Why should I attend the 5th Annual Oracle Maintenance Summit? [Reason #5]

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Why should I attend the 5th Annual Oracle Maintenance Summit? [Reason #5]

A: The Oracle Maintenance Summit is an exclusive invitation-only event for leading maintenance practitioners. Maintenance software, or EAM (Enterprise Asset Management)/CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System), is key to improving productivity, which directly affects the bottom line and contributes to an organization’s ability to compete in the global market. We here at MIPRO have been a

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Un-Manage Your Employees

You know what we’ve found? Magical things happen when employees know they’ll get to be king for a week. Gone is the complaining about what management is forcing them to do, because rotating management gives them a clear perspective of both sides of the fence. Employees will step up and grow if you give them

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 2/4/11

We had a snowstorm this week, which was eventually dubbed a blizzard by The Weather People just before the snow started falling. Coinciding with this storm, I wasn’t getting a lot of sleep.  This combination led me to say a great many stupid puns about the blizzard, including but not limited to: If this blizzard

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QUOTE: On Patience and Collaboration

If you hold out with your vision a little bit, it’s like a cake being put in the oven. The scene doesn’t work immediately, you have to bake it a little bit. It’s unfair, when you begin to create a shot, say, or a scene, that it’s going to immediately be like those beautiful scenes

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‘Yes, Hypervisors Are Vulnerable’

Given the massive popularity of virtualization/VMMs/hypervisors in enterprise datacenters, this article by Gartner’s Neil MacDonald struck a chord with  me.  Like Neil, I have always been wary of the relative security of hypervisors and their ability to remain truly secure/hardened: A breach of the virtualization platform which results in an escape to the hypervisor represents

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Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 1/28/11

On Fridays, I normally post a brief and usually pointless anecdote, followed by some interesting links I culled during the week. I’m not going to do that today. Today is about a video.  It was shot by Kristian Anderson of Sydney, Australia.  Kristian is 34 years old.  He’s a happily married husband and father of

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IBM Centennial Film: They Were There

As IBM celebrates its 100th year in business, it’s worth watching this 30-minute film by Errol Morris (music by Philip Glass) on the company’s history and impact on society and business. They Were There: People who changed the way the world works. (via kottke) ### MIPRO Consulting is a nationally-recognized consulting firm specializing in PeopleSoft

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