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Interviews

February 2009

February 27, 2009

Don’t Let Your Cousin’s Kid Run Your Company’s Social Network

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Dan Hoang , a blogger who covers social-networking topics. He says the key for companies that want to get involved in social networking is to find consultants who are as s... More >

February 26, 2009

Finally, an IT Process Improvement Framework the Business Can Appreciate?

Ann All spoke with Sheila Upton, director of Technology and Security Risk Services for Ernst & Young, a member of the Innovation Value Institute , a consortium of industry, consulting, not-for-p... More >

February 25, 2009

IT, Legal Work Better Together on E-Discovery and Compliance

Lora Bentley spoke with Patrick Zeller, a VP and deputy general counsel for Guidance Software . He says large and small companies alike are assembling teams made up of legal and IT representatives t... More >

The Nonprofit IT Catch-22: Can Open Source Solve It?

Data silos, spreadsheet creep and ineffective use of data are a problem for nonprofits. Technology could help, Michelle Murrain, a principal consultant at Metacentric Technology Advising, told IT Bus... More >

February 23, 2009

The 10-Minute Recovery Program

Arthur Cole spoke with CEO ReiJane Huai of FalconStor, a company that  says it has a simplified approach to disaster recovery that is more efficient and more scalable.   Cole : FalconStor has be... More >

February 20, 2009

Vendors Should Focus on Expanding Existing VoIP Deployments

Carl Weinschenk spoke with In-Stat analyst Dave Lamelin about his recently released research report, “2008 U.S. Business VoIP Overview: Stick to Fundamentals.”   Weinschenk : What did you and ... More >

February 19, 2009

IT Shouldn’t Sell Itself Short

Ann All spoke with Tony Lock, program director with Freeform Dynamics , an IT industry analyst firm that conducts large-scale research studies into strategy, business cases and best practices, and p... More >

'Community Sourcing' Natural Fit for Creating Compliance Solutions

Lora Bentley spoke with Collaborative Software Initiative CEO Stuart Cohen, who says collaborative development, aka "community sourcing," is a natural fit for companies looking for solutions that w... More >

February 17, 2009

InfiniBand and Ethernet Battle for the Enterprise Fabric

Arthur Cole spoke with Brian Sparks, director of marketing communications for Mellanox .   Cole : For a while, it looked like Ethernet and InfiniBand could work together as a data center fabric... More >

February 16, 2009

Beyond Integration: SOA Done Right and Refactoring

  Last week, Anne Thomas Manes, a research director with the Burton Group , explained why she wrote SOA's obituary and discussed the benefits of doing SOA right . This week, Manes explains wh... More >

February 13, 2009

Enterprise IM Struggles – but Emergence of Unified Communications Brings Hope

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Burton Group analyst Bill Pray.   Weinschenk : Enterprise-grade instant messaging seems to be struggling. What is your take? Pray : Enterprises have not adopted it l... More >

February 12, 2009

Hackett Group: Movement of Jobs Offshore to Accelerate

  Ann All spoke with Hackett Group Chief Research Officer Michel Janssen and analyst Erik Dorr. Along with analyst Wayne Mincey, the men co-authored a report titled “Companies Accelerate Globa... More >

February 11, 2009

Oregon Sees Open Source as Opportunity to Collaborate Between States

Lora Bentley spoke with State of Oregon CIO Dugan Petty, who says that especially in the current economic downturn, beyond using open source internally to meet state agency needs cost-effectively, th... More >

Why SOA Should Be Dead to the Business, but Alive and Well in IT

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Anne Thomas Manes, a research director with the Burton Group and industry expert on Web services who recently made headlines for writing SOA's obituary. As she expl... More >

February 10, 2009

Compression and Dedupe: Together at Last

Arthur Cole spoke with Peter Smails, vice president of marketing, Storwize .   Cole : A lot of people are reluctant to cascade too many data reduction techniques in their storage environments b... More >

February 6, 2009

CERN Finds Success with SOA

After patiently assuring Loraine Lawson that CERN was not attempting to create a black hole on the earth , Derek Mathieson, section leader responsible for the E-business systems at CERN, discussed w... More >

At Least Wireless Developers Are Having Fun

    Carl Weinschenk spoke with John Andrews, president and CEO of Evans Data Corp. Evans released a survey earlier this month that said most people who work in the field expect applicatio... More >

February 4, 2009

Lucid Imagination Offers Commercial Support for Lucene, Solr

Lora Bentley spoke with Lucid Imagination CEO Eric Gries, who says that in the past three years, the Apache Lucene project has gained "tremendous momentum" -- an 8- to 10-fold increase in downloads. ... More >

February 3, 2009

PCIe, the New Interconnect?

Arthur Cole spoke with Joey Maitra, director of business development, Magma .   Cole : Enterprises have access to a number of server and cluster interconnect technologies. What advantages does ... More >

February 2, 2009

Enterprise Search Becoming Less of a Mystery

Ann All spoke with Theresa Regli, a principal with CMS Watch , which evaluates content-oriented technologies and publishes head-to-head comparative reviews of leading solutions. CMS Watch recently p... More >

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