Date: 10/22/07     Keywords: no keywords

Please be aware, as I noted last week, that experience in both Sun and IBM environments has left me less than objective on the issue - and I'm therefore relying on readers to catch any errors I may make. That said, I think that it is only...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=988

Date: 10/17/07     Keywords: crm

It was just a few weeks ago at salesforce.com's DreamForce Conference that the company known for its on-demand CRM solutions rolled out force.com and a new development tool it's calling visualforce. In hopes of getting a demonstration of the product, I caught up with salesforce.com's vice president of developer...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=844

Date: 10/16/07     Keywords: no keywords

Lorie Buckingham, CIO of Avaya discusses her most important IT priorities since taking the CIO position at Avaya which includes consolidating the company's datacenter operations globally. by Andrew Mager

Source: http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?p=203

Date: 10/16/07     Keywords: no keywords

Dan Farber: Lorie, thanks for joining me. Lorie Buckingham: It's a pleasure to be here today. Dan Farber: Now you recently came to Avaya from Visteon which is an auto parts maker, what is it about Avaya that attracted you? ...

Source: http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?page_id=202

Date: 10/16/07     Keywords: no keywords

A real orchestration strategy would have to include the ability to move resources from one physical system to another (P2P), one virtual system to another (V2V) and convert physical to virtual and back (P2V, V2P) to make optimal use of those resources. What is optimal? That, of course, depends upon...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=257

Date: 10/15/07     Keywords: technology

It was promised long ago, but today they finally released their "operational testing" version of YouTube's copyright filter. They have been testing the extremely complicated technology with media partners such as Disney, Time Warner and CBS. There are no clear details as to how content creators...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=770

Date: 10/15/07     Keywords: software, database

Update includes fixes for 27 vulnerabilities in Oracle Database, five of which may be exploited remotely without authentication. Oracle plans to push out 51 fixes for flaws in its software, in a self-described "critical patch update" on Tuesday. The flaws affect a number of Oracle products. Some...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6213495.html

Date: 10/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

Notable headlines: Dana Gardner: Oracle makes its move to acquire BEA George Ou: Green IT will get zero traction until IT pays the electric bill Harry Fuller: Greening your datacenter, what's it worth? New climate change report in November will...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6587

Date: 10/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

ZDNet colleague Larry Dignan, reporting from Gartner IT Symposium, says too much is being made of "Green IT," and IT managers he has spoken with even say it may be a bogus issue generated by vendors and consultants. A couple of months back, I saw a report...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=909

Date: 10/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

Gartner joins the chorus of tech watchers calling for greener data centers. Like the folks at Sun that Heather blogged, Gartner calls for managing the process through graualism. Don't rip it all out and start over. That'll take a lot of energy, of all kinds. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=375

Date: 10/11/07     Keywords: technology

Data centers now account for almost a fourth of carbon dioxide emissions caused by IT operations, according to analyst firm. The intense power requirements needed to run and cool data centers now account for almost a quarter of global carbon dioxide emissions from information and communications technology, according...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6212965.html

Date: 10/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

Recently Robert Scoble interviewed Christopher Longhurst, a Stanford physician who also works in his hospital's IT department. While most of the excitement over automating records involves issues like handwriting and privacy, Longhurst said the most exciting potential really lies in decision support. He gave this...

Source: http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=350

Date: 10/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

The video gurus here at ZDNet have posted their latest in the Green Enterprise series, some tips from Sun Microsystems CIO Bob Worrall on how to tackle making your data center more energy-efficient while simultaneously reducing the carbon dioxide emissions it contributes to the atmosphere. I'll let...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=374

Date: 10/08/07     Keywords: software

Acquisition cost of about $6.8 billion will strain SAP's financial health next year, say analysts. Shares in German computer software maker SAP fell more than 5 percent on Monday on market skepticism about the merit of SAP's plans to buy Franco-American peer Business Objects, analysts said. Dealers...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6212232.html

Date: 10/07/07     Keywords: no keywords

SAP took a page out of Oracle's grow-by-consolidation playbook in acquiring business intelligence leader Business Objects $6.8 billion (42 Euros per share). SAP CEO Henning Kagermann position the acquisition as part of his company's strategy to rapidly grow its customer base. SAP wants to have 100,000 customers by 2010, more...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6530

Date: 10/05/07     Keywords: software, technology

This post is part of a series of myths I've heard mentioned during discussion with Kusnetzky Group clients. This time, the topic is expertise requirements. Often suppliers of virtualization technology in general and virtual machine software in specific leave the impression that their technology can be just dropped into the...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=250

Date: 10/04/07     Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft launched a public beta of HealthVault, its free, health-records Software+Service offering, on October 4. Here are a few screen shots showing some of the HealthVault elements and how Microsoft is positioning its consumer health solution. Microsoft is positioning the offering as a way for consumers to...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=790

Date: 10/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

You're running one of the world's busiest e-commerce sites, handling up to 4 million checkouts per day. Response time is critical. Every page is customized on the fly using over 150 network services. And the system must manage failures of any component, including entire data centers. ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=201

Date: 10/03/07     Keywords: software

There is growing awareness among British IT managers that energy costs are no longer negligible, and may never be again. A recent commentary from the CEO of Celona Technologies points out words still win out over action. Celona builds software for communications enterprises and it surveyed many of...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=339

Date: 10/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, is outlining details of "Dynamo," an internal operating system that runs the e-commerce giant's storage system. In a post, Vogels said Dynamo will be detailed at the Operating Systems conference in a paper (PDF). Here's his description: Dynamo...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6502