Stories by Patrick Thibodeau

What next for Novell?

In an era of technology industry consolidation, the questions raised by Novell's sale to Attachmate for $2.2 billion ought to be familiar by now. Analysts can only speculate -- and users can only wonder -- what may happen to Novell's deep and extensive enterprise product lines.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau24 Nov. 10 02:05

NASA wants its data up in the clouds

NASA is backing open source cloud computing with a single goal in mind: to stick to space exploration and stop running data centers.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau08 Nov. 10 22:11

Meet the CIO who bought 4,500 iPads

Medtronic Inc., which makes medical devices, may be one of the earliest and biggest corporate buyers of Apple Inc.'s iPad tablet. CIO Michael Hedges has purchased 4,500 iPads for his company, which employs 40,000 people.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau08 Nov. 10 22:11

IT seeks a safe road to the cloud

The road map for expanding enterprise use of cloud computing is being drawn by IT executives like Mark Stone, CIO at Safety-Kleen Systems Inc.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau26 Oct. 10 06:20

NASA wants to run space missions, not data centers

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is backing open source cloud computing with a long-term goal in mind: to get out of the data center business.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau22 Oct. 10 08:00

Gartner warns of emerging 'super vendors'

ORLANDO - Gartner Inc. analysts Monday warned that the tech industry is caught in a "vortex of insatiable mergers and acquisitions" that is creating a category of "super vendors" selling highly integrated offerings.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau19 Oct. 10 06:43

Minnesota to move e-mail to Microsoft's cloud

The Minnesota state government said last month that it's moving its messaging and collaboration systems to Microsoft Corp.'s hosted Business Productivity Online Suite in an effort to address multiple challenges, including an aging workforce and an increase in red ink.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau13 Oct. 10 05:06

Finding lost IT with RFID

LAS VEGAS -- Vendors are increasingly trying to sell users on the idea that they need to stick RFID tags on IT equipment to keep track of it. Users are interested in this technology because they would much rather automate inventory tracking then go server-to-server with a bar code scanner and clipboard.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau06 Oct. 10 22:26

CIOs say they're hiring again

The technology employment outlook is slowly starting to improve, but the uptick in hiring has been modest and hasn't come close to making up for the IT jobs lost during the economic downturn of the past couple of years.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau27 Sept. 10 20:08

Microsoft new HPC Server adds SETI-like capabilities

Microsoft today released an updated version of its Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 that can tap into compute resources throughout an enterprise as well as a cloud computing system.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau21 Sept. 10 08:35

IT slowly hiring back after layoffs

WASHINGTON -- The IT industry shed employees last year at a much faster pace than they are now hiring them, but at least the industry is hiring.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau15 Sept. 10 20:12

JPMorgan Chase's online banking site crashes

JPMorgan Chase is blaming "technical issues" for an outage to its online banking site that may well be one of the longest outages by a major provider in recent memory.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau15 Sept. 10 04:58

IT staffing firms lose H-1B lawsuit

WASHINGTON - IT staffing firms that hire H-1B workers and make them available to customers are located in office parks and buildings around the U.S. But the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), under pressure by Congress to improve enforcement of the H-1B program, issued a memo last January that said that these IT staffing firms weren't the real employers of foreign workers and, thus, couldn't use this visa.

Written by Patrick Thibodeau14 Sept. 10 07:55
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