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Google, Software Quality, Inherent Quality IT Blog Well, the Business ByDesign news is in from a recent SAP event in London with members of SAP's SME team and the most interesting thing about it is the lack of any new details - or a ship date - for the service analysts once touted as "most comprehensive SaaS ERP offering on the market." SAP is "wai...
IT Blog Here's an interesting idea in honor of Earth Day. Perhaps others willdeploycreative Earth Day ways to givethemselves,staff and teammates a bit of time off as a means of showing appreciation for the Earth and related efforts to ideally help make things better from one perspective or anoth...
IT Blog Imagine the pure potentiality of the individual, team and collective passion around a premier worldwide technology competition, for students. This year's theme is the environment. You may say I'm a dreamer, b...
Software Quality, Inherent Quality, Microsoft IT Blog The time, 3:16; the message,read this post, explore the posts of VIIP, IQS101, and InherentQuality.Com's Weblog. Find a way. Come forthhopeful romantic, whatever your favorite movies (e.g., Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, Deja Vu, The Last Mimzy, The Fountain, An Inconvenient Truth,T...
Software Quality, Inherent Quality, Fellowship IT Blog Recently, I ran the Dallas White Rock Marathon and I used technology to do it! I have posted a story about my marathon journey including pictures of the race. I have also detailed how I started with an Apple iPod with Nike Plus, then moved to RunKeeper on the iPhone, and finished up with a Garmin 30...
IT Blog On September 23rd I'll be presenting for the SQL PASS Virtualization Virtual Chapter. I'll be doing part of the pre-con that I'll be doing at the PASS Summit. So in addition to getting some great info (at least I think its great info) you'll get a nice teaser for what you'll be able to see at th...
SQL Server, PASS, Virtualization IT Blog As this IQS101 post noted, the X-Play winner for best game of the year 2007 was BioShock. When the time comes to announce the winner for 2008, perhaps it will be Halo 3, particularly given the millions it made in the first 24 hours. As a bit of history, the related company (after having concentrated...
Software Quality, Inherent Quality, Microsoft IT Blog It may be said that it is good to have 100% network availability. It may also be said that it is nice to choose when to relax, step away from the computer and perhaps enjoy the outdoors. Have a nice weekend. Hope you enjoy the videos (andgive thought to the related site,results andfuture pl...
Inherent Quality, Fun, Earth Hour IT Blog [caption id="attachment_491" align="alignleft" width="349" caption="Web 2.0 Sites New Playground for Miscreants"][/caption] With the stellar rise of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, the Ning networks and the like, the bad guys have found yet another playground on the Web. Mo...
Security, Web 2.0 Security, Social Networking Hacks IT Blog I don't know about you, but I stopped using Adobe's PDF reader a few years ago. I started looking for an alternative because AdobeReader was taking a long time to load, and I needed to be able to edit a PDF file. I didn't need extensive edit capabilities, just needed to add a few comments. I ended u...
PDF Reader, Adobe, Acrobat IT Blog Today is perhaps a good day for some open thinking, about balance, and smart Government. "Balance", this is a word that can be applied in ways, or from many perspectives. For example, relative to a particular person's balance within life, or relative to ensuring effective types of balance within ro...
Software Quality, Inherent Quality, Government IT Blog A few bits of news that may interest you: 2.21.2007 Global IT Profession comes nearer 3.13.2007 IT Industry moves towards a Global Standard of Professionalism 9.12.2007 Microsoft supports plan for International Standard for IT Professionals 2.21.2008 CIPS National Board of Directors:Call for...
IT Blog March, a month that implies action, rising, new life, beginning again. This month and onwards as the world marches towards 2020, will there be greater forms of collaboration and teamwork? Will greater alliances bring greater fellowship? Perhapsstrong reactions will somehow help to enable expanded...
Software Quality, Inherent Quality, Government IT Blog Virtualization administrators are quite aware of the risk of virtual machine sprawl. How your virtual environment will grow or shrink will vary based on many factors. For new implementations, there is a generally a large front-loading of virtual machines from conversions or migrations from older env...
Virtualization management, Rick Vanover, Lab management IT Blog This is simply idiocyor gross negligenceof the highest degree. In the last week, more than a dozen US Representatives websites were defaced by hackers who posted digital graffiti on the home pages. The graffiti read, H4ck3d by 3n_byt3 @ Indonesia H4ck3rs (see screen shot). There was n...
IT Blog Last week was a very busy week for me presentation wise. So instead of putting out 4 blog posts, one for each event I waited and put everything in a single deck. On Wednesday at the San Gabriel Valley .NET users group I talked about SQL Server Indexing. On Thursday morning during the 24 Hours of...
SQL Server, SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday 55 IT Blog I've got a bunch of sessions planned from now to the rest of the year. Here's the list of all the events large and small. September 15th - San Gabriel Valley .NET Users Group 16th - 24 Hours of PASS 16th - SoCal .NET Architecture User Group 18th - SQL Saturday 55 23rd - Virtualization VC October...
IT Blog Oracle Database Firewall made its public debut here at RSA yesterday, and for a cool $5,000 perprocessorthe software parses incoming SQL statements, picks out risky ones and translates them into something a bit more mundane, adding a new layer of defense against SQL while minimizing the disrupti...
IT Blog Market research firm Gartner is predicting that spending for security services will mushroom not just this year, but between now and 2015. Of particular interest to managed service providers should be the fact that the managed portion of the security services pie is slated to almost double during t...
IT channel products and services, security services, Managed services providers IT Blog It has been said (e.g., see todays message from Neale Donald Walsch) that one should not avoid hearing, or even studying, others points of view; and that you will benefit more from looking into such deeply with an open mind and not cynically. I have learned that in order to fully see another worl...
IT Blog Martin Fowler - RulesEngine - The basic idea of production rules is very simple. In order to keep the implicit behavior under control you also need to limit the number of rules by keeping the rules within a narrow context. This would argue for a more domain specific approach to rules, where a team b...
IT Blog VMware boasts that its customers include the entire Fortune 100, 491 of the Fortune 500 and 955 of the Fortune 1000. Those are all impressive figures. But if you're a small company, you might look at those stats and think, "Are we too small for VMware?" VMware's reputation for high prices and all i...
VMware, Hyper-V vs. VMware, Colin Steele IT Blog Windows 7 is more secure than WIndows XP. Period. Likewise, Office 2010 is more secure than Office 2007. It is not that WIndows 7, or Office 2010, or any other new OS or application is magical, it is just the natural evolution of things. New technologies are introduced. New attack techniques are dev...
IT Blog March is a month whose name implies action, so this post is a trek into Canada's Budget 2008 and thoughts of the road ahead for more true global fellowship. This post is perhaps part of a start of a progressive march into uncertainty with increasingly smarter government, global cooperation and bala...
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