Debra Donston

IT’s Most Taxing Tasks Written by Debra Donston; Illustrated by Brian Moore IT`s Most Taxing Tasks – Taxing Task #1 Keeping up with patches. IT`s Most Taxing Tasks – Taxing Task #2 Managing mobile systems, especially devices on which sensitive data must be stored. IT`s Most Taxing Tasks – Taxing Task #3 Keeping up with […]

The Fathers of Computing by Debra Donston; illustrated by Brian Moore The Fathers of Computing – Father of the Programmable Computer Father of the Programmable Computer: Charles Babbage In the early 1800s, seeking to remove the high rate of error with human “computers,” Babbage set out to create an engine that would calculate a series […]

How Not to Get Ahead in IT written by Deb Donston; illustrated by Brian Moore How Not to Get Ahead in IT – No News Is Good News Don’t keep abreast of technology news and involved with product forums. If there’s something you need to be concerned with, you’ll find out about it soon enough. […]

IT Independence Day by Debra Donston IT Independence Day – 10 Things IT Managers Are Happy to Be Free From 10 Things IT Managers Are Happy to Be Free From IT Independence Day – Number 1 High-Touch Updates IT Independence Day – Number 2 Expensive Storage IT Independence Day – Number 3 Wires IT Independence […]

eWEEK’s Labs group has been–dare I say it?–an institution for almost 25 years. During that time, eWEEK Labs (and before that PC WEEK Labs) analysts have provided independent, expert evaluation of products to IT professionals charged with making the tough decisions about technology in their organizations. Since the Labs first came to be, a lot […]

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Future Shock, the book by Alvin Toffler about rapidly accelerating change and how it affects us. The author, now 81, and his wife, Heidi, were interviewed by NPR about the book, its genesis and its prescience. (Read the transcript here.) In the book, Alvin Toffler describes […]

When I first started working in this industry, lo those many years ago, product releases came very slowly and pointedly. You usually had plenty of warning that a new product or product release was on its way, and the path to the products you cared enough about to test was pretty well-trod. If a vendor […]

Cornerstone OnDemand’s SAAS-based learning and talent management suite provides organizations of all sizes with a single sign-on solution for employees to access–and employers to deliver and track–HR-related content such as training, performance reviews and goals, career management tools, and succession plans. Social networking and collaboration applications for the enterprise also are part of the integrated […]

Salesforce.com customers now have a new way to communicate and collaborate. On June 22, Salesforce.com announced the general availability of Chatter, a cloud-based enterprise social collaboration application and platform. Chatter applies social networking features made popular by Facebook and Twitter—such as profiles, status updates and real-time feeds—to business collaboration. I recently spoke with Salesforce.com’s Director […]

Salesforce.com customers now have a new way to communicate and collaborate. On June 22, Salesforce.com announced the general availability of Chatter, a cloud-based enterprise social collaboration application and platform. Chatter applies social networking features made popular by Facebook and Twitter-such as profiles, status updates and real-time feeds-to business collaboration. Chatter was launched in private beta […]