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Interviews

December 2008

December 31, 2008

The Quest for the 360-Degree Customer View and a Single CDI

Loraine Lawson spoke with Philip Russom, an analyst with The Data Warehousing Institute , on what a recent TDWI report, "Customer Data Integration: Managing Customer Information as an Organizational... More >

December 30, 2008

Integration and the Value of Viewing Data as an Enterprise Asset

Loraine Lawson spoke with Philip Russom, an analyst with The Data Warehousing Institute , about enterprise asset programs. Lawson : I read your report, and there is a lot in it. I thought it'd be... More >

December 29, 2008

Obama Presidency Breathes New Life into Municipal Broadband

Carl Weinschenk spoke with municipal broadband consultant Craig Settles . Weinschenk : How would you characterize the status of municipal Wi-Fi? Settles : The best way to describe it is that i... More >

Boomi's New Business Strategy Bets on Pre-Integrating the Cloud

Loraine Lawson spoke with Boomi's CEO and President Bob Moul and founder and CTO Rick Nucci about integration via the cloud and why more SaaS companies may be including integration services. Lawson... More >

December 23, 2008

The Changing Face of Storage Networking

Carl Weinschenk spoke with David Slik, the co-founder and technology architect of Bycast . Weinschenk : What does Bycast do? Slik : Bycast makes storage virtualization software that connects all s... More >

Egypt Is Middle East's Rising Outsourcing Star

Ann All spoke with Dr. Hazem Y. Abdelazim, CEO of Egypt's Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA). He was appointed to the post in December 2007, after serving as the Minister's ... More >

December 22, 2008

Putting Your WAN in Overdrive

Arthur Cole spoke with Jeff Aaron, vice president of marketing, Silver Peak Systems .   Cole : There is a lot of talk about WAN optimization being a recession-proof technology because of the t... More >

December 19, 2008

The Two Faces of Unified Communications

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Blair Pleasant, president and principal analyst for COMMfusion LLC and co-founder of UC Strategies.com.   Weinschenk : COMMfusion suggests that there are two categori... More >

Automation in the New Frontier

Arthur Cole spoke with Mike Puterbaugh, vice president of product marketing, Stratavia . Cole : These days, it's the rare data center that is not dealing with mixed environments. How can enterpri... More >

Pieces of Endpoint Virtualization Puzzle Coming Together

Susan Hall spoke with Symantec's Endpoint Virtualization Unit Marketing Director Brad Rowland about the technology and how the current economic climate will affect its adoption. Hall : Does endpoint... More >

December 18, 2008

Power Infrastructure Planning Relies on Better Monitoring

Arthur Cole spoke with Steve Yellen, vice president of product and marketing strategy, Aperture Research Institute .   Cole: Aperture recently conducted a survey of IT professionals to gauge t... More >

December 17, 2008

Ethernet and InfiniBand to Coexist, Gracefully

Carl Weinschenk spoke with David Gross, the managing partner of Freesky Research . Weinschenk : Where are we on the road to 40 and 100 Gigabit per second Ethernet? Gross : We are not even at the s... More >

December 12, 2008

Virtualization Going Mobile

Carl Weinschenk spoke with J.P. LeBlanc, the vice president of business development and marketing for VirtualLogix .   Weinschenk: How did virtualization on smartphones develop? LeBlanc : I... More >

Native Fibre Channel in an Ethernet World

Arthur Cole spoke with Shaun Walsh, vice president, corporate marketing, Emulex . Cole : With Fibre Channel over Ethernet all but completed, how quickly will deployment happen? Will 2009 be the d... More >

December 10, 2008

Blades: Speed Increases Show No Sign of Slowing

Carl Weinschenk spoke   with Dan Tuchler, the vice president of Strategy and Product Management for Blade Network   Technologies . Weinschenk : What is the big news in blade networking? Tuchler : ... More >

VMware Says Mobile Phones Are Ripe for Virtualization

Lora Bentley spoke with Srinivas Krishnamurti, product management director at VMware . Bentley : What does VMware bring to the table as far as virtualization technology? Krishnamurti : The thing t... More >

AMD Tries to Shanghai Virtualization

Arthur Cole spoke with Charles King, principal analyst, Pund-IT, Inc . Cole : The Shanghai processors came out earlier than expected and seem to be in good working order. Do you think the company l... More >

December 8, 2008

Close of Clearwire Deal Good News for Wireless Broadband

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Bob Perez, a mobile broadband analyst with IMS Research. Weinschenk : What does the completion of the Clearwire/Sprint deal mean? Perez : During the next two to three... More >

MDM: Silo Breaker or Silo Builder?

Loraine Lawson spoke with Ravi Shankar, senior director of product marketing at Siperian , about how ill-planned MDM deployments can add to the silo problem instead of resolving it. Lawson : Coul... More >

December 4, 2008

Dimdim Users Help Take Web Conferencing up a Notch

Lora Bentley spoke with DD Ganguly, founder of open source Web conferencing company Dimdim . The company recently finished beta and released a new version of its software.   Bentley : Dimdim m... More >

December 3, 2008

IBM Aims for Light at the End of the Virtual Tunnel

Arthur Cole spoke with Andrew Wachs, virtualization segment manager, IBM Systems and Technology Group . Cole : With virtualization undergoing such rapid development these days, it's difficult for ... More >

Using Ethernet to Reduce Interconnects Simplifies Blades

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Brad Booth, the chairman of the board of the Ethernet Alliance and senior principal engineer for AMCC Networking . Weinschenk : What happened last month? Booth : The n... More >

December 2, 2008

OSA's New President Will Continue to Focus on Interoperability

Lora Bentley spoke with Anthony Gold, a Unisys vice president and the new president of the Open Solutions Alliance about where he wants to take the OSA next year.   Bentley : What's in stor... More >

Quick Cost Savings Available with Web Services

Loraine Lawson talked about the cost-saving potential of Web services with Stephen Dubois, CEO of Xignite , which offers Web services for financial services companies.   Lawson : You have ideas... More >

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