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    IT Project Failures

  • 18 truths: The long fail of complexity

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

  • Please vote: Shortlisted at Computer Weekly

    Michael Krigsman
    4 Nov 2009 | 8:15 am
    UK-based IT news site, Computer Weekly, shortlisted this blog for an award in the 2009 Project Management category. Being shortlisted is an honor because Computer Weekly offers some of the best IT insight anywhere. In addition, the magazine’s Executive Editor, Tony Collins, is one of the top journalists covering IT failures; Tony takes no prisoners but is always fair and impartial. His work has served as an inspiration to me. SHAMELESS, UNREPENTANT PLUG Yes, I want you to vote — for my blog! To make it easy, please follow this little guide. Step 1. Click the voting page Step 2.

  • Five definitions toward the maturing of Enterprise 2.0

    Michael Krigsman
    2 Nov 2009 | 7:14 pm
    The excellent Enterprise 2.0 Conference is currently in full swing in San Francisco. Given the excitement around this conference, now’s a perfect time to re-examine the “enterprise” part of Enterprise 2.0. In this guest blog post, Miko Matsumura, Vice President and Chief Strategist of Software AG, offers a humorous look at the Enterprise 2.0 movement. In addition to his position at Software AG, Miko is the author of the book, SOA Adoption for Dummies Miko’s underlying message is important: to be successful, Enterprise 2.0 activities must remain rooted in the practical…

  • Seeking IT failure experts on Twitter

    Michael Krigsman
    2 Nov 2009 | 6:22 am
    I’m assembling the definitive Twitter list of folks who have demonstrated deep insight and commitment into analyzing the causes and prevention of IT failures. The list is called IT Failure Insights and I need your help to get it right. If you know someone who should be on that list, please send me a message on Twitter. Before adding anyone to the list I will ask to see blog posts, Twitter messages, papers the person has written, or other examples demonstrating clear connection between their professional life and this topic. [Photo from iStockphoto]

  • Amplifying 'weak signals' for IT success

    Michael Krigsman
    1 Nov 2009 | 3:29 pm
    Every seasoned executive knows that gaining detailed and accurate information about his or her organization’s activities is a challenging and ongoing struggle. Disconnects between operational data and management decision-making lead to inefficiency, waste, and ultimately to extreme failures of the type described in this blog. Usually, some members of an organization do possess accurate early warning information regarding potential problems. However, as we have seen in situations ranging from Enron to financial industry practices that kicked off the current recession, surfacing that…
 
 
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    CIO: News

  • Update Fixes IPhone Sync Problem with Windows 7 for Some

    5 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Gigabyte Technology issued a BIOS update on Friday that fixes a problem for some Windows 7 users who have been unable to sync their iPhones.

  • Cisco Undervalues Tandberg, Investment Firms Say

    5 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Two investment consulting companies laid out objections to Cisco's US$3 billion offer for Norwegian videoconferencing vendor Tandberg on Friday, saying in an open letter to Cisco and a press interview that the bid undervalues Tandberg.

  • Birth of the Droid Fanboy

    5 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    It had to happen eventually. The launch of Motorola's Droid makes room for a new kind of fanboy in the tech world: The Droid fanboy, armed at last with a phone that fits with any anti-iPhone lifestyle.

  • Exchange 2010: Why I'm Using It to Say Bye-Bye BlackBerry

    5 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Here's how one company is using Exchange 2010 as a cost-saving tool to wean users off RIM BlackBerry smartphones and onto Windows Mobile 6.5.

  • Cisco Undervalues Tandberg, Investment Firms Say

    5 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Two investment consulting companies laid out objections to Cisco's US$3 billion offer for Norwegian videoconferencing vendor Tandberg on Friday, saying in an open letter to Cisco and a press interview that the bid undervalues Tandberg.
 
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    CIO: How-to

  • How to Create a Virtual PC on Windows 7

    3 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    You're not supposed to be able to get XP Mode without the right version of Win7, but if you have a valid XP license, it works just fine. Here's step-by-step instructions on how to do it, plus tips for a safe, hassle-free install.

  • SOA Security Solutions: Four Patterns to Grow On

    3 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    How can you combine diverse products into an SOA security solution for today's needs as well as leave a path for tomorrow's demands? Forrester's Randy Heffner shares four broad solution patterns.

  • CRM Tips: The Fixed Price is Not Right

    1 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Many companies buy CRM consulting services the way they buy hardware: Fixed price. What if this just isn't the right model, no matter how good a price you get?

  • Three-Minute Coach

    28 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Steps to avoid feeling burned out.

  • How CIOs Can Stay Tech-Savvy

    28 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    As the business side clamors for constant attention, it's easy for CIOs to lose sight of their roots: technology. And brushing up on your skills can be easier than you think.
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    CIO: Careers

  • Peter Drucker as Life Coach: New Book Shares Visionary's Wisdom

    3 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    The "father of modern management" had as much to say about self-management and personal development as he did about innovation and organizational effectiveness, says Bruce Rosenstein, the author of a new book on Peter Drucker. In this revealing Q&A, Rosenstein shares what you can learn from Drucker's life, legacy and lack of e-mail.

  • 2009 CIO Hall of Fame Finalists & Judges

    31 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    This Year's Hall of Fame honorees were judged by 15 former inductees. Our 13 finalists are also listed below.

  • Recruiting Software: 10 Ways Job Seekers Can Beat the System

    25 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Employers are increasingly using recruiting software or applicant tracking systems to pre-screen job seekers' resumes. Resume writers and career coaches offer 10 tips for ensuring that these applicant tracking systems don't erroneously screen out your resume.

  • IT Pay Cuts: Are You Next?

    20 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    As more companies enforce across-the-board pay cuts and unpaid furloughs, a rising tide of IT professionals is seeing its annual compensation decline and must decide whether to switch employers as a result.

  • Career Watch: The Benefits of Hard Work

    18 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Hard work just might be the secret ingredient for career success; plus, watch those typos in your resume.
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    Software as Services

  • Microsoft cuts BPOS price to squeeze Lotus

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

  • Cloud cuts everyone's cost of ownership

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

  • Box.net wants to be the Switzerland of data

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

  • What EuroCloud means for SaaS in Europe

    Phil Wainewright
    20 Oct 2009 | 4:14 am
    Today EuroCloud, a new industry organization that aims to promote cloud and SaaS, launches in seven European countries. I’m involved in the initiative, having agreed to act as UK co-ordinator for the launch. Other groups are launching in France, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain, and the launch has the backing of almost thirty SaaS and cloud vendors, ranging from giants like Amazon, Salesforce.com, Microsoft and McAfee to up-and-coming local players including Huddle, INES, Mimecast, NTRGlobal and Twinfield. Full details are on the website and in the launch press release…

  • Beware the allure of Fool's Cloud

    Phil Wainewright
    19 Oct 2009 | 4:57 am
    Even more insidious than the perils of Amateur Cloud (which I covered in my last post) is the allure of a phenomenon I’m calling Fool’s Cloud. The more familiar name by which this is known to many enterprises and IT vendors is ‘private cloud.’ It’s what happens when people look at the phenomenon of cloud computing, latch on to a few of its features, and implement something within their IT infrastructure that appears identical in their eyes, even though it omits some of the most crucial elements of cloud computing. I’m not saying that privately-hosted cloud…
 
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    thingamy

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

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

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

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

  • Work processor

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

  • Do something instead of doing things to get something done

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

  • Is Gartner "getting it"?

    sig
    6 Oct 2009 | 8:49 am
    (At least they've found a huge issue, but not so much a solution.)Always a pleasure to read a blog post with "revelations" like this:"...the hidden costs of unstructured processes: although a lot of focus of BPM efforts (time and money) is on structured processes, as much as 60% of an organization’s processes are unstructured – and probably also unmonitored, unmanaged, unknown and unruly."Fellow Enterprise Irregular Sandy Kemsley wrote this yesterday following a presentation at Gartner BPM Summit by Elise Olding and Carol Rozwell.The reason I'm quite…
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    deal architect

  • Tools: Test before you buy

    6 Nov 2009 | 7:53 am
    I first asked in the late 90s when I was at Gartner – why do testing, conversion, change configuration and other tools vendors not allow system integrators to deploy their tools for the duration of relevant phase of an implementation...

  • NetSuite Business Cloud event feedback

    6 Nov 2009 | 7:45 am
    I presented in the NetSuite Business Cloud seminar series in its final leg – in Chicago and Atlanta. The 6 week tour had previously been to London, Sydney, Manila and New York. While I did not envy some of the...

  • If this is fake, give us plenty more

    4 Nov 2009 | 6:46 am
    Ron Markezich, corporate VP of Microsoft Online says "we're not seeing any inclination that Zoho or Google or Zimbra or any other of those offering fake Office capabilities can replace [Microsoft Office]," And guess what – he said it as...

  • Vendor traffic in the Data Center

    4 Nov 2009 | 5:24 am
    Cisco adds the storage building block to its network and computing plans with a JV with EMC. HP, in turn, decides to go after Cisco’s sweet spot with new HP ProCurve offerings integrated with HP BladeSystem. Oracle, awaiting regulatory approval...

  • More New Renaissance

    1 Nov 2009 | 1:42 pm
    On the New Florence blog 12 really Maverick Ideas Mouse 2.0 The new plants in Motown Solar Decathlon Intel Risks it all (again)
 
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    Pistachio » Touchbase Blog

  • Part 2: Twitter Lists: Developers and Applications

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

  • Part 1: What are Twitter Lists?

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

  • oneforty what?

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

  • Twitter as the Virtual Watercooler

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

  • Twitter from the Showfloor

    Marcia Conner
    21 Aug 2009 | 11:54 am
    We’ve reported on the growing use of Twitter to connect people at conferences during sessions. Now examples of Twitter use during other parts of conferences and events have begun to surface. One fabulous success story comes from The Chicago Market: Living and Giving, the country’s longest-running gift show,  spanning 5 show floors. This year, the event organizers created a Twitter campaign and an event hashtag (#Chicago09) for buyers and retailers to share updates on specials, events, photos and other useful information during the show. Organizers’ expectations were met and…
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    Hu Yoshida

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

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

  • Loading Up on Virtual Servers

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

  • Switch IT On II

    Hu Yoshida
    20 Oct 2009 | 10:38 am
    In April I wrote about our “Switch IT On” program, which provides free software licenses to help current and new USP V customers leverage virtualization across their existing HDS and third party storage assets. The program has proven to be so successful that HDS decided to add Switch IT On II, and both programs will run through the end of March 2010. For details on both programs please visit here. The key feature for this extension to Switch IT On is the addition of the USP VM, which is our modular, rack mount version of the USP V storage virtualization controller. If you have existing FC…

  • Scale up for virtual servers!

