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May 30, 2008

Outsourcing, with an Agile Twist

  Ann All spoke with Doug Mow, senior VP of marketing for Exigen Services , a global application outsourcing provider that combines world class skills, recognized expertise in development metho... More >

A Whale of a Problem

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Adam O’Donnell, director of emerging technologies at Cloudmark .   Weinschenk : What is whaling? O’Donnell : I define whaling as being narrow attacks which are... More >

Study: Business Outcomes Closely Tied to IT and Compliance Practices

  Lora Bentley spoke with Jim Hurley, managing director of the, IT Policy Compliance Group , which recently released its 2008 annual report.   Bentley : What prompted the IT Policy Complia... More >

May 28, 2008

1 Gig over the WAN

Arthur Cole spoke with Jeff Aaron, director of marketing, Silver Peak Systems .   Cole : Gigabit LAN connectivity is becoming commonplace, and now we're just getting into gigabit WAN. What were... More >

Malware Laws Only Helpful to a Point

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at ScanSafe security-as-a-service company.   Weinschenk : What is the status of malware legislation? Landesman : There hav... More >

Skipping Vista Won't Solve OS Problems

Lora Bentley spoke with Benjamin Gray, an IT infrastructure and operations analyst with Forrester Research .   Bentley : Windows Vista's reception has been lukewarm at best so far, yet your res... More >

May 27, 2008

Cool Vendor List Reveals Three Data Integration, Management Trends for 2008

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Ted Friedman, vice president of research for Gartner, who recently co-authored an annual Cool Data Integration Vendors report, part of a series on vendors offering un... More >

May 23, 2008

Verticals Switching to NGNs for Varied Reasons

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Steve Hansen, senior analyst, In-Stat . Earlier this month, the company released research written by Hansen entitled “U.S. Vertical Migration to Next-Generation Ser... More >

Institutes of Higher Risk

Ann All spoke with Ted Julian, vice president of marketing for Application Security .   All : Are universities and colleges unique when it comes to security? Julian : There are a couple of uniq... More >

May 21, 2008

Vista Offers Value, but Not Enough Yet

  Susan Hall spoke with Brenda Cooper, futurist and CIO for the city of Kirkland, Wash. (pop. ~ 46,000), a Seattle suburb adjacent to the city that's home to a large software maker.   Hall ... More >

May 20, 2008

Pushing for 6G SAS

Arthur Cole spoke with David So, strategic marketing manager, LSI Corp., Storage Components Group .   Cole : LSI, Dell and Seagate recently demonstrated a 6G SAS network for the SCSI Trade Asso... More >

HIPS, HIPS, Hooray!

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Brian O’Higgins, CTO for Third Brigade .   Weinschenk : How is malware changing? O’Higgins : Malware continues to evolve. The computer security business is different ... More >

May 19, 2008

Optical Networking: Never a Dull Moment

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Dana Cooperson, vice president for optical networking for Ovum . This week, Ovum released preliminary quarterly results that said the optical equipment networking m... More >

May 16, 2008

What Good Will a 'Market Stability Regulator' Do?

  Lora Bentley spoke with Chuck Saletta, a contributor for The Motley Fool , an investment services company.   Bentley : You have written that the government's proposed regulatory response... More >

Platform-as-a-Service Gives SaaS a New Push

  Ann All spoke with Michael West and Mark Koenig, both vice presidents at Saugatuck Technology , which helps senior executives, information technology vendors and investors to assess, conceptu... More >

Changes Abound in the DLP Market

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Susan Callahan, VP of marketing and business development of Safend . Weinschenk : How do you define DLP? Callahan : The whole DLP information market seems to be... More >

May 15, 2008

Funambol on AGPL and the ASP Loophole

Lora Bentley spoke with Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO, Funambol .   Bentley : When Funambol first released software, it was released under your own license — the Honest Public License. How does the ... More >

Adding Intelligence to Asset Management

Ann All spoke with Ron Halverson, vice president of marketing and product management for TriActive , a provider of SaaS for systems management.   All : What are some of the most common methods ... More >

May 14, 2008

With Vista, Enterprises Are Shouting. Is Microsoft Listening?

