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    IT Project Failures

  • SAP changes leaders: Time for innovation

    Michael Krigsman
    7 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Bloggers and Twitters alike are buzzing today with news that enterprise giant, SAP, announced a leadership change today. The official press release itself is terse: [T]he SAP Supervisory Board has reached a mutual agreement with CEO Léo Apotheker not to extend his contract as a member of the SAP Executive Board. Léo Apotheker has resigned as CEO and member of the SAP Executive Board effective immediately. The SAP Executive Board, in agreement with the SAP Supervisory Board, has appointed two Co-CEOs: Bill McDermott, head of field organization and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product…

  • UK tax department: Bizarre IT spending incentives

    Michael Krigsman
    5 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    Phil Pavitt, CIO for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the UK tax department, recently spoke out against huge IT projects. Some of his comments are extraordinary. Pavitt had choice words to describe the UK tax authority’s £9.75bn ($15.3 billion) ASPIRE project being run by Capgemini. Here are his comments, as reported in Silicon.com: There have been cases of HMRC’s internal IT team taking on work that should have been carried out by the outsourcer, resulting in the department “paying twice” to get the job done, the HMRC CIO said. “We have a…

  • Analyst relations: Failure in action

    Michael Krigsman
    4 Feb 2010 | 11:28 am
    Warning: some people may find this video offensive. Please watch the whole thing before passing judgment. Bloggers, analysts, journalists, and other influencers are an important component of the enterprise software ecosystem. Vendors seek high ratings from analysts and influencers because many buyers use reports to inform large purchasing decisions. The video embedded below brilliantly captures, and simultaneously mocks, the power and influence of industry analysts and their effect on enterprise vendors. Although the video specifically targets Gartner, the largest enterprise analyst firm, it…

  • ERP failure: New research and statistics

    Michael Krigsman
    3 Feb 2010 | 8:02 am
    Panorama Consulting today released results of a study, called 2010 ERP Report, comparing gaps between customer expectations and actual results achieved on enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects. While the findings are consistent with similar studies, Panorama is a consulting company and not a neutral research organization, although it is not affiliated with software vendors. This does not invalidate the results, but as a policy matter we should retain some skepticism toward the findings. Key Findings The research describes five primary results: ERP implementations take longer than…

  • Business intelligence success, ROI, and failure

    Michael Krigsman
    2 Feb 2010 | 1:49 pm
    Business intelligence (BI) is one of today’s most important enterprise technology areas. Despite the growth of BI, however, achieving return on investment remains a challenge when implementing this software. To learn why many business intelligence projects do not meet expectations, I spoke with Michael Corcoran, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of BI software vendor, Information Builders. Michael is a veteran of the industry and well positioned to shed light on this topic. During our conversation, Michael emphasized that poor ROI is an important consideration for many…
 
 
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    CIO: Blogs and Discussion

  • Perplexities of Enterprise Privacy Policies

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:51 am
    An important consideration with information security incidents is identifying if personally identifiable information - PII - is involved. read more

  • Sorting Out Social CRM Options for Business

    9 Feb 2010 | 6:32 am
    According to Peter Greenberg, the author of CRM at the Speed of Light, social CRM is a philosophy and a business strategy, supported by a technology platform and designed to engage a customer in a col read more

  • Part 1 - Software Asset Management: How to Save $M

    kweinberg
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:01 am
    After salaries, IT is the largest expense for any corporation. Innovation is not free. Security is not free. Software is not free. If there was a way to increase the ROI on these investments, would you do it? In this three part story, you’ll read about the very real results of software license management. Make it your own true story. read more

  • Apple Stares Down Adobe Flash

    Tom Kaneshige
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:41 pm
    Is it too soon to write the epitaph of Adobe Flash? Apple CEO Steve Jobs has marked it for a digital death. Yet Adobe claims that 85 percent of the top websites contain Flash content. read more

  • The Best of Both BI Worlds

    max_chan
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:13 pm
    As the world’s leading apparel company, VF Corporation has made a significant investment in on-premise business intelligence (BI) software to track customer demand, inventory and performance, and ot read more
 
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    Software as Services

  • Most inane customer service #fail ever

    Phil Wainewright
    2 Feb 2010 | 12:47 pm
    I’d like to submit my experience today with cable provider ntl:TeleWest (part of the Virgin Media group) for entry into the all-time customer service Hall of Infamy. It really takes the biscuit as a lesson in how to rile your loyal customers and ensure their undying enmity. I won’t mark it down as an #epic #fail just yet, because it hasn’t been one of those painfully long drawn-out episodes (though that could still happen, of course). But in my view it certainly qualifies as one of the most inane examples from a broadband service provider of how not to treat customers. First…

  • Mimecast's $21m shows strength of SaaS in Europe

    Phil Wainewright
    29 Jan 2010 | 12:34 am
    This week’s news of a £13 million ($21m) funding round for UK-based email management provider Mimecast gives further confirmation of the vibrancy of the SaaS landscape in Europe, in terms of both market opportunity and the strength of indigenous players. I’ve written several times in the past about the lack of visibility for European SaaS vendors, while taking the opportunity to highlight notable companies such as Netviewer, NTRglobal, e-conomic and others. One frequently recurring feature is a track record of organic growth ahead of significant venture funding — in…

  • Why Microsoft and Intuit need each other's clouds

    Phil Wainewright
    20 Jan 2010 | 5:09 pm
    Today’s announcement that Microsoft and Intuit are to marry up their cloud platforms with a software development kit makes perfect sense to me. Some of my ZDNet colleagues have been less impressed — Dennis Howlett calls it more PaaS to put in your aaS environment while Mary Jo Foley says it’s to shore up Redmond’s small-business cloud play. I don’t argue with either of those viewpoints (TechMeme has more) but I think there’s a lot more to it. To understand why, we need to delve under the covers of a cloud platform. Last year, I started a long-term project to…

  • Why freemium is bad for business

    Phil Wainewright
    15 Jan 2010 | 9:38 am
    I’ve never been comfortable with free products for business use, even though it’s difficult to avoid using them if you’re a small or one-person business (web analytics, for example, has been all but wiped out as a low-end paid service by Google’s free offering). As a long-term observer of the scene, my worry is that the track record over the past decade isn’t encouraging; many more free services have failed or faded away than have continued successfully. That’s why my New Year advice to SaaS and cloud vendors was to concentrate on “sound business…

  • When will the crowd turn against private cloud?

    Phil Wainewright
    14 Jan 2010 | 4:13 pm
    Following on from yesterday’s Forecasting Fisticuffs webcast (recording here) with fellow Enterprise Irregular bloggers Vinnie Mirchandani and Dennis Howlett alongside Appirio’s Narinder Singh, I tweeted a provocative prediction for 2010 that “Private clouds will be discredited by year end”. There followed a flurry of counter-tweets, most notably a challenge from Cloudscaling CEO Randy Bias to put my money where my mouth is. That required a bit more clarity about what we’d actually be betting on, and the continuing conversation quickly showed up the constraints…
 
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  • Work Flows and Wealth Creation

    sig
    2 Feb 2010 | 6:16 am
    Inseparable since the beginning.Following the last post about Information, Knowledge, Wisdom and Innovation let's add one particularly interesting and dynamic object organiser, an object by itself: The Workflow. The representation of a particular sequence where value is created and wealth built. Work flows, mostly in groups, sometimes on your own, but always as a sequence of activities is where all value is created. If the value creation efficiency increases, then wealth is created. For each historical and economical "age" the efficiency of value creation, and hence wealth…

  • Information, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Innovation

    sig
    19 Jan 2010 | 6:42 am
    These four concepts makes humanity move forward. They're basic requirements for every day work as well as for Big Important Decisions, hence nothing to take lightly. Indeed, if possible to grasp, sort, handle, and model efficiently we would all be better off. So lets have a closer look. Where is the wisdom? Lost in the knowledge. Where is the knowledge? Lost in the information. — T. S. Elliot  Well put, but it also has the kernel of something more, so let me rephrase that by turning the dependencies upside down (keep in mind that "objects" can be tangible or intangible):…

  • Process Engine + Social Media -> Thingamy and ESME

    sig
    7 Jan 2010 | 2:34 am
    For a long while I've been keeping an eye on the E 2.0, collaboration and social media efforts meant for enterprise use. I have to admit to being a sceptic, still viewing such as mainly single-task tools with little or no process and mostly lacking any way to add accountability and task ownership. When discussing this with the large Enterprise Software vendors this has not been countered, quite the opposite, and promises of adding some 'process' to their E 2.0 / socmed efforts has been uttered. In regards SAP's latest E 2.0 effort my fellow EI'er Dennis Moore…

  • How not to do it - 12sprints and Chatter

    sig
    21 Dec 2009 | 3:09 am
    More and more Enterprise Software vendors (and users) have their "aha!" moments, getting the reality that "unstructured", Barely Repeatable Processes are immensely important. Not only happens about 60% of all work in such processes, but no proper process based IT exists, leading to about 65% of all time spent at such work being spent on running the processes and not on value creation. So what are the vendors doing? Grasping at the term "collaboration", then stitching collaboration tools together hoping for some process structure to ensue. Some early examples,…

  • It's so strange here...

    sig
    15 Dec 2009 | 6:45 am
    As a kid I was a huge fan of a Norwegian poet named Sigbjørn Obstfelder, a contemporary and friend of Edvard Munch (I'm a big fan of him as well). [Drawing by Oda Krogh, Wikimedia Commons] Now, many years later, when watching and participating in the Enterprise Software discussions I am reminded all the time about this one - "Jeg ser": I look... I look at the whitish sky, I look at the clouds, blue-grey, I look at the bloodshot sun. So this is the world. So this is the planets' home. A raindrop! I look at the lofty houses, I look at a thousand windows, I look at the far…
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    Web Strategy and E-Business Development for the Digital Economy - Lars Hilse

  • German government endorses Cyberterrorism

    Lars Hilse
    1 Feb 2010 | 6:14 am
    Germany’s government was offered to buy records of the Swiss subsidiary of the British HSBC. These records, which were offered for 2.5 million EUR,  contain data about German citizens who have placed money in Switzerland to avoid taxes. The database was definitely illegally acquired, supposedly offered by a former IT specialist with HSBC who now lives anonymously in southern France and whose identity is being withheld by French authorities. France, to which similar data has been offered in the past, denies Switzerland’s request to give up the suspect for prosecution. Of course…

  • How do I prevent employees from stealing and exposing company data?

    Lars Hilse
    19 Jan 2010 | 9:08 am
    The biggest threat is on the INSIDE 10 years ago you would have had a good chance of catching your employee walking out the door with a batch of files. Today all a person needs to put your entire organization at stake is an inexpensive thumb drive which will allow them to steal and expose a pretty significant amount of your organizations data – if not all of it – because everything is stored, archived and managed electronically, most of the time for convenience sake. This also makes it convenient for thieves. Increasing the risk is that you are hardly able to buy computers…

  • Knowledge management – increasing the value of your business

    Lars Hilse
    12 Jan 2010 | 11:48 am
    Since the term is pretty plastical: especially in the times we’re in now, where an employee’s stay in a company can very well last a few months only, it would be more than pesky to not only have to let the human resource go. But along with them goes the information they have ascertained while in your organization in – perhaps even paid position – and during the time your business has spent on training them. Worst case: they’re going to take it to your direct competitor. Knowledge management can’t prevent people from leaving your organization but it can help you keep track of…

  • Does online advertising work with anything else than impulse products?

    Lars Hilse
    5 Jan 2010 | 6:42 am
    Upon my speech at the Joomla!Dag in Utrecht in 2008 – and afterwards – I talked to several people about CPC and their thoughts about it. The bottom line was that CPC only – if at all – is successful for impulse products. Thus for products that are “small” in terms of not requiring and reading verbose introductions, are known to people, or are just affordable things. When it comes to offering services that need a more in-depth demo, you better make sure to have interactivity in form of video, sales presentations and so forth to give your product the personal…

  • Customer-Self-Service without internet? T-Mobiles worst customer service ever

    Lars Hilse
    29 Dec 2009 | 9:37 am
    I think that yesterday marked my most interesting experience in terms of customer -service. Because my DSL was down  I called Deutsche Telekom’s customer support. While on hold (for 10 minutes) I was suggested to alternatively visit their website for help. Now, generally I would have done so, simply because I don’t really appreciate hanging around on hold with some call center where the answers you get are quite doubtable by themselves – but how, without a connection to the internet because they screwed up? To those who are just about to start defending their initiative:…
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  • Enterprise software is entirely bereft of soul

    7 Feb 2010 | 2:53 pm
    I was in a session last year with Dave Girouard of Google, when I asked him if he still believed in the statement he made 3 years prior about enterprise software. Without batting an eyelid, he asked me “Are you...

  • Weekend Stuff: The Beagle Super Bowl

    6 Feb 2010 | 10:36 pm
    Our beagle Peanut’s prediction. I am betting against him.

  • Weekend Stuff: Thank you, GEICO

    6 Feb 2010 | 9:07 am
    When we added our teenage daughter to our car insurance, the premium tripled. Their rationale was “ it is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when” teenagers have an accident. In October, my teenager had a...

  • amazon, Macmillan and me

    5 Feb 2010 | 6:17 pm
    In the on-going battle between published content and distribution that Larry Dignan summarizes well at ZDNet I should, as a blogger and the fact that I have a book coming out, be unabashedly on the side of content. But I...

  • The Outsourcing Famine

    5 Feb 2010 | 5:22 am
    IBM sent me a press release announcing their $ 362 million data center in Research Triangle Park. Too bad they did not showcase it a month ago as I could have worked it into my upcoming book. In contrast, I...
 
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  • New Era, New Thinking: Rethinking Business Models for the New Economy

    Jan Hichert
    2 Feb 2010 | 10:37 am
    The stock market is inching its way back up, unemployment is holding steady and in some locations even declining and housing prices are at their highest in a year. These small improvements may mean we are seeing the beginnings of an economic recovery. But as a slow recovery begins it is becoming clear the emerging economy will not be the same as we became accustomed to before the recession and businesses will not be run as they were prior to the economic collapse in late 2008. Budgets will remain small and despite growth, businesses will continue to be wary of investing in new solutions…

  • Best Practices: Software Marketing: What Jack Bauer can Teach Software Marketers

    Britton Manasco
    2 Feb 2010 | 10:33 am
    Jack is back. With a new season of 24, Kiefer Sutherland (aka Jack Bauer) is back on TV taking out bad guys. Should you care? I think so. Here's why: Every week, this fast-paced drama offers us insights into the new world of enterprise - and, more specifically, sales and marketing.

  • Best Practices: Software Sales: Sales Versatility: Connecting with Customers Every Time

    Michael Leimbach, Wilson Learning
    26 Jan 2010 | 10:43 am
    As a sales leader, you probably debrief sales calls, review sales campaigns, analyze prospecting activity, and ride along on certain customer calls to observe or assist. No doubt you have noticed that each salesperson has some customers and prospects that they easily connect with, and others that they don't. And you might have seen cases where the same approach that succeeded with one prospect or customer caused another to become impatient and tense. Perhaps certain salespeople appear to waste time on social chit chat or having coffee with a customer- and yet they seem to succeed in closing…

  • Software Growth Strategies: Hitting the Sweet Spot

    Paul O'Dea
    26 Jan 2010 | 10:38 am
    Anyone who's ever played golf knows about the "sweet spot". It's that favoured spot on the clubface - hit the sweet spot and it feels good, you're in control of the ball, and that birdie is yours for the taking. If you don't hit that spot, it doesn't feel right, you spend your time hacking in the rough and before you know it you're in a bad patch.

  • Best Practices: Software Marketing: Marketing and #039;s Big Disconnect

    Christine Crandell
    20 Jan 2010 | 10:25 am
    A sales force is all about improving top line performance. So is Marketing. But it's not their only job. Marketing is also about messaging, public image, product management, customer advocacy as well as other activities which influence sales, but only indirectly. Their differing charters can lead to their easily falling out of alignment and ending up with lost leads, resentment, and lack of cooperation between these two essential teams.
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  • The Use of Switches in Storage Systems

    Hu Yoshida
    8 Feb 2010 | 1:14 pm
     Hitachi Data Systems was the first vendor to deliver a switch based storage  architecture over ten years ago. Recently we are starting to see storage vendors deliver storage systems that include a switch in their architecture. However, the new switch architectures are designed for loose coupling  of modular storage nodes while the Hitachi architecture is designed for tight coupling of storage resources. In 2000, Hitachi Data Systems introduced the Lightning 9900 storage subsystem with an internal switch that tightly coupled Front End (FE) and Back End (BE) port processors through a…

  • What is the role of cache in a virtual data center environment?

    Hu Yoshida
    4 Feb 2010 | 11:28 am
    I recently spoke to two storage analysts about the effect of server virtualization on storage resources. Both agreed that the effect of virtual machines will be to increase the I/O workload coming from the VM hardware platform by the number of VMs that are virtualized and that the resulting I/O would be very random.   They agreed that the increasing workload required a storage system that could scale up as well as scale out as I noted in my previous post on Scale up or Scale out. Their next question was about the need for cache when I/O loads are random, since random I/Os are…

  • If I am doing more with less people and disk are getting cheaper, why are my costs increasing?

