A few years ago, the idea of using the public Internet as the primary network connection at MasterCard International's branch offices wouldn't have been a serious option. Today, some of the financial services company's smaller offices are doing exactly that. For those locations, the Internet has become the access point for data entry, email and other internal functions.
Spyware used to be thought of as a consumer problem. Now it has IT's full attention, and it's no wonder.
As it rushed to complete work on Star Wars: Episode III-Revenge of the Sith last February, special effects company Industrial Light and Magic found itself split between two worlds. The new home of the San Rafael, California-based studio was in the final phase of construction as part of the Letterman Digital Arts Center (LDAC), a 850,000 -square-foot, four-building campus in San Francisco's Presidio National Park. Two of those buildings today serve as headquarters for George Lucas' Lucasfilm as well as its ILM and LucasArts Entertainment Co. subsidiaries.
As the technology has matured, IP-based storage arrays have established a beachhead as the preferred low-end SAN option.
Since much of the server-based storage targeted for consolidation on Internet Protocol storage-area networks (SAN) resides on departmental servers running Windows, Microsoft's commitment to iSCSI has been key to the success of IP SANs so far.
Standards for managing and operating IP SANs are incomplete, but evolving rapidly.
With a dozen years' experience at Microsoft, Satya Nadella has been put in charge of the company's Project Green initiative is to re- architect its business application offerings under a common, service-oriented architecture.
Bruce Edwards began to understand that spyware was more than a consumer PC problem when his users started complaining loudly about poor performance and an increase in pop-up ads. But it wasn’t until after he’d checked all of his organisation’s PCs that Edwards understood the full scope of the problem.
In a wide-ranging keynote at Gartner's IT Expo, Intel chief executive officer, Craig Barrett, cautioned the audience of corporate IT professionals that their companies risked falling behind global competitors if they didn't ramp up IT spending.
