IT Blog While writing my story this week on CIOs looking to renegotiate IT outsourcing contracts to take advantage of cost savings, I found the drop in pricing for application hosting services particularly interesting. As my story said, analyst firm Gartner Inc. predicts that the cost of outsourcing IT infr...
Enterprise applications, Budgeting and cost-cutting IT Blog I had a co-worker ask me yesterday what my opinion on "cloud computing" is, and whether it should be something they could recommend to clients. He had seen announcements about cloud computing from Microsoft According to a 2008 paper published by IEEE Internet Computing "Cloud Computing is a paradig...
IT Blog In yet another price change that angers customers, VMware announced a new pricing strategy for its vSphere 5, and the new pricing could create significant increases in license costs for some customersas much as 4x.Our model suggests that the typical user will pay less than 20% more, but its ...
IT Blog Google's developer conference generated a flood of news, which was a bit of news itself. There was a time when big announcements were linked to industry events like trade shows, but the new trend to link them to developer meetings shows a new dynamic in the industry. Actually, it shows a re-valida...
IT Blog Proof-of-concept code released by a security researcher could be tweaked for use on almost any device. Demonstrates need for caution with mobile applications. A security researcher demonstrating some of the weaknesses in mobile devices has chosen to target Blackberrys with new proof-of-concept code...
Application Security, mobile malware, mobile applications IT Blog Eleonore exploit kit targets browser vulnerabilities and plug-in holes that have been patched by vendors. A standard, but widely used exploit kit known as Eleonore, attempts to exploit dozens of commonly known vulnerabilities, looking to prey on users who fail to install the latest patches an...
IT Blog A Post implementation review is conducted after a substantial period from implementation sign-off. This review is to ascertain customer managements and users experience on product in absence of product implementation team. The product has been implemented successfully and the team is gone. Ofc...
Project Management, post implementation review, project implementation IT Blog Some more Titbits on CouchDB In an earlier blog http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-IT-tech-trends/couchdb-nosql-for-document-based-applications/ covered some technical details behind CouchDB. In this, just listing down some interesting points I could gather about this NOSQL databas...
CouchDB, NoSQL, Apache IT Blog As 2009 draws to a close (thankfully), it's time, as we do every year, to look back on some of the major developments in the CRM market. This year is not as easy as some. Gone are the heady days of CRM news, like in 2005 when all this took was throwing acquisitions, such as the Aspect-Concerto and ...
social crm, CRM and Web 2.0, call center software IT Blog Improved configuration and lower costs are on John E Quigley II's wish list for VMware ESX. In the meantime, Quigley is moving ESX to the back burner. Today, Quigley -- a senior network engineer -- told me that his firm, Total Quality Logistics, LLC, will be migrating over to Microsoft Virtual Serv...
Microsoft, Virtualization, Microsoft Virtual Server IT Blog This afternoon, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced the release of its new policy for the secure use of social media. The policy officially recognizes that "Internet capabilities are integral to operations across the Department of Defense" and formalizes the use of collaborative technology by ...
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