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- Microsoft’s Data Center Vision EvolvesDecember 3 2008
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Mike Manos: “At Microsoft, we have focused a lot of thought and research around how to best operate and maintain our global infrastructure and we want to share those learnings. While obviously there are some aspects that we keep to ourselves, we have shared how we operate facilities daily, our technologies and methodologies, and, most importantly, how we monitor and manage our facilities. Whether it’s speaking at industry events, inviting customers to our “Microsoft data center conferences” held in our data centers, or through other media like blogging and white papers, we believe sharing best practices is paramount and will drive the industry forward.”
Posted in Microsoft Tagged: data center, data centers, generation 4 modular data centers, Microsoft, Mike Manos - Mike Manos on Data Center Architecture and EfficiencyOctober 25 2008
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Mike Manos, a GM responsible for Microsoft’s data center operations, sits down for an interview to discuss data center architecture, industry issues, and Microsoft’s leadership efforts for running energy efficient data centers. Check it out at ARCast.TV.
Posted in Microsoft Tagged: data centers, Microsoft - Twitter IM on holdOctober 11 2008
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Evan Williams, Twitter: “To summarize, we want to bring IM back. We intend to bring IM back. But we’ve officially moved it from our Things That are Broken list to our Things We Want to Build list. Based on our analysis, the cost-to-benefit for IM for the most users is not as high as some other things—so it will be a while before we tackle it.”
I think that Twitter has made a great decision here. The IM integration and all of the talk about other approaches for platform level integration with Twitter have been led by a small but highly vocal group of Web pundits and microblogging advocates. Today, the average Twitter user is satisified with the browser app for mobile and desktop use and with Twhirl for a slightly more advanced experience.
IM integration and a more aggressive feature creep is not what is needed right now and Twitter has done a great job of focusing on improving core features and extending those for new scenarios like their Election 2008 site. Congratulations to Twitter on weathering the stability storm and making good choices about new feature additions going forward.
Posted in microblogging, Web Tagged: IM, microblogging, twitter - Interview with Ade McCormack of “The IT Value Stack”- Part 2October 11 2008
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In part one my interview with Ade McCormack, I talked with Ade about the need to “entwine” IT and business strategy and the future changes we’ll seen in the organizational structure (or lack thereof) in the “IT department”. What follows is the second and final part of the interview with Ade where we talk about how IT can gain a seat at the table to help drive business strategy and Ade ends with advice for CIOs focused on better integrating with their business customers.
Holloway: You are a proponent of taking away budget control from IT. To that end, can a savvy CIO that is looking to gain a seat a the table to define business strategy use their budgets as leverage to “buy-in”? Will business see it as a sign of weakness or strength that IT departments are willing to cede control of their budgets?
McCormack: The CEO needs to keep the management team small. He therefore needs a multi-discipline team. Being the IT voice on the board is not enough. Thus CIOs need to develop broader business skills. Ceding control of their budget and running IT as a business will show the CEO that the CIO is willing to face the cold realities of commerce. As such they will learn skills such as financial control, sales, marketing, service delivery and the art of politics. These are all valuable skills to bring to the boardroom.
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- “[T]he current financial crisis… I haven’t the foggiest idea what this all means.”September 20 2008
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Freakonomics Blog: “The last 10 days have been the most remarkable period of government intervention into the financial system since the Great Depression.”
Posted in Business Tagged: financial crisis, freakonomics, stock market, wall street