    Hu Yoshida
    31 Jan 2010 | 9:32 pm
    IT costs are increasing about 7 to 8 % per year. But when you look at industry spend on storage hardware that spend has been flat for many years, primarily due to Moore’s law. Storage densities continue to double about every 18 months. So where are we spending our IT budget? Most customers will agree that it is in increasing operational costs. I recently visited a customer who asked me what a good FTE (Full Time Employee) to TB ratio was for measuring productivity.  I told him that FTE per capacity managed was no longer a good measure of productivity. In the past when we…

  • New Considerations for Tiered Storage

    Hu Yoshida
    26 Jan 2010 | 8:03 am
    Tiered storage is one of those terms which people use freely and assume that everyone understands. The basic concept is that you can reduce the cost of storage by assigning your data to different cost tiers of storage depending on the requirements of the data. However, there are different technologies to address tiered storage which can make a great deal of difference in the value or benefits that can be derived. In fact some implementations of tiered storage may end up causing more complexity and cost. Here are a number of considerations which may be helpful. Often I hear people talk about…

  • StorageIO Slam Dunks for 2010

    Hu Yoshida
    18 Jan 2010 | 8:35 am
    Greg Schulz posted a very comprehensive set of predictions on his StorageIO blog. He not only covers what he expects to see in 2010 and 2011, but also trends that will be gaining ground in 2010 and trends that will not. There is a lot to agree with and a lot to disagree with, but overall it is well worth a read. As the title of the post indicates, many of the trends and predictions will be more of the same from 2009. Of the trends that he predicts will be “slam dunks” I agree with his first four trends: •    More cloud conversations and confusion •    More server, desktop, IO…
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  • Signs of Intelligent Life in the Corner Office

    amcafee
    18 Jan 2010 | 7:35 am
    The New York Times ‘Corner Office’ interview on January 16 was with Cristóbal Conde, the CEO of the Fortune 500 IT services company SunGard. I found it fascinating for two reasons. First, Conde spends the first portion of the article talking about Enterprise 2.0, and about how and why he’s tried to increase the amount of freeform and emergent collaboration at his company. Below are a few of his quotes on the topic, followed by links to related posts from this blog. Second, I liked hearing what he had to say on other topics as well. The final three quotes below aren’t…

  • ‘Social’ Commentary on the Future of Organizations

    amcafee
    11 Jan 2010 | 6:44 am
    I’ve just been looking over the 40+ comments left in response to my post “The S Word,” which was about leading with the word ’social’ when talking about the benefits and possibilities offered by Enterprise 2.0. And I’m just blown away by the thoughtfulness and careful thinking on display, as well as the civility and respect for others’ positions. It’s one of those instances where the comments far surpass the post itself, and it’s become my exhibit A for how 2.0 technology like a blog can generate discussion and knowledge from a…

  • A Blogger’s 2010 Resolution

    amcafee
    4 Jan 2010 | 4:33 am
    Over the past few days I’ve read posts by Timothy Gowers on his polymath project and by Lewis Shepard on the most recent failure to connect the dots among available pieces of intelligence in order to head off a terrorist attack. The posts themselves are excellent, but what really struck me was how thoroughly both authors responded to comments on their blogs. As Julien Le Nestour and others have pointed out, this is not something I’ve done. I’ve always considered comments important and actively solicited them in most posts, but have rarely responded directly to them.

  • Thoughts at the End of the Year

    amcafee
    21 Dec 2009 | 11:06 am
    I thought I’d wrap up the year by looking forward instead of backward. Because looking back on 2009 isn’t all that much fun. A lot of people have had a tough go of it for some time now, and the last year was not a great one (heck, the Yankees even won the World Series). We’ve seen plenty of examples of bad behavior from prominent people, and a lot of victims left behind. We’re also still recovering from the near-collapse of big and important parts of our economy. And we’re facing huge challenges related to climate change, two wars being fought in the Middle East,…

  • The S Word

    amcafee
    14 Dec 2009 | 7:08 am
    I ended my talk at last month’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco (viewable here; free registration required) by trying to be cute: I gave advice about how to fail with E2.0. My goal, of course, was to talk about good practices by highlighting bad ones. I gave six bad ideas: Declare war on the enterprise Allow walled gardens to flourish Accentuate the negative Try to replace email Fall in love with features Overuse the word ’social’ On the last point, I said this about ’social’ as a descriptor for the technologies of Enterprise 2.0: “It’s…
 
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  • SAP top management changes: impact on maintenance fees?

    Frank Scavo
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:18 pm
    SAP pulled a surprise change in its leadership team over the weekend, with Léo Apotheker out as CEO and replaced by Bill McDermott, head of the field operations, and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of product development, who will now share the top job. At the same time, SAP elevated Vishal Sika, chief technology officer (CTO) to the SAP Executive Board.Analyts and bloggers have been buzzing about the

  • Oracle slams Rimini Street with lawsuit over third-party maintenance

    Frank Scavo
    26 Jan 2010 | 4:07 pm
    Chris Kanaracus at Computerworld alerted me, via email, to the news that Oracle filed has filed a lawsuit against Rimini Street, alleging massive theft of Oracle's intellectual property, in connection with Rimini Street's delivery of third-party maintenance services.Chris was kind enough to send me a PDF of the actual complaint. A quick read reveals allegations similar to those Oracle made in its

  • Flash: SAP backs down on 22% maintenance fees

    Frank Scavo
    14 Jan 2010 | 8:52 am
    SAP has finally thrown in the towel on its fight to unilaterally increase maintenance fees from 18% of software license cost to 22%.According to SAP's press release: SAP...today announced a new, comprehensive tiered support model that is being offered to customers worldwide. This support offering includes SAP Enterprise Support services and the SAP® Standard Support option and will enable all

  • Outlook brightens a bit for 2010 IT spending

    Frank Scavo
    16 Dec 2009 | 12:54 pm
    Over at Computer Economics, we've just release the findings from our special November survey of IT decision-makers regarding their IT spending and staffing plans for 2010. See the six year trend chart above, with our 2010 projection.Although the 2% projected rise for 2010 in IT spending at the median of the sample is surely not a barn-burner, it's a welcome improvement from the dismal results for

  • Revisting Epicor's Shared Benefits program

    Frank Scavo
    8 Dec 2009 | 10:11 am
    I wrote about Epicor's Shared Benefits program about a month ago, when it was first announced. The program, in brief, offers customers to get back half of the savings if Epicor delivers its implementation services at less than estimated, and only pay half of Epicor's hourly rates if Epicor exceeds its estimate. In essence, it's sort of a compromise between a time-and-materials project and a
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  • Another 8 Things That Make SharePoint 2010 a True ECM System

    John Mancini
    4 Feb 2010 | 1:34 am
     Boyd Collins is a senior consultant with the Enterprise Content Management practice for SAIC. He has over 15 years of Web development experience for a wide variety of corporations, including super major oil and gas companies, Continental Airlines, and Reliant Energy, and many others. Currently, he is implementing a company-wide content management system for a major pipeline company.  His current area of practice is content management systems using a variety of platforms, Web site usability and information architecture. He obtained a master's degree in library and information…

  • Information governance demonstrates continued merger of unstructured/data worlds

    John Mancini
    3 Feb 2010 | 1:19 pm
    The problem of managing the structured/unstructured convergence will become increasing complex as the volume of information grows. Think about this... The average car will have 100 million lines of code by 2011. The Airbus A380 contains over 1 billion lines of code. A recent study from the IBM Institute for Business Value found having superior data governance is critical to success for top performing companies. By a factor of three to one, the study found that top performers were much more sophisticated in their approach to governing organizational information relative to lower…

  • 30% use Twitter for BUSINESS networking at least once per day...

    John Mancini
    3 Feb 2010 | 8:48 am
    A new AIIM survey of social media activists in the industry reveals 1 expected and 2 unexpected findings. First the expected one. In terms of social networking for business purposes, LinkedIn is the platform of choice at the moment. 30.2% of those from organizations that use information management technologies use Linked in at least once per day for business purposes. Among those from supplier and consulting organizations, the percentage is even higher -- 48.0% and 53.8%, respectively.  Now the two unexpected data points. Although Facebook use for BUSINESS purposes is much less,…

  • 8 Ways to Kill Your ECM Project

    John Mancini
    2 Feb 2010 | 5:35 pm
     I am pleased to welcome my first mystery 8 things blogger!This blogger is from an end user organization and would prefer to remain anonymous.  Which is cool. It's also a shame because this is a good and honest article -- would love more like this from end users! (I can also give you a fake picture.)8 Ways to Kill Your ECM Project1 -- Make sure to include only high-level managers in the planning stages.  Don’t let anyone who actually does the work anywhere near the process.  They are “too busy” to be bothered.  Senior managers know all of the…

  • LinkedIn COULD be the ultimate business social networking platform winner. COULD be.

    John Mancini
    1 Feb 2010 | 6:39 pm
    Many thanks to our readers participating in my business utilization of social networking survey. A total of 336 social media "activists" participated in just 2 business days.To recap, the survey was targeted at current LinkedIn, Facebook, and InformationZen participants, as well as readers of this blog.  The intent was to focus on business use of social media tools outside the firewall. Participants in the survey broke out as follows: 29% were from end user organizations; 46% were from organizations on the "sell" side; and 20% from analyst, consulting,…
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    Schneier on Security

  • Outguessing the Terrorists

    schneier
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:07 am
    Isn't it a bit embarrassing for an "expert on counter-terrorism" to be quoted as saying this? Bill Tupman, an expert on counter-terrorism from Exeter University, told BBC News: "The problem is trying to predict the mind of the al-Qaeda planner; there are so many things they might do. "And it is also necessary to reassure the public that we are trying to outguess the al-Qaeda planner and we are in the process of protecting them from any threat." I think it's necessary to convince the public to refuse to be terrorized. What frustrates me most about Abdulmutallab is that he caused terror even…

  • The Limits of Visual Inspection

    schneier
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:54 am
    Interesting research: Target prevalence powerfully influences visual search behavior. In most visual search experiments, targets appear on at least 50% of trials. However, when targets are rare (as in medical or airport screening), observers shift response criteria, leading to elevated miss error rates. Observers also speed target-absent responses and may make more motor errors. This could be a speed/accuracy tradeoff with fast, frequent absent responses producing more miss errors. Disproving this hypothesis, our experiment one shows that very high target prevalence (98%) shifts response…

  • More Details on the Chinese Attack Against Google

    schneier
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:03 am
    Three weeks ago, Google announced a sophisticated attack against them from China. There have been some interesting technical details since then. And the NSA is helping Google analyze the attack. The rumor that China used a system Google put in place to enable lawful intercepts, which I used as a news hook for this essay, has not been confirmed. At this point, I doubt that it's true.

  • New Attack on Threefish

    schneier
    7 Feb 2010 | 6:06 am
    At FSE 2010 this week, Dmitry Khovratovich and Ivica Nikolic presented a paper where they cryptanalyze ARX algorithms (algorithms that use only addition, rotation, and exclusive-OR operations): "Rotational Cryptanalysis of ARX." In the paper, they demonstrate their attack against Threefish. Their attack breaks 39 (out of 72) rounds of Threefish-256 with a complexity of 2252.4, 42 (out of 72) rounds of Threefish-512 with a complexity of 2507, and 43.5 (out of 80) rounds of Threefish-1024 with a complexity of 21014.5. (Yes, that's over 21000. Don't laugh; it really is a valid attack, even…

  • Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cookie

    schneier
    5 Feb 2010 | 2:15 pm
    I wonder if it's tasty.
 
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    Content Management Connection

  • Links for 2010-02-08 [del.icio.us]

    9 Feb 2010 | 4:53 am
    You Get What You Measure | Above and Beyond KMMetrics Need Context | Above and Beyond KMevolution of cynefin

  • Social Producer vs. Conductor: BIG Difference

    9 Feb 2010 | 3:25 am

  • Unlike Newspapers, TV Rises in Popularity, While Mobile Devices Also Move Up

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:32 am
    Television does not seem to be suffering the same way as newspapers, its older mainstream media cousin. Deloitte’s 2009 “State of the Media Democracy” survey reports a 26 percent increase in the Americans choosing TV as their favorite type of...

  • TV vs the Web: Who Wins This Super Bowl?

    8 Feb 2010 | 9:44 pm
    Today’s newspapers and internet headlines scream the score of last night’s game and point me to repositories of the advertisements to watch. Considering I didn’t follow pro football all season, why be an ignoramus and pay attention at the final hour? No thanks, not my style. I spent the day out of town instead and [...] -- Thank you for reading TV vs the Web: Who Wins This Super Bowl? at AriWriter Related posts:Challenging ...

  • 7 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 3: Building Blocks

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:39 pm
    This is the third part of a seven part mini-series looking at how and why to turn your blog into a social media hub. You’ll be able to find the complete series here. Last time we looked at decluttering your social networks, for the simple reason that having too many spreads you too thin. Being spread too [...]
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    Confessions of an eBiz Junkie

  • Enterprise 2.0 - Now Comes the Hard Part

    Len Devanna
    5 Feb 2010 | 8:43 am
    When I'd first heard the term, I thought Enterprise 2.0 meant the complete transformation of the enterprise to a new, more agile entity. Rather, it references the social software that's quickly becoming commonplace in the business world.According to popular definition, I believe we've successfully deployed 'Enterprise 2.0'. Our internal community, EMC|ONE, continues to gain momentum and has become a pillar for internal collaboration at EMC. It's helped us achieve a degree of proficiency in the social web, and has helped us extend our reach outside the firewall with the EMC Community Network,…

  • I'm Blogging Because I Can

    Len Devanna
    1 Feb 2010 | 9:55 am
    I'm an airline loyalist... Sticking with a carrier in the interest of accumulating miles that I never seem to use anyways. It may be time to switch tho. I'm currently over Utah at 37k feet aboard a Virgin America flight. I decided to give them a go given all of the recent press and their promise to 'make flying fun again'. So far, this has indeed been fun. Some of the perks have become the new norm. In flight satellite TV, a surplus of MP3's and on-demand content are almost expected in this day and age. But it's the availability of wifi that has me trying out a new carrier. Especially for…

  • Celebrating 20 Years of Web

    Len Devanna
    19 Jan 2010 | 3:33 pm
    The latest edition of ON Magazine is a must read for anyone who's interested in the evolution of the web. It takes a refreshing look back at the history of the Web, and contains fascinating perspectives from some of the biggest names in the biz. Coincidentally, my love for the online world started exactly 20 years ago... A bit of a 'right place, right time' scenario. Of course, in 1990, there was no Web browser, per se. Usenet was all the rage and everything was completely text based. Things got really interesting when NCSA Mosaic hit the stage. At the time, I was working in a call center…

  • Lurkers Need Love Too...

    Len Devanna
    12 Jan 2010 | 2:45 pm
    Me: "Hi... My name is Len and I'm a lurker."Crowd in unison: "Hi Len... Now get out."I am a lurker. It's in my nature to stay quiet until I have something of value to add. Of course, you then have to define what merits 'value'. Some may argue that adding an emphatic "I agree!" to the comments of a blog post is adding value. My threshold is considerably higher than that.I recently found myself in a discussion with a group who wanted to take a 'no lurker' approach to community. Basically no engagement = no access. The intentions behind the strategy were good - they simply wanted to drive…

  • Come Join the Team!

    Len Devanna
    7 Jan 2010 | 2:52 pm
    Got a passion for all things online? Does the vanity plate on your car start with http://? Do you *love* helping others understand and leverage the power of the web? If so, you may be interested in a couple of cool opportunities here at EMC. We're looking for two talented folks to join our Digital Strategy Team. Sound interesting? Read on for more info... Some disclaimers first... As much as I love to receive resumes through Yammer, Utterz, and Twitter, I'd ask that anyone interested go through the normal channel of submission. Basically, that means follow the relevant link below and submit…
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  • “PCI Compliance” and “Public Cloud” don’t mix

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    5 Feb 2010 | 5:23 am
    PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) compliance and cloud computing are two great tastes that truly suck when you put them together.  So much so that even putting the two concepts together in a sentence leaves a bad taste in my mouth.  PCI compliance is a fact of life that most merchants have finally realized they can’t put off any longer or at least an annoyance they have to meet with if they want to continue to process credit cards at a reasonable cost.  Cloud computing is the the tech buzzword of 2009/2010 that can do everything from save your company…

  • Network Security Podcast, Episode 183

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    2 Feb 2010 | 4:47 pm
    After missing last week due to overlapping travel, we’re back this week with all three of us (although Rich is a bit under the weather). It’s the usual weekly roundup with only a minor diversion to talk about some thingy that some computer company announced with an “i” in the name. Network Security Podcast, Episode 183Time: 40:24 Show Notes: Latest Poneman study says breach costs rise slightly again. But you really need to take this number with a boulder of salt. Did someone say iPad? Sophos says Facebook is the biggest social media risk. Duh. Twitter mass password…

  • Break time’s over

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    1 Feb 2010 | 7:06 am
    I read somewhere that starting a new job is one of the top three stressors you can have in your life.  Death obviously tops the list with divorce and moving in the top five as well.  My own experience tends to back up this theory and I’ve had my fair share of stress from changing jobs the last few years.  As many readers know, I left a position at Trustwave last year and started with Verizon Business.  I’ve had enough experience with changing jobs that when I started noticing some of the signs of stress, I decided to do something I had never done before: …

  • Network Security Podcast, Episode 182

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    21 Jan 2010 | 11:41 am
    Somehow we’ve managed to get Martin, Rich, and me together on a fairly regular basis. Pretty impressive (superhero-like, even). It seems as though I was full of more beans than usual, taking a few playful jabs at Rich (something about goat smuggling) and Martin (butterfly tattoos, if I recall correctly). While we had a bit of fun, and actually talked about security, I get the overwhelming sense that schedules are about to go haywire again. Oh, well. C’est la vie! Network Security Podcast, Episode 182Time: 38:30 Show Notes: Redacting with Confidence: How to Safely Publish Sanitized…

  • The Great PCI Security Debate of 2010: Part 2

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    18 Jan 2010 | 7:48 am
    This is part 2 of a conversation that CSO Online Senior Editor Bill Brenner agreed to record with Martin, sparked by a few comments Joshua Corman made likening PCI to ‘No Child Left Behind”.  In Part 1, our cast of characters outlined some of their basic ideas on how PCI and compliance in general is affecting security.  Here in Part 2 we have a chance to rebut some of the points made in the first half.  This was a lot of fun for us and you may be seeing (hearing?) a smaller group of us get together on a monthly basis to keep this conversation going. Network Security…
 
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  • Where Life Takes Me Next...

