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Tech Jobs Sector Expected To Expand
[2010-08-31] Chief technology officers who sometimes feel that having third and fourth arms grafted on is almost a necessity can take some comfort from conclusions reached by the U.S. Department of Labor. The Department of Labor found that more hiring should occur in the industry.
Social Media And Technology Trends To Keep An Eye On
[2010-08-17] Here are several excerpts from an insightful post by Mark Schaefer about a McKinsey report on tech-enabled business trends, Ten Social Media and Technology Mega-trends To Watch. Be sure to check out the original source article for much more discussion on each of these trends:
Taking An In-depth Look At Ubuntu For Business
[2010-08-03] Well, let's face the fact that most of the populace on the web actually works on Windows. The rationale of their doing so in verity differs from individual to individual. Sometimes, it's the way how a kid is brought up at schools, and for others, it's the ease of working or may be the sheer ignorance of trying to explore and use something which can be termed as "better".
Global IT Spending Set To Grow 3.9%
[2010-07-20] Global IT spending is on track to total $3.350 trillion in 2010, an increase of 3.9 percent from 2009 spending of $3.225 trillion, according to the latest forecast by Gartner.
Boosting IT Productivity Through Social Computing
[2010-07-09] IT is sometimes portrayed as the bad guy or the obstacle in the enterprise 2.0 space as some times they attempt to block or curtail social media activities. Forrester's Nigel Fenwick presents a nice twist to this view by offering research on how social computing can boost IT productivity. I saw Nigel at the recent Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston so it is nice to get a review copy of this report.
An Educational Web Hosting Horror Story
[2010-06-22] Every CTO worth his (or her) salt considers a number of factors when picking a company to handle business domain names and email, including price, reliability, and ease of setup. Only one man's tale has made clear that CTOs should also consider how a hosting provider will respond to hacking, since this can put everything at risk.
Free Microsoft Programs To Check Out
[2010-06-15] Microsoft has been known for the proprietary softwares and need no introduction! There has always been a conflict of views across communities. While some claim that Microsoft provides value for money, FOSS activists have often denied it. Suites and programs like Open Office and GIMP have often been compared to MS Office and Adobe Photoshop, on various grounds. One of the factors being the price.
The Continuum Of Manufacturing Models
[2010-06-01] So, I just finished Steve Bell's excellent Lean Enterprise Systems... a book that has already contributed to one insight, that of the CMDB as a Bill of Materials or Resources.
Determining The Value of Open Source SaaS and PaaS
[2010-05-18] Open source has been promoted as, amongst other things, a means of minimizing vendor lock-in. However, it's unclear that this value proposition holds when utilizing software as a service (SaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS) in the cloud.
What Processes CTOs Could Learn From Start Ups
[2010-05-04] I have spent well over 20 years in corporate IT environments, most of it working for IT shops in the 100-300 person range. In every company that I worked for, IT was seen as a bottleneck and IT struggled to satisfy the needs of the business. In many companies, this is the standard. The reasons for these struggles can be boiled down into the following categories:
Companies Not Including Energy Use In IT Budgets
[2010-04-20] Companies recognize energy as a significant cost, but more than half fail to account for energy costs when developing IT budgets, according to a new survey commissioned by Avanade.
Should CTOs Care About OIN Licensing?
[2010-04-15] Open Invention Network, the intellectual property company aimed at protecting an ecosystem around Linux, announced an increase in licensing program in 2010 first quarter.
Who Really Has Browser Control?
[2010-03-29] Interesting tidbit over at Techdirt this morning about a Grease Monkey script called Fluff Busting Purity formerly known as Facebook Purity. While the Techdirt article is good, there are some interesting side issues here that should be noted.
Building The Correct Size SOA For Your Business
[2010-03-16] I am working on my second enterprise SOA implementation in the last 4 years. The first implementation was at a medium sized IT shop of 200+ people. That project was driven by the need to revamp business processes and leverage SOA to connect new user interfaces driven by workflow to old legacy systems. My current SOA initiative is quite unique. As a startup we are building from a blank sheet of paper.
Flow of Communication Using the Salmon Protocol
[2010-03-02] Salmon Protocol is actually one of the most exciting things that will be used by Google Buzz & theoretically could dramatically make huge changes to the way communication flows around all kinds of web content, whether comments on blog posts, votes & likes on Youtube videos, maybe blog posts themselves, video replies etc.
Verizon's Rollout Of 4G To Create New Opportunities
[2010-02-16] 4G wireless service should be available later this year courtesy of Verizon, according to one of the company's executives. And for businesses, that could have some important ramifications as they'll be able to offer better customer service and perhaps increase the odds of their representatives making sales.
Increasing Both Agile And IT Service Management In Current IT Discourse
[2010-02-02] With the increasing prominence of both Agile and IT Service Management in current IT-related discourse, it's inevitable that some will ask "why not Agile ITSM"? Surely, those stick in the mud ITSM types with their Change and Release processes (so often impediments to developers) could use a little agility!
WSO2 Introduces Its New Middleware Platform
[2010-01-19] WSO2 - the open source SOA company with offices located in USA, UK and Sri Lanka - earlier this week made three announcements introducing its new middleware platform for heterogeneous SOAs, now including the Business Activity Monitor and the Gadget Server, all based on the WSO2 Carbon platform. While the Gadget Server simplifies developers' lives allowing them to write gadgets instead of portlets, the Monitor provides near real-time visibility to performance metrics.
Securing Private Analytics Data To Mitigate The Risks
[2010-01-05] With both large real and hidden opportunity costs associated with evaluating, implementing, and learning the quirks of a new analytics tool, it only makes sense to ensure that the tool one chooses will be able to keep pace with one´s future requirements. So in order to evaluate tools correctly people need to be aware of the changes that are occurring in the online world as this will influence what data will be important to collect and leverage in the future.
Costs Between Proprietary And Open Source Products Narrows In The Cloud
[2009-12-15] After my previous post "Cloud to boost proprietary software use?", Tim Bray questioned whether the pricing comparison of "WebSphere/SUSE vs. JBoss/RHEL on EC2 was a transient anomaly". JBoss' Rich Sharples commented that I was comparing apples and oranges. That was not my intention.
Discovering The Main Goals Of Open Source Communities And Vendors
[2009-12-01] The relationship between open source communities and vendors keeps being a topic of debate these days. Simon Phipps at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference gave a talk about his "software freedom scorecard", a method to indicate the approach vendors take to promote software freedom as part of their business strategies.
Top Strategic Technologies For 2010
[2009-11-16] Here are several excerpts from an article by Josh Cable, Senior Editor for Industry Week Magazine, Top 10 IT Strategies for 2010. For more information on each strategy area, check out the complete source article:
How The Future Of The Social Web Will Effect You
[2009-11-03] Brian Solis writes a thought-provoking post about how he sees the future of the social web, prompted by a Forrester report of the same name published in April.
How To Stay On Top Of Your Online Reputation
[2009-10-20] These days one of the first things people do when they want to know more about you or your business is to do a search for your name on Google - I'm sure you have all heard of the expression "I just Googled you".
Basics Of Making Business Rules Work
[2009-10-06] Jim Sinur and Dave McCoy of Gartner hosted a quick session on making rules work at the Gartner BPM show. With only 30 minutes this was quick and dirty and the audience was overwhelmingly people completely new to business rules (though not to BPM). Dave outlined his 5 pieces of advice:
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