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Interviews

August 2010

August 31, 2010

Talking Hadoop: Why It's Changing the Way We Deal with Big Data

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Richard Daley, founder and CEO of the open source data-integration and BI vendor, Pentaho. In this week's Q&A, he explains what Hadoop is and how it's used to t... More >

August 30, 2010

Managing Virtual/Cloud Environments: Watch and Learn

Arthur Cole spoke with Daniel Heimlich, vice president, Netuitive. The more complex the virtual environment becomes, the more difficult it is for human operators to monitor and manage it. The need ... More >

August 27, 2010

IMS Research: 5 Billion Connected Devices -- And Counting

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Ian Weightman, president of  IMS Research . Weightman says there are three big waves of connectivity: The first was PCs, the second cellular devices and the third ... More >

Navigating the Ins and Outs of Employee-Owned PCs

Some companies are considering a model in which they reimburse employees to purchase their own PCs. (Read Ann All's interview with Gary Lee , CTO of Carfax.) Though it can work for some organization... More >

August 24, 2010

SSDs: From SAS/SATA to PCIe

Arthur Cole spoke with Kam Eshghi, senior director of marketing, Enterprise Computing Division, Integrated Device Technology. Initial deployments of enterprise-class solid-state disks (SSDs) featured... More >

August 23, 2010

Smarsh on Social Media Archiving and Compliance Best Practices

Lora Bentley spoke with Sam Kolbert-Hyle, VP of business development and strategic initiatives at Smarsh, about the risks of using social media tools and how businesses can combat them.   Bent... More >

August 20, 2010

E-Commerce Apps, Mobilized Sites Evolving at Different Rates

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Sheila Dahlgren, senior product marketing manager for Adobe Scene7, about the company's Rich Mobile Commerce Survey. She said more companies are focusing on mobile... More >

August 17, 2010

Elevating Integration to the CXO Level

Aheesh Nagraj, systems analyst at Accenture based in the Bengaluru area of India, recently created the Chief Integration Officers Forum, a discussion group on LinkedIn. He shared by e-mail why h... More >

August 16, 2010

Rapid Growth Ahead for Green Technologies

It looks like there's a lot more "green" in the green data center than meets the eye. And we're not just talking about environmental concerns or money saved on power bills, either. According to Pike... More >

August 13, 2010

Skype IPO Should Make All VoIP Providers Smile

Last week, VoIP provider Skype announced that it will raise $100 million through an IPO. Comunicano CEO and long-time VoIP blogger Andy Abramson tells IT Business Edge blogger Carl Weinschenk tha... More >

August 12, 2010

Execs Want More Transparency into IT Costs

  Ann All spoke with Jeff Day, director of marketing at Apptio , which recently conducted a survey in partnership with the Worldwide Executive Council to gain insights into how CIOs calculate, ... More >

August 11, 2010

Taking Spreadsheet Data Out of the Silo Shadows

  Sean Martin, CTO of Cambridge Semantics, explains to IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson how the company uses a new approach, semantic middleware, to solve a very old problem: Spreadsheet silo... More >

August 10, 2010

New Challenges for Disaster Recovery

Arthur Cole spoke with Vish Mulchand, director of software product marketing, 3PAR.   Disaster recovery was never the easiest proposition for IT managers. But lately it seems the complexity has... More >

August 6, 2010

How Do People Rate Reading Devices?

  Reading is fundamental. It also is growing more confusing. There are PCs, e-readers, generic mobile devices and the quaint notion of words and pictures printed on paper. The Nielsen Norman Gr... More >

August 4, 2010

Coming Soon: The MDM-Aware Application

When IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson last spoke with Ravi Shankar , Siperian was a pure-play master data management company. It's been six months since Informatica acquired Siperian and Shankar be... More >

Midmarket CIOs Slower to Virtualize Desktops than Servers

    Ann All spoke with Gartner analyst James Browning about midmarket CIOs' plans for virtualization, based on a survey of 80 midsize organizations he conducted at the IT Business Edge Midm... More >

August 3, 2010

Kern Medical Center Making Its Way Toward 'Meaningful Use'

Lora Bentley spoke with Paul Hensler, CEO at Kern Medical Center , about the California county hospital’s move to electronic medical records. Bentley: What has the process of moving to electronic r... More >

August 2, 2010

Midmarket CIOs Have Aggressive Virtualization Plans

    Ann All spoke with Gartner analyst James Browning about midmarket CIOs' plans for virtualization, based on a survey of 80 midsize organizations he conducted at the IT Business Edge Midm... More >

Financial Services Firms Facing Big Compliance Changes, Costs

Lora Bentley spoke with Mike Brauneis, a director in Protiviti ’s financial services industry risk and compliance practice, about what the newly passed Dodd-Frank Act will mean for those in the in... More >

Seeking an Interoperable Ethernet up to 100G

The new 40G/100G Ethernet standard is barely out of the ratification process and the drive is on to foster compatibility among various vendor platforms. The Ethernet Alliance is at the forefront of... More >

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