Data Lifecycles: Managing Data for Strategic Advantage
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  • ok, but somewhat overpriced
Data Lifecycles: Managing Data for Strategic Advantage
Roger Reid , Gareth Fraser-King , and W. David Schwaderer
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ASIN: 0470016337

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Businesses now rely almost entirely on applications and databases, causing data and storage needs to increase at astounding rates. It is therefore imperative for a company to optimize and simplify the complexity of managing its data resources.

Plenty of storage products are now available, however the challenge remains for companies to proactively manage their storage assets and align the resources to the various departments, divisions, geographical locations and business processes to achieve improved efficiency and profitability.  Data Lifecycles identifies ways to incorporate an intelligent service platform to manage and map the storage of data. The authors give an overview of the latest trends and technologies in storage networking and cover critical issues such as world-wide compliance.

Data Lifecycles:

This text is an ideal introduction to modern data lifecycle management for network managers, system administrators, storage/system architects, network managers, information management directors as well as CIO/CTOs and their teams, senior IT managers and decision makers, and database administrators.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars ok, but somewhat overpriced.......2007-02-17

The authors attempt to raise the consciousness of the technical reader about clarifying the different types of data that her company stores. The reader might perhaps be an IT manager, who has to deal with issues like deciding when to buy new storage media, and what type of media this should be.

The text suggests that many companies simply view storage as being of infinite capacity, and always available, ie. online. This is too simplistic and very costly. There should be a scrutiny that classifies data. Specifically, you should decide what data really needs to be continuously online. Data outside this category should be either deleted or committed to offline storage, which is invariably much cheaper. Here, the cost savings arise from the offline media being cheaper and by lower power costs. Since the offline media should be held without any power consumption.

The authors are all from Symantec. But the book is careful to mention Symantec only a few times. Its advice is broadly applicable and vendor independent.

The discussion is useful. But the list price of $100 [!] seems excessive.
Business Agility: Strategies For Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Mobile Business Solutions
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Business Agility: Strategies For Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Mobile Business Solutions
Nicholas D. Evans
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ASIN: 0130668370

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m-Business technology enables you to achieve extraordinary organizational agility Q and deliver unprecedented value to customers wherever they are. In Business Agility, Internet Week columnist Nicholas D. Evans draws upon real case studies to illuminate today's best m-Business strategies and tactics, and offers a complete step-by-step blueprint for execution: planning, process models, architecture, implementation, and much more.

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m-Business technology enables you to achieve extraordinary organizational agility -- and deliver unprecedented value to customers wherever they are. In Business Agility, Internet Week columnist Nicholas D. Evans draws upon real case studies to illuminate

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5 out of 5 stars Marvelous Mobile Masterpiece.......2002-01-28

Nick Evans has a great sense of the mobile marketplace. This book is a solid balance of the high level trends in the mobile industry and practical examples of businesses deploying these technologies.
Business Strategies for the Next-Generation Network (Informa Telecoms & Media)
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    ASIN: 0849380359

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    Carriers and service providers have united around the concept of the Next-Generation Network (NGN). Although leveraging a broad basket of Internet technologies, the NGN is not being planned as the next-generation Internet. In its intention and architecture, it is more accurately described as Broadband-ISDN release 2.0. The NGN is hard to understand because it weaves together so many distinct issues: technology, new kinds of product, a new kind of carrier organization as well as changes in the business model, industry value chain and the shape of a converged future industry itself. This book presents a unified analysis of the complex transformation process that is taking place in the fixed telecoms, mobile telecoms, and broadcast industries and outlines strategies for success.

