Japan loves Red Hat. At this very moment, hordes of Japanese IT folks are angling for the meishi of their favorite Red Hat salesperson, hoping to do business with the number-one rated IT vendor in Japan, two years running, according to Nikkei Market Access’ 2008 survey of 3,000 IT workers.…
Archive for May 27th, 2008Filed under: Analysis / Thought, iTS, Internet Tools, iTunes
Mark Nichols at zanshin recently wrote about his own experience of swapping and burning CDs and DVDs to back up iTunes purchases (something we blogged about a while ago). That got me thinking about strategies for iTunes backups. Time Machine and SuperDuper make it simple to execute local backups at regular intervals, but that’s only half the battle. A good off-site backup of your mission-critical files (and I don’t know about you, but for me, music is definitely considered mission-critical) is essential. You can go with services like Mozy or CrashPlan. Personally, I’ve been very happy with Bandwagon. For only $12US per month, they provide the means to backup to either Amazon S3 or your own FTP server. So, what’s your solution? Please share in the comments, and save Mark another day of swapping discs in and out of his optical drive. Finance and Investment in the Yahoo! Directory Department of Finance - University of Illinois Government Finance Officers Association Top News Archive - Yahoo! Finance GE Commercial Finance - Home - Internet Public Library: Finance Finance Magazine Subscriptions and Free White Papers CRAN Task View: Empirical Finance Minnesota Senate Committees - Finance Committee ReadWriteWeb’s Richard MacManus had the chance to talk with Google’s Tom Stocky, a director of Product Management, about its increased emphasis on developers. The result is an interesting look into the mind of Google as it pertains to developers. MacManus asked Stocky about Adobe’s and Microsoft’s … I was really excited to see Larry Dignan’s announcement that Oliver Marks has joined the ZDNet blogging team. I’ve known Oliver for a few years, first meeting him while he was managing the Sony PlayStation team’s collaboration extranet. He’s a great person with deep experience in …
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Bringing down software margins with the cloud and open sourcePosted by: admin in Business and PoliticsMicrosoft expects to lose margin as “cloud” competitors begin to eat away at its core businesses. Kudos to Microsoft for calling out the obvious. But Microsoft still has a lot to learn if it thinks it can charge more under its own cloud model because “the customer will pay Microsoft a larger fee, since Microsoft also runs and maintains all the hardware,” as Nick Carr notes:
Put more bluntly, there’s not a chance in Hades that Microsoft will be able to charge more for its cloud-based offerings, not when its competitors are using the cloud to pummel its desktop and server-based offerings. This is something that Microsoft (and everyone else) is simply going to have to get used to: The go-go days of outrageous (software) margins are over. Done. |
Just like each machine with moving parts, the hard drive that holds your iTunes library will eventually stop working. Read that line again - I didn’t state might stop working, but will stop. It’s going to happen, so be prepared.
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