Preparing for a Rainy Day in the Cloud

Dan Woods offers some sobering thoughts about possible cloud computing backup failures in his JargonSpy column this week on Forbes.com and points to some solutions that are being considered and implemented by various vendors.

JargonSpy Tackles Virtualization's 'Pain Points'

In this week’s JargonSpy column, Dan Woods identifies the issues IT departments face in dealing with the complexities of the virtual worlds they create.

JargonSpy Columns on Forbes.com

Since August 2008, Dan Woods has been writing a column called JargonSpy for Forbes.com

Dan Woods JargonSpy Columns on Forbes.com

October 27, 2008, "Title"
http://www.forbes.com/cionetwork/2008/10/27/cio-mashup-web2-tech-cio-cx_dw_1028mashup.html

October 20, 2008, "Title", http://www.forbes.com/cionetwork/2008/10/20/internet-web-online-tech-cx_dw_1021jargonspy.html

October 13, 2008, http://www.forbes.com/cionetwork/2008/10/13/cio-mesh-collaboration-tech-cio-cx_dw_1014mesh.html

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Not an Oxymoron

In her blog, Lora Bentley responds to Dan Woods's column on Commercial Open Source, a column that has generated the most responses of any of the JargonSpy columns to date on Forbes.com.

Lora writes about a wide range of open source issues in her blog on IT Business Edge, which is called, intriguingly, "Open for Business."

The Meaning of Mesh Collaboration: How the network of everything is changing business and technology

  • How can a company created to execute a mass-market infrastructure adapt to the pressures to offer enterprise long-tail products for niche markets with a low cost per lead ?
  • How can the collaboration and social networking techniques that are natural to the personal lives of the younger generation of digital natives be harnessed to improve productivity in a company?

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Well-crafted services are the key to BPM, and everything else

Read Dan Woods' latest blog about how the design and granularity of services is the secret sauce for effective business process modeling (BPM). He also references the community-authored business process expert book currently being written in the BPX community on SAP Developer Network as well as explaining the role of community in effectively designing services that match the business problem domain.

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Evolved Technologist Press recently published In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant. We are happy to highlight an upcoming event on this important topic.

When: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 11:00 AM Eastern
Webinar: In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant: Increase Production Performance and Optimize Manufacturing Asset Use
Presenters: Paul Boris, Carter Johnson, Adrienne Selko, Simon Jacobson
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