Johna Till Johnson

Periodically I get the question,

I've written a lot about the emergence of extranets and extranet service providers, starting back when

I've been asked a lot recently about how best to link remote workers in branch or home offices to the networker.

Plenty of companies are looking to outside providers to host their Web sites, which is why the Web hosting market reportedly is growing at a healthy clip.

IT folks need to keep in mind the importance of human interaction to IT success. Most projects fail not for technical reasons, but for reasons related to human beings (people, process)

In a recent column I wrote that the incumbent local exchange carriers' anger over unbundled network element-platform pricing was misplaced. I've gotten a lot of feedback.

About seven years ago, I described what at the time was the canonical architecture for most large enterprise networks. It's time to update the picture. How is that architecture changing in the new millennium and why?

One of the biggest trends for companies over the past year is IT consolidation. In other words, IT functionality is being consolidated once again into a single corporate department, rather than distributed across multiple lines of business.