Applying Lean Value Stream Mapping To Your IT Life Cycle
As I argue elsewhere (most recently on TDAN.com) there are four IT value streams: - Application service lifecyle. - Infrastructure service lifecycle...
Date: 2009-12-22

OpenLogic Lowers Cost To Continue Healthy Competition With Red Hat
Last week OpenLogic announced commercial support for CentOS, a Linux distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
Date: 2009-12-08

Understanding And Addressing Current IT Service Management Discussions
Twitter is increasingly useful lately, for pointers to current IT Service Management (ITSM) discussion & many other topics.
Date: 2009-11-17

OpenLogic May See Better Days Soon
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. 
Date: 2009-11-03

Tech Leaders Ask The FCC To Uphold An Open Internet
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.
Date: 2009-10-20

Webmaster Tools Improve With New Verification Process
Sean Harding is talking about the changes in the website verification process of Webmaster Tools on the Google Webmaster blog.
Date: 2009-10-05

Adding IT Service Value With The New Dell Purchase
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...
Date: 2009-09-22

Keeping Your WordPress Blog Secure From Hackers
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.
Date: 2009-09-08

Learning Malware Lessons From Web Hosting In Ireland
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...
Date: 2009-08-25

Cloud Computing Worst Practices And How To Avoid Them
It is no surprise that many IT organizations are struggling to implement enterprise solutions in the cloud.
Date: 2009-08-11

Intuit Blurs The Lines Between Open Source And Proprietary Vendors
The lines between open source and proprietary vendors' software strategies continue to blur. Intuit announced the launch of a community site for developers interested in creating connected on line applications for small businesses, providing them with a number of open source tools.
Date: 2009-07-30

Google's Next Microsoft Killer Chrome OS
Yep - it's true. Google are venturing into the world of computer operating systems and have clearly put Microsoft on notice.
Date: 2009-07-14

OpenOffice.org To Focus On Stability And Feature Upgrades
Sun's Thorsten Ziehm of the OpenOffice.org engineering team wrote a post titled: "Does OpenOffice.org 3.x have a general quality issue?"
Date: 2009-06-30

Taking Full Advantage Of Database Development Tools
The cloud has opened up enhanced opportunities to store and access data. However, for enterprises to take full advantage of this new power, database development tools need to be accessible to self-service by the typical business user without limiting any of the database's flexibility or scalability.
Date: 2009-06-15

Understanding How A Hacker Thinks
Wonder how a hacker thinks? Take a look at a three year old discovering their world and you have a very good idea on how a hacker thinks, no boundaries, no layers, and the whole world is wide open for discovery.
Date: 2009-06-03

Before Adopting New Technology Fix Your Current IT Issues
Here are several excerpts from a very informative blog post by Phil Wainewright, How to Fail with Cloud, SaaS and Enterprise 2.0 :Gartner analyst Michael Maoz blogged yesterday Why your Twitter and Social CRM efforts will fail.
Date: 2009-05-19

Is Facebook Business 2.0 Killing IT Business 1.0?
Most social networking sites with a zillion users don't come close to making money. Eventually, even dinosaurs such as myself succumb to the inevitable old school question - "how long can it continue?"
Date: 2009-05-05

How Do You Feel About The Pirate Bay Verdict?
Reaction to the news Friday that the Pirate Bay Four had been convicted came from every corner of the web over the weekend: "The verdict might well be...
Date: 2009-04-21

Focus On Architecture To Succeed In The Cloud
A small number of bloggers keep reminding the industry of the lessons learned from SOA. We keep reminding people that to succeed in the cloud there must be a focus on architecture.
Date: 2009-04-07

The BBC Controls A BotNet For Viewer Benefit
This is what happens when television people get their hands on 22,000 compromised computers and think it would be fun to play around with a Botnet.
Date: 2009-03-24

Google's Website Optimizer Techie Guide
Google Website Optimizer is in news again. Recently it had launched its new channel on You Tube and just before that a Google Website Optimizer forum for its puzzled users.
Date: 2009-03-10

IT Departments Making Better Use Of Resources
Here are a few excerpts from an article by Tom Kaneshige, IT Learns To Do Less With Less: Forget "doing more with less" - that's the IT mantra of yesteryear.  
Date: 2009-01-27

Positive Changes In The Open Source Model
I was thinking about how much the open source movement has progressed in the past year. 
Date: 2009-01-06

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