IBM publishes 2009 annual report
Tue, Mar 9th 2010 1:44p Christopher Pepin IBM published its 2009 annual report to the web. I personally found the Letter to Shareholders particularly useful. Key messages: Significant changes are underway Changes in the world: lowering of trade barriers, the rise of the developing world and the emergence of the World Wide Web Changes ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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The Future of Smartphones in the Enterprise
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 2:43p Christopher Pepin The 2010 Mobile World Congress (CNET coverage) wrapped up two weeks ago and I must admit that I'm still digesting it all. There were so many announcements and its a challenge to keep up and focus on the key items that will deliver value to the enterprise. With the downturn in the economy, more an ... [read] Keywords: enterprise
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Apple announces the iPad
Mon, Feb 1st 2010 8:43p Christopher Pepin On Wednesday, January 27, Apple announced the Apple iPad. While much of the focus of the announcement was given to the consumer, little attention was given to enterprise user. However, this is typical for Apple products. At IBM, my focus is on the internal IT deployment. My first thought afte ... [read] Keywords: ibm
apple
enterprise
Sametime 8.5
Thu, Dec 17th 2009 8:48a Christopher Pepin Lotus Sametime 8.5 has been announced and will go GA on 22nd December. Details are in the announcement letter, and Sametime blog. IBM Lotus Sametime 8.5 represents the next generation of unified communications and collaboration software. It incorporates: A new online meeting experience that is i ... [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Microsoft Office 2010 Betas
Wed, Dec 9th 2009 8:28p Christopher Pepin Microsoft Office 2010 is currently in beta and is scheduled for a June, 2010 release. Details are on Microsoft's website. I'm trying a two of the betas - the standard Microsoft Office as well the the new "starter" edition which will be available on new PCs and replaces the aging Microsoft Works ... [read] Keywords: microsoft
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BlackBerry Bold 9700
Mon, Dec 7th 2009 8:48a Christopher Pepin I upgraded to BlackBerry Bold 9700 (AT&T). Previously, I had been using the original Bold 9000 and Javelin 8900. From my perspective, the 9700 is the best of both worlds with a smaller form factor, 3G, beautiful screen and great performance. That said, the 9700 is more evolutionary than revol ... [read] Keywords: blackberry
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Windows 7 Power Management
Tue, Nov 24th 2009 8:24a Christopher Pepin A helpful whitepaper from Microsoft on the new power management features in Windows 7. While many of these features and capabilities are an evolution from the features in Windows Vista, many enterprise customers, including IBM, passed on Windows Vista. With the end of Windows XP extended suppor ... [read] Keywords: ibm
enterprise
microsoft
vista
AT&T Announces BlackBerry Bold 9700
Mon, Nov 16th 2009 5:25p Christopher Pepin Earlier today, AT&T announced the Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Bold 9700. Key features: Sleek, full QWERTY, 3G BlackBerry smartphone Brilliant half VGA resolution 480 x 320 pixel color display Powerful 624 MHz processor and 256 MB flash memory Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) for automatic access t ... [read] Keywords: blackberry
research in motion
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The Appeal of Cloud-Based E-Mail
Thu, Nov 12th 2009 8:29p Christopher Pepin Another great article from the November 9 issue of Information Week on "The Appeal of Cloud-Based E-Mail." IBM is mentioned in the article: IBM is also charging hard on cloud e-mail. In addition to its hosted Lotus Notes offering, last month it unveiled LotusLive iNotes, an online e-mail platform ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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All the flavors of cloud computing
Wed, Nov 11th 2009 5:25p Christopher Pepin Information Week had a great article in the November 9 issue on the definition as cloud. As the hot buzzword of the moment (replacing Web 2.0) I've heard many definitions but none as good as the ones provided below. SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE Salesforce automation was one of the first areas where deli ... [read] Keywords: web 2.0
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IBM CEO Sam Palmisano Talks with Information Week
Wed, Nov 11th 2009 10:24a Christopher Pepin IBM CIO Sam Palmisano was interviewed by InformationWeek last week. I've included a few of the pertinent quotes below as well as a link to the entire article. "We've been very conscious of the value of information, and we knew the market behavior was going to shift from the bad economy and budget ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Smarter Cities on CNBC
