Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk follows on my review of Nick Carr’s new book with the saga of his own trying exegesis of the text.
“You’re obsessed with sex,” said my ZDNet handler, looking angrier than a caucuser who had just switched his vote from Chris Dodd to Hillary.
“But sex gets page views. And you […]
With “recession” permeating the air, on demand services are looking even more attractive to CIOs and investors. Jeff Kaplan, managing director of THINKstrategies, wrote:
Escalating oil prices, the uncertain political landscape and faltering financial institutions beset with the aftereffects of the sub-prime lending debacle could mean a tough year for the economy. In this […]
Nick Carr, the Paul Revere of utility computing, blogged about HP reducing its data centers from over 80 to 6 and Sun’s effort to shut down all its internal data centers by 2013.
To achieve even greater efficiency will require a higher level of consolidation - across companies rather than within them - and that […]
Microsoft said Tuesday that it will offer $1.2 billion in cash for Fast Search and Transfer (FAST), a big player in the enterprise search market.
The move is sure to shake up the enterprise search market, which thus far has been dominated by a series of smaller players like FAST, Autonomy and Vivisimo. Google has made […]
One of the big takeaways from IBM’s powwow over collaboration tools was that Web 2.0 technology is easing its way into the enterprise.
First, companies like IBM and Cisco will adopt mashups that combine enterprise applications with external applications. Then CIOs will slowly adopt Web 2.0 approaches. These executives will experiment from the inside out. First, […]
This is our last Dan & David Show for 2007, and we look back at some of the major stories and trends of the year. We discuss the impact of the iPhone, cloud-based applications, social networking, software-as-a-service, green IT, industry consolidation and Web 2.0.
You can download the podcast directly to your desktop or MP3 player […]
Which has a larger carbon footprint: your neighbor’s gas guzzling SUV or the server in your machine room? The answer might surprise you. In a recent report from the Global Action Plan, the average server has a larger annual carbon footprint than an SUV getting 15 MPG. Information technology accounts for about the same […]
Social networks are growing like weeds. This creates a difficult weeding problem for enterprises, who fear adverse impact from employees spending time and sharing company info in Facebook groups, which aren’t protected by corporate firewalls.
WorkLight is addressing both issues with WorkBook, a Facebook application that allows employees to use the social network to communicate securely.
“When […]
Our engineering team put ZDNet blogs through a cloud tag blender to render a weighted list of top topics for 2008. In an age when the consumer and enterprise worlds are colliding (but no exploding), Google, iPhone, Apple and Microsoft captured the big buzz of the year in our blogs. It was also a year […]
IBM demoed its enterprise 2.0 experiments Tuesday including its On Demand Workplace–an application that’s part intranet, part Facebook and part Web service that becomes an interface to legacy systems.
IBM executives held court with a handful of bloggers, writers and analysts at its New York offices. The presentations, currently underway, are led by CIO Mark Hennessy […]
IBM has embraced Linux as its operating system of choice, but employees are
slowly working toward using it on the desktop.
As of yesterday, IBM had 24,190 Linux desktop installations within the company.
That’s out of 372,000 IBMers.
So what’s the holdup? John Walicki, open client architect at IBM, says it’s a matter
of application maturity. As Lotus Notes develops […]
An October Forrester survey, “Green Progress in Enterprise IT” ($279), found that 38 percent of respondents were applying environmental criteria in evaluating products, compared with 25 percent in an April survey. The survey was based on responses from 130 enterprise IT professionals at North American and European companies.
Given the increasing decibels of talk about global […]
Updated below: There’s a good discussion on the line between journalism and blogging, but it’s also worth noting the technology gulf between media companies and their content minions.
In Scott Karp’s overall discussion asking whether blogs can do journalism–I think it’s all the same and chances are techies don’t care anyway–he touches on blogs partially […]
CIO magazine is out with its 2008 state of the CIO survey and pay is up, business strategists are valuable and the average tenure is down.
CIO surveyed 542 CIOs to cook up the state of the position and what the future will hold.
A few takeaways from the report:
Of the CIOs surveyed, 51 percent say their […]
Technology executives are asking Forrester Research for advice on whether to add iPhone support to their enterprise lineup. The answer: Not yet. The iPhone just isn’t an enterprise class device, says Forrester.
Forrester analysts Benjamin Gray and Robert Whiteley serve up 10 reasons why the iPhone isn’t ready for the enterprise. That said, the analysts […]
CIO Insight published its annual Vendor Value survey, with Red Hat coming out on top. A total of 472 respondents from companies ranging from $5 million to over $1 billion in revenues completed the survey in September 2007. More than half said they were the top IT executives at their company.
Vendors were rated on […]
Matt Asay has an interview with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on news.com. Schwartz explains how having millions of downloads of Sun’s Solaris and Java translates into bounty for the company and its shareholders.
Asay: But how do you translate interest and volume into customers? Downloads are nice, but how do you get a return?
Schwartz: The question […]