    Making the Cisco Connection: The Story Behind the Real Internet Superpower
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    Making the Cisco Connection: The Story Behind the Real Internet Superpower
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    Cisco Systems is one of the most valuable companies in the world, yet few know very much about it. Making the Cisco Connection, by Upside Media CEO and editor David Bunnell, is a clear and comprehensive corporate history that certainly will change that. Beginning with the firm's 1984 founding at Stanford University--when Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner first concocted a way for different computer systems to communicate with each other--Bunnell follows the major players and their key actions in order to place this continuing Silicon Valley success story in the proper perspective. There's its meteoric rise at the cusp of the online age, when Bosack and Lerner initially devised the electronic router that is now the backbone of the Internet. There's the power struggle with a venture capitalist that ousted this once-married duo, the marketing savvy that ultimately gave their product an 80 percent market share, the acquisition strategy that has brought both allies and competitors into the fold, the culture that celebrates cooperation and fair play, the ongoing drive to become an even broader communication gateway. These and other moves, which Bunnell fully details, have built a company worth $200 billion today. "In the end," he writes, "who knows?" --Howard Rothman

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    Cisco Systems is known among the technology elite in Silicon Valley as one of the most successful companies to emerge from the Valley in many years. It has been dubbed computing's next Superpower.

    Just as Intel and Microsoft soared to lofty heights with the rise of the personal computer, Cisco Systems is flying on the spectacular updraft of the Internet. The company, which makes specialized computers that route information through a network--acting as a sort of data traffic cop--has captured 85 percent of the market for routers used as the backbone of the biggest network of them all, the Internet. As a result, over the last five years, the value of Cisco's total outstanding stock has risen over 2,000 percent--twice the increase of Microsoft Corp. stock in the same period. Beginning as a tale of two college sweethearts at Stanford University who cofounded the company fifteen years ago, the often-told Cisco legend has all the makings of a great novel--love, money, a villain or two, corporate coups, and the sweet taste of victory. But mostly, the Cisco story is a very unusual tale of corporate success. Despite the struggle of passing through several regimes, Cisco managed to hit all the crucial spots of its business. Cisco consistently bested competitors like 3Com and IBM with insight, innovation, customer focus, and one of the biggest corporate buying sprees in history. Making the Cisco Connection deftly traces the networking giant's path to success, from its founding couple, Sandra Lerner and Leonard Bosack, to current CEO John Chambers. It highlights the company's astounding knack for buying other businesses and making them part of a huge conglomerate; its own highly developed use of technology; and its unusually tight-knit culture. Featuring the perspective of top Cisco executives and competitors, this book reveals how Cisco's technology, employees, and even its competition have blended to make Cisco possibly the most important company shaping the future of communications. Next to ruthless competitors Microsoft and Intel, Cisco shines with a kinder, gentler image, emphasizing happy customers and employees. You'll see how Cisco built its impressive culture by cultivating community, boosting morale, whittling down bureaucracy, and saving money to boot. This book also explains how Cisco is positioning itself to enter a new competitive playing field, moving beyond Internet routers in an attempt to build a single, giant, global communications system--based on the Internet--that would make the current telephone system obsolete. Cisco wants to be the company that delivers the infrastructure of this new network, which will combine computer networks with telephones, television, radio, and satellite communications. To do that, it is now challenging global giants such as Lucent Technologies and Fujitsu. Cisco plans to become the backbone of the entire communications industry, making it a corporation of incredible power as the Internet Age blossoms in the new millennium.

    Provocative and instructive, Making the Cisco Connection traces the unique history of one of the most profitable and enduring technology companies in business today.

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    "If you want to learn the whole scoop about the first Internet-Age company, and one of the most successful firms of any age, you've come to the right place. Bunnell's treatment of Cisco's rise--and continued rise--is fascinating and full of human detail. It's clear that Cisco is not just a firm with great technology, but also great leaders and managers."--Thomas H. Davenport, Director, Andersen Consulting Institute for Strategic Change; Professor, Boston University School of Management

    "Cisco has emerged as a twenty-first century leader. David Bunnell captures the ongoing story of the Cisco executive team exploiting IT, structuring a unique organization, and creating a dynamic strategy for this breakaway dot com company."--Richard L. Nolan, William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

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    4 out of 5 stars Technology company from start-up through growth stages.......2007-07-27

    Some reviewers call this text a "puff piece." I don't see that. It is possible that Bunnell was friendly with Cisco management when he wrote the book -- why not? He has access to better information that way.

    But whether the book is biased is less important than what it covers. Cisco Systems is a company started in what amounts to a living room, by tech people who could foresee a market for equipment that could make computers talk to each other -- computers which at the time were in nearby buildings, never mind around the world!

