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Interviews

October 2008

October 31, 2008

Finding the Trifecta Win with ETL Tools

Loraine Lawson spoke with Stephen Inocencio, director of technology architecture and information security officer at IPS-Sendero, a software development company and professional services company that... More >

October 29, 2008

Solar Generating 10 Percent of Electricity for HP in San Diego

Weinschenk : How much of the campus' energy is generated in this manner? Feldhusen : It's over 10 percent of the electricity used. The system was supported by a program through the state of Califor... More >

More Admin Privileges Not the Answer to Security Question

Carl Weinschenk spoke with John Moyer, president and CEO, BeyondTrust .   Weinschenk : What’s wrong with passwords? Moyer : Basically, what we see are weaknesses with systems that manage passwo... More >

Addressing Shortcomings of Femtocells and GPS

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Todd Young, vice president of marketing for Rosum .   Weinschenk : What is the challenge for femtocells regarding the Global Positioning System? Young : As you know, ... More >

October 28, 2008

A Closer Look at Data Center Automation

Arthur Cole spoke with Nicola (Nick) Sanna, president/CEO, Netuitive .   Cole : These days, there are automation systems taking over everything from storage provisioning to virtual machine lif... More >

October 24, 2008

Counting the Cost of Free: What Value, Linux?

Lora Bentley spoke with Amanda McPherson, marketing and developer programs VP at the Linux Foundation . She and two colleagues recently released a new paper, "Estimating the Total Development Cost o... More >

October 21, 2008

Unleashing the Friendly Green-Eyed Monster in Data Centers

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Dave Ohara, consultant and blogger at Green M3 . Ohara has worked as an engineer at HP, Apple and Microsoft.   Weinschenk : Why is green IT hot? Ohara : The fact th... More >

October 20, 2008

Prediction Markets Add Human Element to Decision Making

  Ann All spoke with Adam Siegel, co-founder and CEO of Inkling Inc., a company that helps organizations and individuals tap into the collective wisdom of their employees, peers and customers to... More >

Beyond ETL – Company Offers New Approach to Data Integration

Taking a semantic data integration approach instead of the more traditional ETL (extract, transform, load) approach to data integration, expressor software launched its initial product offering, ex... More >

iSCSI at Full 10Gbps

Arthur Cole spoke with Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO, Chelsio Communications .   Cole : Chelsio is now capable of delivering full 10Gbps iSCSI storage. What were some of the technical... More >

October 17, 2008

Surfing the Internet: Not an Anonymous Sport

Lora Bentley spoke with Lance Cottrell, chief scientist at Anonymizer .   Bentley : Why is a company like Anonymizer needed? Cottrell : In the very early days of the Internet, it became clear... More >

Financial Uncertainty Increases Security Challenges

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Rani Osnat, VP of marketing at Sentrigo .   Weinschenk : You raise the common-sense concern that the current financial turmoil leads to security challenges. Can you p... More >

October 16, 2008

Pursuing the Next-Gen Data Center

Arthur Cole spoke with William D. Barry, senior vice president of enterprise sales, CompuCom Systems, Inc.   Cole : As an IT outsourcing company, it stands to reason that your livelihood depend... More >

Lessons Learned in Switching from Hand-Coding to a Data Integration Tool

  John Shafer, application developer for the e-business portion of Levolor , explained to Loraine Lawson how a risky situation prompted the company to switch from hand-coded data integration to... More >

October 15, 2008

'Do More with Less' and Use Open Source

Lora Bentley spoke with Matt Asay, business development VP for open source enterprise content management software provider Alfresco .   Bentley : Why are open source companies uniquely poised t... More >

October 14, 2008

Using the Market to Bail out the Environment

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Bill St. Arnaud, chief research officer for Canarie , which looks at next-generation Internet technology applications and services with an eye toward reducing carbon emiss... More >

October 10, 2008

M2M Communications Sector Growth Accelerates

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Ed Bursk, chief marketing officer, Kore Telematics .   Weinschenk : What precisely is M2M, and where is the industry segment? Bursk : In one sense, M2M, machine-to-ma... More >

October 9, 2008

Record Retention on a Global Scale

Lora Bentley spoke with Marie-Charlotte Patterson, marketing VP at AXS One .   Bentley : What are the biggest compliance challenges for companies that operate globally? Patterson : One of the i... More >

October 8, 2008

No Rush to Green IT

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Deborah Grove, principal, Grove Associates , a consultancy that provides global strategies for sustainability innovation and green IT.   Weinschenk : What do you and ... More >

October 7, 2008

Semantic Technology for the Real World

Loraine Lawson asked Vickie Farrell, of HP’s Neoview Product Management, what CIOs in regular businesses need to know about semantic technology and integration today. Last week, Farrell explained h... More >

October 6, 2008

Keeping Data in Context

Arthur Cole spoke with Michel Prompt, founder/CEO, Radiant Logic .   Cole : It's been said that data virtualization is simply another name for Enterprise Information Integration, Virtual Data F... More >

October 3, 2008

The Evolving Role of the Business Analyst

Ann All spoke with Mary Gerush, a Forrester Research analyst who is working on research regarding the evolving role of business analysts within organizations.   All : I believe that Forrester ... More >

PCI DSS Gets an Upgrade

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Mandeep Khera, chief marketing officer, Cenzic .   Weinschenk : What is PCI? Khera : PCI is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. It was founded by five c... More >

The Base Station Market Slows

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Allen Nogee, principal analyst, In-Stat . Nogee's report, Worldwide Cellular Base Station Forecast Driven by Data, was released late last month.   Weinschenk : What d... More >

October 2, 2008

Will Acceptance of Open Source Force Big Vendors to Rethink Business?

Ilan Sehayek, CTO of Jitterbit , thinks proprietary vendors will be rethinking that approach in one to two years. Loraine Lawson spoke with Seyahek about the crowded field of open source data integr... More >

October 1, 2008

The Wider World of the File Transfer Protocol

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Michael Ryan, co-founder and CEO of South River Technologies .   Weinschenk : How is the file transfer protocol growing more secure? Ryan : The file transfer protocol... More >

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