Stories by: Bob Violino

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Filippo Passerini: Strategic thinking enables IT 12 December, 2006 12:06

Filippo Passerini attributes his business and personal style to lessons learned while playing competitive chess as a teenager. One lesson is to continually anticipate what's coming and think two, three or more moves ahead. Another is to pay attention to the clock and not take too much time to make a move.
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Sorting the security standards 18 April, 2006 15:32

Many companies are using standards and frameworks to deal with certain aspects of information security. These models can help protect systems and data, but each plays a very different role in an overall security plan.
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UPS leverages real-time data 07 April, 2005 15:10

For a company that delivers more than 13 million parcels and documents each day within a service area that includes some 200 countries and territories, any technology that improves package flow is bound to have a major impact.
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Suite dilemmas 22 July, 2004 15:30

Messaging software has become so critical that it's hard to imagine businesses functioning without it. Online collaboration products have also become vital. The question is, should you buy a messaging/collaboration suite from one vendor or purchase individual products for e-mail and collaboration from several?
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Protecting the data jewels 22 July, 2004 15:17

In the casino industry, one of the most valuable assets is the dossier that casinos keep on their affluent customers, the high rollers. But last year, casino operator Harrah's Entertainment filed a lawsuit charging that a former employee had copied the records of up to 450 wealthy customers before leaving the company to work at competitor Thunder Valley Casino.
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BI for the masses 01 July, 2004 15:43

Business intelligence was once the domain of statisticians and corporate analysts. Not anymore. BI capabilities are spreading to virtually all parts of the organization, as companies strive to put critical data into the hands of business users who need it to do their jobs.
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Cutting 10G costs with copper 30 September, 2003 10:55

The idea of lower costs for short-distance applications is driving two IEEE efforts to standardize 10G Ethernet over copper.
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Waves of change 16 June, 2003 17:00

Web services could have that touch of magic that puts something where you want it, when you want it and make its presence felt in a host of programming tools. Bob Violino looks at the market.
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Analysis: Painless provisioning 09 April, 2003 09:20

Storage is not to be left out of the automation wave sweeping through corporate networks. One of the hottest developments in storage resource management is automated provisioning - software for easing the resource allocation process.