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Interviews

November 2008

November 25, 2008

VoIP Ownership Can Accelerate ROI and Decrease TCO

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Kevin Selkowitz, the founder and principal of Selkowitz Technology , a regional phone system broker and vendor in Bellevue, Wash.   Weinschenk : How can VoIP help red... More >

Simple Steps to a Greener Data Center

Arthur Cole spoke with Wally Phelps, product marketing manager, AdaptivCool , and author of numerous white papers on data center cooling and efficiency, as well as articles for publications such as ... More >

November 21, 2008

Femtocell Complexity Drives Networking Complexity

Carl Weinschenk speaks with Cathy Zatloukal, president and CEO, MobileAccess .   Weinschenk : Are enterprises showing interest in femtocells? Zatloukal : We’re not seeing a lot of them in the e... More >

November 20, 2008

Android Flaw Highlights Importance of Open Source Software Audits

Lora Bentley spoke with Theresa Bui Friday product marketing VP at Palamida .   Bentley: Awhile ago, there was quite a bit of media buzz about a vulnerability in the Google Android code base. ... More >

Making SOA Work – Even When Management's AWOL

SOA governance should be an enterprise-wide endeavor. But what if it's not? Development teams and divisions can't just hope for the best, according to Dan Diephouse, chief software architect on the M... More >

November 19, 2008

The Dollars and Sense of Going Green

Loraine Lawson spoke with Chris O'Connor, the vice president of Tivoli strategy and marketing at IBM, and head of IBM Software Group Green. Recently, IBM publicized updates to its Big Green initiativ... More >

Managing 'Human Processes'

Lora Bentley spoke with Jacob Ukelson, chief technology officer for ActionBase , which is breaking ground when it comes to human process management.   Bentley : What has ActionBase set out to ... More >

Increasing Complexity and Geographic Distribution Driving TCO

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Vikas Aggarwal, CEO of Zyrion . Weinschenk : How do you define TCO? Aggarwal : TCO for us are the ongoing costs. A lot of this is operational costs, so certainly we say ... More >

November 17, 2008

Battling the PC Power Drain

Arthur Cole spoke with Dan Shapero, senior VP of marketing for Kaseya .   Cole : Kaseya recently released some research on the power impact of PCs in the enterprise. What was the most surprisi... More >

November 14, 2008

Keynote: VoIP Reliability Better While Quality Slightly Regresses

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Ken Harker, a senior consultant for Keynote Competitive Research . This month, Keynote released results of a study of VoIP audio quality.   Weinschenk : What is the ... More >

Arbor Finds Attacks on ISPs Bigger and More Sophisticated

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Craig Labovitz, the chief scientist for Arbor Networks . The company just released its Fourth Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, which found a growth in the ... More >

November 12, 2008

A Cloud of Your Own

Arthur Cole spoke with Steve Oberlin, co-founder/chief scientist, Cassatt Corp.   Cole : Cloud computing is usually thought of as an external resource — the leasing of data center capabilities... More >

GE, Google Partner for Energy Efficiency Innovation

Lora Bentley spoke with General Electric spokesperson Peter O'Toole regarding the company's partnership with Google to address the country's energy crisis. Bentley : Why partner with Google on thi... More >

Open Source Transforms Software TCO

Carl Weinschenk spoke with David A. Wheeler, widely known open source analyst.   Weinschenk : How do you determine total cost of ownership in open source? Wheeler : Determining TCO is simple, in... More >

November 10, 2008

Spammers Happy to Live in Interesting Times

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Dermot Harnett, principal analyst, Antispam Engineering, Symantec . Symantec’s November State of Spam Report said that much of the spam during the past months focused, not... More >

Hearing Is Believing

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Alan Percy, director of market development, AudioCodes , which this month announced a family of wideband VoIP products.   Weinschenk : Describe AudioCodes’s new famil... More >

November 7, 2008

Full-Scale Fibre Channel

Arthur Cole spoke with Brian McCann, VP/chief sales and marketing officer, OnPATH Technologies .   Cole : Your latest Fibre Channel switch module is said to provide more than 1,500 8 Gbps ports... More >

November 6, 2008

No More Pain: Why SOA Governance Doesn't Have to Hurt

Loraine Lawson spoke with Todd Biske , senior enterprise architect with Monsanto and technology blogger, about his new book on "SOA Governance," published by Packt Publishing. In part one of the in... More >

Energy Efficiency: What Cannot Be Measured Cannot Be Improved

Arthur Cole spoke with Sunil Kalidindi, director of voice and wireless, Ixia . Cole : What is the Energy Consumption Rating (ECR) and how will it benefit the enterprise/networking community? Kalidi... More >

November 5, 2008

SaaS Changes the Dynamics of TCO

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Scott Sehlhorst, president, Tyner Blain , a software consulting firm.   Weinschenk : How things are bought and sold impacts TCO. How does traditional enterprise soft... More >

The Suite Life of Internet Security

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Raimund Genes, CTI, Trend Micro .   Weinschenk : Is it a personal or corporate belief that the era of standalone antivirus software is effectively over? Genes : It ... More >

The Limitations of SOA Governance Tools

Loraine Lawson talked with Todd Biske , senior enterprise architect with Monsanto and technology blogger, about his new book on "SOA Governance," published by Packt Publishing. In this first half of... More >

November 3, 2008

Rethinking Telework Centers

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Michael Shear, founder of Pockets Workplace Alternative .   Weinschenk : What are you proposing? Shear : The focus is on establishing a new model for using telecom in... More >

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