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March 3, 2010

Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:28 PM/EST

Champagne IT Results on a Beer Budget

By Larry Bonfante On Wednesday, March 10th at 9 a.m. I will be delivering the keynote address at the IT Roadmap conference being held at the Marriott Marquis at 1535 Broadway in New York City. You can see more about...

February 16, 2010

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:15 PM/EST

The Disaster Recovery Conundrum

By John Parkinson If you're like me, you spend a decent amount of time worrying about whether your disaster recovery processes and plans would really work. Sure, you actually do have plans. Sure, you practice parts of them periodically. But...

February 5, 2010

Friday, February 05, 2010 5:39 PM/EST

Data Center Power Play

By John Parkinson I haven't worried about reliable power for quite some time. But last week I started to, if not worry, at least think about how to cope with the levels of power density we are starting to see...

January 26, 2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:46 PM/EST

The Perils of Management Malpractice

By Susan Cramm There's only one kind of leadership malpractice: wasting the lives of those we lead. Consider this multiple offender (sent to me in response to my last blog concerning compassion in leadership): "I'm to show these fools some...

January 20, 2010

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:02 PM/EST

Virtualization's Reality

By John Parkinson Around the middle of last year, my then-boss asked me what I thought was the most critical strategic decision we had taken in the preceding 18 months. It wasn't a trick question--he was going to be asked...

January 14, 2010

Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:55 PM/EST

Do Businesses Need an IT Czar?

By Chris Curran With the NFL playoffs in full swing, most of the league's teams are on the sidelines thinking about how to get better for next year. Most of the introspection involves evaluating coaches and players. One new front...

January 12, 2010

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:39 PM/EST

The (Un)Economics of Infrastructure Support

It's a fact of life in IT that things break. As reliable as hardware is, over time there is a "natural" failure rate for components, sub-systems and the systems that are assembled from them. Nothing lasts forever, and we have...

December 21, 2009

Monday, December 21, 2009 10:54 AM/EST

2010 Investment Guide

by John Parkinson We all talk a lot about ROI - Return on Investment - but there hasn't been a lot to invest lately, and I don't see that changing much in 2010. Technologists have always been a forward-looking group...

December 4, 2009

Friday, December 04, 2009 11:59 AM/EST

The Evolution of IT

By John Parkinson If you look at the history of evolution in natural species (assuming you believe it happens, that is), you see two sets of forces at work: both long- and short-term incremental improvements through somewhat random mixing of...

November 18, 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:26 PM/EST

When Knowledge Management is Out of Place

By John Parkinson I have always believed that knowledge management wasn't something you did, but rather something you got when you did a whole slew of other things right. I also believe that the key enablers are a subtle combination...

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