Recent articles by Neal Weinberg
October 19, 2011
Enterprises should consider public cloud services first and turn to private clouds only if the public cloud fails to meet their needs.
October 19, 2011
"You have to be a masochist to want to be an IT person,'' says Robert Carter. And he would know. Carter is the soft-spoken, hard-driving CIO who has been fighting for the past 11 years to transform IT operations at FedEx, where "the planes don't fly and trucks don't roll without IT services.''
February 22, 2010
We tested more than 100 products in 2009 in a wide variety of categories, but 15 of those products were head and shoulders above the rest and earn our Best of the Tests Award. Here are the categories and winners:
October 19, 2009
If you had a blank check, access to IBM's latest products and its best talent, and your task was to renovate a 2,000-square-foot legacy data center, the result would be IBM's sparkling showcase in Southbury, Conn.
October 19, 2009
If you're an enterprise data center manager, saving money on heating and cooling plays a role in your company's bottom line. But if you're a data center hosting company, reducing data center costs is your bottom line.
May 18, 2009
The human resources people at Microsoft were somewhat taken aback when the city of Carlsbad, Calif., started grilling them on what types of background checks Microsoft performs on its own employees.
May 18, 2009
Business resiliency was the main driver for the United States Golf Association when it recently chose the IBM cloud for email and data protection services.
May 18, 2009
With virtually every vendor on the planet jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon, sometimes it's difficult to tell whether a service is really cloud or simply a pre-existing offering that has the cloud label slapped on it.
January 05, 2009
Our annual list of hot technologies includes a few that exploded on the scene recently - cloud computing, Web 2.0 and green IT - plus some that have been simmering for years and just now are coming into their own - unified communications, network access control and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Here's a rundown, plus a tip or two about how you might approach each one.