Earlier this week, yours truly enjoyed a free online Hulu.com movie titled: Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project . In the movie, even a one-legged dog missing an ear and going by the name of "Lucky" would be considered fair game for being the butt of a joke by famous insult comic - Don Rickles . That...

I was reading over the 10 Worst Security Breaches article and a clear pattern formed through the fog of the late-afternoon office lighting. All of these have one thing in common: they occurred out of the office. Remote access to information is one of the biggest double-edge swords in IT. It enables ...

I've already had the discussion about whether Apple can cut it in the Enterprise arena. Whether the facts are there to support the hype or not, they seem to be leading the mindshare department. I'm still a Blackberry user (the Curve now) but I have decided to make the switch to another platform. I w...

Cisco predicts that global IP traffic will reach over half a trillion gigbytes -- or 250 billion DVDs -- in the next four years. Reaching half a zettabyte by 2012 represents a sixfold increase from 2007, and is driven by video and social networking, Cisco claims. Cisco's data comes from it...

Yours truly was fortunate to exchange email messages between Aruba and Cisco regarding the announcement of the new Cisco Mobile Vision . In the email correspondence published below, Aruba scoffs at the Cisco announcement calling it markitecture . Cisco lunges back with how the Aruba argument complet...

So, it appears that the popular trend for IT is to "go green." Hardware that consumes less resources, in a smaller space, seems to be the future. With this comes the ever-popular topic of virtualization. Virtualization in the telephony environment isn't as simple as it's application server counterpa...

In a very interesting Q & A session with Cisco CEO - John Chambers: Up Close & Personal A featured article on pages 94 and 95 of synnovation magazine published by EDS, Chambers was asked: What magazines do you read? Chambers: I read a variety of magazines, both hard copy and online, from For...

When you're managing convergence-based networks across multiple locations, say 50 branch offices linked to two headquarters, you most likely have an ongoing migraine headache. There are always different ways to design such a network, but it's likely that management will want a centralized dialplan, ...

An interesting question and answer session with the ex-Cisco stars who have launched the very hottest enterprise mobility start-up, Tim Olson - Cofounder and Chief Technical Officer of Agito Networks as well as Pejman Roshan - Cofounder and Vice President of Marketing of Agito Networks . How did you...

Earlier this week Computerworld had an interesting article that caught my attention: Opinion: The 10 secrets of bad CIOs "In my decade as a CIO, I've seen a lot of turnover in the IT industry," said John Halamka - CIO of CareGroup Health System and Harvard Medical School. "Each time I hear about a C...