Stan Gibson

Among the forces arrayed to thwart Indias march to the center of the world technology stage, none draws more fire from executives than the Indian educational system. A recent study by McKinsey & Co. sponsored by Nasscom found that India will need 2.3 million IT and business process outsourcing workers by 2010, but that Indian […]

Remember Chicago? Once the code name for Windows 95, it generated several years worth of buildup that was the stuff of legend. At the stroke of midnight, Aug. 25, 1995, camera crews filmed buyers as they charged into computer stores to be the first to buy a copy. Now, a decade later, welcome to the […]

Thieves making off with laptops, hackers planting a Trojan in a store kiosk to send data to the Ukraine-these are the data breaches that gather the headlines. The result is an overemphasis on endpoint security, according to Tony Cannizzo, CEO of Silos-Connect Technologies, a distributor of database technology in Atlanta. Securing the perimeter may be […]

Enterprises that are on the fence with regard to using a public cloud computing service or building their own internal clouds for backup can choose both. Asigra, a provider of cloud-based backup and recovery software to cloud service providers, is offering its software to end-user companies. Called the Asigra Hybrid Cloud Backup and Recovery platform, […]

To make the right decision, it’s essential to have the right information at the right time. But just what information is needed, when and in relation to what other information is a subtle science that tests the mettle of IT managers everywhere. In the armed forces, victory and defeat-not to mention human life-may hang in […]

It’s a humble appliance, but, without it, workplace culture doesn’t stand a chance. It’s the water cooler, where employees meet to open up about themselves and their work. But as companies disperse operations globally and encourage employees to telecommute, the old-time water cooler is getting to be a lonely place. What’s needed is a virtual […]

The global financial crisis has thrown businesses across all industries into disarray, with the auto industry being one of the most tempest-tossed. And perhaps no company is suffering to a greater degree-or more publicly-than General Motors. With a multibillion-dollar federal bailout package in the offing, GM is consolidating and tightening its operations, reducing its number […]

Spurred by renewed popularity of Apple products, many enterprises are taking a fresh look at the Apple Macintosh platform. The result: an unmistakable uptick in enterprise Mac deployments. For many companies that embrace the Mac, the obstacle of strangeness looms largest. Introducing a new end-user computing system brings with it questions of application compatibility, management […]

The future of computing may be a lot harder to predict than the weather. So, can you bet your company on the cloud? This question is pressing on enterprise IT executives who are trying to weigh the allure of low-cost, flexible computing in the cloud against the risks inherent in the platform. The fear of […]

Cloud computing lightning is beginning to strike investors. “It’s an incredibly hot area for venture capital funding right now. Because this is such a significant shift in IT infrastructure, there’s a desire to get into it early,” said an entrepreneur who asked not to be named and who is planning to launch a cloud service […]

Cloud computing may be the next big thing, but it didn’t happen overnight. Its genealogy goes all the way back to time-sharing, a practice dating to the 1960s in which a mainframe computer was accessed simultaneously by multiple terminal users in different locations via telephone lines. Cloud computing also resembles the ASP (application service provider) […]

As the economy goes, so goes IT. Right now, the lackluster economy-made darker by the recent collapse of Lehman Brothers and the acquisition of one-time powerhouse Merrill Lynch by Bank of America-is casting a pall over 2009 IT budget planning. Even so, some experts say the second half of 2009 could see a return to […]