    Jonathan Schwartz
    27 Jan 2010 | 11:53 am
    You've probably seen the news - the Sun/Oracle transaction has closed. With the passing of that milestone, I can once again speak freely. Having had nine months to accelerate down the runway, there's not a doubt in my mind Oracle's takeoff and ascent will be fast and dramatic. I wish the combined entity the best of luck, and have enormous confidence in the opportunity. Greg Papadopoulos, one of the brightest people I've ever known, once made a very interesting statement - all technology ultimately becomes a fashion item. It was true for timekeeping, and it's definitely true of computing and…

  • Will the Java Platform Create The World's Largest App Store?

    Jonathan Schwartz
    18 May 2009 | 9:37 pm
    To say the past few months have been a whirlwind is an understatement. And thanks for the reminders, I recognize it's been a while since I've posted a blog. For reasons why, just click here to read the background. And before you ask, SEC regulations and securities laws limit what I can discuss about the Oracle transaction, so don't expect any insights on the topic. But there's still a ton going on at Sun - with JavaOne (June 2nd, in San Francisco) coming up fastest on the horizon. We're preparing to reveal what I believe is one of the most important advancements ever for the Java community -…

  • Sun's Cloud (4 of 4)

    Jonathan Schwartz
    18 Mar 2009 | 10:54 pm
    In the last three updates to this blog, I've tried to set out a clear direction of where Sun's headed. I've talked about our three basic priorities: 1. Technology Adoption 2. Commercial Innovation 3. Efficiently Connecting Adoption and Commercial Opportunity. I'm hoping you've got a clear picture surrounding the first of these two priorities - how and where we drive software adoption, and focus our commercial efforts. So now I'd like to talk about the linkages - while also addressing one of our biggest strategic challenges, our scale. Selling Scale First, why is scale a challenge for Sun? To…

  • Sun's Network Innovations (3 of 4)

    Jonathan Schwartz
    11 Mar 2009 | 10:26 pm
    As I referenced in my prior entry, I'm reviewing Sun's three major strategic imperatives, and our progress going in to next fiscal year. Our strategic imperatives, in order, are: 1. Technology Adoption 2. Commercial Innovation 3. Efficiently Connecting 1. and 2. This entry focuses on the second, Commercial Innovation, and reviews our core revenue products, services and strategies. By now, you understand Sun's approach to growing the market - driving adoption of key technologies drives Sun's addressable market. Once you're using one of our fundamental technologies, Sun's innovations focused on…

  • Technology Adoption (2 of 4)

    Jonathan Schwartz
    6 Mar 2009 | 8:35 am
    As I referenced in my prior entry, I'm reviewing Sun's three major strategic imperatives, and our progress going in to next fiscal year. Our strategic imperatives, in order, are: 1. Technology Adoption 2. Commercial Innovation 3. Efficiently Connecting 1. and 2. This entry focuses on the first, Technology Adoption. Adoption is a non-economic phenomena, no money is spent, only time - yet it has extreme financial consequences. Let me give you an example. I was with a big customer of ours last year, and reading through my account briefing before the meeting, I knew we were doing well. An…
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  • Texas Speaking Events Rescheduled

    Martin Fowler
    The family medical issue has been resolved happily, so I’m free to go back on the road. We’ve thus rescheduled the events I was supposed to do last month in Texas. On February 23rd I’ll be speaking at DFW Scrum in Dallas. On February 25th ThoughtWorks is organizing a technology forum in Austin. As is usual for me, I haven’t planned exactly what I’ll talk about yet, but it’ll revolve around my usual topics of software design and agile methods.

  • ConversationalStories

    Martin Fowler
    Here's a common misconception about agile methods. It centers on the way user stories are created and flow through the development activity. The misconception is that the product owner (or business analysts) creates user stories and then put them in front of developers to implement. The notion is that this is a flow from product owner to development, with the product owner responsible for determining what needs to be done and the developers how to do it.A justification for this approach is that this separates the responsibilities along the lines of competence. The product owner knows the…

  • DslBookRoadmap

    Martin Fowler
    Time for another update on my DSL book's progress, since I've not been writing anything else recently.I had my first round of technical review late in 2009 and have been incorporating comments into the current drafts. Progress on this has gone well, in large part because travel is light this time of the year. I'm also integrating my book production process into that of Pearson's.The next visible targets are a second round of technical review and the launching of a roughcut. We're hoping to get these going in the next couple of months. The roughcut will also allow people other than official…

  • Apologies for Canceling Texas Speaking Events

    Martin Fowler
    I’m afraid I’ve had to cancel my speaking events in Dallas and Austin next week due to a family medical problem. As I write this, it’s not clear how serious the problem is going to be, but there is a good chance that I won’t be able to travel to Texas next week. As a result we felt it was best to cancel the events, while we still have a few days notice. We do intent to reschedule as soon the as dust settles. My Texas ThoughtWorkers are very keen to have me come out and do these talks, so we want to do them as soon as we reasonably can. My apologies for this, and I hope…

  • 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…
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  • Content, branding... dilemma or not

    4 Feb 2010 | 3:22 am
    Who are you... who who... who who...

  • Your week on steroids

    2 Feb 2010 | 1:05 am
    When productivity is important to you

  • A Small Business Technology Survey

    2 Feb 2010 | 12:18 am
    Would love your feedback and help

  • I Would Like to Thank the Academy

    28 Jan 2010 | 12:08 pm
    Received an email the other day that my most humorous blog was #2 in the contest. I want to let you know that it gratifies me to know that my year in heck provided some amusement. Everything I learned about blogging I learned from Security Monkey!! H M

  • Myth Busting - You Can't Create A Working Test Strategy

    27 Jan 2010 | 11:12 am
    Thought I would share something that I have been working on for a few weeks. I read so much about quantifiable testing and went on a mission to get some things accomplished. I work for an unruly business (ain’t finance great) with an unruly bunch of developers. After last implementation where we had some “issues” that were explained away with a not so truthful claim of “it wasn’t tested” I had enough.
 
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  • Human Interactions and the Rise of Social Characteristics in Software

    Paul Greenberg
    4 Feb 2010 | 5:22 am
    Those of you who have read the 4th edition of CRM at the Speed of Light know that I’ve taken Thomas Vander Wal’s brilliant “Social Stack” concept, and added “context” as a characteristic to it. I’m... 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

  • Jive, Portland, and RetroChic

    Paul Greenberg
    23 Jan 2010 | 8:45 am
    Every now and then I start thinking about things that may not fall within the formal purview of Social CRM or enterprise software. But what makes Social CRM such an interesting field is the width and... 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

  • Okay Here Goes CRM Forecast 2010 PART II

    Paul Greenberg
    21 Dec 2009 | 9:00 am
    I’d go over to ZDNet for Part I of this forecast (released at the exact same time as this one) if you want to read the intro, the Latin American 2010 Forecast from Jesus Hoyos and the first five... 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

  • Some Pre-Forecast Odds Ends re: Social CRM

    Paul Greenberg
    14 Dec 2009 | 11:27 am
    Before I push out my Forecast for 2010 (next week some time), I have a few short observations that are honestly somewhat random: Facebook Does It Again – Not So Privately All Facebook members... 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

  • SAP Business Influencers Summit - Technology Strategy Dr. Vishal Sikka (SAP Labs)

    Paul Greenberg
    8 Dec 2009 | 7:34 am
    Dr. Sikka begins by talking about what SAP is calling "Timeless software" First up, In Memory Computing THe idea is to incorporate column stores in main memory with use of multi-core processors... 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 02/06/2010

    Dan Keldsen
    6 Feb 2010 | 5:30 am
    Mapping Business Models (a Knowledge Game) « Business Model Alchemisttags: innovation, participation, business_model_innovation, visualization, games, alexander_osterwalderPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

  • BizTechTalk Briefs 02/05/2010

    Dan Keldsen
    5 Feb 2010 | 5:30 am
    Wegmans Puts Together Twitter Team - 13WHAM.com - Rochester News, Weather, and SportsInteresting experimentation by Wegmans with Twitter - they have a real opportunity to tighten the feedback loop with customers in realtime. But will it scale? Do they have the back-end procesess to handle feedback without falling over themselves as Dell, Comcast and others are doing? Beyond pilot experiments, getting to sustainable participation is a definite challenge.tags: 13wham, innovation, participation, co-tweet, wegmans, web2.0, e20Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

  • BizTechTalk Briefs 02/04/2010

    Dan Keldsen
    4 Feb 2010 | 5:30 am
    Video Game Tries Tiered Crowdfunding Model | Techdirttags: innovation, business_models, business_model_innovation, video_games, distribution, participation, crowdfunding, techdirtThe Future Of Music Business Models (And Those Who Are Already There) | Techdirttags: innovation, business_models, business_model_innovation, music, distribution, participation, techdirtPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

  • BizTechTalk Briefs 01/20/2010

    Dan Keldsen
    20 Jan 2010 | 5:30 am
    Cultural change is free - John SeddonFree-flowing talk from John Seddon - talking about systems thinking and why many approaches to "managing change" is focused on processes instead of outcomes. Pokes a ton of holes in many areas of "normal business practices." "John Seddon explains why targets make organisations worse and controlling costs makes costs higher. This elegant dissection of the organisational madness that pervades our culture was given at the 2009 conference of the Human Givens Institute. Target Obsession Disorder laid bare. "tags: change, culture, enterprise2.0,…

  • BizTechTalk Briefs 01/08/2010

    Dan Keldsen
    8 Jan 2010 | 5:30 am
    Seek Omega: The 2010 Enterprise 2.0 All-Star Blogger RosterWhew, looks like being one of the first analysts (about 7 years ago), to be covering the then un-named Enterprise 2.0 is coming to fruition. Proud to be ranked in the "Most Influential" grouping - working hard to keep it real, keep it relevant, and keep on pushing through the barriers of business misunderstandings, and overfocus on tools as saviors. Thanks to my brother, Dave Keldsen (aka DAK) for pointing out the extremely early indicators of wikis finding a home in the Enterprise, and the early collaboration with trail-blazers like…
 
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    LANs / WANs

  • Europe

    9 Feb 2010 | 10:56 am
    If they can find a way to do broadband without fiber, good on them! I want to see the details.

  • 61 CCIEs dropped out of Cisco's highly coveted cert program over the last 30 days

    Brad Reese
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:43 am
    According to Dual CCIE #18532 R&S/Security - George Morton: "Over the last 30 days we have seen CCIEs drop their highly coveted certifications at a much greater rate than net new CCIEs. "61 CCIEs dropped out of Cisco's prestigious certification program during the month of January 2010 alone. "For further clarification, let's do the math together: Read more

  • Arista delivers Junipers Stratus vision now

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:14 am
    ARista ROCKS! Their software EOS is in Datacenter like JUNOS is to SP They just beat out Cisco,HP to be the #1 Performer in 10GbE tests I am eagerly awaiting their 2010 next generation , I suspect this more than Access.

  • Catalyst 6500 and 10G in same sentence

    Douglas Gourlay
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:40 am
    It is amazing that people still mention the Catalyst 6500 and 10Gig in the same breath. It hasnt had a significant refresh or update since 2003 when the Sup720 came out and it was brought up to 40G of bandwidth per slot. Seven years later, still 40G per slot. The Catalyst 6000 was great in its day, but not any more in the data center as even Cisco shies away from it when it comes to R&D investment - the most likely reason for the GMs recent hasty departure to Broadcom. Read more

  • Cisco IP phones praised in email to then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and First Dude, Todd Palin

    Brad Reese
    7 Feb 2010 | 12:04 am
    In collaboration with MSNBC.com, Crivella West Incorporated - a knowledge discovery company, digitized, analyzed and arranged this e-mail collection of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, First Dude Todd Palin and 7 members of Palin's staff. In the following internal email dated May 7, 2007 addressed to then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (email address: govpalin@gov.state.ak.us) and First Dude Todd...
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  • Why Cisco's OTV Matters For The Private Cloud

    8 Feb 2010 | 9:31 am
    We've all been hearing about it for a while, but I've just noticed that Cisco is getting more public in talking about their OTV (overlay transport virtualization) technology.I consider this one of the key "enabling technologies" for many cloud models, and private clouds in particular.And here's why ... DisclaimerI am not a network guy.  I don't even pretend to be one.Also, I don't work for Cisco, although they're one of EMC's key partners.  So if I screw up this description, please use your greater expertise to help me out!The ProblemIf you disassemble the term "private cloud"…

  • Private Cloud Adoption -- The TOS Model

    8 Feb 2010 | 5:04 am
    "Nothing good is easy ; nothing easy is good".I don't remember who said that originally, but that thought has always stuck in my head.And as I work with more organizations who have started down a private cloud road (or something very similar), I'm beginning to see repeatable patterns emerge.In a previous post, I presented my observations on different adoption models I've been seeing in my travels and conversations.Today's post has to do with entirely separate discussions in different parts of the organization -- regardless of adoption model.See if this makes sense to you? Rewinding ... A…

  • My Friday Rant (Again)

    5 Feb 2010 | 4:24 am
    Two weeks ago, I posted "My Friday Rant" -- nothing more than getting a few industry observations off of my chest without provoking the usual competitive response.People tell me they liked it, so -- yes -- I'm going to attempt to do it again.And -- once again -- the same disclaimer.  If you don't like rants -- better skip this post! The Ideal Gift For My Vendor Colleagues Yes, it's the ubiquitous "chill pill".I'd recommend that we all take one when you start taking all of this vendor competitive stuff too seriously.There's more to life than tirelessly arguing why you're approach is a…

  • Exploiting Distance

    5 Feb 2010 | 3:07 am
    Last September, I wrote an extended post on "Overcoming Distance".In it, I made the case that real-world issues around coordinating multiple copies of information at significant distances permeated so much of how we think about IT on a global scale.Now, looking back, I realize my mindset might have been wrong.Perhaps we need to start thinking in terms of exploiting what distance can do for us, rather than simply overcoming it. OriginsIf you read the post, you'll realize that it was triggered by the joint work EMC, Cisco and VMware did around an extended distance VMotion solution last…

  • Enterprise 2.0 - Now Comes the Hard Part

    5 Feb 2010 | 12:43 am
    When I'd first heard the term, I thought Enterprise 2.0 meant the complete transformation of the enterprise to a new, more agile entity. Rather, it references the social software that's quickly becoming commonplace in the business world.According to popular definition, I believe we've successfully deployed 'Enterprise 2.0'. Our internal community, EMC|ONE, continues to gain momentum and has become a pillar for internal collaboration at EMC. It's helped us achieve a degree of proficiency in the social web, and has helped us extend our reach outside the firewall with the EMC Community Network,…
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    NetApp - Analyst Reports

  • Analyst Reports Full Library

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:19 am
    View the entire NetApp Analyst Reports Library

  • Future Proof Your Data Center with NetApp V-Series

    15 Jan 2010 | 8:05 am
    The Evaluator Group takes a closer look at storage virtualization and NetApp V-Series.

  • IDC ExpertROI Spotlight

    30 Dec 2009 | 8:05 am
    Using NetApp to Reduce IT Costs, Limit Hours of Downtime, and Increase IT Staff Efficiency

  • ESG White Paper: Windows Data Consolidation in Mid-Sized Virtual Server Environments

    8 Dec 2009 | 8:05 am
    Does size matter? The answer is, of course, that it depends. Sure, in the NFL or the shot-put, for earth-moving equipment or buses, and with airline seats or living rooms, size certainly does matter. But what about mid-sized enterprises and their compute platforms or data storage infrastructures? Does, or perhaps more accurately should, size matter? While many vendors are happy and able to sell ‘mid-sized’ products and solutions, all too often it is not just the scale that gets downsized but also the functionality; the former is invariably OK, whereas the latter is invariably not. A…

  • IDC ExpertROI Spotlight

    1 Dec 2009 | 12:00 pm
    Cutting costs while reducing downtime and increasing revenue using NetApp: A Case Study on Tier3.
 
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  • Lotusphere: report on virtualization sessions

    Ivan Dell’Era
    22 Jan 2010 | 7:19 am
    The feedback on the session ID616 and BoF on virtualization has been good. The slides posted on the Lotusphere 2010 site don't have the performance results of the Domino 8.5.1 benchmark on VMware vSphere 4.0. I've posted the full set as PDF on the Greenhouse site: ID616.pdf You need to have an account to download them, but it's free and takes only 2 minutes - make sure to use your work email when you register.

  • Domino 7.0.2 FP2 on VMware ESX 3.0.1 whitepaper - now available

    Ivan Dell’Era
    16 Apr 2008 | 7:39 am
    The "IBM Lotus Domino Performance in a VMware Infrastructure 3 Environment" whitepaper was finally approved by VMware and IBM and is now available to customers under Non Disclosure Agreement. This means we aren't allowed to post it on a public website, however if your company has a current NDA agreement with either IBM or VMware, you can contact your representative and request a copy.

  • Update on Domino whitepaper on VMware ESX

    Ivan Dell’Era
    8 Apr 2008 | 8:06 am
    We reached an agreement with VMware and they agreed to publish our findings in a whitepaper, however it won't be publicly available as it will be released under NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement). It's in the (hopefully) final rewrite by the tech editor and if no major changes are requested, we should see it in a month (I know, I promised it since last year, but it's coming, really).

