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 Every young software business is different. Yet regardless of niche, competitive pressures or economic conditions, all startups face the same key issues. It’s possible to survive those hectic, early years as a bootstrapped business – even thrive during them. All you need is…
1) An ide...May. 9, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,432 |
 I teach a lot of SMAC strategies workshops (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) around the world. Conducting these involves a lot of travel. I have been pondering these last few days just how much my travel experience has changed over the past decade.
I could continue. I research ...May. 9, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 638 |
 When you look at the database market, it’s a virtual jungle out there. Those of us in the industry 15 years ago can look back and remember when we only had the option to use a relational database from Sybase, Oracle, Microsoft or IBM. That was pretty much it if you were planning to bui...May. 2, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,738 |
 I have Google's Blogger app on my iPhone and iPad mini. I can write articles for publication from anywhere with an Internet connection, but are they read, are they shared? That is our subject for today.
One of the biggest growth areas involving mobility is mobile marketing. If your...Apr. 29, 2013 01:22 PM EDT Reads: 876 |
 I would invite anyone in an IT department buried in demand for mobile apps to first take a look at Google Enterprise, before trying to develop everything yourself. There are many mobile capabilities already available in the Google world which are free to individuals and available free...Apr. 23, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,247 |
 Last week I watched a presentation recorded at GigaOm Structure: Data conference featuring Gus Hunt, CTO of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In his presentation, he identified SMAC (social, mobile, big data analytics, and cloud) as the culprit for the massive increase in availab...Apr. 4, 2013 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,137 |
 I have upgraded the tool I created for reverse engineering SharePoint 2007 and 2010 into HTML, Text, and DGML Sitemaps to work with SharePoint 2013. The tool is now versioned at 1.5. You have to copy the appropriate folder instead of just the file (Version 1.0 was only one file) becau...Apr. 4, 2013 09:23 AM EDT Reads: 997 |
 We’ve all known the person that believed they knew everything there was to know about topic X. In IT this person is so commonplace that I have wondered if there isn’t an advanced cloning device that spits them out on a daily basis. While this self confidence (or bravado, whichever) in ...Mar. 26, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,571 |
 Having delivered many talks on business architecture over the years, I’m often struck by the common vision driving many members in the audience – a vision of building cohesion in a business, achieving the right balance between competing forces and bringing the business strategy and ope...Mar. 22, 2013 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,613 |
 The article refers to a white paper on operational adoption and emphasizes the importance of collaboration between IT and the business in achieving operational milestones and success in large APM and IT analytics deployments.
The VIP approach matches and leverages natural relationship...Mar. 19, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,077 |
 Managed server hosting refers to a hosting company managing servers for its clients and providing them with the tools and resources necessary to run their businesses. Hosting companies employ full-time administrators that maintain the servers – something that users would have found the...Mar. 19, 2013 06:56 AM EDT Reads: 1,097 |
 Many organizations are trying to find the time to do remediation and updates with software such as Windows 7. In some cases it’s taking them 6-8 months just to complete these tasks, especially when complications like Windows 8 are added in. So the question is – are there quick tips tha...Mar. 11, 2013 06:48 AM EDT Reads: 1,289 |
 By the end of January, it’s estimated that 80 percent of those who make New Year’s resolutions will have already broken them. The New Year is a time for reflection and introspection, but not necessarily one that leads to action, it seems. The opposite should be true during software com...Feb. 2, 2013 12:00 PM EST Reads: 2,993 |
 Modern enterprise class Oracle shops typically operate hundreds of Oracle databases, all managed by sizable DBA teams.
Properly deployed Oracle databases actually require little administrative effort. I am here exploring ideas, technologies and techniques that bring us closer to the...Jan. 28, 2013 03:34 PM EST Reads: 1,418 |
 I must admit that before I began reading this book I truly thought it was going to be another twisted story of an attempt at agile that failed in everyone's eyes except for those that needed to say it was a success. That is what I am used to.
It is kind of like when I am on a product ...Jan. 21, 2013 03:45 PM EST Reads: 1,887 |
 Fundamentally, the client has no way of knowing anything at all about what’s really going on behind the scenes. The resource might be a file, a script, a container, an object, or some complicated combination of these and other kinds of things. There are two important lessons for the te...Oct. 11, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,791 |
 Being 'green' has never meant so much to businesses, no matter what their industry. On one hand there are benefits to be reaped from the practicalities of going green - reducing overheads, waste, and other respective day-to-day savings. On the other hand is the notion of corporate soci...Sep. 19, 2012 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,575 |
 Because of the efforts of people like Steve Souders, John Resig, Sergey Chernyshev, Paul Irish, ... a lot has changed when it comes to optimizing web site performance. Browser and Application Performance Vendors built tools to make Web Performance Optimization easier than ever before. ...Sep. 15, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,529 |
 The book is very complete and in-depth, with nearly 275 pages of well researched analysis on data virtualization’s history, present and future. It is targeted at a wide range of readers including BI and information management specialists, data architects, database administrators, appli...Sep. 12, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,086 |
 I have had a version of Windows 8 running since the first day the Developer Preview was available for download. I did so out of necessity, not because the techie in me wanted to. The techie in me that has spent the last 10 years exclusively in Microsoft's world wants nothing more than ...Sep. 5, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,880 |
 I’m one of those people who take my work home with me. I know, I know… there’s that whole work-life balance thing that I’m always “struggling” to overcome. But, I haven’t yet. I am kind of sorry about it, but at the same time… not deeply sorry.
