Avocent's Solutions Help Companies Save

Avocent headquarters in Huntsville, Al As budgets tighten, companies are looking for ways to do more with less ... collaboration tools. Today I would like to talk about data center management solutions, which can help ... where headcounts are shrinking at a greater rate than workloads. Avocent management team -- Ed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:53:11

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Ten years after

The Information Era has arrived. The Machine Age is over. The rules have changed. The sky has fallen in. Human resources are more important than natural resources, brains more important than brawn. Networks are connecting everyone and everything. Clocks run faster. In this topsy-turvy world, few things are predictable. %&#* happens [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 18:33:01

Battle of the Titans

For those of you that prepare yourselves, the OPPORTUNITIES will be abundant and limitless; for those that don't it could be a very difficult period ... asset deflation (Mother Nature) versus the Inflate or Die mandate of the G7 governments who have tried to print wealth through monetary and asset inflation for decades. The first law the G7 is trying [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:00:37

Bailout Nation or ‘Failout’ Nation…I say Bring Back FAIL!

FAILURE is good! My witty friend Barry Ritholtz who is a fantastic writer has a new book coming out called ‘Bailout Nation ‘ ... do we learn from AIG and Citibank unless with every dollar we bail them out with, management is forced to explain what exactly is the asset and the thinking behind the asset when they bought [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 06:35:00

Lost Principles

As the economic crisis continues to unfold, recently a sense of uncertainty has begun to pervade the market ... . First, market players discovered that the longest-lasting asset bubble in recent history was made ... and failing to identify some of the riskiest asset classes. As a result, investors and all other economic [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 15:20:54

Identifying Opportunities to Reduce TCO with Cost Savings Analysis and Optimization Self-Assessment Tools

Current economic downturn confronts us with a tremendous impact and unfavorable trend on worldwide IT budget and spending as shown on the chart and ... , per year substantiate the claim of transforming IT from a cost-center burden into a strategic asset ... analysis tool examines IT infrastructure and platform to identify cost savings opportunities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 18:39:00

SO AGAIN — HOW DID IT HAPPEN?

Dr. Peter T Treadway is an independent consultant and money manager and Adjunct Professor in Asia ... /investment management firm dedicated to global portfolio management. Its investment approach is based ... that will assist Asian financial institutions with their risk management problems. The Dismal [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 18:27:27

Prolonged exposure to disruptions in market normalcy amplify and hasten market collapse - US and Global economic crisis

What drove most directly the absolute and relative dimensions of loss were the strategic decisions that some firms made to retain large exposures in super-senior tranches of CDOs that far exceeded the firms’ appreciation of the risks inherent in such instruments. Firms did not recognize the possibility that losses on the underlying MBS could [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 09:16:19

The Great Crash, 2008

By Roger C. AltmanFrom Foreign Affairs , January/February 2009 Summary: The financial crisis has called into serious question the credibility of western governments and may precipitate an eastward shift of power. ROGER C. ALTMAN is Chair and CEO of Evercore Partners. He was U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary in 1993-94 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 09:00:00

Appraisal Fraud and Industry Standards Described in 2003 Official White Paper-RED FLAGS DESCRIBED IN DETAIL WITH EXCELLENT DIAGRAMS EXPLANATIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF BEST PRACTICES

loan_origination_mortgage_fraud_ffiecloan_origination_mortgage_fraud_prevention_response_nelsonRed Flags • Critical loan processing activities, such as  verification of income, employment, or deposit, is delegated to brokers. • Delegated underwriting allowed for correspondents that are new or lack an established track record with the FI [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 15:33:10

Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/18/2008

The most ominous news story tonight: “IAF is Ready for Iran’s Nuclear Sites”.A period of great peril for Israel is fast approaching. Assuming that the mullahs have a nuclear capability, the most dangerous time will likely be between the inauguration of Barack Obama — when the United States will cease to be a credible deterrent to Iran — and the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 04:59:00

Storage Utilization Remains at 2001 Levels: Low!

