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Interviews

September 2008

September 26, 2008

Voice Recording Software — Fast

Lora Bentley spoke with Bruce Kaskey co-founder of OrecX , an open source voice recording software company.   Bentley : Why do businesses need voice recording systems? Kaskey : There are thre... More >

How Semantic Technology Can Help Companies with Integration

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Vickie Farrell, Neoview Product Management, of Hewlett-Packard’s Business Information Optimization about the business potential of semantic technology.   Lawson ... More >

What Google's Anonymity Policies Mean for Business Users

Lora Bentley spoke with Hal Roberts, who studies privacy and surveillance issues for Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.   Bentley : From everything I've seen about Google's chan... More >

Business Ethernet Expands with a Somewhat Slower Pace

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Rick Malone, principal of Vertical Systems Group . The firm this month released a study of business Ethernet services.   Weinschenk : What did your survey find? Malo... More >

September 25, 2008

Is There Still Life Left in COBOL?

Ann All spoke with Arunn Ramadoss, head of the Connections Program for Micro Focus , a provider of software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise appli... More >

September 24, 2008

Next Stop for Blades: Virtualization

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Adam Mendoza, senior manager in the Virtualization and Grid Infrastructure Business Unit, NetApp , and a member of the board of Blade.org.   Weinschenk : Where are we... More >

It’s Time to Realign Expectations About SOA

Susan Hall spoke with Gartner analyst Roy Schulte, a specialist in service-oriented architecture and co-author of the 1996 Gartner report that introduced the term SOA to the industry. Hall : We've h... More >

September 22, 2008

Data Integration Vendor Jitterbit Has Its Eyes on the Enterprise

Loraine Lawson spoke with Ilan Sehayek, CTO of Jitterbit , about the recent update of its data integration tool. He explained why he believes this young, open source company is ready to play – and i... More >

DLP’s Question to Exiting Data: Who Goes There – and Why?

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Bill Ledingham, CTO, Verdasys .   Weinschenk : What does data loss prevention do? Ledingham : If you are just looking at devices by themselves, you lose the context o... More >

Small Form Factors Jockey for Position

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Rick Lehrbaum, publisher and chief blogger of The DeviceGuru .   Weinschenk : The sector below laptops and above smartphones seems to be pretty chaotic. How do you se... More >

September 19, 2008

Tool Promises to Cut IT's Work by Giving End Users Better Data Access

Loraine Lawson spoke with Robert Eve, vice president of marketing for Composite Software , about a concept he calls the next step in data integration – data discovery. He explains how a new tool, Co... More >

September 18, 2008

QoS for Virtual Environments

Arthur Cole spoke with Ravi Chalaka, vice president of marketing, Neterion .   Cole : Providing QoS on the network level is a rather new concept. Can you explain what it means? Chalaka : When w... More >

September 17, 2008

Blades in the Data Center

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Nick Cheetham, senior vice president, Worldwide Sales, Egenera .   Weinschenk : How does the data center look to Egenera? Cheetham : We are a software company but als... More >

Nope, SOA Is NOT a Product

Ann All spoke with Ronald Schmelzer, managing partner at ZapThink , an IT advisory and analysis firm that provides trusted advice and critical insight into the architectural and organizational chang... More >

September 15, 2008

The Stars Align for Business Video

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Simon Moss, CEO, Avistar .   Weinschenk : What is driving the market? Moss : On the macro scale, it’s costs, the environment, the carbon foot print, the movement from... More >

September 12, 2008

Genpact in Latin American Expansion Mode

Ann All spoke with Steve Rudderham, senior vice president and business leader for Genpact Latin America. Genpact combines process expertise, information technology and analytical capabilities with ... More >

Providing Wi-Fi at 500 Miles per Hour

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Keith Higgins, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Aricent .   Weinschenk : Is Wi-Fi on a plane challenging? Higgins : One of the biggest challenges is the interne... More >

September 11, 2008

Palm Vein Recognition Gives Biometrics a Push

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Joel Hagberg, vice president of Marketing and Business Development, Fujitsu Computer Products of America .   Weinschenk : What is the background on palm vein recognit... More >

Cable Telephony Continues Upward Path

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Michael Paxton, principal analyst, In-Stat , which recently released a report written by Paxton, "34 Million Subscribers: Worldwide Cable Telephony Services Continue to Ex... More >

September 10, 2008

Why WOA vs. SOA Doesn't Matter

Loraine Lawson asked Gartner Vice President Nick Gall, who is credited with first describing Web-oriented architecture (WOA), to give business and IT leaders the bottom line about the WOA versus SO... More >

Blades: Not the Panacea Experts Predicted

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Bob Gill, managing director, Servers, The InfoPro .   Weinschenk : Are blades doing well? Gill : It’s going to vary. What people are telling me is that in large organ... More >

September 9, 2008

Electronic Medical Records: Business as Usual at Ephraim McDowell

Lora Bentley spoke with Shawna Sharpe, a spokesperson for Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center in Danville, Kentucky. The hospital has implemented an electronic health records system.   Be... More >

Archiving, MAID-to-Order

Arthur Cole spoke with Steve Willson, solutions and systems enterprise director, COPAN Systems .   Cole : It's tempting to think of archive solutions as simply enhanced forms of data backup. Wh... More >

September 8, 2008

Governance Helps Avoid Data Disconnect

Ann All spoke with Ian Rowlands, senior director of product management at ASG Software Solutions , a privately held global firm that provides a full range of enterprise software solutions in metadat... More >

September 5, 2008

Tracking Privileged Users Is a No-Brainer

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Ellen Libenson, vice president of product marketing, and Jeff Nielsen, senior product manager for Symark . Libenson and Nielsen discussed insider security in light of the ... More >

September 3, 2008

Blades' Next Task: Consolidating the Adapters

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Doug Balog, chairman of Blade.org and vice president, IBM BladeCenter Business Line Executive, Systems and Technology Group.   Weinschenk : What is the rationale beh... More >

SOA: From Theory to Practice

Arthur Cole spoke with Dwight Davis, senior analyst, Ovum . Cole : The term SOA gets tossed around quite a bit these days. Has the industry reached a consensus yet as to exactly what it is? How wil... More >

September 2, 2008

ASICs for Adaptec

Arthur Cole spoke with S. "Sundi" Sundaresh, president/CEO, Adaptec .   Cole : Now that Adaptec has brought its application-specific integration circuit (ASIC) development in-house with the Ari... More >

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