Stories by: Neal Weinberg

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    Fathers of technology: 10 unsung heroes 06/08/2009 10:18:00

    In the tech world, the inventor, originator or driving force behind a new product or technology is typically dubbed "father of the _______".
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    IBM, HP lead the way on green IT 17/10/2008 08:27:00

    If your IT department has decided to "go green," you probably need help from your strategic IT vendors. But which ones?
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    Artificial Intelligence gets real 24/06/2008 10:20:55

    Artificial intelligence projects are moving from the lab to the real world.
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    Unsung fathers of technology 12/06/2008 09:51:42

    Who's your daddy?
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    INTEROP - Cloudy picture for cloud computing 01/05/2008 09:40:33

    You can call it cloud computing. You can call it grid computing. You can call it on-demand computing. Just don't call it the next big thing -- at least not yet.
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    Data leakage prevention: Hot technology for 2008 15/01/2008 12:22:04

    How hot is the data leakage prevention market? Well, if the big boys like Cisco, Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro are snapping up DLP start-ups to the tune of US$1.6 billion in 2007, there must be a reason.
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    Two-factor authentication: Hot technology for 2008 15/01/2008 12:12:09

    We've known for a long time that requiring just a user name and password to get on the network or to access personal information on a Web site isn't the tightest security posture, but there weren't a lot of good alternatives, and there wasn't that much pressure to change.
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    NAC: Hot technology for 2008 15/01/2008 12:04:09

    IT execs want to make sure that users don't come back from a business trip and infect the entire company. IT execs want to make sure contractors with visitor access to the network aren't able to do damage or get access to confidential information. And IT execs want to make sure that users are properly authenticated and that they only access applications they need to do their jobs.
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    Web 2.0: Hot technology for 2008 15/01/2008 11:58:39

    When it comes to hot buzzwords, nothing comes close to Web 2.0. Nobody knows exactly what it means but everybody uses it. In fact, at Network World we've started getting press releases referring to Web 3.0.....whatever that is.
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    iSCSI: Hot technology for 2008 15/01/2008 11:54:15

    ISCSI runs over plain, old Ethernet, which means you don't need a separate Fibre Channel network. You don't need host bus adapters. You don't need Fibre Channel switches. You don't need specialized IT staffers.
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    802.11n: Hot technology for 2008 15/01/2008 11:46:40

    Some day the IEEE will get around to finalizing the 802.11n standard that it began working on in 2003. That some day was supposed to be 2006. Then 2007. Then 2008. Maybe, the standard will be finalized in 2009. Maybe 2010.
 
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