The realities of utility
The dream of utility computing awaits advances in infrastructure, applications, interoperability, and more ATTENTION DATACENTER STAFFERS: Utility computing is coming, but don’t start planning your retirement just yet. In the utility computing dream, compute resources flow like electricity on demand…
Tomorrow’s storage
The arrival of voice in the network is driving research into new storage technologies THE INEVITABLE spread of voice recognition technology in the coming years has the potential to overtax the capacity limitations of current storage technologies. Although it’s still…
The utility computing promise
Tapping into computing resources on an as-needed basis has plenty of benefits for enterprises — but success depends on maturity of foundation technologies Tapping into compute resources with a simplicity equal to plugging a lamp into an outlet has been…
Old domain refrains
Complaints against VeriSign’s domain registration antics continue to mount, but is the battle still worth fighting? ALLOW ME TO declare this once and for all: VeriSign’s domain registration operation is out of control. The outfit formerly known as Network Solutions…
Fight server overload
F5 Networks’ BIG-IP 5000 Application Switch has what it takes to manage the heaviest traffic through the largest sites F5 HAS BEEN in the load balancing business as long as anyone. It began with a router-based system, but the BIG-IP…
And that’s our final offer
Uncovering a CTO career opportunity is often a matter of networking. But in negotiating a job offer, CTOs often put the technology and mission before compensation and contracts FINDING A CAREER-making CTO position is as much about technology as it…
All praise Windows XP
A skeptical CTO becomes a convert after seeing how well the OS functions in the real world BACK IN SEPTEMBER, a misguided soul in the technology press wrote the following about the release of the Windows XP “gold code” to…
Location, location
Microsoft plots its Web services course with release of MapPoint .Net MICROSOFT’S PR MACHINERY is in overdrive lately, promoting the company’s vision of Internet-enabled applications. Recent weeks have seen the rollout of Visual Studio .Net, Microsoft’s cross-language development platform, and…
Supply-chain redesign
The CTO of Prime Advantage helped his company survive by focusing on customer needs JOE NEUHAUS SOMETIMES felt as if he were riding a whirlwind as the CTO of Prime Advantage, a business-to-business ecommerce marketplace provider in a sector experiencing…
Beyond vendor venting
If you want your relationships with vendors to be successful, you must manage them in the right way MANAGEMENTSPEAK: I prefer to have people in-house, to work together to do the jobs needed to be done. TRANSLATION: We change directions…
