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.
Cisco this week established its Virtual Computing Environment coalition with EMC and subsidiary VMware, which the network vendor says will develop new products to help large and midsize customers adopt internal cloud computing environments
EMC Ionix portfolio provides integrated, unified element manager for Vblock as part of Cisco, EMC and VMware coalition established to enable collaboration among the IT vendors.
Software makers offer scaled-down versions of their commercial management applications for free, hoping to draw customers into a bigger sale.
Andrew Borg, senior research analyst covering Wireless and Mobility at Aberdeen Group, says the smartphone market is white hot right now but not all devices or applications are created equal.
IT decision makers will be investing in hardware in the coming six months, but high-tech executives say staffing levels will remain flat.
Microsoft¿s release of Windows 7 could drive IT managers to update outdated operating systems and aging hardware, but many considerations must be addressed before undertaking a major software deployment ¿ especially during difficult economic times.
High-tech workers who endured salary reductions and added workloads will be looking for new jobs as an economic recovery gets underway, according to new research from Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system could drive upgrades across Windows XP and Vista environments. Industry watchers and experts advise how to smoothly transition and maintain a new environment.
CA introduces Spectrum Service Assurance 1.1, the vendor¿s latest management application designed to ease the challenge of monitoring virtual and physical infrastructure to support IT services and guarantee optimal performance.
As Microsoft releases Windows 7, Forrester Research Senior Analyst Benjamin Gray discusses what might drive enterprise IT organizations to adopt the operating system and what could hold customers back.
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