Author: Kevin Fogarty

Deconstructing a Database Obstruction

In criminal investigations the first suspects are always the most obvious ones—the husband, the girlfriend, the accountant with power-of-attorney who can’t be located right at

Primer: Object-Oriented Cobol

What is it? A demonstration that it’s possible to teach an old dog new tricks, long past the time anyone thought the dog had any

Olympic Recycling

In Athens this summer, the organizers of the Olympic Games will attempt a technological feat never tried before at the Games: recycling.No, technology staffers won’t

Managing Exodus

Wil Berrios expects to lose 75% of his experienced information-technology workers during the next three years. And another 10% in the two years after that.

RFID: An Offer You Can’t Refuse

Justifying the purchase of new technology is usually a highly individual process: The acquiring company has the final say whether to adopt or not. That

Primer: Storage Partitioning

What is it? A set of digital instructions that makes it easier to manage the increasingly large amounts of data found on farms of inexpensive