I’ve been talking about storage capacity utilization for my entire career, but the storage industry doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere. Every year or so, a new study is performed showing that half of storage capacity in the data center is unused. And every time there is a predictable (and poorly thought through) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:36:24

SAP BUSINESS ANALYST

Title: SAP BUSINESS ANALYST Location: San Deigo, CA Term: Permanent Salary: $125k-$140k DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: ... , asset management, and general ledger. Keeps up with new SAP FI, CO and PS developments to ensure ... or related field along with fourteen or more years of progressive experience in SAP project management [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:59:52

DrumBeat: January 12, 2009

A novel plan for economic stimulus What's different now? In the 1930s, even though the U.S. economy collapsed, we still had a surplus of natural resources -- we were then the world's No. 1 producer of oil and coal. Fast forward 80 years. Despite the recent temporary dip in the price of gas and heating oil, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:02:56

Scaling, Systems Required

People keep asking me about components that make up large scale systems. Below is a dump of the systems I typically see/build ... Caches Object Caches Software/Jumpstart Systems Asset software for deployment (Debiab/RHEL ... . I am sure people draw pretty pictures, but to me it is more of a check off list :) Asset [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:59:24

Building Our Way to Energy and Climate Security

Now that this historic election is past (NRDC is a nonpartisan organization that does not endorse candidates, so I focus on the future in this entry), the new leaders in the Administration and Congress must tackle the nation’s big problems. Shoring up the economy and keeping the nation secure are at the top of that list [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 18:49:46

Dedicated Web Hosting : The Executive Summary

What is Dedicated Web Hosting? Dedicated web hosting can alleviate the need to share hardware or software with any other sites or web pages ... on the software and application updates necessary to maintain the dedicated web server and keep it running in its most optimal configuration. Increased reliability is another major asset of dedicated server [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 05:54:28

Presidential Rank Awards — Top Federal Honor — Given to Two USGS Scientists and Deputy Director

Deputy Director Doyle Recognized as Distinguished Executive; Scientists Betancourt, ... as an effective change agent, risk taker and problem solver. "Not only has Bob been a critical asset ... for his leadership, strategic thinking and management expertise," said Myers. "Again and again, he displays [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 18:16:14

2008 Between the Lines

2008 Between the Lines Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:15 am Categories: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, ... Accounting, Enterprise Software Welcome to the year in Between the Lines—in about 5 minutes (I hope ... will become more business friendly. Netscape goes away forever. CIO surveys indicate that ERP software [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 10:15:32

ICR Xchange Summary: PacSun

Today, the annual ICR Xchange conference was held in Dana Point, California, at the luxurious St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort. Transworld Business was on-site and sat in to a few of the summaries that were pertinent to our industry. Companies provided some information on how 2008 went, and their focuses and predictions for 2009 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:47:15

Nine Stocks for 2009

Holding true to the optimism that only a New Year can bring, financial analysts across the country are sure to offer their "best picks for 2009" in the coming days. But before we get ahead of ourselves, let's remind everyone of just a few of the recommendations they made for 2008. SymbolPriceChangeAFAM45.870.00POT83.870 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 14:43:00

Four at Four: The Election Is Over. The Economy Still Stinks.

There are a few explanations for the 5% drop in major indexes. After all, all three indexes had gained at least 17 ... Debra Brede, president of DK Brede Investment Management Co. in Needham, Mass. Wednesday, selling resumed, as the market confronted ugly economic reports, including the Institute for Supply Management’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 13:03:00

Good News & A First - Chief Performance Officer Nancy Killefer

I think it should be pretty clear by now that our U.S. government could perform a lot better.  To say the [ ... it. The woman selected is Nancy Killefer, a senior director for McKinsey & Company,management ... . From 1997 to 2000, Killefer served as Assistant Secretary for Management, CFO, and COO [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:10:05

The One Busy Part of the PE World

Wondering what private-equity folks are up to these days? ... tight and charging management fees. Sure, PE people have a handful of deals to keep them busy during ... in private-equity funds from pension systems, college endowments, insurance companies and the like. While [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 17:40:06

Michael Ignatieff on Transit

Over the weekend, I received news from Michael Ignatieff’s “Town Hall” meeting in Halifax.  (For the benefit of foreign readers, Ignatieff is now the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa, the Liberal Party.)  Marcus Garnet sent an email to a Transport 2000 list, and this found its way [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 17:14:04