  • Whitepaper: Sametime on VMware ESX Server

    Ivan Dell’Era
    8 Apr 2008 | 6:43 am
    The whitepaper for Sametime is available on the VMware web site: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/ibm_lotus_sametime_ref_arch_vi3_wp.pdf

  • Domino whitepaper on VMware ESX - update

    Ivan Dell’Era
    11 Feb 2008 | 11:22 am
    We don't have yet an agreement with VMware on publishing the results. I'm working on other options to publish the results but currently we aren't allowed to publish the whitepaper we completed based on the benchmark we completed last Summer.
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  • Gmail all'attacco di Facebook La posta di Google è "social"

    Walter Moriconi
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:22 am
    GOOGLE ci riprova: nonostante i tentativi falliti degli ultimi anni, l'azienda di Mountain View non si rassegna all'esclusione dall'enorme mercato dei social network e si prepara a trasformare il suo servizio di posta elettronica Gmail nell'arma per attaccare lo strapotere di Facebook e Twitter. source Repubblica.it

  • MySQL University: MySQL Galera Multi-Master Replication

    Stefan Hinz
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:01 am
    This Thursday (February 11th, 14:00 UTC), Seppo Jaakola & Alex Yurchenko will talk about MySQL Galera Multi-Master Replication. Galera provides synchronous multi-master replication and uses a certification-based replication method for replicating transaction write sets in a DBMS cluster. The replication method requires close co-operation with database transaction processing and DMBS must support a specific replication API to be compatible with Galera. Codership has integrated Galera replication in the InnoDB storage engine, and the resulting MySQL/Galera cluster product has been published…

  • Tokyo2Point0 020810

    jimgris
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:33 am
    I went to the Tokyo2Point0 event last night. There were 250 people there, so it was a packed house for sure. Really nice to catch up with a bunch of people. I haven't been to one of these events in many months. Just been too busy. It was also to good to see Michael Sullivan do a short talk on the OpenSolaris Bible Translation Project, too.

  • ☞ Leaving a bad taste

    webmink
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:08 am
    Study links soda, pancreatic cancer Looks like another damning finding against high sugar diets. Too late for me, but maybe you can cut back and live longer. (tags: Sugar Fructose Soda Drinks health Research Cancer) Following the open trail "Flash IS open" say Adobe. Well, apart from the source being closed and unavailable, the patents on the codecs, the lack of standardisation of the format and the defensive attitude when anyone challenges it. Come on guys, get real. There are so many degrees of freedom more before anyone will respect that lame argument. Release full source and let…

  • GlassFish ESB : Cars Online Part 3 - Calculating Delivery Date

    Dante
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:22 am
    Read the original article at The Crooked Stick Up until this blog the trail has not been GlassFish ESB (Open ESB) specific but this entry will delve into the first of the Business Processes that have been written to back the functionality available within the Cars Online Application. As mentioned previously the Web pages are simply built using HTML / JavaScript / CSS / AJAX and are simply the User façade capable of running on any Web Server using AJAX to access the backing Servlets and hence the underlying Business Processes. Hence we can, if we choose, run this one multiple machines…
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  • Oracle's iPhone 9 Apps

    Dekiry (데끼리)
    9 Feb 2010 | 7:05 am
    오라클에서 iPhone의 어플을 7가지를 릴리이즈 하고 있다. 주로 비즈니스 관련 어플로써 영업에 필요한 어플을 소개하고 있다. Oracle Business Indicators Oracle Business Approvals for Managers Oracle iReceipts Oracle Mobile Sales Assistant Oracle Mobile Sales Forecast Oracle Enterprise Asset Maintenance Workbench Oracle Business Approvals for Sales Managers 아래는 사내 시스템에 사용하고 있는 어플이다. Oracle People Search - 사람찾기 Oracle Beehive Mobile Communicator (Buzz) - 채팅 메신저 특히 Buzz는 XMPP 프로토콜을…

  • 古いバージョンのWebLogicを入手するには（＋NetBeans）

    yosuke.arai@oracle.com
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:15 am
    こんにちはSunとの統合が発表されて10日ほどですが、もうOTNからGlassFishやNetBeansがダウンロードできるようになってますね。NetBeansも引き続きご愛顧頂ければと思います。さて、今回はちょっと子ネタを。古いバージョンのWebLogic…

  • Bienvenido al Blog del Equipo de Enterprise 2.0 de Iberia

    enrique.mazon
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:10 am
    El objetivo de este blog es mantener un diálogo más fluido con otros compañeros de Oracle, clientes y partners sobre: a) La propuesta de valor de Oracle en el área de Enterprise 2.0 b) Material disponible para profundizar en nuestras soluciones: whitepaper, demos, etc, c) Seminarios, talleres, workshops organizados directamente por Oracle o con nuestros partners d) Soluciones implementadas sobre nuestros productos por los partners Confiamos en que este blog se convierta en el punto de encuentro y conversación para todas las personas interesadas en nuestra oferta de soluciones.   El…

  • Tuxedo Application Runtime (ART) Workshop - (11-12/Mar/10)

    Claudia Costa
    9 Feb 2010 | 1:41 am
       The Tuxedo ART Advanced Workshop is an intense 2-day workshop incorporating presentations, labs and discussions. It's intended for SOA Pillar SCs (or those with similar technical positions) who have backgrounds in Tuxedo and/or expect to support mainframe rehosting opportunities based on Tuxedo and Tuxedo ART. The course will provide participants with an advanced, hands-on knowledge of the Tuxedo ART products: Tuxedo ART for CICS and Batch (the emulation runtimes) and Tuxedo ART Workbench (the automated migration framework and tools) and how to use them for rehosting mainframe…

  • The Oracle Australia Graduate Program 2010 is Open for Applications

    david.talamelli
    9 Feb 2010 | 12:54 am
    Once again the Oracle Australia Graduate Program will be running in 2010. The Oracle Australia Graduate Development Program is a 1-year program consisting of orientation, formal training, and project rotations in the core lines of business, and finally job placement. The formal training is a combination of structured development programs on soft skills and functional competencies via various delivery formats. Graduates are also expected to work in a team environment and complete multiple projects addressing real business challenges and at the time gaining a broad business understanding. The…
 
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  • Is your legacy modernization program just “forward to the 70s”?

    James Taylor
    4 Feb 2010 | 7:08 am
    Copyright © 2010 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorSyndicated from ebizQ Phil Murphey, over at Forrester, had a post on  Apps Modernization – What are Your Top Priorities in 2010/11? that reminded me I wanted to write about modernization a little before the year got too far advanced. As Phil says the coming years are going to be really interesting: Leading edge technologies will become commonplace; Still newer technologies will emerge; New business threats and opportunities will arise; And the impact of the Baby Boomer phenomenon will finally arrive. In the face of this…

  • New article on smarter systems

    James Taylor
    3 Feb 2010 | 7:04 am
    Copyright © 2010 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorMy latest column on BR Community has been published – “Smarter Systems:  Action-oriented, Flexible, Predictive, Learning,” Business Rules Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Feb. 2010), URL:  http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2010/b524.html Enjoy

  • Coming soon – Predictive Analytics World

    James Taylor
    2 Feb 2010 | 8:03 pm
    Copyright © 2010 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorSyndicated from BeyeNetwork Predictive Analytics World, February 16-17, 2010 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco is turning into the biggest yet. I am going to be speaking on analytic journeys and giving a workshop on putting predictive analytics to work and there are some great keynotes from Andreas Weigen (ex-amazon.com), Kim Larsen (Charles Schwab) and conference chair Eric Siegel. As usual there are lots of great presentations (besides mine) and I highly recommend it. You can get use the code SPEAKPAW010 to get a 15% discount off a two-day…

  • A decision-centric platform supports collaboration

    James Taylor
    29 Jan 2010 | 11:55 pm
    Copyright © 2010 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorSyndicated from ebizQ This week I am discussing the characteristics of a decision-centric platform. Finally the platform must allow effective collaboration between all the various groups involved in decision making. The IT department that runs the operational systems, the business people who make decisions and set policy, the executives who drive strategy and even the analytic team that build risk models or analyze customer behavior must all be able to collaborate effectively on the platform. These capabilities—a focus on decisions and the…

  • A decision-centric platform delivers traceability

    James Taylor
    28 Jan 2010 | 11:51 pm
    Copyright © 2010 http://jtonedm.com James TaylorSyndicated from ebizQ This week I am discussing the characteristics of a decision-centric platform. Because compliance is essential in decision making, the traceability of decisions and decision making logic to the organization’s objectives, regulations and policies is essential. Business users changing decision making must understand how that change will impact the organization, how it supports the organization’s objectives. The organization must also be able to trace those changes, see who made them and audit and manage the lifecycle of a…
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    Speaking of Security

  • Getting Specific About Compliance

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm
    “Compliance” is one of those words that is used to mean different things in different contexts. I see it crop up just about everywhere online, at tradeshows...

  • Online Banking Fraud Hits the Courtroom: Someone Call Judge Judy!

    4 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm
    A while back I wrote a blog about security responsibility and how it relates to online fraud, specifically online banking fraud. This was inspired by a story about...

  • What Makes a Cyber War?

    31 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm
    I am often amazed by the sensationalism that surrounds the words "Cyber War". This thought struck me as I read through the results of McAfee's survey of corporate executives in their paper...

  • The Rule of Law in "Dodge City"

    31 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm
    I am thrilled that McAfee is opening the stage to debate and to discussion with their recent white paper...

  • Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee*

    27 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm
    3D Secure is an XML-based protocol to add security to CNP (“Card Not Present”) transactions: think of credit cards that don’t have a magnetic swipe but are instead just a string of numbers that can be phished or captured. The operative words here are...
 
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  • Context is King and ECM-based BI is the Keys to the Kingdom

    Carl Frappaolo
    2 Feb 2010 | 7:50 am
    Yesterday I tweeted (@carlfrappaolo) about a Boston Globe article on ECM search company, Endeca. I was going to let it go at that, but then this morning, serendipitously I heard a story on NPR about the dramatically changing world of television watching and the impact that is having on the services provided by Nielsen. ECM is at the foundation of great new opportunities and challenges for organizations. Read on

  • Content Security and KM "D'oh"

    Carl Frappaolo
    18 Jan 2010 | 8:44 am
    OK, I admit it. I do not spend all my weekends sitting around thinking deep ECM and KM thoughts. I enjoy hanging out with the kids and indulging in some mindless TV watching.  Its amazing though how the KM/ECM geek in me will sometimes connect the two – mindless TV and ECM/KM that is. Last night I was wrapping up the weekend watching The Simpsons with my 2 daughters. Sure, occasionally there is a poignant message or two – usually lost on the kids. But in last nights episode there was a strong and important message directed right to every KM, ECM and E2.0 manager. Intentional or not –…

  • A Historical Moment for the ECM and RM Industry

    Carl Frappaolo
    12 Jan 2010 | 5:36 am
    Today, I learned that Miep Gies died. She was a stellar example of why content and records management is so important. Many of you may not recognize her name, but you will likely recognize the name of the content author she helped immortalize, Anne Frank. Ms. Gies was the last remaining member of the group that hid the Frank family and others from the Nazi's. More importantly, she was the one who seized Anne's diary after the Frank's were found. She kept the diary safe, somehow instinctively knowing that it (content) was worth saving for future generations. Had Ms. Gies not…

  • ECM: A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet – and I do mean Sweet

    Carl Frappaolo
    18 Dec 2009 | 9:22 am
    A week ago, my long time colleague, whose opinion I respect, Whitney Tidmarh, (@whitneytidmars) EMC Documentum CMO and AIIM Board member tweeted the following: “ Great discussion with #AIIM board about the relevance of the term #ECM today. Does #ECM mean anything to you? What would you call it?” I immediately tweeted back “Duh – ECM”. I was pleased to see a others chime in on my side of the debate – including @Bduhon and @piewords. While Twitter gave us a forum in which to quickly and succinctly express our views on this issue, the issue is one I am passionate enough about to…

  • Making Blogs More Transparent Angers Bloggers - Huh?

    Carl Frappaolo
    1 Dec 2009 | 6:22 am
    An article in today's Boston Globe, reports that a new regulation will compel bloggers to disclose any affiliations or gifts they have received. What makes this article especially  interesting to me is the reaction of bloggers. Bloggers are reportedly  "unhappy" with this ruling that makes their sites even more transparent. Find out why.
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  • A petascale parallel database

    Robin Harris
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:01 pm
    MapReduce and its open source version, Hadoop, are parallel data analysis tools. A few lines of code can drive massive data reductions across thousands of nodes. Cool. Powerful though it is, Hadoop isn’t a database. Classic structured data analysis of the model/load/process type isn’t what it was designed for. That’s where the paper HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads (pdf) comes in. Written by Azza Abouzeid, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski, Daniel Abadi, Avi Silberschatz and Alexander Rasin (the former 4 @Yale, and the…

  • Why private clouds are part of the future

    Robin Harris
    5 Feb 2010 | 12:37 pm
    James Hamilton, Amazon architect and a very smart guy, recently blogged about private clouds. In Private Clouds Are Not The Future he argues that economies of scale make public clouds much more efficient than private clouds. I think we agree that several effects make web scale public clouds more efficient: Higher quality services. Large clouds can economically employ experts to design and optimize their services and infrastructure. Security and server/storage design are two areas where deep expertise can provide more reliable and efficient service. Utilization. Power systems and power cost…

  • Oracle+Sun storage: wiser & brighter

    Robin Harris
    27 Jan 2010 | 6:11 pm
    While everyone else was watching the Apple iPad intro I was watching Oracle’s John Fowler talk about their systems and storage strategy. I like the iPad, but the O+S strategy could reshape the storage industry. More details will emerge and many decisions still remain but the basic elements are clear: Focus on direct sales. In the mid-1990s, when I joined Sun, the tenacity and aggressiveness of their direct sales force was a welcome change. Direct sales forces are expensive, but losing touch with your customers is even costlier. The combo’s unique value propositions can’t be…

  • Will a 70 TB cartridge save LTO?

    Robin Harris
    26 Jan 2010 | 8:01 am
    IBM and Fujifilm have demonstrated a technology that, if productized, could give us a 70 TB LTO tape cartridge. Tape isn’t dead – that will be a long time coming – but its vital signs aren’t good, either. Vacuum column, 800bpi tape drives Magnetic tape is the oldest digital storage technology still in use. Once mass storage meant tape because drums – and later, disks – were tiny and absurdly expensive. IBM and Fujifilm demonstrated a density of 29.5 billion bits per square inch on linear tape. Disks are approaching 1 T/bit in a controlled environment and…

  • Verari restart

    Robin Harris
    20 Jan 2010 | 7:37 pm
    Verari Systems is now Verari Technologies. The company’s assets were purchased by the original founder, Dave Driggers, after an attempt last year to get another round of financing foundered. They’ve had some success with their containerized compute/storage systems. There haven’t been many buyers amidst the Great Recession and the credit crunch didn’t help. Here are edited comments from their website: Original Founder Leads Investment Group in Purchase of Verari Systems’ Assets Founder aims to re-start company with concentration on data center design and optimization…
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  • Book will be Available February 28th

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:34 am
    The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD will be available February 28th.

  • Facebook Cyber Stalking

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:26 am
    I picked up a couple of Facebook stalkers over the last couple of weeks and have been debating how to handle it.

  • Selecting the Final Call Center Modelling Scenario

    7 Feb 2010 | 11:06 pm
    Assess Benefits and Risks Assess the benefits and risks of implementing each modelling scenario. Pros and cons for each scenario, as well as any additional factors or considerations that have surfaced in the course of the analysis, are documented an...

  • Postgres needs a new Python driver

    7 Feb 2010 | 7:17 am
    Per discussion on the pgsql-hackers mailing list this month, the PostgreSQL database really needs a new (or dramatically improved) Python driver. I have been only too aware of this due to the amount of Django work my team is doing lately. Let me sum up the situation so that you don't have to comb all the way through that thread. Hopefully at least one person reading this will take it as a call to

  • Defining User Acceptance Test Query Requirements

    7 Feb 2010 | 1:35 am
    To select a set of queries to be tested by end-users as part of the user acceptance test and to establish performance requirements for the queries. End-user sign-off on these queries during user acceptance testing signifies acceptance of the data wa...
 
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  • Can you have a backup system based solely on snapshots and replication?

    5 Feb 2010 | 11:40 am
    This question has come up again. For what it’s worth, I’m still firmly in the camp that says that it is possible to have a complete backup system based solely on snapshots and replications — as long as you can address the criticisms that people have against the idea. So I thought I’d throw out all the objections and see how the concept does against them.

  • Quantum: Third OEM's the charm?

    29 Jan 2010 | 5:58 pm
    Dave Raffo announced in Storage Soup (http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/quantum-reveals-new-oem-dedupe-deal-keeps-partner-secret/) that Quantum announced yesterday that they had found a new OEM for their DXi line.  I hope for their sake (and their investors' sake) that things work out better for them this time.

  • Avamar does dedupe to tape

    29 Jan 2010 | 5:08 pm
    Up until today I thought that CommVault was the only backup product that was storing deduped data to tape.  It turns out the Avamar now does it too.

  • Cloud vendors: Replication is not backup

    21 Jan 2010 | 10:25 am
    I've been following cloud backup vendors (e.g. Mozy, Carbonite, Crashplan) quite closely -- and am generally a big fan -- but have not spent a lot of time looking at primary cloud vendors. That is, I haven't spent much time looking at those who would like you to store the only copy of a given piece of data on their storage. Vendors like Amazon, Iron Mountain, and Nirvanix want you to put things like your "persistent" data in their cloud and claim that they can store this data for you cheaper than you can.  Some of these vendors are telling potential customers that the data in their cloud…

  • Crash-consistent backups aren't good enough

    19 Jan 2010 | 5:53 am
    Scott Waterhouse finalized his thoughts on the whole VMware backup idea on his blog (http://thebackupblog.typepad.com/thebackupblog/2010/01/avamar-and-vmware-backup-revisited.html)today.  One of the things he said that surprised me was that, while you can't get application-consistent backups in VMware without the use of a host-level agent, you can get crash-consistent backups. My response is simply this:  I'm sorry, that is not even close to the MINIMUM requirement of what you need.
 
