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Neal Weinberg

Neal Weinberg

Features editor

Network World, Inc.

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<div class="rxbodyfield"> <p class="rxbodyfield" align="justify"><strong>Responsibilities:</strong> Feature stories, product reviews, Tech Update page, Management Strategies page, Op-Ed page, Face-Offs.</p> <div class="rxbodyfield"> <ul class="noindent"> <li>Feature Stories: Send feature story pitches to me via email. Freelance writers with technical background can send resumes and/or story pitches via e-mail.<br/> </li> <li>Product reviews: Send information on enterprise network products to Test Alliance Director&nbsp; <a href="mailto:cburns@nww.com">Christine Burns</a>. Send interesting gadget info to Cool Tools editor&nbsp; <a href="mailto:kshaw@nww.com">Keith Shaw</a>.<br/> </li> <li>Technology Update: Send topic ideas to me via e-mail.<br/> </li> <li>Management Strategies page: Send story pitches to&nbsp; <a href="mailto:aschurr@nww.com">Amy Schurr</a>.<br/> </li> <li>Op-Ed Page and Face-Offs. Send ideas to&nbsp; <a href="mailto:scollins@nww.com">Susan Collins</a>.</li> </ul> </div> <p><strong>Past experience:</strong> Assistant news editor, Computerworld; business/technology editor, Middlesex News.</p> <p align="justify"><strong>How to reach:</strong> E-mail.</p> </div>

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Recent articles by Neal Weinberg

Gartner: Private clouds are a last resort

October 19, 2011

Enterprises should consider public cloud services first and turn to private clouds only if the public cloud fails to meet their needs.

'You have to be masochist to be an IT person': FedEx CIO

October 19, 2011

"You have to be a masochist to want to be an IT person,'' says Robert Carter. And he would know. Carter is the soft-spoken, hard-driving CIO who has been fighting for the past 11 years to transform IT operations at FedEx, where "the planes don't fly and trucks don't roll without IT services.''

Best of the Tests

February 22, 2010

We tested more than 100 products in 2009 in a wide variety of categories, but 15 of those products were head and shoulders above the rest and earn our Best of the Tests Award. Here are the categories and winners:

IBM's internal innovations

October 19, 2009

If you had a blank check, access to IBM's latest products and its best talent, and your task was to renovate a 2,000-square-foot legacy data center, the result would be IBM's sparkling showcase in Southbury, Conn.

Insight from Navisite

October 19, 2009

If you're an enterprise data center manager, saving money on heating and cooling plays a role in your company's bottom line. But if you're a data center hosting company, reducing data center costs is your bottom line.

City of Carlsbad connects to the cloud

May 18, 2009

The human resources people at Microsoft were somewhat taken aback when the city of Carlsbad, Calif., started grilling them on what types of background checks Microsoft performs on its own employees.

USGA hooks into IBM cloud

May 18, 2009

Business resiliency was the main driver for the United States Golf Association when it recently chose the IBM cloud for email and data protection services.

Engineering firm picks Iron Mountain for cold storage

May 18, 2009

With virtually every vendor on the planet jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon, sometimes it's difficult to tell whether a service is really cloud or simply a pre-existing offering that has the cloud label slapped on it.

Nine hot technologies for '09

January 05, 2009

Our annual list of hot technologies includes a few that exploded on the scene recently - cloud computing, Web 2.0 and green IT - plus some that have been simmering for years and just now are coming into their own - unified communications, network access control and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Here's a rundown, plus a tip or two about how you might approach each one.