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April 19, 2010

Monday, April 19, 2010 10:44 AM/EST

Behind the Times

The old joke about the New York Times is that nothing really happens until it appears in the Paper of Record. And nothing is too basic to be explained to Times readers ("Spring, a popular season that follows Winter...") Even...

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March 30, 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:54 PM/EST

Oracle vs. Rimini Street

Oracle and Rimini Street are trading barbs--and lawsuits--that could reshape the third-party support model. By Tony Kontzer

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October 14, 2009

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 11:17 AM/EST

ADP's Formula Determines Cloud Apps

by Tony Kontzer When Mike Capone says cloud computing is nothing new, it's better not to argue. As the CIO of payroll outsourcing firm Automatic Data Processing Inc., Capone brings a unique perspective on the cloud. Although few of its...

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October 6, 2009

Tuesday, October 06, 2009 8:43 PM/EST

IBM is Still Newsworthy

by Tony Kontzer I've learned two important things since last week's second edition of Twit Digest: 1) there may be a groundswell of sentiment out there that we IT media types invest too much copy covering Apple, Google, Microsoft and...

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September 30, 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:47 AM/EST

Readers Talk Back on Windows 7, Twitter

Tony Kontzer joined the geek snarkfest around Microsoft's marketing of Windows 7, but readers say that the product itself is what matters. JohnJ writes, "The Windows 7 Party Video is irrelevant. Geeks enjoy making fun of it, but the general...

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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:27 AM/EST

Pulte CIO Has Cloud Horror Story

by Tony Kontzer You'll have to excuse Jerry Batt if he's a bit grouchy these days. Amid all the talk of cloud computing and its ability to deliver lower costs and unprecedented flexibility, and to free IT staff to focus...

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September 28, 2009

Monday, September 28, 2009 9:34 AM/EST

Skepticism Precedes Windows 7

by Tony Kontzer We're less than a month until the Oct. 22 release of Windows 7--even less if you believe the Oct. 13 advanced release some custom PC-makers have been floating. What better topic could there be for my second...

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September 9, 2009

Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:46 AM/EST

GMail Fail, Google's Future, and the Cloud

by Tony Kontzer Last week's big Gmail outage was not the end-of-the-world scenario cloud computing detractors would have you believe, but it provides an ideal opportunity to consider two important implications. The most obvious of these is what it tells...

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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:33 AM/EST

Server Hugging and Reasonable Concerns

by Tony Kontzer The hype surrounding cloud computing remains loud and forceful. If only the uptake by IT departments matched that enthusiasm. Last week, I attended a half-day conference in San Francisco called "Cloud in Context," hosted by research firm...

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August 31, 2009

Monday, August 31, 2009 10:53 AM/EST

Desktop Virtualization Goes Mainstream

An interesting look at VMware and virtualization from the New York Times, with a focus on the desktop environment at the company's challenge to Microsoft. Here's a recent article of ours on the realities of a desktop virtualization project at...

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