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White Goat?

Wai-Kit — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:53:50 +0000

This is interesting … for US$100,600 per machine (White Goat), you will be able to take shredded office papers and turn them into a 40-sheet roll of toilet paper in…

SAP bets on Software for Sustainability

Wai-Kit — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:03:09 +0000

A recent article on CNET reported that SAP is trying to get ahead of the curve in environmental sustainability. An excerpt of it has been reproduced below.

What’s an enterprise…

The Sustainability Consortium

Wai-Kit — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:17:25 +0000

It all started last July when Walmart announced it would begin surveying its suppliers on their environmental performance in order to one day rate the sustainability of its products. Since…

Goodbye www.sun.com

Wai-Kit — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:56:46 +0000

Last week, some of my friends felt a sense of loss when they typed “www.sun.com” into their browsers and wound up on Oracle’s home page. Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems…

High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons learned at Facebook

Wai-Kit — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:42:36 +0000

Jeff Rothschild, VP for Technology at Facebook, shared some detailed insights into Facebook architecture. Over the past few years, Facebook has grown into one of the largest sites on the…

Tech companies: 2009 in retrospect

Wai-Kit — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:01:29 +0000

The year 2009 saw many tech companies, big and small, being sold, acquired or going into extinction. Most of these are / were due to the global economic crisis, diminishing…

Product Management 101

Wai-Kit — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:37:41 +0000

Generally, a Product Manager’s primary responsibility is to analyze the market, competitors, customers, external environment, lead and plan activities related to a specific product or product line. Product, is usually…

Telcos turning into Cloud Service Providers

Wai-Kit — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:46:01 +0000

Over the past years, Telecom carriers and service providers have suffered economic pressures, competition, churn and declining revenue. As they grapple to find ways to improve their ARPU from their…

How do you lead with all the bad news?

Wai-Kit — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:47:50 +0000

This has not been a good year. Numbers aren’t looking good. Weakening demand. Customer churn. Reduction in force. Those who were not affected by layoffs will have a much heavier…

Curious case of Argleton town

Wai-Kit — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:30:03 +0000

Here’s a good one … A small village in the north of England, Argleton, has been causing confusion with an air of mystery. The simple reason is, is…

Speaking @ Jakarta

Wai-Kit — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:07:23 +0000

I’m scheduled to speak at a Sun briefing event entitled “Turn Obstacles into Opportunities” in Jakarta on Nov 24th. The agenda will be about achieving efficiency and maximizing ROA (Return…

The Art of War – Laying Plans

Wai-Kit — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:00:21 +0000

Sun Tzu’s Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that was written in the 6th century BC, during the Spring and Autumn period. Composed of 13 chapters, each of…

Planning for a new Data Center?

Wai-Kit — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:48:12 +0000

Every data center project begins with the business plan and business requirements in mind. This is fundamentally the starting point and the first building blocks of a data center project.…

Conducting a BIA (Business Impact Analysis)

Wai-Kit — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:00:43 +0000

Yesterday, I touched on the BCM program and I cautioned about holding the IT department responsible for BCM. Lets pause for a while and zoom into why that is the…

Business Continuity Management

Wai-Kit — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:31:04 +0000

According to Gartner, 50% of all businesses fail after experiencing a major disruption. The lack of planning and preparation for these disruptions can cause a major blow to…

The 2009 Data Center Purchasing Survey Report

Wai-Kit — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:55:17 +0000

Between June and September of 2009, SearchDataCenter.com conducted the Data Center Decisions 2009 Purchasing Intentions Survey. Subscribers were contacted by email and invited to participate. For this 2009 survey,…

M&A (part 2) – Unlike marriage, divorce is not an option

Wai-Kit — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:52:43 +0000

London’s Cass Business School recently released a research which highlights the perils facing executives tempted to use the financial crisis to buy struggling rivals, or distressed companies, at apparently bargain…

M&A explained

Wai-Kit — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:33:12 +0000

The term M&A (short for Merger & Acquisition) is a corporate strategy which envisages management of processes related to selling, buying and combining one or more businesses for a common…

Asia Pacific’s IT spend

Wai-Kit — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:51:57 +0000

A recent report from Forrester, which surveyed 774 senior IT executives at enterprises with more than 500 employees across ANZ, Japan, South Korea, India, China, Singapore and Vietnam, shows that…

Cloud service : where do you start?

Wai-Kit — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:34:11 +0000

“Cloud computing is an operational model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management

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