Data Management

Microsoft and NetApp up the ante with a three-year collaboration deal

Agreement spans virtualization, private cloud computing, and storage and data management

Favorite Oracle Data Dictionary Query Statements

Double trouble at the IT help desk

In this IT tale, both the caller and the help desk techie lose their tempers -- and are forced to face the consequences

Employee satisfaction vs. employee engagement — and how to measure them

Once you've differentiated between employee satisfaction and employee engagement, another challenge remains: assessing them

First look: Amazon RDS gives you a MySQL server in the cloud

Amazon's Relational Database Service provides an easy escalator into the cloud for existing MySQL applications

IT audits are useless

Auditors and IT seem to speak different languages, even when they're talking about the same data

Tales from the IT trenches

Readers share their IT ups and downs in InfoWorld's Off the Record blog

MySQL use predicted to drop under Oracle ownership

Some users say they'll be less likely to use the open-source database if Oracle buys Sun Microsystems

You don’t know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz

Dec. 4, 2009: Windows users get false alarm, Arrington's Web tablet buys the farm

Be careful when following SSIS best practices

Don't blindly adhere to any old advice