Stan Gibson

Sharp spikes in data center energy use have shocked IT executives to attention, fueling the drive for green IT. And yet, as an exclusive eWEEK reader survey shows, green IT is still in its early stages and is colored by ambivalence, even among those who are going green. In an exclusive online survey of 337 […]

The place where business and personal life converge is bound to be fraught with tension. That’s certainly the case when it comes to mobile devices such as smart phones in the workplace. During the last decade and a half, cell phones, pagers, PDAs and handheld computers saw their fortunes rise and fall as one wave […]

Since the iPhone’s much-heralded debut in the summer of 2007, Apple has pitched the wildly popular product squarely at consumers. But the enthusiasm of some early users has put what some see as the handwriting on the wall: With a few tweaks-some major-the iPhone could be a very serious contender for corporate personal device of […]

Securing the Laptop : Mission Impossible?”> Nearly every week, the report of a stolen laptop hits the news and, with it, a horror story of data loss, identity theft and corporate liability. With a downside that steep, its no wonder that the laptop is the target of corporate IT security campaigns nationwide. Few corporate executives […]

We cant live with e-mail; we cant live without it. Indispensable to most businesses today, e-mail can be a millstone around the necks of office workers and the corporate IT professionals who serve them. Bloated in-boxes conceal rather than expose critical e-mail messages, and vast archives of spam and useless messages clog servers and network […]

In 2006, we voiced opinions in this space on a wide range of issues that we believe are of vital interest to you, our readers, as you use IT and the Internet for strategic business advantage. Heres a summary of where we stand: On the question of net neutrality, we believe the Internet ought to […]

As voice over IP completes its first decade, the technology has become firmly established in corporate voice, data and video communications networks. Now the eyes of the VOIP community are turning to what might be the next big thing on the horizon—fixed-mobile convergence, or the ability of cell phones and VOIP devices to send and […]

ATLANTA—As voice over IP completes its first decade, the technology has become firmly established in corporate voice, data and video communications networks. Now the eyes of the VOIP community are turning to what might be the next big thing on the horizon, FMC (fixed-mobile convergence), or the ability of cell phones and VOIP devices to […]

Trade across international boundaries isnt new. Multinational corporations arent new. Yet, it seems, globalization is new. Although international commerce has been going on since the beginning of civilization, whats different now is instant communication between scattered locations that makes an office on the other side of the world look like it is next door. That […]