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June 30, 2008

The Dangers of Unchecked Administrative Privileges

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Mark Fullbrook, director for the UK and Ireland, Cyber-Ark , about a Cyber-Ark survey on administrative privileges and the dangers they can create. The survey found... More >

Teaching IFRS to Tomorrow's Accountants

Lora Bentley spoke with Charles Bame-Aldred, an accounting professor at Northeastern University .   Bentley : I've read that colleges and universities aren't doing much to add International Fin... More >

Virtualization Here, There and Everywhere

Arthur Cole spoke with George Kurian, vice president and general manager, Application Delivery Business Unit, Cisco ; and Marcus Phipps, marketing manager, Cisco Data Center Solutions.   Cole :... More >

June 27, 2008

Municipal Broadband: A Wider Platform, a New Business Model

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Craig Settles, industry analysis and business strategy consultant , on the municipal wireless outlook.   Weinschenk : It’s never dull in the municipal wireless... More >

June 26, 2008

Study: So Far, So Good with SOA

  Loraine Lawson spoke with John Burke , principal research analyst with independent research firm Nemertes Research, which produces benchmarks and other studies for the IT industry. Burke inte... More >

June 25, 2008

Developing the Location Picture with BI

Susan Hall spoke with Timothy Pletcher, director of applied research for the Central Michigan University Research Corp .   Hall : Does location intelligence simply refer to mapping or are there... More >

The Mainframe, Which Never Left, Makes a Comeback

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Ralph Crosby, the data management infrastructure architect for the Mainframe Service Management Business Unit at BMC Software .   Weinschenk : What is the trend in th... More >

June 23, 2008

Project Management: First Analyze, Then Transform

Ann All spoke with Nigel Hughes, global director of Market and Service Development, Compass Management Consulting .   All : In your research, you note the high failure rates for transformation ... More >

The Infiniband Fabric

Arthur Cole spoke with Yaron Haviv, chief technology officer, Voltaire , and Patrick Guay, executive vice president, sales, Voltaire.   Cole : Infiniband is usually thought of as a high-end int... More >

June 20, 2008

Open Source Census: It's Not a Sprint

Lora Bentley spoke with Kim Weins, senior vice president of products and marketing at OpenLogic . The company is spearheading the Open Source Census .   Bentley : It seems the census is off to... More >

Full-Disk Encryption Provides Deeper Laptop Security

Carl Weinschenk spoke with David James, vice president of Advanced Product Engineering, Fujitsu Computer Products of America .   Weinschenk : How are you handling encryption? James : I think a ... More >

User Case Studies Help UC Come into Focus

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Irwin Lazar, principal research analyst for UC and Collaboration, Nemertes Research .   Weinschenk : Can you tell me about your recent study on UC? Lazar : Wha... More >

June 19, 2008

Outsourcing Cost Cuts May Be No Bargain

Ann All spoke with Geraldine Fox, Global Sourcing Services Lead, Compass Management Consulting . Compass is a global management consulting firm specializing in business and IT operational performanc... More >

June 18, 2008

New Generation BI Requires 'Holistic' Security

Lora Bentley spoke with Clive Longbottom, service director, business process analysis, Quocirca .   Bentley : As the business intelligence software market has evolved and the solutions offered ... More >

CA Sets Its Sights on End-to-End Management Tools

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Julie Craig, senior analyst, Enterprise Management Associates .   Weinschenk : What’s the background on what CA is doing in the mainframe arena? Craig : There ... More >

June 17, 2008

The RDMA Effect

Arthur Cole spoke with Rick Maule, CEO and president, NetEffect .   Cole : Much of the attention in enterprise networking goes to unified fabrics, multiple GB SANs and the like. How does a tech... More >

June 16, 2008

What’s Old Is New Again as E-Mail Problems Live on in IM

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Don Montgomery, vice president of marketing, Akonix Systems . Akonix just released news that it had found 10 distinct new IM-based malicious code attacks during May... More >

Legitimate Management, or Play for Control?

