James Maguire

The SOA train is leaving the station, or so it appears by looking at adoption rates among companies of various sizes. According to a Forrester research report from 2006, 44% of smaller companies (fewer than 1,000 employees), said that deploying Service Oriented Architecture is a high or critical priority. Among SOA’s more natural constituency, big […]

When Pasha Sadri talks about Yahoo Pipes, he’s like a proud parent talking about his suddenly famous child. And no wonder. Sadri, a principal software engineer for Yahoo, is one of the masterminds behind Yahoo Pipes. The highly popular Pipes is an interactive tool that allows you to combine many RSS feeds into a single […]

Look at the history of computers that power the data center and you’ll see a clear trend. Starting with the monstrous mainframes of yesteryear, evolving to the bulky Unix boxes of the ‘90s, then slimming down to the lean servers of today, machines have gotten smaller and smaller. And smaller. The winner of Datamation’s Product […]

At first glance, Google Apps appears to be nothing too revolutionary. The product, which won Datamation’s Product of the Year award in the Enterprise Email category, is a grab bag of personal productivity software. It includes the popular Gmail email service, a calendar tool, an instant messaging feature, word processing and office apps, and Web […]

Our readers have voted and we’ve tabulated the results for this year’s Datamation Product of the Year Awards. Top honors go to companies across key areas of IT infrastructure, from Enterprise Linux to Wireless Software to Network and Systems Management. In some categories, like Anti-Spam Software and Enterprise Server, voting was close. The winner won […]

In a research report about getting started with Service Oriented Architecture, Forrester analyst Randy Heffner warned that SOA strategy “carries heavy risks of being overly theoretical and academic.” That is undoubtedly true, as plenty of companies have learned. Attempting to implement a ‘grand vision’ for SOA can be unwieldy enough to swamp the enterprise in […]

Yahoo Pipes is an interactive tool that enables you to combine many data feeds, like RSS, into a single aggregate. Pipes offers an intuitive visual programming field that lets you filter, remix, and mash-up these feeds to your heart’s content. You can create Pipes for many purposes. Probably the most common is combining all your […]

Change can be horribly uncomfortable, or it can be a welcome shift, but in the IT world that’s beside the point. Large, global trends morph and vary at regular (or irregular) intervals, disrupting everything in their path – without regard to the comfort level of participants. Keeping up with it all requires an understanding of the […]

It promised to be one of the stranger conversations in recent TV history. On one side of the desk, Bill Gates, the world’s richest geek, a brilliant and aggressive competitor who played so hard that the U.S. government stepped in and declared the company he led a monopoly. A man not known for casual chitchat […]

The most recent IT salary numbers have been tabulated by Dice, the tech job site, and they have a rosy glow to them. “Over the last 12 months, we’ve seen a 20 percent increase in the number of jobs posted,” says Dice CEO Scot Melland. “And that’s coming off of huge increases in ’04 and […]