links for 2008-09-17

One of the unfortunate legacies of management software is the still-too-universal force of exoneration as a purchase rationale. When the “blame game” kicks in, we turn to our management tools in an attempt to gather evidence that will exonerate us from blame.

"...and for the sixth time in the past seven years, the survey of members of the CIO group deemed IT and business alignment as their No. 1 concern." This jives with a recent report from Gartner titled, "Top Challenges Facing IT I&O Executives"

“We recently compiled a list of all the application performance management vendors…and came up with more than 50. That is way too many…so we…categorize performance management tools by what they look at and when they look at it.”

"Lehman Brothers’ real estate, including two data centers, proved central to a deal yesterday in which Barclays agreed to pay $1.75 billion...data centers and Lehman’s headquarters building accounted for $1.5 billion of the deal’s value..." [The value of IT?]

"We’re about to upgrade the human race. It’s more than a technology shift, it’s a cultural one. And it’s perhaps the first step on the singularity."

"The new Gartner Blog Network is generating some interesting buzz in the analyst ecosystem..."