    Every entrepreneur can benefit from a history that tells us how Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner can go from the leaders of a start-up that had more sales than it could manufacture for, to unemployed with stock options worth millions. It's too bad the book didn't follow them after they left Cisco, as their story (especially Lerner's) may be worth another book.

    Not every small company can grow to Cisco's size, but any small company that survives must face a maturing process that promises to completely change the way it does business. This book serves as a signpost for all entrepreneurs, telling us what's just ahead.

    1 out of 5 stars Could be alot better.......2003-03-18

    After seeing CISCO profiled on one of Robert Cringley's Nerds 2.0.1 documentary, I was fascinated about how one of the giants of communications was created within a dining room.

    I bought this book expecting to hear about the excitement and struggles of an organization as it is becoming very big, very fast. This book seemed to vaguely cover this period within Cisco's history. There is very little written about the struggle and difficulties within the management that must have existed at that time.

    I would not recommend this book.

    1 out of 5 stars More pulp non-fiction from the assembly line.......2002-12-27

    This book does a severe disservice to the Cisco story, and to the business book genre in general. The author's lack of insight, much less comprehension of the industry and technology is laughable. Worse yet, his lack of passion for the subject exposes the fact that book was basically a con on his readers.

    Some representative excerpts:
    1) "All and sundry goods could be purchased at McWhorters Express Store in building J. Money was available from the conveniently located ATM."

    *Talk about telling a compelling story. Alas it has come to this.

    2) "The Cisco-Powered Networks campaign was Cisco's first foray into the spehere of the home networking market."

    *Wow. Time to get a better author, or at least an editor. Hilarious.

    3) "Nouns and verbs in Cisco-speak include AccessPath, ClickStart, ..., and FastHub."

    *What more can one say? Reading this book is laborious, and yet you will learn virtually nothing.

    Given Cisco's incredible rise from tiny startup to global giant, somebody will eventually write a book that does justice to the story. But not yet, and when they do, I doubt if a "conveniently located ATM" will figure prominently.

    3 out of 5 stars A bit thin on details, but still a good story.......2002-02-06

    There has not been a review on this bk for a while, so I thought I will do one. With Dot Com crashes, and Cisco laid off 7000+ workers in 2001, John Chambers' ideal of no large company wide lay offs provide an interesting contrast to much of the PR in this bk.

    I have just finished reading Hard Drive, by Wallace; and Jack Straight from the Gut, by Jack Welch. Compare to these two books, Making the CISCO Connection was a bit thin on details. I do not know if its editorial lapses or the authors understanding of the material, Bunnell keeps making wild claims like " the future is going to be 100% pure IP.." with no supporting evidence. He also spent quite a few passages comparing ATM and IP as if they are competing technology trying to grap market share. ATM is just another way of hooking up networks like Frame Relay, ISDN... etc. and IP is a protocol that happily runs on any network technolgy that support it.

    Jeff Bezos made a late appearance towards the end of the book, funny the author never mentioned who he was. There were quite a few of this name dropping with no adequate introductions. You'll get used to it and ignore it.

    Still, a good story on the rise of Cisco, but don't look for a "behing-the-scene" management guidebook. For interesting decision making process of some of these industry players, go for Hard Drive.

    1 out of 5 stars Don't waste the money, read Cisco's press releases instead.......2001-08-13

    Truly a puff piece. The authors don't acknowledge any of the major challenges facing Cisco or give any sort of balanced review of the company. Cisco and technological innovation are about as far apart as they are at Microsoft. It's just a marketing machine, pure and simple.
    Strategies and Policies in Digital Convergence (Premier Reference Series)
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      Strategies and Policies in Digital Convergence is the authoritative reference source describing issues in business strategy and public policy rising from digital convergence. Cutting-edge descriptions of mobile communications, broadband networks, and digital multimedia broadcast services are provided. This Premier Reference Source presents new business opportunities generated by digital convergence, and raises governance issues caused by this union. It provides a comprehensive overview of the technological aspects of digital convergence and the resulting business strategies and public policies.
      Mbusiness: The Strategic Implications of Mobile Communications
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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      Mbusiness: The Strategic Implications of Mobile Communications
      Stuart Barnes
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      MBusiness: The Strategic Implications of Mobile Communications presents recent theory and evidence on wireless information technologies and their application in business. Such information is useful in both the classroom and for interested practitioners contemplating new technological developments.