Tue, Oct 6th 2009 8:46a Christopher Pepin A great video with Sam Palmisano and Maria Bartiromo on Smarter Cities from CNBC. classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" value="http://plus.cnbc.com/rssvideosearch/action/pla ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM named to Information Week 500 Most Innovative Business Technology Organizations for 2009
Wed, Sep 23rd 2009 12:26p Christopher Pepin In 2008, IBM was number 205 on the Information Week 500 list of The Most Innovative Business Technology Organizations. Based on the success of key initiatives last year and earlier this year, IBM has made a significant jump to the number 40 slot. This is a significant accomplishment for the IBM CI ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Annual CIO Study Published
Mon, Sep 14th 2009 11:46a Christopher Pepin IBM has published its annual CIO study with input from 2,500 CIO's worldwide. Business intelligence was named as top proirity. More than four out of five (83 percent) survey respondents identified business intelligence and analytics – the ability to see patterns in vast amounts of data and ex ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM’s Desktop Cloud
Fri, Sep 11th 2009 10:25a Christopher Pepin IBM has announced a subscription-based public desktop cloud service for customers. The service delivers virtualized desktops to customers and leverages technologies from Desktone, VMWare and Citrix. Inside IBM, employees in our labs and call centers are using this service to reduce costs and prov ... [read] Keywords: ibm
citrix
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US Open Tennis 2009
Mon, Aug 31st 2009 11:45p Christopher Pepin I had the opportunity to attend opening day of the US Open tennis tournament in New York city earlier today with my son. Readers of this blog will recall my 2008, 2007 and 2006 visits. I look forward to the US Open each year and this is the first time in several years that I attended a day sessio ... [read] Keywords:
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Blogging less, Microblogging more
Thu, Jul 30th 2009 1:06p Christopher Pepin Readers of this blog will notice that the frequency of my posts has slowed considerably. The reason? I've been microblogging more - both on Twitter (external) and on IBM's internal deployment of Lotus Connections. While blogging clearly has its advantages in terms of the length of the post and im ... [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
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Apple iPhone 3G S
Thu, Jul 2nd 2009 4:25p Christopher Pepin I upgraded my iPhone 3G to a new 3G S model a little over a week ago. While the new device has some nice features over the original 3G, it's not as dramatic an upgrade as the 3G was to the original iPhone. Evolutionary, rather than revolutionary would be the best way to describe it. That said, s ... [read] Keywords: apple
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Upgrade to Apple iPhone 3.0 software
Wed, Jun 17th 2009 6:49p Christopher Pepin I upgraded my iPhone 3G 16GB to 3.0 earlier today. The upgrade was painless and includes a number of new features listed below. I have a iPhone 3G S 16GB on order and hope to get it next week. iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update This update contains over 100 new features, including the following: ... [read] Keywords: apple
iphone
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Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference 2009 and what it means to IBM
Tue, Jun 16th 2009 9:45a Christopher Pepin While I wasn't able to attend Apple's worldwide developers conference in person, I followed the conference remotely with great interest. In recent years, IBM has moved away from a homogeneous computing environment and to a more flexible model with greater choice and flexibility for employees inclu ... [read] Keywords: ibm
apple
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mac
IBM Sticks With Earnings Guidance
Sun, May 17th 2009 9:45p Christopher Pepin International Business Machines Corp.'s chief financial officer said IBM could meet its per-share earnings goal this year even if revenue tumbles further, as the company benefits from cost cuts and a richer mix of business while it continues buying back shares. Upbeat comments on the changing natur ... [read] Keywords: ibm
New Job
Wed, Apr 29th 2009 11:09a Christopher Pepin I'm very pleased to announce that I have taken a new job in the IBM CIO office. In the past, I've had responsibility for collaboration strategy, specifically the IBM internal deployment of collaboration and social networking tools such as Notes, Domino, Quickr and Connections. In my new role, I ha ... [read] Keywords: collaboration
connections
domino
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quickr
networking
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IBM "Watson" System to Challenge Humans at Jeopardy!
