Verio Technology

By Mark House

October 01, 2009

Your top talent never suffers from opportunities.  Whether they stay with you to address the market as it turns around, or go to your competitor, depends on how they are enrolled in your vision of that future.  Together, you can build take advantage of the turn when it comes.  If they leave you for better opportunities, you will miss the market window while you scramble to fill a critical hole.

The number one determinant of top talent staying is their relationship with their leader.  Do they understand the vision of the group, and how their skills align with the needs, and how you need them to help build great solutions for your customers?  It is rarely about money, but all about being aligned and rewarded in a daily way for their important contribution to the bottom line.

Here are five key features of each operating system and how they stack up against each other.

By Jared Newman

August 24, 2009 — PC World —

Apple's latest operating system update, Mac OSX Snow Leopard, should be ready to roll on August 28, and while Apple says the new OS is "refined, not reinvented," it'll become the de facto competitor to Microsoft Windows 7 come October. We love a good argument, so here's your fodder: five innovations for each OS being touted by their respective makers.

Mac OSX Snow Leopard:

Exposé Interactivity: The feature that shows all windows together is no longer a simple means for switching among them. It will be possible to drag content from one previewed window to the other. Exposé will also work for individual applications by clicking and holding their icons in the dock. As a workaround for the miniscule preview windows in the dock, these improvements aren't bad.

By Bernard Golden

Public. Private. Hybrid. Cloudburst. Much of the discussion about cloud computing focuses on deployment options and choices, with a surprisingly large number of enterprises inclining toward internal private clouds—that is, a cloud-capable infrastructure residing within a company's own data center. A just-published survey by Evans Data supports this trend, indicating that 30 percent of developers (sample = 500) are currently working on projects that will run in private clouds (Important: the article notes that this is probably skewed, as the survey participants are self-selected). This seems quite high to me, given that the number of actual private clouds is pretty darn small. However, one can design and build an app in a public cloud environment with the ultimate goal of hosting the app in a private cloud. In any case, the survey reinforces an anecdotal sense that enterprises are very attracted to the concept of building and operating their own cloud.

By Gautham Nagesh 08/17/2009

Federal agencies' end-of-fiscal-year spending on information technology is expected to spike higher than the past two years, according to industry observers.

By Aliya Sternstein 08/21/2009

The White House's unveiling on Thursday of $1.2 billion in grants for programs to expand the use of electronic health records represents the first major investment in President Obama's health information technology agenda. Administration officials this past week have publicly tied the benefits of health IT to the president's larger, more controversial health care reform effort.