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Subscribe to Backblog  When Working Well With Others, It’s Important To Use The Right Tools January 27, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: IT Staffing Solutions From time to time, us information technology consultants have to work together on stuff – web portals, web development, network security assessments, you name it. And it helps to have the right tools to ensure that collaboration is as seamless as possible. IT people generally do cooperate well... The economic news is not all bad. Really. Especially in tech January 26, 2009 By Peter Wolchak Categories: General This morning dawned cold and felt even colder when I opened the newspapers and my RSS reader. Microsoft plans to cut thousands of jobs , Intel is closing chip plants and Sony is warning it will report a US$2.9 billion operating loss this year , its first in 14 years. All bad news, but there are some... 2009 Shaping Up to be a Defining Year for Outsourcing January 23, 2009 By consider the source Categories: Outsourcing As we close the books on 2008, it’s clear that the outsourcing industry is experiencing a perfect storm of obstacles for the supertanker-sized deals, but the zodiacs are continuing to ride the waves. Our TPI Index showed strength among the number of contracts, the total contract value, and the... Dark Data January 22, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Dark data is analogous to dark matter. We know it is out there, but just can't see it or interact with it. In the age of abundance of data, we are entering; we are gathering more and more data from the edge of the enterprise. In the January issue of Seed Magazine, they stated that more data was... New displays and new applications January 15, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General ICT Hardware and Infrastructure There have been a number of stories lately about new flexible display types coming to market. It does make me wonder about their power consumption and the limits it will place on application. According to this story, flexible color displays are not that far off either. If you connect a flexible... The Recurring Technology Services Model Comes Home to Roost (Kinda) January 13, 2009 By Ron Shuttleworth Categories: Investment Software Companies For a little over a decade now, software companies have been attempting to transition away from the feast or famine quarterly grind of perpetual licensing sales designed in the 1980s and perfected during the client/server decade of the 1990s. The first Application Service Provider (ASP) models at... Impact of EMRs on Wait Times, System Productivity and GP's Ability to Accept New Patients January 12, 2009 By Alan Brookstone Categories: General eHealth Spiraling costs, shortages of doctors and nurses, a baby boom population about to begin impacting the healthcare system. How do nations deal with such complex health issues and still maintain vibrant economies? Currently the US spends approximately 2 trillion dollars on healthcare (15.3% of GDP in 2... Get yer graph on January 9, 2009 By Danny Bradbury Categories: General Web 2.0 Journalists and fiction writers alike often need access to data about all sorts of stuff. Writing a story about how consumer confidence and home prices just nosedived? Might be handy to be able to correlate the two together, over a 20-year history. Maybe you might want to check them against... Bold use of IT January 8, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General IT Staffing Solutions I've seen a number of notes and articles about it being time for IT leaders to focus on cost cutting... during the economic downturn. In fact, there are whole seminars dedicated to it. That statement is true, but it should always be true (regardless of economic conditions). The same thing could be... Myth of PCI DSS: Security Compliance is Hard January 5, 2009 By Vaclav Vincalek Categories: General Security While talking with Forrester analyst John Kindervag about IT security trends this week, we discussed the issue of educating companies about PCI DSS compliance. Of course, compliance is part of what PCIS helps companies achieve through a range of boxed services, so it came up naturally enough in the... China says $41 billion to be spent on 3G January 2, 2009 By Charlie Bess Categories: General Wireless Even in these tough financial times, some industries are going to require investments. If the Chinese invest $41 billion on their wireless network, the entire world should benefit from the research improvements that this should fund. It's too bad they're going to use three different protocols (China... Please select a category:
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