Stories by: Sandra Gittlen

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    Start-ups offer cool tools to ease IT's pain 17/02/2011 07:15:00

    If you want to know what IT tools and technologies you'll be using in a few years, it pays to keep an eye on enterprise technology start-ups.
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    Four questions for Dan Bricklin, VisiCalc inventor 20/01/2011 07:06:00

    Dan Bricklin first came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet while he was at Harvard Business School in 1978. He later joined forces with Bob Frankston and Dan Fylstra to publish the now-legendary VisiCalc in 1979. Bricklin, currently president of software developer Software Garden Inc., recently spoke with Computerworld about the intent of VisiCalc and how the spreadsheet has evolved.
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    Why some companies are ditching their spreadsheets 20/01/2011 07:05:00

    Until a few years ago, Thule Group's North American division would have been considered a "classic spreadsheet-driven" company, according to Vice President of Finance Mark Cohen.
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    Moving to the cloud: Big savings, but plan ahead 18/03/2010 05:07:00

    Some might say that San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals was pushed into the cloud. The 23-year-old company's data center had been running at 100% capacity and IT executives feared inevitable performance problems, but the company was reluctant to build another site due to the poor economic climate.
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    Planning for virtualization? Beware of server overload 09/02/2010 03:50:00

    As virtualization stretches deeper into the enterprise to include mission-critical and resource-intensive applications, IT executives are learning that double-digit physical-to-virtual server ratios are things of the past.
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    Virtualization: Tips for avoiding server overload 06/10/2009 00:46:00

    As virtualization stretches deeper into the enterprise to include mission-critical and resource-intensive applications, IT executives are learning that double-digit physical-to-virtual server ratios are things of the past.
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    Utility storage: Ready for a long haul? 20/05/2008 09:16:08

    First will come virtualization, then utility storage. That's long been the vision of how enterprise storage will evolve as IT grows increasingly dynamic and on-demand becomes business as usual.
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    NAC helps with wireless LAN security at college 27/11/2007 09:03:31

    For Scott McCollum, IT services director at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio, network security can't mean one thing for the wired LAN and another for wireless connections.
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    Want to manage your wired/wireless LANS together? Too bad 15/11/2007 08:15:15

    For the past few years, organizations have gone full-force in deploying a combination of wired and wireless enterprise networks. But now, as wireless technology matures, they are left asking: Where are the tools to unify management of these disparate networks?
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    Ready or not, here comes user PC choice 16/10/2007 11:00:52

    Some IT executives might have been alarmed when Gartner predicted that by next year 10 percent of companies will require employees to purchase and maintain their own notebooks and other devices. But for Bill Leo, CIO of Oliver Wyman Delta Organization & Leadership, it was confirmation of what he already knew: He is already taking the first steps toward allowing employees to purchase and use their own PCs.
 
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