MSFT's Infrastructure Strategy
Infrastructure is a differentiator. I use FedEx as an example [...] what they did was find these strategic landing fields where they could get in and out quickly to key distribution points across the globe....
Infrastructure is a differentiator. I use FedEx as an example [...] what they did was find these strategic landing fields where they could get in and out quickly to key distribution points across the globe....
As the debate whether CIOs are strategic or tactical rages on, Bain's top IT consultant suggests dividing those duties into two distinct positions. Could it happen? On top of their strategic role, CEOs la....
Jonathan Zittrain worries that the creativity that has fueled the development of the net is endangered by closed appliances like the iPhone and walled gardens like Facebook. Technologies that allow people ....
Jonathan Zittrain says tethered appliances will stifle innovation on the internet. Previously: Apple vs Apple users. iPhone SDK page.
In February, Bob Rudis said "iPhone has quite a long way to go before it can weave its way - officially - into corporate IT standards." In March, Apple and Microsoft announced that iPhones could connect wi....
A report from the Linux Foundation says development of the open source operating system is done mostly by paid workers: "Despite the large number of individual developers, there is still a relatively small....
Google introduces App Engine, "a developer tool that enables you to run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. The goal is to make it easy to get started with a new web app, and then make it eas....
No industry has been remade faster by the net than the music business. The latest chapter: MySpace launches a music service with three of the major companies. Questions remain about the specifics of the....
Some people think the virtual world Second Life has no real relevance to the world of business -- at least Second Life as it currently exists, a version described as "far too fat and clumsy to be taken ser....
We recently posted a Q&A with Forrester's CIO honcho Bobby Cameron, who talked about the problems CIOs face--and, in some cases, create--when it comes to driving IT innovation. Readers responded promptly....
The New York Times front-pages Steve Lohr's version of the Video Will Clog The Net story, in which Lohr quickly backs down from more sensational claims (he cites a conference session entitled "The End of t....
Late last month, we posted an excerpt from Nicholas Carr's new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google. In it, Carr, an influential author and blogger, says traditional IT departm....
Dave Winer writes Steve Jobs, and it's not a holiday card. More here: "It's a security issue, folks." I wouldn't want my old hard drive -- or my company's -- floating around. Commenters on the last post sa....
Turns out the Facebook generation does have concerns about privacy. But only certain kinds of privacy. Those photographs that would have allowed earlier generations of blackmailers to retire rich? No probl....
Poor performance is at the root of IT's bad reputation, says Nicholas Spanos, a consulting principal at the IT consultancy Computer Aid, responding to the CIO Insight editorial IT's Bad Rep (September 2007....