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Adobe And Microsoft Plan to Diminish The Rising Vulnerability Issues
[2010-08-24] If it weren't for Adobe Acrobat and its myriad computer programs, all us web and technology enthusiasts could have had a tough task in viewing, creating, manipulating and managing files that is usually done using Adobe's PDF (Portable Document Format).
IT Decision Makers Can Learn From SAP's Open Source Adoption Process
[2010-08-10] SAP, arguably one of the remaining enterprise software vendors to accept and use open source within its products, made news by announcing a broader open source strategy. More importantly, SAP explained how they planned for the greater acceptance of open source components within their projects. Enterprise IT decision makers can learn from SAP's progress along the open source adoption cycle.
Cloud Computing Expected To Generate More IT Jobs
[2010-07-27] The increasing popularity of cloud computing isn't something IT professionals need to fear, according to the results of a recent survey. Even if some IT professionals believe the trend will result in the elimination of jobs, more IT professionals believe it will in fact spur the creation of new openings.
Upgrading Windows Server 2003 To Windows 2008 R2
[2010-07-13] I recently had to come up with a good argument for upgrading a Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2008 R2. It is used as a web server, so the benefit I was looking for was the upgrade of IIS 6 to IIS 7.5.
What The Yahoo/Bing Integration Date Means For Search?
[2010-06-22] The search merger between Yahoo! and Bing may finally have an integration date thanks to a timeline which is being sent to advertisers. The timeline identifies August 2010 as the date when Bing will start providing organic results for Yahoo, with paid search campaigns making the transition from mid July to the end of October.
Unix Server Sales Down, Windows and Linux Sales Up
[2010-06-08] IDC reports that Unix server revenue has dropped nearly 30 percent since last year. While Windows server hardware revenue was up almost 34 percent, Linux server demand was almost 21 percent.
Making IT A Driving Force Of Innovation
[2010-05-25] I recently attended the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium for the second time. It is an annual one-day conference, held on the MIT campus. This is part three of my notes. I attended a session, Positioning IT as an Innovation Engine, led by Martin Reeves, Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group. Panel members include: Ananth Krishman, CTO, TCS, Daxi Li, Chairman Chinese Association for Science and Business, Roy Rosin, VP of Innovation, Intuit, and Marco Orellana, CIO Codelco. The session picked up on some of the themes covered in the solving the CIO paradox session I reported on earlier
IT Services Are Distinct From IT Goods
[2010-05-11] Clearing some underbrush... It is generally accepted that Products subtype into Goods and Services. This distinction appears very frequently in the management literature.
Facebook Looks To Become Your Social Media Hub
[2010-04-27] Facebook revealed its plan to become center of the social web today at the F8 Developer Conference in San Fransisco, CA. They announced the Open Graph API protocol as well as the ability to integrate websites and apps on the web all within the boundaries of your social network making the platform even stronger than it currently is today.
Natural User Interfaces Becoming A Mainstream IT Requirement
[2010-04-06] With the iPad's imminent release and growing adoption of touchscreen smartphones, it's only a matter of time before natural user interfaces become a mainstream IT requirement.
The Top Risks And Threats For Cloud Computing
[2010-03-23] The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) released another important document today, Top Threats to Cloud Computing V1.0. While many simply declare the cloud as insecure, organizations like the CSA work diligently on defining the standards, describing best practices, and highlighting the top risks and threats. The top threats are:
Is Open Source Oracle Good?
[2010-03-09] Jeremy Allison of the Samba fame wrote an interesting blog post about Sun's approach to open source participatory development, followed by Bradley Kuhn's bad opinion of Oracle's attitude towards open source.
How Legal Issues, Business Strategies, And Costs Shape Open Source
[2010-02-23] How open source licensing's decisions are taken depend on legal issues, business strategies and costs structure.
Significant Growth Expected In US IT Market
[2010-02-09] Regardless of what the Dow may be doing at the moment, the recession isn't going to last forever, and in fact, a new report indicates that the IT industry is poised to recover. Business Monitor International believes spending in this field will soon start to grow at a rate of 5.5 percent (or more) per year.
Florian Mueller Shares His Opinion On The Oracle/Sun Merger
[2010-01-26] Now that the European Commission has approved the Oracle/Sun merger, while waiting Larry Ellison's webcast about Oracle + Sun strategy update, I asked again Florian Mueller to share his opinion on Commission's clearance of the deal.
Why Is IT Maintenance Lacking Over IT Projects?
[2010-01-12] In the quest for IT value, a commonly cited figure is that projects (new functionality) consume a mere 25% or so of IT spending, while "maintenance" consumes the balance.
Applying Lean Value Stream Mapping To Your IT Life Cycle
[2009-12-22] As I argue elsewhere (most recently on TDAN.com) there are four IT value streams:
OpenLogic Lowers Cost To Continue Healthy Competition With Red Hat
[2009-12-08] Last week OpenLogic announced commercial support for CentOS, a Linux distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The CentOS distribution is ostensibly RHEL source code with Red Hat's branding and artwork removed.
Understanding And Addressing Current IT Service Management Discussions
[2009-11-17] Twitter is increasingly useful lately, for pointers to current IT Service Management (ITSM) discussion & many other topics. A couple lines of inquiry have me feeling contrarian, or at least desiring more clarity:
OpenLogic May See Better Days Soon
[2009-11-03] I read two articles last week that lead me to believe OpenLogic's best days are ahead. First, OpenLogic reported a 41% year to year increase in 3Q09 revenue with a 100% renewal rate. These are strong results and the renewal rate suggests that clients value OpenLogic's offerings.
Tech Leaders Ask The FCC To Uphold An Open Internet
[2009-10-20] It appears the leaders of some of the world's largest tech companies are not taking any chances that the FCC could be persuaded to ditch Net Neutrality at the last minute-they just sent the following letter to FCC.
Webmaster Tools Improve With New Verification Process
[2009-10-05] Sean Harding is talking about the changes in the website verification process of Webmaster Tools on the Google Webmaster blog. Earlier, webmasters were required to add a specific meta tag or file of their website to become its verified owner. But, Google has recently made a few improvements in the ownership verification process to make it easier and more reliable.
Adding IT Service Value With The New Dell Purchase
[2009-09-22] Services get a bad name in the financial world, which is mystifying to me. On Friday of last week, I was speaking with a VC about a great small IT services firm doing a round of financing - the company is self-funded, is cash flow break-even, and will most likely end the year profitable, doing about $7M in sales.
Keeping Your WordPress Blog Secure From Hackers
[2009-09-08] If you use self-hosted WordPress for your blog and you're not using the latest version, 2.8.4, you're running a severe risk of your site security being compromised and even hacked. So do these three things right now:
Learning Malware Lessons From Web Hosting In Ireland
[2009-08-25] I've been paying a lot more attention to the problem of malware. It seems that this issue may be set to be the largest threat to online business, and given the sheer volume of new attacks I thought it would be interesting to take a look at what Google's Safe Browsing system was reporting for Irish Hosting companies.
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