Fed Intervention: Managing Moral Hazard in Financial Crises

"Moral hazard has its costs, but it also has its benefits": Fed Intervention: Managing Moral Hazard in Financial Crises, by Harvey Rosenblum, ... its lending beyond the commercial banking sector. In March, it assisted with J.P. Morgan Chase’s buyout ... two earlier financial interventions: in the case of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1998 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 20:51:00

2008 Terrorism

As 2008 comes to a close we must look back at America's security and terrorism in general around the world ... , gaping holes in our security. Dave Gaubatz* comments on the recent Department of Homeland Security's ... the report itself to be a national security threat for America ??? more importantly for the children [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 01:13:07

SuccessFactors in HCM landgrab to bolster sales

Facing a shuddering halt in its hitherto fast-track growth trajectory, talent management vendor SuccessFactors will today launch an aggressive landgrab for territory currently dominated by conventional back-office human capital management (HCM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 11:44:51

DrumBeat: November 17, 2008

EIA: OPEC 10 Month Oil Export Revenue +32% On Full-Year 2007 NEW YORK -(Dow Jones) ... and the global system of dominance that rests on it will run into limits it cannot transform -- so that it cannot ... the system of production and destruction to such a degree that it prevents it from resurrecting itself [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 13:33:17

Real Estate Investors benefit from Green Building Momentum

Every year around this time, I get the itch to move far away from the cold, gray streets of Baltimore. It's not that I dislike Charm City, but when the mercury falls below 40 degrees Fahrenheit, the lure of warmer climates becomes overwhelming [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 05:35:52

LiveTime updates ITIL Service Management Software with Technician Scheduling and Multi-Item Requests

LiveTime 5.5 also introduces KPI reporting, context sensitive quick calls, team based separation and localizations for Chinese, Spanish and Romanian ... Management and Help Desk Software, today announced the general availability of LiveTime Service Manager v5.5 and LiveTime Help Desk v5.5. This release focuses specifically on streamlined request manag [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 21:50:04

Gartner doles out sobering predictions for open source use in the enterprise for next 5 years

The economic slowdown should benefit open source software but whether open source software will benefit its owners is up in the air ... cost savings over proprietary software.  I’m late to the game here, but it’s worth pointing out two ... of all mainstream IT projects using open source software will not achieve cost savings over closed source [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 19:58:59

Virtualization 2.0 - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 34

Virtualization 2.0 - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 34 05:46 | editor | Nov 6th, 2008 4:49pm | Intel is helping enable the next generation of virtualization usage by allowing IT managers to deliver high availability solutions with the agility to address disaster recovery and real time workload balancing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 00:49:20

Sprint posts Q3 2008 results

Sprint has posted its Q3 2008 financial results, and the numbers show a sad consistency with previous quarters: fewer customers and less revenue. Sprint’s overall revenue fell 12% to $8.81 billion from $10.04 billion a year ago, while total wireless customers dropped by 1.3 million in Q3, bringing the tally to 3 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 17:28:10

Q&A with the Banker Panel at the National Auctioneers Association

Here are my notes from yesterday’s Mortgage Industry Panel from the National Auctioneers Association’s Convention in Denver.  When known, the name of the panelist answering the question is noted. Panelists A. Wesley Schuneman Founder, Ultimate Funding Group Mortgage Brokerage Kevin Feakes Mortgage Banker, First National Bank; [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 08:00:57

Cyber warfare and possibility of cybergeddon

Cyber warfare and possibility of cybergeddon Filed in Information Warfare on Jan.14, 2009 ... Acquisition - control power grids in all the utilities) “systems are used in industry to monitor ... is a connection between control systems and the switches. Cyber attackers have already led to multicity [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 05:56:35

Vacancy at Coal and Mining Company

Expand your career in National Coal Company (PKP2B, 3rd GENERATION) ... background in mining industry, 3. Familiar with procurement, Office Management and Administration ... optimization programs and techniques would be an asset. 4. SENIOR MINING ENGINEER - Central [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 11:33:48

David Harvey: Capitalism and the City (Part 2)