      MBusiness is a very fast moving area and consequently there is a need to provide relevant material for those who wish to understand the subject. This text provides recent teachings, moving beyond existing wireless technology publications, and differentiates itself strongly via its emphasis on the strategic business application of mobile communications. It stands apart by virtue of the degree of academic rigour with which it tackles the material and is an excellent resource for teaching and learning in the classroom.

      A comprehensive resource on wireless technologies
      Contains case study examples to support the information in the text
      Includes end of chapter references to enable further investigation

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      5 out of 5 stars Mbusiness: Tunde Okedeyi.......2003-11-18

      There's no doubt that we a moving on from e-Commerce to m-Commerce and eventually, we'll get there to U-Commerce, the Ultimate, Ubiquitous, Unison and Unversal. "Mbusiness: The Strategic Implications of Mobile Communications" by Stuart Barnes is one of the best limited resources available for the strategic consideration of m-commerce in business. The technlogies, the business models and implementation/deployment of mobile communications are all considered. You must get this to know what is coming on and how to design appropraite strategies.
      Disaster Survival Guide for Business Communications Networks
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        Richard Grigonis
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        Strategic Management in Telecommunications (Artech House Telecommunications Library)
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        • Economies of scale
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        3 out of 5 stars Economies of scale.......2003-02-11

        This is a book one would read in graduate school, not for fun. It is well written book that focuses on the economic impact of changes in telecommunications industry since it's conception until now. Sharp and well written, but it takes some effort to read.
        Diamonds Are Forever, Computers Are Not: Economic and Strategic Management in Computing Markets
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        This is a collection of 43 essays about the economics and management of information technology markets. The first part of the book focuses on events, notable birth dates and longstanding trends. The unifying theme revolves around the role of human economic behavior in the face of uncertainty and confusion. The contributors' intent is to explain, educate and entertain — to go beyond the obvious.

        The next part contains writing about the Internet. It discusses the development of the online commercial world, and analyzes the macroeconomic side of the investment boom and bust related to Internet activities. It also focuses on the measurement of economic activity in the digital economy.

        In addition, the book deals with how computers get used in organizations and discusses the Microsoft antitrust case. Finally, there are two long essays about economic constraints on strategic behavior in markets where standards and platforms matter.

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        5 out of 5 stars Economic perspective on technology markets.......2006-10-30

        I took Dr. Greenstein's class several years ago at Kellogg when completing my MBA. I had picked up the book as I still find myself going back to some his teachings (even after so many years). The book contains a series of essays written in an easy to understand manner and deliver some very interesting economic perspectives on technology markets. The essays are organized in eight sections:
        Part I: Musings
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        A must read for every technology entrepreneur...

        5 out of 5 stars Outstanding Read!.......2004-12-16

        Dr. Greenstein has taken on complex issues and provided an entertaining, yet informative analysis of modern markets. This group of essays provide a practical starting point for the analysis of diverse economic systems.
        Balanced forecasts drive value: crown castle USA leveraged the balanced scorecard and strategic meeting management techniques to improve financial, customer, ... An article from: Strategic Finance
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          Balanced forecasts drive value: crown castle USA leveraged the balanced scorecard and strategic meeting management techniques to improve financial, customer, ... An article from: Strategic Finance
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          1. Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture: Based on the Competing Values Framework (Addison-Wesley Series on Organization Development)
          2. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most
          3. Doing Business Internationally, Second Edition: The Guide To Cross-Cultural Success
          4. Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It--No Matter What
          5. Estimating in Building Construction (6th Edition)
          6. Executive Charisma: Six Steps to Mastering the Art of Leadership
          7. Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture
          8. Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose
          9. Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
          10. FLIP: How to Find, Fix, and Sell Houses for Profit

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