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1. Striving to Be Green: Don’t Overlook the Desktop

   [ Interview ] Topic: Green Technology | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 10/11/2007

   Technologies promising the green data center have so far concentrated on cutting the power draw and improving cooling efficiency of servers, storage and other enterprise elements. But the constant hum of the lowly desktop, multiplied by thousands, can wreak just as much havoc on the environment and...

2. Despite Moving Slowly, FMC Will Penetrate the U.S. Market

   [ Interview ] Topic: Telecommunications Services | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 10/12/2007

   Carl Weinschenk spoke with Robert Rosenberg, president, Insight Research Corp . Insight released a report earlier this month, "Fixed Mobile Convergence: Single Phone Solutions for Wireline and Wireless, 2007 – 2012." Weinschenk : What did the report find about fixed mobile convergence, which...

3. Spam: The Cat and Mouse Game Continues

   [ Interview ] Topic: Spam | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 11/30/2007

   Carl Weinschenk spoke with Doug Bowers, the senior director of Anti Abuse Engineering for Symantec . Weinschenk : What are you seeing in terms of spam? Bowers : There are a few things we are seeing. We continue to see volume go up. The latest monthly spam assessment is that over 70 percent...

4. Building VoIP Survivability

   [ Interview ] Topic: VoIP | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 11/30/2007

   Carl Weinschenk spoke with Dave Martin, vice president of marketing, Edgewater Networks . Weinschenk : Is survivability significantly different between legacy and VoIP platforms? Martin : It's fundamentally the same thing. Where this becomes important is in hosted PBXs. The idea is that the...

5. The Three New Faces of Networking

   [ Interview ] Topic: Ethernet | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 12/19/2007

   Carl Weinschenk spoke with Linley Gwennap, president and principal analyst, The Linley Group . Weinschenk : What networking trends are you seeing? Gwennap : I think one of the trends we are seeing, which is familiar in the PC and server world, is multiple processing engines on a chip. It...

6. Extending Ethernet Beyond the LAN

   [ Interview ] Topic: Ethernet | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 12/28/2007

   Carl Weinschenk spoke with David Strauss, vice president of marketing for Optimum Lightpath . In November, the company announced that it has brought Ethernet to 2500 buildings. Weinschenk : Is there a different protocol for Ethernet in the WAN environment vs. the LAN environment? Strauss :...

7. Forecast: Clouds, with a Chance of Greater Efficiency

   [ Interview ] Topic: Cloud Computing | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 01/03/2008

   With Aaron Levie, CEO, Box.net . Question: A lot of names are used to describe this sector. What is the theme? Levie: I think that the space definitely has different titles. There are different categories. In general, the recurring theme is services that exist in the cloud, those in which...

8. Web 2.0, Mobility Tools Can Drive SMB Gains

   [ Interview ] Topic: Web Applications | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 02/15/2008

   Carl Weinschenk spoke with Steve Hilton, vice president of Enterprise and SMB Research, the Yankee Group . Weinschenk : What was the premise of the research, and what did it show? Hilton : The premise of the research is that there are a lot of Web 2.0- and mobility-centered solutions that...

9. SaaS, SMBs and the S Curve

   [ Interview ] Topic: SaaS | Author: AnnAll | Date Published: 03/18/2008

   Ann All spoke with Michael Speyer, senior analyst, Forrester Research . Speyer is the lead author of a report titled "SMB SaaS Adoption: Road Bumps Ahead In 2008." All : According to your research, a large number of SMBs cited concerns related to integration (62 percent) and customization...

10. A Rush to 8 G?

    [ Interview ] Topic: Fibre Channel | Author: ArthurCole | Date Published: 04/01/2008

    Arthur Cole spoke with Scott McIntyre, vice president, software/customer marketing, Emulex Corp . Cole : Now that 8 Gbps systems are ready to go, what will you say to enterprises that are just getting used to 1 Gbps Fibre Channel and are wondering whether they would ever need even 4 Gbps? ...

11. The Dangers of Unchecked Administrative Privileges

    [ Interview ] Topic: Internal Threat | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 06/30/2008

    Carl Weinschenk spoke with Mark Fullbrook, director for the UK and Ireland, Cyber-Ark , about a Cyber-Ark survey on administrative privileges and the dangers they can create. The survey found that about a third of IT personnel   queried admitted to using their administrative privileges to access...

12. Telecommuting: Good Recruitment Tool, Used Wisely

    [ Interview ] Topic: Telecommuting | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 07/09/2008

    Carl Weinschenk spoke with Frank Han, vice president, Robert Half Technology . Weinschenk : What does Robert Half Technology see happening in telecommuting? Han : Overall, certainly telecommuting is becoming an option. Companies are deploying it. Certain companies do it for specific reasons...