Richard Wirt, vice president and general manager of Intel’s software and solutions group, delivered his insights on software threading during his keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum.

James Snell, a developer with IBM’s WebAhead development lab, comes on to talk about his new developerWorks article series on the Atom publishing protocol. For more info see: IBM’s developerWorks

When deploying a wireless LAN, businesses can use a managed service provider to help ensure non-intrusive deployment, comprehensive security policies, mitigation against unauthorized access and investment protection. Verizon Business’s Program Manager for Managed Services Andy Boyer talks about how Verizon [See the full post…]

What are social bookmarks and why would you want to use them? ShortCuts knowledge management expert Luis Suarez explains how del.icio.us and other social bookmarking services can help you organize, track and share information and expertise. This week’s links: Wikipedia’s [See the full post…]

Learn about Instant Messaging (IM) threats and what you can do to protect your working environment. More information at: Symantec.com

Application-aware VPN tools enable private IP enterprises to achieve high levels of performance for applications such as VoIP, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and video. With the proper network assessment, reporting, dynamic bandwidth and packet-marking tools, enterprises can more closely monitor [See the full post…]

A discussion on the next evolution of Sun‘s CoolThreads processor (code-named Niagara 2) with Rick Hetherington, chief architect for the Niagara program, and Gary Peterson, director for the Niagara program.

With big iron machines it’s all about keeping costs down. As Moore’s Law is challenged by the physical constraints of designing nano-sized devices, it might be aided by more efficient software. However, software isn’t cheap. Intel Fellows David Kuck and [See the full post…]

Forty percent of us are taking our laptops to bed. Everyone knows that technology is changing rapidly. With so many computers in so many beds, it sounds like we’re changing right along with it. Katlean de Monchy brings us coverage [See the full post…]

Sun Microsystems’ Bryan Cantrill, senior staff engineer with the Solaris Kernel Development Group, talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson to discuss DTrace, a debugging feature in Solaris 10. For more information visit www.sun.com.

Availability, cost control and predictability, upgrades, control over employee communications and protection against security threats — hear about these issues and more in this PodTech.net interview with Patrick Verhoeven, group manager in the product management division with Verizon Business.

Security continues to be a major challenge faced by today’s IP leaders. Listen in on a presentation by Verizon Business’ Chief Information Security Officer, Sara Santarelli, about how to help ensure that risk management touches every system and every action [See the full post…]

Security continues to be a major challenge faced by today’s IP leaders. Listen in on a presentation by Verizon Business’ Chief Information Security Officer, Sara Santarelli, about how to help ensure that risk management touches every system and every action [See the full post…]

Avoid the common road blocks that can jeopardize the smooth transition from traditional telephony to IP telephony. In this podcast, Verizon Business Vice President of Managed Services Marketing Jim DeMerlis talks with PodTech.net about moving into a managed services approach [See the full post…]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made sure no one would miss his point that Microsoft has been, is now, and will continue to be dogged in everything it does. Even if, as Ballmer said, “we don’t always get it right on [See the full post…]

“Corporate information technology departments can spend more time reacting to fires than supporting corporate objectives,” said Executive Director of Product Management for Verizon Business’ John Shultz at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Florida. Shultz and Verizon Business customer Rick [See the full post…]

ShortCuts web etiquette expert Penny Scharfman explains the best (and safest) ways to start an instant message in the workplace. (Hint: there’s more to it than you might think.)

Learn about Instant Messaging (IM) threats and what you can do to protect your working environment. More information at: Symantec.com

developerWorks’ SOA and Web services zone editor Pat Flanders and editor-in-chief Michael O’Connell talk about the big IBM announcement last week around service-oriented architecture and cover some developerWorks resources for SOA. For more info see: IBM’s developerWorks

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was interviewed by two tough VPs from research firm Gartner, Inc. at Gartner’s Symposium and ITxpo at the Dolphin Hotel in Orlando Florida October 10th. In the so-called “Mastermind Interview”, Ballmer fielded questions that ranged from [See the full post…]

Intel Senior Fellow Steve Palowski and other Intel fellows took questions from the audience attending the Shop Talk gathering at the Intel Developer Forum. Topics discussed in this “Best of Shop Talk” podcast include memory and quad-core technology.

Dave Trowbridge, director of marketing for Network Physics, on end users’ needs and NP’s solutions and approach to the sales channel.

Dwight Barker, vice president of product management for Network Physics, provides an outlook on industry trends and needs for accurate application performance management.

Dave Trowbridge, director of marketing for Network Physics, describes the latest version of NP’s NetSensory, an application performance management analysis tool.

Adobe‘s Michael Folkers, senior product manager for Acrobat, sits down with John Moebes, director of construction for Crate and Barrel to discuss how Moebes has used Acrobat to combat a number of business challenges. PodTech’s own Michael Johnson moderates the [See the full post…]