The Importance Of QoS In Automated Tiering
In a conversation I had a few weeks ago with Pillar Data’s CEO, Mike Workman, we discussed his recent blog entry on the “Auto Tiering of Data”. In this blog he brings up several important considerations as vendors and users begin to examine automated tiering. One I’d like to elaborate on is QoS in Automated Tiering.
Social Networking Landing In Your Gmail Inbox
Google is prepared to update its Gmail service with a new social networking feature that will be make it behave more like Facebook or Twitter. Is this what we want clogging our inboxes, or will it be too distracting for those who rely on Gmail day in and day out?
GM Ex-CIO Szygenda To iRise
Ralph Szygenda, General Motors' longtime CIO who retired late last year, is joining rapidly growing software firm iRise as a strategic consultant to create a CIO advisory council focused on defining and leading IT transformation and understanding the potential of enterprise visualization in those large-scale efforts.
Latest Windows Mobile 7 Rumors
A flurry of new rumors have been posted about Windows Mobile 7 just over a week before Mobile World Congress, where Microsoft is expected to announce the latest version of their mobile platform. Some of the information is welcome but other bits are surprising. Will they change your opinion of WinMo 7 if all of these are true?
Misguided Security Leads To Insecurity
It's once again travel time. Full disclosure: I was the first to publish an exploit against travel systems. Co-released with iDefense (since acquired by Symantec) this simple denial of service exploit was capable of halting operations at most airlines and airports in the United States.
Readers: We Will iPass on iPad
Uh-oh: 67 percent of Internet Evolution readers say they'll buy the iPad 'never'
Massive Parallelism Has a Name ... Extreme Scale Computing
Parallel computing is not a new concept. Its been around for decades. Now the reality is here. Serial computing is dead? Well, that's what was stated in an article in IEEE Computer Magazine.
Big Blue's introduction of new enterprise servers shows it still wants to be king of the integrated systems game.
The arrests, which took place before Google revealed that it had been targeted by a cyber attack from China, reflect growing concern about internal cybercrime.
CIOs need to redefine their roles and boundaries in today's age of lean IT and customer-centric business.
Healthcare providers are criticizing exclusions and the all-or-nothing approach of the final draft definition for meaningful use of e-health records.
Providence Health & Services is rolling out Compuware performance management tools to speed doctors' access to clinical data and IT's ability to maintain and repair systems.
AmberPoint's service-oriented architecture management software will be folded into Fusion middleware, said Oracle.
Global CIO: Do CIOs Still Matter?
CIOs need to redefine their roles and boundaries in today's age of lean IT and customer-centric business.
Guerra On Healthcare: Meaningful Objections To Meaningful Use
Healthcare providers are criticizing exclusions and the all-or-nothing approach of the final draft definition for meaningful use of e-health records.
Global CIO: Software Patents And The CIO
Two recent developments dictate a more hands-on IT organization approach to intellectual property.
Down To Business: What Could Doom The IT Recovery?
The economy (stupid). Absent more responsible and disciplined fiscal policies, the U.S. tech rebound will be a short-lived phenomenon.
Practical Analysis: IT Managers Have Had Enough
Our annual salary survey indicates that security pros aren't getting a sufficient sense that their work and expertise are valued.
Government Technologist: What's the ROI Of Open Government?
Let's stop dancing around open government and evaluate it based on its hard returns.
Server Den: Inside HP's Converged Infrastructure
Gary Thome, chief architect of HP's Infrastructure Software and Blades group, talks power and cooling like you've never heard it before. Plus, why he thinks Hewlett-Packard's data-center play tops Cisco.
Full Nelson: The Growing Threat Of Cyberwarfare
Many more casualities will pile up, but policy and agreements will prove meaningless against today's anonymous cyberwarrior.
Global CIO: Why GM's Volt Electric Car Needs An iPhone App
GM is promising a smartphone app that lets drivers remotely track data such as whether the Volt's battery is charged, hoping to ease the fear of running out of juice on the road.
Securing The Cyber Supply Chain
Security experts are advising an end-to-end approach to securing IT systems, one that includes suppliers and service providers.
Tele-
presence: Living Like The Jetsons
We identify best practices for selecting and implementing telepresence systems and examine problems that can trip you up.

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