The Network: Contributed Articles by Bill Bulkeley

Greening of Data Centers Spurred by New Metrics

2011-05-09T12:00:00Z

"How Green Was My Valley" was a best-selling, coming-of-age novel about life in a Welsh mining town that was made into a popular movie.

"How green was my data center" isn't likely to come to the big screen, but it is just as intriguing for environmentally-conscious CIOs. And it proves to be an extremely complicated ...

Augmented Reality Remaking the SmartPhone Experience

2011-04-19T02:11:00Z

When the third Harry Potter book appeared in 1999, one of the startling bits of wizardry at Hogwarts was a magical map that labeled people walking around the school and showed hidden passages and how to get into them.

Today, the wizards developing apps for smart phones are doing similar things with augmented reality.

AR, as ...

Cloud Providers Combine to Boost Asian Market

2011-02-22T03:20:00Z

Some of the biggest players in technology have come together to form a group that aims to boost the use of cloud architectures in Asia, where adoption lags behind the U.S. and Europe.

The effort provides a window on some of the continuing issues affecting the evolution of cloud computing. And it shows some surprising barriers. Among ...

Cloud Providers are Stepping up Compliance

2011-01-19T03:23:00Z

Every CIO wants to get his or her head in the cloud as soon as possible. But many keep stubbing their toes on the fact that they have to comply with a plethora of government regulations. Those require them to know a lot about where their data is, who can access it and how it is protected, which is very difficult in the cloud.

The ...

Consumers Connect Health Monitors to Online Sites

2011-01-04T03:28:00Z

Growing numbers of health-conscious consumers are connecting themselves to Web-based health services. They are using new monitoring devices and health care portals to track and improve their physical well being.

These connected-health innovations range from clever devices like FitBit's motion monitor that tracks daily activity to ...

Social Networking Has Risks Even Inside Companies

2010-11-01T12:00:00Z

Big enterprises have a hate-love relationship with social networking.

They don't want business reputations conflated with people's private lives. They don't want business details leaking out in Twitter feeds. When Facebook ...