reporters covering business. General Motors, encouraged by its improving financial situation, could repay all of its $6.7 billion in loans from U.S. taxpayers by the end of next June, the company’s top executive said Monday.[From With $42B, GM moves ahead | freep.com | Detroit Free Press] Let’s recap what is going on at GM. The Federal government - aka “us taxpayers” - gave GM $57.6 billion in exchange for equity in the company and a debt instrument for $6.7 billion, which is referenced in…

  • Every Day is a Bonus

    Jeff
    11 Nov 2009 | 2:44 pm
    This is really nice.

  • Co-opting UPS’ Whiteboard Ads

    Jeff
    10 Nov 2009 | 12:18 pm
    Brilliant.
 
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    Stop the Data Management Insanity

  • Making it to the Big Leagues

    CommVault®
    12 Nov 2009 | 10:30 am
    We play close attention to perception. The labels that industry watchers use to describe us mean a lot. So it was important recently when an industry analyst stated how CommVault has "made itself into a Tier 1 vendor." It was significant because until now, we've been referred to as an "emerging" company.It also was significant that CommVault landed on Goldman Sachs' coveted list of big-league players cited in a recent IT spending survey. CommVault ranked No. 5 on a list of the top 10 software providers gaining a share of limited IT spending dollars. Yep, we followed virtualization leaders…

  • ILM: What's Old is New Again

    CommVault®
    14 Oct 2009 | 10:30 am
    I'm going out on a limb here to say it's time to bring back ILM (Information Lifecycle Management). After all, the idea of managing data throughout its lifecycle continues to make a great deal of sense, especially now that companies everywhere are going through massive IT transformations driven by today's tight economy and the increasing need to gain better control of escalating data.The term fell from favor originally because all the over-hyped vendor promises came up empty. That doesn't mean the concept was flawed-though the products were. Stepping into the "wayback machine," I recall a…

  • On the Road Again: Please Join Me at Innovate8

    CommVault®
    1 Sep 2009 | 10:30 am
    Well, it's a good thing I just got back from a restful vacation because I'm about to hit the road again as part of CommVault's Innovate8 nationwide road show. There I'll have the opportunity to meet with our customers and prospective customers seeking different solutions to persistent data protection problems. The goal is to tackle the tough topics everyone seems to be grappling with these days: how to better manage data growth, cut costs, reduce risk and increase operational efficiencies.Last month, I attended the first stop of the tour in Washington, D.C. and was struck by the common…

  • Look at Backups before Leaping into Virtualization

    CommVault®
    24 Aug 2009 | 10:30 am
    It seems lately that server virtualization has become the poster child for wringing out costs from legacy IT environments. Our tough economic climate has everyone focused on short-term cost reductions, with virtualization and server consolidations topping the list of projects that can produce fast and sizable cost savings. So, I wasn't too surprised when every client and prospect I met with while in New York City recently told me about server virtualization projects they'd all given the green light this year.Industry research reveals a growing trend to jump on the virtualization bandwagon.

  • Shout Out to Sys Admins! Have a coffee on us!

    CommVault®
    29 Jul 2009 | 10:30 am
    July 31st is the 10th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day, so it's time to thank that special someone who's on the frontlines every day ensuring your mission-critical data is safe and sound. The day, which is recognized by the League of Professional System Administrators, gives all of us an opportunity to show our appreciation for the stellar contributions of sys admins and other IT professionals. These unsung heroes repeatedly give up weekends, nights and holidays to salvage accidentally deleted files, fix broken backups, restore wayward emails and manage the nonstop flood of…
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    The Enterprise Architect

  • 10 things you should know about Model Driven Development

    9 Nov 2009 | 11:04 am
    Last saturday I gave a talk at the Devnology community day about Model Driven Development (MDD). I have talked about ten things you should know before you start with MDD. It was an introduction to MDD with some highlights of more advanced topics. In this article I share the slides of my presentation including a short explanation of each of the 10 points.1. Differs from model-based development Using a model in your software development approach does not mean you are doing Model-Driven Development. The key concepts of MDD are abstraction and automation. The model of a software application is…

  • Architecture and Engineering in Business Engineering

    27 Oct 2009 | 12:47 pm
    It has struck me that many discussions about business-IT alignment and enabling the involvement of the business in software development still only talk about solution domain concepts: SOA, WOA, REST, web services, cloud computing, etc. I think the question should not be what technology to use, but how we can create an IT landscape truly supporting the business part of an organization. This is not a trivial question; because it is questionable whether enterprises can actually maintain a focused strategy long enough to align their core business processes with IT. The current dynamic business…

