by Curt Franklin

Test Center Tracker: A Great Day for Blogs

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Oct 9, 20072 mins

The weather can't quite seem to decide whether it's Summer or Fall, but no such indecision wracks the ranks of InfoWorld bloggers and columnists. It's solid information and strong opinion all around as we look at the issues and technologies that you need for winning I.T. Virtually Sustainable: If you weren't able to make it to InfoWorld's Virtualization Forum in New York, Ted Samson gives you a chance to place c

The weather can’t quite seem to decide whether it’s Summer or Fall, but no such indecision wracks the ranks of InfoWorld bloggers and columnists. It’s solid information and strong opinion all around as we look at the issues and technologies that you need for winning I.T.

Virtually Sustainable: If you weren’t able to make it to InfoWorld’s Virtualization Forum in New York, Ted Samson gives you a chance to place catch-up in Sustainable IT. Ted has posted a set of interviews with professionals who were on the Green Datacenter panel. You can listen as Lewis Curtis interviews Ted on green information processing. Be sure to follow the other links in the post for an additional audio interview and an exciting video interview on the technologies and practices that will keep your data center green.

Cyber Crimes and Political Maneuvers: If you haven’t started thinking about the upcoming presidential primaries in terms of their impact on your network’s security, well it’s time you started. In the Zero Day blog, Matt Hines has details on cyber security and real-world politics. Let’s see Chris Matthews try to get ahead of the Zero Day crew on this issue…

Open Source, Profitable Business: If your open-source software supplier can’t stay in business, it’s going to be hard for them to offer the kind of support your organization needs. As we pass through the earnings report season, Brad Shimmin looks at business models that can serve the open source community well. Companies spend a lot of time doing due diligence on their suppliers: this primer could help a lot of firms who want to remain in the open source market, or make sure that their open source partners are in business for the long run.