Wednesday, February 17, 2010 7:04 PM/EST
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...
Friday, February 05, 2010 5:39 PM/EST
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...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:02 PM/EST
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...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:39 PM/EST
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...
Monday, December 21, 2009 10:54 AM/EST
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...
Friday, December 04, 2009 11:59 AM/EST
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...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:58 AM/EST
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...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 7:35 PM/EST
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...