  • An Enterprise Ontology based approach to Model-Driven Engineering

    15 Oct 2009 | 12:55 pm
    Today I successfully presented the results of my thesis at the Delft University of Technology. The goal of my research was: Design an MDEE approach based on a sound theoretical foundation, providing end-to-end guidance to refine and transform an organization model into an IT system supporting that organization. MDEE is the abbreviation of Model-Driven Enterprise Engineering, which is the name of the Model-Driven Engineering approach resulting from my research. On this blog I mostly call such an approach Model-Driven SOA. See for example my posts: SOA is dead; long live Model-Driven SOA and A…

  • Modeling an organization using Enterprise Ontology

    10 Oct 2009 | 4:05 am
    Business-IT alignment is hot, and that's not new. As regular readers know, my suggestion to attack the business-IT alignment problem is a model-driven approach. In a previous article I presented a framework for Model-Driven SOA in which we have seen that the starting point for a Model-Driven SOA approach is an organization model. While the organization model is the starting point of a model-driven process in which each model is as much as possible is automatically derived, it is important that this model is coherent, consistent, and concise. In this article I want to explain the theory of…

  • From Process Design to Process Automation

    23 Sep 2009 | 11:13 am
    Today I gave a talk at the BPM2009 conference in Garderen. A lot of talks were given, all centered around Business Process Management (BPM). Although a lot of people associate BPM with technical IT stuff, most of the talks were focused on process design, change management, emotions, and people. My talk, however, was a bit more technical as I focused on translating a process design into a Service-Oriented Business Application (SOBA) in a model-driven way. You can find the slides and a short overview below. From Process Design to Process AutomationView more documents from Johan den Haan. I…
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    People Over Process

  • Numbers, Volume 34

    cote
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:30 am
    While we “don’t do numbers” here at RedMonk, I come across many interesting ones each week. Here are some: IBM Connect 2009 This week, all of RedMonk was at the IBM software group’s Connect event (see my notes on the event as well as James’ note). These events always have a blur of fun numbers, here are some: “IBM’s software business contributes $20B of IBM’s revenue and 40% of its profits” (from a June 2008 bio of SWG head, Steve Mills). On Lotus Connections installs, from James: “Lotus Connections: 385k seats at HSBC [another…

  • Links for November 19th

    linkposter
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:25 pm
    Benioff Trumpets Force.com Platform's Success 2009 Windows IT Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards State of Mozilla and 2008 Financial Statements | Mitchell's Blog"2008 [revenues] were $78.6 million, up approximately 5% from 2007 reported revenues of $75.1 million" Just because it’s a crowd doesn’t make it wise – SMG Helps Business Navigate the Social Web."So, in closing: the 'old' rules of human decency still apply in this new space. If you tweeted something during danah boyd’s keynote you thought would generate a…

  • Links for November 18th through November 19th

    linkposter
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:15 am
    IBM Finalizes Lotus AcquisitionBack in the summer of '95! "This summer's biggest high-tech miniseries is over. Now that IBM has completed its $3.52 billion acquisition of Lotus Development Corporation, you can turn your attention back to the Microsoft- Justice Department brouhaha." IBM squishes systems software into new business unitNice overview of the new software group at IBM. Microsoft shows off Silverlight 4's feature list at PDC Salesforce.com announces Chatter, another social network for companies

  • IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009 Round-up

    cote
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:39 am
    Google is like a blind dog in a meathouse – if they can smell it, they are going to bite it. –Steve Mills at Connect 2009 This year’s IBM analyst event was much better packed with meaty information than lasts. It seems there’s been a fair amount of work – esp. around cloud, but also with Lotus – over the past year. While there was still plenty about IBM’s Industry Framework air-ware (key insight here from talking with IBM’s John Soyring: at its core, frameworks are about shoring up business process and then tweaking that process and the…

  • Cloud – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009

    cote
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:21 am
    For sometime now – ever since we said “SaaS” instead of “cloud” – us analysts have been beating up IBM about not being cloudy enough. Well, they sure jammed out head in a bucket of water this year. The burger diagram above seems to have captured just about every nook and cranny of cloud computing. I think you can even see one little box that says “simple” in there ;> And that’s the damned if you do, damned if you don’t problem for IBM an the cloud. If they keep it simple, we all assume they have nothing. If they show-off how…
 
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