Tue, Apr 28th 2009 9:05a Christopher Pepin IBM has unveiled the details of its plans to build a computing system that can understand complex questions and answer with enough precision and speed to compete on America's favorite quiz show, Jeopardy! Reference: IBM ... [read] Keywords: ibm
Key Themes for Lotus Connections 2.5
Mon, Mar 9th 2009 9:09a Christopher Pepin Lotus Connections 2.5, scheduled to ship later this year, promises a wealth of new features designed to deliver additional business value: Advanced community experience - Reach out to communities of customers, partners and employees and work more effectively in your customized communities. Tools t ... [read] Keywords: connections
lotus
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Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.16 upgrade
Mon, Mar 2nd 2009 10:29a Christopher Pepin Inside IBM, we're in the process of upgrading our Blackberry Enterprise Services (BES) from 4.14 to 4.16. The following the table compares 4.14 and 4.16. Over the weekend, my particular BES server was upgraded to 4.16 so I'm now able to leverage the new features including HTML email support (grea ... [read] Keywords: ibm
bes
blackberry
email
enterprise
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Cisco VPN for iPhone
Thu, Feb 26th 2009 6:33p Christopher Pepin Inside IBM, we've been running a successful Apple iPhone pilot for the past several months. We've been using Lotus Mobile Connect (LMC) clientless-VPN to provide connectivity to the IBM internal network so users can use the Safari web browser on the iPhone to access e-mail, calendar and contact vi ... [read] Keywords: ibm
lotus
apple
iphone
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mobile
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IBM and Amazon Web Services have joined forces
Thu, Feb 19th 2009 3:11p Christopher Pepin IBM and Amazon Web Services have joined forces to make IBM software available in a reliable, high-performance virtual computing environment. The Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (Amazon EC2) environment enables you to access IBM Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) of DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, WebSphere s ... [read] Keywords: ibm
db2
server
websphere
LotusLive Engage Training
Tue, Feb 17th 2009 8:28a Christopher Pepin Do you need some help getting started? Join us for LotusLive Engage Training - available every Tuesday at 11 AM EST. Upcoming Topics Tuesday February 17, 2009 Using Files and Instant Messaging Tuesday February 24, 2009 Leveraging Activities, Forms and Charts Tuesday March 3, 2009 You've re ... [read] Keywords: forms
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LotusLive Engage Sametime Instant Messaging
Sat, Feb 7th 2009 4:05p Christopher Pepin Two ways to get Instant Messaging for LotusLive Engage. 1. Are you an existing Lotus Sametime 7.5.1 or 8.0 user? Simply add us as a new community. Go to your Sametime Preferences, then click Communities Add New Community. Next, make sure that you have the following Information: •Community t ... [read] Keywords: lotus
sametime
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Lotusphere 2009 Community to Continue in LotusLive
Wed, Feb 4th 2009 3:46p Christopher Pepin From an e-mail I received today as a registered Lotusphere 2009 attendee: On Friday, February 6, 2009 at 4:00 pm eastern time, Lotusphere Online 2009 will close. Registered conference attendees, including IBM participants, will still be able to meet, network, share and interact with other conference ... [read] Keywords: ibm
lotusphere
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Lotusphere 2009 Opening General Session Webcast
Sat, Jan 31st 2009 10:09p Christopher Pepin If you missed Lotusphere 2009 earlier this month or simply want to see the opening general session again to hear all the big announcements and see the demos, a webcast is now available on IBM.com. Source: IBM.com ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM CIO’s Top 5 Priorities