    Hu Yoshida
    19 Oct 2009 | 6:30 am
    Monolithic Storage Systems Developed for Mainframe Virtualization Having been in the storage industry for some time now, I have the benefit of historical perspective. I started out when mainframe storage was the only external storage available. Mainframes were the original virtual server, built for running multiple partitions of concurrent applications which drove tremendous I/O loads across special processors called channels.  In order to support this type of workload, storage vendors had to build monolithic storage systems, that had multiple processors on the front ports to match the I/O…

  • Introducing Agile Cloud Soultions

    Hu Yoshida
    13 Oct 2009 | 5:03 am
    Hitachi Data Systems announced a new portfolio of cloud technologies that delivers an integrated set of storage services across block, files and content storage to support cloud computing and enable organizations to implement cloud services at their own pace. From my perspective, we have been providing customers cloud enabling technologies since we introduced the virtualization capabilities of the USP. There are many SaaS providers and Network Computing companies like Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company, which is hosting and delivering their…
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    Andrew McAfee's Blog

  • Shameless Self-promotion

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

  • Colonizing the Outer Rings

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

  • McAfee’s Hypothesis (plus contest results!)

    amcafee
    9 Oct 2009 | 1:26 pm
    In a happy coincidence, blogger-who-needs-no-introduction Robert Scoble wrote about attributes of email just a few days before my Wednesday post on the same topic. Scoble’s succinct conclusion was that “email sucks,” and that Google Wave might well be worse. He makes an interesting argument, and I urge you to check it out. Scoble lists the tools he uses for collaboration, and as I read through them I realized that I’d left an important item off my own list of email’s strengths. Scoble uses, in addition to email, at least six tools: Skype, Twitter, Friendfeed…

  • How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Email

    amcafee
    7 Oct 2009 | 10:29 am
    I was talking a little while back with an IT manager responsible for the technology package used by the road warriors at a large global consulting company. She told me about all the different digital meeting rooms (DMRs) she and her team had tried to deploy, and about how none of them had ever caught on. As at most big consultancies, analysts, managers, and partners in this company work together in relatively stable teams for the life of a project. Team members communicate extensively and intensively with each other, but long ago stopped using voice mail to do so when they weren’t in the…

  • Keep It Simple, Smartly

    amcafee
    2 Oct 2009 | 8:36 am
    I posted a little while back about how hard it is to design tech products that appear simple, and said that I’d write more later about how to add complexity to them over time. So here are a few proposed ground rules on how to increase technology complexity without frustrating or alienating users (who value simplicity more than they think they do). These rules are just conjectures, based out of personal experience and observation; please don’t interpret them as peer-reviewed or empirically validated. The best single resource I know of for dealing with complexity is The Laws of…
 
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    The Enterprise System Spectator

  • The inexorable dominance of cloud computing

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

  • Out of recession: US economic review and forecast

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

  • Oracle's roadmap for Fusion Apps

    Frank Scavo
    15 Oct 2009 | 7:22 am
    In the last part of the last keynote at Oracle Open World yesterday, Larry Ellison finally gave some specifics concerning Oracle's Fusion Applications, its next-generation of business software.Technology foundation and user interfaceThese are the areas where Fusion really shines. The product is completely architected from the ground up on Oracle Fusion middleware, with a service-oriented

  • Salesforce.com: more than an itty-bitty application

    Frank Scavo
    13 Oct 2009 | 8:05 am
    I'm spending a couple of days at the Oracle Open World conference this week and decided to find out a little bit more about Salesforce.com and its relationship with Oracle. Why? A couple of weeks ago, Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison made some not-so-kind comments about the term "cloud computing" in general, and Salesforce.com in particular.Ellison said,"Let's look at [Salesforce.com's] technology," he

  • Live from Oracle Open World 2009

    Frank Scavo
    11 Oct 2009 | 9:30 pm
    I'm attending a couple of days at Oracle's user conference in San Francisco this week. Tonight, Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy took the stage as a united team representing Oracle and Oracle's latest acquisition, Sun Microsystems.Larry Ellison, true to form, spoke mostly about Oracle's competition, specifically IBM, claiming Oracle's database running on Sun processors are faster than IBM's DB2.
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    Digital Landfill

  • 8 things that always worried you about legacy content, but you were afraid to ask about

    John Mancini
    5 Nov 2009 | 4:04 am
    Since joining Vamosa in 2001, Nic has helped transform the company into a sector-defining software and solutions company specializing in the emerging area of Enterprise Content Governance (ECoG). Nic has led the expansion of Vamosa in the US, while continuing to work closely with the UK team on Vamosa's strategy and vision for the recently launched suite of products.8 things that always worried you about legacy content, but you were afraid to ask about 1 -- Your content is probably not in the best shape.   One of the reasons why you are implementing your new ECM system is that you…

  • Scanning and capture experiences needed for latest AIIM survey

    John Mancini
    3 Nov 2009 | 5:34 pm
    Scanning and capture experiences needed for latest AIIM survey   We want to dig deep into motivations, issues and ROI for scanning and capture investments. What do you scan? Which processes work best? Outsourced vs centralized vs distributed? We need your input. The resulting Industry Watch report will be free for participants to download. You could also win a cool Samsung N130 netbook. Here's the link -- http://www.aiimhost.com/surveyTake the survey now.Have you downloaded the other AIIM surveys?  They're free.  That's right, free.

  • 8 things to consider when deciding to buy or rent OCR capabilities

    John Mancini
    2 Nov 2009 | 3:27 pm
    Kevin McQueen has a Product Management and Business Development background in the cloud based messaging and document management industries.  He currently works with FV Tech, which is an OCR Service Bureau specializing in providing Automated Data Entry/Document Management solutions to automate paper processing for documents like purchase orders, BOLs and EOBs.Buying software and hardware to enable and in-house Document Management application for data extraction and forms processing versus outsourcing the application should come down to a solid business case that includes quantitative…

  • Process automation is only as good as the weakest link in the process

    John Mancini
    2 Nov 2009 | 3:13 pm
    One of the points we try to make during our educational events (especially our ECM seminars) is that an automated process is only as strong as its weakest link.  In other words, you can automate all you want, but if there is piece of the process that doesn't work, it will drag the best of intentions and the best of automation to a grinding halt. A case in point.First, I will admit some ownership to the problem here by my/our procrastination.That said, some background. My daughter Erin is in middle of the college application process.  A couple of the schools she is…

  • A recap on AIIM #ecm e-book availability

    John Mancini
    1 Nov 2009 | 6:51 pm
    You can download in multiple formats from the AIIM web site.  You can download an audiobook from iTunes.If you are a supercool iPhone person, you can download directly to your iPhone and view it there by looking at the Stanza app, checking the Smashwords collection, and searching on author Mancini.If you want to check out a PowerPoint summary, go HERE.Want a list of what's in the first book, go HERE. Want to be part of the next e-book?  Click HERE.
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    Schneier on Security

  • Friday Squid Blogging: Dentyne Ice Squid Ad

    schneier
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:13 pm
    Weird.

  • Interview with Me

    schneier
    6 Nov 2009 | 12:35 pm
    On CNet.com.

  • The Doghouse: ADE 651

    schneier
    6 Nov 2009 | 4:55 am
    A divining rod to find explosives in Iraq: ATSC’s promotional material claims that its device can find guns, ammunition, drugs, truffles, human bodies and even contraband ivory at distances up to a kilometer, underground, through walls, underwater or even from airplanes three miles high. The device works on “electrostatic magnetic ion attraction,” ATSC says. To detect materials, the operator puts an array of plastic-coated cardboard cards with bar codes into a holder connected to the wand by a cable. “It would be laughable,” Colonel Bidlack said, “except someone down the street…

  • Mossad Hacked Syrian Official's Computer

    schneier
    5 Nov 2009 | 10:48 am
    It was unattended in a hotel room at the time: Israel's Mossad espionage agency used Trojan Horse programs to gather intelligence about a nuclear facility in Syria the Israel Defense Forces destroyed in 2007, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported Monday. According to the magazine, Mossad agents in London planted the malware on the computer of a Syrian official who was staying in the British capital; he was at a hotel in the upscale neighborhood of Kensington at the time. The program copied the details of Syria's illicit nuclear program and sent them directly to the Mossad agents'…

  • The Problems with Unscientific Security

    schneier
    5 Nov 2009 | 4:11 am
    From the Open Access Journal of Forensic Psychology, by a whole list of authors: "A Call for Evidence-Based Security Tools": Abstract: Since the 2001 attacks on the twin towers, policies on security have changed drastically, bringing about an increased need for tools that allow for the detection of deception. Many of the solutions offered today, however, lack scientific underpinning. We recommend two important changes to improve the (cost) effectiveness of security policy. To begin with, the emphasis of deception research should shift from technological to behavioural sciences. Secondly, the…
 
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    Content Management Connection

  • Wikis in Knowledge Management Presentation

    6 Nov 2009 | 3:51 pm
    This is the presentation I gave at the Dublin Institute of Technology on 08/11/09. There were 2 masters classes in attendance (Knowledge Management & IT).Wikis In Knowledge Management Enabling Effective CollaborationView more presentations from mooneycol.

  • Apologies for Slow Response Times

    6 Nov 2009 | 3:47 pm
    I am without my own laptop for a few days as I manage a transition between jobs. So I apologize in advance if I am slow to respond to email, comments, or tweets over the weekend. I’ll be back at full steam early next week.

  • Going (to) Google

    6 Nov 2009 | 1:45 pm
    This is my last week at Endeca. The decision to leave has been a heart-wrenching one: not only have the past ten years been the best of my life, but my experiences at Endeca have defined me professionally. Moreover, Endeca is riding a wave of success with recent advances in our products, new relationships with key partners, and fascinating new deployments.  (You can read Endeca’s latest announcements in our newsroom). Ironically, it is this ver...

  • Google Books Has A Digtal Magazine Rack

    6 Nov 2009 | 1:23 pm
    via observer.com "In their never-ending quest to archive all media, from Web sites to books, Google is taking on the publishing world and scanning entire issues of magazines, ads and all." Permalink | Leave a comment  »

  • Video: Jordan Frank on the “Responsibility to Collaborate”

    6 Nov 2009 | 9:52 am
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    Confessions of an eBiz Junkie

  • The Transforming Enterprise

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

  • Innovation Day at EMC

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

  • New FTC Guidelines and Social Marketing

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

  • Are your ears burning?

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

  • Cool Opps at EMC

    Len Devanna
    8 Sep 2009 | 9:08 am
    Two really cool opportunities still posted on EMC.com that are likely of interest to readers of this blog. Strangely, links to each results in 'cookies disabled' errors for some so I wanted to duplicate the content here. If interested, use the Requisition ID below to find the relevant opp and submit your credentials. BusinessDocumentumLocation(s)US - California - PleasantonTitleSocial Media ManagerRequisition ID44934BRJob DescriptioncLet’s face it, information and people are the most important assets companies have. EMC’s Content Management and Archiving division is revolutionizing the…
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  • Good luck, Alan

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    5 Nov 2009 | 5:07 am
    Nine years at one company is almost longer than my entire career in information security.  But that’s how long Alan Shimel was at StillSecure.  Was being the operative word, since Alan has announced that he’s left the company and will be moving on to something new.  He’s not exactly sure what that is yet, but I’m sure Alan will be a valuable resource where ever he ends up.  He’s taking some time off to collect his thoughts and spend time with family, both of which are things I definitely consider time well spent. Thanks the Alan and Mitchell…

  • I’ll do anything! Absolutely anything!

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    4 Nov 2009 | 8:49 pm
    I love my children, I really do.  Especially when they remind me of some of the life lessons I learned long ago but have forgotten from my conscious mind.  And even more importantly when those life lessons are the same lessons that can be applied to the job I do on a daily basis.  Let me tell you a short story and how that relates to security in general and PCI specifically. As we all know, Halloween was only a few days ago and many of us have large bowls filled with candy sitting around the house.  My house is no different and like many other parents, we’ve tried…

  • The Network Security Podcast, Episode 172

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    3 Nov 2009 | 4:59 pm
    “The Episode that almost Wasn’t”  It’s been a day.  Shortly before we were scheduled to start, there was a pop and the power went out at Martin’s house.  Rich has issues of his own to deal with.  And Zach is … somewhere.  It was only because the local electric company responded quickly for the first time I can remember were we able to squeeze in a podcast recording between emergencies.  And now that we’ve recorded and posted, it’s time to put our noses back to the grindstone and work for a couple more hours. Network…

  • Turn off SSH on your jailbroken iPhone!

