Monthly Archives: June 2001
Narrow Path
Choosing an application service provider is a gamble, with uncertain odds on the viability of the business plans — not to mention long-term health...
Small Guys Seek Edge in Collaboration
Big public e-marketplaces, which were all the rage a year ago but have since taken a beating, are looking for ways to make themselves...
BMC Ready to Serve Up a Power Play
BMC Software Inc. late last year pledged to put more development muscle into technologies for service providers. At the vendors Learning Universe user conference...
Experts Take Blame for Telecom Trouble
Reckless venture capitalists urged so many telecom players into so many spurious business models that the crashing and burning has just begun.That was the...
Telecom Consolidation: Vendors Next
After five years of providers tantalizing customers with innovative services at low rates, the telecommunications industry is returning to an era of fewer providers...
The Telecom Corridor Booms
As Santera Systems CEO David Heard talked about Class 5 switches, Asynchronous Transfer Mode data and the need for a machine capable of switching...
A Pox on Them
When it comes to data delivery, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 has been a complete bust. Five years after its enactment, the average consumer...
SNIA Seeks Interoperability Solution
Rival storage and switch vendors got together last week in the name of interoperability, but questions remain whether such solutions meet IT needs.The Storage...
Keeping Info Clean
Axa Financial Inc. dodged a big, bad bullet early this year when, soon after launching a new customer Web portal, the financial services company...
The Magic of Pixie Dust
IBM says a layer of ruthenium "pixie dust" applied to its next-generation disk drives fools recording heads into thinking the magnetic layers are thinner...