Stories by: Sandra Gittlen

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A sampling of BYOD user policies 02 April, 2012 23:44:51

Just say the words "bring your own device" and IT staffers start to rub their foreheads. Allowing users to attach their consumer devices, including smartphones and tablets, to the network might seem like a bad idea, but with a clear user policy that is re-signed annually, you can reduce a lot of organizational risk.
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The industrial robot revolution 20 February, 2012 22:25:00

One small step for man, a giant leap for robot-kind.
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Bandwidth bottlenecks loom large in the cloud 05 January, 2012 03:44:03

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) CIO Tom Conophy has no reservations when it comes to the cloud.
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Company docs in the Cloud: The risks and rewards 15 November, 2011 12:48:00

DropBox, GoogleDocs, Microsoft Office 365, SkyDox ... the field of companies urging you to put your documents in the cloud is growing by the minute. Appealing as this concept might seem, CFOs and IT teams have to take a step back and evaluate the benefits and risks.
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Extending the life of your data center 12 October, 2011 06:39:00

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 1,200-square-foot data center at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering -- that means the facility has been operating three years longer than CIO and vice president of operations Joanne Kossuth had originally planned. Now, even though the school needs a facility with more capacity and better connectivity, Kossuth has been forced to back-burner the issue because of the iffy economic times.
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Start-ups offer cool tools to ease IT's pain 17 February, 2011 07:15:00

If you want to know what IT tools and technologies you'll be using in a few years, it pays to keep an eye on enterprise technology start-ups.
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Four questions for Dan Bricklin, VisiCalc inventor 20 January, 2011 07:06:00

Dan Bricklin first came up with the idea of an electronic spreadsheet while he was at Harvard Business School in 1978. He later joined forces with Bob Frankston and Dan Fylstra to publish the now-legendary VisiCalc in 1979. Bricklin, currently president of software developer Software Garden Inc., recently spoke with Computerworld about the intent of VisiCalc and how the spreadsheet has evolved.
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Why some companies are ditching their spreadsheets 20 January, 2011 07:05:00

Until a few years ago, Thule Group's North American division would have been considered a "classic spreadsheet-driven" company, according to Vice President of Finance Mark Cohen.
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Moving to the cloud: Big savings, but plan ahead 18 March, 2010 05:07:00

Some might say that San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals was pushed into the cloud. The 23-year-old company's data center had been running at 100% capacity and IT executives feared inevitable performance problems, but the company was reluctant to build another site due to the poor economic climate.
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Planning for virtualization? Beware of server overload 09 February, 2010 03:50:00

As virtualization stretches deeper into the enterprise to include mission-critical and resource-intensive applications, IT executives are learning that double-digit physical-to-virtual server ratios are things of the past.
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Virtualization: Tips for avoiding server overload 06 October, 2009 00:46:00

As virtualization stretches deeper into the enterprise to include mission-critical and resource-intensive applications, IT executives are learning that double-digit physical-to-virtual server ratios are things of the past.