Wayne Rash

You’ve virtualized your servers, improved your hardware utilization, reduced your server administration costs and optimized your energy consumption. You’ve even moved part of your workload to the cloud, taking virtualization to the next level. You might even have virtualized some of your infrastructure to ease administrative burden. Now it’s time for your databases. Database virtualization […]

The buzz around cloud computing is intense, but that buzz rarely addresses the question of whether cloud computing is safe-or whether you can prove that it’s safe. “Is cloud computing ready for prime time?” asked Amy DeCarlo, principal analyst for managed IT services at Current Analysis. “I would say no. There’s not a lot of […]

Many companies do just fine with the standard, off-the-shelf smartphones that can be picked up from any carrier, but many need something different. For this reason, unprovisioned-or unlocked-devices are gaining interest, if not widespread availability, at this time. One thing you should know is that unprovisioned smartphones are only a subset of unlocked phones. It […]

Cemaphore MailShadow Syncs Mail Accounts, but Interface Is Spartan by Wayne Rash App of Few Words You don’t get a lot of feedback from MailShadow when it installs. This is about as verbose as it gets. Configuration Menu The MailShadow Configuration menu is the only thing the app offers in the way of an interface. […]

The idea behind Cemaphore Systems’ latest version of MailShadow is, at first look, a promising one: allow for Microsoft Exchange Server or another e-mail system to be synchronized in real-time with an off-site, cloud-based alternative. By doing this, you have a real-time backup of critical e-mail, calendar and contact information, while at the same time […]

The new version of the T-Mobile BlackBerry Curve, now affectionately called the 8900, is an updated edition of the smartphone that shipped a year ago. While there is a lot that’s new about the Curve 8900, the updates are more evolutionary than revolutionary. That’s not to say the new Curve isn’t a nice PDA, but […]

I don’t believe that you can be a journalist in Washington and not have been affected by political journalist Tim Russert. One way or another, he set the standard for how journalism should be conducted here, and as a result, how journalism should be practiced everywhere. During this period of extended mourning for Tim-who died […]

At CTIA, the Cool Gadgets Come Out at Night Captions and photos by Wayne Rash. At CTIA, the Cool Gadgets Come Out at Night – Motorola Z9 Slider Motorola’s Lindsay Desantis shows off the new Motorola Z9 slider-style phone. This model is a GSM unit that will be offered by AT&T initially. At CTIA, the […]

CTIA Speakers Range from Bureaucracy to Visionary Captions and Photos by Wayne Rash / eWEEK CTIA Speakers Range from Bureaucracy to Visionary – The Chairman Speaks FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said that he was pleased with the results of last month’s 700MHz auction, noting that portions of the spectrum would remain open for all users. […]

CeBIT After Dark CeBIT After Dark – Your Basic CeBIT Party Tobit Software throws a party for customers and others in typical trade-show fashion. The entertainers are mostly ignored while everyone talks business. CeBIT After Dark – Celebrity Performers August-Wilhelm Scheer, president of the Presiding Committee for BITKOM, the German Information Technology Association, plays the […]

HANNOVER, Germany–While most of a reporter’s time at a major trade show such as CeBIT is taken up with press conferences, meetings and time in the press center writing stories, we do sometimes get time off. On Tuesday, which was the opening day of CeBIT, I actually managed to carve out a couple of hours […]

Cool Products from CeBIT Photos and captions by Wayne Rash Cool Products from CeBIT – The T-Mobile iPhone Yes, this is an Apple iPhone. And yes, it’s from T-Mobile. You can buy one today. Unfortunately, it requires a two-year contract with T-Mobile in Germany. But if you don’t mind the roaming fees, you can use […]