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    An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology

  • Computer Grayskull, aka Computer Lab in a Box

    4 Feb 2010 | 2:25 am
    As I turned it on I thought, "By the power of Grayskull! I HAVE THE POWER!!!!!" My siberian huskies turned into giant battle cats. Skeletor better watch out!

  • XML: A Real World Example - Update

    28 Jan 2010 | 3:46 am
    A long while back, August 2005 actually, I wrote an blog entry called Oracle and XML In Action - A Real World Example. It has been one of my most popular posts and has generated more email and comments than almost any other of my posts

  • Full day *Sunday* training sessions for ApEx, SOA/BPM, Hyperion/Essbase and Web Architecture

    25 Jan 2010 | 3:41 am
    From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology The ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 is in Washington, DC from June 27 - July 1. If you will be in, or around, Washington DC on June 27th (Sunday), you can now sign up for just the one day symposium of your choice. This is a change. Previously, you had to buy the full conference. If you can't make it for the whole week, you can still take advant

  • An EReader for you?

    22 Jan 2010 | 5:48 am
    From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology I have to admit that I am a gadget freak. Seriously. Anything electronic, that is not produced by apple, I want. I try to hold myself back and am generally successful, mainly because I am cheap. Anyway, I like ereaders for their gadgety-ness. Hold a bazillion books in the palm of your hand? Kewel! Read in the dark? Kewel! Play my screen is bigger than your screen? Kewel (albeit juvenile).

  • Tampa Oracle Exadata Version 2 Tech Day

    21 Jan 2010 | 4:00 am
    From An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology I signed up for the Exadata 2 tech day so that I could get a deep dive into Exadata relatively painlessly. I doubt I will get to use it any time soon but I think staying up on technology is definitely part of an architect’s job. The seminar was just a couple of miles from my office, and didn’t start until 9, so I went in towork first and worked for a couple of hours before driving over. The
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  • Introducing the VMware Express: hands-on virtual desktops coming to your town

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:18 pm
    Introducing the VMware Express: hands-on virtual desktops coming to your town Today VMware is proud to unveil the VMware Express during its inaugural stop at the 2010 VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas, NV.  This state of the art mobile datacenter, demo environment and briefing center has been built to bring VMware solutions directly to our customers across the USA and Canada during the 2010 Virtualization Tour. The VMware Express is sponsored by Cisco, EMC, Dell, MDS, NetApp, Xsigo, ChipPC, Amulet Hotkey and Teradici. There are 5 demo stations covering both VMware desktop and server…

  • Guest operating systems that are supported for use with Guest Customization (2378666)

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Guest operating systems that are supported for use with Guest Customization (2378666) This article outlines which guest operating systems are supported for use with Guest Customization. The following chart documents which guest operating systems are...        Download VMware Products  | Privacy  | Update Feed Preferences          Copyright © 2010 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.

  • Virtual machine does not power on and there is high CPU reservation (1001637)

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Virtual machine does not power on and there is high CPU reservation (1001637) · Unable to power on virtual machine · The following error messages are displayed: · operation is not allowed in current state · CPU min outside valid range This issue...        Download VMware Products  | Privacy  | Update Feed Preferences          Copyright © 2010 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.

  • Importing a virtual machine causes the error: unknown error generated by converter client (1016125)

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Importing a virtual machine causes the error: unknown error generated by converter client (1016125) · Importing a virtual machine fails · Attempting to import a virtual machine from any object (for example, an ESX host or cluster) in the vCenter...        Download VMware Products  | Privacy  | Update Feed Preferences          Copyright © 2010 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.

  • Boot volume goes read-only on failover (1002983)

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Boot volume goes read-only on failover (1002983) If you have QLA4050C or QLA4052C attached to an EqualLogic SAN and try to disable a switch port on the HBA port that is active for the console operating system (COS), you may experience these symptoms:...        Download VMware Products  | Privacy  | Update Feed Preferences          Copyright © 2010 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.
 
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  • NetApp Today with Jared Wray of Tier 3 -- NetApp Corporate – NetApp

    NetApp, Inc.
    25 Jan 2010 | 5:37 pm
    Jared Wray, CEO and Founder of Tier 3, discusses how Tier 3's platform easily and securely extend their clients' infrastructure into the cloud. With NetApp, Cisco and VMware, Tier 3 has been able to focus on delivering multi-tenant environments for on-demand services.

  • NetApp Play-by-Play: Secure Multi-Tenancy

    NetApp, Inc.
    25 Jan 2010 | 5:21 pm
    Mike Riley, Director of Strategy and Technology at NetApp, discusses how application consolidation via virtualization makes sense for NetApp customers. See how NetApp, Cisco and VMware's combined technology provides a secure multi-tenant solution.

  • ExamWorks

    NetApp, Inc.
    25 Jan 2010 | 1:11 pm
    Brian Denton from Examworks discusses NetApp, VMware, Cisco and secure multi-tenancy, his organization's use of virtual desktops and virtualizing Microsoft applications.

  • Mosaic Community Services

    NetApp, Inc.
    14 Jan 2010 | 7:19 am
    Matt Peeling from Mosaic Community Services discusses virtualizing Microsoft applications, reducing storage usage by 35% and decreasing backup and recovery time from days to minutes.

  • Cloud Computing Capabilities of NetApp and VMware VSphere

    NetApp, Inc.
    11 Dec 2009 | 12:00 am
    NetApp CMO, Jay Kidd, discusses the the cloud computing capabilities end users can gain from using VMware technologies, including the new VSphere, in conjunction with NetApp solutions.
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  • Troubleshooting Exchange 2010 Management Tools startup issues

    Exchange
    4 Feb 2010 | 11:58 am
    In this blog post, we will be highlighting some of the most common errors that may be seen when attempting to open the Exchange Management tools (Exchange Management Console and Exchange Management Shell). To start off, you first need to be aware that in Exchange 2010, all management is done via Remote PowerShell, even when opening the Management Tools on an Exchange server. Where this differs from Exchange 2007 is that there is now a much larger dependency on IIS, as Remote PowerShell requests are sent via the HTTP protocol and use IIS as the mechanism for connections. IIS works with the…

  • Triaging Exchange Performance issues related to Active Directory (AD) Performance (including Networking and DNS performance)

    Exchange
    3 Feb 2010 | 10:03 am
    In many organizations the skill sets that administer Exchange, Active Directory (AD), Domain Naming System (DNS), and the network infrastructure are often segregated. Since Exchange is heavily dependent on communication with AD and that communication must traverse the network, the ability for the Exchange Administrator to have a basic understanding of how each of these components can be troubleshot is useful. Furthermore, often times the DNS, network, and AD administrators are not familiar with how Exchange is dependent on their services and thus are not fully prepared to help an Exchange…

  • New Exchange 2010 Webcasts and Videos

    Exchange
    1 Feb 2010 | 2:59 pm
    The new Exchange 2010 webcast series is live! Register to attend in-person via Live Meeting or download the recorded video or podcast. A full schedule of topics and presenters is below. Each webcast is 60min in length. Looking for something shorter? We also have a new series of "How Do I" videos dedicated to Exchange 2010 that can be found in the Exchange TechCenter. Keep up to date with all new content releases by joining the Exchange twitter feed (below).Tweet!As a member of the Exchange community - you can interact with our team through blogs, forums, and now a Twitter feed. Get all the…

  • Released: Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2

    Exchange
    29 Jan 2010 | 1:07 pm
    Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (KB 972076) to the download center. In addition to bug fixes reported by customers we have added new rules to the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer to check the health of your system. Starting this rollup, customers who wish to deploy the new BPA health rules to a server with no internet connection can do so by downloading the installing the update rollup on the server. Until Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2, updates to the BPA rules were available only via the web which meant customers wanting to deploy…

  • Interception and Redirection of Messages Using Transport Rules or Journaling

    Exchange
    28 Jan 2010 | 12:10 pm
    When looking for Exchange controls to copy messages for regulatory compliance needs, you may have come across both Transport Rules and Journaling and wondered, "Which one best serves the needs of my organization?"  Both features have the capability to intercept and copy messages to another mailbox, but they differ in how they intercept messages and in what details are included in the copied message.  Transport Rules can be employed to satisfy needs for message review and monitoring, while Journaling can be employed to meet the regulatory compliance needs for message archiving.  The purpose…
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  • February 2010 Bulletin Release Advance Notification

    MSRCTEAM
    4 Feb 2010 | 8:45 am
    Today we released February bulletin information through our Advance Notification Service (ANS). This month, we will be releasing 13 bulletins - five rated Critical, seven rated Important, and one rated Moderate - addressing 26 vulnerabilities. Eleven of the bulletins affect Windows and the remaining two affect Office. More information about the upcoming security updates can be found on the Advance Notification Service (ANS) webpage. As we started to do in December, we want to give customers a peek at what our deployment guidance will be next Tuesday. This month, we will be giving four of the…

  • Security Advisory 980088 Released

    MSRCTEAM
    3 Feb 2010 | 1:02 pm
    Hi everyone, Today we released Security Advisory 980088 to address a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer that may allow Information Disclosure for customers running on Windows XP or who have disabled Internet Explorer Protected Mode.  At this time we are not aware of any attacks seeking to use the vulnerability. Customers running Internet Explorer 7 or Internet Explorer 8 in their default configuration on Windows Vista or later operating systems are not vulnerable to this issue as they benefit from Internet Explorer Protected Mode, which protects from this issue.

  • January 2010 Out-of-Band Security Bulletin Webcast

    MSRCTEAM
    22 Jan 2010 | 2:29 pm
    Hello everyone, Yesterday Adrian Stone from the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) and I hosted a live webcast to discuss Security Bulletin MS10-002 and Security Advisory 979682 in more detail with customers. Below is the video of that presentation and you can find the question & answer transcript here. We spent over an hour answering customer questions during the webcast. They were all good. Below the video, I am including a set of links to resources we referred to during the presentation. Thanks to all who attended! More listening and viewing options: Windows Media Video (WMV)…

  • Bulletin MS10-002 Released

    MSRCTEAM
    21 Jan 2010 | 9:30 am
    Hello, Today we released Security Bulletin MS10-002 out-of-band to address vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. All customers using currently supported versions of Windows and Internet Explorer should apply this update as soon as possible. Once applied, customers are protected against the known attacks that have been widely publicized. For customers using automatic updates, this update will automatically be applied once it is released. I also wanted to clarify some information that we included in our update to Security Advisory 979352 yesterday. We let customers know that there are other…

  • Security Advisory 979682 Released

    MSRCTEAM
    20 Jan 2010 | 4:48 pm
    Today we released Security Advisory 979682 to address an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows kernel, affecting all currently supported versions of 32-bit Windows. 64-bit versions of Windows, including Windows Server 2008 R2, are not affected. The advisory provides customers with actionable guidance to help with protections against exploit of this vulnerability. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must already have valid logon credentials and be able to log on to a system locally, meaning they must already have an account on the system. An attacker could then…
 
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  • How to relate tables in DAX without using relationships

    Marco Russo (SQLBI)
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:44 am
    PowerPivot supports only one type of relationship between two tables, which is the one-to-many relationship. You can define that a column in a table (the “many” side) corresponds to a lookup table through a column which is an identity column there (the “one” side). DAX provides support to follow this relationship through functions such as RELATED and RELATEDTABLE. As I already wrote in this blog, many-to-many relationships are not directly supported by DAX and we can work-around that by writing more...(read more)

  • Help for SQL Server

    BuckWoody
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:29 am
    Sometimes issues pop up with your system. You need a way to find help, quickly. Here’s a few links that might be useful – feel free to post a reply to this post with other sources you might know, from web sources to your favorite consultant. Note – this list is not exhaustive, and I’m happy to add or edit it if you post a reply. I know a lot of SQL Server professionals, and I don’t want to leave out anyone or commit them to something! Web Help – Use these links to do a little research on your own Main Troubleshooting Page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895929.aspx…

  • SSIS Snack: Configuring an SSIS 2005 Lookup Transformation for a Left Outer Join

    andyleonard
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:00 am
    Introduction In SSIS 2005, the Lookup Transformation will fail if it does not find a matching record in the lookup table if configured with the default settings. Build the Data Flow Create a Data Flow Task and add an OLEDB Source. In the OLEDB Source Adapter, connect to AdventureWorks and use the following T-SQL statement to extract data from the AdventureWorks.Person.Contact: Select FirstName, MiddleName, LastName From Person.Contact Configuring the Lookup Drag a Lookup onto the Data Flow canvas...(read more)

  • Bad habits to kick : relying on undocumented behavior

    AaronBertrand
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:01 pm
    In my last post in this series , I talked about the common habit of creating an IDENTITY column on every single table. Today I want to talk about a more broad concept: relying on undocumented (and therefore probably undefined, and certainly far from guaranteed) behavior and objects. ORDER BY in a view This is probably the most infamous of all SQL Server undocumented behaviors. In SQL Server 2000, users learned to create views with a built-in ordering, such as follows: CREATE VIEW dbo.MyView AS SELECT...(read more)

  • T-SQL Tuesday #002: The Roundup

    Adam Machanic
    8 Feb 2010 | 11:14 am
    According to T-SQL Tuesday rules as ratified by me in the first and second T-SQL Tuesday posts, the T-SQL Tuesday host is supposed to post a roundup within two days of the end of the event. So a reasonable person should expect a roundup to be posted by the second Thursday of the month. It gives me no pleasure to admit that I've been completely unreasonable and have totally dropped the ball. I'm twothree four weeks late. (I actually started the post two weeks ago. That's bad. And now I'm forced to...(read more)
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  • Introducing tpce-like workload for MySQL

    Vadim
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:30 am
    We have been using tpcc-mysql benchmark for long time, and there many results published in our blog, but that's just single workload. That's why we are looking into different benchmarks, and one of them is TPCE. Yasufumi made some efforts to make TPCE working with MySQL, and we are making it available for public consideration. You can download it from our Lauchpad Percona-tools project, it's bzr branch lp:~percona-dev/perconatools/tpcemysql Important DISCLAIMER: Using this package you should agree with TPC-E License Agreement, which in human words is: You can't name results as "TPC Benchmark…

  • New OLAP Wikistat benchmark: Introduction and call for feedbacks

    Vadim
    28 Jan 2010 | 7:08 pm
    I've seen my posts on Ontime Air traffic and Star Schema Benchmark got a lot of interest (links: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2010/01/07/star-schema-bechmark-infobright-infinidb-and-luciddb/ http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/10/02/analyzing-air-traffic-performance-with-infobright-and-monetdb/ http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/10/26/air-traffic-queries-in-luciddb/ http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/11/02/air-traffic-queries-in-infinidb-early-alpha/ ). However benchmarks by itself did not cover all cases I would want, so I was thinking about better scenario. The…

  • Percona is hiring a Shift Support Captain

    fernando
    26 Jan 2010 | 6:31 am
    Percona is hiring. As part of our growth process, we introduced the role of the Shift Support Captain in 2009 (see the original announcement here) to provide customers with a 24x7 technical contact person. The Shift Support Team dispatches incoming emergencies, assigns new issues, handles or escalates incoming Nagios alerts from some customers, and in general makes sure things get handled and customers get the attention they need. You must be detail oriented, service oriented, tech savvy and as all Percona staff, able to work from home with little supervision. This is a growth position, so…

  • Community Events February-March

    Morgan Tocker
    22 Jan 2010 | 1:13 pm
    February and March as busy months for Community events.  There's MySQL University, Fosdem, the Seattle MySQL Meetup & Confoo.ca. Here are the details: February 4th - I'll be presenting a talk via MySQL University on Optimizing Queries with Explain.  This talk will be about learning to read the output from MySQL's EXPLAIN command, and optimizing some example queries from the IMDB dataset.  At 5.7G in InnoDB tables imported before any secondary key indexes IMDB is one of my new favorite example databases.  It's about the right size on most desktop PCs that you can measure the difference…

  • When should you store serialized objects in the database?

