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What to Watch in 2008: Search and Collaboration Google will issue a Google phone built with the help of multiple handset manufacturers. Supported by Android software, the gadgets will excite users with a blend of Google Apps adapted for handsets and social networking services. The device will outsell t What to Watch in 2008: Search […]

The Most Important Microsoft Stories of 2007 Microsoft claimed 88 million Windows Vista licenses shipped, but hardware requirements and application incompatibilities delayed Vista enterprise deployments by as much as a year. The Most Important Microsoft Stories of 2007 – Microsoft Releases Windows PowerShell The software giant brought the command line back to Windows client and […]

What to Watch in 2008: IT Careers Windows Vista upgrades will go from something largely dreaded by IT pros to something they actually have to do. Once the new operating system is deployed, IT managers will continue to have their hands full, as Vista presents a bigger learning curve for en What to Watch in […]

The Most Important Infrastructure Stories of 2007 Avaya going private is indicative of the transformation that the telecommunications and PBX spaces are going through. Avaya is a huge player, and yet if it hadn’t gone private, it might not have been able to make the changes necessary to survive. The Most Important Infrastructure Stories of […]

When disaster strikes, the role of a company’s top IT manager becomes extraordinarily complex. For Sony Electronics CIO Drew Martin, the October wildfires that threatened the company’s San Diego-area headquarters quickly escalated into a critical balancing act. Martin found himself torn between trying to attend to the welfare of the company’s massive information infrastructure while […]

2007 may be remembered as the year of data breaches (unless 2008 surpasses it, which we hope will not be the case). Big names from Disney to Western Union, Fidelity National Information Services and of course TJX were all in the headlines for the wrong reasons. Security, it is often said, is only as strong […]

10 IT Facts That Are Really Fiction IT -Fact’ 1: IT rules exist for a reason. Reality: The rules of IT are really just laws created by a guy named Murphy. 10 IT Facts That Are Really Fiction – Data Backups IT -Fact’ 2: Performing data backups is key to disaster recovery and business continuity. […]

The Most Important Search and Collaboration Stories of 2007 Viacom sued YouTube for $1 billion, alleging mass copyright infringement. The suit came months after Google purchased the online video site for $1.65 billion. The Most Important Search and Collaboration Stories of 2007 – Buying Battle Google bought DoubleClick to boost online ad business. Two weeks […]

The Most Important Virtualization and Storage Stories of 2007 VMware CEO Diane Greene explained to a capacity house at VMworld “how virtualization became its own industry” and why her company will continue to lead the charge during the next few years. In other news, Citrix bought venerable virtualiz The Most Important Virtualization and Storage Stories […]

The Most Important Wireless Stories of 2007 Turns out there was no Google phone (at least in 2007), but the search and advertising giant unveiled a complete mobile phone stack under an open-source license as an alternative to proprietary platforms from Microsoft and Symbian. Let the mobile platform The Most Important Wireless Stories of 2007 […]

The Most Important Enterprise Apps Stories of 2007 Oracle continued its nearly three-year-long acquisition binge-including a bid for BEA-and touted its applications strategy to investors during earnings calls, but some industry watchers sounded a warning call. The Most Important Enterprise Apps Stories of 2007 – BEA Declines BEA declined Oracle’s unsolicited bid to buy the […]

The Most Important Hardware Stories of 2007 Michael Dell returned to the helm as the CEO of his namesake company, replacing Kevin Rollins, after the business continued to lose market share to Hewlett-Packard. The Most Important Hardware Stories of 2007 – Greening of IT Several vendors showed they believed that green means more than money, […]