eWEEK Staff

/images/stories/heads/szygenda_70x70.jpgAmid ongoing corporate difficulties, General Motors has been leaning heavily on CIO Ralph Szygenda to cut waste and speed innovation through a fully outsourced approach to IT. In 2006, GM awarded $7.5 billion in outsourcing contracts, and before 2011 the company will award another $7.5 billion. That “big bang” moment in 2006 followed a stormy […]

In the midst of being acquired by IBM for $5 billion-a deal expected to close this quarter-business intelligence software developer Cognos released Version 8.3 of its Cognos platform at a Jan. 15 event in New York. During the launch, Cognos president and CEO Rob Ashe sat down with eWEEK Senior Writer Renee Boucher Ferguson to […]

Use Cases in Product Testing Use Cases are a concept from software and system engineering that is employed to capture the functional requirements of a system. Software developers identify Use Cases to set the parameters for how a product will behave under various conditions. This method of understanding and defining requirements is an effective method […]

Delivering better service to customers is one of the top IT initiatives for 2008, and many companies are looking to business intelligence, collaboration and workflow, and data and systems integration to help achieve that goal, according to results of a Ziff Davis Enterprise Editorial Research survey and interviews with IT professionals. And despite the hype, […]

IT memory lane It isn’t often that the pioneers of IT get together and swap stories in public about the old times—those long-ago days before iPods, Facebook, instant messaging, and all the quick and easy technology we enjoy and take for granted. When these gatherings do happen, the de facto home for them is the […]

Fear and Greed in Silicon Valley The mortgage crisis continues to wend its way through the national psyche. The occasional rays of sunshine—such as the Abu Dhabi Investment Groups $7.5 billion investment in Citigroup and comments from a Federal Reserve official to the effect that the Fed may soon cut interest rates again to stimulate […]

A Head Full of Win Server Last week, I attended a technical workshop on Windows Server 2008 at Microsofts Redmond campus. There, I and a gaggle of tech journalists from all over the world spent three days having our heads stuffed with details about Microsofts forthcoming server revision and the tools that complement it. Microsoft […]

Upfront A Case of Amnesia A man walks into a casino in Las Vegas and sits down at a blackjack table. He shares a look with the dealer, a silent acknowledgment of one another. The dealer starts to shuffle and then hands the cards to the player to cut the deck. Inconspicuously, the player gives […]

The IEEE, the worlds largest professional association for the advancement of technology, named Mason L. Williams on Dec. 27 as the recipient of its 2007 Reynold B. Johnson Data Storage Device Technology Award. The international award recognizes Williams contributions to the modeling and design of high-density magnetic recording technology in areas such as disk properties, […]

Researchers Investigate Rising Costs of Data Center Operations Carnegie Mellon University researchers on May 24 announced the creation in Pittsburgh of the Data Center Observatory, a dual-purpose facility that is both a working data center and a research vehicle for the study of data center automation and efficiency. The DCO is a large-scale collaborative effort […]

The unthinkable has happened: Microsoft has delayed Windows Vista yet again. Office 2007s release date also slipped, from 2006 to 2007. Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsofts Platforms & Services Division, announced March 21 that Microsoft will roll out Vista in two stages. The business, volume-licensed version of Vista will now ship in November, as many […]