Stephen Sweeney
Stephen Sweeney’s passion for technology started when he was thirteen and the proud owner of a new Commodore 64 – 8 bit CPU, 64k memory, Basic 2.0, and Jumpman! Today, he’s no less excited about business and technology, but with three kids doesn’t get much Wii time. He’s committed to converting to Mac and iPhone … someday. His technology career started as a Data Warehouse developer in 1992. His current interests include the role of technology in business and innovation. He’s been known to proclaim, “For many companies, technology, information, and innovation ARE the business; they just don’t realize it yet.” Stephen serves as the Chief Operating Officer of RSA Corp. Stephen has a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at UVA, where he received several honors and distinctions. He is active in the Houston-area technology community including organizations like the Houston Technology Center and the Rice Alliance for Entrepreneurship; and serves as a Director of the West Ranch Management District in Friendswood, Texas. He is married to an amazing French-Canadian woman, who is far more charming than he. Follow Stephen on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/scsweeneyContact:Email Stephen Sweeney
Companies continually seek new ways to go green with efficiencies, recycling and building improvements. How can IT help make business more eco-friendly? For companies with applications running on multiple servers, virtualization is a great way to maximize computing resources, reduce power consumption and eliminate server room expansion.
The Apple iPhone 3.0 event announced the roadmap for the 3.0 firmware for the iPhone, iPod touch and whatever comes next (maybe a netbook or tablet?) With more than 100 new features, this release is definitely the biggest yet. That’s right; it’s bigger than the 2.0 release, which announced Exchange ActiveSync. more…
Another entry from the why didn’t we think of that before? department is Microsoft’s quiet addition of the “Fix it” button to a handful of Knowledge Base (KB) articles. According to Microsoft, this is the first step in improving Windows Error Reporting, which is the annoying box that pops up either after an application crashes or Windows itself implodes. more…
If you haven’t seen the pictures yet, you’re missing out. Unless you work for the Department of Transportation, they’re really quite humorous. Hackers have taken it upon themselves to warn motorists of zombie attacks. Read how this compares to network security…
Just when you thought Palm was out of the smartphone battle, it comes back firing with a touchscreen salvo, which appears to have its crosshairs directly on Apple’s iPhone. It’s the Palm Pre…The talk of CES 2009, the Pre is poised to bring Palm back towards the front of the pack. It sports a new operating system, dubbed WebOS. more…
Microsoft’s reign may be coming to an end. The next war for platform dominance is upon us…it’s your Web browser. It may seem far-fetched, but if you’ve ever used Gmail or Google Docs, you’ve already sampled the idea of running applications directly in your browser and may not have even realized it.more…
Harry S. Truman once demanded, “Give me a one-armed economist.” Evidently his economic advisers couldn’t offer straightforward answers, beginning a string of caveats with “On the other hand…” Trying to make sense of the range of Houston 2009 economic predictions brought this quote to mind. more…
Virtualization for the small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) supports the need for IT to optimize server environments, without the need for additional or extensive hardware investments. It also provides a new approach to disaster recovery and improved back-up capability. more…
If you spend any time on your cell phone and are in the market for a new Bluetooth headset, go buy the Aliph Jawbone 2 right now. I had been burned by Motorola and Plantronics on my last two purchases. Weak signal, bad battery, etc. I did some homework on this one though. I knew a couple of people who bought the original and loved it, but were just unhappy with the size (The original was twice as big). more…
Thomas Wailgum describes 7 Ways to Get More For Your Increased SAP Maintenance Fees in his Enterprise Software Unplugged blog for CIO magazine. His blog is based on ERP analyst Ray Wang’s report for Forrester Research. In July, SAP announced that enterprise support would increase from 17 percent to a whopping 22 percent.
All in all, I believe the advice is sound, particularly in light of the current economic downturn. Companies are and implementing cost-cutting measures to prepare for and/or react to reduced revenues in core business and more expensive capital, as born out by successful cost cutting measures by Pfizer. more…
