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Interviews

August 2008

August 29, 2008

Why Sarbox Whistleblowers Don't Win

Lora Bentley spoke with Richard Moberly, an assistant professor at University of Nebraska College of Law .   Bentley : David Welch just lost his appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Four... More >

August 28, 2008

Communication Failure Indicates Need for MDM

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Tony Fisher, president and CEO of DataFlux .   Lawson : How would you know if you needed MDM? Fisher : MDM is required to address business problems, so when we ... More >

August 27, 2008

Set Policies to Unleash Creativity with Web 2.0 Tools

Susan Hall spoke with Ross Dawson about IT governance and Web 2.0. Dawson is CEO of international consulting firm Advanced Human Technologies , and chairman of Future Exploration Network , a global... More >

Inside Cisco's Collaboratory

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Patrick Tam, senior manager, operations, Cisco .   Weinschenk : The Collaboratory is part of Cisco Services. Please position Cisco Services within Cisco. Tam : Cisco ... More >

August 26, 2008

Effective MDM Is About More than Just the Data

Loraine Lawson spoke with Tony Fisher, president and CEO of DataFlux , who has a bone to pick with those who say master data management is about buying a technology to fix the sins of the past. Laws... More >

August 22, 2008

Revving up the Storage Appliance

Arthur Cole spoke with Morgan Littlewood, vice president, marketing and business development, Violin Memory Inc .   Cole : The Violin 1010 appliance delivers a whopping 1 million IOPS over a PC... More >

Self-Service Adoption Leveling Off

  Ann All spoke with Allen Bonde, SVP and chief marketing officer of eVergance , which delivers strategic consulting, systems integration and managed services specializing in customer relations... More >

Mobile Device Tools Must Augment Network Security

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Jay Seaton, chief marketing officer, Airwide Solutions .   Weinschenk : Are carriers guarding mobile security? Seaton : Our perspective is a look at 120 mobile... More >

The Challenges of Security and Compliance in the Cloud

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Jon Brody, vice president of marketing, TriCipher .   Weinschenk : What is the security and compliance situation as applications move into the cloud? Brody : For the ... More >

Neither the Sky nor the Internet Is Falling

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Dr. Andrew Odlyzko, a professor of mathematics at the University of Minnesota . Odlyzko recently updated his projections of Internet demand growth.   Weinschen... More >

August 20, 2008

Shaping Enterprise IT Governance to Fit the Public Sector

Lora Bentley spoke with Theresa Pardo and Donna Canestraro, from the University at Albany's Center for Technology in Government . CTG recently began a project with the New York State Chief Informati... More >

OASIS' SOA Reference Model Explained

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Duane Nickull , chair of the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee and the senior technology evangelist for Adobe Systems. Nickull, aka "Mr. SOA," explained ... More >

Mining Siloed Employees’ Knowledge a Key Collaborative Prize

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Glen Mohr, principal of Mohr Collaborative , which uses collaborative tools to build organizational capacity for innovation.   Weinschenk : You mention innovat... More >

August 15, 2008

Offshore BPO Alternatives Abound

  Ann All spoke with Amit Shankardass, chief global marketing officer, and Andrew Kokes, vice president of marketing, the Americas, for global Business Process Outsourcing provider Sitel . The ... More >

Fibre Channel in Double-Time

Art Cole spoke with Al Gamarra, senior product marketing manager, Emulex .   Cole : Where do you see 8G Fibre Channel fitting in as the industry moves toward unified fabrics? Do you think Infin... More >

August 14, 2008

Vendors Must Unravel the Complex World of Cloud Computing

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Brian de Haaff, CEO of Paglo .   Weinschenk : Where is cloud computing? de Haaff : I think the over complication of the language, the hype is somewhat unnecessary. It... More >

August 13, 2008

Study of Stolen Identity Use Patterns Offers Surprises

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Cooper Bachman, product analyst for ID Analytics . In late July, the company released a study of employees’ criminal misuse of stolen identities.   Weinschenk ... More >

Getting Directors on Board with IT Governance

  Ann All spoke with Alan Calder, chief executive of IT Governance Limited , a provider of books, tools, training and consultancy on governance, risk management and compliance. He is also chair... More >

August 12, 2008

Better Speed to Market Changing Value of Collaboration Setups

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Vanessa DiMauro, president, Leader Networks .   Weinschenk : What does Leader Networks do? DiMauro : We’re a strategy consulting firm dealing with business-to-... More >

August 11, 2008

The Forecast Is for Innovation at Dell’s IdeaStorm

  Ann All spoke with Vida Killian, Dell Communities & Conversations - IdeaStorm Manager. In a recent Deloitte report about customer communities, IdeaStorm was offered as an example of a succ... More >

August 8, 2008

Offshoring Moves up Value Chain

  Ann All spoke with Matt Mani, a senior associate with Booz & Co. who worked on “Offshoring the Brains as well as the Brawn,” a survey of 120 service providers based in the U.S., Europe, ... More >

August 6, 2008

Continuous Quality Control Is Key to Success

  Lora Bentley spoke with Jim Hurley, managing director of the IT Policy Compliance Group .   Bentley : ITPCG has been measuring IT objectives and business objectives in various organizati... More >

August 5, 2008

Customers Lead to Integration Magic

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Avigdor Luttinger, vice president of corporate strategy for Magic Software , a provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, abou... More >

Serving the Not-Ready-for-Facebook Players

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Adam Zawel, Chief Collaboration Officer, INmobile.org .   Weinschenk : What does a chief collaboration officer do? Zawel : I facilitate conversations. Sometimes I am ... More >

August 4, 2008

'Red Flags' Compliance Deadline Approaches

Lora Bentley spoke with Sai Huda, CEO and president of Compliance Coach , regarding the identity theft Red Flag Rules. Financial institutions and others must be fully compliant with the rules by Nov... More >

Writing New Chapters in the E-Ink Saga

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Lawrence Gasman, principal analyst, NanoMarkets . In June, the organization released a study on emerging e-paper markets.   Weinschenk : What does the e-paper ... More >

Modifying the PCIe Fabric

Arthur Cole spoke with Chris Pettey, CTO, co-founder, NextIO .   Cole : There’s a lot of activity surrounding unified fabrics in the enterprise, but most servers have the same fixed connectivit... More >

August 1, 2008

Fun Fact: South Dakota Gets the Second Most Spam

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Matt Sergeant, senior anti-spam technologist, MessageLabs . The company released a report last month listing the states that receive the most spam.   Weinschen... More >

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