Cisco CIO a smooth operator
Rebecca Jacoby, unlike many of her CIO peers, lives in the thick of her company's IT operations.
Stories by Dan McLean
Web 2.0 - it may be social, but is it profitable?
Web 2.0 and social networking is drawing a lot of eyeballs and visitors, but is it likewise generating dollars?
Up is down and black is white as Wikinomics changes the business world
"Wikinomics" and mass collaboration's role in creating business innovation brings to mind an episode of the old hit comedy TV show, Seinfeld.
Youth finds its own way to make IT productive
If you're old enough to remember the "generation gap" of the 1960s and 1970s, then it's likely you're now part of the "establishment" that manages the use of personal computing in business.
Business starts to hear the ka-ching from Web 2.0
The next iteration of the World Wide Web is a do-it-yourselfer's dream and a collaborator's paradise. It lets you tweak, tailor and tune the cyberworld any way you like. It also links you to a community of like-minded surfers.
HP in 2006: A work in progress
Hewlett-Packard remains a work in progress for a CEO looking to create a more efficient and focused IT company heading into 2006.
Big Iron at the core of IBM's virtualized world
Rumors of Big Iron's death have been greatly exaggerated.
Cisco directs its gaze toward the optical market
Excuse Carl Russo, the vice-president of Cisco Systems Inc.'s optical networking business, if he appears glassy eyed these days. It's a good bet that Carl has spent more than a few sleepless nights fretting over how to grow an area of business in which Cisco is currently only a minor player.
Nortel Shakes Off Doubts to Become Network Power
It's amazing what a strong set of accounting books can do for a vendor's image.
Guest column: Token-Ring as good as dead
Horror cult filmmaker George S. Romero might be the perfect marketing pitchman for the technological zombie that is high-speed token-ring.
Staying with SNA
There aren't many legacy computing technologies that have stood the test of time.
But Systems Network Architecture (SNA) is unique. The technology, developed in the early 1970s by IBM Corp. for large mainframe customers who were looking to automate transaction processing, continues to be a framework for important business applications for large corporations.
Column: Token-Ring as Good as Dead
Horror cult filmmaker George S. Romero might be the perfect marketing pitchman for the technological zombie that is high-speed token-ring.
The director who gave the world the classic Night of the Living Dead, plus follow-ups Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, might want to cast the new token-ring in a next installment to the franchise -- something called Connectivity for the Living Dead.