Wed, Jan 28th 2009 2:26p Christopher Pepin IBM CIO Mark Hennessy (my boss) lists his top 5 current priorities as an IT decision maker. They include: 1. Align business and IT 2. Integrate the enterprise 3. Drive long-term revenue growth 4. Fuel innovation 5. Develop employee skills Source: eWeek ... [read] Keywords: ibm
enterprise
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available
Tue, Jan 27th 2009 2:50p Christopher Pepin Earlier today, Microsoft made the release candidate of Internet Explorer 8 available for Vista and XP. Windows 7 beta users will need to wait. Inside of IBM, we're in the process of updating our web browser standards from the current Firefox 2 and IE6 to Firefox 3, IE8 and Safari 3. ... [read] Keywords: ibm
firefox
microsoft
vista
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Quickr Upgrade
Mon, Jan 26th 2009 4:46p Christopher Pepin For the past five years, IBM has provided an extranet Quickplace service to allow external customers and partners to collaborate with IBM employees on various projects Quickr has replaced Quickplace and offers a host of advanced features and capabilities to improve collaboration. In the coming w ... [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotusphere 2009 Summary
Mon, Jan 26th 2009 1:26p Christopher Pepin Now that I've returned from Lotusphere, the process of disseminating the wealth of knowledge I accumulated with my IBM colleagues has begun. To summarize the key news from Lotusphere 2009, I created the following presentation and posted on SlideShare. ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotusphere 2009 Ends Today
Thu, Jan 22nd 2009 9:25a Christopher Pepin I haven't had an opportunity to blog (other than micro blogging via Twitter) while attending Lotusphere 2009 in Orlando, Florida. It's been a great conference but I'm also looking forward to heading back to Connecticut later today, seeing my family and then digesting and putting into practice all ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
lotusphere2009
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Tools to make it easier to plan Lotusphere 2009
Tue, Jan 13th 2009 10:05p Christopher Pepin If you are attending Lotusphere next week in Orlando, here are a few tools that you might find useful: 1. Genii Software Domino Journal agenda. "Back by popular demand, we have built a Journal database containing all the sessions listed on the official Lotusphere site. This database is based on th ... [read] Keywords: domino
lotusphere
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Lotus Software on Windows 7 beta and Ubuntu 8.1
Sat, Jan 10th 2009 7:25p Christopher Pepin Today I built two laptops in my home office - an IBM Thinkpad T42p and a Lenovo T60. On the T42p, I installed Ubutu 81 and on the Lenovo T60 I installed Windows 7 beta. I installed an nearly identical Lotus Software stack - Lotus Notes 8.5, Lotus Sametime 8.0.2 with Sametime Unified Telephone (S ... [read] Keywords: ibm
lotus
notes
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How IBM intends to kill chaos in 2009
Mon, Dec 22nd 2008 1:12p Christopher Pepin In an exclusive interview, IBM CIO Mark Hennessy explains that IBM's Global Services division has as its top priority for 2009 the integration of enterprises' legacy software and hardware with new, virtualized equipment. We also can expect to see more automation of IT processes in hardware, software ... [read] Keywords: ibm
integration
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iNotes Ultralite on the iPhone
Wed, Dec 17th 2008 6:29p Christopher Pepin Inside IBM, we've been running an iPhone pilot for our employees and I wanted to share some of our experiences. While RIM Blackberry is IBM's corporate standard for smartphone, we've been exploring other platforms including Symbian S60 and the iPhone in order to meet the global needs of our emplo ... [read] Keywords: ibm
inotes
apple
blackberry
iphone
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IBM Delivers New Cloud Service for Web Conferencing
Mon, Dec 15th 2008 2:26p Christopher Pepin IBM Delivers New Cloud Service for Web Conferencing. Distribution Agreement with Conferencing Leader InterCall and Global Network Enhancements Extends Sametime Unyte to Global Markets. ARMONK, NY, December 9, 2008 -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the delivery of the company’s newest clou ... [read] Keywords: ibm
