Mel Duvall

Contributing EditorMel Duvall is a veteran business and technology journalist, having written for a variety of daily newspapers and magazines for 17 years. Most recently he was the Business Commerce Editor for Interactive Week, and previously served as a senior business writer for The Financial Post.

A Green IT Infrastructure Case Study: Monsanto

Agriculture powerhouse Monsanto learned to use technology to genetically modify seeds-including corn, cotton and soybean-so farmers can generate greater yields per acre and weather drought while using fewer herbicides...

Top 25 Most Energy Efficient Supercomputers

The Green 500 list compiled by researchers at Virginia Tech is intended to draw attention to idea that designers of supercomputers should pay more attention to the energy consumption,...

Retailers on Shopping Spree for New Software

STORY HIGHLIGHTS: 85 percent of all retail purchasing decisions are made at the store shelf Retailers are expected to spend $10.4 billion on software by 2011 76 percent of retail software implementation...

High-Tech Marketing Marks Black Friday, Cyber Monday

Shoppers are expected to set their alarms early Friday morning to hit the stores in droves, but theyll also find a few goodies waiting for them in their e-mail...

Does GE Have the Best IT?

The $163 billion global conglomerates information-technology strategy and performance mirror the companys corporate philosophy—to be the leader in the markets in which it operates. The I.T. group follows a...

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Boomi CEO Steve Lucas on Enterprise Integration

With today’s profusion of enterprise applications and data sources, companies struggle to integrate it all. I spoke with Steve Lucas, CEO of Boomi about...

Bandwidth Maestro Orchestrates Across Communication Systems

The 2023 Edition of Enterprise Connect kicks off this week in Orlando, Fl. This is the industry’s largest telecom and networking event and while...

Cognos vs. Power BI: 2023 Data Platform Comparison

IBM Cognos Analytics and Microsoft Power BI are two of the top business intelligence (BI) and data analytics software. Both of these applications are...