Technology News Software – IBM Enlarges Sphere of Influence in the Cloud; Data center management Nov-Dec. 08; Hiring – Smart Companies Get Aggressive
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Article published to Meritalk.com. The article talks about how to overcome the challenges associated with instilling a customer service-centric philosophy within your IT organization.
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David Geer interviewed Shane Aubel about old and new reasons why data center projects fail. Topics included, why technology professionals continue to fail to understand the organizational and business challenge. Additionally discussed were that new problems such as apathy, acceptance of failure by the customer, budget challenges, and extreme over-promising are really just coping mechanisms built upon unresolved underlying issues.
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Interview conducted by Robert McGarvey This article discussed how CIOs need to start thinking like business people and treat IT projects like Business Projects.
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Interview conducted by Richard Adhikari about the recent purchase of ILog, reasons behind the popularity of BPM, and pros and cons of the consolidation effort.
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Shane Aubel, Managing Partner, provides insight to the future of software as a service "SAAS" during an E-Commerce Times interview.
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"A Look Inside The Services Available For Today's Data Centers" Dennis Lasley, BTI consultant, in an interview with Processor Magazine, discusses the importance of incorporating the business into IT decisions relating to establishing a data center.
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Accent Global participated in the 2008 Virtualization Forum at the Washington DC Convention Center. As one of the largest virtualization focused events in the country, various speakers and virtualization professionals described current trends and the latest technology advances. Several key themes were presented at the forum to include: 1) Treat virtualization projects as an Enterprise Architecture redesign. 2) Think Big… design and plan your virtualization projects on a grand scale, leveraging the technology to change the way your systems support your business. 3) Create integrated work groups, including your business executives and managers and your technology experts.
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Accent Global's white paper discussing how to bridge the business/IT Divide by implementing Business and Technology Integration (BTI) has been published on Meritalk. The White Paper entitled "Closing the Business/IT Divide...the Urgency of a Unified Gameplan", authored by Shane Aubel. It addresses the communication problems with IT projects and how to address them to improve success rates.
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The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) held their 18th Annual Procurement Conference in the Show Place Arena, Upper Marlboro, Maryland on 24 April. The OSDBU Procurement Conference is a national conference fostering business partnerships between the Federal Government, its Prime Contractors, and small, minority, service-disabled veteran-owned, veteran-owned, HUBZone, and women-owned businesses.
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Donna James, Shane Aubel and Dennis Lasley of the Accent Global team attended the International Crisis Group (ICG) 2008 Award Luncheon at the University Club in New York City. As invited guests of Nick Grono, Deputy President ICG, Brussels, BE, the Accent Global staff participated in honoring Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (President of Liberia), Martti Ahtisaari (former President of Finland) and Samina Ahmed (South Asia Project Director for the ICG).
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The Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) held their 18th Annual Procurement Conference in the Show Place Arena, Upper Marlboro, Maryland on 24 April. The OSDBU Procurement Conference is a national conference fostering business partnerships between the Federal Government, its Prime Contractors, and small, minority, service-disabled veteran-owned, veteran-owned, HUBZone, and women-owned businesses.
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Accent Global made a financial contribution to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. The Ride for Kids project organizes a group of motorcyclists from around the country who provide motorcycle rides to kids with brain tumors or to those who have survived brain tumors.