Gary JohnsonCarlson CompaniesArchitectural ConsultantMinneapolis, Minn.www.carlson.com Manager’s Profile: Backup systems architect for the main data center facility of $6.7 billion travel and hospitality company, whose brands include Radisson Hotels & Resorts and T.G.I. Friday’s restaurants. The Challenge: The company needs to move 20 to 25 terabytes of data to tape at
On Feb. 17, 2000, the America West Airlines flight-planning computer system collapsed. The airline was forced to cancel 128 flights that day and following morning, leaving thousands of passengers stranded. Bob Ewers was headed to his Chicago home from a consulting assignment in Pomona, Calif., and had a ticket for
The Spending Outlook: Security Gets Priority Information technology professionals say they expect their top priorities for 2004 will be spending on security software and hardware, according to a survey by Gartner Inc. and SoundView Technology. On average, companies anticipate increasing spending on I.T. by 4.3% over 2003. ROI Matters Companies
The more one learns about how information systems get used or deployed, the less it seems safe to say logic always prevails. I’m convinced of this, after nearly a quarter-century watching and writing about the ways companies capture, exchange and act on information about customersand the processes that serve them.
While in the shower one day, Ole Tange came up with a great idea. He was going to launch a video store in his native Denmark. Only this store was on the Internet; customers would rent and watch videos online. He put together a rough prototype of his site and
I once taught logic—mathematical logic—to college students. There was a clarity to it that appealed to me. Things made sense. Technology, unfortunately, doesn’t always conform to logical expectations. In the mid-’70s, I got involved on the tail end of a really sexy project in publishing, creating a system that allowed
After three years of reluctance to invest in new technology companies, venture capitalists have begun to emerge from their Sand Hill Road bunkersand enterprise software is what they’ve set their sights on. Companies offering customer-management software, systems-integration services or consulting are raking in one of every four dollars of new
An international flight en route to the United States is delayed after a five-year-old passenger’s name matches a name on a terrorism watch list. The Department of Agriculture euthanizes a herd of 450 cattle because it can’t track the individual cows that came in contact with one infected with Mad
24/7 SERVICES Case Dissection Connecting Costs Calculating Costs of Mobile Data Centers Figure out the costs of a mobile data center and the associated applications and hardware that go with backing up your data. Community How Tape Shapes Up Tape storage libraries deliver more bytes for the storage buck than