Scot Petersen

A new wave of consumer technology, along with the Generation Y that has grown up with it, is about to hit corporations worldwide—and IT pros will have to deal with it. That was the top message coming out of the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Oct. 8-13. Weve seen this before. The first PCs came […]

CIOs and technology professionals, like the legendary groundhog, are starting to peer out of their burrows for signs of the end of ITs nuclear winter. What they are seeing are definitely the more optimistic signs of an early spring, according to Executive Editor Stan Gibson, who talked with CIOs at the Society for Information Managements […]

Uh-oh. You know when companies start throwing around “2.0” projects that theyre in trouble. The last one I recall was Siebels Chapter 2 in the spring of 2005, when then-CEO Michael Lawrie was optimistic in promoting in eWeek the companys plan to revive its “core values.” A week later, Lawrie was gone, ousted by the […]

What was once the reason why Windows was so successful in the enterprise and why corporations got behind it en masse also has been its undoing and the bane of IT managers around the world. The Windows monoculture thrived because it allowed interoperability among users and across corporations. That same culture also has put those […]

Sept. 11, 2001, one of our nations darkest hours, was one of the finest hours for IT and IT professionals. In eWEEKs coverage following the terrorist attacks, our lead headline read, “IT puts N.Y. back in business.” Financial organizations such as the New York Board of Trade, whose home in the 4 World Trade Center […]

National events again motivate eWEEKs look at IT and the big picture. Last week eWEEK used the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to examine how lessons learned from that storm are being put into practice. We found that IT managers have been busy the past year putting additional redundancies into their disaster recovery plans. This weeks […]

The term “greening of” is now part of the lexicon. If you Google it (oops, Im not supposed to say that), you can find that just about anything can be “greened”—if thats a word. PCs and monitors have sported Energy Star stickers for more than a decade, but power conservation ideas have skipped by the […]

Professionals of all kinds must learn to adapt to changes in their job requirements that are the result of forces beyond their control. But some professions change more than others. For instance, when I first broke in to journalism, people I worked with who formerly set hot type were being retrained on paste-up and, later, […]

Until now, the net neutrality debate has delivered more entertainment value than substantive discussion over who should pay (or pay extra) for Internet usage, and how much. Jon Stewart on the “The Daily Show” has gotten a lot of mileage out of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens “series of tubes” Senate floor speech. Someone has even […]

Few Internet users—everyone from IT managers downloading white papers to teens desperately trying to find friends online—have ever concerned themselves with where or how their bits of data are flowing. For many dot-com CEOs, VPs of sales, accountants and other money changers, however, the data center is the business. When its not running, theres no […]

Ubiquitous Wi-Fi is almost here—in urban areas and many corporate campuses, at least. Last week, walking around San Francisco, I was able to check my e-mail in several spots without having to go pay for access at Starbucks. The reason, apart from demand, is that standards—namely 802.11b, which most access points run—have paved the way […]

Our cover story this week, “How IT Stacks Stack Up,” is bound to be controversial, maybe even incendiary. eWEEK Labs Director Jim Rapoza tested several IT software “stacks” consisting of an operating system, Web server, database, and scripting or development language in proprietary, open-source and mixed environments. /zimages/3/128936.gifIn this podcast, eWEEK Labs analysts discuss the […]