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Interviews

April 2008

April 28, 2008

Full Steam Ahead to 10 GbE

Arthur Cole spoke with Brad Booth, chairman, Ethernet Alliance .   Cole : It looks like there will be a lot of 10 GbE technology at Interop. What would you say are the most significant developm... More >

Bringing Data Integration to the Users

Loraine Lawson spoke with Chris Marino, CEO of SnapLogic , a San Mateo, California-based, open source, data integration startup.   Lawson : Because you’re open source, I’ve seen a lot of articl... More >

April 25, 2008

Compliance Issues in Contract Management

Lora Bentley spoke with Michael T. Zuckerman, marketing SVP, contract lifecycle management specialist, I-many .   Bentley : What is contract management? Zuckerman : Contract management for the ... More >

Customers Gain as the Cable/Telco Battle Moves Onward

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Ike Elliott, blogger and president of Practiq, a technology and telecom consultancy.   Weinschenk : What is the status of the cable/telco wars? Elliott : I'd say tha... More >

After the Breach

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Doug Pollack, chief marketing officer, ID Experts . The firm, which released a survey on customer attitudes to data breaches in association with The Ponemon Institute earl... More >

April 23, 2008

Open Source Census off to Positive Start

Lora Bentley spoke with Kim Weins, VP of products and marketing for OpenLogic , and Bernard Golden, CEO of Navica . The companies are two sponsors of the Open Source Census , which began April 16.... More >

Blend Old, New Strategies for Effective Staff Recruitment

Ann All spoke with Jay Liwanag, director of Corporate Relations & Career Services for American University's Kogod School of Business .   All : With the emergence of new methods of employee ... More >

April 22, 2008

Virtualization and Disaster Recovery Get Even Closer

Carl Weinschenk spoke with David Demlow, CTO, Double-Take .   Weinschenk : How do you see the meshing of virtualization and disaster recovery/business continuity? Demlow : I think from our pers... More >

April 18, 2008

IT Business Value Management Top Performers More 'Pragmatic' than Peers

Ann All spoke with Erik Dorr, a senior business advisor with The Hackett Group , a strategic advisory firm that provides research, benchmarking, and business transformation services that enable worl... More >

To Stay Relevant, Firewalls Face Significant Change

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Jim Reavis, principal of Reavis Consulting Group and Risk Bloggers . The organization is running focus groups on firewalls.   Weinschenk : What are you finding out ab... More >

The Road to FMC Remains Long and Winding

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Michael Finneran, principal of dBrn Associates and lead analyst wireless and mobility for Unified Communications Strategies .   Weinschenk : How do you define FMC? Fi... More >

April 16, 2008

Virtualization: A Game Changer for Infrastructure Management

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Chris Wolf, senior analyst, Burton Group .   Weinschenk : Does virtualization affect how a business manages its resources? Wolf : What virtualization ultimately does ... More >

Virtualization Offers Flexibility for SMBs

Susan Hall spoke with Anil Miglani, senior vice president of AMI-Partners .   Hall : When we talk about virtualization for small and midsized businesses, is that just server virtualization? Mig... More >

April 15, 2008

How Data Integration Can Fix Regulatory Compliance, Business Problems

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Tony Fisher, CEO of DataFlux , which offers master data management, data quality and data integration solutions. Also see part one of this interview.   Lawson... More >

Considering the H-1B Visa Alternatives

Ann All spoke with Robert C. Meltzer, founder and CEO of VISANOW , which has redefined the way immigration services are delivered with a process that consistently provides faster responses, allows g... More >

April 14, 2008

Crunch Time for Multicore Programming

Arthur Cole spoke with Jeff Meisel, product manager, National Instruments .   Cole : It seems like the need for parallel programming solutions hit a crisis point very suddenly, even though mult... More >

Was Data Integration a Factor in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis?

