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March 20, 2006

11 entries filed this day

The Network is the Computer

Jonathan Schwartz · Executive Vice President, Software Group |, Sun Microsystems · general

Allow me to once again apologize in advance for a lack of brevity. This is one of those blogs you wait a career to write. A few years ago, I was sitting across from a Wall Street CIO, one of many I was visiting in New York.

Filed at 08:13

CEOs see innovation as key to competitiveness

Randy Littleson · CEO |, Kinaxis · best practices

Here's an article over at IndustryWeek referencing research done by IBM (there's a link to the IBM research in the article). The focus is a survey with CEOs talking about competitiveness.

Filed at 15:25

WBS 2.0

Demian Entrekin · CEO |, Project Arena · ppm / project arena / project management / project portfolio management

In the portfolio context, we must revisit what is perhaps the most fundamental aspect of a project: the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Now that the project has already moved out of the center of the

Filed at 17:08

Anti-Money Laundering Conference

Steve Goldstein · CEO |, Alacra

Money Laundering Alert drew over 1500 delegates to Hollywood, Florida last week to their 11th Annual International Money Laundering Conference and Exhibition.Alacra was there, demonstrating our new Compliance Solutions.The conference was extremely well run and there was an impressive roster...

Filed at 19:18

Why is Innovation Such a Hot Topic? Two Sides of a Coin

Irving Wladawsk... · Vice President of Technical Strategy and Innovation |, IBM · innovation

It seems that wherever you turn these days, you hear about innovation. Nations and regions all over the world have innovation initiatives such as the NII in the US, which is run by the Council on Competitiveness and the European...

Filed at 19:44

Fine Young Cannibals

Chris Johnson · Product Management Director |, BMC · saas / software as a service

Don't worry about cannibalization, worry about not being in the market

Filed at 20:33

Preparing for Upgrades -- the Infrastructure and Architecture

Lenley Hensarling · Vice President and General Manager for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne |, Oracle

I've been spending an increasing amount of time with customers over the last few months, and a lot of my customers are upgrading right now. This has started me thinking about skiing.

Filed at 21:05

Tiered Storage PayOff

Hu Yoshida · Vice President and Chief Technology Officer |, Hitachi Data Systems · tiered storage

Some 40 to 45% of the USP platforms are sold with the Universal Volume Manager software which enables a USP to discover and access LUNs from external storage that is connected through its FC ports. Once this is done the...

Filed at 22:53

Industry Standard or Sub-Standard?

Dan Socci · Vice President of HP Services, Technology Services Marketing |, HP

A consultant recently told us for industry standard servers it appears HP is the only major vendor still delivering support services the old fashioned way. By that he meant only HP intends the term four hour on-site response to mean after a customer places a service call to HP they would have either problem resolution or a technician on site within four hours.

Filed at 23:12

Heartless

Mike MacDonald · CEO |, Visual Mining · corporations / fiduciary responsibility / opinion

Last night I watched the movie Cinderella Man, based on the remarkable life of depression-era boxer J.J. Braddock. In one scene, Braddock's manager, Jay Gould, asks boxing promoter Jimmy Johnston to "have a heart", and not show J.J.

Filed at 01:56

What's the Joel Reddit?

Joel Spolsky · CEO |, Fog Creek Software

The new reddit site at joel.reddit.com is a place for you, my readers, to post links to sites and articles on the web that you found interesting.

Filed at 02:18

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