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    3 Nov 2009 | 6:17 am
    Jailbreaking an iPhone unlocks some very useful features that the iPhone is lacking and gives you the control over your device that you should have in the first place.  Just getting access to the xGPS project and it’s turn by turn directions has been more than enough reason for my friend Bob to jailbreak his phone multiple times.  But as Uncle Ben once told Peter Parker, “With great power comes great responsibility.”  Apple locked down the iPhone in part to protect users from the bad guys out there and if you’re in the Netherlands with a jailbroken…

  • The Reality Behind Facebook Ads

    netsecpodcast@mckeay.net (Martin McKeay)
    2 Nov 2009 | 5:55 am
    Micheal Arrington sure knows how to stir up a crap storm.  Saturday he started bringing to light the amount of scamming and dishonest practices behind ads and games on Facebook and MySpace.  I’m pretty sure that the people who think the ads are legitimate are in the minority, but even I was stunned by the sheer magnitude of the money changing hands behind the scenes.  I assume part of why I was unaware of the issue is my own limited of use of Facebook and complete refusal to visit MySpace.  Sure, there are rules that try to limit the scams, but the reality is that…
 
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    Martin Fowler's Bliki

  • DslBookRoadmap

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

  • TechnicalDebtQuadrant

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

  • FeatureBranch

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

  • UpcomingTalks

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

  • DigitalSLR

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

  • Make Your White Papers Count

    6 Nov 2009 | 8:08 am
    First - who all out there writes white papers? Raise your hands - ummm 1, 2 345, oops there's number 6 & 7 ... That's it? For shame. White papers are a very good way to get noticed, show your skills and build your reputation as an authority on whatever you are an authority on. You will learn from the experience as well. Anytime you challenge your mind to locate, organize and output information

  • BA's - Misunderstood For Sure

    4 Nov 2009 | 10:30 am
    Interesting experience today. Had to speak with a tech PM on a project. We needed to sort out some stuff that was going on with one of the developers. I was talking about strategic vision and innovation. Came down to I wanted to know if there was room for open discussion as we had always done to bring new ideas to the table. The whole thing seemed to come about because a developer was complaining about

  • Consulting - A Starting Point in 3 Easy Steps

    4 Nov 2009 | 12:14 am
    Are you an expert? You might be.

  • Queue the Music - Happy Halloween

    29 Oct 2009 | 8:42 am
    As promised and with apologies to Michael Jackson, meet me under the full moon at midnight on Halloween - The tech version of Thriller - Let's Dance! It's close to midnight and implementation is lurking at the dawn Under the screen glare, you see a sight that stifles that big yawn You try to page but terror freezes up those fumbling fingers You start to cry, as code move looks you right between

  • Career Assessment - 4 Areas, 3 Quick Lessons, and a couple questions for you to answer

    22 Oct 2009 | 1:40 am
    Is your career an accident or intentional?
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    PGreenblog

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

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

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

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

  • Meetup? Embarking on a 41,000 mile Tour

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

  • Compelling Compilation: Videos That Make the Case for Something

    Paul Greenberg
    2 Oct 2009 | 8:55 am
    I figured I'd fling a few videos onto this page that make the case for something that touches Social CRM or the customer experience or whatever else I feel like putting up. :-) #1 First up, a really... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news from CRM at the Speed of Light author Paul Greenberg

  • The Margin of Utility: Keeping the Ordinary Expectation...Ordinary

    Paul Greenberg
    11 Sep 2009 | 1:11 pm
    Now that the book is done, and I've used my sledgehammer to drive my stake in the ground on Social CRM, and the CRM Evolution 2009 conference is over - the best thing I ever attended - I need to... The award winning, edgiest CRM blog on the planet. The industry, the concepts, the news from CRM at the Speed of Light author Paul Greenberg
 
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    The Database Column

  • The Benefits of Storing Sorted Data

    Omer Trajman
    14 Oct 2009 | 4:28 am
    It's a popular misconception in the database field that there are fundamental tradeoffs between the speed of loading data to disk, the rate of data compression and the resulting speed of querying that data.  Column stores can avoid these trade-offs by balancing the block size and compression type for each column or as with Vertica's FlexStore, collections of any number of columns. Does this mean that introducing vertical segmentation finally solves these trade-offs?  Not quite.  The biggest underlying problem that causes database systems to weight these tradeoffs is that it's…

  • The Scoop on Hadoop and Vertica

    Omer Trajman
    25 Sep 2009 | 11:02 am
    Last month Vertica announced support for MapReduce.  As readers of this blog know well we are big proponents of the one size does not fit all philosophy.  Listening to our customers we also realized that MapReduce is a very good technology for large scale data processing including ETL, ELT, data cleansing, data mining, etc. And, using MapReduce together with a database can increase its value significantly.  Rather than create yet another proprietary implementation we chose to integrate with the popular Apache Hadoop project.  Our integration efforts together with customer…

  • "Just in Time" Decompression in Analytic Databases

    Michael Stonebraker
    4 Sep 2009 | 9:51 am
    A Deeper Look at Compression in Analytic Database Systems So far, most of the analysis of compression in data warehouse database products has centered around its effects on I/O and storage requirements. The main points often discussed relate to the compressibility of columnar databases versus that of row-stores. It's generally accepted that due to the greater similarity and redundancy of data within columns, column stores provide superior compression, and therefore require less storage hardware and perform faster because, among other things, they read less data from the disk.    In…

  • The Truth About MPP & Data Warehousing

    Michael Stonebraker
    23 Jun 2009 | 7:07 pm
    The purpose of this post is to explore alternative data warehouse architectures and understand the advantages MPP column store databases offer.  It also debunks some of the myths of MPP data warehousing and suggests some evaluation criteria when comparing different MPP implementations. Shared Memory, Shared-Disk and MPP Database ArchitecturesStudents of database technology learn early on that there are three hardware architectures on which DBMSs can run:Shared-memory:  Here, a collection of CPUs share a common main memory and disk system. This architecture was the dominant one in…

  • Securing Your Data in the Cloud

    Omer Trajman
    30 Mar 2009 | 10:48 am
    The information technology world is buzzing about cloud computing, and in my circles specifically, cloud-based data management. The questions I'm asked most frequently (aside from what exactly cloud computing is) are about cloud security. In my presentation at Sys-Con, I outlined four different aspects to cloud security: VPNs, firewalls, encryption, and intelligent data management (click here for a PDF of the slide deck). In this blog post I will highlight the first few and expand on the last item.When you connect to a cloud computing provider, such as Amazon EC2, AppNexus, GoGrid,…
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    BizTechTalk

  • BizTechTalk Briefs 10/27/2009

    Dan Keldsen
    27 Oct 2009 | 6:30 am
    Augmented Reality using Sketchup models - a small tutorial | Rudy van der Blomtags: no_tagSmall flash "Business model canvas" tool | Rudy van der Blomtags: no_tagProducing TRIZ Solutions: Odds of Successtags: no_tagPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

  • BizTechTalk Briefs 10/26/2009

    Dan Keldsen
    26 Oct 2009 | 6:30 am
    A Web Game for Predicting Some Futures: Exploring the Wisdom of Crowds (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSEtags: no_tagNITLE Prediction Marketstags: no_tagPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

  • BizTechTalk Briefs 10/22/2009

    Dan Keldsen
    22 Oct 2009 | 6:30 am
    Interesting New Products and Inventions: surPLUShome produces Twice the Energy it Consumestags: no_tagPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

  • BizTechTalk Briefs 10/21/2009

    Dan Keldsen
    21 Oct 2009 | 6:30 am
    SAP’s Gravity Prototype: Business Collaboration Using Google Wave | SAP Web 2.0tags: no_tagSAP Community Network Blogstags: no_tagPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

  • BizTechTalk Briefs 10/20/2009

    Dan Keldsen
    20 Oct 2009 | 6:30 am
    Why media outlets want Facebook Connect - mathewingram's posteroustags: no_tagMicrosoft SharePoint Team Blog : SharePoint 2010tags: no_tagBlogging Innovation: A Day with Gary Hamel - Latest innovation articles, videos, and insightstags: no_tagPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
 
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    LANs / WANs

  • Winners of Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet contests

    Cisco Subnet
    5 Nov 2009 | 2:33 pm
    Posted by Cisco Subnet editor Julie Bort: We are tickled to announce the winners of our October giveaways. The grand prize from Cisco Subnet of a free training course from Global Knowledge goes to David Kotlerewsky (pictured), systems engineer for InterVision Systems Technologies Inc. David thinks he'll use his free training for a class that will get him closer to his CCIE. Read more

  • Context is everything

    UbBlake
    5 Nov 2009 | 7:42 am
    In a collaborative environment context is everything. Not every initiative can be successfully addressed in a de-centralized collaborative setting. The tools and technologies of collaboration are application specific. There is a regrettable tendency to take the toy of the month and try to make it the universal answer for whatever obstacles are presented. As one who has had the use virtually every collaboration tool almost as soon as they were available, I would say there are two keys to determining what tools to use and how. Read more

  • Can we block all IPv6 tunnels in our enterprise network?

    Eric Vyncke
    5 Nov 2009 | 3:10 am
    A major IPv4 to IPv6 transition technique is the use of tunnels; this is encapsulating IPv6 packets into IPv4 packets that can then be transported over the IPv4-only parts of the Internet. Those tunnels can also be used within the enterprise network either on purpose (for example to traverse some legacy network devices not supporting IPv6) or not on purpose... Read more

  • Impressing Skype's buyout investors, Mike Volpi bragged he could get Cisco's top stars to jump ship

    Brad Reese
    4 Nov 2009 | 8:53 pm
    The New York Times is reporting that Skype's cofounders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis will become significant owners of the investment group buying a 65% interest in Skype from eBay for approximately $1.9 billion in cash (which values Skype at $2.75 billion). Simultaneously, it now appears Mike Volpi is being kicked to the curb by the very same investment group he organized to purchase Skype...

  • Proactive Strategies for Pandemia

    Jim Frey
    3 Nov 2009 | 1:55 pm
    It seems my last post was timely regarding network access during and through a pandemic. Gartner Group came out the next day with their list of concerns, which were quite similar to mine. They also mentioned a strategy which I had talked about with my colleague but forgot to include in my post -- the use of WAN optimization technologies as a hedge against Internet congestion. My thought there was “well,...
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    EMC Blogs

  • Perspective.

    6 Nov 2009 | 2:36 pm
    Not that I fully agree with everything in the following but there are some concepts here I hadn't thought of.The New Horsemen. On the rise of Cisco, EMC, VMware, Dell, and Oracle as platform players.AndEMC/Cisco/VMware vBlock – an Economists Perspective.One of the ideas I find most interesting is that Cisco/EMC converging on this area alone is going to the speed up the move to private cloud as everyone else repositions and tools up to work with or go to war against the alliance.

  • Dedup Roadshow comes to Dublin

    6 Nov 2009 | 10:06 am
    While my home town of Cork has been named in the top ten cities of Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2010, the EMC Backup Recovery Systems Dedup Roadshow comes to Dublin on the 18th of November. Well the place had to get something I suppose. Join us and you’ll see why Data Domain does for backup what the iPod did for digital music and why VMware and Avamar go together like strawberries and cream on a warm summer day. See you there. :-)

  • Storage Management Futures

    6 Nov 2009 | 8:18 am
    So, we’re working on something and if you answer 11 questions you can have a hand in deciding how it turns out I’m not going to say what just yet, lets call it Project Ice Climber for the time being, but we’d like to solicit some feedback from end users. Here’s a quick survey on Next Gen Storage Management if you’re an EMC customer, EMC partner or an end user of storage arrays, (EMC or otherwise) your feedback is something we’d like. It’s pretty quick and you can be as detailed, or not, as you desire but the more you put into it the greater the chance you’ll move our thinking…

  • Vblock and Ionix Unified Infrastructure Management

    6 Nov 2009 | 4:50 am
    One of the differentiators with Vblock is the fact that Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM) comes designed in. Ionix UIM provides a single management point for servers, storage and networking and has been tested and validated at every point in the VBlock product from VMware vSphere to Cisco servers and switches to EMC storage.     Unified management is an integral part to a Cloud based solution as it’s one of the ways you can slash OPEX and reduce if not entirely eliminate the ridiculous amounts of custom scripting people have to hammer out as they…

  • Getting To Good: Vblock + Acadia Customer Reaction

    6 Nov 2009 | 3:57 am
    So, I now have been in front of 6 different senior IT audiences since Tuesday's announcement.Note: this might give you a sense of how frequently I have the privilege of interacting with customers.I've been able to present the case for VCE, focusing on Vblock and Acadia, and I"m starting to see a consistent pattern in the reaction -- at least so far.Thought I'd share it with you, because I think we're going to see more of this going forward. The BasicsAdmittedly, this is a small sample size, and it's skewed towards very large IT organizations in the financial sector, so please take all of this…
 
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  • ZFS compression: perf, disk-space, and watts. The naked truth. (part 2 of 2)

