Michael R. Zimmerman

Much like the structural stress tests of engineering, load-testing software is helping one up-and-coming online retailer ensure that its e-commerce infrastructure can withstand sudden surges in traffic. Apparel retailer BlueFly Inc. sells merchandise from approximately 350 designer labels—from Armani to Zegna—online and at discounts of up to 75 percent. Despite a lack of advertising, the […]

Its a simple rule of thumb in manufacturing that the better you are at making and meeting schedules, the more efficient, and hence more profitable, you can become. For Victor Manufacturing, which has such companies as Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and BMW AG in its bay of customers, improving such things as on-time […]

Micro Solutions last week shipped a family of portable hard drives that puts as much as 200GB of hard disk space at users fingertips. And users will need their fingertips to access these devices. The LockBox external drives, designed for small-business and personal use, features the companys Active Imaging Sensor fingerprint authentication system. The drives […]

When the world turns its collective attention to Athens, Greece, and the start of the 28th Olympiad Aug. 13, it will be able to do so thanks to the herculean IT effort of the Athens Olympic Committee and its sponsors. One pillar of that effort is, and has been for the past 40 years, Xerox […]

For some real estate companies, investing in and implementing the latest tech gadgetry are the icing on a well-rounded, if not very elaborate, cake. But as obvious as some state-of-the-art trappings such as wide-area wireless connectivity, handheld computers and 360-degree virtual online tours may seem, some say such technology is not all its cracked up […]

When communication is a pillar of your business, migrating to another communication system and then maintaining it once its installed can be equally critical. But executing such a move with a small budget and little in-house expertise adds a new set of challenges. Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP learned this firsthand last year when the […]

When fuzzy slippers just wont do, a heated floor is the next best thing to keeping not only the floor but also the entire house warm in the winter. Heated flooring, also known as radiant heating, has been used for years in buildings and homes to offer a more uniform heating experience. But radiant heating, […]

Shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Congress and the Federal Aviation Administration moved quickly to batten down the hatches of airplanes—literally. Backed by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001, the FAA in October of that year began rolling out a series of new manufacturing and safety requirements for U.S. commercial […]

IBMs vision for the future of computing will come into sharper focus early next year when the company finishes construction of the first working prototype of a new storage system thats modular, fully redundant and easy to scale. The project, the Collective Intelligent Brick system, is a technologically sophisticated attempt to make the process of […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is focused on the future. And the future it hopes for is a 64-bit world in which everything from portable PCs to servers to networking gear is powered by the companys Opteron or Athlon processors. To do it, the Sunnyvale, Calif., manufacturer has been steadfastly signing up OEMs to build Opteron […]