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Interviews

September 2010

September 30, 2010

Chief Risk Officers Need a Top-Down, 360-Degree View of Risk

Lora Bentley spoke with John Pironti, ISACA security adviser and president of IP Architects , about how the role of chief risk officer is evolving. Bentley: What does a chief risk officer typical... More >

HP Connect Works to Increase Member Engagement

  Ann All spoke with Nina Buik, chief marketing officer of the Connect HP user community , about the continued evolution of the community as it tries to engage with existing members and potenti... More >

September 29, 2010

Creator of Hadoop Explains Why It's More than Just Storage

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Doug Cutting, creator of Hadoop and the chief architect at Cloudera. How do you pronounce Hadoop? And what can this open source, “big data” solution do besides stor... More >

September 27, 2010

SSDs and the Storage Area Network

Arthur Cole spoke with Scott Shadley, MACH16 product line manager for STEC.   SSDs have the potential to remake more than just your storage arrays. With an ever-widening range of memory designs ... More >

September 24, 2010

Good Days for Wireless LANs

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Loren Shalinsky, a senior analyst with the Dell’Oro Group. Earlier this month, the firm released research finding that that  wireless local-area network (WLAN) rev... More >

September 23, 2010

Yammer Evolving into Enterprise Social-Networking Platform

  Ann All spoke with Steve Apfelberg, vice president of marketing for Yammer, an enterprise social-networking product that is rolling out a fairly long list of new functionalities. More import... More >

September 21, 2010

How Business Logic Modeling Helps Data Warehouse, Integration

Randy Lea, Vice President of Product & Services Marketing at Teradata, explains the unique integration challenges of massively parallel environments and what organizations often do wrong when des... More >

A Key to Unlocking the Cloud

Arthur Cole spoke with John Stetic, vice president of product management, Novell . Cloud lock-in is such a concern among enterprises that whenever a company like Novell releases a system said to tra... More >

September 17, 2010

With Increased Complexity, Testing and Monitoring of VoIP Networks Grow More Vital

  Carl Weinschenk spoke with Amit Kapoor, Tone Software ’s director of strategic technology advancement.   The increase in real-time applications strains IP network voice capabilities. Thi... More >

September 16, 2010

Proxy Access Promises More Board, Shareholder Dialogue

Lora Bentley spoke with Amy Curtis, a partner in the Dallas office of Thompson & Knight, about the added power company shareholders have under the new proxy access rule and what the changes wil... More >

September 15, 2010

Integration and the ROI of Deploying on the Cloud

  Recently, pure-play cloud computing integrator and consultancy Astadia released a free ROI calculator – with results in British Pounds Sterling and U.S. dollars - for building applications i... More >

September 13, 2010

Ensuring Your Approach to ITIL Is 'Just Right'

  Ann All spoke with Chris Pfauser, a principal consultant with Compass Management Consulting and author of a white paper titled "ITIL Benefits" about some of the problems that can plague ITIL... More >

Drilling Deeper into PUE

Arthur Cole spoke with Bob Hunter, CEO of Trendpoint. Critics of the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) benchmark are quick to point out that it does not necessarily provide a complete picture of over... More >

September 10, 2010

Organizations Must Choose their Collaborative Tools Carefully

  IT and telecommunications departments have to think through collaborative technology choices carefully. Mark Tonsetic, practice manager in the Corporate Executive Board's IT Practice tells I... More >

September 7, 2010

Integrating and Accessing Hadoop's Big Data Stores

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Pentaho founder and CEO Richard Daley about Hadoop, a distributed approach to storing and processing large amounts of data. And where there's data, there's a need... More >

September 3, 2010

Getting Started on the Cloud

Arthur Cole spoke with Alan Wilson, vice president of Infrastructure Consulting, HP Technology Services. The cloud represents a number of challenges for the enterprise. The first is getting started. ... More >

Better Days Arrive for Core IP Networking Gear Vendors

  Carl Weinschenk spoke to Diane Myers of Infonetics Research. Over time, most telecommunication networks undergo at least two transformations. One is from legacy time-division multiplexing (T... More >

September 2, 2010

iPad to Drive Operational Improvements for Furniture Company

  Ann All spoke with John Roddy, senior vice president of Logistics and Distribution for Arhaus Furniture, which with partner TOA Technologies, an on-demand provider of mobile workforce-... More >

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