Tuesday, January 18, 2011
“ Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better. ” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968), American civil rights leaderNobel Peace Prize winner http://bit.ly/ih0BvJ
Death by PowerPoint? Kama Sutra presentation leads to backdoor infection | Naked Security
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Rogue Facebook apps can now access your home address and mobile phone number | Naked Security
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Top 11 Enterprise IT Battles for 2011 | CTO Edge
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Top 11 Enterprise IT Battles for 2011
IT Management | Feature | Mike Vizard, Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Tags: Cisco Systems, cloud computing, competitive analysis, Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Unified Communications, VMware
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While the battles between the major IT vendors have always been intense, the thing that seems to characterize the nature of internecine conflict within the IT industry is that the competition is getting personal.
Whether this is because a downturn in the economy has resulted in a heightened level of sensitivity or that all the long-term industry trends point towards a convergence that will ultimately reduce the number of players, just about every major IT industry CEO has in one form or another publicly taken a cheap shot at the competition.
Of course, some of this behavior may simply be a byproduct of the 24-hour cable and Internet news cycle. But the root cause of much of this emotional intensity seems to stem from the fact that every major IT vendor in one form or another is trying to expand their customer base by expanding their operations into adjacent territory.
In fact, the most aggressive of all the companies in regards to this behavior is Cisco, which is expanding its base into not only the server space dominated by Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell, but also collaboration applications and unified communications services that Microsoft sees as a natural extension of productivity applications.
Of course, when it comes to industry slugfests, the most verbose player in the game is Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. But even while Oracle moved to acquire Sun and got involved in public spats with both HP and SAP, its ambitions are still not as grandiose as what Cisco is trying to execute.
Naturally, there are plenty of other feuds going on across the industry that bring with them their own unique levels of intensity, not the least of which is the conflict between Rackspace and Amazon over the future of cloud computing, as well as the ongoing storage trench warfare between EMC and NetApp, the coming virtualization showdown between Microsoft and VMware, and emerging conflicts over mobile and cloud computing involving Google, Apple and Microsoft.
All in all, there are plusses and minuses to this new level of competitive intensity across the IT industry. Clearly, passions are running high, which means a lot more people are paying much closer attention to what is actually happening within the customer base. That should, at least, make vendors both more responsive and useful to the customer. However, too much noise usually winds up being a distraction that can easily take a vendor's eye off the enterprise IT ball.
To what degree vendors are simply taking a page from the Machiavelli playbook in an effort to rally their dispirited troops in the face of an external threat or to maneuver into position for a Battle Royale in 2011 is still anybody’s guess.
But the one thing that every IT executive should be doing is rooting for them all because the level of competition in the IT industry is directly related to the quality of IT services and products that customers ultimately receive.
Sources:
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/vizard/inside-the-cloud-computing-platform-wars/?cs=42753
http://www.ctoedge.com/content/taking-long-view-virtualization
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“No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.” ~Amar Gopal Bose, (1929- , Indian-born American engineer, founder of Bose Corporation) http://bit.ly/gVxwKH
Why Half of All Social Media Initiatives Fail | ITBusinessEdge.com
According to MARC USA, marketers have done a poor job of making social media work because they have been too busy drinking the social media Kool-Aid. “The hype factory forced them to chase every new, bright, shiny object; from FourSquare to Gowalla, Groupon to Scavngr, Facebook to Genie,” says Adam Kmiec, SVP, Interactive Marketing Innovation, MARC USA.
For every success story there are thousands of failed social initiatives. While there is no way to guarantee a hit, Kmiec says there are ways to assure failure. With that in mind, here are his ten reasons why half of all social media initiatives fail:
Source:
http://www.marcusa.com/
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Sunday, January 16, 2011
“When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.” ~Louis Binstock, (American minister) http://bit.ly/e8nyAI
“When I talked, no one listened to me. But as soon as I acted I became persuasive, and I no longer find anyone incredulous.” ~Giosue Borsi, (Italian soldier, poet and journalist) http://bit.ly/hJxqK7
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How To Set Up A Home Server With Amahi [Linux]
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10 Interactive Learning Websites For Some Fun & Games With Music
Playing interactive musical games on the web could be a stepping stone to find out if your child has an ability for music. Play on these ten interactive learning websites that feature fun and games with music.
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7 Collaborative Storytelling Websites to Weave Your Own Digital Stories
Collaborative storytelling involves a group where one writer starts the story and others keep on adding threads to it, and thus the story evolves. If you are into digital storytelling ideas of any kind, try out these seven websites.
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Top 10 YouTube Songs Created Using iPads and iPhones
The Gorillaz recently released their latest album, The Fall, accompanied by the announcement that the album was produced almost entirely using an iPad. Yes, cool music can be created using just the iPad and iPhone too. Check them out.
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4 Fun Things to Do with Google Translate
Google Translate is not only for understanding a foreign language in your own. As this post shows, you can have a bit of fun with it too. Push the limits of this tiny Google service and you'd be surprised at what you can get in return.
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“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating......and you finish off as an orgasm.” ~ George Carlin http://bit.ly/egl0gJ
Friday, January 14, 2011
Allow tea to elevate your spirit. I invite you to have a cup, contemplate the day, and drift away. ~ Miriam Novalle http://bit.ly/ijRF7E
7 Year Reading Challenge - Learning from the Masters | The Jeff Lewis
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If you read in the great classics of
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the 100 greatest books ever written. You will be one of the best educated and
most erudite of your generation. And you can achieve this just by reading 15
minutes each evening before you go to bed.”
-Brian Tracy
You can dramatically change your life in just 15 minutes a day!
There is not one single reason that I can think of that could keep me from performing this simple action every, single day. 15 minutes a day is such a tiny amount of time. Every day I waste more than 15 minutes just thinking out what to eat for dinner.
My list is here(Taken from the book A Well Educated Mind:
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“An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold” ~Chinese Proverb http://bit.ly/ghA9iW
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