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- Cutting costs in IT the creative way
- It's has been a long time since the heady days of the year 2000 when funding for IT projects seemed to magically appear from nowhere. In fact, after the bust that followed long after, most CIOs and IT managers and directors I know will tell you that their budgets...
- Tags: Revenue, Data Center, Collaboration, Partnership, Information Technology, Goal, Data Centers, Business Structures, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Management, Ramon Padilla
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- 10+ presentation tips to keep your audience from dozing off
- All presenters want an engaged, interested, fully attentive audience. For your message to be most effectively received, the audience must hear it. While there are many ways to gain and maintain your audience's attention during a presentation, getting them actively involved in the message is the best place to start....
- Tags: Audience, Presentation, Business Structures, Games, Finance, Personal Technology, TechRepublic
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Poll: IT managers and IT executives, do you play golf?
- One of the most prevalent stereotypes about executives and managers is that they spend their time playing golf while their teams toil away doing the real work. Lots of executives do play golf and many of them use it as a creative way to conduct meetings with partners and clients....
- Tags: Jason Hiner, Executive, Business Structures, IT manager, Stereotype, Information Technology, Strategy, Finance, Management
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- IBM and SAP to work on a joint product called Atlantic
- IBM and SAP announced a joint partnership on a product that lets users access SAP's business applications through IBM's Lotus desktop client. An excerpt from InternetNews: Code-named Atlantic, the software will let users tap into SAP's applications for workflows, reporting and analytics through the Notes applications...
- Tags: Product, SAP AG, IBM Corp., E-mail Servers, Groupware, Business Structures, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Outlook, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Ten IT challenges for the 21st century
- I recently attended a meeting of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the AITP Association of Information Technology Professionals, and the speaker for the evening was Mr. Thomas C. Staab, President of Wind Ridge International LLC, a resource management firm in the Information Technology arena. He outlined what he saw...
- Tags: Information Technology, Quality, Challenge, Business Structures, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Strategy, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Human Resources, Management, Joe Rosberg
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- IBM guns for SME market with Lotus Foundations
- At the annual Lotusphere conference, IBM introduced a new product offering called Lotus Foundations, which it says is aimed squarely at companies with five to 500 employees. Lotus Foundations will consist of on-premise software servers primarily through channel partners. It will compete head-to-head with Microsoft's Small...
- Tags: Software, Small And Medium Enterprise, IBM Corp., Business Structures, Tools & Techniques, Servers, Finance, Management, Hardware, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Apple plans further foray into mobile devices with Intel's Silverthorne processor
- Apple may be planning several products for the mobile devices market based on Intel's Silverthorne processor. An excerpt from Apple Insider: Now, rather than begging its PowerPC partners to deliver customized parts suitable for the products it wants to build, Apple has access to a smorgasbord...
- Tags: Mobile, Apple Inc., Mobile Device, Intel Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Business Structures, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Processors, Marketing, Finance, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Semiconductors, Components, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- Greenhouse gas meter from IBM and partners
- GreenCert, the software being built by IBM in partnership with Enterprise Information Management, Inc. EIM and Evergreen Energy Inc, will run on IBM’s Websphere portal software technology and provide enterprises information on their estimated greenhouse emission figures. An excerpt from News.com: "The whole point of the...
- Tags: Software, Partnership, Greenhouse Gas, IBM Corp., Portals, Tools & Techniques, Business Structures, Internet, Management, Finance, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- SWsoft to change its name to Parallels
- SWsoft, the software giant popular with Web hosting firms, has renamed itself Parallels after its new product line that lets Windows run on Intel-based Macs. The reason for this re-positioning is to deliver a "simple and unified vision," according to Chief Executive Serguei Beloussov. "We need...
