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From the Editors and the Community ![]() 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
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 ...
Most recent post: SaneIT... I'll add one more thing, the lack of need. The old saying that necessity is...
![]() 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, ...
Most recent post: SaneIT... @ Fredric, I think you're on the right track. Just like when people were saying...
![]() 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 ...
Most recent post: Matthew McKenzie... This is generally referred to you as "high availability" or HA by manufacturers...
![]() 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 ...
Most recent post: apatrizio... I think #3 is the nub of the argument, and Oracle is an appropriate company to invoke....
![]() 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 ...
Most recent post: Matthew McKenzie... The very concept of public betas has always amazed me. In what other industry can...
![]() 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 ...
Most recent post: SaneIT... How many cool tech toys died at PARC? From my time spent working in a very...
![]() 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 ...
Most recent post: Matthew McKenzie... Matt, that seems a little unfair. I think there are lots of ways that enterprises...
![]() 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 ...
Most recent post: Rick Parker... Very true on bandwidth not considered until causing issues. It is a critical point...
![]() 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, ...
Most recent post: Fredric Paul... @Suzanne Robertson I typically don't give money to people with better toys...
![]() 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.
Most recent post: Matthew McKenzie... @zerox203 Someone recently was telling me that we always over-estimate...
![]() 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 ...
Most recent post: Matthew McKenzie... Sorry sir, but we need no 30 point flashing red type on our site, no matter how...
![]() 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 ...
Most recent post: Matthew McKenzie... A well-designed TOS is supposed to be impossible to understand, and they allow the...
![]() 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 ...
Most recent post: Matthew McKenzie... The question is who will succumb to the pressure of an oracle-only deal, and who...
![]() 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, ...
Most recent post: Matthew McKenzie... If fact, I saw somewhere today that 1 in 3 web surfers don't trust ANY sites. So...
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Enterprise Delliberations ![]() 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 ...
Most recent post: Fredric Paul... Craig, that makes a lot of sense. I was hoping for a nice, neat, complete solution,...
![]() 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
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
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.
Most recent post: The_Phil... Interesting article about the so-called 'private clouds': Large companies save...
![]() 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. ...
Most recent post: Matthew McKenzie... It's a management problem that has been around since the first company moved from...
Intel Intuitions ![]() 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 ...
Most recent post: nasimson... Your comment about the past, present & the future hints on another dimension....
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