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Interviews

March 2009

March 30, 2009

Getting Better Savings out of Storage

Arthur Cole spoke with Gary Watson, chief technology officer, Nexsan .   Cole : The question of green storage seems to take a back seat to server consolidation and other energy-saving measures ... More >

Strategy Analytics’ Winthrop: Enterprise iPhone OS Still on Hold

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Philippe Winthrop, a director of the global wireless practice for Strategy Analytics .   Weinschenk : The pending release of iPhone OS 3.0 brings up, again, th... More >

March 27, 2009

Is Data the Missing Last Mile for SOA Success?

  Ash Parikh, who manages and blogs about Informatica's SOA and real-time data integration strategy, says data is SOA's last mile . As he explained to Loraine Lawson, companies invested in SOA ... More >

March 26, 2009

Enterprise Social Computing at a Crossroads

  Ann All spoke with Mark Koenig, a vice president at Saugatuck Technology , who authored a recent report titled “Beware the Gap: Critical Times for Enterprise Social Computing.”   All : I... More >

March 24, 2009

Psystar Sees Market for Less Expensive OS X Box, Apple Wants to Protect Its Brand

Lora Bentley spoke with Madison Spach, Jr., a partner in the law firm of Spach, Capaldi & Waggaman , where litigation over media and technology assets and related trade secrets is one area of fo... More >

March 23, 2009

To Warehouse or Not to Warehouse on a Tight Budget?

Arthur Coke spoke with Tim Young, vice president of corporate marketing, Netezza .   Cole : It's been said that data warehousing is a luxury that many enterprises might not be able to afford in... More >

March 20, 2009

Mobile Device Management Grows as Definition Changes

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Andrew Borg, a senior research analyst for Wireless and Mobility with The Aberdeen Group . Borg’s latest mobility research, released this month, is titled “More Mob... More >

Cast Iron Finds SaaS Integration Growing, but In-House Code Still the Main Competition

  Cast Iron Systems is best known for its integration appliance, but the company has also expanded into virtual appliances and, as of 2008, SaaS integration. Ken Comée, CEO of Cast Iron Systems... More >

March 19, 2009

Where in the World Is IT Spending Confidence?

Ann All spoke with Daniel Okubo, a Datamonitor analyst who authored a recent report, “How Will IT Budgets Hold Up in 2009.”   All : Most analyst firms are finding that companies continue to sc... More >

Traveling the Fibre Channel Highway

Arthur Cole spoke with David Tareen, worldwide marketing manager, IBM Systems and Technology Group.   Cole : Now that IBM is bundling QLogic's 8 Gbps Fibre Channel cards in its blades, do you ... More >

March 17, 2009

Patents Make More Sense for Software Than Copyrights

Lora Bentley spoke with Greenberg Traurig co-managing shareholder and intellectual property attorney Heather Meeker, who says open source is not treated differently than other software in the paten... More >

March 16, 2009

The Tricky Task of Giving Away $7.2 Billion

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Russ Sharer, the vice president of marketing for Occam Networks . Occam had a representative at a public meeting on March 10 hosted by the NTIA, the Federal Communi... More >

March 13, 2009

Despite Economy, F&A Outsourcing Buyers Look Beyond Cost

  Ann All spoke with Katrina Menzigian, vice president, Everest Research Institute , which recently published its Finance & Accounting Outsourcing (FAO) Annual Report 2009. Everest analysts... More >

Converging GRC Initiatives Across the Enterprise Just Makes Sense

Lora Bentley spoke with John Kelly, marketing director at governance, risk and compliance solution provider OpenPages . Kelly says prevailing trends in the GRC market this year include an increased ... More >

March 11, 2009

The Right Network for the Right Drive

Arthur Cole spoke with Lance L. Smith, senior vice president of product marketing, Fusion-io .   Cole : Fusion-io's main technologies are built on a PCIe architecture. What advantages does PCIe... More >

Red Hat on Misconceptions, Realities of Open Source Middleware

  Red Hat's middleware division, JBoss , recently held a virtual conference to announce several product updates, including a new version of JBoss Portal Platform . It also unveiled plans to cr... More >

March 6, 2009

Obama BlackBerry Debate Highlights Mobile Device Vulnerability

Lora Bentley spoke with former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joseph Hagin , who says the president of the United States has complete discretion in how he will communicate -- with a couple of exc... More >

Best-in-Class Retailers Making Move to SaaS

  Ann All spoke with Sahir Anand, a senior retail analyst for the Aberdeen Group . He recently authored a report titled “Retail On-Demand: Software-as-a-Service Takes Off.”   All : Accordi... More >

iSuppli: Extending Fiber, Not New Subscribers, Key for Telcos

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Steve Rago, principal analyst for Broadband and IPTV for iSuppli .   Weinschenk : How do you see the dynamics of the marketplace right now? Rago : The bottom line is ... More >

March 3, 2009

Systems Integrator Sees Integration as Crucial to Business Re-Engineering

Loraine Lawson spoke with Kadeer Begs, CTO of Prolifics , one of the largest IBM partner systems integrators, about why he thinks SOA will survive, why Web services interoperability is a pressing pr... More >

March 2, 2009

Warehousing Via Virtual Machine

Arthur Cole spoke with David Menninger, vice president of marketing and product management, Vertica .   Cole : You've released the Vertica Analytic Database as a virtual appliance. What are the... More >

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