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- What's next after server virtualization? Desktop virtualization
- There are a number of steps an organization could take after successfully executing a server consolidation strategy. One of them is to embark on the journey to client consolidation or desktop virtualization. The goal here is to reduce the costs of hardware, software and to reduce administrative and operational expenses....
- Tags: Desktop, Environment, Citrix Systems Inc., Server, Supplier, Client System, Server Virtualization, Parallels, Channel Management, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Whispers from a ghost: Windows 7 and cloud computing
- The key thing to understand about the power relationship involved when you deal with a supplier is that the extent to which the power shifts to the supplier as soon as you sign up is a joint function of the supplier's market share and the importance the service or product...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows 7, Relationship, Supplier, Microsoft Windows, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Murphy, Microsoft Corp., Follow-up, Internet, Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- Each major section in BIT ends with a case study - this is the Cutter Mills case from 2001 illustrating the governance issues associated with appliance computing. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Paul Murphy, Cost, Supply Chain, Application, Marketing, Smart Display, PC, Information Technology, Production, Vendor, Project Manager, IBM AS/400, Product, Customer, Order, ERP, Supplier, Plan, Finance, Failure, Decision, Systems Management, Cutter Mills, Cutter, Changes, Bugtoaster, 4Cost Information, 5Estimates, Actuals, Cost Difference, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Supply Chain Management (SCM), UNIX, Servers, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Paradox SBS (msi)
- Paradox SBS offers an efficient, easy to use application for the creation of purchase orders for small and medium sized organizations, using multiple suppliers or vendors. With each vendor activated having a unique set of items or materials. The application includes a number of useful features including multiple vendors or...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Vendor, Supplier, Purchase Order, Paradox Software, EDI, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-12
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server
- Microsoft was kind enough to let me know that the Hyper-V Server, that is a dedicated, minimal Windows 2008 Server platform dedicated to being a bare metal, type-1 hypervisor, is now available. It joins products of this type available from VMware, Citrix and several Linux distributions. ...
- Tags: Industry Standard, Supplier, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Server Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Desktop Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Industrial Supplier Updates Software, Cuts Time Spent on Configuration Tasks
- Industrial Distribution Group IDG is a nationwide supplier of maintenance, repair, operating, and production products and services to manufacturers and other industrial users. IDG was formed in 1997 through the combination of several previously independent industrial distribution companies. The resulting IT network included offices with uniquely configured systems and applications,...
- Tags: Software, Supplier, Industrial Distribution Group, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Management, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-10-01
- Appistry targets cloud computing
- If we consider suppliers that have embraced the cloud computing concept and have offered something to help organizations use this approach to gain additional scalability, performance or reliability as needed, they are, for the most part, suppliers of processing virtualization software, virtual access software and management software for virtualized environments....
- Tags: Appistry, Supplier, Defintion, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- HP takes leadership stand on emissions reporting across supply chain
- Talk about full (well, almost-full) disclosure: As it promised in its 2007 Global Corporate Citizenship Report, tech giant Hewlett-Packard is reporting carbon emissions data not just for its own operations for those of its largest suppliers. The data represents about 80 percent of the company's "first-tier manufacturing expenditures." (Whatever...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Leadership, Hewlett-Packard Co., Carbon Dioxide, Supplier, Channel Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Apple cuts iPhone 3G build plan; Suppliers to take a hit
- Apple cuts iPhone 3G build plan; Suppliers to take a hitBack again?Always to be found around here bashing Apple. He's just upset that Microsoft is becoming increasingly irrelevant. (Its value as a company peaked NINE years ago!)Not to mention that Windows Mobile is going down the tubes since developers are...
- Tags: Cellular phones, windows mobile, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, supplier
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- Apple cuts iPhone 3G build plan; Suppliers to take a hit
- Apple reportedly plans to build 14 million to 15 million iPhone 3Gs from a previous target of 18 million for 2008, according to a report from Pacific Crest. Citing "supply chain channel checks" Apple's is cutting its iPhone 3G buildout. However, analysts reckon that the lower build-out...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Supplier, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, 3G, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Cellular Phones, Channel Management, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Dell repair adventure, conclusion
- Well, our hero's story had a happy ending. The service tech came out to my office and replaced both the motherboard and the screen on my Dell laptop. After than magic was performed, the system booted up and ran just as it did before. I appreciate the help provided by...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Supplier, Digital Equipment Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- VMworld is bringing out the vendors
- Planning for an announcement is a challenging task. Large suppliers know that just about whatever they do will be picked up by the media and presented to the world. Smaller vendors have a much more difficult time getting heard. So, picking the right place and time for an announcement is...
- Tags: Supplier, Announcement, VMworld, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and wide
- NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and widePublically?"Well, since then the company’s stock has taken a serious battering, and the company doesn’t seem to be willing to talk about the problems with its GPUs publically."Publically is not a word. Publicly is.That aside, Nvidea is playing the blame game and not...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., GPU, blame, supplier
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and wide
- Last week I blogged about a problem that had emerged relating to a "significant quantities" of older mobile GPUs suffering premature death due to heat exhaustion. Well, since then the company's stock has taken a serious battering, and the company doesn't seem to be willing to talk about the problems...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Notebook Computer, OEM, Supplier, GPU, Notebooks, BIOS, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Price-Guru (exe)
- The program Price-Guru is intended for the increase of efficiency of work at treatment, monitoring, and analysis of price sheets. Using the program Price-Guru you save time: By one click of the mouse you will be able to expose a new assortment or changed prices in the price sheets of...
- Tags: Supplier, Sheet, codeLocker Lab, Channel Management, Mice, Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2008-07-07
- Wind is picking up speed
- A study coming from Emerging Energy Research projects continued expansion of the wind energy market. It's being led by installations in China and the U.S. says EER. Global investment in wind energy was about $8 billion in 2004, now its expected to hit $18...
- Tags: Turbine, Supplier, Wind Energy, Oil Future, Channel Management, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Epson Reforms Its Sourcing Process for Product Competitiveness and Better Supplier Relations
- Founded in 1942, Seiko Epson Corporation is a leader in imaging, robotics, precision machinery, and electronics. Seiko Epson wanted to standardize sourcing processes across the imaging products business line to reduce the cost of materials and consolidate sourcing channels and streamline procurement processes to reduce operational costs. The challenge was...
- Tags: Sourcing, Oracle Corp., Seiko Epson Corp., Imaging, Epson, Supplier, Purchasing & Procurement, Document Management, Strategy, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Cloud computing
- I recently read the post, When Is the Right Time to Launch Your Own Cloud? and thought Alistair Croll was on to something. We're all hearing quite a bit of media chatter about "cloud computing." Sometimes suppliers may use other terms such as "Mesh computing" or "Elastic Cloud Computing." All...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Supplier, Organization, Data Centers, Channel Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- HP CSR Report: A Triumph for Transparency (but back slides on blogging)
- Ground breaking stuff in HPs latest CSR report released last week - HP becomes the first in its sector to publish details of the major players in its supply chain. Now it seems the tech sector will follow the apparel industry on supplier transparency. The apparel industry tried to resist this for...
- Tags: Sustainability, Hewlett-Packard Co., Supplier, Blogging, Nothing, Channel Management, Marketing, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- HP lists its top suppliers
- Hewlett-Packard on Thursday issued a mammoth social responsibility report including a list of most of its suppliers. HP released the list "with the intent of promoting transparency and progress in raising social and environmental standards in the electronics industry supply chain." While this list...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Hewlett-Packard Co., Supplier, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
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