Columnist’s corner: The notion that ‘IT can’t help end users’ is the message in a Wall Street Journal article titled “Ten things your IT department won’t tell you,” so David Margulius offers some suggestions to CIOs. “For starters, read the article and find alternate ways for users to accomplish each of the things listed with less risk to your network than the work-arounds the Journal proposes,” Margulius asserts in Taunting the CIO. “Whatever you do, don’t kid yourself. When the Wall Street Journal says the cow has left the barn, the cow has left the barn.” Advice Line: A reader disagreeing with Bob Lewis argues that neither the all-or-nothing approach to desktop lockdown nor the free-for-all in the name of efficiency works in real life. “Whenever I write a column suggesting that end-users should be allowed to experiment and innovate, many readers interpret it as a recommendation for a free-for-all. That isn’t the case,” Lewis answers in And more about PC lockdown. “Arguing against a free-for-all is arguing against a straw man.”Green IT: Is IBM’s Big Iron also Big Green? Ted Samson poses that question in response to Big Blue’s pronouncement this week that it is consolidating some 3,900 servers into 30 virtualized System z9 mainframes running Linux. IBM estimates that the move will cut power consumption by about 80 percent. “Specifically, the company anticipates reducing its total annual energy consumption, including power and cooling, from 3,266 kilowatts to 629, and total expenses from $2.86 million to $551,000,” Samson reports. Data management: Sean McCown is a bit perturbed at the folks at PASS; that’s Professional Association for SQL Server. In the latest newsletter, you see, they made a grammatical mistake. “I would expect [PASS] to know how to pluralize DBA,” he writes in You can’t spell your own job? Software Development