Susan Hall spoke with analyst Roger Kay, president and founder of Endpoint Technologies Associates .   Hall : Is this gnashing of teeth over Vista essentially any different than when XP came ou... More >

Malware's Direct and Indirect Costs

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Frank Scavo, president, Computer Economics .   Weinschenk : How should organizations think about the cost of malware? Scavo : I think the way to start thinking... More >

May 13, 2008

Nortel Pairs up with VMware to Tackle a Virtual Data Center

Arthur Cole spoke with Rami Rammaha, virtualization marketing manager, Nortel .   Cole : Nortel is more widely known in metro voice circles than in enterprise data circles. What technologies do... More >

Consultant Foresees Convergence of Data Governance, Auditing Tools

  Loraine Lawson spoke with George Crump, founder of Storage Switzerland , an analyst firm focused on the virtualization and storage markets. Prior to Storage Switzerland, Crump was CTO at one ... More >

May 12, 2008

Security Remains a Top Concern Amid Changing Trends

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Van Dyke Software President Jeff Van Dyke. This month, the company released a survey that offered mixed results on security and IT spending overall.   Weinsch... More >

More Choices in Wireless Networking

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Rob Smith, secure networks group chief network architecture for Telos .   Weinschenk : What is a mesh network? Smith : A typical definition for mesh is that it consis... More >

May 9, 2008

BI That Works Like Your Brain

  Ann All spoke with Anthony Deighton, vice president of Global Marketing for QlikTech , named the world’s fastest-growing business intelligence software vendor by IDC. Its flagship product, Ql... More >

May 8, 2008

Terracotta Teaches the Market About Disruptive Tech

  Lora Bentley spoke with Amit Pandey, chief executive officer, Terracotta .   Bentley : Tell me how Terracotta got started. Pandey : Our company was set up a few years ago by some people ... More >

May 7, 2008

Why Force Vista When Users Want Windows XP?

Lora Bentley spoke with Galen Gruman, executive editor, InfoWorld . The tech publication recently spearheaded a "Save XP" petition drive.   Bentley : What prompted the Save XP campaign? Gruman ... More >

May 6, 2008

Malware Gets up Close and Personal

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Mark Sunner, chief security analyst at MessageLabs .   Weinschenk : What is happening on the malware front? Sunner : On average, we have seen that approximatel... More >

May 5, 2008

Medium-Sized Businesses' Middle Path on Security and Storage

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Nichelle McKenzie, research analyst for AMI Partners . McKenzie contributed to the report "2007 U.S. Medium Business Overview and Comprehensive Market Opportunity A... More >

Virtualization’s Biggest Drawback: It's Too Easy

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Chris Steffen, principal technical architect, Kroll Factual Data .   Weinschenk : How do you use virtualization? Steffen : We actually started with virtualizat... More >

Unlocking the Warehouse

Arthur Cole spoke with Jesse Fountain, vice president of presale services, DATAllegro .   Cole : All indications are that data warehousing appliances are in big demand. What do you think is dri... More >

How WOA Can Re-Humanize SOA

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Miko Matsumura, deputy CTO of Software AG , who recently wrote a piece on how SOA, process-oriented architecture and WOA, or Web-oriented architecture, are coming to... More >

May 2, 2008

More Cohesive ITIL Should Ease Implementation

  Ann All spoke with Brenda Iniguez, a certified Service Master and director of Americas ITSM Consulting for FrontRange Solutions , which develops software and services that growing mid-size fi... More >

May 1, 2008

Big Companies Most Likely to Use Contract Workers

  Ann All spoke with John Longwell, director of research for Computer Economics , which conducts original research and provides advisory services regarding the strategic and financial managemen... More >

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