Stories by Todd R. Weiss

Life after IT: When CIOs leave at the top of their game

Great CIOs and IT executives help drive their companies through innovation and agile management. They nurture their employees, build talented teams and generate creativity in their people. They try new things and improve upon the old. They lead by example.

By Todd R. Weiss | 02 April, 2012 23:57

Tags: CIO role, freemium, IT Leadership, it management, Management and Careers

Look Before You Leap Into Hadoop

Now that Apache.org has listed more than 150 enterprises as Hadoop users -- including JPMorgan Chase, IBM, Google, Booz Allen Hamilton and the New York Times -- it seems likely that the big data management system could soon become all the rage among corporate IT executives.

By Todd R. Weiss | 28 February, 2012 02:24

Tags: applications, BI and Analytics, Booz Allen Hamilton, ebay, Forrester Research, Google, IBM, new york times, open source, software

Cool cop tech: 5 new technologies helping police fight crime

CSI and its imitators have introduced TV viewers to some of the advanced technologies used by crime-scene investigators. But they aren't the only law enforcement personnel benefitting from technology; police officers across the nation have an arsenal of high-tech devices to help them investigate and solve cases.

By Todd R. Weiss | 17 February, 2012 02:31

Tags: security

What's the big deal about Hadoop?

Hadoop is all the rage, it seems. With more than 150 enterprises of various sizes using it -- including major companies such as JP Morgan Chase, Google and Yahoo -- it may seem inevitable that the open-source Big Data management system will land in your shop, too.

By Todd R. Weiss | 15 February, 2012 02:49

Tags: applications, databases, open source, software

SaaS ERP is making the grade at Brown University

When powerful ERP applications are needed by growing businesses today, SaaS ERP is being looked at more and more as a viable option to traditional complex, expensive and labor-intensive packaged ERP suites. And while SaaS ERP is still young, in the right setting and with the right users, it's offering some eye-opening real world gains for a variety of organizations.

By Todd R. Weiss | 23 August, 2011 09:40

Tags: applications, Brown University, cloud computing, education, enterprise resource planning, industry verticals, internet, software, Software as a service

Fear of change impedes Cloud Adoption for companies

It's not budgets, technology issues or strategic worries that are creating roadblocks for Cloud projects in many enterprises. Instead, deep-seated fears of change and requirements for more Cloud education are keeping many enterprises from moving forward.

By Todd R. Weiss | 05 August, 2011 06:57

Tags: cloud computing, internet

Emerging ERP apps stores could change ERP buying

Choosing your company's next mission-critical ERP system might have just gotten easier.

By Todd R. Weiss | 03 August, 2011 00:11

Tags: applications, enterprise resource planning, software

Software license audits: Avoid SAP, rent-a-center brouhaha

When your company contracts with an enterprise applications vendor for a fixed number of software licenses for your users, it behooves you to carefully monitor that usage at all times.

By Todd R. Weiss | 30 July, 2011 04:18

Tags: Rent-A-Center, sap, software

Managing your cloud's performance: Best practices

Once you move your core IT systems into private or public cloud networks, your work isn't over. Now you have a different set of technology issues to deal with: managing the cloud to ensure that your investments pay off for your enterprise and deliver the efficiencies and ROI that you're expecting.

By Todd R. Weiss | 20 July, 2011 00:47

Tags: cloud computing, internet

Will your business data be safe in the Cloud?

It's scary out there in the cloud. Data thieves, hackers, criminals, they're all out there scouring the Internet around the clock for ways to get into your corporate networks so they can steal data from poorly protected businesses.

By Todd R. Weiss | 20 July, 2011 09:42

Tags: cloud computing, internet, security

20 events that shaped the Internet, part 1

Today we all use our smartphones and our broadband-equipped home and work PCs to instantly access information and data on just about any topic via the Internet.

By Todd R. Weiss | 04 April, 2011 23:42

Tags: broadband, craigs list, ebay, Facebook, Google, internet, iTunes, kindle, media streaming, networks, nook, Telecommunication, twitter, web, youtube

20 events that shaped the Internet, part 2

We take the Internet for granted now, but a lot of developments helped to make it the gargantuan shopping, socializing, commerce-helping, video-sharing behemoth it is today.

By Todd R. Weiss | 04 April, 2011 23:43

Tags: broadband, craigs list, ebay, Facebook, Google, internet, iTunes, kindle, media streaming, networks, nook, Stanford University, Telecommunication, twitter, web, youtube

Top tools for a well-maintained PC

Most people -- even IT pros who spend their lives maintaining corporate computing infrastructure -- are so busy with life, families, work and the rest that they tend to leave periodic home PC maintenance tasks at the bottom of a long list of things that never get done.

By Todd R. Weiss | 09 February, 2011 03:30

Tags: desktop pcs, hardware systems, storage

Supercomputing Grows in the Cloud

An economy that continues to stagnate could prove a boon to an increasing number of providers of on-demand supercomputing capacity.

By Todd R. Weiss | 09 August, 2010 20:11

Tags: cloud computing, hardware, hardware systems, internet, Mainframes and Supercomputers, Pund-IT

To Build a Better Bobsled

During the 2010 Winter Olympics, the three U.S. bobsled teams will be competing in the bobsleigh event with their fastest-ever four-man bobsled.

By Todd R. Weiss | 22 February, 2010 12:11

Tags: Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010

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