Network

Mon, June 15, 2009 - Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM teams up with Brocade. Oracle buys Sun. And everybody courts that prize filly VMware.

Mon, June 08, 2009 - It's the OS that won't go away, despite many enterprises' avowed distaste and Apple's own public disinclination to support enterprise usage. And yet, the newest Mac OS -- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, due to be released later this summer -- has two major changes aimed directly at business users and the IT staff that supports them.

Wed, June 03, 2009 - Ever wonder how Unix got started? Here are year-by-year details of the operating system's four-decade history.

Wed, June 03, 2009 - Originally written in one month during the summer of '69, a little operating system called Unix would go on to be one of the most important pieces of software ever written. Four decades later, the future of Unix is clouded, but its legacy is certain.

Wed, June 03, 2009 - The people who follow the pioneers often spell the difference between a lab prototype and a technology that really transforms the landscape. We look at David Korn, Rick Rashid and Gordon Bell, three innovators among many who have had a profound impact on Unix.

Mon, June 01, 2009 - Trimming network redundancy at the University of Connecticut's School of Business was certainly not COO Michael Vertefeuille's first choice to save money. However, as the college faces a 10% budget shortfall this year, falling on the heels of last year's 5% cutback, he's had to dig deep.

Mon, June 01, 2009 - Rather than have parallel datacenters and SANs in various countries, Revlon put high-capacity storage at five sites across the world, consolidating data and applications at its U.S. datacenter.

Mon, June 01, 2009 - Wells Fargo delivers an encrypted messaging system with newly acquired Wachovia allowing for safe, secure communications.

Mon, June 01, 2009 - In 2008, Jacquelyn Barretta led the adoption of agile development practices across the IT organization at transportation firm Con-way to bring IT development closer to the business and to better understand the voice of the customer. Con-way's agile adoption was also a response to the perceived failures of the previous waterfall methodology, which didn't encourage regular customer feedback, so larger projects often languished in the analysis and design phase. Con-way's transition to agile was helped by the company's experience with SOA development.

Mon, June 01, 2009 - It's not easy being a CTO. In a product company, you have to figure out how to raise the bar -- and then deliver a hit product. In other companies, you have to provide the systems that let the business run smarter, faster, bigger, or all three. And your resources are under pressure, from legacy thinking to smaller budgets, from disjoint divisions to unexpected industry shifts.