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Art Brodsky, communications director, Public Knowledge , which suspects that efforts to use network management tools are disguised efforts to exert improper control of con... More >

Four Signs You Might Need an Integration Competency Center

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Ken Vollmer, a principal analyst with Forrester Research , whose work includes research on integration competency centers.   Lawson : How do you know if and whe... More >

June 13, 2008

Unisys: IT Leaders Look Beyond Cost Cutting

  Ann All spoke with Tim Lambert, vice-president of marketing, Unisys Global Outsourcing and Infrastructure Services.   All : Unisys recently commissioned research from IDG that explores ... More >

June 12, 2008

ROWE Aims to Rock the Workplace Boat

  Ann All spoke with Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson , creators of the Results-Only Work Environment and authors of “Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It."   All : Many companies say they are a... More >

What Role IT Should and Should Not Play in Master Data Management

Loraine Lawson spoke with Andy Hayler, CEO of The Information Difference , a research firm dedicated to reporting on the master data management market. The firm will soon release its first study, wh... More >

June 11, 2008

Protecting Increasingly Vulnerable Applications

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Vic DeMarines, VP of products for V.i. Laboratories .   Weinschenk : What are the issues you focus on? DeMarines : In terms of trends we focus on, it’s the threat of ... More >

Mainframes Drive Efficiency

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Brian Larsen, senior product marketing manager, Enterprise Solutions, Brocade .   Weinschenk : What is happening as mainframes try to go green – or at least gr... More >

June 10, 2008

Starting Small Is Good Way to Build BI Benefits

Ann All spoke with Lyndsay Wise, the principal of WiseAnalytics , which conducts research and provides services to organizations within the areas of business intelligence, unstructured data and mast... More >

June 9, 2008

More Power for a Greener Ethernet

Arthur Cole spoke with Daniel Feldman, senior product line manager, Microsemi Corporation .   Cole : On the face of it, it would seem that Power over Ethernet runs counter to the idea of green ... More >

June 6, 2008

XBRL Tagging Will Take Time

Lora Bentley spoke with Colin Diamond, a securities partner for the international law firm of White & Case . Diamond recently authored a client alert on the Securities and Exchange Commission's ... More >

A Question Before the Transition to 802.11n: Is it Needed?

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Michael Tennefoss, head of strategic marketing, Aruba .   Weinschenk : What should small and medium-sized businesses ask themselves when they are thinking of m... More >

June 5, 2008

Who Needs BI on a Smartphone?

  Susan Hall spoke with independent analyst and consultant Nigel Pendse, author of The BI Survey , which queries users of business intelligence and performance management tools, and editor of ... More >

Business Can Benefit from Education's Open Source Example

Lora Bentley spoke with David Dennis, senior product marketing director for GroundWork Open Source .   Bentley : Why do higher education institution IT departments so often look to open source ... More >

June 4, 2008

Mainframes Win on TCO

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Jim Porell, distinguished engineer for System z, IBM .   Weinschenk : How has the mainframe evolved? Porell : Our heritage is in high-end transactional process... More >

June 3, 2008

Desktop Virtualization and Disaster Recovery

Arthur Cole spoke with Kevin Brown, former CEO, Kidaro .   Cole : Virtualization and disaster recovery seem like a natural fit for server and storage infrastructures. How does it benefit the de... More >

How MDM Affects Integration – and Integration Vendors

Loraine Lawson spoke with Andy Hayler, CEO of The Information Difference , a research firm dedicated to reporting on the master data management market. The firm will soon release its first study, wh... More >

June 2, 2008

A Better Way to Deliver Wireless

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Iyad Al Khayat, a PhD candidate at the University of Louisville’s MINDs Lab .   Weinschenk : What is the project about? Al Khayat : When I was working as a net... More >

Enterprise Social Networking and Taking Reputation into Account

  Ann All spoke with Paul Pluschkell, founder and CEO of Spigit , which develops social productivity software for enterprises to drive innovation and empower decision makers. Spigit's product o... More >