    Thierry Manfe
    7 Nov 2009 | 2:34 am
    Here is the follow-up on the first ZFS compression article where I've been discussing the performance gain that compression brings and the way to measure power consumption with OpenSolaris. I checked that ZFS compression improves the IO perf when copying a large file and I now want to measure the impact on power consumption. During the 7m19sec that it takes to copy the large file without compression, my computer consumes 3.65Wh for an average power of 29.9W. During the 5.26sec with compression=on it consumes 2.88Wh for an average power of 31.82W. To focus even more on the energy specifically…

  • Oracle da señales positivas a usuarios de Sun y desafía a IBM

    Santiago Builes Palacio
    6 Nov 2009 | 10:09 pm
    El pasado domingo por la tarde se inauguró OpenWorld, el evento anual de Oracle, la nueva dueña de Sun Microsystems. Allí, además de su CEO, Larry Ellison, se hicieron presentes Scott McNealy, uno de los fundadores de Sun y otros de sus actuales ejecutivos. El mensaje de McNealy fue de tranquilidad para los usuarios de Sun (y para los empleados de esa firma). En general, McNealy recorrió el perfil innovador de Sun; hablo de IBM, de Linux y de Apple, a veces con sarcasmo y culminando, como siempre, con la mención de Java. Conciente de los rumores que corren respecto a que Oracle podría…

  • Noop: El nuevo lenguaje para la JVM de Google

    Santiago Builes Palacio
    6 Nov 2009 | 10:07 pm
    En el evento de Sun JVM Summit que se celebró hace un par de semanas en Estados Unidos, los ingenieros de Google aprovecharon para anunciar a Noop un lenguaje para JVM con una sintaxis similar a Java pero enfocado en dos conceptos básicos que Java no tiene: Inyección de dependencias soportado en el core del lenguaje sin necesidad de recurrir a frameworks y Testability. Su enfoque a la inyección de dependencias se basa en que una clase se puede crear de dos formas: a partir de objetos que el inyector puede proveer o a partir de a creación de dichos objetos en tiempo de…

  • The Sixty-Second Startup Digest

    Joann Yates
    6 Nov 2009 | 8:33 pm
    Busy entrepreneurs need to stay on top of all the latest startup information, but who has the time? Here's a look at what went on around blogosphere and in the news this week, in case you missed it. Seattle-based Frazier Technology Ventures has been going strong for 44 years. Now it looks like it's at the end of a successful ride. Getting audited by the IRS is never any fun, and it's worse when the cold eye of Uncle Sam turns to your startup. Brush up on these five classic triggers of an IRS audit. We've all heard about bootstrapping a business, but how do you make it work for you? Here are…

  • Catch up on Sun news this week!

    Maijaliisa Burkert
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:18 pm
    Catch up on what happened at Sun this week in this short podcast! Topics include new updates to Sun's Java Store Beta, Sun's new alliance with PayPal, Sun solutions in use at Columbia University and the University of Zurich, and Sun's top honor in the American Society of Training and Development's BEST Awards competition. (Brought to you by hosts Chhandomay Mandal and Maijaliisa Burkert.)
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    Oracle Blogs

  • Up to 2.5x faster enterprise Web queries with Sun Systems for Oracle Coherence

    ruma.sanyal
    6 Nov 2009 | 10:21 am
    Scale enterprise Web applications for peak performance, reduced risk, and long-term savings with Sun Systems for Oracle Coherence - the ideal platform for Enterprise Web applications. This solution converges compute, next generation storage, and networking technologies to enable continuous data availability, transactional integrity and throughput with Oracle Coherence. With Sun Systems for Oracle Coherence, mission-critical web applications: Achieve up to 2.5x faster enterprise Web queries and transactions per second by adding Sun Systems for Oracle Coherence Use up to 50% less real estate…

  • Live Webcast For Social Services: Next Generation Approach to Improving Outcomes and Decision Making

    michael.seback
    6 Nov 2009 | 9:37 am
    Attend our live webcast for Health, Human Services, and Labor agencies. Hear experts Adelaide O'Brien with IDC Government Insights and Kimberly Ellison-Taylor from Oracle's Health & Human Services practice discuss the latest trends in social services and customer success stories. Register Now!

  • Around the World

    stephen.fox
    6 Nov 2009 | 9:26 am
    The Word from the Web - 11/06/2009 The chatter about the show on the InterWebs is slowing down a bit, but we still found some interesting reading about your experiences at Oracle OpenWorld 2009. If you haven't been featured in our Around the World series, take this opportunity to add your two cents in our comments section. Tweeters Attending OOW09 Before the show, we told you about—and added ourselves to—the list George Woods put together of Twitter users headed to Oracle OpenWorld 2009. Now that Twitter has released its Lists feature to all users, George has turned his list into…

  • Renewables and the Smart Grid

    caroline.yu
    6 Nov 2009 | 8:31 am
    Oracle recently sponsored an EnergyBiz Webcast discussing renewables and the smart grid. The panel of industry leaders and Marty Rosenberg, Editor-in-Chief of EnergyBiz magazine, discussed the potential and reality of incorporating renewables into the smart grid. The panel featured Michael Morris, President & CEO, American Electric Power (AEP); Barry Smitherman, Chairman, Texas Public Utility Commission; and Monty Humble, Vice President & General Counsel, Mesa Power Group LLC. You can hear the Webcast titled, "Renewables and the Smart Grid," here.

  • links for 2009-11-06

    Bob Rhubart
    6 Nov 2009 | 7:56 am
    Why Gaming is the Future of Everything : The AppsLab "Real innovation means you must say no to a lot of things that everyone will tell you are a must have, but if you want inspiration it’s the only way. Find that core of what your application is. The one reason it lives (eg. adding a task, tracking time, sharing a file, whatever). Find it. Honor it. Strip away the noise. And then work like hell to make it FUN." -- Paul Pedrazza (tags: softwaredevelopment gaming usability productivity innovation) Video: Oracle Rackspace Cloud Computing Lew Moorman, Jim Curry, and Mark Collier of…
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  • Context-Aware computing needs Decision Management

    James Taylor
    6 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am
    Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Context-Aware computing needs Decision Management.Syndicated from ebizQ In a press release just over a month ago, Gartner said that Context-Aware Computing will provide significant competitive advantage. As the press releases says: Gartner defines context-aware computing as the concept of leveraging information about the end user to improve the quality of the interaction. Emerging context-enriched services will use location, presence, social attributes, and other environmental information to anticipate an end user’s immediate…

  • Smarter systems for uncertain times – #brf keynote

    James Taylor
    5 Nov 2009 | 11:01 am
    Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Smarter systems for uncertain times – #brf keynote.I gave a keynote at the Business Rules Forum today on Smarter systems for uncertain times.  I gave the presentation without slides and had planned to use my notes as a post but, as the notes ran to 5,000 words, I have decided to write a white paper based on them instead! To keep you going until I get around to that, here are the high level points I made in the presentation: The business climate requires smarter systems Change is constant and increasing with most executives,…

  • Business Rules Forum 2009 – Day 2 #brf

    James Taylor
    4 Nov 2009 | 9:44 pm
    Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Business Rules Forum 2009 – Day 2 #brf.The second full day of the Business Rules Forum/Enterprise Decision Management Summit is over and once again I have been taking notes rather than blogging live. Once again there were some great sessions – today I heard Steve Hendrick of IDC, Sandeep Gupta of Equifax, Chaitan Sharma of DAASL, Zach Springborn of OneData and Mo Masud of Deloitte. I have to confess to skipping Eric Siegel’s session as I have heard it recently (check out 5 ways to reduce cost with predictive…

  • Business Rules Forum 2009 – Day 1 #brf

    James Taylor
    3 Nov 2009 | 11:55 pm
    Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Business Rules Forum 2009 – Day 1 #brf.It’s the end of day 1 of the Business Rules Forum/Enterprise Decision Management Summit and time to write a wrap up post for the day – no live blogging today as I have too much on as track chair to sit behind my keyboard! Today I got to attend Jim Sinur’s keynote and sessions from Roger Ahern of Experian, David Wilson of John Deere, Stephanie Alsbrooks and Kartheek Veeravalli of ThinkCash Financial and Sundar Vallianayagam of Jarus Technologies. Here goes with the…

  • The Decision Model and business rules

    James Taylor
    2 Nov 2009 | 6:45 am
    Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at The Decision Model and business rules.Syndicated from ebizQ The new book from Barb von Halle and Larry Goldberg, The Decision Model: A Business Logic Framework Linking Business and Technology, is now available. This book outlines an approach for capturing and managing the business rules you need to understand in order to implement a Decision Service. It complements the use of a business rules management system as it is a modeling approach for rule analysis and design. It has some nice features, not least a set of rules for checking…
 
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  • RSA and VeriSign: forward together into the Cloud

    5 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    RSA and VeriSign have come a long way over the last 15 years.  From a close origin to distant extremes, we are now going into a mature relationship with one another.  I can’t speak to everything that has gone before, but the two companies have evolved very differently while interacting positively and negatively over the years.

  • Evolution of Authentication

    4 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    In the old days, authentication was people seeing people. You could spot someone and come to a decision as to whether they were who they claimed to be on the basis of things that you could discern with your five senses (mostly vision, hearing and scent).

  • Speaking of Security Podcast #167

    2 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm
    Click to Download/Listen This week's Speaking of Security podcast features a discussion on the use of social media by the US government. Mischel Kwon, VP of Public Sector Security Solutions for RSA and a former Director for the US Department of Homeland Security is our guest.

  • The Blame Game: Security and Responsibility

    21 Oct 2009 | 5:00 pm
    “All the money I had is gone. I can weep and I can cry, I can wonder why.”* Recently a story came to light about a bank being sued by one of its customers after their account was hacked into by cybercriminals.  The customer is claiming that their bank failed to notice the suspicious transactions that drained their bank account.  

  • The Year of PKI is Here!

    21 Oct 2009 | 5:00 pm
    It’s 2009, and someone just asked me “is this the year of PKI?” I thought this was an old joke, but they were in earnest. Certificates are one of those things that many people fell in love with for their elegance and the promise that they could extend trust in many new directions.
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  • E-Healthcare Provides a Prescription for Universal ECM

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

  • E-Gov - E-gads

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

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

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

  • Innovation is Not Serendipity or Discovery

    Carl Frappaolo
    5 Oct 2009 | 6:57 am
    Last Friday's cover of the Boston Metro proclaimed “ How recession is forcing creativity in entertainment.”  It’s an interesting article on how the current economy mixed with the advent of Web 2.0 is affecting the entertainment industry, but the title held a different appeal for me. Serendipitously, I am working on IAI’s soon to be released whitepaper on Innovation Management. The whitepaper includes the results of a 180 respondent survey on how innovation is managed in the enterprise.  In line with today’s headline, it came as no surprise that 70% of those surveyed…

  • Email Management and Government: Do as I say not as I do

    Carl Frappaolo
    16 Sep 2009 | 12:50 pm
    Nearly a year ago I posted a blog on the Bush Administration's attempt to not comply with a court ordered discovery of e-mails. In the blog entitled You Can Fight City Hall, I drew attention to the power of the courts in requiring compliance with e-mail records management mandates, "If such mandates can be successfully argued against the While House, is there any doubt in your mind regarding the ultimate fate your corporate e-mail management policy will meet? " Well, apparently not everyone was listening. "City Hall" once again tried to circumvent e-mail retention…
 
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  • StorageMojo in Silicon Valley next week

    Robin Harris
    4 Nov 2009 | 4:20 pm
    I have some openings Tuesday and Wednesday – 10th , 11th – for folks who’d like to engage. Let me know in the comments or at my email. Thanks! Copyright © 2009 StorageMojo. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@storagemojo.com so we can take legal action immediately.Plugin by Taragana Related posts:StorageMojo at SNW Orlando next week StorageMojo’s global HQ is packing up for Orlando on…

