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January 2009

January 28, 2009

Vendors Race to Squeeze More Power into Mobile Devices

Whether electricity flows in sufficient quantity or not is a key to just how far the mobile revolution will go.   During the past decade, handsets have morphed into miniature computers and lapto... More >

Licensing for Google Apps Premier Meets Mixed Reviews

The number of paying users of Google Apps Premier Edition may increase with a just-announced change to Google Apps. Until recently, groups with 200 or fewer users could use the standard version of ... More >

January 27, 2009

Is Google Apps Good Enough for the Enterprise?

So, just what the heck is Google Apps? Is it a collection of slick tools that appeal to users, but fall a little short for rigorous enterprise use? Or is it an engaging set of services that not only ... More >

January 23, 2009

Solid State in a Magnetic Universe

One of the more welcome aspects of the new enterprise-class solid state disks (SSDs) hitting the channel is how much is already known about the technology. SSDs have a fairly lengthy history in cell ... More >

January 22, 2009

XBRL: Not 'Just Another Filing Requirement'

As 2008 came to a close, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to require publicly traded companies to file their financial statements in an XML-based format known as eXtensible Business Rep... More >

Mobile Gives Speech Technology a Push

The New York Times's John Markoff says following the evolution of speech-recognition technology since the early 1980s “feels like watching paint dry.” But David Nahamoo , IBM’s CIO for speech, tak... More >

January 21, 2009

iPhone, Android Eye the Enterprise as the Future Grows Cloudy

  As far as the enterprise is concerned, Apple's iPhone and Android-based devices are for the most part on the outside looking in. They will have plenty of opportunities in the near future, howe... More >

January 13, 2009

Taking an All-or-Nothing Approach to SaaS

Interest in software-as-a-service appears to be growing in much of the world, with a recent Gartner survey showing that 77 percent of North American companies plan to increase their SaaS deployment... More >

January 12, 2009

When All Else Fails, Make Sure You Have Backup

  Dick Cosby, systems administrator and disaster-recovery manager for Electronic Data Processing Services in Richmond, Va., learned the hard way that disaster has a surprising way of finding you... More >

January 9, 2009

Iowa Hospital’s Disaster Plan Helps Keep Its Head Above Water

  Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, often takes part in community disaster drills and tabletop disaster exercises — so much so that its executives used to question whether too much tim... More >

Hurricanes’ Wrath Drives Disaster Planning

On the morning of Aug. 28, 2005, John Chaffe, director of IT for Tidewater Inc., got a call from his CEO. Overnight, Hurricane Katrina, taking aim at New Orleans, had been upgraded to a Category 5 st... More >

SOA Standards Started at the Bottom

This article includes some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that a Google search provides as many definitions of SOA as there are software suppliers offering SOA-compliant products. There... More >

January 8, 2009

To Get SOA Working in Your Shop, ‘Model It’

  What's New in SOA   For IT managers and staff to understand where service-oriented architecture (SOA) is going, they just need to look back. Rather than getting too concerned about the ch... More >

Implementing SOA Not a Matter of ‘If’ but ‘When’

The decision facing IT management to move to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is not one of "if" but "when." Aadarsh Baijal of McKinsey recently worked on that firm's annual Enterprise Software ... More >

January 5, 2009

If Sarbanes-Oxley Was No More, Not Much Would Change

Since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act became law in 2002, there have been countless calls for the law to be toned down or repealed. For awhile after the November elections, they even seemed to get louder. Not... More >

January 2, 2009

Mobile VoIP for Business: A Big Market up for Grabs

Business people use IP-based mobile calling today. What most are doing, however, is utilizing platforms and services aimed at consumers. Service providers and a wide array of vendors are increasingly... More >