Putting peer-to-peer in place
At GlaxoSmithKline, Groove proves to be the right peer-to-peer prescription Putting any new technology in place requires careful consideration of an organization’s specific needs, available resources, and ultimate goal. For GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the search for a collaboration tool to be…
Winning the OS game
If you want to see what a workable enterprise operating system strategy looks like, look to IBM and Apple JUST A COUPLE of years ago, the commercial OS landscape looked bleak. For most businesses the only real options were Windows…
So long, Wintel
If you still believe Windows on 32-bit Intel CPUs is the safest platform choice, take a fresh look at the market WINDOWS ON X86-32 hardware has been the de facto safe platform since the release of Windows NT 4.0 in…
The autonomic puzzle
IBM’s autonomic enterprise is missing several important pieces WHEN IBM REBRANDED eLiza last month, she was given a cute send-off. “In a self-configuring transformation of historical proportions,” the announcement read, “Project eLiza of IBM self-managing IT infrastructure fame, is now…
Deal with meetings
Domino 6, Sametime 3 bolster collaboration orchestration GETTING PEOPLE TO WORK together is an effort under many circumstances; even the best of team players usually has a personal agenda. Anything that makes it easier to tap into a company’s knowledge…
The e-mail scandal
Your messages have a 1-in-8 chance of never reaching your intended recipients’ inboxes A NEW STUDY shows that 11.7 percent of messages that were requested by an e-mail subscriber never reached the recipient’s inbox. Six percent were incorrectly routed to…
Buggy whips for India
Like the automotive age, the open-source age is inevitable, but Microsoft won’t give up easily OCCASIONALLY, I hear people say about open source, “Hey, it’s just software.” But from a market perspective, open source is far more than software —…
The Big Bang
Microsoft may have blurred the messaging, but its brilliant idea processor strikes the right Note WATCHING BILL GATES’ annual Comdex keynote is an eerie exercise. For starters, it takes place at the MGM Grand amphitheater, the site of heavyweight bouts…
Dancing with peer -to-peer
As p-to-p begins to play new roles, enterprises will need to learn new steps Peer-to-peer is growing up. In addition to meeting demands for better collaboration, more flexible file sharing, and optimal use of existing resources, peer-to-peer technology is finding…
CTO with heart
Community Health Network IT executive leads the launch of an all-digital specialty hospital RICK COPPLE’S WORK represents the merger of two trends: specialty medicine and the promise of the paperless office. The CTO has been working toward the opening of…