  • Gartner’s magic hydrant

    Robin Harris
    3 Nov 2009 | 1:47 pm
    It gushes money Gartner’s business model is genius. They gather information from vendors and users – for large fees from both – and then sell that information back to them for even more money. Bliss. They own a toll booth on the user/vendor information highway. And collect $1.3 billion a year from the traffic – over $300,000 per employee. Drool. But the best is the Magic Quadrant, Gartner’s money-spinning qualitative graphic. You’ve seen it, but here’s a blank version. The “magic” is how it gets tech execs leaping, like spawning salmon,…

  • Mac ZFS is dead

    Robin Harris
    27 Oct 2009 | 12:58 am
    Ding, dong. PC file system progress took a giant step back this week with the news on MacOSforge that Apple’s ZFS project has been discontinued. ZFS Project Shutdown 2009-10-23 The ZFS project has been discontinued. The mailing list and repository will also be removed shortly. Apple announced in June ‘08 that Snow Leopard server would support ZFS. But things came apart early this year. What happened? Jeff Bonwick, ZFS architect, posted Saturday on an earlier quoted comment: > Apple can currently just take the ZFS CDDL code and incorporate it > (like they did with DTrace), but it…

  • Cool companies at SNW

    Robin Harris
    22 Oct 2009 | 5:51 pm
    Spent 3 days at fall ‘09 SNW. Given the economy my expectations were low. The good news: it was active. The better news: the pace of innovation across storage is accelerating, despite the economy and the drop in VC funding. Make that perhaps because of the drop in VC funding. Veterans of prior startups have self-funding and the chops to prototype and market-test without VC “help.” Fewer vendor staff – more customer interaction Vendors brought fewer people – a good thing. Too often SNW booths are reunions of industry veterans leaving customers on the outside…

  • Ask StorageMojo: EqualLogic vs LeftHand & more

    Robin Harris
    21 Oct 2009 | 1:29 pm
    These requests came in over the transom in the last couple of days. Maybe some StorageMojo readers have wisdom to share. I have a question I hope you can help me with. My boss asked me . . . to research HP Left-hand SANs and Dell Equallogic SANs. Do you have any special knowledge of these products and, if so, would you make an informal recommendation? What say you, StorageMojo readers? If you evaluated both, why did you make the choice you did? Vendors welcome to comment, but please identify yourself as such. The StorageMojo take AFAIK, both products are good iSCSI systems. Both are backed by…
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  • Internet Computing Content Management Checklist

    6 Nov 2009 | 8:23 am
    INTERNET COMPUTING CONTENT MANAGEMENT   Yes No N/A Remarks ...

  • Firefox Tip

    6 Nov 2009 | 4:27 am
    Courtesy of the PC-BSD testing mailing list:

  • Demonoid back on line

    6 Nov 2009 | 1:20 am
    Torrent freak is reporting that Demonoid, a bittorrent tracker that was shut down over two months ago due to hardware failure is back on line.

  • Internet Computing Applications Checklist

    5 Nov 2009 | 11:24 pm
    INTERNET COMPUTING APPLICATIONS   Yes No N/A Remarks ...

  • Is Ubuntu's release cycle its downfall?

    5 Nov 2009 | 7:03 pm
    If you are at all familiar with Ubuntu then you know that it is based around a bi-annual release cycle. This latest release, going by the name of Karmic Koala (aawwww, ain't that cute :), is currently creating an internet storm of accusations of er, shall we say, incompetence? I think that that is a very harsh word and it hasn't actually been used, yet the articles I have been reading are clearly implying
 
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  • Make Your White Papers Count

    6 Nov 2009 | 8:08 am
    First - who all out there writes white papers? Raise your hands - ummm 1, 2 345, oops there's number 6 & 7 ... That's it? For shame. White papers are a very good way to get noticed, show your skills and build your reputation as an authority on whatever you are an authority on. You will learn from the experience as well. Anytime you challenge your mind to locate, organize and output information

  • IBM Reveals the First Fourteen InfoSphere Information Champions

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:14 am
    I was fortunate to be included in the list of the first IBM Information Champions for contributions to the InfoSphere software community.

  • IBM Reveals the First Fourteen InfoSphere Information Champions

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:14 am
    I was fortunate to be included in the list of the first IBM Information Champions for contributions to the InfoSphere software community.

  • How important is out of box thinking in software development

    5 Nov 2009 | 4:34 am
    Innovation led software development and its importance

  • Nothing is more expensive than cheap and fast

    5 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    Two weeks ago, the Bay Bridge in San Francisco closed unexpectedly when a bridge strut broke and fell onto the cars below. It remained closed for nine days, finally reopening this week. The strut broke because of a hasty fix when the bridge was closed earlier for planned rebuilding work.
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    27 Oct 2009 | 10:27 am

  • Is dedupe to tape crazy?

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

  • ZL files lawsuit against Gartner

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

  • I'm in love with my Drobo

    12 Oct 2009 | 1:01 pm
    This weekend I really fell in love with my Drobo (http://drobo.com), so I thought I'd tell you about it.  If you're not familiar with what makes them so cool, read on.  I think you'll be impressed, too. Disclaimer: My Drobo was a gift from the folks at Drobo, but I still think it's one of the coolest pieces of tech in my house.

  • Updated my "Friends & Family" Post

    6 Oct 2009 | 7:08 am
    I updated my post on my computer advice to friends and family (http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/153/47/) to reflect my recent move to Mac and CrashPlan.
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  • PayPhrase Attacks Paypal! News at 11.

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

  • Column-oriented MySQL for VLDB

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

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

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

  • What is a SCALAR Sub-Query?

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

  • Amazon EC2 Price DEcrease and bigger boxes!

    28 Oct 2009 | 5:00 am
    How often does a vendor REDUCE their prices, and thereby lowering your bill, without some nasty contract renegotiation? In my experience, never. One more reason to really like Amazon's web services.
 
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  • Learn about the Exchange 2010 Developer Story Today!

    Exchange
    5 Nov 2009 | 8:53 am
    We've just finished our 6 part series of webcasts on six key topics that developers need to know about as they start planning for moving their applications to Exchange 2010.  Those webcasts are now available as on-demand webcasts below, check them out today!  If you'd like a bit more human contact than these webcasts, then come join us at TechEd in Germany or Exchange Connections in Las Vegas next week; or the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in LA November 17-19th where we'll have great Exchange 2010 Web Services sessions and program managers from the Exchange Web Services team…

  • Lifetime Products and why they chose to move to Exchange 2010

    Exchange
    4 Nov 2009 | 10:18 pm
    I had a chance to go on the road and talk to a few of our Exchange 2010 early adopter customers. My first stop was in Clearfield, Utah where I met up with the folks at Lifetime Products. Lifetime Products is an early adopter of E2010, and appreciates the concept of a unified Inbox-and related cost savings.  Check out the video: CIO Magazine also thinks Lifetime Product's story is pretty compelling. Check it out here. It was great chatting with the folks at LifetimeAs you heard, they are really excited about all the new features in Exchange 2010. I'll be back soon with more great customer…

  • Supporting Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2

    Exchange
    4 Nov 2009 | 12:41 pm
    We always talk about listening to customers and sometimes this is written off by many as 'marketing speak'.  In fact, we do take feedback seriously and no input is more important to our engineering processes than your voice. Earlier this year we made a decision in one direction, and due to the feedback we have received on this blog and elsewhere, we have reconsidered.  In the coming calendar year we will issue an update for Exchange 2007 enabling full support of Windows Server 2008 R2.  We heard from many customers that this was important for streamlining their operations and reducing…

  • Programmatic Access via Remote PowerShell in Exchange Server 2010

    Exchange
    2 Nov 2009 | 4:24 pm
    The management experience given by Exchange 2010 through PowerShell has been moved all the way from Local to Remote. This will mean that enterprise Admins will have to adjust their regular scripts to connect to Remote PowerShell instead of creating a local session. Here are some examples on how can this be achieved and the differences that may have to be done in order to create the connection and run the cmdlets. Using programmatic API The programmatic API is the simplest method that will allow you to make a remote connection requiring only the Uri for the connection and a set of suitable…

  • Getting Ready for the Exchange 2010 Launch

    Exchange
    29 Oct 2009 | 8:07 pm
    Three weeks ago we announced that Exchange 2010 was code complete. As we get ready for launch, we're seeing some amazing results from our early adopter customers. Julia White, Director of Exchange Marketing, shares some of these early highlights on the Unified Communications Blog. Check out her post and see how Exchange 2010 (and you) can do the work of 4 or 5 other servers - and do it better and more cost-effectively.
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  • November 2009 Bulletin Release Advance Notification

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

  • Update released for MS09-054

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

  • October 2009 Security Bulletin Webcast Questions and Answers

    MSRCTEAM
    20 Oct 2009 | 2:23 pm
    Hi everyone. We have posted the questions and answers from the security bulletin webcast we conducted on October 14 at this link. It was clear from all of the questions concerning MS09-062 (the GDI+ update) that there is some confusion on how to apply the update when you have a combination of SQL Server and Windows 2000 clients. To clarify what the bulletin states, if you do not have any Windows 2000 SP4 clients on your network then you do not need to apply the SQL Server update that corresponds to the version of SQL Server you are running. In this case, you would only need to apply the…

  • October 2009 Security Bulletin Release

    MSRCTEAM
    13 Oct 2009 | 10:05 am
    Summary of Microsoft’s Security Bulletin Release for October 2009 This month, we released 13 new bulletins which address 33 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office. Since we published this information in our advance notification (ANS) last Thursday, we have been asked “is this the most bulletins Microsoft has ever released”? The short answer to that question is yes. However, we have, on several occasions, released between 10 and 12 bulletins so this is business as usual. All of our updates go through extensive quality testing and when they reach the bar for…

  • October 2009 Bulletin Release Advance Notification

    MSRCTEAM
    8 Oct 2009 | 9:23 am
    Advance Notification for the October 2009 Security Bulletin Release For October we are releasing 13 bulletins (eight critical and five important), addressing 34 vulnerabilities, affecting Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, Silverlight, Forefront, Developer Tools, and SQL Server. Most of these updates require a restart so please factor that into your deployment planning. Among the updates this month, we are closing out two current security advisories: ·         Vulnerabilities in SMB Could Allow Remote Code Execution (975497)…
 
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  • Made It

    merrillaldrich
    6 Nov 2009 | 9:26 pm
    Mercy, I think I made it. Today was the post-con for the PASS Summit, and I was in a great session hosted by Louis Davidson and Paul Nielsen. I say "hosted" because it was really more a guided, interactive discussion than a lecture, which is great for PASS, and especially great for the end of PASS when everyone's eyes are a little glazed over. It was great to get quality time with these two powerful brains. I also got to meet a couple more great folks - Aaron Bertrand and John Paul Cook, among others....(read more)

  • SSIS Package Stats Collector version 2

    jamiet
    6 Nov 2009 | 5:58 pm
    A few weeks ago I published a blog entitled Collecting information about your SSIS packages which demonstrated a way that you could use T-SQL and XQuery to derive information about your SSIS packages. Since then I’ve made a few amendments to the script that accompanied that blog post as follows: New columns The collected data now includes the following information about your packages:     PackageId     PackageXML  (The XML that forms the .dtsx file)     NumberOfContainers     NumberOfDataflows    …

  • Bad database practices: abusing linked servers

    Linchi Shea
    6 Nov 2009 | 4:56 pm
    In SQL Server, it is rather handy to retrieve data from a different SQL Server instance and use the result locally in another SQL statement for further processing. In theory and in the set purists’ fantasy land, it shouldn’t matter where you get your data or even how you get the data as long as you can use them to further compose a set-based solution. That is all fine. After all, in a distributed environment the data you want may not be on the same instance where the processing takes place. Well,...(read more)

  • Bill of Materials – The Basics

    John Paul Cook
    6 Nov 2009 | 3:23 pm
    After having several people at SQL PASS ask me to explain what a Bill of Materials is, it seemed like a good idea for a blog post. A Bill of Materials, otherwise known as a BOM (don’t read this aloud in an airport lounge), is a listing of all of the components (i.e., parts) needed to assemble (i.e., make) something. Let’s start with a picture of our inventory of components. Figure 1. Inventory of parts. (note: the colors were chosen because they are visible to people with any type of color vision...(read more)

