HP was intent on building a healthy consultancy division long before Mark Hurd took the helm. Even while it was having problems digesting Compaq, it was glancing with envy at IBM Global Services, which has powered a good deal of IBM’s business in the past decade. HP spent years establishing its current capability and has [...] ...
You may have no idea what Avocent does, or quite possibly, you have never heard of the company. It flies beneath most people’s radar. Avocent is the primary supplier of Embedded Service Processors to the hardware giants - including Dell, IBM, Intel, Lenovo and others. It has revenues of $617m for 2007 and it [...] ...
Last week Business Week published an article on Apple’s potential in the business market - making the point that business staff are frequently requesting Macs rather than PCs. This has moved beyond the marketing departments and graphical design shops, where Macs were always part of the scenery. Business workers are particularly covetous of Mac laptops, [...] ...
Continuing on from the previous set of spontaneously composed haikus. (Shooting fish in a barrel with a machine gun):
#9:
ITIL embraces Twitter thus;
tweet not about politics,
tweet not about religion.
(The idea of ITIL standard Haikus. Some people believe that Haikus in English should resemble Japanese Haikus consisting of 17 syllables in 5/7/5 form. Lost in translation.)
#10:
Inspired by [...] ...
Roy Illsley, Standing Out (from the series: The IT Analyst Gallery)
Roy Illsley is a senior research analyst at the Butler Group. He is seen here standing out from other analysts, including Fran Howarth sitting next to him, by virtue of the back gound texture in the image. At events like this one - a CA [...] ...