The day 1 keynotes at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing featured CTO Justin Rattner and Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president of the Digital Enterprise Group. They talked about new developments at the company. Rattner filled in some detail around [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World in San Diego. In this edition of SNW Spotlight, exploring the subtleties of network architecture, and columnist and futurist Thornton May talks about the human brain, coral [See the full post…]

Chevron is the second largest integrated energy company in the United States. With over 54,000 employees, ranging from far-upstream field seismologists to service station personnel, Chevron is involved in every aspect of global energy development and delivery. Operating in 180 [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World, in San Diego. In this edition of SNW Spotlight, two shows for the price of one! Storage news coverage from the NAB conference in Las Vegas, and [See the full post…]

At the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, Intel’s Eric Kim handed out a $700,000 check to Park Il-whan, CEO of Korea-based Trigem Computer. Their living room ready black stereo-like PC won the Intel Core 2 Challenge. As soon as the [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World, in San Diego. In this edition of SNW Spotlight, storage in China, and security on your hard drive. Four Chinese journalists opine about what needs to happen [See the full post…]

I had a chance to sit down and talk with Seagate’s CEO Bill Watkins about Seagate’s Q3 results. The San Jose Mercury News recently reported that Seagate has revised it’s estimates but Seagate continues to be the big fish in [See the full post…]

SNW Spotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World, in San Diego. In this edition of SNW Spotlight, all things SAS. As Serial Attached SCSI makes great inroads into the market, the Storage Networking World conference [See the full post…]

Does your enterprise network infrastructure group face challenges that include a need for differentiated service levels for different business units, or are they stuck using obsolete technologies and non-scalable architecture? Multi Protocol Label Switching – MPLS – could be the [See the full post…]

Last week four judges–IDEO Founder David Kelley, former PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Michael Miller, GQ Associate Editor Kevin Sintumuang, and Intel CEO Paul Otellini–gave the finalist PCs in the Core 2 Challenge a once-over. A few designs that made the top [See the full post…]

“HP empowers small businesses by making technology simple and accessible, freeing time for business owners to focus on the business itself,” said Satjiv Chahil, senior vice president, worldwide marketing, Personal Systems Group, HP.

Subaru‘s launch of its Owner Loyalty Program required efficiently delivering training to 600 dealerships across the U.S. Implementing WebEx Training Center enabled the program’s sole trainer to reach 2,400 dealers within six months at a cost of $0.75 per person. [See the full post…]

The Intel Developer Forum shifts to Beijing China this spring where the company plans to say more about its products and strategies, especially in areas like 45 nanometer chips, mobility and gaming. One new wrinkle: the world’s largest chip maker [See the full post…]

This podcast provides an overview of the Symantec white paper “IT Risk Management for Financial Services: An Essential Strategy for Business Success.” The white paper can be downloaded in its entirety at: www.symantec.com/financial

Summary: This podcast provides a brief overview of the Symantec technical brief about the value of early warning solutions. The technical brief is available for download in its entirety at: www.symantec.com/earlywarning2

SNWSpotlight is your source for the latest information from Storage Networking World, taking place in San Diego from April 16th through the 19th. Subscribe to these podcasts for valuable up-to-the-minute news from the conference, plus interviews with industry leaders about [See the full post…]

Certain enterprises are ideally suited for Web conferencing and for delivering training materials via the Internet, and Darco International is one of them. As a designer of medical products, demonstration and training is an integral part of the company’s success. [See the full post…]

When these homeowners wanted to add smart home functionality to an existing home, they turned to an integrator. The integrator presented Control4 as both a feature rich and affordable solution. Now this family has a single-remote experience to manage all [See the full post…]

Typically, IT organizational structures are the result of an evolutionary process and are not necessarily the outcome of planned design. So, how should the IT organization be designed and operated? To start, using a value chain provides an overview of [See the full post…]

For this podcast we return to the office of David Knight, vice president of WebEx Connect. In this conversation we go a little deeper into what makes WebEx Connect a powerful tool for organizations to partner with when looking into [See the full post…]

“d-frag” from Germany attended the DCMM, Deutschen Casemod Meisterschaft (German Case Mod Championship) show in Dortmund, Germany last year. He shares pictures of some of the incredible mods from Germany and other EU countries. Attendance at years show is expected [See the full post…]

A-Tech Fabrication’s Glenn Lirhus talked with PodTech about his company’s Intel Core 2 Challenge PC design. A-Tech’s design was inspired by a remote control, and is intended for the home-theater enthusiast. Like many of the Core 2 Challenge contestants, A-Tech [See the full post…]

In this podcast, Bob Holleran, chief operating officer for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, talks about Hitachi GST‘s recent consolidations, new products, and the challenges ahead, as the hard drive market adapts to new mobile and home entertainment demands. This podcast [See the full post…]

Most IT departments allocate a significant portion of the total cost to labor yet do not apply any formal estimation methodology to determine the appropriate allocation, growth, and productivity of their labor. The use of an estimation model can have [See the full post…]

Hosted applications like Salesforce.com and Microsoft Live have gotten a lot of press lately. Do they live up to the hype and deliver benefits that make outsourcing the storage of critical business data a smart choice? Success Magazine’s Web Editor, [See the full post…]