P.J. Connolly

Novell

I really blew it last year when I wrote about networking in 2004. VoIP is finally the hot-button issue everyone had predicted it would be, and I didn't see it coming.

Assessing the future of any technology is difficult, but in the case of enterprise collaboration, it's made easier by the dramatic evolution of tools...

The transformation of ways in which people interact through and with computers may be as dramatic as the way the technology itself has developed.

Mass production techniques revolutionized industry in the past two centuries, but when it comes to server configuration in the year 2003, the handcrafted approach of configuring boxes manually, one at a time, still predominates.

When thinking about enterprise storage, most people think of mainframes and large Unix systems. But storage software vendors are building a future for storage that takes into account a relative newcomer in the field, Linux.

I had more important things on my mind a couple of weeks ago when the DNS (Domain Name System) root servers were being attacked. I was sitting in my dentist's chair and missed the whole thing. When the attack was revealed the next day, I figured we got off easy.

Collaboration implies sharing, whether it's a data file or just an opinion. That's what makes it so valuable: Everyone gets something in return.