    Morgan Tocker
    21 Jan 2010 | 1:39 pm
    A while back Friendfeed posted a blog post explaining how they changed from storing data in MySQL columns to serializing data and just storing it inside TEXT/BLOB columns. It seems that since then, the technique has gotten more popular with Ruby gems now around to do this for you automatically. So when is it a good idea to use this technique? If the application really is schema-less and has a lot of optional parameters that do not appear in every record, serializing the data in one column can be a better idea than having many extra columns that are NULL. The restriction on this, would be that…
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  • MyCubi: a Personal RFP Play

    Doc Searls
    2 Feb 2010 | 2:58 am
    John Federico (@gadgetboy) writes this in MyCubi: A Local Auction Marketplace for Services in Your Neighborhood: MyCubi (pronounced “My Cubee”)wants to make local marketplaces more efficient by bringing buyers and service providers together. Service providers visiting MyCubi are encourage to create a Cubi – a free web page that enables businesses to market, trade and communicate with potential customers in their local market.Visitors to MyCubi that are looking for services can post a Cubi Call – a free RFP that let’s service providers bid against each other for the project. All of…

  • VRMspotting

    Doc Searls
    2 Feb 2010 | 2:38 am
    Graham Sadd (@grahamsadd) in VRM Trust Matters: MyCustomer.com publishes the second half of Doc Searls predictions and emerging forms of VRM but I couldn’t resist adding a few to his list. As along termadvocateof VRM (or SRM as I used to call it back in the last century)I fully agreewith Doc and the ProjectVRM core principle of ‘user-driven’. However we atPAOGAprefer ‘user’ to ‘customer’ in this context as we provide secure VRM tools and services extending beyond the ‘Vendor Relationship’ to enhance individuals participation in their relationships as a citizen, patient,…

  • VRM Mojo Working

    Doc Searls
    22 Jan 2010 | 9:28 am
    Think of the industrialized world as Kansas and the Internet as Oz. The difference is actually more radical than that, because the Internet is real. From the perspective of industry, the Internet is actually surreal. It’s a place that calls for depiction by Dalí, or Escher or Magritte. For example, the term “content” suggests a quantity of stuff we can “upload”, “download” and “distribute.” Yet, most of the time we are actually copying and proliferating. That’s because data moves by a process of replication. “The Internet is a…

  • Where Markets are Not Conversations

    Doc Searls
    9 Jan 2010 | 7:09 am
    Imagine you’re at a party where you’re introduced to an interesting person who turns out to be a psychologist. You get to talking about personality types. Then, in the course of the conversation, the shrink tells you he’ll give you some insights about yourself, in response to a few questions. You say okay, and in the next few minutes you reveal a portfolio of characteristics: that you’re empathetic and extroverted, a bit disorganized, a lover of old buildings and new music, an ex-jock, mother of three, and a repeat parking rules violator. Then, just when the shrink is…

  • Dear Hollywood,

    Doc Searls
    26 Dec 2009 | 11:04 am
    Please get rid of the @#$%^& region coding on your movies. We meant to bring along some movies when we came to Switzerland for our holiday vacation, which we’re on now. Forgetting the DVDs was my fault. Not being able to watch other movies, however — ones that we would be glad to pay for and watch on our laptop, is not our fault. It’s yours. It’s way past time to fix that. Thanks to the insanity of region coding, we can’t play DVDs rented or bought here, because they’re encoded for Region 2, while our laptops are set for Region 1. There are workarounds,…
 
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    Amy Wohl's Opinions on SaaS

  • How the Cloud Changes Microsoft's Business Model

    Amy Wohl
    12 Jan 2010 | 9:42 am
    Microsoft has announced rental prices for Windows and Office and, at first, I thought this meant they were announcing "cloud" prices for platform providers who want to offer these products.  But I seem to be wrong, since virtual versions of Windows and Office are excluded and the pricing applies more to people who rent physical PC's (or their use, as in an Internet Cafe), offering a legal way to rent the software (which certainly is used today, by such users, but not within Microsoft's licensing policies).This brings to my mind the fact that the Cloud is affecting…

  • Interoperability and Compatibility Count More Than Features

    Amy Wohl
    12 Jan 2010 | 9:27 am
    I've been avidly following the e-reader news, both the pre-holiday news about the Barnes and Noble Nook and Sony's new model, and the news from CES of bunches of readers, each with some slick feature.There's a great article about the whole thing (describing both the situation and all those new e-readers) at Forbes. I've been using a Kindle since the week of the original announcement (about two years ago now) and I don't go anywhere without one.  I have read hundreds of books on my Kindles (I've gone through a few) and although I recognize its shortcomings it has…

  • Interoperability and Compatibility Count More Than Features

    Amy Wohl
    12 Jan 2010 | 9:25 am
    I've been avidly following the e-reader news, both the pre-holiday news about the Barnes and Noble Nook and Sony's new model, and the news from CES of bunches of readers, each with some slick feature.There's a great article about the whole thing (describing both the situation and all those new e-readers) at Forbes. I've been using a Kindle since the week of the original announcement (about two years ago now) and I don't go anywhere without one.  I have read hundreds of books on my Kindles (I've gone through a few) and although I recognize its shortcomings it has…

  • Predictions for SaaS and Clouds for 2010

    Amy Wohl
    24 Dec 2009 | 5:57 am
    Yes, this is the traditional year-end look at what lies ahead, but, of course, SaaS and Cloud Computing are anything but traditional.  Some of the trends and changes we're expecting to see: Much more SaaS and cloud usage across the entire range of users from consumers and small businesses to larger mid-market and large enterprise firms.  While small businesses and mid-market firms without significant IT resources will fine SaaS and Cloud Computing particularly welcoming -- requiring little skill or resources on their part and offering applications and resources that are…

  • Information Overload

    Amy Wohl
    4 Dec 2009 | 1:00 pm
    Everyone suffers from information overload, both professionally and personally.  We'd all like it to get better (we're just not sure what we'd like to eliminate).  I say that as a guilty party who archives all my email forever and still keeps a copy of the hard drive from my last computer -- on line. Jonathan Spira of Basex, a long-time colleague is working to make it better, both through his own firm and activities with others.  Right now he's looking to collect data on your document activities.  Join the survey at http://www.basex.com/docs.  Not…
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  • Parallel lives

    JP
    28 Jan 2010 | 4:15 am
    For the next few days, while I am at the World Economic Forum at Davos, I’m going to be spending my time guesting on the Telegraph blog. My first post went up this morning, and can be found here. Let me know what you think.                         

  • Walls and bridges: even more on Facebookisation

    JP
    7 Jan 2010 | 1:52 am
    Whatever gets you through the night it’s alright, it’s alright It’s your money or your life it’s alright, it’s alright Don’t need a sword to cut thru flowers oh no, oh no Whatever gets you thru your life it’s alright, it’s alright Do it wrong or do it right it’s alright, it’s alright Don’t need a watch to waste your time oh no, oh no John Lennon, Whatever Gets You Thru The Night, Walls And Bridges, 1974 Note: The song was Lennon’s first and only US solo number 1 during his lifetime. (Just Like) Starting Over, the only…

  • More on the Facebookisation of the enterprise

    JP
    6 Jan 2010 | 4:19 pm
    Note: This is a follow-up post to one I wrote a few days ago, The Facebookisation of the enterprise, given the kind of interest it generated. People seriously interested in the subject may wish to read my nine-part series on Facebook and the Enterprise from 2007. The first part remains my most-read post,  apart from the kernel for this blog: Building Society for the 21st Century, which is a page and not a post. You may also be interested in my Twitter in the Enterprise series, a sample of which is here. If the IT department was made to behave like Facebook, what would an enterprise look…

  • Musing about trust

    JP
    2 Jan 2010 | 2:09 pm
    Everywhere around me I see more and more examples of resources, interactions and even entire marketplaces converted into virtual constructs. Abstracted. Expressed in ways that allow for sophisticated models and simulations. In fact that’s one way of looking at what’s happening at the Singularity University. Everywhere around me I see more and more examples of situations where the core problem people are trying to solve is that of trust. There appears to be a lot of work being done trying to distil trust into something formulaic, data-driven. And this is good. Data-driven is good.

  • The Facebookisation of the enterprise

    JP
    2 Jan 2010 | 6:58 am
    Imagine an “enterprise” world where: You chose your own phone You chose your own portable computing device (which may be your phone) You chose your own desktop computing device (which may be your television) You chose the operating systems you put on these devices In other words, the IT department had “lost control of the device”. Imagine an “enterprise” world where: Your identity was actually yours and independent of the company you worked for Your network of relationships actually described the people you spoke to, spent time with, worked with Your…
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  • Channels for Business Content on SlideShare

    Ross Mayfield
    3 Feb 2010 | 7:37 am
    As an advisor to SlideShare, I've been proud to watch it grow into the world's largest professional sharing community. Traffic grew 400% last year to 25 million unique monthly visitors, the majority of which are business decision makers. And guess what, its mostly people (and increasingly companies) pitching each other. So over the past couple of months the team has rolled out a line of business products to make it more efficient. Today SlideShare launched Channels, giving businesses the opportunity to associate themselves with a topical aggregation of business content or have a…

  • Links for 2010-01-19 [del.icio.us]

    20 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am
    How Registration Forms are Killing B2B SoftwareMarketing Survey Says: 75% IT Pros Won’t Register for White Papers

  • Links for 2010-01-13 [del.icio.us]

    14 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am
    Jaron Lanier on the Internet: World Wide Mush - WSJ.com While I don't agree with it, I appreciate Jaron's view

  • Links for 2010-01-01 [del.icio.us]

    2 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am
    The Listorious 140 - Who's Been on Twitter the Longest? I'm the 92nd person who joined Twitter

  • Links for 2009-12-25 [del.icio.us]

    26 Dec 2009 | 12:00 am
    Op-Ed Columnist - A Most Meaningful Gift Idea - NYTimes.com Inhabiting the virtual city: Sociable information spaces Judith Donath's thesis from back then
 
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  • HR – What is the organizational reality today? How does HR fit with it?

    Rob Paterson
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:53 pm
    Jon and I hope to reveal to you why it is so hard to get performance from a conventional organization today? Why do they find change so hard? Why is cooperation all but impossible? Why are people so unhappy? Why is HR and all it stands for in the way? The simple answer is that the simple idea of a “Job” – really a new idea since 1905 and the advent of the Ford Motor Company – no longer works but all the rules insist that it does. HR is all about the Job. But the Job is going away – even without my polemic. It is dying quietly. Maybe we could hurry it along?

  • Collaboration Goes Mobile in 2010

    Bill Ives
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:42 am
    Forrester has issued a report, Collaboration Needs Will Fuel A Smartphone Surge, by Ted Schadler with Matthew Brown, Brownlee Thomas, Michele Pelino, and Peter Schmidt, with the subtitle: The Surge Can Be Funded Through A Bring-Your-Own Smartphone Strategy.  I appreciate receiving a review copy.  It predicts that 2010 will be the year of the smartphone surge. The Forrester team surveyed 3,904 information workers nad found great excitement about about smartphones, “attracted by the ability to email, collaborate, and work with documents from anywhere.” While only 14% percent of…

  • Employee Performance and Learning in the E2.0 Context

    Jon Husband
    4 Feb 2010 | 1:37 pm
    As FASTForward readers may know, colleague Rob Patterson and I have decided to put forth a series of opinions about the HR issues that may become prominent as the implementation of purposeful social computing proceeds in the enterprise arena. I believe it’s fair to say that Rob and I come by our interest in this area honestly, as we both have had significant chunks of our past careers tangled up in the world of human resources management.  Rob was Senior Vice-president, Human Resources for one of Canada’s major banks, and I spent a number of years in a relatively senior role with…

  • SharePoint 2010 SocialFest – and the winner is Huddle

    Lynda Ting
    2 Feb 2010 | 4:49 am
    Last week seven startups spent the week developing applications on the SharePoint 2010 platform at the first ever SharePoint 2010 SocialFest hosted by the Emerging Business Team at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus. While most of the developers had little to no SharePoint programming experience, they were selected based on their potential to extend the SharePoint platform with their unique and innovative applications in the emerging social business space. During the week, they heard from developer experts, SharePoint engineering, SharePoint product management and a panel of tier one venture…

  • There’s Only Now

    Paula Thornton
    1 Feb 2010 | 11:56 am
    As I began writing this, I started to wonder if an alternate title for this should be, “Stop Looking for ‘Done’”. These reflections are a direct result of a challenge from renowned-for-his-email-shunning-antics, Luis Suarez (@elsua). But oddly, there was already a lot of reflecting and projecting of this topic. There are fundamental computing principles and possibilities introduced to the industry over 40 years ago that are currently being revisited for relevance (thx @roundtrip and others), and have been the inspiration for some of the best E2.0 solutions. All of…
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    Enterprise Irregulars

  • Thinking Is My Job: Blogging Those Thoughts Is Now My Passion

    Naomi Bloom
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:00 am
    I started my career as a programmer writing payroll applications in machine language to run in 4K memory.  Over more years than most women would admit, I’ve focused my career on the application of information technology to HRM in order to achieve breakthroughs in business outcomes.  Rather than being satisfied with cheaper payroll operations or faster resume processing or even getting everyone’s performance reviews done on time, I’ve focused on total compensation plans that achieve more productivity for the dollars spent, collaborative and competency-centric staffing processes that…

  • SAP E-Sourcing Watch: The Rumors of Frictionless’ Death May be Exaggerated

    Jason Busch
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:18 am
    There has been much chatter in the market of late about the eventual migration away from Frictionless (also described internally at SAP and with partners as the “bridge” platform). I recently had the chance to catch up with Marko Navala, who not long ago took ownership of the solution for SAP, and Paige Leidig, a long-time product and marketing veteran of the SAP procurement suite. They told me that “there are no plans to re-platform the e-sourcing” solution set. A few weeks ago, David Marchand, who used to focus on SAP’s e-Sourcing product before changing his…

  • Example of Rally Software Building A Great Company

    Brad Feld
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:58 pm
    Lots of little things go into building a great company over the long term.  Rally Software is one that I’m proud to have been involved in from the beginning.  I remember when Ryan Martens, the founder, would sit for entire days in a small conference room near my office covering the white boards on the walls with his scribblings. Today Rally is a 150 person company that plans to add another 75 people in 2010 on the heels of Rally’s $16 million financing led by Greylock.  And – since their birth in 2002, Rally has had 17 babies (well – people that work for Rally have had the babies,…

  • iPad musings – How big is the market for this anyway?

    Brian Sommer
    8 Feb 2010 | 8:27 pm
    Back in my college days, I worked with a fellow at an auto parts warehouse. He asked me “Man, how many books do you read in a year?” I gave a number in the dozens. That produced a scoff from my co-worker and the following comment “I haven’t read a book since I left high school!” He was, incidentally, a man in his 40’s and he was dead serious. I kept thinking about that comment as I read my daily dose of fawning comments about the iPad. Everyone out there seems to unquestionably think this device is a great thing. If they have any criticism it’s usually the name of the product. I…

  • Enterprise Software in Harvest Mode

    Tom Foydel
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:24 pm
    Bleeding chair - by the British Dental Association Over the weekend I met a fellow in a local hardware who was looking for some very unusual screws. We got to talking and I found out that he supplements his retirement pension by re-conditioning dental chairs, of all things. Evidently it’s a decent money maker for him and he enjoys the hobby. The conversation started me thinking about the current states of software and how this might actually reflect the state of the economy overall, not just in this downturn but in long term fundamental changes in the economy. Software is in harvest mode,…
 
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  • Signs of Intelligent Life in the Corner Office

    amcafee
    18 Jan 2010 | 7:35 am
    The New York Times ‘Corner Office’ interview on January 16 was with Cristóbal Conde, the CEO of the Fortune 500 IT services company SunGard. I found it fascinating for two reasons. First, Conde spends the first portion of the article talking about Enterprise 2.0, and about how and why he’s tried to increase the amount of freeform and emergent collaboration at his company. Below are a few of his quotes on the topic, followed by links to related posts from this blog. Second, I liked hearing what he had to say on other topics as well. The final three quotes below aren’t…

  • ‘Social’ Commentary on the Future of Organizations

    amcafee
    11 Jan 2010 | 6:44 am
    I’ve just been looking over the 40+ comments left in response to my post “The S Word,” which was about leading with the word ’social’ when talking about the benefits and possibilities offered by Enterprise 2.0. And I’m just blown away by the thoughtfulness and careful thinking on display, as well as the civility and respect for others’ positions. It’s one of those instances where the comments far surpass the post itself, and it’s become my exhibit A for how 2.0 technology like a blog can generate discussion and knowledge from a…

  • A Blogger’s 2010 Resolution

    amcafee
    4 Jan 2010 | 4:33 am
    Over the past few days I’ve read posts by Timothy Gowers on his polymath project and by Lewis Shepard on the most recent failure to connect the dots among available pieces of intelligence in order to head off a terrorist attack. The posts themselves are excellent, but what really struck me was how thoroughly both authors responded to comments on their blogs. As Julien Le Nestour and others have pointed out, this is not something I’ve done. I’ve always considered comments important and actively solicited them in most posts, but have rarely responded directly to them.

  • Thoughts at the End of the Year

    amcafee
    21 Dec 2009 | 11:06 am
    I thought I’d wrap up the year by looking forward instead of backward. Because looking back on 2009 isn’t all that much fun. A lot of people have had a tough go of it for some time now, and the last year was not a great one (heck, the Yankees even won the World Series). We’ve seen plenty of examples of bad behavior from prominent people, and a lot of victims left behind. We’re also still recovering from the near-collapse of big and important parts of our economy. And we’re facing huge challenges related to climate change, two wars being fought in the Middle East,…

  • The S Word

    amcafee
    14 Dec 2009 | 7:08 am
    I ended my talk at last month’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco (viewable here; free registration required) by trying to be cute: I gave advice about how to fail with E2.0. My goal, of course, was to talk about good practices by highlighting bad ones. I gave six bad ideas: Declare war on the enterprise Allow walled gardens to flourish Accentuate the negative Try to replace email Fall in love with features Overuse the word ’social’ On the last point, I said this about ’social’ as a descriptor for the technologies of Enterprise 2.0: “It’s…
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  • Details and practical examples of audience segments and user types

    Lawrence Liu
    28 Jan 2010 | 11:15 am
    [Cross-posted from the Telligent Team Blog.] In Part 2 of my “Elements of a Vibrant Online Community” series, I presented the people-oriented factors of audience segments and user types as critical components of a successful online community strategy. In this blog entry, I will provide practical examples of these two factors. For audience segments, consider the pyramid model (below) that is frequently used for marketing campaigns and evangelism initiatives. The levels in the pyramid are mutually exclusive, and in general, there are far fewer people near the top of the pyramid than…

  • Elements of a vibrant online community – part 2 of 2: audience segments and user types

    Lawrence Liu
    13 Jan 2010 | 10:32 am
    [Cross-posted from the Telligent.com Team Blog.] In Part 1, I presented content- and interaction-oriented factors (triggers, catalysts, lubricants, flows, and containers) as critical elements of a vibrant online community. In this blog entry, I’ll address the people-oriented factors of audience segments and user types. An audience is the collection of people, whom you want to attract to your online community. Marketers usually segment the “total addressable audience” into smaller subsets of people, who share common demographics or other tangible attributes. Every online community should…

  • Elements of a vibrant online community – part 1 of 2: triggers, catalysts, lubricants, flows, and containers

    Lawrence Liu
    17 Dec 2009 | 4:21 pm
      [Cross-posted from the Telligent.com Team Blog.] I often get asked, “What makes a vibrant online community?” The facetious answer would be, “Passionate people and interesting content.” A more practical answer is, “A vibrant online community consists of a dynamic balance of different people with content and interactions that are most meaningful to them.” In this blog entry, I’ll address the content- and interaction-oriented factors (triggers, catalysts, lubricants, flows, and containers), and in my next entry, I’ll address the…

  • Evolution and convergence of corporate communications and corporate community strategies

    Lawrence Liu
    15 Dec 2009 | 11:18 am
    [Cross-posted from the Telligent.com Team Blog.] Recently, I’ve helped a growing number of customers develop what they’re calling a corporate community strategy. While their goals vary to some degree, the desire to grow or improve “community spirit” is a constant, and they all want their strategy to encompass both external and internal efforts and in online as well as offline environments. These organizations recognize that it is community that binds teams (whose members are strongly connected) with networks (whose members are only casually or potentially connected),…

  • The Spectrum of Computer Mediated Collective Action and the Collaboration Funnel

    Lawrence Liu
    11 Jun 2009 | 4:14 pm
    “Computer mediated collective action” is a term that was coined in the "Picturing Usenet: Mapping Computer-Mediated Collective Action” research paper, published in 2005 and co-authored by Dr. Marc Smith, Chief Social Scientist of Telligent. Before social networking, before online communities, and before blogs and forums, there was Usenet, which is described in Marc’s paper as follows: Usenet is a conversational social cyberspace in particular and a computer-mediated collective action system in general. I hereby propose that since the dawning of the Web in the early 1990s, a broad…
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  • Enterprise software is entirely bereft of soul

    7 Feb 2010 | 2:53 pm
    I was in a session last year with Dave Girouard of Google, when I asked him if he still believed in the statement he made 3 years prior about enterprise software. Without batting an eyelid, he asked me “Are you...

