* Electronics in the election * How good is your planning? * Dissecting the enterprise service bus * Data explosion
Electronics in the election
I think we can all agree that tomorrow we’d like to see an election unburdened by legal catfights, in which everyone who has a right to vote gets to cast it and have it count. From the IT perspective, we’d also like to see the electronic voting machines work like they’re supposed to. On the eve of the election, Scott Bradner looks at where they are today, and points out that what is missing from the system is not in the hardware itself.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/110104bradner.html?vo
How good is your planning?
Chuck Yoke once again provides the User View, and it’s all about planning. It’s OK to have goals for IT. It’s OK to buy point products to try and meet those goals. But if you don’t have the plans that connect the goals to the products, you’re up a creek. Yoke explains.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/110104yoke.html?vo
Dissecting the enterprise service bus
If you have no idea what “enterprise service bus” really means, you’re not alone. Burton Group’s James Kobielus this week picks apart this latest buzzphrase related to middleware. How is it different from previous middleware? Is there anything to it at all – that is, is it all booster, no payload? Find out.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/110104kobielus.html?vo
Data explosion
In some industries, the amount of data being collected is moving into terabytes per week, and that data also sticks around for a long time. At last week’s Storage Networking World conference, users talked about their 21st Century problems for storing all that data – and getting rid of it, as well. Network World Editor-in-Chief John Dix has the details.
https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/110104edit.html?vo