sametime
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Sametime Unyte 8.2b Now Available
Mon, Dec 8th 2008 4:48p Christopher Pepin The 8.2b release for Lotus Sametime Unyte is now available. The following enhancements have been added: Support of PDF & ODF document formats in addition to Microsoft formats Firefox 3.0 support A waiting room for attendees who join a conference prior to the host Performance acceleration ... [read] Keywords: document
lotus
odf
sametime
firefox
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IBM’s internal Sametime service upgraded
Sat, Nov 29th 2008 9:08p Christopher Pepin IBM's internal Sametime instant messaging servers were successfully upgraded to Sametime 8.0.1. This was a significant upgrade in that it aligns IBM with the same Domino-based server code that our customers are running. In addition, the new architecture and infrastructure adds significant capac ... [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
sametime
instant messaging
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Building A Smarter Planet
Thu, Nov 6th 2008 11:29a Christopher Pepin Earlier this morning, Sam Palmisano, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the IBM Corporation presented to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. The presentation was entitled “A Smarter Planet: The Next Leadership Agenda.” Smart planet is IBM's point of view ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Symphony 1.2 now available
Tue, Nov 4th 2008 10:08a Christopher Pepin Lotus Symphony is now available to customers. Read the release notes (what's new in this release) or download and install the standalone client. Key enhancements: Performance enhancements: * Improved .ods and .xls files loading performance. * Improved .ods files saving performance. Usa ... [read] Keywords: lotus
notes
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Business Mashups
Fri, Oct 24th 2008 4:09p Christopher Pepin A great new IBM website to get you up to speed on what mashups are and the business benefit. Source: IBM.com ... [read] Keywords: ibm
mashup
mashups
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zBoost - Extending Cell Phones
Wed, Oct 22nd 2008 8:09p Christopher Pepin Cell phone service at my house in CT is poor for all the major carriers - AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile. I usually get one or two bars at the most. To address this issue, I looked into wireless extenders that boost the signal. One of the devices I looked into was zBoost. After reading ... [read] Keywords: mobile
wireless
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HP Blackbird Memory Problems
Sun, Oct 19th 2008 9:29p Christopher Pepin My water-cooled HP Blackbird desktop lost it's memory - literally. About a month ago, my machine started having problems booting up and a memory error was displayed on the back panel LCD of the mother-board. Usually, shutting down and restarting fixed the problem. A comprehensive memory test r ... [read] Keywords: desktop
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Relationship Building and Social Networking Software
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 3:08p Christopher Pepin During the past four days, I was in an IBM-internal in person meeting with other members of IBM CIO Global Infrastructure team. In-person meetings, particularly for large groups, are increasingly rare nowadays due to cost pressures and increasing reliance on social networking and collaboration too ... [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Windows Home Server to the Rescue
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 10:09p Christopher Pepin Previously on this blog, I shared details on my HP MediaSmart Windows Home Server. Recently, the integrated automated backup saved me from a tough spot as I found that my Notes mail archive db (NSF) had become corrupted at some point. The file size was a fraction of what it should have been and th ... [read] Keywords: notes
archive
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Premium Support Seminar in Washington, D.C.
