Steve Prentice
Steve Prentice
Steven A. M. Prentice is a published author and a professional speaker, whose area of expertise is the relationship between technology, people and work. He founded the consulting firm The Bristall Group. in 1994, and is a frequent guest on radio and television in Canada and the United States. He also served as a consulting producer on the series CEO-TV. He is a regular lecturer at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology...
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More than ever, what we spend on is more important than how much we spend.
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You cannot stop consumer grade technology from entering the enterprise.
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Consumer markets will drive much of the industry's underlying research and development, rather than the military and business markets. This will significantly reduce product life cycles. Consumer products are geared toward ever-decreasing product life cycles.
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It's a little early for most organizations to be investing in Web services.
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The real innovation comes when it is widespread enough that a whole range of people start to use it for things that were never conceived of. I would separate the initial technological development from the innovation that arrives from a better understanding of it.
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I don't see IT managers replacing servers just for environmental reasons, but if it's to slash 40 percent to 50 percent off electricity costs, that's serious money.
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If you take a server where the processor is using 80 to 90 watts, and factor in all the other hardware to support that -- air conditioning, storage and so on -- the cost of the electricity used by that server is on a par with the cost of the server over its life.
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The key objective to successful business travel is to maintain control.