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Stories by Beth Schultz

  • Make BI business as usual

    If 1-800-Flowers.com CIO Steve Bozzo had his druthers, even the online retailer's mailroom clerks would have access to business intelligence. "There's valuable information at every level of the organization," he says.

  • Weaving BI into the corporate fabric

    If 1-800-Flowers.com CIO <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/343802/Stephen_Bozzo_senior_vice_president_and_CIO_1800Flowers.com">Steve Bozzo</a> had his druthers, even the online retailer's mailroom clerks would have access to business intelligence.

  • Cloud storage a steep climb

    It's been nearly five years to the day since Amazon introduced its groundbreaking Simple Storage Service -- or S3, as it's more commonly known. But despite that offering's track record, many enterprise IT executives still struggle with the notion of using cloud-based storage services to hold their corporate data.

  • 10 cloud career skills

    Cloud computing demands a mix of technology skills, negotiating skills, business acumen and people skills. Here are 10 key skills that can help boost your career into the clouds. 

  • Data center derby heats up

    Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM teams up with Brocade. Oracle buys Sun. And everybody courts that prize filly VMware.

  • Sleeping SAN for an energy-conscious world

    US Navy servicemen and women don their blues, whites or khakis, depending on the occasion and task at hand. For systems engineers at the Navy's Surface Combat Systems Center, however, the color of choice these days is green.

  • Seven things every IT person should know about storage

    Thanks to virtualization and a host of other technologies, storage has left its silo. Its performance affects the whole computing shebang. Fortunately, new technologies that cross the boundaries of storage, management and compliance are smoothing over performance issues and easing the pain (and expense).

  • The new backup tools you can't live without

    Spun off from the broader storage-resource management market, these tools monitor and report on backups across multiple vendors' backup products. In doing so, they can ease the auditing process. They create a way to implement chargeback programs for backups. They let network executives offer and verify service-level agreements for backups, and more.

  • Interview: Autonomic computing - are we there yet?

    For the past five years, Dave Bartlett has been IBM's chief authority guiding large enterprises on how best to use self-managing technologies and standards. Today, as vice-president of industry solutions, Bartlett is charged with using his autonomic-computing expertise to create highly repeatable, end-to-end packages that any company in a vertical market segment could implement easily. Here he delivers a status report to Beth Schultz about autonomic computing, a foundational New Data Center concept.