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Tony Fisher, CEO of DataFlux , which offers master data management, data quality and data integration solutions. Next week: We drill down on how IT, technology and d... More >

April 11, 2008

Encrypting at File Level Avoids Potentially Costly Mistakes

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Richard Gorman, CEO of Vormetric , a provider of data security management and enforcement solutions.   Weinschenk : Can you explain the difference between column-leve... More >

Visual BI: Seeing Is Believing

Ann All spoke with Mark Throssell, co-founder and CEO of The Ministry of Ideas , a company with bases in Europe and the U.S. that works to implement visible intelligence in some of the world’s top c... More >

Fiber-to-the-Home Gains as Bandwidth Demands Grow

Lora Bentley spoke with Mike Render, principal of RVA LLC . This week, the FTTC Council released a study done on its behalf by RVA that showed a growth in fiber-to-the-home penetration.   Bentl... More >

April 10, 2008

Shell’s Outsourcing Deal and the Role of the Service Integrator

  Ann All spoke with John Madden, research director for Ovum , which provides value-added advisory services and consulting to retained and project clients. The company is a source of industry d... More >

XBRL: The Empty Standard?

Lora Bentley spoke with Jeremy Roche, CEO, CODA . Roche helped establish the European Software Association in 2005 and spent three years as its chairman, promoting software best practice and coopera... More >

April 9, 2008

Hosted Infrastructure Slow to Catch on with SMBs

  Susan Hall spoke with Merle Sandler, research manager for SMB and Home Office Programs at IDC. Hall : To what extent are small and mid-sized businesses moving to hosted infrastructure servic... More >

IBM Takes Its Chances with EnterpriseDB

Lora Bentley spoke with Andy Astor, CEO, open source database vendor, EnterpriseDB . The company recently received a third round of venture funding from investors including IBM.   Bentley : Not... More >

Experience Counts When Selecting a VAR

Lora Bentley spoke with Michael Speyer, senior analyst, Forrester Research .   Bentley : What should SMBs look for when selecting a value-added reseller? Speyer : SMBs should look for prior e... More >

Defining Virtualization’s Role in Regulatory Compliance

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Greg Shields, an independent IT author, speaker and consultant, and a columnist for Virtualization Review magazine .   Weinschenk : How are virtualization and complia... More >

Sun: OpenSolaris Is Now on the Map

Lora Bentley spoke with Simon Phipps, chief open source officer, Sun Microsystems . Bentley : Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian said in a Linux Foundation interview recently that Sun's Solaris and OpenSola... More >

April 7, 2008

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Full IMS Deployment

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Keith Nissen, principal analyst, In-Stat . Nissen wrote a study, "NGN Drivers and Inhibitors in the Global Market," which the firm released late last month. Weins... More >

Hannaford and the Evolving Standard of Care

Lora Bentley spoke with Scott Crawford, research director, Enterprise Management Associates .   Bentley : When the data breach at Hannaford first happened, no one was sure exactly how the hacke... More >

From Here to Infiniband

Arthur Cole spoke with Thad Omura, vice president of marketing, Mellanox .   Cole : It’s been said that virtualization and consolidation will be the killer app for iSCSI. Is there a case to be ... More >

April 4, 2008

Firewall Scrutiny a Key to Successful Compliance Initiatives

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Avishai Wool, CTO, AlgoSec .   Weinschenk : How important is the relationship between compliance and how a firewall is managed? Wool : Recent regulatory develo... More >

April 3, 2008

SMB Opportunity Limited for Open Source

Lora Bentley spoke with Jay Lyman, an analyst with The 451 Group . Lyman focuses on open source.   Bentley : Open source has made such progress in the enterprise. Is it doing the same in the SM... More >

A Vertical Slant on the SaaS Distribution Model

  Ann All spoke with Colleen Smith, vice president, Software-as-a-Service, for Progress Software Corporation , a provider of application infrastructure software for the development, deployment,... More >

April 2, 2008

Strong Management Necessary for Smooth Virtualization

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Kimbro Staken, CEO, JumpBox .   Weinschenk : What is the downside of virtualization from a risk management/security point of view? Staken : From the security perspect... More >

April 1, 2008

A Rush to 8 G?

Arthur Cole spoke with Scott McIntyre, vice president, software/customer marketing, Emulex Corp .   Cole : Now that 8 Gbps systems are ready to go, what will you say to enterprises that are jus... More >