Senior Editor, Enterprise Applications
Responsibilities: To follow, report and write on management software and appliance vendors, products and services, as well as to cover IT spending and staffing news and issues.
Past experience: Worked at Application Development Trends, a monthly trade magazine, and The North Adams Transcript, a daily newspaper based in western Massachusetts.
How to reach: E-mail works best and early in the week for more timely news items. E-mail any time for trend or customer stories.
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Women in IT thank moms for encouragement
05/08/08
Women in technology say they owe their success to their mothers who refused to reinforce the misguided notion that boys are
good at math and science, while girls should focus on arts and literature.
IT pays homage to mothers
05/08/08
Mother's Day inspires IT professionals to share how their moms helped them be able to tackle the challenging position of network
manager.
Indian workers don't want U.S. jobs, survey reports
05/07/08
A survey of 677 graduates of Indian Institutes of Technology shows a smaller percentage has opted to travel to the U.S. and
other foreign countries for work.
Microsoft's infrastructure management aspirations
05/07/08
Microsoft wants to change a key number in the systems management market: the big four.
Dr. House-like diagnostics for your network
05/05/08
Network and systems management technologies have come a long way, but networks have come even further - making it difficult
for network teams to quickly diagnose performance problems.
Assembling a 'Network A-Team'
05/01/08
Burton Group senior analyst Eric Siegel says reaching the Holy Grail of quick problem identification and resolution involves
more people and process than technology.
Interop start-ups take on network security, management and acceleration
04/30/08
Blue Spinner, FastSoft, porttracker and Solera Networks use Interop's Start-up City to showcase their products to attendees.
Virtualization is greatest network management challenge
04/30/08
NetQoS and Network Instruments polled 117 Interop attendees that visited the two vendors' booths to learn which technologies
pose the biggest monitoring challenges.
Interop: Taking the reins of end-user Internet use
04/30/08
Network managers often hear complaints from end users about applications performing slowly and Web pages loading at a snail's
pace, but many times the true cause of the slow service lies in end-user activity online that eats up a company's precious
bandwidth.
Free net monitoring tool gets a makeover
04/29/08
Spiceworks updates its IT Desktop application with an enhanced user interface, IT services activity feeds, report sharing
features and Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory support.
Bell Labs spin-off to launch management appliance at Interop
04/29/08
Change and configuration management vendor nSolutions will introduce is NOVA line of appliances at Interop Las Vegas 2008.
Interop highlights for the network manager in you
04/28/08
Interop 2008 kicks off this week in Las Vegas and swarms of network professionals will be on site to learn how they can optimize
their networks, improve application performance and save money - all while incorporating emerging technologies such as green
computing, virtualization and Web 2.0.
Splunk augments IT search platform with change management add-on
04/28/08
Splunk develops add-on software to better manage change across heterogeneous environments
BlueCat brings automation to IPAM platform
04/28/08
BlueCat Networks upgrades its flagship Proteus IP address management appliance with workflow, self-provisioning and automated
IT reconciliation features.
SYS rounds out six-pack of freeware at Interop
04/28/08
SYS Technologies debuts that sixth in a series of network management freeware at Interop.
Competitive pay, training reduce IT employee wanderlust
04/23/08
A Robert Half Technology survey of 1,400 CIOs shows competitive compensation, professional-development opportunities and flexible
schedules are the top three ways to keep IT employees happy in their positions.
What keeps network managers up at night?
04/23/08
Network managers are responsible for keeping systems up and running as well as securing their environment, the latter of which
causes many a sleepless night - especially when budgets are being cut.
CA partners to enhance data center automation capabilities
04/21/08
CA, one of the big four management vendors that hasn't acquired an IT process, run-book or data center automation vendor,
last week announced and OEM partnership with Opalis that will enhance those capabilities in CA products.
5 IT skills that won’t boost your salary
04/17/08
IT skills less in demand run the gamut from NetWare to COBOL to SNA to HTML to PC tech support. New technology adoption replaces
the need for older technical, systems expertise.
Wanted: 10 IT skills employers need today
04/17/08
High-tech job seekers looking to cash in on the panic created around reports of an imminent IT skills shortage should get
schooled on wireless, Web 2.0 and virtualization while also boning up on business basics, say experts from CompTIA, Beyond.com
and Foote Partners.
One less open source management vendor?
04/16/08
Qlusters, maker of the open source systems management software OpenQRM, last week announced on SourceForge.net that the most
recent release of its OpenQRM systems management software would be the last from Qlusters.
Are you a problem manager?
04/14/08
IT management experts say the time has come to define a new role within the IT department: Problem manager.
More than 160,000 H-1B applications subject to random lottery
04/11/08
The USCIS received nearly 163,000 applications, more than 31,000 for the advanced degree program, for the 85,000 available
visas for fiscal year 2009. Following data entry, the applications will be subject to random lottery.
He's 11 -- and controls the network
04/10/08
Jon Penn, an 11-year-old network manager in Sherwood, Ark., took the reins of his school network and revealed that teachers
visit MySpace more than students.
What to wear when the interviewer is a program?
04/10/08
Résumé screening applications summarily dismiss many qualified IT workers because their skills don’t match a list, then companies
complain about a shortage of qualified IT workers. What’s at work in this critical industry disconnect?
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