Stories by Mitch Betts

Article | 10/01/2011 Netflix reveals challenges in the Cloud
Technology managers at video distributor Netflix Inc., which last year took a big plunge into the public cloud, have started a remarkably candid blog ...
Article | 14/09/2010 Shortage of Windows 7 migration experts expected
It's not a Y2K-style crisis, but there's only a four-year window until Microsoft Corp. ends support for Windows XP. The need to migrate from XP to Win...
Article | 9/08/2010 Global Brands Snap Up .co Domain Names
Originally, .co was just the Internet country code for Colombia. But now it's becoming a popular top-level domain for major global brands such as BMW,...
Article | 24/05/2010 App Overload Hurts Flexibility, Adds Complexity
CIOs monitor a lot of metrics, but advisory firm The Hackett Group Inc. says there's one more to watch: the number of enterprise software applications...
Article | 24/05/2010 Developer Tool Spots Unclear Requirements
The first step in any application development project is to collect the user requirements. Get that wrong, and the project will be in trouble.
Article | 20/01/2010 Is your network ready for high-def video streams?
Today's CIOs may get blindsided by a technology they don't often think about: video, specifically high-definition video in the enterprise, according t...
Article | 5/01/2010 Exploit the power of data visualisation
Various pundits say that one of the top goals of CEOs this year is to make sense of the terabytes of data swirling in and around their companies and t...
Article | 5/01/2010 Open-Source BI Going Mainstream for Routine Uses
Adoption of open-source business intelligence software is doubling every year because the products are viewed as "good enough" for routine application...
Article | 21/12/2009 Personal PCs find a home in the office
Companies are starting to let employees use privately owned notebook computers for work purposes, according to a Gartner Inc. survey of 500 IT manager...
Article | 21/12/2009 The No. 1 Cause of IT Failure: Complexity
Is the problem a bad set of user requirements? Poor business alignment? No. According to software architect Roger Sessions, the primary cause of softw...
Article | 7/12/2009 Solar storm could zap power grid in 2013
Alarmist news reports earlier this year warned that solar storms coming in 2012 will cripple electric power, GPS equipment and communications systems ...
Article | 7/12/2009 US Air Force taps PlayStation 3 for research
The U.S. Air Force recently issued a request for proposals to purchase 2,200 Sony PlayStation 3 video game consoles. Does the Air Force plan to play l...
Article | 8/06/2000 Bulletin: Judge rules to split Microsoft
A federal judge last night ruled that Microsoft should be broken into two companies and heavily regulated to stop the software company's anticompetiti...

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