Wed, Oct 8th 2008 5:29p Christopher Pepin Yesterday, I presented at the Lotus Premium Support Seminar in Washington, D.C on IBM's internal deployment of Notes and Domino. I began the presentation with an overview of IBM, its 385,000 employees world-wide, its open computing strategy including laptops (85% of employees have a laptop), deskto ... [read] Keywords: domino
ibm
lotus
notes
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Open Beta of Lotus Bluehouse Announced
Mon, Oct 6th 2008 10:29a Christopher Pepin I received the following e-mail this morning: Thank you for your participation in the early “Bluehouse” betas. We appreciate your feedback. It has helped us refine and tune the services of “Bluehouse.” Today, we are happy to announce the Open Beta of “Bluehouse.̶ ... [read] Keywords: bluehouse
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iPhone Impressions
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 9:29p Christopher Pepin Last week, I got an iPhone. I've always been a fan of Apple and I've had a number of iPods over the years as well as an AppleTV. I've never owned a Mac but used them extensively in college. I consider myself a PC fan with both a HP laptop and a HP desktop (Voodo Blackbird) both running Windows Vi ... [read] Keywords: apple
desktop
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laptop
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Instant Messaging with IBM employees
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 10:29a Christopher Pepin There are a number of ways for customers and partners to exchange instant messages with IBM employees. They include: Direct Sametime connectivity, via the Sametime SIP/SIMPLE gateway, with customers and partners that also Sametime. IBM account representatives can access the sign-up form on IBM ... [read] Keywords: ibm
sametime
exchange
exchange
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IBM Innovation Jam October 5-8
Tue, Sep 30th 2008 6:08p Christopher Pepin On October 5-8, IBM will be hosting innovation jam 2008. The jam is for everyone who wants to learn about new opportunities, share ideas and best practices and interact with leaders from around the world. Employees of invited organizations need to register their e-mail addresses and create passwo ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Top Challenges of Enterprise Mobility
Thu, Sep 25th 2008 9:49a Christopher Pepin 1. Securing Information Systems 2. Integrating Technologies 3. Supporting Devices 4. Containing Costs 5. Controlling Personal Use 6. Training Users 7. Justifying Investments 8. Limiting Use Inside IBM, we're facing all of these challenges. Increasingly, we're providing more mobility options to emp ... [read] Keywords: ibm
enterprise
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Back from my hike in New Hampshire’s White Mountains
Tue, Sep 23rd 2008 4:49p Christopher Pepin I got back Sunday night from my hike in New Hampshire's White mountains with five other current and former IBM employees. The weather was fantastic - sunny and warm each day. As in the past, we elected to stay in the AMC huts. Here's our route: Day 1 travel: Drive to New Hampshire in two cars. ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Hiking in New Hampshire’s White Mountains
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 5:08p Christopher Pepin I'm taking some personal time off from work to do some hiking in New Hampshire's White mountains with some IBM past-and-present colleagues. Admittedly, I haven't done a good job of late posting to this blog. My blogging efforts of late have been focused inside IBM focused on end user computing ... [read] Keywords: ibm
blogging
Lotus Collaboration Maturity Model
Sun, Sep 7th 2008 7:32a Christopher Pepin A new brochure from IBM demonstrates how to combine technology with cultural change to develop an information technology strategy that delivers measurable business results. Your business can implement all the latest technology, but it won’t make a difference if your employees don’t act ... [read] Keywords: collaboration
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US Open Tennis 2008
Tue, Sep 2nd 2008 9:49a Christopher Pepin I had the opportunity to attend the US Open tennis tournament currently underway in New York city over the long holiday weekend. While admittedly not a huge tennis fan, I thoroughly enjoy attending the open. I attended the event with my brother Jonathan, who also works for IBM. As in the past, ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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IBM Global CEO Study
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 12:30p Christopher Pepin What will The Enterprise of the Future be like? What will your business look like in five years, or even ten? While we don't have a crystal ball to provide all the answers, The IBM Global CEO Study sheds light on what the future may hold. Through interviews with 1,130 business and public sector le ... [read] Keywords: ibm
enterprise
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Notes and Domino 8.0.2 ships
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 8:29a Christopher Pepin Lotus Notes and Domino 8.0.2 is now shipping. As is typical of maintenance releases, most of the changes are bug fixes. However, there are some significant enhancements in this release as well: Reduced launch time of the Notes 8 client including an optimized startup sequence 20% reduction in t ... [read] Keywords: domino
