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February 17, 2010

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 7:04 PM/EST

Apple vs. Open Innovation

By John Parkinson It's become almost a religious belief that to get 'real" innovation you need a broad community of people sharing ideas and helping to improve whatever is being dreamt up. Free from stifling corporate constraints and management process...

February 5, 2010

Friday, February 05, 2010 5:39 PM/EST

Data Center Power Play

By John Parkinson I haven't worried about reliable power for quite some time. But last week I started to, if not worry, at least think about how to cope with the levels of power density we are starting to see...

January 20, 2010

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:02 PM/EST

Virtualization's Reality

By John Parkinson Around the middle of last year, my then-boss asked me what I thought was the most critical strategic decision we had taken in the preceding 18 months. It wasn't a trick question--he was going to be asked...

January 12, 2010

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:39 PM/EST

The (Un)Economics of Infrastructure Support

It's a fact of life in IT that things break. As reliable as hardware is, over time there is a "natural" failure rate for components, sub-systems and the systems that are assembled from them. Nothing lasts forever, and we have...

December 21, 2009

Monday, December 21, 2009 10:54 AM/EST

2010 Investment Guide

by John Parkinson We all talk a lot about ROI - Return on Investment - but there hasn't been a lot to invest lately, and I don't see that changing much in 2010. Technologists have always been a forward-looking group...

December 4, 2009

Friday, December 04, 2009 11:59 AM/EST

The Evolution of IT

By John Parkinson If you look at the history of evolution in natural species (assuming you believe it happens, that is), you see two sets of forces at work: both long- and short-term incremental improvements through somewhat random mixing of...

November 18, 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:58 AM/EST

Quality of Service vs. Experience

By John Parkinson "Quality of service" is a pretty good way to set out a range of service level guarantees in a network. By defining traffic types (data, voice, video), performance requirements (bandwidth, latency, jitter and so on) and...

November 17, 2009

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 7:35 PM/EST

The Myth of Broadband

By John Parkinson You hear a lot in the media about how the U.S. is a "mature" broadband market and how we need only to fill in the gaps in broadband network coverage to provide a globally competitive connectivity...

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