http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:37:48 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-10-30T13:37:48Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/wireless-and-the-coming-battle-over-net-neutrality/?cs=37115 One of the thorniest issues that the newly installed leadership of the Federal Communications Commission is dealing with is net neutrality. In the long run, it’s likely that the trickiest part of the overall topic will be the application of the concept net_neutrality government_agencies fcc mobile_applications mobile_device_security network_performance_management federal_communications_commission Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:39:27 GMT cweinsch@optonline.net http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/wireless-and-the-coming-battle-over-net-neutrality/?cs=37115 2009-10-30T13:39:27Z 1 week, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/wireless-and-the-coming-battle-over-net-neutrality http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=37115 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/the-cloud-and-the-network-infrastructure/?cs=36851 It's all made to sound so easy: first virtualization, then the cloud, and then an IT utopia of unlimited resources and global operations.   The reality, of course, is quite different. As more and more enterprises are finding out, the transition business_technology cloud_computing virtualization neterion netronome newservers networking f5_networks Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:09:36 GMT acole602@msn.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/the-cloud-and-the-network-infrastructure/?cs=36851 2009-10-26T13:09:36Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/the-cloud-and-the-network-infrastructure http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=36851 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/the-growing-sophistication-of-smartphone-app-development/?cs=36852 Smartphones are more powerful, networks are faster and people are more willing to perform complex and sensitive tasks from the road. An important link in the chain of increased mobile productivity that doesn’t get too much attention, however, is the way business_technology software_and_web_development strategy_analytics iphone kerton_group mobile_applications apple smartphones Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:24:15 GMT cweinsch@optonline.net http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/the-growing-sophistication-of-smartphone-app-development/?cs=36852 2009-10-20T19:24:15Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/the-growing-sophistication-of-smartphone-app-development http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=36852 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/broadband-mapping-treasure-for-a-new-age/?cs=36597 In the olden days, explorers paid a lot of money for maps that they hoped would lead to buried treasure. Things apparently haven’t changed too much from the days of Hernando Cortez and Ponce de Leon, as broadband mapping companies hope to find their pot business_technology government_agencies comcast ctia broadband_mapping verizon broadband_services public_knowledge at&t telecommunications_services connected_nation Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:25:41 GMT cweinsch@optonline.net http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/broadband-mapping-treasure-for-a-new-age/?cs=36597 2009-10-12T18:25:41Z 3 weeks, 5 days ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/broadband-mapping-treasure-for-a-new-age http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=36597 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/thaw-seen-in-it-hiring/?cs=36343 The good news, if there is any in this lousy job market, is that the unemployment rate in IT is only about half that of the overall market, which the U.S. Labor Department on Friday put at 9.8 percent.   It remains an employer’s market, with an staff_recruiting_and_retention sharepoint compensation stimulus_package network_security software_and_web_development dice.com erp_systems government_agencies robert_half_technology jobthread business_technology Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:00:27 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/thaw-seen-in-it-hiring/?cs=36343 2009-10-05T16:00:27Z 1 month, 6 days ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/thaw-seen-in-it-hiring http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=36343 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/will-new-management-options-let-companies-feel-at-home-in-the-clouds/?cs=36252 Resource allocation, load balancing and economies of scale are all well and good, but can management technology keep up with the cloud?   It seems like every time there is another new paradigm shift in the data center, all eyes turn toward new rpath orsyp business_technology cloud_computing virtualization storage_management fastscale ctera quest_software Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:32:19 GMT acole602@msn.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/will-new-management-options-let-companies-feel-at-home-in-the-clouds/?cs=36252 2009-09-30T15:32:19Z 1 month, 1 week ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/will-new-management-options-let-companies-feel-at-home-in-the-clouds http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=36252 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/no-tolerance-for-mobile-policies/?cs=36183 The explosion of mobility for businesses of all sizes has led to an equally noisy explosion in the concern organizations have about letting employees run around the town – or the globe -- subscribed to expensive rate plans and using devices packed with mobile_device_security business_technology mobile_devices smbs user_policies budgeting visage_mobile aotmp Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:27:00 GMT cweinsch@optonline.net http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/no-tolerance-for-mobile-policies/?cs=36183 2009-09-28T19:27:00Z 1 month, 1 week ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/no-tolerance-for-mobile-policies http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=36183 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/the-hosting-news-is-all-good/?cs=35836   Hosting companies are smiling due to a couple of trends that are pushing business their way.   