Beth Schultz

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Recent articles by Schultz

Data center derby heats up
Jun. 15, 2009
Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM teams up Brocade. Oracle buys Sun. And everybody courts that prize filly VMware. In ...

Microsoft: Desktop champ seeks footing on new track
Jun. 15, 2009
Microsoft's next-generation data center strategy is simple: Make virtualization ubiquitous.

Brocade: Well positioned with emerging technologies
Jun. 15, 2009
Brocade is a networking company, nothing more, nothing less. "We don't make phones, we don't make servers, we don't build furniture," says Dave Stevens, the company's CTO.

Oracle: Late entry with strong bloodlines
Jun. 15, 2009
Two months ago, Oracle wouldn't have leapt to mind as a potential contender in the next-generation data center. But that was pre-Sun, pre-Virtual Iron. Now, all of a sudden, Oracle has an interesting data center story ...

IBM: Riding strong service component
Jun. 15, 2009
IBM is pulling together the server, storage and networking resources needed to support this expanding infrastructure, then topping that off with software for managing the environment.

VMware: Virtualization frontrunner, part of EMC stable
Jun. 15, 2009
If you're visualizing the next-generation data center, 100% virtualized, then VMware more than likely fits into the picture.

Liquid Computing: Fast out of the starting gate
Jun. 15, 2009
When Cisco unveiled its Unified Computing System in February, the news had some perhaps unintended consequences. It lent legitimacy to a group of small specialty vendors offering unified data center platforms.

HP: Has the inside track with strongest portfolio
Jun. 15, 2009
HP clearly does not intend to let Cisco usurp its position in the data center.

Cisco: Networking stud goes for the brass ring
Jun. 15, 2009
Cisco shook up the data center world in February when it announced its vision of a fully automated, consolidated and virtualized next-generation data center. Core to this pre-integrated platform are Cisco's new ...

Novell: Son of NetWare jockeys for position
Jun. 15, 2009
Novell most likely wouldn't be the first bet placed in the data center race, but the company has been amassing essential technologies and developing a comprehensive next-generation strategy that might make for a ...

Juniper: Promising entry, needs more seasoning
Jun. 15, 2009
Juniper Networks doesn't intend to let enterprise switch nemesis Cisco take the next-generation data center race unchallenged. So to Cisco's Unified Computing System, Juniper ponies up the Stratus Project.

Cloud computing: Pros and cons
May. 18, 2009
Five reasons to embrace an external cloud; five reasons to stay away

How to buy cloud computing services
May. 18, 2009
If you need more computing or storage capacity in your data center but capital expense is an issue, then a public cloud computing service makes a nice option. You get on-demand IT resources that are infinitely scalable ...

Reputation scoring changes enterprise security game
Apr. 03, 2009
When it comes to personal and business relationships, a good reputation opens doors while a bad one slams them shut. And so it goes with enterprise security, too.

Salary Survey
Jan. 05, 2009

Outlook '09
Jan. 05, 2009

Annual raises fall short, leaving IT pros to grin and bear
Jan. 05, 2009
With the roiling effects of the economy churning their organizations, IT executives entered 2009 with protective blankets thrown over employee pay, our annual IT salary survey shows.

IT budget '09: Spending down, contingencies at the ready
Jan. 05, 2009
Network World Budget Survey shows IT spending is down, but enterprise IT executives say their contingency plans are ready.

Security Trend Watch
Sep. 29, 2008
Security Trend Watch By Beth Schultz , Network World , 09/29/2008 Click Here Share/Email Comment Print A special editorial issue examining how information protection, identity-centric access control, ...

10 woeful tales of data gone missing
Jan. 26, 2009

Reader survey: data storage by the numbers
Jan. 26, 2009

2009 IT budgets and spending: a snapshot
Jan. 05, 2009

2009 IT hiring outlook
Jan. 05, 2009

IT salary survey: a look at loyalty
Jan. 05, 2009

IT salary survey: pay overview
Jan. 05, 2009