  • Connect Digest : 2009-11-06

    AaronBertrand
    6 Nov 2009 | 9:46 am
    This week I've been at PASS , so haven't spent a whole lot of time digging into new Connect issues. There was one raised today where the new += syntax in SQL Server 2008 can cause a "server error occurred" exception: #508471 : Severe Error using += in an UPDATE statement The only other items involve enhancements to the model database. I know that not everyone uses the model database the way I do. In the architecture for a couple of the major systems I deal with daily, we use model as a very complex...(read more)
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  • Air traffic queries in MyISAM and Tokutek (TokuDB)

    Vadim
    5 Nov 2009 | 10:21 pm
    This is next post in series Analyzing air traffic performance with InfoBright and MonetDB Air traffic queries in LucidDB Air traffic queries in InfiniDB: early alpha Let me explain the reason of choosing these engines. After initial three posts I am often asked "What is baseline ? Can we compare results with standard MySQL engines ?". So there come MyISAM to consider it as base point to see how column-oriented-analytic engines are better here. However, take into account, that for MyISAM we need to choose proper indexes to execute queries effectively, and there is pain coming with indexes: -…

  • New developers training course is almost ready

    Morgan Tocker
    5 Nov 2009 | 5:56 pm
    We've been busy expanding our training curriculum to include training for developers building applications with MySQL.  We have reached the point where we're ready for a pilot teach - and it brings me great pleasure to announce that we're opening it up for blog readers to attend, free of charge. The details: San Francisco 4th December 9:30AM - 5PM Spaces are limited, so to give everyone a fair chance we're delaying registration to open at noon tomorrow (Friday) Pacific Time. It's strictly first in first served, so be quick!  The registration link is here. Entry posted by Morgan Tocker | One…

  • InnoDB: look after fragmentation

    Vadim
    5 Nov 2009 | 11:01 am
    One problem made me puzzled for couple hours, but it was really interesting to figure out what's going on. So let me introduce problem at first. The table is PLAIN TEXT CODE: CREATE TABLE `c` (   `tracker_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,   `username` char(20) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin NOT NULL,   `time_id` date NOT NULL,   `block_id` int(10) unsigned default NULL,   PRIMARY KEY  (`tracker_id`,`username`,`time_id`),   KEY `block_id` (`block_id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB Table has 11864696 rows and takes…

  • Air traffic queries in InfiniDB: early alpha

    Vadim
    2 Nov 2009 | 1:29 pm
    As Calpont announced availability of InfiniDB I surely couldn't miss a chance to compare it with previously tested databases in the same environment. See my previous posts on this topic: Analyzing air traffic performance with InfoBright and MonetDB Air traffic queries in LucidDB I could not run all queries against InfiniDB and I met some hiccups during my experiment, so it was less plain experience than with other databases. So let's go by the same steps: Load data InfiniDB supports MySQL's LOAD DATA statement and it's own colxml / cpimport utilities. As LOAD DATA is more familiar for me, I…

  • Speaking at the LA MySQL Meetup – 18th November

    Morgan Tocker
    1 Nov 2009 | 9:35 am
    A recent photo from Highload.ru I said in my last post, that we're interested in speaking at MySQL meetups, and I'm happy to say that the Los Angeles MySQL Meetup has taken us up on the offer. On November 18th, I'll be giving an introductory talk on InnoDB/XtraDB Performance Optimization.  I will be the second speaker, with Carl Gelbart first speaking on Infobright. What brings me to LA?  On the same day (18th Nov) I'll be teaching a one day class on Performance Optimization for MySQL with InnoDB and XtraDB.  If you haven't signed up yet - spaces are still available. Entry posted by Morgan…
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  • Event horizons

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

  • Real Estate and VRM

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

  • Civilizing the Personal Data Frontier

    Doc Searls
    10 Oct 2009 | 1:58 pm
    A panel at 9:30am, 13 October 2009 John Chipman Gray Room • Pound Hall Harvard Law School Who likes being tracked like an animal by big business, big government, and every tech hustler looking to make a buck from both? Not the developers of self-tracking and personal informatics. These hot new new categories are both driven by a growing sense that primary responsibility for gathering personal data and putting it to use belongs to individuals — not to companies, governments or anybody else. These tools help individuals become both the point of integration for their own data, and the…

  • How VRM Helps CRM

    Doc Searls
    9 Oct 2009 | 9:26 am
    CRM — Customer Relationship Management — is a huge business. According to this article, Forrester expected the CRM software market to hit $74 billion in 2007. This more modest Gartner report says the worldwide CRM market totalled $9.15 billion in 2008, growing at a 12.5% rate over 2007. CRM is pure B2B: business to business. You’re not involved, except as a customer of CRM’s customers. It’s your relationship with a company that’s being managed—by the company. Not by you. Last month Neil Davey of MyCustomer.com reached out from the CRM world to interview…

  • Hot Fodder for next week’s VRM Workshop

    Doc Searls
    6 Oct 2009 | 4:09 am
    A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Neil Davey of MyCustomer.com, a major voice in the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) field. The results are up at Doc Searls: Customers will use ID data to force CRM change. Much of what Neil sources for that piece come from my new chapter (”Markets are Relationships”) in the latest edition of The Cluetrain Manifesto (Now with 30% more clues!). In that chapter, Neil says, Searls sticks the boot into customer relationship management. And even though CRM has become accustomed to bruising encounters, some of these blows hurt – perhaps…
 
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  • Numbers of Mass Distraction

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

  • Musing about downloads in the UK

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

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

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

  • Musing gently about choice in the enterprise

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

  • Swiftly going West: Digital parody comes of age

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

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

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

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    3 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Top Twitter Lists

  • From Enterprise 2.0 Adoption to Business Value

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

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    1 Nov 2009 | 11:00 pm
    Leveraging Social Networking for Enterprise, butHOW? Loic Le Meur Blog: 30 predictions for the future of Twitter

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    29 Oct 2009 | 12:00 am
    Stalqer Peers Into Your iPhone For A New Level Of Location-Based Creepiness Sets up an email account that runs a background process to constantly share your location, imports Facebook graph and any public location information.
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    The FASTForward Blog

  • McKinsey’s Take on E-Government: More Collaboration Needed

    Joe McKendrick
    6 Nov 2009 | 3:34 pm
    Can greater collaboration improve the state of e-government? This is certainly the goal of movers and shakers in this space, as explored in FastForward’s recent blog-hosted Webcast with Andrew Rasiej of the Personal Democracy Forum and Beth Simone Noveck, US Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government.  Greater collaborative and social networking services present new opportunities to not only open up government and make it more accessible, but also facilitate greater information sharing for addressing complex issues. But we still have a way to go, as McKinsey and Company…

  • Mainstream Media versus Social Media? Not Really the Right Question.

    Bill Ives
    5 Nov 2009 | 12:01 am
    I recently attended Webcom 2009 in Montreal and talked about blogging in the age of twitter.  More on that later.  This event attracts a large number of traditional media people and there was a lot of discuss about old versus new (or social media). I attended an excellent session on Who killed the Rocky Mountain News? from John Temple who was the last managing editor of one of the first big papers to fold.  While John admits that many mistakes were made that led to the paper demise, he has learned a lot from the experience and offered some excellent suggestions. Among other things John…

  • The Persistence of Relationships

    Paula Thornton
    3 Nov 2009 | 9:48 pm
    This is dedicated to @martymorrow who bothered to ask. The 2010 lists have started early. David Armano recently wrote “Six Social Media Trends for 2010“. I respect David’s contributions to the industry so I was quick to read and respond to his piece, noting first his closing question: Thanks for filtering out some key items to focus on. 1. “Where do you see social media going next?” Social media doesn’t ‘go’ anywhere. Indeed, as others have said, it will simply become more ubiquitous. The comeback to requests for ROI on social media should be a…

  • What social media can do for our government

    Joe McKendrick
    2 Nov 2009 | 9:38 am
    I recently highlighted FastForward’s recent Webcast on e-government over at the SmartPlanet site; here is my summary for the FastForward community as well: E-government can mean much, much more than mere online service delivery. For example, look at the impact on internal operations. Citizens and taxpayers aren’t the only ones that get frustrated with government. More often than not, government employees themselves feel stymied in their attempts to serve constituents and share information within one of the world’s largest and most complex organizations. As Andrew Rasiej, co-founder…

  • Twitter Lists – 1st Insight?

    Rob Paterson
    31 Oct 2009 | 7:31 am
    What might be a outcome of Twitter Lists? I think it may be a step nearer to “Emergence” in some key areas. This slide shows what happens to children’s language as they approach Emergence in the 3rd picture on the right. I think our use of Twitter can track this trajectory. At first it was me and a few friends that I knew from my face to face or blogging life prior to Twitter. Then in the last 3 years, I have added a few more friends from the Twitterverse. These in my case have come mainly from Pub Media and from the Bryant Park Gang that Morphed into the Planet Money Gang.
 
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    Enterprise Irregulars

  • E 2.0 – Not Joining the Debate, But…

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

  • Guido Bartels of GridWise and IBM discusses Smart Grids with GreenMonk

    Tom Raftery
    6 Nov 2009 | 8:56 am
    Photo credit Ian Muttoo Guido Bartels is General Manager of IBM’s Global Energy and Utilities Industry. Guido leads IBM’s corporate initiative around building an ‘Intelligent Utility Network,’ IBM’s portfolio of offerings and capabilities for the Smart Grid. Guido is also a member of the Electricity Advisory Committee at Department of Energy, an organization whose mission is to provide advice to the U.S. Department of Energy in implementing the Energy Policy Act of 2005, executing the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, and modernizing the nation’s electricity delivery…

  • Friday Rant: Getting A/P and Supplier Management Wrong — A Supplier’s Perspective

    Jason Busch
    6 Nov 2009 | 7:58 am
    Image by Inno’vision via Flickr Some might say that as both a consultant/analyst with subject matter knowledge and business owner, I’m in a position to study the Spend Management sector from a truly unique vantage point. Namely, I constantly talk to folks in both procurement and A/P about the technology they’re buying while also having frequent discussions with many of the vendors and services providers pushing their software and services wares. But I’d argue that most important, as one who runs a business and needs to get paid, I also learn about the sector as a…

  • OMG

    Craig Cmehil
    6 Nov 2009 | 7:55 am
    Today’s show was the first for the past 4 weeks but finally we’re back on the air! My focus today was around “OMG” as in SMS/Chat Lingo – Mobile – Enterprise and the future. Talking Points Shout Outs Anne and her visa issues Abesh and his new job Martin Lang and meeting people going to the bathroom Marilyn and her presentations in Switzerland Bangalore SAP TechEd Duane Nickull Duane’s World Twitter Lists Google Wave Demo Jam Highlights OMG Mobile Photo Contest Video Replay OMG is a post from: Enterprise Irregulars (Cross-posted @ Friday Morning Report)

  • NetSuite Business Cloud event feedback

    Vinnie Mirchandani
    6 Nov 2009 | 7:45 am
    Image by dfarber via Flickr I presented in the NetSuite Business Cloud seminar series in its final leg – in Chicago and Atlanta. The 6 week tour had previously been to London, Sydney, Manila and New York. While I did not envy some of the NetSuite employees for that travel, jet lag et al, the energy level in the 2 sessions I participated in was really high… Related articles by Zemanta NetSuite customers and other fun stuff (accmanpro.com) NetSuite adds ERP support for iPhone (infoworld.com) Net Suite Overview – 360 Customer And Business View (slideshare.net) The iPhone and…
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    Andrew McAfee's Blog

  • Shameless Self-promotion

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

  • Colonizing the Outer Rings

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

  • McAfee’s Hypothesis (plus contest results!)

    amcafee
    9 Oct 2009 | 1:26 pm
    In a happy coincidence, blogger-who-needs-no-introduction Robert Scoble wrote about attributes of email just a few days before my Wednesday post on the same topic. Scoble’s succinct conclusion was that “email sucks,” and that Google Wave might well be worse. He makes an interesting argument, and I urge you to check it out. Scoble lists the tools he uses for collaboration, and as I read through them I realized that I’d left an important item off my own list of email’s strengths. Scoble uses, in addition to email, at least six tools: Skype, Twitter, Friendfeed…

  • How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Email

    amcafee
    7 Oct 2009 | 10:29 am
    I was talking a little while back with an IT manager responsible for the technology package used by the road warriors at a large global consulting company. She told me about all the different digital meeting rooms (DMRs) she and her team had tried to deploy, and about how none of them had ever caught on. As at most big consultancies, analysts, managers, and partners in this company work together in relatively stable teams for the life of a project. Team members communicate extensively and intensively with each other, but long ago stopped using voice mail to do so when they weren’t in the…

  • Keep It Simple, Smartly

    amcafee
    2 Oct 2009 | 8:36 am
    I posted a little while back about how hard it is to design tech products that appear simple, and said that I’d write more later about how to add complexity to them over time. So here are a few proposed ground rules on how to increase technology complexity without frustrating or alienating users (who value simplicity more than they think they do). These rules are just conjectures, based out of personal experience and observation; please don’t interpret them as peer-reviewed or empirically validated. The best single resource I know of for dealing with complexity is The Laws of…
 
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  • Tools: Test before you buy

    6 Nov 2009 | 7:53 am
    I first asked in the late 90s when I was at Gartner – why do testing, conversion, change configuration and other tools vendors not allow system integrators to deploy their tools for the duration of relevant phase of an implementation...

