Recent Articles
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Scientists Issue a Global Warning at MIT
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Today, the Charles River forms a pleasant border between Boston and Cambridge. Now for the bet. When will global warming submerge the MIT Cambridge campus under water? Apparently not all that far in the future if we are to listen to the scientists who spoke at this year’s keynote panel at the Emerging Technologies…
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The e-Discovery of Tape
The pressure on storage managers to dig out specific content in archives keeps growing as more companies are finding themselves saddled with urgent “e-discovery” motions for digital data. If this process goes wrong, it could cost your company millions and the boss could go to jail (and more importantly, you will likely lose your job).…
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Study: Microsoft Anti-Phishing Uses Best Bait
Microsoft’s maiden entry into the anti-phishing space outperforms similar technologies offered by more established security applications providers, according to a new report commissioned by the software company and conducted by researchers 3Sharp. Based on a comparative study sponsored by Microsoft that tested anti-phishing applications from eight different software vendors and online specialists, the malicious Web…
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Distribution Growth Is Good for the Channel
While spending by small and midsize companies slowed in the third quarter, the business of IT product distributors increased by more than 6 percent. Spending growth by SMBs dropped to 2 percent from 7 percent in the third quarter of last year, according to a recent report by Raymond James and Associates, an investment and…
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Microsoft Enlists Intel in Quest to Sanction Open XML Supply Chain Standards
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Microsoft announced Sept. 28 that Intel has joined it in an initiative to get its proposed Office Open XML format standard approved by an international standards body. The Office Open XML format standard for documents—a more than 4,000-page, 6.7MB Microsoft Word document—is less of a standard and more of a detailed description of…
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Is ROI a ‘Bogus’ Indicator of IT Value?
PHOENIX—The focus on return on investment as an indicator of IT value is actually bogus and is increasingly not being seen as the best way to measure technology decisions, Stephen Walli, a former employee of Microsoft and Optaros, said at the Gartner Open Source Summit here September 28. In an address entitled “Enterprise Open Source:…
