Posted by Mike on Monday, August 23, 2010
Today’s IT executives are managing very complex environments that contain a large variety of platforms and technologies – many of which are past their expected life, beyond vendor support and slowing down the business with the costs to maintain/support/change. The key to reducing costs and improving application change delivery (through enhancements, new product support, and new features and options) is simplifying the IT landscape and finding the most cost-effective operating environment. Recent estimates suggest that the typical IT budget is 80 percent “keeping the lights on” (support) and 20 percent new business (what the business wants), with support costs increasing.
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, August 5, 2010
Are you an old-school techie? In a world where IT workers are hip, the old image of geeks without a shred of modern sensibility has been shattered. The invisible nerds of yesteryear, eating leftover pizza in the middle of the night at their cubicles, have been replaced by 21st Century technorati, a legion of iPhone-toting, night-clubbing, courier bag-carrying, California cuisine-eating fashionistas.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, July 21, 2010
IBM’s second-quarter profits were up 9 percent from a year earlier, the company announced on Monday, with increased sales in the U.S. and Asia helping to offset weaker spending in Europe.
Net profit for the quarter ended June 30 was US$3.4 billion, or $2.61 per share, up from $3.1 billion, or $2.32 per share, in the same quarter last year, IBM said. Revenue was $23.7 billion, up 2 percent year over year.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, February 22, 2010
In the realm of IT outsourcing, disengaging from a multiyear, multimillion dollar agreement can be so difficult and costly for customers that it makes a Trump divorce seem like a tea party. But that’s exactly what Kellwood did last year, despite the upheaval the company anticipated from ending its 13-year IT outsourcing arrangement with EDS.
And it turns out, the move to insourcing increased flexibility and saved money. READ MORE
Posted by Mike on Monday, January 25, 2010
DB2 Visual Explain is an excellent tool for developers to aid them in developing efficient SQL. Visual Explain is integrated with the DB2 Control Center, Command Center, and Development Center. Visual Explain is used to explain and …
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In 2009, 18 million computers – or 30 percent of mainframe computers in China – were infected by the Conficker worm virus every month, according to the …
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, January 23, 2010
I started as a programmer (anyone remember Cobol? Fortran?) but was moved into tech docs during a downsize. I studied computer science in university and though the move at the time seemed a backwards step, it’s served me well. …
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Finally, although the subject is not a pleasant one, I must mention PL/1, a programming language for which the defining documentation is of a frightening size and complexity. Using PL/1 must be like flying a plane with 7000 buttons, …
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