Scot Petersen

Virtualization and computing have been together since the early 1960s, but only in recent years has the virtualization concept really taken off. Now, virtualization is, well, virtually everywhere in products and the enterprise. Its certainly on the minds of senior IT executives. “I cannot have a conversation with someone today without the topic of virtualization […]

LAS VEGAS—Is wireless changing the world? It just might be. In Afghanistan, for instance, wireless is the main mode of communication, according to Karim Khoja, CEO of Roshan Afghanistan, speaking at the opening keynote at CTIA Wireless here on April 5. “Take all the land mines in the world, and you have more in Afghanistan […]

As technology keeps shrinking the world, it may be time to ask if there is any aspect of enterprise computing that cannot be done in another country, another time zone and in another culture. The Internet has enabled Procter & Gamble to manage the first two hurdles, with outsourced business process operations in 56 countries. […]

In the fast-moving Internet economy, new acronyms and catchphrases have a way of sneaking up on people. Sometimes before we even know what they mean, we begin using them. The hottest ones right now are “mashup” and “Web 2.0.” (Even better: a “Web 2.0 mashup.” See Microsoft Watch Editor Mary Jo Foleys story on Page […]

Tis the season for courting small business deals. Or, if you are IBM Global Services or EDS, that could be shortened to just “small deals.” eWEEK reported on Jan. 23 how EDS is completing a makeover that will enable the IT services provider to accept smaller contracts and not rely on multibillion-dollar deals. Likewise, IGS […]

In the news business, its cool when an emerging technology youve covered for years finally “makes it.” Storage over IP and the iSCSI specification were just in their infancy back in 2001, but as eWEEK reported in May of that year, vendors were already planning products and looking to the day when iSCSI caught up […]

You can talk all you want about return on investment, core competencies, strategic initiatives or win-wins. No IT system in your company will really be worth its bits until it passes security muster. Bad news about security is the only constant, along with change, in the technology world. Just this past week, the Mozilla Foundation […]

As they nervously fiddle with their BlackBerrys, users are now looking over their shoulders as a judge gets ready to decide the fate of the wireless e-mail service. Will the service really be forced to shut down? What will I do then? These and other questions are the focus of Senior Editor Carmen Nobels story […]

Rebuilding story No. 1: Electronic Data Systems CEO Michael Jordan has rehung the portrait of founder Ross Perot outside his offices in EDS Plano, Texas, headquarters. Perot has been absent from the company since 1984, as has the spirit of excellence that Perot embodied, Jordan reasoned, and his presence may inspire EDS to a return […]

Online service outages are nothing new. Every service provider from eBay to Google to Microsoft has experienced them—some major, some minor—since the dawn of the Web age. Why then should we care to highlight some of Salesforce.coms recent service disruptions and slowdowns in this weeks issue? Fair question. Since 1999, when former Oracle executive Marc […]

Just when you thought you had the “new HP” figured out, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd is reported to be exploring a deal to acquire a large player in the outsourcing industry, Computer Sciences. HP has been chugging along quite well since Hurd took over for ousted CEO Carly Fiorina in April. Hurds strategy of cutting […]

The days of “gotta get a Dell” seem long gone. Since the Dell Dude left the scene a few years ago, things have not been quite as exciting. The company is still growing revenue at a double-digit pace every quarter—enough for most companies—but when its the low double digits rather than the 25 percent growth […]