Learn about the benefits of server consolidation with VMware virtualization. Increase the flexibility and availability of your datacenter by consolidating up to 20 virtual machines on a single server. Hear why more than 100,000 customers are using VMware to dynamically balance workload among servers and nearly eliminate user impact during ...

In this podcast, writer Alan Drummer provides an overview of a CIO Digest article titled Define Retentive. Drummer expands on ways organizations can streamline their email and document management policies. For more information, visit www.symantec.com/ciodigest.

The California Department of Parks and Recreation is harnessing the power of IP to converge networks, increase capacity and support new capabilities. Alan Friedman, department CIO, discusses the migration from frame relay to managed MPLS and highlights how the new Verizon Business network is enabling new school outreach programs ...

Join BearingPoint Managing Director Brian Hart to explore the seven steps to more effective performance and risk management. As a result of the recent credit crisis, organizations are faced with a challenge of making the best use of a very constrained balance sheet. BearingPoint has created a seven-step methodology to ...

In this video podcast, find out how HP’s line of handheld PCs and business notebooks bring mobility and connectivity to SMBs, and how HP Total Care helps business users get the experience they need from their mobile devices.

HP’s notebook portfolio has expanded, with offerings designed for small business ...

During the North American International Auto Show, (NAIAS) one of the most important announcements I heard was made by GM Chairman Rick Wagoner, who announced a partnership with Coskata, a Warrensville, IL, biology-based ethanol producer. The company uses proprietary microorganisms and patented bioreactor designs ...

Data centers today are under pressure from rising compute requirements, demand for storage capacity and energy costs. In this video podcast from IT@Intel, Alan Ross, principal engineer and enterprise architect with Intel IT, shares experiences, technology assessments and best practices around data center efficiency, virtualization and consolidation.

Transforming the data ...

While at the IBM Software Group Connection Summit 2007, James talks IBM’s Anany Jhingran about IBM’s application of Web 2.0 ideas to information management in the enterprise. Of note, they spend some time talking about the navigating the cultural waters and changes in the IT department and balancing the ...

In many countries in the developing world, cooking is a role assigned to women who tend open fires, sometimes inside their homes. In Guatemala, the respiratory illnesses, eye infections and severe burns that come from this reality seemed eminently avoidable to Donald O’Neal. With the intent of finding a ...

Application security as a concept has many different connotations, ranging from dealing with application security only in code, implementing solutions in existing technologies such as firewalls, and “porting” application business logic to a traditional on-the-wire Application Firewall solution. The primary barriers to entry for true application security on the ...

Over the past few years Virtualization has become the new IT buzzword, cropping up in technologies from the end-user client environment all the way back through the Data Center into application, storage, and delivery networks. While Virtualization is solid technology, one definition for this word doesn’t cover all parts ...

While at the Austin InnoTech conference, I talked with Luke Kanies about Puppet, the open source server configuration automation (or “provisioning” in my personal lexicon) project. Luke first gives us a detailed overview of Puppet: what it does, how it works, and the puppet DSL. We then ...

In this podcast from LSI, listen in as Harry Mason, Mike Gurin, and Tom Hammond-Dohl give a C-level perspective on the challenges faced by small to mid-sized businesses when data storage needs outpace existing capacity, and look at the opportunities available with new technology solutions. They discuss balancing the ...

In this podcast, writer Alan Drummer provides an overview of a CIO Digest article titled Green Virtualization. Drummer expands on ways organizations can see huge savings in power and cooling while putting less strain on the environment. For more information, visit www.symantec.com/ciodigest.

Greg Warnock has a soft spot for entrepreneurs. Whether it’s through mentoring, work deals at vSpring Capital, or angel investing, Warnock has seen a lot of companies. He’s also learned that it takes more than good technology and a strong development team to succeed.

Trained as a computer scientist, ...

Just 59 days into his return tour with Yahoo!, Jerry Yang appears to be making his imprint felt. Yahoo! just acquired BuzzTracker.com, a news aggregation site, for a reported $5 million. John Ince spoke with Alan Warms, founder and CEO of Participate Media, parent of BuzzTracker, about their technology, business ...

Have you ever wanted to host a talk radio show? You know where you have guests and can take calls from your audience? Well, Alan Levy, CEO and founder of BlogTalk Radio tells us about his new service aimed at getting everyone to start a talk radio show.

We were saddened by the death of our first worm bin because of some imbalance of moisture, acidity or bad paper products. We’re super-determined to continue the worm composting process with a homemade bin. We took the tray from our old bin (a big kitty litter pan) and gathered some ...

In the United States, Bebo may not be a household word, but in the UK, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia it is well known. In those countries, Bebo is the most popular social network, attracting some 34 million registered users globally. I sat down with husband-and-wife founders Michael ...

Big Oil and the incumbents in the Clean Tech space have the biggest balance sheets on the face of the planet. They have shown record profits as demand for oil increases globally. Two of the most astute observers of investment in Clean Tech, Paul Deninger (vice chairman of Jefferies and ...

Mayfield Fund’s Managing Director, Kevin Fong, heads their firm’s China-based strategy and investments. I caught up with Kevin last month at the Pan IIT Global Conference to find out about the company’s investment strategy in China and how it all started. What are some of the things we don’t ...

Nick DeMonner, Lisa Hansen and Mike Minardi are trying to launch a start-up into a tough market with just modest funding. Which means they’re cutting costs at every turn. But they’ve found that a low-budget lifestyle doesn’t mean eating ramen every day. The San Jose trio have discovered how ...

Andreas Kluth (Technology Correspondent, The Economist) continues his discussion of the new news during the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 07. Ann Grimes (Acting Director, Graduate Program in Journalism, Stanford University), Alan Warms (CEO, BuzzTracker), Chris Tolles (CEO, Topix), Dan Cohen (CEO, Pageflakes) all contribute ...

Newspapers, social networks, ad rates, and participatory journalism are all among the topics moderated by Andreas Kluth (Technology Correspondent, The Economist) during the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 07. Ann Grimes (Acting Director, Graduate Program in Journalism, Stanford University), Alan Warms (CEO, BuzzTracker), Chris Tolles (CEO, ...