Interviews

• Q&A: Austereo CIO Ross Forgione

  By Lisa Banks | 09 September, 2010 09:53

  What does an average work day involve for you at Austereo? The average day at Austereo is an adventure. It's a combination of managing daily operational needs and activities and taking on the new challenges associated with an organisation that continually pushes itself and the traditional boundaries of our industry.

• Cisco's McCool sees growing data-center role

  By Stephen Lawson | 23 January, 2010 12:03

  While Cisco Systems branches out into consumer electronics, video, mobile data and other areas, one of its biggest areas of focus today is enterprise data centers. The dominant LAN provider thinks the transformation of data centers through virtualization calls for new kinds of connections and a broader role for network technology and intelligence. John McCool oversees this push as senior vice president and general manager of Cisco's Data Center, Switching and Services group. IDG News Service talked with McCool recently about the company's own role and its partnerships with other vendors in this arena.

• Partnering to success

  By Georgina Swan | 27 September, 2009 15:17

  VMware is not just any IT company — the winner of the 2009 ARN Software Vendor of the Year has a partner community that runs through the entire channel.

• HP's Hat Trick

  By Tim Lohman | 27 October, 2009 16:15

  Like a formula one driver at the top of his game, HP has shown remarkable consistency as the company negotiated the bends, curves and hairpins of the market over the past year.