- Tags: Paul Mah, Parallels Inc., Software As A Service (SaaS), Ensim, Virtuozzo, Business Structures, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Hardware, Management, Servers
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Photos: Microsoft Innovation Day in Brussels
- The software giant and its partners show off tech wares that they predict could take off in the near future. by CNET News.com
- Tags: news, microsoft, innovation day, TechRepublic Inc., Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Business Structures, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Management, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-12-10
- Photos: Toyota's mobile, musical robots
- Toyota unveils the newest two members of its "partner robot" family: the wheeled Mobina and an unnamed violin-wielding robot. by CNET News.com
- Tags: news, robots, toyota, TechRepublic Inc., Mobile, Robot, Photograph, Toyota Motor Corp., Business Structures, Emerging Technologies, Finance, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-12-07
- PayPal announces Secure Card, a virtual credit card
- PayPal, the payment service, has announced a partnership with MasterCard that allows users to shop on sites that don't accept PayPal directly. An excerpt from PC World: Through a partnership with credit card issuer MasterCard Inc, Secure Card generates a unique MasterCard number each time a...
- Tags: Card, Financial, Credit Card, PayPal, Plug-in, MasterCard International, Business Structures, Financial Accounting, Finance, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- HP offers BladeSystem Unified Communications combo
- HP is offering BladeSystem Unified Communications combinations that promise to bring the best of blade server and communication solution to enterprises. An excerpt from Information Week: HP is offering "Solution Blocks" that integrate leading software-based communications tools with its BladeSystem enclosures and related products to provide...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Business Structures, Tools & Techniques, Blade Servers, Servers, Finance, Management, Hardware, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-05
- Photos: Robots for all occasions
- Looking for a hiking partner, someone to entertain your kids, or a gambling buddy who doesn't cheat? Look no further than the RoboDevelopment confab. by CNET News.com
- Tags: news, robots, RoboDevelopment confab, TechRepublic Inc., Robot, Photograph, Business Structures, Emerging Technologies, Finance, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-26
- Google partnership with Nielsen, a giant move into TV ad space?
- Google will be purchasing demographic data from theTV rating agency Nielsen, in what appears to be the first major move by the search giant in targeting the TV ad space. An excerpt from News.com: "This is the first time that advertisers and agencies will have this...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Partnership, Nielsen, Business Structures, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Sanity check: Will Microsoft be your next phone company?
- Bill Gates has had a very interesting track record in the prediction business over the past three decades, and now he's making a new prediction: The business phone as we know it will be replaced by software that will unleash a higher level of collaboration and productivity. ...
- Tags: Software, Netscape Communicator, Phone, Partnership, Platform, IM, Microsoft Office, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Photo Gallery, Unified Communications Platform, Unified Communication, Business Structures, Telephony, Tools & Techniques, Instant Messaging, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Networking, Management, Internet, Online Communications, Telecommunications, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2007-10-21
- Learning from energy-hogging data centers
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Davis, Calif., panel moderator Andrew Hargadon, of the University of California at Davis, leads a discussion with executives on how new technologies and better engineering will make the data center more energy efficient. The panelists are: Chandrakant Patel, a fellow at Hewlett-Packard; Rockwell Bonecutter,...
- Tags: Data Center, CEO, Data Centers, Storage, Business Structures, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Energy, Emerging Technologies, Green, TechRepublic Inc.
- Videos 2007-09-19
- Where's the money in green?
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Davis, Calif., panel moderator Jeff Lipton, Managing Director of Jefferies & Company leads a discussion with executives on investing in emerging green technologies and the challenges for investors in a volatile stock market. The panelists are: JonCarlo Mark, senior portfolio manager at CALPRS; Steve...
- Tags: Managing Director, Partnership, Business Structures, Investment, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Green, TechRepublic Inc.
- Videos 2007-09-19
- Webcomics: Why math geniuses stay single
- Bittersweet demographics are found in this edition of xkcd, explaining why being single after age 26 isn't the end of the world, but having a firm mathematical grasp of why this is so means you probably need the assist from an ever-growing pool of eligible marital partners. ...
- Tags: Men, Women, Gender And Diversity, Business Structures, Human Resources, Finance, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- Microsoft to announce remote management tool
- According to eWeek, Microsoft will be announcing its plan at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver this week about the impending release to manufacture its new Systems Centre Remote Operations Manager 2007 (ROM 2007). ROM 2007 works in conjunction with Systems Centre Essentials 2007, which is...
- Tags: Service Provider, Microsoft Corp., Business Services, Business Structures, Microsoft Windows, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
