April 2006 - Posts
With the advent of Web services and virtualization, enterprise computing today is at an inflection point in terms of how IT organizations will be managing data, applications and systems going forward.
This is because virtualization essentially creates
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Given his standing in the polls and upcoming midterm elections, it only makes sense to see President Bush out on the stump. But when that campaign tour includes a visit to the campus of Cisco Systems to pledge billions of dollars for technology research
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With Hu Jiantao, the president of China, visiting the shores of the United States, you can’t help but wonder if the Chinese version of Father Christmas has arrived.
After all, he promised to buy jets from Boeing and assured Microsoft that more Chinese
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When it comes to all the fuss over Net neutrality, there is a certain amount of conflict over the whole issue.
On the one side there are the people who argue that letting telcos charge different rates for different levels of service in what
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It’s still early days yet as it relates to the mass adoption of virtual machines, but an interesting concept that portends future management challenges is being put forth by the folks at Cassatt.
With EMC’s VMware unit, Microsoft, Intel, AMD
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For some time now, IBM, CA and HP have been touting how they are bringing the benefits of SMB class management tools to the small-to-medium enterprise customer. What’s driving this effort is that all three companies have pretty much saturated the high
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It was great fun watching former General Electric CEO Jack Welch reminisce during his appearance earlier this week at an SAP event held at the Marriot Marquis in New York.
From an information technology perspective, he said one of his most strategic
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This may come as a surprise to some folks that have been counting Sun Microsystems out for the ten count, but it looks like Sun may soon be in a position to regain some valuable thought leadership in this industry.
From afar, it looks like Sun has been
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