Author: Kevin Fogarty

Primer: Dual-Core Chips

View the PDF — Turn off pop-up blockers! What are they? The next real design change in the engines that drive every computer, from the

Under Armour: No Sweat

Imagine yourself as Dave Demsky, barely three months as information-technology director at Under Armour, a sports apparel company whose products are so cool that professional

Primer: Tera-Level Computing

What is it? The next major stage in the evolution of computing, in which improvements to existing technology will allow computers to routinely process trillions

Gigabit Ethernet: Boost Your Bandwidth

Most companies upgrade networks to centralize storage, run phone traffic over the data network, or build applications using Web Services or other bandwidth-hungry enhancements, says

Primer: Geospatial Analysis

What is it? A way to determine where your customers live or work by correlating their street addresses with their physical location. It’s done by

Primer: Event-Driven Architecture

What is it? One of the few instances in which the real-world benefits of a technology came before the hype. The term “event-driven architecture” refers

Grid Computing: Too Good to Be True?

The benefits of grid computing sound so good, you wonder why everybody’s not using it. Grid software makes collections of computers more efficient by allowing