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Think big and very blue. With an $85 billion active backlog, IBM Global Services (IGS) is so far ahead of its nearest competitor that it has created a consulting league of its own. So far, the current economic slowdown only registers as a blip for IGS. Integration contracts run a minimum of six months, and […]

Vice President, Information Technology Services and CIO, Anadarko Petroleum Age: 55 Degree: Bachelor of Science, Management Science, Oklahoma State University Car: Mercedes Benz E430 Favorite TV show: Discovery Channel Anadarko Petroleum is on a roll. Over the past year, it spent $1.1 billion to buy Berkley Petroleum, completed a $4.4 billion merger with Union Pacific […]

Forget the TV show “Survivor”. It doesnt even begin to compare with the struggles that have afflicted the mass-distribution business over the past several years. With margins plunging two years ago to less than a single percentage point, it was just a matter of time before multiple distributors pulled up lame. But in this iron-man-style […]

When we last looked in on DiamondCluster, the business-strategy and technology-solutions company was sorting out last years acquisition of Cluster Consulting and counting its multiple blessings. DiamondCluster was definitely on a roll, even as many of the competing e-consultancies had begun to implode. At the time, company chairman and CEO Mel Bergstein was particularly enthusiastic […]

Number of new applications filed in April for approval by lab engineers 126 Breakdown of those applications 34 percent are for transmitters for use in licensed services, such as land, mobile, marine and aviation. 31 percent are other unlicensed transmitters, such as childrens walkie-talkies, field disturbance sensors, access control systems and keyless entry systems. 15 […]

A bevy of testing and performance monitoring vendors are following networking giants to NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas this week with advancements that promise faster and more intelligent problem solving. Noteworthy offerings will come from companies such as Compuware Corp., F5 Networks Inc. and Mercury Interactive Corp. Compuware will show its EcoScope 4.3, which includes features […]

Lucent Theft U.S. prosecutors have accused two Lucent Technologies scientists and an executive at another technology company of stealing software. They are accused of trying to copy a Lucent product for a company mostly owned by the Chinese government. The software was for a system that enables service providers to offer a low-cost voice and […]

Extensible Markup Language is emerging not only as a Web page markup standard, but as a database technology with the potential to simplify and speed future Web operations. With databases that store whole documents in their native XML format, an archive becomes easier to search by title, author, keywords or other attributes. The development will […]

No vendor today can be unaware of network operators growing interest in smart features. Witness the latest transformation: Tiara Networks, the maker of leased-line aggregation devices with a laundry list of large customers, talks “distributed edge” architecture. On a repositioning tour, Tiara executives are pitching the idea that their boxes, which allow customers, including Cable […]

Cable is tired of being the dumb pipe and has spent the past five years and $42 billion to prove it. Now, the challenge is coming up with two-way services that both exploit the sophisticated new digital cable networks and are worth paying for. The top of the list is sure to include a dizzying […]

Microsofts entry into the professional-services business is one of the best things that can happen to this market. The vendor has always been one of the greatest demand generators in the industry, and its foray into the enterprise space could open more doors and create more opportunities than anyone has ever done in this space. […]

As the amount of XML data continues to grow, the market for databases capable of easily handling that data also is sprouting. Startup Ipedo Inc. this week will announce the upcoming release of its native Extensible Markup Language database, which allows customers to quickly process XML data and reduce bottlenecks in their systems. “We believe […]