Tuesday, October 11, 2011

How CIOs spend their time

Cisco memo slams HP strategy | Steve Jobs and Life in the Shadow of Death

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How CIOs spend their time
CIOs today spend a lot more time managing relationships than diving into technical work. In fact, non-technical work consumes 77% of CIOs' time, according to new survey data from the Society for Information Management (SIM). Read More


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Cisco memo slams HP strategy
Cisco is gearing up its sales force to exploit the turmoil currently enveloping rival HP. Cisco sales EVP Rob Lloyd apparently circulated an eight-page internal memo detailing what Cisco views as the impact of HP exiting the tablet, smartphone and PC businesses on the company. Read More

Steve Jobs and Life in the Shadow of Death
Six years ago, standing in the warm California sun on June 12, 2005, Apple co-founder and then-CEO Steve Jobs spoke to the graduating class of Stanford University. It was a spare and deceptively simple speech "about three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories." Read More

Is Samsung/Google launch delay related to Jobs' death?
Samsung and Google have cancelled major product unveilings planned for next Tuesday - the Samsung Nexus Prime phone and Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system - and while the companies are not being clear as to why, it would appear related to the death of Steve Jobs. Read More

My Memories of Steve Jobs
I wasn't looking forward to this day, but after certain pictures, I knew it was coming. The world has lost one of the most significant figures of the last century. Everyone will write their tributes. This is mine. Read More


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Performance Metrics and the Cloud
Unlike static configuration management databases, which often contain information too outdated for real-time understanding, a dynamic operational service model provides relevant, timely information. Read More

More Proof that Security is Impossible
Last week's Interop New York conference, as is always the case, featured a number of very interesting discussions of wireless and mobile security, including an excellent "deep dive" in the form of Lisa Phifer's overview of best practices for WLAN security. Bottom line: nothing's perfect, but we've got really good tools and strategies available today. Read More

The new Cisco WAAS Appliances, a game changer?
Everyone has been waiting to see my reaction to the next generation Cisco WAAS appliances that were announced at Interop. Could these be the game changers that Cisco needs to compete with Riverbed and also stop losing deals to Blue Coat and Certeon? Read More

Oracle snub of Benioff: Petty or just incompetent?
There's no mistaking Marc Benioff's opinion: The Salesforce.com CEO believes he was booted from a 10:30 a.m. keynote spot today at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 by the shod foot of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Read More

Red Hat Pays 136 Million To Enter Cloud Storage Space. Why?
As my Network World editor Julie Bort covered earlier this week, Red Hat made their first (and being it is October, maybe their only) acquisition of the year this week by buying Silicon Valley based, scale out storage vendor Gluster. Gluster develops the GlusterFS file system and the Gluster open source project. Read More


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The iPhone 5 Announcement – What Went Wrong
Despite spending most of yesterday on the bus making my way to Interop New York, I kept my Android phone glued to anything I could find on what turned out to be the iPhone 4S announcement. Read More

Can Hotmail Revamp Win Back GMail Defectors?
Microsoft's Hotmail has been around 15 years, longer than even Google. Some of you may remember it was rendered "HoTMaiL." But it fell victim to a deadly combination of Google momentum that included Gmail and Hotmail becoming a haven for spammers, both for sending it and being able to bombard you with it. Read More

IBM is creating awareness in a very cool way
"Think" is one of several ways IBM is celebrating its centennial anniversary this year. It is a free exhibit on display at Lincoln Center through October 23, 2011. Read More

The best picture of a high-tech car with big ears you'll see this year
This is a REAL car whisperer. The so-called MiMi Car is used as a way for Japanese car makers to grab information from attendees of the huge Japanese consumer electronics show, Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC). Read More



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