Lynn Haber

In what can only be called a triumphant victory, San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco Systems Inc., outpaced its rivals to scoop up both a first and second place finish in Datamation’s Product of the Year for 2000 in the Network Infrastructure category. Garnering just over 35 percent, Cisco’s 6500 Routing Switch was the clear winner, followed […]

Anthony Tse, director of engineering, QuinStreet Inc. One-year-old QuinStreet Inc., a technology-oriented direct marketing firm, builds its business by doing more with less. Instead of writing applications from scratch, the Redwood City, Calif.-based startup uses application development frameworks and blueprints to help it create e-commerce networks and provide marketing services for its customers. For one […]

In this article: Lessons learned about contract labor Help is on the way The price you’ll pay Staff augmentation is part of today’s business rhythm. The truth of the matter is, it’s a trend, or perhaps, a new business model, and one that is expected to continue well into the future. As companies across the […]

In as diverse and complex a technology category as network and systems management, vendor customer service and support is key to customer success both in selecting the appropriate solutions and in product implementation. The fact is, distributed systems and network management don’t lend themselves to cookie-cutter solutions. Vendors’ plug-and-play products and point solutions only address […]

A box is a box is a box…until it becomes a solution. That difference is key to understanding the high level of customer service and support IT managers expect from their server vendors. We’re talking the difference between PC file and print server and a mainframe-class server running an ERP application, for example. Several factors […]

Since Children’s Hospital in Boston has long been considered one of the most prestigious facilities for children’s healthcare in the nation, officials there have come to understand the need to identify tools to solve specific problems. And that goes for its IT officials as well. So when Jim Hutchinson, the manager of integrated communication and […]

That cosmic applause you hear must be the sound of many hands clapping for Z.E.N.works’ narrow victory in the Network & System Management category of Datamation’s 1998 Product of the Year balloting. Zero Effort Networks, which Novell Inc., of Provo, Utah, began shipping last May, received 140 votes, or 28%, of 494 votes cast by […]

Seen by some analysts as an alternative to the mainframe, Enterprise 10000 from Sun Microsystems Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., walked away with top honors in the server category of Datamation’s 1998 Product of the Year poll. The Enterprise 10000 server received 196, or 26%, of the 741 votes cast in the server category. The […]