This post is excerpted from a longer article originally published in New Left Review.  This the second of two parts that Kasama is posting ... of terrain occupied for a whole generation. Capital accumulation through real-estate activity booms, since [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 16:00:09

Now It's Official: That Cheery DTCC Data on Credit Default Swaps is Mighty Incomplete

Bloomberg has a good report today explaining why the DTCC report saying the credit default swaps market is only $34 trillion in notional outstanding ... , companies and asset-backed securities worldwide, based on gross numbers. While designed to ease concerns [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 09:17:44

Sun Microsystems to Lay Off 350

Nortel is likely to cut about 10 percent of its work force. The malaise has started to spread to component makers. For instance, JDSU cut 400 jobs, shut down seven R&D centers and three plants. Anadigics, a Warren, N.J.-based broadband wireless and wireline chip maker cut 15 percent of its work force [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 17:02:09

The EUSSR wishes you all a happy New Year !(And an even more totalitarian 2009...)

The centralisation of power in the European Union continues apace. Last week, the Bruges Group exposed the policies that the EU wants to force on Europe over the coming year. These latest EUSSR power grabs are the challenges that we must face in 2009 and are coming regardless of the fact that the EU Constitution (a.k.a [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 09:55:41

Outdoor Channel Announces Acquisition Of Winnercomm Inc.

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Temecula, California - Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: OUTD) ... capabilities, and add a rapidly growing asset in the Skycam and Cablecam systems. Outdoor Channel ... . The patented Skycam and Cablecam systems center around a sophisticated, computer controlled cable suspension [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 02:55:40

IBM Announces World Record TPC-C Result: What Does It Mean for IT Managers?

IBM Announces World Record TPC-C Result: What Does It Mean for IT Managers? 02:39 | editor | Nov 4th, 2008 5:00am | [ ... Infrastructure, a software platform that provides extreme flexibility, scalability and availability ... Episode smarter-tools-turn-information-into-intelligence Smarter Tools Turn Information [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 13:00:59

Lumension Achieves NIST In Process Listing for FIPS 140-2 Validation for its Industry Leading Data Protection Encryption Technology

Lumension Crypto Kernel (LoCK) has been placed on In-Process List for the Federal Processing Standards Publication (FIPS) ... , 2009 -- Lumension Security™, Inc., the global leader in security management, today announced ... industry and regulatory standards." FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. government computer security standard used [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 08:45:00

Weekly Roll-Up: Top Stories, Memes and Moments (14-Dec-08)

The twists, turns and tips you need for staying up-to-date by the water cooler. Highlights of the Week Nuxeo: Enterprise CMS Updates, New Products and A New Blog. We had an opportunity to see just what Nuxeo has been up to lately – new Digital Asset Management Product [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 17:04:36

Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks

Caprock Analytics highlights selected stocks from the over 4,000 stocks tracked and analyzed by Caprock Analytics. These stock selections include a recent Caprock Analytics Strength metric and a brief description of the company. Note that stocks with negative strength ratings indicate a degree of weakness that has been detected [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:05:52

Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks

Caprock Analytics highlights selected stocks from the over 4,000 stocks tracked and analyzed by Caprock Analytics. These stock selections include a recent Caprock Analytics Strength metric and a brief description of the company. Note that stocks with negative strength ratings indicate a degree of weakness that has been detected [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:05:51

DrumBeat: January 13, 2009

Analysis: Global power demand to languish in 2009 The outlook for energy commodities this year remains grim, says a new report from Merril Lynch ... management, contractor mistakes and Iraqi neglect, U.S. auditors say in a new report similar to many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:35:34

Plugging in: Boston Power Ramps Up in Crowded Battery Pack

Clean Tech Insight’s Jonathan Shieber reports: Both investors and the U.S. government are looking to supercharge the American battery industry ... investment from Swedish investor Foundation Asset Management, Boston Power is prepared to ramp [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:07:15

Plugging in: Boston Power Ramps Up in Crowded Battery Pack

Clean Tech Insight’s Jonathan Shieber reports: Both investors and the U.S. government are looking to supercharge the American battery industry ... investment from Swedish investor Foundation Asset Management, Boston Power is prepared to ramp [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:33:58

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