  • Weekend Stuff: The Beagle Super Bowl

    6 Feb 2010 | 10:36 pm
    Our beagle Peanut’s prediction. I am betting against him.

  • Weekend Stuff: Thank you, GEICO

    6 Feb 2010 | 9:07 am
    When we added our teenage daughter to our car insurance, the premium tripled. Their rationale was “ it is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when” teenagers have an accident. In October, my teenager had a...

  • amazon, Macmillan and me

    5 Feb 2010 | 6:17 pm
    In the on-going battle between published content and distribution that Larry Dignan summarizes well at ZDNet I should, as a blogger and the fact that I have a book coming out, be unabashedly on the side of content. But I...

  • The Outsourcing Famine

    5 Feb 2010 | 5:22 am
    IBM sent me a press release announcing their $ 362 million data center in Research Triangle Park. Too bad they did not showcase it a month ago as I could have worked it into my upcoming book. In contrast, I...
 
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    The Social Organization

  • 20 Years of the Web - My Take

    Rachel Happe
    27 Jan 2010 | 4:27 pm
    EMC did a great compilation of perspectives of the Web at 20 in their latest edition of ON Magazine. Len Davanna shared his thoughts and threw the gauntlet to me.  It is an interesting milestone to consider because it essentially spans my adult life. In that regard I have been incredibly fortunate to sit at the cusp of a world altering technology change.  It's a little like that game 'what did you grow up without'. For me, I didn't even have a TV growing up, let alone what we currently call 'devices'.  My father did use a reel-to-reel recorder to capture some…

  • The New Diplomats: Community Managers

    Rachel Happe
    25 Jan 2010 | 1:09 pm
    My degree is in politics and international relations. I found the power dynamics and relationships between countries fascinating and ever-changing. While I pursued a career in international relationship and government, my career path took a turn when I realized that I found working in the bowels of bureaucracy (as well as the bowels of the Pentagon) to be maddeningly inefficient and slow. But that early training in politics and power structures has been hugely helpful in understanding all types of organizations and how individuals interact - perhaps better than any other degree could have.

  • Inability to track ROI Does Not Absolve You from Measuring

    Rachel Happe
    13 Jan 2010 | 6:38 am
    David Meerman Scott had an Epic ROI Rant and because he threw in some chatter about putting on pants in the morning and paying your lawn service, I feel like a lot of people missed a bigger point that he was making.  Some people in the comments section of David's post were very eager to jump in and agree wholeheartedly that calculating the ROI of social marketing was like putting pants on in the morning.  Mm... OK. But here's the thing - just because you can't calculate ROI is DOES NOT absolve you of the responsibility to measure your performance and try to improve it.We…

  • The Social Organization & Womenomics

    Rachel Happe
    6 Jan 2010 | 1:00 pm
    I read two interesting articles in The Economist over the holiday break - "We Did It" and "Womenomics".  In some ways these articles covered some old ground; women are outpacing men in education and now in employment rates. There is even research to indicate that companies with more women in senior management positions are more profitable. Yet, women still make up a very small fraction of corporate and organizational leadership... it begs a lot of questions.What the articles did address that I found more interesting is how societies are dealing with having women share…

  • Help Others, Help Others Help You... But Don't Help Yourself

    Rachel Happe
    23 Dec 2009 | 11:55 am
    I sometimes wonder what parents teach their children - or not. Why? Recently I've seen a lot of people promote qualitative assessments of themselves.   People seem un-abashed at calling themselves talented, great thinkers, gurus, experts, pretty, funny, charming, etc.  I am a bit baffled by it because aren't all of those qualitative assessments in the eye of the beholder? I was told often as a child that it's not polite to brag or talk about yourself. It's also contextual - one person may think you are hysterically funny and to someone else you are just rude.... so…
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    Chuck's Blog

  • Why Cisco's OTV Matters For The Private Cloud

    Chuck Hollis
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:31 pm
    We've all been hearing about it for a while, but I've just noticed that Cisco is getting more public in talking about their OTV (overlay transport virtualization) technology.I consider this one of the key "enabling technologies" for many cloud models, and private clouds in particular.And here's why ... DisclaimerI am not a network guy.  I don't even pretend to be one.Also, I don't work for Cisco, although they're one of EMC's key partners.  So if I screw up this description, please use your greater expertise to help me out!The ProblemIf you…

  • Private Cloud Adoption -- The TOS Model

    Chuck Hollis
    8 Feb 2010 | 10:04 am
    "Nothing good is easy ; nothing easy is good".I don't remember who said that originally, but that thought has always stuck in my head.And as I work with more organizations who have started down a private cloud road (or something very similar), I'm beginning to see repeatable patterns emerge.In a previous post, I presented my observations on different adoption models I've been seeing in my travels and conversations.Today's post has to do with entirely separate discussions in different parts of the organization -- regardless of adoption model.See if this makes sense to…

  • My Friday Rant (Again)

    Chuck Hollis
    5 Feb 2010 | 9:24 am
    Two weeks ago, I posted "My Friday Rant" -- nothing more than getting a few industry observations off of my chest without provoking the usual competitive response.People tell me they liked it, so -- yes -- I'm going to attempt to do it again.And -- once again -- the same disclaimer.  If you don't like rants -- better skip this post! The Ideal Gift For My Vendor Colleagues Yes, it's the ubiquitous "chill pill".I'd recommend that we all take one when you start taking all of this vendor competitive stuff too seriously.There's more to life than…

  • Exploiting Distance

    Chuck Hollis
    5 Feb 2010 | 8:07 am
    Last September, I wrote an extended post on "Overcoming Distance".In it, I made the case that real-world issues around coordinating multiple copies of information at significant distances permeated so much of how we think about IT on a global scale.Now, looking back, I realize my mindset might have been wrong.Perhaps we need to start thinking in terms of exploiting what distance can do for us, rather than simply overcoming it. OriginsIf you read the post, you'll realize that it was triggered by the joint work EMC, Cisco and VMware did around an extended distance VMotion solution…

  • Where The Rubber Meets The Road

    Chuck Hollis
    4 Feb 2010 | 1:16 pm
    We all know it's a far cry between pretty vendor powerpoints and actually making this stuff work in a live enterprise IT environment.Fortunately, we are getting much better at bringing our own internal experiences to bear in a way that many people are finding increasingly useful.And this is shaping up to be pretty cool, indeed ... Surprise!  EMC Is A Big Consumer Of ITWe're an aggressive technology company with ~50K employees scattered around the globe.  Our products and services are the direct result of our most precious asset -- our intellectual capital.  Our…
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    Going Social Now

  • Consumers Trust Friends Less? I don't agree

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:07 am
    With all due respect to Ad Age and Edelman, I feel the analysis of the Edelman Trust Barometer 2010 maybe a little misleading. The headline "In Age of Friending, Consumers Trust Their Friends Less" obviously implies that people are trusting their friends less when making decisions. While that makes great copy, when you click on the chart what you really see is that trust in all forms of media (the alternatives were TV News, Radio News, Newspapers and Friends/Peers) has dropped dramatically by approximately the same percentages. Trust in Friends/Peers hasn't dropped considerably more…

  • Facebook growing up. Advertisers to fall in love

    5 Feb 2010 | 11:47 am
    For a long time I believed that Facebook was moving too slowly in addressing the needs of marketers. The pages for brands was but a rudimentary step in the right direction and the analytics behind the pages were simplistic at best. I'm excited to see that it is changing now and I believe that marketers are going to flock to Facebook (and with their dollars) and not just because of the huge user base but increasingly because of the specific advertising products and analytics that the platform is offering. In a sense Facebook is truly entering the marketing world now.One small example, of this…

  • Engaging Readers in the Digital Age. Keynote

    28 Jan 2010 | 2:15 pm
    I was invited to keynote the Digital Book World Conference this week. Held in New York this conference was for book publishers large and small who are navigating the digital space. I focused on social media and how social influence marketing is forcing these publishers is to rethink their value chain and their position as B2B companies. My hypothesis - they need to become B2C players as well.Engaging Readers in the Digital Age Let me know what you think. The book publishing space is undergoing a sea changing (similar to the newspaper industry) and I feel my recommendations may help.

  • SIM Trends for 2010. Keynote Presentation

    22 Jan 2010 | 9:06 am
    Here's my keynote presentation from the SeesmicLook product launch. I was invited to give the keynote at this launch event which had Microsoft and Advertising Age as its launch partners.  Social Influence Marketing TrendsView more presentations from shivsingh. The presentation got some coverage on Twitter and also on a few blogs including CenterNetworks (The Best Social Media Definition To-Date) and TechStartups (Shiv Singh Knocked It Out of the Park). Thank you for all the feedback both positive and negative (Apparently, I ended the presentation rather abruptly. Good to keep in…

  • Get a free copy of Social Media Marketing for Dummies by donating to Red Cross

    16 Jan 2010 | 4:53 pm
    I've got a few extra copies of my book Social Media Marketing for Dummies. Rather than give them to clients or friends, I've decided to give them away to you - but there's one condition. You have to donate the exact amount that the book costs ($16.49) to the Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development Fund. Send me your receipt and I'll send you a copy of the book. I can do this for the first five people to send me their receipts electronically. My email address is shivsingh at gmail.com. And if you've already donated, retweet this message and I'll enter you into a drawing for a free copy of…
 
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    The FASTForward Blog

  • HR – What is the organizational reality today? How does HR fit with it?

    Rob Paterson
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:53 pm
    Jon and I hope to reveal to you why it is so hard to get performance from a conventional organization today? Why do they find change so hard? Why is cooperation all but impossible? Why are people so unhappy? Why is HR and all it stands for in the way? The simple answer is that the simple idea of a “Job” – really a new idea since 1905 and the advent of the Ford Motor Company – no longer works but all the rules insist that it does. HR is all about the Job. But the Job is going away – even without my polemic. It is dying quietly. Maybe we could hurry it along?

  • Collaboration Goes Mobile in 2010

    Bill Ives
    8 Feb 2010 | 12:42 am
    Forrester has issued a report, Collaboration Needs Will Fuel A Smartphone Surge, by Ted Schadler with Matthew Brown, Brownlee Thomas, Michele Pelino, and Peter Schmidt, with the subtitle: The Surge Can Be Funded Through A Bring-Your-Own Smartphone Strategy.  I appreciate receiving a review copy.  It predicts that 2010 will be the year of the smartphone surge. The Forrester team surveyed 3,904 information workers nad found great excitement about about smartphones, “attracted by the ability to email, collaborate, and work with documents from anywhere.” While only 14% percent of…

  • Employee Performance and Learning in the E2.0 Context

    Jon Husband
    4 Feb 2010 | 1:37 pm
    As FASTForward readers may know, colleague Rob Patterson and I have decided to put forth a series of opinions about the HR issues that may become prominent as the implementation of purposeful social computing proceeds in the enterprise arena. I believe it’s fair to say that Rob and I come by our interest in this area honestly, as we both have had significant chunks of our past careers tangled up in the world of human resources management.  Rob was Senior Vice-president, Human Resources for one of Canada’s major banks, and I spent a number of years in a relatively senior role with…

  • SharePoint 2010 SocialFest – and the winner is Huddle

    Lynda Ting
    2 Feb 2010 | 4:49 am
    Last week seven startups spent the week developing applications on the SharePoint 2010 platform at the first ever SharePoint 2010 SocialFest hosted by the Emerging Business Team at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus. While most of the developers had little to no SharePoint programming experience, they were selected based on their potential to extend the SharePoint platform with their unique and innovative applications in the emerging social business space. During the week, they heard from developer experts, SharePoint engineering, SharePoint product management and a panel of tier one venture…

  • There’s Only Now

    Paula Thornton
    1 Feb 2010 | 11:56 am
    As I began writing this, I started to wonder if an alternate title for this should be, “Stop Looking for ‘Done’”. These reflections are a direct result of a challenge from renowned-for-his-email-shunning-antics, Luis Suarez (@elsua). But oddly, there was already a lot of reflecting and projecting of this topic. There are fundamental computing principles and possibilities introduced to the industry over 40 years ago that are currently being revisited for relevance (thx @roundtrip and others), and have been the inspiration for some of the best E2.0 solutions. All of…
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    Process Cafe

  • Hot topics last month at the Process Cafe

    8 Feb 2010 | 8:30 am
    After checking my visitor logs recently I wanted to let you know what were the 5 most visited pages over the last 30 days (i.e during January) here on the Process Cafe Your criteria for choosing a BPM tool Review:  Lombardi's Blueprint software In any business 60% - 70% are non-value activities BPM - The truly useful capability you just have What's the difference between ERP and BPM? Be sure also to check out the categories listed on the left and see posts related to my thoughts on BPM, case studies, business rules and the marketplace All information is Copyright (C) G Comerford See…

  • The tool is NOT the process.

    8 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    I wanted to say a few words about the use of BPM/BPA tools in the context of process management. I’ve spoken with a number of customers who are convinced that the way to effectively ‘manage’ their processes is to stick them into a BPM or BPA tool. This is as effective as managing your favourite fantasy football team by dropping every player's name into a large spreadsheet - nothing will happen by itself. Sure, the work involved in managing a process (or your fantasy football team) is facilitated by the use of a tool, but the tool is not, in itself, the answer to the problem. The Process…

  • Friday review 5th February 2010

    5 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    Here are some of the links posted over on the Process Cafe Espresso Shots this week1 Where Business Process Meets 2.0 - An interesting post from Susan Scrupski on the usage of SAP's new 12Sprints platform in the business. Pegasystems says Agile BPM this way comes - SOA Talk - Some advice from Pegasystems on smaller, more focused process projects. Salesforce.com enables business process building for cloud : WHAT?? - I'm really in two minds about this. One the one hand I like the concept that process design should be easy and user focused rather than IT focused. On the other hand Salesforce.com…

  • We all want an excellent COE, don't we?

    1 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am
    According to a recent poll quoted on the teraneon web site,  only 12% of companies have a business process centre of excellence. I have no empirical evidence to think this number is wrong so I'm willing to believe it. The question that this statistic raised in my mind is : If 1 in 8 companies have a BPM COE, how many of them are doing it right? What defines a good COE? Especially as 1 in 3 companies has no intention of creating one at all and only 1 in 3 is thinking of going to the trouble of creating one. Is there fear, uncertainty and doubt about COE's?? What are the elements of a good…

  • Friday review - 29th January 2010

    29 Jan 2010 | 8:00 am
    Here are some of the links posted over on the Process Cafe Espresso Shots this week1 "BPM Is not just a technology" - Metastorm (PDF to download) - A PDF From Metastorm showing the benefits of BPM. This is a case study document not just a marketing exercise. Any of this sound familiar? ARIS Mashzone: Home - Your Life, Your Business, Your Success - Aris' latest offering - a mash-up application to create management dashboards. Anyone using this? Any thoughts about it? Where Process-Improvement Projects Go Wrong - Business Insight - Wall Street Journal / MIT Sloan - MIT Sloan Management Review -…
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  • Healthcare IT Dilemma: iPad Lust Meets Software Reality

    7 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    IT vendors are excitedly wooing healthcare customers, thanks to big spending plans shaped by regulation pressures and industry consolidation. The buzz centers around gadgets such as the new Apple iPad, but buying plans will emphasize core applications such as billing systems and standardization-minded upgrades, analysts say.

  • ERP Costs: 3 Signs Companies Are Wasting Less Money

    4 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    It took a worldwide recession to start the trend, but there are signs that companies are getting ERP costs under control, according to a new report from Panorama Consulting. But there's still more work to be done.

  • Super Bowl Sunday: 15 Twitter Feeds to Follow

    2 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Ready for the year's biggest football feast, with a side-dish of Twitter commentary? Check out these 15 Twitter feeds for behind-the-scenes details, analysis and plenty of attitude.

  • Why Watching "Lost" Is Like Managing ERP

    2 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    You've got your bewildering subplots (confusing vendor roadmaps), spectacular crashes (ERP project failures), island archetypes (penny-pinching CFOs) and smoke monsters (scary upgrades). Need we say more?

  • IT Outsourcing: Why It Pays to Appraise Your Contract

    2 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    Most IT outsourcing contracts contain post-execution provisions that, if not reviewed annually, can drive up costs or drive down performance. We've got an 18-point checklist to keep your outsourcing costs and service under control this year.
 
