Robert McGarvey

What’s more real, cloud computing or unicorns? Given the hype surrounding the cloud, perhaps unicorns are a less fanciful notion. Ask network administrators and CIOs, and cloud computing, so far, has not lived up to expectations — it’s slow, it has troubles housing huge enterprise critical data, and it is perceived as insecure. A key […]

First identified in 2007, the Zeus trojan continues to cause problems — in fact your own machine may be infected with it. Tech reporter Robert McGarvey details this malware’s staying power. Two facts have made Zeus both persistent and pervasive. Fact One: It is entirely about the money.  Zeus is a key logger that wakes […]

iPhone 5 security is a major question as Apple fans wait for the next iPhone’s release. Among the possibilities: better control of apps. Robert McGarvey discusses the possibilities. Mark your calendar.  Amid analyst predictions of unprecedented demand for the newest version of Apple’s iPhone, Cupertino tea-leaf readers now believe October 4 is the release date […]

Worried about the iPad in your workplace — your fears are justified. What the iPad will do, say many experts, is create problems. And those problems will become your problems. It’s not just the iPad. Other tablets are not much better, even though Gartner now is projecting an avalanche of 10.5 million tablets to be […]

Here is the first tip offered by top project managers when it comes to managing distant teams with members dispersed across the globe: the old management style just will not get results in this environment. Command and control built around visually monitoring team members is just so 20th century. The second tip: successful managing today […]