If anyone knows something about hard drives, it’s Backblaze, whose very existence depends on the reliable, stable backup of its customers’ data. Earlier this year Backblaze published a report that detailed their operational experience with hard drives from Seagate, Western Digital, Hitachi and others. Just last month, they updated their findings based on the 34,000
Read More...We have written quite a bit about the new PeopleSoft release model, but we have conversations about it weekly. We still find that many customers have high-level questions about the new model and how update images are released and deployed (in contrast with how they used to be released). That’s the crux here: organizations are used
Read More...In case you missed it: here is Larry Ellison’s keynote speech at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld, presented last week on Sunday, September 28, 2014. Definitely worth an hour of your time.
Read More...This news is getting around, but the ‘Shellshock’ bash exploit (aka Bash Bug) that was recently discovered is pretty severe. It affects over 500 million web servers running the Bash shell under Unix, Linux and some Mac OS X, Windows Server and even Android deployments. On the enterprise front, Oracle has released a Security Alert
Read More...MIPRO Consulting Featured in Executive Insight September 2014 For the healthcare industry, the government-mandated move to electronic medical records (EMR) has helped to overcome some pervasive industry-wide inertia and sparked the adoption and implementation of new IT infrastructure for a large swath of organizations. While this has been a welcome and necessary move forward
Read More...Oracle has released a very well-written white paper on the continuous delivery model associated with PeopleSoft 9.2. The paper does a good job of describing how the new continuous delivery model requires organizations to change. How so? Change in the manner they view upgrades, change in the manner they analyze updates and new features, change in
Read More...Jason Fried over at the popular Signal v. Noise blog has a fantastic post about Jeff Bezos stopping by the Basecamp offices to talk product strategy with the Basecamp team. The floor was opened up to a 45-minute Q&A session, in which Bezos shared an interesting opinion: He said people who were right a lot
Read More...A couple weeks ago, we mentioned Mark Hoernemann’s post about using the right environment components (especially browsers) for PeopleTools 8.54 rollouts. Since then, Hoernemann, responding to a bevy of questions, wrote another post about how Oracle has simplified the Internet Explorer (IE) certification process. IE is a massive mainstay in the enterprise, and this information is
Read More...We have covered work centers before, namely what they are, and how they are part of end user experience improvements. But how does that really apply in the real world, outside overview blog posts? Let’s look at the Buyer Work Center. In order to understand the value, we have to understand what a buyer does
Read More...MIPRO Consulting Featured in HROToday September 2014 Decisions about if, when, and how to move to the cloud continue to be a significant part of the professional calculus for many companies. With more and more organizations moving their critical business processes to the cloud, understanding how to make those decisions in a comprehensive and strategic manner
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