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June 29, 2009

Inside the Network Flow Processor

Arthur Cole spoke with Jarrod Siket, senior vice president of sales and marketing, Netronome .   Cole : The concept of network flow processing is fairly new in the data center. What exactly doe... More >

June 26, 2009

Network Assessments: The First and Continuing Step

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Paul Wiggins, streamline product manager for Tone Software .   Weinschenk : What is a network assessment? Wiggins : A network assessment is a way of going in and benc... More >

June 25, 2009

Great Companies Think Alike: IT Is a Strategic Asset

  Ann All spoke with Jeanne Ross, co- author with Peter Weill of “IT Savvy” (Harvard Business Publishing), which is designed to give executives the information they need to understand and levera... More >

XBRL U.S. Works Toward Wider Use of Format for Business Data

Lora Bentley spoke with Michelle Savage, communications VP for XBRL U.S. , a non-profit consortium formed to promote wider adoption of the XML-based data format for business information. The group i... More >

June 24, 2009

Why High Availability Matters, No Matter How Fast the Data Integration

Bertrand Cariou, Informatica 's Data Integration Evangelist, works on methodologies and best practices for implementing the company's technology. After reading an IT Business Edge post about latenc... More >

June 23, 2009

Get out of the Red by Going Green

Arthur Cole spoke with John Lamb, author, "The Greening of IT." An excerpt from " The Greening of IT " is available for download in the Knowledge Network.   Cole : Your book is largely about how... More >

June 19, 2009

The Industry Gets Serious About 802.11n Training

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Certified Wireless Network Professional CTO Devin Akin about the group’s recent training road show.   Weinschenk : What is CWNP doing? Akin : We introduced 802.11n i... More >

June 18, 2009

Quality of Connections, Not Quantity, Key to Social Marketing

Ann All spoke with Zsolt Katona, a professor of marketing at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley . Along with Peter Pal Zubcsek, a Ph.D. candidate at France’s INSEAD , a... More >

June 17, 2009

Capability Maturity Model Integration Is About Improvement

Lora Bentley spoke with Ralf Kneuper, who worked in the quality assurance group of Software AG and at the systems house of the Deutsche Bahn AG as a senior consultant for process models, quality mana... More >

June 16, 2009

How Smart Companies Approach SOA

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Judith Hurwitz , president of business consulting firm Hurwitz & Associates and co-author of the recently released second edition of SOA for Dummies , about h... More >

June 15, 2009

The Right Storage for the Right Environment

Arthur Cole spoke with Jim DeCaires, storage product marketing manager, Fujitsu America .   Cole : The latest market research indicates that both storage and server sales are down, while tools ... More >

June 12, 2009

Téral: Telecom Spending to Return by Year’s End

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Stéphane Téral, principal analyst, Mobile & FMC Infrastructure for Infonetics Research . In May, Téral released a report, “Service Provider Capex, Opex, ARPU, and Subs... More >

Why IT Seldom Calculates ROI – And Why You Should

Loraine Lawson asked Neil Ward-Dutton, co-founder and research director at MWD Advisors , why he thinks ROI (return on investment) is seldom practiced by IT divisions and why that needs to change. &... More >

June 11, 2009

Like Broader Internet, Social Networks Must Face Fraud

  Ann All spoke with Susan Jacobson, a professor at Temple University's School of Communications and Theater about fraud on Twitter and other new social media channels.   All: Despite pu... More >

June 10, 2009

Strategic Focus, Service Bundle Help CMU Incubator Succeed

Lora Bentley spoke with Ken Van Der Wende, president and CEO of the Central Michigan University Research Corp. , about the organization's business incubator program. He says the CMU-RC pipeline is ... More >

June 9, 2009

A Service-Oriented Approach to Cost Cutting on Customizing SAP

Loraine Lawson spoke with Atul Saini, CEO/Chairman/CTO of Fiorano Software, about how Fiorano's SOA Platform can help companies customize and Web-enable ERP forms, without spending huge money on co... More >

June 8, 2009

The Value of Deduplication

Arthur Cole spoke with Michael McMahon, senior director of worldwide OEM and alliances; and David West, vice president of marketing and business development, CommVault .   Cole : Deduplication ... More >

June 5, 2009

HTML 5 Digs into the Specifics

  Susan Hall interviewed Google's Ian Hickson, who serves as full-time editor for the HTML5 specification for the both the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group and the Worldwide ... More >

Achieving Transparency in Decision-Making with Advanced Analytics

Lora Bentley spoke with Tracy Hewitt, marketing director at Business Insight, a not-for-profit consulting organization specializing in the application of advanced analytics to real-world problems, ch... More >

G.hn Aims to Wire Homes More Efficiently

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Matt Keowen, the co-chair of The Marketing Group of The HomeGrid Forum . Keowen also is a senior director for Ikanos .   Weinschenk : What is G.hn and the HomeGrid F... More >

June 4, 2009

Moving Millennials into Management

  Ann All spoke with Lisa Orrell, author of the book "Millennials Incorporated" and a speaker and consultant hired by well-known organizations to educate their executive leaders and management t... More >

June 2, 2009

'As SAN Grows...So Does Fibre Channel'

Arthur Cole spoke with Skip Jones, chairman of the Fibre Channel Industry Association and director of corporate planning at QLogic .   Cole: The FCIA just completed its second FCoE Plugfest.... More >

Why Web Services Can Be a Great Starting Point for SOA

Recently, the Rolta SOA Center of Excellence unveiled a new software tool, iPerspective , which will become part of its consultant service package, SOA Today. Loraine Lawson spoke with Technical Man... More >