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How to Do, Not What to Buy

Cloud computing should generate upside value of agility, not merely downside reduction of IT cost

Chief Of The Year: Vivek Kundra

The federal CIO is driving change within the government’s lumbering IT operations. A lengthy to-do list will test his ideas and power of persuasion. By J. Nicholas Hoover, InformationWeek, December 19, 2009 (From the December 21, 2009 issue) On the wall of Vivek Kundra’s Washington, D.C., office hangs a poster-sized IT diagram with such fine-grained […]

Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie on the realtime wave

Source: http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/10/07/ozzie-on-the-realtime-wave/ As we see with Twitter and always-on devices, like Blackberrys and iPhones, part of the appeal is a need to be on call in case you miss something important.  As Ray Ozzie put it: “But beyond the technological scale issues, the reason I was getting at the unified notifier concept is because I […]

Dell in $3.9 Billion Deal for Perot, Expanding Services

Perot Systems is “a premium asset with great people that enhances our opportunities for immediate and long-term growth,” Mr. Dell said in a statement. “There will be efficiencies from combining the companies, but the acquisition makes such great sense because of the obvious ways our businesses complement each other.”

The hype about Twitter and how you can be a part of it – The 7 tips you can use!

Of late there has been much press and hype about twitter… so much so that it is pulling in millions more to sign up for twitter accounts. But a majority of these people on twitter do not really know what to do. A recent study conducted at Harvard Business School on Twitter showed that the […]