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Andre Yee
Andre Yee
Senior Vice President, Eloqua
9/2/2010 - Perhaps it's time to rethink the corporate Website -- especially since it has changed so little in the past two decades.
Matthew McKenzie
Matthew McKenzie
Senior Editor / Community Editor
9/2/2010 - Everybody agrees that the United States has long been the global leader in IT innovation -- and in most kinds of technological innovation, for that matter. Today, many people aren't so ...
Fredric Paul
Fredric Paul
Editor in Chief / Community Activist
9/1/2010 - This week, thousands of virtualization experts, vendors, and users gathered in San Francisco for a real-world event. The VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) VMworld show pointed out the promise, ...
Rick Parker
Rick Parker
IT Director, Fetch Technologies
9/1/2010 - If you could build the perfect network -- and the perfect IT organization -- what would it look like, and how would it work? That may sound like an impossible task, but it's not. It's the ...
Matthew McKenzie
Matthew McKenzie
Senior Editor / Community Editor
9/1/2010 - Lately most of the discussion about the future of open-source software in the enterprise has centered around one company: Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL). That's not surprising, given ...
Fredric Paul
Fredric Paul
Editor in Chief / Community Activist
8/31/2010 - You can't escape the hype surrounding cloud storage these days. And there's good reason for it: The technology promises infinite capacity, lower costs, faster provisioning, and easier ...
Gina Smith
Gina Smith
Technology Author, CEO, TV/Radio Journalist
8/31/2010 - Inventors find it maddening when the technologies they create turn out to be ahead of their time, but hey -- somebody's gotta be first. Consider a classic example of tech ahead of its ...
Matthew McKenzie
Matthew McKenzie
Senior Editor / Community Editor
8/31/2010 - Since the beginning of the year, the market for 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) hardware has exploded. That's not really a surprise, since any enterprise that's serious about server ...
Fredric Paul
Fredric Paul
Editor in Chief / Community Activist
8/30/2010 - Cloud computing and data center consolidation are two of today's hottest trends in enterprise IT. Companies large and small are scrambling to save money by moving their computing power off ...
Jim Love
Jim Love
CEO of the Chelsea Group
8/30/2010 - I was at the local 24-hour convenience store. Al was standing outside the front door. Al was a fixture. Day in and day out, he'd stand by the front door holding an old paper coffee cup, ...
Matthew McKenzie
Matthew McKenzie
Senior Editor / Community Editor
8/30/2010 - Journalists love to predict the future. It's fun, it's easy, and unless you play the stock market, nobody gets hurt when you turn out to be completely wrong.
Fredric Paul
Fredric Paul
Editor in Chief / Community Activist
8/27/2010 - Enterprise Websites don't last forever. It's a sad but inescapable truth that changing circumstances, technologies, and goals inevitably require you to redesign and reengineer your ...
Brad Shimmin
Brad Shimmin
Principal Analyst at Current Analysis
8/27/2010 - Facebook 's latest innovation, Facebook Places, has certainly created a dustup among such privacy groups as the ACLU of Northern California and the Electronic Frontier ...
Matthew McKenzie
Matthew McKenzie
Senior Editor / Community Editor
8/27/2010 - Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) says it has the answer to managing virtualized environments. But given the reality of how enterprises use virtualization today, I'm not sure Oracle even ...
Fredric Paul
Fredric Paul
Editor in Chief / Community Activist
8/26/2010 - These days, it seems that just about everything IT does opens potential vectors for attack. When I read through recent threat analyses and reports from security companies and analysts, ...
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J. Craig Lowery
J. Craig Lowery
Solutions Technology Strategist, Dell
8/3/2010 - The concepts and technologies behind cloud computing are rapidly coming into focus this year. As the real value of the cloud is demonstrated, many CIOs are seriously considering it ...
Barton George
Barton George
Cloud Computing Evangelist, Dell
5/7/2010 - Last time, I wrote about how IT's portfolio of compute models will shift over the next 3 to 5 years. I ended by saying that the line between virtualization and the private cloud ...
Barton George
Barton George
Cloud Computing Evangelist, Dell
4/28/2010 - Whether you believe in the cloud or not, it's coming. That being said it's not a phenomenon that will fill the skies of IT departments tomorrow, but rather it is starting out as ...
Barton George
Barton George
Cloud Computing Evangelist, Dell
4/20/2010 - Gartner's distinguished analyst, Tom Bittman, who covers cloud computing and virtualization, offered some intriguing observations during the last Gartner Symposium.
Paul Prince
Paul Prince
CTO, Dell Enterprise Product Group
3/16/2010 - Most CIOs face a seemingly intractable business challenge: "Do more with less," and "Innovate, while cutting costs." These demands seem contradictory, but they don't have to be. ...
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Winston Saunders
Winston Saunders
Director of Data Center Power Initiatives, Intel
8/11/2010 - We had an interesting discussion about "Total Cost of Ownership" (TCO) at the Green Grid Technical Committee Summit, hosted by APC in St. Louis a couple of weeks ago. "What is a ...
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