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What do you mean by "Green IT" (part 8)?

Part eight of What do you really mean by Green IT??? Also refer to part one, around green IT with regards to green washing, part two, around using IT to green the enterprise, part three, about the green data center, part four, about influences on Green IT, part five, around life cycle events that have significant green impacts, part six, around energy sourcing, and part seven, which addresses the digitization of information.

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Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:40 PM by Ed Kettler | 0 Comments
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The Trends for 2009 have started

Is it just me, or is everyone rushing the holiday season this year? I've already seen a commercial for How the Grinch Stole Christmas; by the time you read this, it will have aired on TBS.

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Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:21 AM by Charlie Bess | 2 Comments

Does the Long Tail Exist?

I read an interesting article recently by Andrew Orlowski called "Chopping the Long Tail" which questions the existence of the Long Tail effect, first described by Chris Anderson. Basically the article summarises the work of economist Will Page with Mblox founder Andrew Bud and Page's colleague Gary Eggleton. They examined the sales of digital music from a large digital music provider and concluded that far from their being a Long Tail, almost all of the sales are from a very small sub set of the total music catalogue.

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Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:54 PM by Mateen Greenway | 2 Comments

What do you mean by "Green IT" (part 7)?

Part seven of What do you really mean by Green IT??? Also refer to part one , around green IT with regards to green washing, part two , around using IT to green the enterprise, part three , about the green data center, part four , about influences on

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Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 5:46 PM by Ed Kettler | 0 Comments

Implications of Declining Plans to Implement SOA

A November 3rd press release by Gartner reports the results of an April study that indicates a number of organizations are deferring plans to adopt SOA. Another study, reported by eWeek in June, was conducted by IBM in April as well. IBM surveyed 300 customers at their annual SOA conference. While these studies seem to be contradictory, they can actually be reconciled. The drop observed by Gartner is in the number of organizations planning to adopt SOA, while the organizations surveyed by IBM, for the most part, already had a commitment to SOA. So, what are the implications of the decline in plans observed by Gartner?

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Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 4:55 PM by Fred Cummins | 0 Comments

Double pane – double gain?

This is the second article I've seen this week on double pane display technologies. No, I am not talking about one pane beside the other, but one display on top of the other.

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Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 4:11 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Security: Sensible Precautions or Paranoia?

One of the interesting features of the current IT world is the discrepancy between the ease of access most people have to resources at home and the increasing levels of access they are granted at work. It is an escalating trend for companies to restrict employees access to social networking sites such as Facebook, and recently, because of fears over loss of corporate or government data (e.g. Theft of a laptop from the Missouri campaign office of Republican presidential candidate John McCain), more and more companies are banning the use of removable USB storage devices (e.g., USB memory sticks and Removable hard drives).

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Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 9:50 PM by Mateen Greenway | 2 Comments

Organization Structure Modeling Standard

Organization structure is a fundamental aspect of business architecture. It is more than the traditional management hierarchy; it is about working roles and relationships. A modeling standard and supporting tools are needed both for business architects and for the many ways organization structure affects business operations, planning and decisions.

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Posted Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:38 PM by Fred Cummins | 0 Comments

Innovation within Standards - A Refreshing Approach by Microsoft to Internet Standards

Microsoft announced in its October 2008 MSDN Developer Network newsletter, that for IE8 they will be pursuing to promote "interoperability across the Web". In order to achieve this, Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in its most standards-compliant way by default. They will be "giving top priority to Web standards interoperability", which "allows us to help web developers and designers drive toward the ideal of write once, run anywhere"; thus, freeing up more time to innovate rather than modify content for different browsers. This is indeed very refreshing. Apart from a host of other benefits, it will contribute to IT Industry projects being more focused on innovation and value to the client. I once reviewed a project that was undone by attempting to satisfy a misguided requirement, for not only multi browser support, but multi version support as well!

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Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:08 PM by Alex Cameron | 1 Comments

School for Innovators

It has often been asked, "Is a leader born or made?" Well, what do you think about innovators? Are they born or made? I just returned from a School for Innovators expedition in Colorado. One thing I learned there was the value of thinking about thinking - seeing what insights you can derive, and applying them in your life. For example, we often talk about innovation from the perspective of economic growth or solving business problems. One insight I discovered at the school was the application of leadership through innovation, the notion of transforming people into "thinking guides" with the ability to serve as a catalyst for innovative change.

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Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 3:58 PM by Jean Lehmann | 3 Comments
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What’s the future of the face-to-face conference?

I mentioned that I was at the Microsoft PDC in October. Much, if not all of the content, is available on the web. Granted you can't talk with others as much and you don't have access to the labs, but if you like PowerPoint, you'll be satisfied.

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Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 10:44 PM by Charlie Bess | 5 Comments

RFID – is location and identity enough?

When I think about the relatively slow acceptance of RFID technology, it makes me wonder if what it provides is enough. Sure we can do quite a bit with RFID devices as they stand now at the edge of the enterprise, but (especially when it comes to active devices) we could do so much more.

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Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 6:56 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Open Source versus Open Standards

I happened to be browsing an email yesterday on the topic of Open Source, in which the author was clearly passionate about the benefits and virtues of Open Source. As I read it, I sensed a similarity with the quest we saw a few years ago with regard to ‘all out' software re-use. It was the concept of loosely coupled services working within an architecture framework (SOA) that became the enlightenment that was needed to put that quest into perspective. So, are standards to be the enlightenment that will bring a similar perspective to the Open Source debate?

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Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:46 PM by Alex Cameron | 0 Comments

Conflict, Gen Y and the Next Generation Enterprise

I was reading a blog entry on the "Motivate Inspire and Innovate" blog about How to Manage Generation Y (it was part of a series). It got me thinking more about a blog entry I'd done, entitled And not Or. The enterprise irregulars have also been talking (mostly internally) about the Gen Y question.

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Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:01 PM by Charlie Bess | 2 Comments

IT's Time for Transparency

If you read the title as "its time for transparency", you could easily mistake me for any U.S. politician or political pundit. But this blog is really about Information Technology's ‘time for transparency'; transparency in the way that IT provides services to users.

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Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 9:09 PM by Ed Reynolds | 2 Comments
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