  • NetSuite Business Cloud event feedback

    6 Nov 2009 | 7:45 am
    I presented in the NetSuite Business Cloud seminar series in its final leg – in Chicago and Atlanta. The 6 week tour had previously been to London, Sydney, Manila and New York. While I did not envy some of the...

  • If this is fake, give us plenty more

    4 Nov 2009 | 6:46 am
    Ron Markezich, corporate VP of Microsoft Online says "we're not seeing any inclination that Zoho or Google or Zimbra or any other of those offering fake Office capabilities can replace [Microsoft Office]," And guess what – he said it as...

  • Vendor traffic in the Data Center

    4 Nov 2009 | 5:24 am
    Cisco adds the storage building block to its network and computing plans with a JV with EMC. HP, in turn, decides to go after Cisco’s sweet spot with new HP ProCurve offerings integrated with HP BladeSystem. Oracle, awaiting regulatory approval...

  • More New Renaissance

    1 Nov 2009 | 1:42 pm
    On the New Florence blog 12 really Maverick Ideas Mouse 2.0 The new plants in Motown Solar Decathlon Intel Risks it all (again)
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    The Social Organization

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

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

  • The Social Media Fear Factor

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

  • The Opportunity Cost of Being Ungrateful

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

  • The Company Your Targets Keep

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

  • Thinking about Deaths, Endings, & Beginnings

    Rachel Happe
    26 Aug 2009 | 4:58 am
    My husband is in the news business - in New England - which means we were up early this morning on news that Senator Kennedy had passed. Interestingly he passed away late last night, on the anniversary of the death of my father from the same type of cancer.  Both were great men - Sen. Kennedy nationally and my father on a local level - and also flawed men (like us all - some just hide it better than others). It's a sad day. Whether you like his politics or not, Senator Kennedy cared deeply about ensuring everyone in our society had access and opportunity and spent his life dedicated to…
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    Chuck's Blog

  • Getting To Good: Vblock + Acadia Customer Reaction

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

  • The VCE Coalition: Redrawing The Landscape

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

  • Behind The Vblock

    Chuck Hollis
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:36 pm
     One of the most interesting parts of today’s VCE announcement is the Vblock – pre-integrated infrastructure for virtualization at scale. Today, I thought I’d go behind the scenes, and interview one of the primary architects behind the Vblock – Jim Dowson (EMC Distinguished Engineer & CTO, Global Services). I had the pleasure of hearing Jim and Phil Harris of Cisco (CTO, Strategic Alliances) present the Vblock in detail to one of our partners, and wanted to share some of their insights with you. Jim, what problem(s) were you trying to solve with the…

  • Introducing Acadia

    Chuck Hollis
    3 Nov 2009 | 9:13 am
    There's a lot to talk about in today's VCE announcement, but one aspect that deserves closer inspection is Acadia, the joint professional services company being announced today.The good news: there's a lot of good thinking that's gone into Acadia.  The challenge: if our competitors are going to take an unfair swipe at something, it's a likely target.So, let's get started: what is it, why does it exist, how is it different, etc.?In a word, it's all about enablement. The ChallengeEarly on when the three companies were sitting down discussing our shared…

  • Introducing www.privatecloud.com

    Chuck Hollis
    3 Nov 2009 | 8:50 am
    I wanted to let everyone know that one of the projects I've been working on is now available for your perusal.Privatecloud.com is a joint effort between the VCE coalition to create a portal into the industry-wide private cloud discussion.  If you've been trying to follow all the different conversations, you know how hard it can be.We've invested some editorial resources in assembling the best discussions and content, and putting it all in one place.Yes, you'll see the collective views of EMC, Cisco and VMware on the topic, but you'll also get a healthy dose of…
 
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    Going Social Now

  • Why I don't like the CNN.com redesign

    25 Oct 2009 | 8:41 pm
    Here are my top reasons for not liking the redesign. Tell me if you agree.First and foremost, I'm still trying to figure out how I can comment on an article. Am I missing something or have they temporarily (I hope temporarily) removed what has fast become one of the most basic of features attached to every piece of content online? Come on folks, you're killing me.If you have to do away with commenting at least replace it with something extra special. You're the team that brought Facebook Connect and live chatting into the mainstream. Remember the Obama inauguration live chat? That was…

  • What's the Dummies book Twitter #hashtag?

    22 Oct 2009 | 7:47 pm
    #smmd

  • Buddy Media and Facebook Social Platforms

    22 Oct 2009 | 12:17 pm
    So Buddy Media has recently launched a social platform for brands allowing them to manage relationships, content, applications and tracking across key social platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Their new offering makes a lot of sense as brands (and their agencies) struggle with managing their "owned media" presence on the social platforms. It takes more hours, more dollars and more effort than we'd like. While some of these platforms may appear expensive at first (hosted model with monthly licensing fees), they can save significant time and money over the long run. Here's a Media Post…

  • MySpace tries to recover its cool - WSJ

    22 Oct 2009 | 9:28 am
    I was quoted in the Wall Street Journal last week discussing MySpace's efforts to win back its audiences, spur engagement and attract new advertisers. They definitely do have an uphill task though I'd warn you not to write them off too quickly. The traffic drops that they're seeing aren't that dramatic and they need more time to show that their more entertainment centric strategy is going to work. Here's the quote:MySpace lost its way over the years as it got caught up in a race with Facebook, launched disparate initiatives and let technology and new-product developments lag, ad executives…

  • Mary Meeker at the Web 2.0 Summit

    21 Oct 2009 | 1:46 pm
    This is an absolutely must view presentation from Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker. The theme for her this year is mobile and the internet. I'm starting to agree that mobile's time in the sun may have finally arrived. Mary Meeker's Internet Presentation 2009
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    The FASTForward Blog

  • McKinsey’s Take on E-Government: More Collaboration Needed

    Joe McKendrick
    6 Nov 2009 | 3:34 pm
    Can greater collaboration improve the state of e-government? This is certainly the goal of movers and shakers in this space, as explored in FastForward’s recent blog-hosted Webcast with Andrew Rasiej of the Personal Democracy Forum and Beth Simone Noveck, US Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government.  Greater collaborative and social networking services present new opportunities to not only open up government and make it more accessible, but also facilitate greater information sharing for addressing complex issues. But we still have a way to go, as McKinsey and Company…

  • Mainstream Media versus Social Media? Not Really the Right Question.

    Bill Ives
    5 Nov 2009 | 12:01 am
    I recently attended Webcom 2009 in Montreal and talked about blogging in the age of twitter.  More on that later.  This event attracts a large number of traditional media people and there was a lot of discuss about old versus new (or social media). I attended an excellent session on Who killed the Rocky Mountain News? from John Temple who was the last managing editor of one of the first big papers to fold.  While John admits that many mistakes were made that led to the paper demise, he has learned a lot from the experience and offered some excellent suggestions. Among other things John…

  • The Persistence of Relationships

    Paula Thornton
    3 Nov 2009 | 9:48 pm
    This is dedicated to @martymorrow who bothered to ask. The 2010 lists have started early. David Armano recently wrote “Six Social Media Trends for 2010“. I respect David’s contributions to the industry so I was quick to read and respond to his piece, noting first his closing question: Thanks for filtering out some key items to focus on. 1. “Where do you see social media going next?” Social media doesn’t ‘go’ anywhere. Indeed, as others have said, it will simply become more ubiquitous. The comeback to requests for ROI on social media should be a…

  • What social media can do for our government

    Joe McKendrick
    2 Nov 2009 | 9:38 am
    I recently highlighted FastForward’s recent Webcast on e-government over at the SmartPlanet site; here is my summary for the FastForward community as well: E-government can mean much, much more than mere online service delivery. For example, look at the impact on internal operations. Citizens and taxpayers aren’t the only ones that get frustrated with government. More often than not, government employees themselves feel stymied in their attempts to serve constituents and share information within one of the world’s largest and most complex organizations. As Andrew Rasiej, co-founder…

  • Twitter Lists – 1st Insight?

    Rob Paterson
    31 Oct 2009 | 7:31 am
    What might be a outcome of Twitter Lists? I think it may be a step nearer to “Emergence” in some key areas. This slide shows what happens to children’s language as they approach Emergence in the 3rd picture on the right. I think our use of Twitter can track this trajectory. At first it was me and a few friends that I knew from my face to face or blogging life prior to Twitter. Then in the last 3 years, I have added a few more friends from the Twitterverse. These in my case have come mainly from Pub Media and from the Bryant Park Gang that Morphed into the Planet Money Gang.
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    Process Cafe

  • Friday review - What happened last week 6th November 2009

    6 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    With the inclusion of posts on the Posterous Cafe,  this will be a regular weekly consolidation post highlighting some of the key entries made on the Posterous Cafe that may have escaped your attention: Teamworks 7 BPMS Report - A report from Bruce Silver on Teamworks 7's latest update. If you're not following Bruce, by the way, you should be) Time for the next generation of knowledge automation - Some interesting thoughts about EDM, complex event management, ERP and BPM from Haleyai.com CIO: Don't attempt BPM system without mapping process flows - A neat little article from Niel…

  • Hot topics this month at The Process Cafe

    5 Nov 2009 | 7:00 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 here on the Process Cafe Tim Wilson shows us the top free bpm modelling tools What's the difference between erp and bpm? 5 Simple Questions to see if your Business Process can be modeled and Automated using Workflow Software Your criteria for choosing a BPM tool Review:  Lombardi's Blueprint software 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 Reminder: 'The…

  • Process inconsistencies hit the customer... Again.

    4 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    I rented a van last week. Just a standard Luton van. I used it for transporting some set pieces to the performance venue for a local group I am a member of. When I went to the rental location I took my drivers license and the associated 'paper documentation' which is issued by the UK DVLA. This details all the endorsements "points" you have as well as your entitlements to drive (Motorcycle, Heavy good vehicle etc.) I've rented vans from this location before and they have my details on file so I filled out the form, signed on the line gave them my credit card and went. The guy didn't ask to…

  • Why are the 5 'Hot' questions hot?

    2 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    I wanted to take a few moments to pass on my thoughts about a post I read last week. This post was from Jim Sinur and related to his thoughts on the 5 Hot Questions you should be asking about BPM. According to Jim the 5 questions that came out of discussions held at Gartner's BPM conference and symposium were: 1 What are the Benefits of BPM? 2. How Should I Get Started? 3 How do I set up Organizational Supports? 4. Which BPM Technologies Should I Use? 5. How do Business Rules Help BPM? Now I don't know about you but I think that at least four of those questions are non-specific enough to be…

  • Friday review - What happened last week 30th October 2009

    30 Oct 2009 | 8:00 am
    With the inclusion of posts on the Posterous Cafe, hopefully this will be a regular weekly consolidation post highlighting some of the key entries made on the Posterous Cafe that may have escaped your attention.What is ITIL? - A post from the ARIS BPM community which focuses on ITIL V3 and lays the foundation for further posts relating to the use of ITIL within the ARIS ITIL Reference ModelPegasystems merges Agile methodology with BPM - A software update from Pegasystems which incorporates agile methodologies with BPM itself. Not totally sure of the value of this as it seems to be expanding…
 
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    CIO: Research & Analysis

  • Hot Jobs: ITIL Manager

    4 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Why you need an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) manager, and how to go about hiring one.

