David Ticoll is sympathetic to CIOs who are only now getting a handle on how to make the Internet work for their companies. But they're about to encounter another phenomenon - one he calls the Hypernet - that could cost them their jobs if they're unprepared for its arrival.
Eastman Kodak CEO Dan Carp Tuesday unveiled a number of future products and services, including one that may interest IT managers struggling with managing documents in formats no longer readable by commercially available systems.
Oddsmakers in this town probably aren't betting against Linux, but the operating system's users and vendors both believe that its old-style command-line interface makes it a long shot for moving beyond its current niche as an Internet infrastructure building block.
If the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server operating system that Microsoft Corp. formally announced here yesterday is to leap into the highest reaches of corporate data centers, it will be Unisys Corp. - not Microsoft itself - that will be jumping many of the hurdles facing the new software.
Data mining and analysis might become more pervasive with the arrival of DigiMine Inc., an application service provider (ASP) that officially opens for business next week.
WorldCom Inc.'s planned $3 billion acquisition of Intermedia Communications Inc., which WorldCom announced yesterday is the first step in what some analysts predict will be a series of investments by telecommunications companies in the volatile application service provider (ASP) market.
More application service providers (ASP) are flying in the face of the one-to-one mantra of Internet supporters.
Journalists mistrust vendors when they posit platitudes like "Our primary goal is to serve customer needs." Too often, they are the self-serving verbal trappings tacked onto a new product introduction or the explanation as to why another product is late in delivery. With my unabashed cynicism intact, however, I'm encouraged by similar comments from a vendor consortium dedicated to replacing the tried-and-true PCI bus.
Information technology managers played a central role in Intel's developers conference in San Jose last week. The company unveiled improved server processors along with a "concept PC" targeted at IT.
Intel CEO Craig Barrett told an audience of 4,000 developers at the company's semiannual technical conference yesterday that peer-to-peer computing is becoming a technology "that IT managers are going to have to worry about."
Microsoft lifted the curtain a bit this week on new software for smart phones that together with the company's wireless server platform could prove popular with information technology managers looking for application integration. But the company's approach won't solve IT's biggest roadblock to wireless application deployment: limited bandwidth.
Trying to get your electrician to connect with your carpenters during a kitchen remodeling project is a tough enough job. Imagine what it's like getting together dozens of subcontractors while building an urban light-rail system or an office high-rise.
With most of the floor activities likely to be scripted in advance, the best action at next week's Democratic National Convention just may be online.
Analysts at Gartner Group Inc. are predicting exceptional growth in the application service provider (ASP) market -- and enormous fallout as well.
Application service providers (ASP) claim to offer virtually everything an information technology manager needs, except software integration. And even that's changing.