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    Smart SaaS

  • SaaS Business Profile: Magic Software

    Kevin Dobbs
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:58 pm
    Company:                Magic Software Enterprises Americas Started:                   1990 Located:                  Or Yehuda, Israel Geography:             Global Market:                   Multiple-mode application platform and business process integration solutions Products:                uniPaaS and iBOLT Key Customers:     Adecco, Adidas Canada, Allstate, BNP Paribas, CBIA, Clinical Financial Services, Club Med, DHL, Manpower, Praxair and Vodafone Website:                 Magic Software Website Blog:              …

  • SaaS Business Profile: OpenAir

    Kevin Dobbs
    2 Feb 2010 | 1:53 pm
    Company:                OpenAir, a NetSuite Company Started:                    1999 Located:                   Boston, Massachusetts Geography:              Global Market:                    Cloud Computing PSA Solutions Products:                OpenAir Business Development, Resource Management, Project Management, Knowledge Management and Project Accounting Key Customers:       American Federation of Teachers, Clickability, MetricStream, Model N, PreVisor, Selectica, State of Oregon, and SupportSoft Website:                  …

  • How Much Investment Does It Take To Start a SaaS Co?

    Kevin Dobbs
    26 Jan 2010 | 8:00 am
    When speaking with entrepreneurs and investors about the investment required to start up a new Software-as-a-Service company, I often refer back to this list.   At Montclair Advisors thought this would be a handy reference for those looking to start a SaaS company during 2010. Looks like you might need a money tree to start a SaaS company, but for those that reach critical mass and go public, there is a tremendous payback.  This is information has been gathered from various sources including Wachovia, CrunchBase and Google Finance. Company Investment Current Market Cap Ticker Symbol (in…

  • Montclair Advisors - 2010 SaaS Hall of Fame

    Kevin Dobbs
    19 Jan 2010 | 5:00 am
    Given we are starting a new decade and many could argue that SaaS started in during the last ten years, I thought it would be appropriate to recognize leaders of the SaaS movement. Here are the winners of the Montclair Advisors 2010 SaaS Hall of Fame Most Influential SaaS Company:     Salesforce.com Salesforce has have been the most vocal proponents of the SaaS business model for the last 10 years.They are also the largest SaaS Company based on revenues ($990M) and market value ($8.5B). Most Influential SaaS Individual:     Marc Benioff As the CEO of Salesforce, Marc has been the major…

  • SaaS Business Profile: Clarizen

    Kevin Dobbs
    12 Jan 2010 | 7:00 pm
    Company:        Clarizen Started:            2005 Located:           San Mateo, California Geography:      Global Market:             Online work and project management software Products:          Online work and project management software Key Customers:     AutoDesk, Clara, Enlaso, Fortinet, Lenovo, NBC Universal, NEC, O2 and UPS Website:            Clarizen Website Blog:                 Clarizen Blog Twitter:             @Clarizen Recent News: Clarizen Secures $8M in Financing From Leading VCs More than 100 Service Providers Enrolled…
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    CA on Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)

  • In the words of David Bowie: Ch-ch-ch-ch- changes

    Leanne Agurkis
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:21 am
    I recently attended a regional meeting of the Executive Women's Forum which is made up of a large group of women, all working in the information security industry. The meeting was held at Morgan Stanley in New York, and the line-up for the meeting started with Jody Leber Pay, executive director at Morgan Stanley, talking about "change." Her talk was followed by break-out sessions...  

  • GRC: The Agile Market

    Sumner Blount
    3 Feb 2010 | 8:38 am
    A recent blog post http://bit.ly/bVd2i1 from Forrester Research made some very useful points, in my opinion.  The focus of the article was on flexibility, in two key respects.  First, flexibility is a key requirement of any GRC program, primarily because the demands for risk and compliance are so fluid right now.  There are clearly more regulations coming, but we don't know the...  

  • CA Announces New CEO, Bill McCracken

    Christine Needles
    28 Jan 2010 | 1:37 pm
    We're excited to announce that our board has unanimously elected Bill McCracken as CA's chief executive officer. Bill has been CA's interim CEO since John A. Swainson's retirement was announced in September 2009. To learn more about the beginning of this new chapter in CA history, visit the press release , view his bio, or check out the recent clean energy interview he had with...  

  • Internet Banking-Related Security Suit – A Case of Man Bites Dog

    Matthew Gardiner
    28 Jan 2010 | 5:40 am
    I have been monitoring the case of Plainscapital Bank and Hillary Machinery since the news broke in November that more than $800K was apparently stolen from Hillary via the fraudulent initiation of wire transfers by criminals probably in Eastern Europe.  Brian Krebs recently posted a nice update article, which provides the necessary background.  In an ironic twist the bank has actually...  

  • The Shortcut to Control Rationalization

    Mike Hoefgen
    26 Jan 2010 | 6:05 am
    The Problem The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is given the mandate to ensure the IT department is compliant with these four authority documents: SOX, COBIT, PCI and ISO 27001. The OLD Answer The CISO reads and analyzes each of these documents and identifies the “thou must…” and “thou shall…” citations from each of these documents. He then uses that information to create a list of IT...  
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    Venture Chronicles

  • Buyers Remorse

    Jeff
    4 Feb 2010 | 12:52 pm
    In 2008 the sight of a Toyota Prius sporting an Obama hopey changey bumper sticker rose to the level of being a cliche and the Prius itself became a social statement, outselling other hybrids based on existing gasoline powered models. Well the former hasn’t exactly turned out like everyone thought and now Toyota is launching yet another recall, this time for 270,000 Prius cars with faulty brakes. There’s some poetic irony in there somewhere, but in each case there is little humor to be found as the consequences are quite dire.

  • 20 Things Going Wrong with the U.S. Economy

    Jeff
    4 Feb 2010 | 10:17 am

  • Digital Medical Records, A Modest Proposal

    Jeff
    28 Jan 2010 | 11:34 am
    For years and years (and years) there has been talk about the digitalization of medical records to enable portability. There are three primary problems that obstruct this vision, the first being a somewhat murky legal and regulatory environment with regard to what are the implications of the many laws dealing with privacy, data, and medical records, the second is a process issue dealing with how doctors work and their reluctance to embrace technology solutions that they perceive as inefficient, and lastly, it’s not clear that once you have your medical records how you will benefit from…

  • The iPad is Steve Jobs’ Waterloo

    Jeff
    28 Jan 2010 | 7:41 am
    Jobs has put together a remarkable track record at Apple over the years, not only releasing a string of hit products (overshadowing the few duds… like Apple TV) and making the company solidly profitable with a plurality of analysts rating it a solid buy even with a P/E of 20:1. Having said all that, Jobs is still a mere mortal and the iPad is a dud which will seriously deflate his carefully crafted image as a hitmaker with a Midas touch precisely because he himself has publicly attached so much significance to the iPad product, which by the way is simply an awful product name that has…

  • Chavez Backtracks, Venezuelans Still Suffer

    Jeff
    26 Jan 2010 | 6:35 pm
 
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    Stop the Data Management Insanity

  • Why a Practical, Hype-Free Approach to Cloud Storage is Necessary

    CommVault®
    1 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am
    With all the noise surrounding cloud computing, it's getting harder to separate the hype from the reality. After all, the term, which has become one of the most overused technology buzzwords, has different definitions with muddled meanings that make it difficult for organizations to determine how, why and when to deploy cloud-hosted solutions to best support evolving business needs.So isn't it time for technology vendors to stop the hype and deliver practical solutions that work as promised? At CommVault, we have formulated a pragmatic strategy that extends our core competencies in data…

  • Change is scary, but vital for progress

    CommVault®
    11 Dec 2009 | 10:30 am
    As I was flying back from the Bay Area last week after a series of customer and partner visits, I came across an interesting article in USA Today, entitled "Stake claimed on Chicago housing project." What caught my attention was the fact that a group of current and former residents of Chicago's dilapidated Lathrop public housing project were fighting to stop the revitalization of the 60-year-old development. Not only is the 924-unit complex in desperate need of repair, it seems like an ideal fit for the new model of mixed-income public housing, at least according to the Chicago Housing…

  • 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…
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    Locuz Blog - IT Infra Lifecycle

  • Twitter

    Uttam Majumdar
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:46 am
    I will continue to post here, but may tweet more often. Micro blog may just work better for me. My tweets… Cheers! Uttam

  • Interesting Comment by Neelesh Gupta

    Uttam Majumdar
    18 Dec 2009 | 6:16 am
    Neelesh is my childhood friend. We recently got connected after some 20 years – thanks to Web2.0… To my last post “High Perfromance Computing – not the same anymore”, he made a very interesting comment and it cannot stay tucked inside the comment corner of my blog but be up here for everyone to read. Neelesh is now based in NY and works for Citibank as Vice President (I can now guess VP for what?). Thanks Neelesh! Uttam, Its interesting you mention about CUDA and the advent of GPU based computing. This is something most of the high-end investment banking houses…

  • High Performance Computing – not same anymore

    Uttam Majumdar
    11 Dec 2009 | 3:51 am
    Scientific and Enterprise computing that are CPU intensive is not going to be same anymore. GPU architectures are making those large G/T/P FLOP systems faster, greener and smaller, also cheaper. More and more applications are getting accelerated with CUDA. Among good examples are – CFD solvers running at 1/20 of resource for a given iteration; HMMER running at 62x time faster; Monte Carlo Simulations running up to 50x time faster. The GPU architectures from CUDA and FireStream have already made it to Top500 list sometime ago which has been a milestone and is fast moving up the charts, I…

  • Business Technology Summit

    Uttam Majumdar
    17 Oct 2009 | 5:54 am
    Here too my paper got selected and am speaking at the Bangalore event. The topic is same as the one I spoke at INTEROP but this time around, I will touch base on “Service Orientation for the Enterprise Cloud”. You may wonder, cloud is all about service orientation anyway so what would SOC (my musings on SOx, after SOI & SOM) – Service Oriented Cloud – be about. As cloud definitions and perspectives evolve, we found our way to explain what goes within and beyond. See you at the BT Summit. Cheers! Uttam

  • Security & SOA (Event at Bangalore)

    Uttam Majumdar
    9 Aug 2009 | 4:13 am
    We are organising an event on 20-Aug-2009. The event will cover Security framework in the service-oriented economy. You will hear from us about the “critical shift” with IdM and Access Management in today’s environment that is brought on by increased service standards, improved systems and business agility. If SOA is the way to go, understanding the “critical shift” may be equally important. Here is the invitation. Go thru the program details, and do register if you wish to attend. Cheers! Uttam
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    The Enterprise Architect

  • What Model Driven Development can learn from Content Management Systems

    26 Jan 2010 | 11:50 am
    I don't know what you do, but I am using a Content Management System (CMS) to manage this blog. I didn't type any HTML tag to produce this post. Lots of websites nowadays are managed using Wordpress, Joomla!, Drupal, or other CMS systems. Did you ever wonder why Content Management Systems are so successful and widespread? Comparing CMS to MDDA while ago I wrote "8 reasons why Model-Driven Development fails". Paolo Predonzani posted a comment on that article in which he stated (among other things): Having said this, let me bring your attention on a particular type of framework:…

  • The Process Centric vs. Information Centric approach to SOA

    13 Jan 2010 | 10:11 am
    In one of my recent articles I stated: "it is questionable whether enterprises can actually maintain a focused strategy long enough to align their core business processes with IT". The point: software needs to become more flexible in order to adapt to the fast changing business environments of today’s enterprises. To make software more flexible we need to move from an application-centric architecture to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Nice sentence… but what are the building blocks of such a SOA? Business process engines? Business rules engines?

  • Blog overview 2009

    29 Dec 2009 | 12:25 pm
    It's the end of the year again. Like last year I want to give you quick overview of this year's content. But first I want to thank you for the useful discussions we had in the comments and on twitter. I hope you enjoyed reading my articles as much as I enjoyed writing them. I wish you all the best for 2010 and hope we can keep sharing knowledge!Top 10 posts Based on the number of page views each article on my blog had this year I have created the following top 10 list: 15 reasons why you should start using Model Driven Development 5 types of Model Driven Software Development What every…

  • 15 reasons why you should start using Model Driven Development

    25 Nov 2009 | 8:54 am
    I have written a lot about model driven software development approaches from different perspectives. For example from a domain specific language design perspective, an integrated modeling approach for SOA perspective, etc. I also have tried to give you a balanced view on MDD by talking about the things to know before starting with MDD and by discussing some potential dangers of MDD. You would say that if someone asked me for the advantages of Model-Driven Development I would just send him a link… Unfortunately this is not the case. I can of course answer this question, and I mostly try…

  • 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…
 
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  • Links for February 4th through February 8th

    linkposter
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:18 pm
    A little something extra… Today’s extra is a video from OpsCamp Austin 2010. It’s from a series Damon Edwards did which was both fun, a nice format, and interesting – see the first round and then the second collection. In addition to talking about delivering smaller “apps” vs. “applications,” I go over some ways that open source projects can work better with analysts: 3 Questions with Michael Coté at OpsCamp Austin 2010 from dev2ops.org on Vimeo. I realize there seems to be a lot of “how to work better with analysts” stuff going on…

  • The return of good, old fashioned application development

    cote
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:07 pm
    Over the past few years, roughly, the discussion of software development has been stuck on the back-bench in favor of the swirl of virtualization, cloud computing, and then iStuff. As I pointed out in my presentation on Agile development and cloud computing to the Agile Austin meeting last week, cloud computing is largely an operations story. Public and private cloud technologies and practices have tended to focus themselves on optimizing data centers, not so much software development. And with virtualization, the story is all about operations, long ago having left the “virtual labs…

  • Links for February 2nd through February 4th

    linkposter
    4 Feb 2010 | 1:18 pm
    A little something extra… One of my friends in PR recently asked me what for the general outline I expect to see in an analyst briefing. For all the briefings I get, there’s a pretty standard outline to start with: History of company – but keep it brief: we don’t care too much. And when it comes to the team, as all that fine print says, “past performance is no guarantee of its future success.” The technology itself – while knowing the “problem” and your “solution” is good, we’re pretty damn interested in what the actual…

  • Agile Infrastructure – a presentation

    cote
    3 Feb 2010 | 9:41 am
    Last night I spoke at the Austin Agile monthly meeting on the topic, broadly put, of how cloud computing starts to effect and benefit Agile software development. While I don’t have a recording (I biffed recording my rehearsal of the presentation, tragically, which I’d usually post here), the slides are above. Aside from quickly going over cloud computing as it’s understood now, the main points I tried to make were: The cloud discussion so far has been mostly an operations story. While public web companies have spoken to development concerns a bit, the discussion of what…

  • Links for January 29th through February 1st

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    1 Feb 2010 | 5:46 pm
    A little something extra… While us IT nerds were having a great time at the first OpsCamp this weekend, the rest of the world was once again obsessing about the future of the web, manifested this time in the iPad’s lack of Flash support. On this topic, I’ve had several conversations already about The Fate of the Web. Ultimately, this one is tough because the people who’ll determine if Apple’s closed model works or not are consumers, not developers or “enterprises,” who’ve traditionally determined the fate of new technologies and technology…
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  • Some Recent Posts Elsewhere…

    Paul Cunningham
    1 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pm
    Here are a selection of articles and blog posts I’ve written elsewhere lately. Understanding Exchange Server Connectors Phishing and Malware in the Smart Phone Era How to Add Automatic Email Signatures and Disclaimers with Exchange 2010 Exchange 2010, Worth it Without Office 2010? Unreported Spam Costing Billions Exchange Server 2010 Simplifies Mailbox Database Design Does the Removal of SIS Mean Less Efficient Exchange Servers? 8500 Billion Reasons Your Business Needs Spam Protection Popular posts:Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 Silent Install5 ways Windows Live Writer improves your Wordpress…

  • GFI MailEssentials Winners

    Paul Cunningham
    1 Feb 2010 | 2:45 am
    I’ve just drawn the winners of the GFI MailEssentials giveaway competition.  The lucky winners are: First Prize (50 licenses) – Jay (via comment) Runner Up (25 licenses) – Chris Muncy (via Twitter) Congratulations to the winners, and I hope you enjoy your spam free 2010. And thanks again to GFI Software for kindly donating the prizes for this competition. Related posts:GFI MailEssentials Giveaway Contest Closes SoonWin GFI MailEssentials for Your BusinessReview of GFI MailEssentialsGFI LANGuard TutorialGFI Web Monitor Tutorial

  • GFI MailEssentials Giveaway Contest Closes Soon

    Paul Cunningham
    27 Jan 2010 | 4:36 am
    There are just 4 days left to enter in the running to win one of two licenses for GFI MailEssentials and solve your email spam problems. You can enter by commenting on this post or sending out a Twitter message about the contest.  In fact if you do both you get two entries in the draw! First prize is a 50 user license pack for GFI MailEssentials, and the runner up will receive a 25 user license pack. Check out the contest page for full details. The contest closes at midnight on January 31st, Australian EST. Related posts:GFI MailEssentials WinnersWin GFI MailEssentials for Your…

  • Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Update Rollup 2 Released

    Paul Cunningham
    24 Jan 2010 | 6:37 pm
    Microsoft has released Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 SP2.  The 45mb update includes bug fixes for a few dozen issues. A full description of the update is available here or you can download the update files from here. Related posts:Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 8 ReleasedExchange Server 2007 Update Rollup 6 (Critical)Exchange 2007 OWA stops working with “reason=0” errorExchange Server 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 5 releasedBrowsing Mailbox Databases in Exchange 2007 and 2010

  • Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Requirements Calculator Updated

    Paul Cunningham
    24 Jan 2010 | 6:11 pm
    Microsoft  has released the latest update to the Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator on the MS Exchange Team blog. This calculator is an essential part of the Exchange admin’s toolkit and I highly recommend staying up to date with new releases. The update includes these improvements and new features:
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