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Erik Gfesser

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New Book Review: "Mastering VMware vSphere 4"

Recently posted book review for Mastering VMware vSphere 4: Install and Maintain VMware vSphere 4, Create and Manage Virtual Networks, by Scott Lowe, Sybex, 2009, reposted here: In case the potential reader of this text is wondering to what extent VMware vSphere 4 is covered, the subtitles explain a majority

New Book Review: "Making EIM Work for Business"

Recently posted book review for Making Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Work for Business: A Guide to Understanding Information as an Asset, by John Ladley, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010, reposted here: John Ladley indicates at the outset that the necessity of this text is threefold: (1) because the reader is already doing

Countdown to 2014

In his most recent (October 25, 2010) Computerworld magazine opinion piece, Frank Hayes discusses a debt that corporate IT departments need not pay. Perhaps a majority of readers of the magazine are already familiar with "IT debt", because Hayes mentions the term multiple times within his article but

SpringOne 2GX 2010 Day 2: Keynote

After returning to work Thursday and catching up on some sleep following my attendance of the SpringOne 2GX 2010 conference held at The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in the heart of the Lombard / Oak Brook, Illinois business corridor, the following are some notes taken following dinner during the second keynote

SpringOne 2GX 2010 Day 2:Virtualizing Your Java Applications

Virtualizing Your Java Applications: Best Practices (Justin Murray) Emerging Technology Track 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM From the conference materials: In this session, you will learn the key things to consider when you take your application to a virtualization platform, in particular to VMware ESX. The choice of configured

SpringOne 2GX 2010 Day 1: Keynote

Just returned from the first day of the SpringOne 2GX 2010 conference held at The Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in the heart of the Lombard / Oak Brook, Illinois business corridor. The complete session schedule for the week (Tuesday evening through Friday afternoon) is located here. From the conference materials: SpringOne

Technology == Salvation ?

Due to service disruption with my print subscription to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) this past week, I was not aware of the interview with Peter Thiel entitled "Technology = Salvation" by Holman W. Jenkins Jr. in last weekend's edition until today. Thiel was one of the

New Book Review: "Rules to Break & Laws to Follow"

New book review for Rules to Break & Laws to Follow: How Your Business Can Beat the Crisis of Short-Termism (Microsoft Executive Leadership Series), by Don Peppers & Martha Rogers, PhD, John Wiley & Sons, 2008, reposted here: Purchase of this text by this reviewer followed on the tails of

Google Analytics: 12 Months

Google Analytics was set up for this blog one year ago today. Take a look at the posts I submitted over the past year to see how traffic has grown in the past 12 months. Since the last related post 2 months ago, the number of countries of origin has

Copycat Advertising Campaign

First of all, some readers of my blog might be curious as to why the category tag cloud in the upper right hand corner of the page includes "running" as a category. Where does running fit within a blog entitled "Erik on Software"? I eluded to