lotus
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Aligning Business and IT Strategy
Wed, Jul 30th 2008 10:54a Christopher Pepin I was out of the office, Monday and Tuesday in an IBM internal class on Aligning Business and IT Strategy in Palisades, NY. The course was excellent, with a 6-8 hour of pre-work prior to the class which enabled me to hit the ground running on the first day of class. A key benefit, in my opinion, ... [read] Keywords: ibm
office
Achieving Tangible Business Benefits with Social Computing
Thu, Jul 24th 2008 5:07p Christopher Pepin While traditional collaborative software has facilitated group projects and teamwork for many years, the new generation of social networking tools can amplify these existing capabilities significantly. Knowledge workers are finding business value in discovering and drawing upon relationships beyond ... [read] Keywords: networking
web2.0
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IBM announces 2Q2008 Results - Earning up 28%
Thu, Jul 17th 2008 6:27p Christopher Pepin IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced second-quarter 2008 diluted earnings of $1.98 per share from continuing operations, an increase of 28 percent as reported, compared with diluted earnings of $1.55 per share, including a 5 cents per share gain from the sale of the Printing Systems Division (PSD), in th ... [read] Keywords: ibm
Back from Vacation in Narragasett, RI
Fri, Jun 27th 2008 11:06p Christopher Pepin I'm back from a relaxing family vacation to Narragansett, R.I. The photo below is of the Point Judith lighthouse. It felt great to relax after a hectic schedule of external customers briefings and publishing the final draft of IBM CIO's internal end-user computing strategy. Inside IBM, we're ... [read] Keywords: ibm
Web Conferencing Services: Companies Embrace New Uses
Tue, Jun 17th 2008 1:44p Christopher Pepin A new study from Microsoft on Web Conferencing. Nothing really new or surprising here but I did find the the charts and graphs useful. At IBM, we use Sametime Web Conferencing for predominantly internal meetings and Sametime Unyte for predominantly external customer facing meetings. ... [read] Keywords: ibm
sametime
microsoft
How IBM Software Products Support Web 2.0
Thu, Jun 5th 2008 10:35a Christopher Pepin Taken from the Web 2.0 Developer Kit on developerWorks, the following provides an excellent description of how IBM Software products support Web 2.0. The website contains a wealth of excellent information, including podcasts from IBM's Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) IBM Lotus Connections. This ea ... [read] Keywords: connections
ibm
lotus
web 2.0
web2.0
Ten Biggest Hurdles to Innovation
Tue, May 27th 2008 3:09p Christopher Pepin The ten biggest hurdles to innovation from Ziff Davis Enterprise: Patents Monopolies Lawmakers Entrenched business models Special interest Stock market Inertia Customer base Education systems HappinessSource: Ziff Davis Enterprise ... [read] Keywords: enterprise
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Trip to Washington, D.C
Tue, May 27th 2008 1:51p Christopher Pepin I was in Washington, D.C. last week for an external customer briefing. I was asked to speak on IBM's internal deployment of Sametime which, given new product capabilities in the last two years, is much more than chat and web conferencing. It was impressed with what our customers are doing with ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 public beta is coming soon!
Mon, May 26th 2008 3:28p Christopher Pepin The Windows Home Server team is pleased to announce details of the public beta of Windows Home Server Power Pack 1. This public beta will include the fix for the data corruption bug described in Knowledge Base article #946676 as well as a host of other bug fixes and new capabilities. The Power Pack ... [read] Keywords: bug
microsoft
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Microsoft announces support for ODF and PDF in Office
Fri, May 23rd 2008 11:22a Christopher Pepin On Wednesday, Microsoft announced plans to expand Microsoft Office support to include ODF and PDF in Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 which is expected 1H2009. My reaction - it's about time! Microsoft is finally listening to its customers that want open standards and should allow users more choice and ... [read] Keywords: odf
symphony
microsoft
office
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IBM Social Computing Guidelines Published
Wed, May 14th 2008 2:05p Christopher Pepin IBM has expanded its blog guidelines first published in 2005 to include wikis, social networks, virtual worlds and social media. While these guidelines apply to IBM employees, they are published on ibm.com and may be useful to customers in developing their own company guidelines. ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Traveler 8.0.1 Performance Report
Wed, May 14th 2008 12:45p Christopher Pepin A new performance report from IBM on Lotus Traveler 8.0.1 is now available on Developerworks. For those unfamiliar with Lotus Traveler, it comes free, out of the box with Notes and Domino 8.0 and provides two-way, over-the-air synchronization between Lotus Domino servers and Microsoft® Windows® Mo ... [read] Keywords: domino
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