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August 2006 - Posts

The Next Battle for Security Supremacy
It’s only natural to expect that vendors that carve out different spectrums of the security continuum will eventually clash given every vendor's need to grow or die. And the latest pending clash in this space should prove to be no exception to the rule. Read More

posted Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:43 AM by Michael Vizard (Comments Off)

William C. Norris: An Appreciation
Every once in a great while you’re reminded of how far this industry has come and how much it relies on the good works of those who have gone before. Such is the case of William C. Norris, whose passing at 95 this week serves as a reminder of how different Read More

posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:09 PM by Michael Vizard with 3 Comments

SAASy Clients
Although the software-as-a-service mantra is usually “no software,” the fact remains that most software-as-a-service offerings require some thin layer of code to reside on the client. What’s interesting to watch is that as software-as-a-service offerings Read More

posted Friday, August 18, 2006 10:40 AM by Michael Vizard (Comments Off)

Talk to the Machine
One of the frontiers of computing that remains stubbornly outside the reach of most mainstream applications despite 20 years of effort is speech recognition. On the face of it, replacing the somewhat cumbersome graphical user interface and keyboard with Read More

posted Friday, August 04, 2006 10:29 PM by Michael Vizard with 5 Comments

Virtualization to Drive Grid Computing
With the advent of next-generation processors from Intel and AMD, virtual computing is about to go mainstream because each processor will be able to run multiple operating systems. But what may be less obvious to people is how these virtual computing-enabled Read More

posted Thursday, August 03, 2006 9:20 AM by Michael Vizard (Comments Off)