Dave Webb

Dave Webb is a freelance editor and writer. A veteran journalist of more than 20 years' experience (15 of them in technology), he has held senior editorial positions with a number of technology publications. He was honoured with an Andersen Consulting Award for Excellence in Business Journalism in 2000, and several Canadian Online Publishing Awards as part of the ComputerWorld Canada team.

Articles by Dave Webb

Dell, Red Hat target public cloud market

Server-maker Dell Inc. and Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. have announced a partnership to develop enterprise-grade private cloud offerings by early in the new...

U.S. government department still runs on floppies

I used to work on a publication that was run completely on Sneakernet: We’d literally run to the art department with stories on 3.5-inch...

Engineers aren’t winning tech battles anymore

John Shinal in CIO Today makes the interesting argument that engineers, once viewed with “an almost mythic reverence” for their technological and coding skills,...

Oracle’s next-gen database machine doubles performance, storage capacity

Oracle Corp. has announced a fifth generation of its flagship Oracle Exadata Database Machine X4, saying hardware and software enhancements accelerate performance, increase capacity...

2014 Holiday Gift Guide: Tablets

Apple iPad Mini with Retina Display A smaller version of the device that started it all, the Apple Mini packs higher-than-HD resolution (2048x1536) into a...

Feature: The promise of software-defined networking

In the race to create SDN solutions vendors are promoting at least two approaches. Read why one may appeal to your organization

New Cisco software saves energy on any IP-connected device

In an increasingly urbanized world, 70 per cent of all energy is consumed by cities, and of that, 70 per cent is consumed by...

Putting analytics to work

Forget the hype about Big Data. Companies are using analytics to solve real-world business problems right now

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