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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…

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…

IT costs accounting

Wai-Kit — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:45:07 +0000

So often, I have heard skeptics who would criticize and cynically discard away the concept of measuring, accounting, and charging for IT services within an organization. “Why would you want…

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…

Verizon Business launching new APAC data centre

Wai-Kit — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:02:29 +0000

Verizon Business will launch an Asia-Pacific data centre for its computing as a service (CaaS) customers in the region and to address issues of latency, security and compliance.

Ray McQuillan,…

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…

IT Shared Services & Modeling Chargebacks

Wai-Kit — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:00:22 +0000

In most organization, the IT function is almost always a key enabler for an effective and efficient running of the business. With the recent credit crunch and economic downturn, many…

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.…