Perhaps the most important is that the business sides of the telecom and IT sectors are following the ongoing technology evolution that puts cloud_computing voip managed_services business_technology hosting services_vendors aastra_usa business_culture saas smbs cost_containment it_best_practices Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:59:24 GMT cweinsch@optonline.net http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/the-hosting-news-is-all-good/?cs=35836 2009-09-16T17:59:24Z 1 month, 3 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/the-hosting-news-is-all-good http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=35836 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/agencies-industry-dragging-feet-on-emergency-alert-systems/?cs=35547 Crisis situations involve two important information flows: First responders and other professionals must be able to communicate with each other, and officials must keep the public informed about what is going on.   Crises – September 11, the telecommunications_services government_agencies internet_service_providers emergency_alerts social_networks risk_management cable_operators business_technology telecommunications_vendors Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:47:56 GMT cweinsch@optonline.net http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/agencies-industry-dragging-feet-on-emergency-alert-systems/?cs=35547 2009-09-04T14:47:56Z 2 months, 4 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/agencies-industry-dragging-feet-on-emergency-alert-systems http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=35547 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/storage-networking-on-the-cusp-of-major-change/?cs=35270   Whether you call it storage consolidation, storage unification or building the storage network fabric, the concept is all the same: to do away with the multiple network architectures and protocols that bedevil most IT managers in favor of a xsigo network_protocols solid-state_drives mellanox storage_vendors emulex fcia magma business_technology ethernet infiniband fusion_io Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:18:30 GMT acole602@msn.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/storage-networking-on-the-cusp-of-major-change/?cs=35270 2009-08-26T19:18:30Z 2 months, 1 week ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/storage-networking-on-the-cusp-of-major-change http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=35270 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/twitter-fan-companies-say-it-helps-them-get-closer-to-customers/?cs=35107   Though many companies still don’t know how to use Twitter for business and are looking for meaningful metrics to justify using it, more than half of Fortune 100 companies are using it , according to a recent survey.   According to business_communications business_technology dell zappos social_networks twitter southwest_airlines tony_hsieh Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:04:43 GMT susan.hall@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/twitter-fan-companies-say-it-helps-them-get-closer-to-customers/?cs=35107 2009-08-21T15:04:43Z 2 months, 2 weeks ago 4 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/twitter-fan-companies-say-it-helps-them-get-closer-to-customers http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=35107 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/femtocells-the-time-is-now--almost/?cs=35054   The remaining months of 2009 and 2010 will see the carefully planned and extraordinarily important rollout of femtocells go into high gear.   Femtocells are small base stations that serve two vital purposes: They extend coverage by pushing 4g verizon lte 3g femtocells sprint_nextel wimax business_technology access_points telecommunications_services at&t Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:44:34 GMT cweinsch@optonline.net http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/femtocells-the-time-is-now--almost/?cs=35054 2009-08-19T15:44:34Z 2 months, 2 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/femtocells-the-time-is-now--almost http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=35054 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/new-technologies-to-make-storage-more-efficient/?cs=34882   Since the dawn of the modern data center in the mid 1980s, most technological development has focused on the server.   As more advanced processors hit the market, it was the server platform and the data-crunching capability it provided that solid-state_drives business_technology deduplication cost_containment storage green_technology energy_consumption Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:04:52 GMT acole602@msn.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/new-technologies-to-make-storage-more-efficient/?cs=34882 2009-08-12T15:04:52Z 2 months, 3 weeks ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/new-technologies-to-make-storage-more-efficient http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=34882 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/some-fiber-deployments-slowed-by-recession-stimulus-bill/?cs=34792   Experts say that the roll out of fiber in the United States has been affected in a variety of ways by the recession and the looming broadband stimulus program. They add that the impact has been greater on smaller carriers in rural areas than on business_technology telecommunications_services fiber-to-the-premises telecommunications_vendors broadband_services stimulus_package Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:05:56 GMT cweinsch@optonline.net http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/some-fiber-deployments-slowed-by-recession-stimulus-bill/?cs=34792 2009-08-07T21:05:56Z 3 months, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/some-fiber-deployments-slowed-by-recession-stimulus-bill http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=34792 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/serious-games-entertain-educate-employees/?cs=34730   A hurricane is about to hit the coast of North Carolina. Knowing demand for items like plywood, flashlights and batteries will spike in areas affected by the storm, you turn to your networks to figure out which suppliers can quickly and staff_training ibm workforce business_technology innov8 business_process_management Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:01:50 GMT ann.all@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/serious-games-entertain-educate-employees/?cs=34730 2009-08-05T20:01:50Z 3 months, 4 days ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/comment/serious-games-entertain-educate-employees http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/articles/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=34730