Anyway … I’ve wanted to put this concept...Aug. 29, 2012 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,029 |
 Recently Microsoft conducted research [1] [2] indicating that a delay of 1 second in page load time means a loss of revenue of 2.8%. Obviously, faster websites lead to huge revenue benefits for ecommerce companies, hence why speed is the dominant industry trend today. That said, improv...Jul. 25, 2012 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,799 |
 Network monitoring is the most important part of the system administrator's or IT manager's work. The larger the company is, the more employees work there, the more clients are served by this organization, the more vital the server monitoring process is. It is worth to mention that now...Jul. 2, 2012 01:52 PM EDT Reads: 1,496 |
 This is a very cool way to learn Power View. The book contains step by step instructions that show you how to take advantage of all Power View features, and the accompanying DVD contains a video of the instructions being implemented.
There are 4 hours 48 minutes and 56 seconds of vide...Jun. 21, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,087 |
 I occasionally get questions from clients who are using Agile and Scrum frameworks for software development.
Techniques and tools aside, it is often questions about the fundamentals of collaboration that seem to be getting in the team’s way.
Unlike most of the rest of the universe, ...May. 9, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,484 |
 While Big Data has been thought of as large stores of data at rest, it can also be about data in motion.
Of the 3 "V’s” of Big Data – volume, variety, velocity (we’d add "Value” as the 4th V) – velocity
has been the unsung ‘V.’ With the spotlight on Hadoop, the popular image of Big D...Apr. 30, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,962 |
 Our new SQL 2012 just released. I get asked all the time why should I upgrade to the latest. There are 100's of reasons with this one, I tried to pick the best 10.
Multi-subnet failover clusters: A SQL Server multi-subnet failover cluster is a configuration where each failover cluster...Apr. 22, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,135 |
 Millions or even billions have been spent caring for tens of thousands of pregnant men in the U.K.
For UK’s chronically underfunded National Health System, a few hundred million or a few billion is a very big deal.
Especially given how easily this problem could have been prevented wi...Apr. 20, 2012 06:30 AM EDT Reads: 9,599 |
 We are in a era where the consumer social networking in the form of face book and twitter are part of every one life. While there are several usages seen for the value proposition of these social networking tools in one’s personal life . However not much tools and t...Mar. 8, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 3,416 |
 Content Management Systems (CMS) have become one of the most powerful Internet-related products. What once was a gadget for web developers and technology geeks is now a must-have tool for multiple business units. Because of the pace at which the world of Internet technology changes, an...Feb. 29, 2012 09:30 AM EST Reads: 2,510 |
 Some say that there’s no place for games in the corporate boardroom. Of course, this is simply not true in this day and age. At one level there is the huge growth of the video games business, and at the other level there is the reality of game theory, which is the study of interactive ...Feb. 28, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,157 |
 Ask any technology evangelist worth their salt roughly when the ‘next big thing’ is likely to arrive and they will typically say about five-years from now. It’s a safe bet; so-called ‘paradigm shifts’ in technology tend to occur roughly every half decade – or at least they have for the...Jan. 4, 2012 09:45 AM EST Reads: 2,601 |
 Enterprise CFOs are taking an increasingly active role in managing the IT decision making process. As a result, IT professionals need to be prepared to quickly show how innovative technology investments equate to real business value. According to a recent industry report, only 5 percen...Nov. 2, 2011 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,065 |
 When I look back on the video communications industry in 2010, I note a marked shift among our customers toward a “single solution” model. There are literally hundreds of manufacturers delivering video streaming, video on-demand (VoD), and digital signage solutions in the marketplace. ...Feb. 11, 2011 07:00 AM EST Reads: 3,441 |
 Inspired by the Top 10 Performance Problems post which focuses on Server-Side performance problems taken from companies such as Zappos, Thomson, Monster and Novell I came up with the Top 10 Client-Side performance problems in Web 2.0 applications I’ve seen when working with our dynaTr...Sep. 8, 2010 11:37 AM EDT Reads: 7,891 |
 Enterprise Mashups deliver unprecedented information insight for better decisions and improved organizational outcomes. JackBe's Presto® Enterprise Mashup Platform enables the rapid, collaborative, user-driven creation of secure, visually rich mashups without the complexities, costs an...Sep. 22, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 14,743 |
 In the recent TechWise blog PaaS & the cloud Continuum we discussed the structure and phenomenon of Cloud computing. There really are two technological evolutions occurring simultaneously. One is the movement of storage and services to the cloud and the other is the push to interconn...Aug. 24, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 10,400 |
 The SD Times 100 recognizes companies, organizations and individuals that "set the agenda" for software managers, developers, and the industry through leadership and innovation. "We took into account each company's leadership, innovation, reputation and the news the company generated i...Jul. 15, 2009 08:01 AM EDT Reads: 4,022 |
 Do you want to create a visual dashboard from existing widgets? Try a front-end mashup tool. These tools make it easy to create a personal dashboard that tracks your stocks, local weather, the time in 51 timezones and the current price of titanium.May. 9, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 14,909 |
 Garmin International uses Enterprise Web Content Integration software that neatly integrates DMS and portal features, allowing enterprises to deliver "mashups" and a variety of value added applications such as CRM, ERP, online shops or product information to one single levelMar. 9, 2009 06:15 PM EDT Reads: 9,248 |
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