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Interviews

March 2010

March 31, 2010

Of Clouds and Appliances: Why Cast Iron Is Supporting Both Options

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Chandar Pattabhiram , vice president of Channel and Product Marketing for Cast Iron. Earlier this month, Cast Iron unveiled OmniConnect , a new platform designed ... More >

March 29, 2010

Hypervisor Mix-and-Match

Arthur Cole spoke with Rob Peglar, senior fellow, Xiotech . Virtualization has moved from a cutting-edge enterprise technology to an integral component of data center infrastructure in record time. ... More >

March 26, 2010

Warning Signs for RIM

  Carl Weinschenk spoke to John Martin, the president and CEO of Crowd Science , who says people are curious about the Android Nexus One and continue loving the iPhone. A study released this mo... More >

Microsoft Makes Connections with Online Communities

  Ann All spoke with Toby Richards, general manager of Community & Online Support at Microsoft about the role of online communities in the company's support strategy.   All: How many o... More >

March 25, 2010

As SOA Matures, Guidelines Clear Up About When and Where to Use It

  As SOA matures, the use cases are becoming clearer, according to ZapThink managing partner Jason Bloomberg. This week, he explains what situations SOA bests addresses and the benefits of SOA... More >

E-Discovery: The Intersection of Law and Technology

Lora Bentley spoke with Andrew Cohen, Vice President and General Manager of EMC SourceOne eDiscovery in theĀ  Content Management and Archiving Division of EMC Corporation , on why companies should ca... More >

March 22, 2010

In Support of Networked DAS

Arthur Cole spoke with Tom Heil, senior systems architect, Storage Components Division, LSI . Virtualization practically requires a networked storage architecture to support the fluid nature of mode... More >

Put Process Before Technology in BPM Initiatives

  Ann All spoke with Vinaykumar Mummigatti, head of the BPM group at Virtusa Corporation , a global IT services company providing IT consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The company... More >

March 19, 2010

ABI: Mobile Access Revenues Approaching or Passing Messaging Revenues

  Carl Weinschenk spoke to ABI Research Practice Director Dan Shey. Shey and ABI this week released a report highlighting global carrier and service provider revenue trends. There are two piec... More >

March 18, 2010

Putting SOA to Work with MDM and BPM

Jason Bloomberg, a managing partner at ZapThink , says you'll still hear about SOA this year, but the focus increasingly will be on incorporating the tenets of SOA with other initiatives. In part on... More >

March 17, 2010

Mitigate Risk of Insider Threat by Monitoring Inside User Activity

The Transportation Safety Administration made the news not long ago when a former employee was indicted for attempting to corrupt TSA databases. Lora Bentley spoke with PacketMotion marketing VP ... More >

March 15, 2010

CIO Conversations: The University of Kentucky's Vince Kellen on Challenges and Opportunities

  In part one of a two-part interview of a two-part interview with Ann All, Vince Kellen, the CIO of the University of Kentucky and a senior consultant at Cutter Consortium, discussed the impo... More >

Number of Layers in the Cloud Depends on Your Perspective

Arthur Cole spoke with Jon Toor, vice president of marketing, Xsigo Systems Inc . The cloud may be upon us, but there is still a wide variety of opinions as to what it is and what it can do for the ... More >

March 12, 2010

CIO Conversations: The University of Kentucky's Vince Kellen on Learning the Business

  In the first of what IT Business Edge hopes will be a regular series of conversations with CIOs, Ann All spoke with Vince Kellen, the CIO of the University of Kentucky and a senior consultant ... More >

Planning, Specific Goals Keys to Successful VoIP Deployments

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Amit Kapoor, director of strategic technology advancement for Tone Software . Kapoor says companies must know what they want their VoIP systems to achieve and take a proac... More >

March 10, 2010

Massachusetts Data Privacy Regs: Enforcement Still in Question

Lora Bentley spoke with Cynthia Larose, a Boston-based member of the law firm of Mintz Levin , regarding the new data privacy regulations that became effective in Massachusetts as of March 1, 2010. ... More >

New Data Management Platform Puts Business in the Data Driver's Seat

  Loraine Lawson spoke with DataFlux 's president and CEO, Tony Fisher, about the company's new data management platform just before its recent release. He explained why the new platform includ... More >

March 8, 2010

Put Your Ducks in One Row for Investigations, eDiscovery, Compliance

Susan Hall spoke with Albert Barsocchini, director and assistant general counsel for Guidance Software. In an article in Real eDiscovery magazine (download), Barsocchini makes the case for a unifie... More >

Case Management Is Step Forward in BPM Evolution

  Ann All spoke with Forrester research analysts Connie Moore and Craig Le Clair about an approach they call dynamic case management, which they feel is a next step in the evolution of busines... More >

The Rise of the Machine-to-Machine Sector

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Steve Pazol, the president of nPhase . At the World Mobile Conference last month, nPhase, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone announced a strategic alliance aimed at simp... More >

March 5, 2010

Best Practices for Creating Disaster Recovery Plans for Your SMB

Paul Mah wanted to explore best practices that will help SMBs to create their own disaster recovery (DR) plans. What better way than to have the difficult questions answered by an expert in high avai... More >

InfiniBand for the Average Enterprise

Arthur Cole spoke with Sujal Das, senior director of product management, Mellanox Technologies . The network fabric of choice for most enterprises heading into virtual and cloud environments is 10 G... More >

March 4, 2010

Cloud Security Alliance: All About Addressing the Issues

Lora Bentley spoke with Matthew Gardiner, product marketing director for CA Security Management , about the company's decision to join the Cloud Security Alliance . (For more on cloud security, se... More >

Don't Let Archiving Integration Costs Surprise You During M&As

Susan Hall spoke with George May, vice president of product strategy for Kroll Ontrack , which specializes in data management, legal technologies and litigation consulting. May explained that during... More >

March 3, 2010

The Argument for Rural Sourcing: Not Just 'Flag Waving'

Don Tennant spoke with Monty Hamilton, CEO of Rural Sourcing Inc. , about the growing popularity of outsourcing IT work to relatively low-cost, non-metro U.S. areas as an alternative to offshore loc... More >

Buying and Selling Integration: Why Marketplaces for Developers Are on the Rise

Informatica's vice president of Product Management & Marketing, Data Integration, Judy Ko, explains to IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson why Informatica and other integration vendors are offering... More >

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