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.
BMC and Salesforce.com partner to deliver BMC's Service Desk Express on Force.com platform.
Forrester Research survey data shows that Microsoft currently leads in client management software among those polled, and the vendor¿s latest operating system could continue to drive adoption.
Robert Half Technology and Deloitte Consulting report that IT leaders are worried high-tech workers will seek employment elsewhere, leaving their companies at a disadvantage in terms of business-technology initiatives.
Enterprise IT leaders continue to keep tight controls on budgets, cutting their spending on IT contractors and consultants, according to a new Forrester Research report.
The Measurement Factory¿s fifth annual DNS Survey results show an increasing number of name servers on the Internet that are vulnerable to distributed denial of service attacks.
Joel Snyder, a Network World Test Alliance partner and a senior partner at research firm Opus One, took on Microsoft¿s flagship e-mail software in a test and says the company made good with some features but could continue to work on others.
HP's news that it would lay down $2.7 billion to acquire network switch maker 3Com not only causes industry watchers to look ahead at what could come of such a deal, but also reminds many of the IT vendor's long history of billion-dollar acquisitions.
Rackspace commissioned survey shows that many companies struggle to manage their in-house servers and could consider managed hosting, cloud computing and e-mail hosting alternatives in the coming years.
The IT Infrastructure Library, or ITIL, turns 20 this year after launching in 1989 in the U.K. Now American IT departments and vendors embrace the best practice import.
The Computing Technology Industry Association of 1,500 IT workers found that majority intend to pursue security and related certifications in the coming years.
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