  • The State of Cloud Computing in Japan

    4 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    What can you learn from a conversation with Japan's second-largest telco, which is also a cloud service provider? Plenty, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.

  • IT Outsourcing: Think Twice Before You Issue a Single RFP

    3 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Sure, the big outsourcing providers can offer application development and infrastructure services. But just because they do doesn't mean you should send them a single RFP if you need to provision both. Pace Harmon's Steve Martin explains the circumstances in which it makes sense to issue separate RFPs.

  • Beware Cloud Computing's Hidden Costs

    3 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Companies need to explore a multitude of related cloud expenses to ensure that costs don't ultimately outweigh the technology's benefits. Chris Curran shares some key questions regarding architecture, process and flexibility.

  • Nintendo Wii Left Out in the Cold This Holiday Season

    3 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Nintendo's charmed status as the holiday gift that defied even the recession seems to be ending. Should Nintendo's supply chain planners have seen this coming?
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    Smart SaaS

  • SaaS Business Profile: i365

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

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

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

  • SaaS Business Profile: Responsys

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

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

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

  • First Day: Oracle Open World 2009

    Kevin Dobbs
    12 Oct 2009 | 11:05 pm
    Monday October 12th It has been several years since I went to my last Oracle User Group meeting, prior to them buying PeopleSoft, Siebel and BEA.  Here are my thoughts around the first day: The Keynote Charles Phillips and Safra Catz kicked things off and were helpful in shaping how Oracle is planning on not only rolling out Fusion but also how Sun will fit into their strategy.  Unlike other firms like CA or Infor who just purchase software firms and milk them for the maintenance dollars, Oracle is spending $3B a year on research and development.  They are trying to fit all of these…
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    CA on Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)

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

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

  • Spreadsheet and Email for Compliance: Yes They Are Still Here

    Merritt Maxim
    5 Nov 2009 | 6:05 am
    All product vendors must correctly articulate how a product’s capabilities address a real customer need in order to be successful in the marketplace.  This is the fundamental basis to marketing and product positioning – and to winning in a product category.  The vendor’s challenge is keeping current with the customer’s evolving needs to ensure that the messaging – and underlying product...  

  • Making Sense of GRC Data: What to Look for in Dashboards and Reports

    Peter Stapleton
    3 Nov 2009 | 6:05 am
    It’s All About the Data One of the great challenges in consolidating governance, risk, and compliance efforts across an organization is the centralization of all of the GRC relevant information.  GRC touches nearly every aspect of your business, from the ‘tone at the top’ to the test results from a given user account on a database last September.  Just identifying the information,...  

  • Record Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Settlement Reached

    Mike Hoefgen
    27 Oct 2009 | 2:25 am
    If you were in southeast Florida on February 26, 2008 you might remember being without power for about an hour. I wasn't in Florida at the time but I remember the national news broadcasts of the southern two thirds of Florida being without power. Because of that one hour of outage, Florida Power & Light (FPL) announced in early October 2009 it agreed to a record settlement in the amount...  

  • Questions from the Audience: Conference Board's Enterprise Risk Management Conference

    Chris Boswell
    23 Oct 2009 | 2:25 am
    I'm out in Chicago this week speaking at the Conference Board's annual Enterprise Risk Management Conference. ERM is a bit of a change in pace from my usual spiel on GRC, but the crowd was great and let's face it, there's a lot of room to both share and learn from your peers when it comes to risk management. I was speaking specifically about the overall technology landscape for...  
 
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    Venture Chronicles

  • Can the UAW Be Owner and Representative?

    Jeff
    26 Oct 2009 | 7:12 pm
    Interesting times we live in… the UAW is finding itself increasingly at odds with it’s members over the negotiated but not yet approved Ford labor agreement.   On Sunday, 92 percent of workers at Ford’s Kansas City Assembly Plant voted against proposed contract changes. The vote there came after a stormy meeting at nearby Winnetonka High School where UAW Vice President Bob King, head of the union’s national Ford section, made an appeal to workers to support the agreement, which was negotiated by the UAW and Ford earlier this month.[From Ford workers in…

  • Life After Hard Drives

    Jeff
    25 Oct 2009 | 12:47 pm
    What comes after hard drives? Good question and one that is critical to our future computing ambitions. According to a new study, if HDDs continue to progress at their current pace, then in 2020 a two-disk, 2.5-inch disk drive will be capable of storing more than 14 TB and will cost about $40 (today, a typical 500 GB hard drive costs about $100). Although flash memories have also become popular - with advantages such as lower power consumption, faster read access time, and better mechanical reliability than HDDs - the cost per GB for flash memories is nearly 10 times that of HDDs. In…

  • Internet Regulations Coming

    Jeff
    22 Oct 2009 | 9:14 pm
    One sobering thought to think about while you are celebrating the FCC’s decision to move forward with net neutrality regulations is that for the first time the FCC is asserting itself as the authority to regulate how the web is governed. With Thursday’s vote, the five-member panel began the process to move forward with the regulations announced last month by the agency’s chairman, Juilus Genachowski. His proposal would formally codify the FCC’s four existing principles, intended to prevent Internet service providers from giving preferential treatment to certain content and…

  • Newsday.com Destined for Failure with Pay Wall

    Jeff
    22 Oct 2009 | 10:16 am
    Cablevision must have gotten punch drunk with all of the talk coming out of newspapers about going to a subscription model for their online services, because they are going big, really big, with a $260 a year pricing plan for Newsday.com Those who are not customers of Optimum Online or the newspaper - both owned by Bethpage-based Cablevision Systems Corp. - will have to pay a $5 weekly fee. However, nonpaying customers will have access to some of newsday.com’s information, including the home page, school closings, weather, obituaries, classified and entertainment listings. There also…

  • Pay Per Performance Advertising Goes Hyperlocal

    Jeff
    20 Oct 2009 | 12:00 pm
    I used a new app from mobiQpons yesterday and color me impressed. The way it works is you install their iPhone, Android or Blackberry app (no signup required, just load the app) and when location services on the device is turned on you will get notifications of merchants offering coupons or promotions in your area. Merchants have to be signed up for the service in order for their promotions to run through the network but that’s not surprising. From what I can gather the only time that mobiQpons gets paid is when a coupon is redeemed by a customer. This is good because it’s true…
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    Stop the Data Management Insanity

  • ILM: What's Old is New Again

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

  • On the Road Again: Please Join Me at Innovate8

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

  • Look at Backups before Leaping into Virtualization

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

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

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

  • We Can Rebuild it - Better, Stronger, Faster

    CommVault®
    9 Jul 2009 | 10:30 am
    OK, so I grew up in the '70s, and was a big fan of the TV Show, The Six Million Dollar Man. Each week, I watched the adventures of Steve Austin, who was "rebuilt" with "bionic" implants following a horrific shuttle crash. Avid fans can check out the opening clip and see how they made Austin better, stronger and faster than before.So what's the connection to data management? The show's catch-phrase: "we can rebuild him-we have the technology" resonates today when I think about the problems our customers face after outgrowing their current data management infrastructures. Many of them fear…
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    Locuz Blog - IT Infra Lifecycle

  • 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

  • INTEROP in India

    Uttam Majumdar
    5 Aug 2009 | 10:49 pm
    The paper I presented got approved and I have confirmed to speak. Hopefully the first INTEROP in India will match the scale and popularity it is identified with. If you are visiting, ping me, I will be happy to meet. Cheers! Uttam

  • Unified Computing

    Uttam Majumdar
    8 Jun 2009 | 6:18 am
    Since I could not create one for our way of SOI/SOM, I borrowed this one and is the closest we are to. This is something I otherwise keep saying with product neutralism; however would never mind using Cisco technology in our stack to SOI. Go thru by pressing the replay button… Cheers! Uttam

  • SOI = “Unified Computing”

    Uttam Majumdar
    13 Mar 2009 | 4:04 am
    Next week Cisco would announce their Unified Computing strategy codenamed “California”. These are blade servers that would sit right in middle of the Data Centre unlike all other Cisco products that found place in the network closet. This in good sense is SOI we wanted to achieve and were seeking product maturity for levels of automation it would demand. In our definition of SOI Orchestration is most vital and hopefully would soon be available across all Data Centre components. I am upbeat about the Cisco announcement. Unified Computing = SOI, if I may conclude. Cheers! Uttam
 
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    The Enterprise Architect

  • Architecture and Engineering in Business Engineering

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

  • An Enterprise Ontology based approach to Model-Driven Engineering

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

  • Modeling an organization using Enterprise Ontology

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

  • From Process Design to Process Automation

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

  • A metaphor for Model Driven Engineering

    5 Aug 2009 | 2:38 pm
    A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article introducing a framework for Model-Driven SOA. This article doesn't stand on its own, it's based on earlier pieces on Model-Driven SOA and observations that Model-Driven Engineering should focus on the problem domain. However, I'm noticing that these articles can be hard to grasp if you have no background knowledge. That's why I want to explain Model-Driven Engineering using a simple metaphor I often use in my presentations. Figure 1 shows the metaphor which compares building a house with building software. ‘Traditional' programming can be…
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    People Over Process

  • Links for November 3rd through November 4th

    linkposter
    4 Nov 2009 | 11:35 pm
    Hem: Albums, Songs, Bios, PhotosWell. Now there's something. Firefox 3.6 Tweaks Are Mostly Under the Hood

  • Links for November 3rd

    linkposter
    3 Nov 2009 | 5:21 pm
    1st SpiceCorps of Austin Meeting – 12/14/09, 6:30pm – Spiceworks Community Three Screens and a Cloud Google praises Microsoft's HTML 5 thoughts IBM, Microsoft Back Zend Open Cloud API What the Cisco/EMC/VMware Trinity Means For Cloud Computing Unity Technologies Launches Version 2.6 of Its Platform and Makes Unity Freely Available"Since 2005, Unity Technologies has provided the most powerful and easiest to use multi-platform game development suite of products used by more than 10,000 developers worldwide. The Unity platform is currently used in world class games such as…

  • Links for November 1st through November 2nd

    linkposter
    2 Nov 2009 | 6:05 pm
    RightScale ServerTemplate Library and Machine TagsTags! "We introduced Flickr style machine tags recently and we’re expanding their use with this release. One of the really exciting new features is that servers now have tags and we’ve integrated the tags with the routing of messages between servers, with Chef (via the RightLink agents) and with the UI. All this is still in alpha but it’s starting to take shape. Our first real use-case is the registration of application servers with load balancers. The way it works is that when a load balancer comes up and is ready for…

  • Numbers, Volume 32

    cote
    2 Nov 2009 | 5:55 pm
    While we “don’t do numbers” here at RedMonk, I come across many interesting numbers each week. Here are some: Scaling Languages Fun facts I learned about Scala today: FourSquare was moved from PHP to Lift in 90 days. Snorkle Today, Oracle supports more than 345,000 customers in more than 145 countries as a leader in delivering database, middleware, applications, and infrastructure software. With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle plans to transform to a systems company by engineering and delivering integrated systems – from applications to disk – where all the pieces fit and…

  • Links for October 30th

    linkposter
    30 Oct 2009 | 2:12 pm
    Salesforce.com partners with Adobe for Flash Builder for Force.com"Gruber explained that there is now a 'custom interface to the Force API' that reduces the amount of code you have to write to wrap these services. In addition – and this may be more significant – some parts of LiveCycle Data Services have been integrated into the Force.com platform, including the data synchronisation piece. The illustration above shows an AIR application with a Sync tab, and this is the kind of online/offline application that should now be easier to build." Adrian Parr’s…
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