Category Archives: Technology

Average lifespan of a major league baseball

February 25, 2011 – 1:30 AM

Tweet of the week candidate! RT @jyarmis: @bobfartall Fact: Average lifespan of a major league baseball: 5 pitches.”

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10 Best Practices For a Better Website

February 17, 2011 – 9:32 AM

Reposted from The SMB Research Blog… Have you read enough pieces yet on what makes a great website? You have probably seen quite a few articles and posts addressing this.  We here at SMB Research know we have seen a lot of material. (SMB Research includes at least one fairly good article on SMB Research’s Top 20 Favorite [...]

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SMB Research’s Top 20 Favorite Reads of 2010

January 5, 2011 – 7:16 AM

What was the best SMB or technology-related piece you read this past year? When we at SMB Research started talking a few weeks ago about what we thought were some of the most interesting and valuable articles from 2010, we realized that once again this year there has been a great deal of very good [...]

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Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide (Sneak Preview)

November 5, 2010 – 10:18 AM

Over on my alter-ego, The SMB Research Blog (re-posted with my own permission…) Data Center Infrastructure Group (DCIG, www.dciginc.com), and SMB Research are nearing completion on the DCIG Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer’s Guide. While you will have to wait just awhile longer, we don’t mind giving you a sneak peek at some of the [...]

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An Introduction to Supply Chain Management from ASU

April 12, 2010 – 10:05 AM

If you are new to the world of supply chain management, there is no dearth of sources and resources for you to tap into to learn what supply chain management is, and what it means for you.  There are also no dearth of sources to find out where these resources are.

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The New Complexity Management

February 18, 2010 – 9:15 AM

I have had a working assumption for awhile – we all have one or a few of these, don’t we? Something to keep the mental gears oiled and in good working order when our minds are not otherwise actively or productively engaged? One of my working assumptions – stay with me on this – is [...]

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Sizing up Small-to-Medium Business (SMB)

January 13, 2010 – 1:45 AM

What is the difference between a “small” business, and a “small-to-medium” business?  (caution: shameless self-promotion).  Read my commentary over at the SMB Research Blog.

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Do I Know You? Identity Authentication in the Real and Digital Worlds

November 11, 2009 – 2:41 PM

I had occasion recently to sit down to talk with Reliable Identities‘ Wes Kussmaul, accomplished entrepreneur, author, and prolific Internet tinkerer.  Wes experienced early success founding the Delphi Internet service.  (Some of the more seasoned among you may remember Delphi as being one of the early online services, along with CompuServe, Prodigy,  and AOL.) These [...]

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Thoughts and Readings on The Software Maintenance Fee Model

October 26, 2009 – 8:06 PM

As I read the transcript of Oracle’s recent 1Q2010 results, and some analyst reactions to it, I am more and more intrigued by the market forces at work in the third-party support area.  As almost everyone knows, maintenance and support fees are the lifeblood of many enterprise vendors.  While maintenance and support from an end-user’s [...]

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Passwords (Not) As Easy as 123

October 7, 2009 – 8:02 PM

Wired’s Kim Zetter reports over at the Threat Level blog (“Most Common Hotmail Password Revealed!“) that “a researcher” did a study of the compromised Hotmail, MSN, Live.com passwords and found that “123456″ was the most common password. Are you kidding me?  C’mon people, we can do better than this. If this wasn’t so damn pathetic, [...]

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Supply Chain Risk Management

September 4, 2009 – 1:39 PM

No sooner did I finish reading this morning’s Wall Street Journal article, “Swine Flu Remains Mild as Vaccine Advances” when I saw former colleague’s Bob Ferrari‘s tweet and blog post about his upcoming session on supply chain risk management at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals 2009 Annual Conference in Chicago.

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Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Hire Bob Eastman

August 4, 2009 – 8:56 AM

10.  What the hell else do you have to do today, really? 9.  What a gas it will be knowing that when your competitors get back from vacation and they are trying to reach Bob, they will only get his answering machine.

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Tweet of the Week – “How big is the internet?”

July 31, 2009 – 1:00 PM

We owe our thanks for this week’s Tweet of the Week to Forrester‘s Jeremiah Owyang: Visutalization (sic): Only 23% of earth’s 6 billion citizens are on the Internet http://bit.ly/viqmi 9:18 AM Jul 30th from web

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Enterprise 2.0, Boston, June 22-25th

June 29, 2009 – 5:02 PM

I should have known that something was up when I walked in to my first Enterprise 2.0 session on Tuesday morning to the sounds of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy”.  Was this just someone’s good taste for wake-em-up ambient music first thing in the morning (I concur!), or was someone sending a not-so-subtle message to attendees for [...]

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Enterprise 2.0 Conference

June 23, 2009 – 5:56 AM

I will be attending the Enterprise 2.0 conference at the Westin Boston Waterfront for the next day or two, and will be collecting and posting the best insights and take-aways that I can gather from this event. TechWeb, no novices to putting on events, seem to have really mastered the art of the registration process [...]

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Data Domain, NetApp, EMC, and Deduplication – Where to Go To Know

June 16, 2009 – 12:33 PM

Are you trying to make sense of all of the recent news on Data Domain, NetApp, EMC, and something called deduplication? To understand what is going on, you could do worse than to check out these articles, references, blogs, and twitterers:

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Xconomy XSITE 2009 on June 24th

May 26, 2009 – 1:56 PM

After Bruce Richardson turned me on to Xconomy a couple of years ago, I have been an ardent, if not constant, follower. Xconomy is a website and blog that seems to be playing an ever-stronger role in talking locally about trends, the players, and leading technologies in several technology segments, notably, life sciences, energy, and [...]

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David vs. Goliath

May 20, 2009 – 8:22 PM

In the latest article by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker, How David Beats Goliath , in the May 11th issue, Gladwell once again offers up some pithy observations and insights, this time on the sometimes advantage of effort over ability. Much of the article talks about how TIBCO‘s Vivek Ranadivé used the full court [...]

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Welcome.

May 20, 2009 – 4:43 AM

Welcome to Netting It Out, a new blog by Bob Eastman. The goal of this blog will be to offer up and comment on the best of the ideas and new insights circulating in the blogosphere, the social and traditional media, and anywhere else that an intriguing, fresh (or freshly stated) idea or interesting insight [...]

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April 13, 2009 – 6:40 PM

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