* The good, bad and ugly of a VoIP implementation * Top 10 IT Turkeys * Holiday Gift Guide * Cisco targets low-end SAN customers * Survey: ITIL's ROI hard to measure * Wireless energy could power electrical devices * Buzzblog: BellSouth lickspittle toadies up to FCC chairman * Today on Layer 8
The good, bad and ugly of a VoIP implementation
Facing frequent outages in the DSL lines serving 50-plus corporate-owned Gold’s gyms, Bobby Badugu knew it was time for a significant network upgrade. After conducting due diligence in April into the various options – including satellite, frame relay and a different DSL provider – he opted for a carrier-provided VoIP service. That’s when the trouble began. Click here for more.
Top 10 IT Turkeys
In honor of Thanksgiving, here are our picks for 2006’s biggest turkeys in IT. And boy, there were some doozies. Click here for more.
Holiday Gift Guide
The “Cool Yule Tools” are back, with the 100 hottest tech products for holiday gift-giving (or receiving). Categories range from desktops to digital video to home entertainment to wireless. Start here.
Cisco targets low-end SAN customers
Cisco plans to roll out a low-end Fibre Channel switch this week that supports some features of its larger director-level switches, such as virtual storage-area network capability. Click here for more.
Survey: ITIL’s ROI hard to measure
A survey released last week shows two-thirds of some 80 companies that have deployed an IT Infrastructure Library say they feel the process changes are delivering IT performance improvements, but most don’t have effective tools in place to measure the return on their investment. Click here for more.
Wireless energy could power electrical devices
MIT researchers described this week how wireless energy could be used to power an array of mobile devices. Click here for more.
Buzzblog: BellSouth lickspittle toadies up to FCC chairman
The Senate last week rubber-stamped another five-year term for FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, a marginal news event if ever there was one, but one that nonetheless sent the BellSouth public relations department into full boot-licking mode. Click here for more.
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