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Broward School system gives parents an edge

Virtual Counselor puts records, test scores, and key information at parents' fingertips

MoneyGram achieves fast, effective disaster recovery

Company invests in VMware and virtualizes server resources across four datacenters

American Express eases business travel

Web-based traveler profiles retain customer preferences to smooth the ride

CACI brings order to paperwork chaos

New system integrates data and plays well with others

Lehman Brothers puts identity in a vise grip

Total Access Control eases account management and tightens access

10 steps to SOA

Service-oriented architecture begins and ends with business process marshaling a sprawling set of technologies along the way. Don't know where to start? Try Step 1

Passing the baton

This is my last column, but you'll get even more real stories from the column that replaces mine

Exiting in good faith

It's time for this CTO to move on. But before I go, I'm doing my best to ensure a healthy IT department

Zetera: Storage at the speed of light

Bill Babbitt, Bill Frank, and Tom Ludwig

I link, Airgo I am

Greg Raleigh

XQuery blankets the enterprise thanks to major collaboration

Jonathan Robie

Memory Firewall monitors apps at run time

Saman Amarasinghe, Derek Bruening, and Vladimir Kiriansky

AMD’s road map boasts superb cartographer

Fred Weber

OpTier takes holistic approach to performance

Amir Alon, Yori Lavi, and Israel Mazin

Cure for the common code gives apps more flexibility

Alasdair Rawsthorne

DTrace and Predictive Self-Healing herald Sun’s future

Bryan Cantrill, Stephen Hahn, Adam Leventhal, Cynthia McGuire, Andy Rudoff, and Michael Shapiro

Innovators to Watch in 2006

Dan Farmer, Scott Gidley, Ken Hardwick, Paul Judge, and Andre Yee

JotSpot: Something Wiki this way comes

Graham Spencer and Joe Kraus

Event stream processing advances Web services and RFID

Mark Palmer

BladeLogic brings order to datacenter chaos

Vijay Manwani

Sonic’s ESB takes new approach to fail-over

Bill Cullen

The last few inches

A dab of manual labor is enough to sink the most sophisticated multipart Internet transaction

Focusing on innovation

The best reason to farm out nonstrategic IT chores is to free up time for stuff that matters

The last word on outsourcing

Today's practical realities trump devotion to old-fashioned, do-it-yourself IT principles

Interview: Viper set to strike

IBM general manager Janet Perna talks about the upcoming beta of the next version of DB2

Farm out or farm in?

The pundits tell you to keep the core and outsource the rest. But deciding what's core isn't always easy.

Open source calling

The clash between open source and proprietary telephony solutions has arrived

Code jag in Vegas

Sometimes getting ugly is necessary, but be sure to document your quick fix

Intel at Apple’s core

Thanks to open source, Apple's big shift from IBM to Intel will have little effect in the real world

Money talks

Understanding any IT operation begins with a hard look at where the money is going

Say “howdy” to Bonjour

Apple's zero-config scheme leaves Microsoft and UPnP in the dust

Secrets of a great off-site retreat

Fire up the lasers, order the pizza, and stay no longer than absolutely necessary

Terminal security

Before you fire an IT employee, especially one with network privileges, prepare for the worst

A fresh look at Excel

A slight change in perspective leads to new respect for a commonplace tool

Hear it now

Exploring new IT frontiers begins with talk. Now you can listen for yourself

The IT talent “crisis”

Formal computer-science education may be declining, but among the self-taught there's always hope

Does IT demand too much commitment?

Work the long hours, but don’t sign your life away

Little points of failure

Better establish PDA management policies now, before users really screw something up

Editor’s note

Sanctioning software

Determining which software solutions users can and cannot use involves some tough choices

InfoWorld CTO 25: Robert Otto

CTO and vice president of IT, U.S. Postal Service

InfoWorld CTO 25: Barry Shuler

Senior vice president of IT strategy, Marriott International

InfoWorld CTO 25: Scott Hrastar

CTO and vice president of engineering, AirDefense

InfoWorld CTO 25: Toby Redshaw

Vice president of IT strategy, architecture, and e-business, Motorola

InfoWorld CTO 25: Barry Robinson

Director of IT operations, Trizec Properties

InfoWorld CTO 25: Hossein Eslambolchi

CTO and CIO, AT&T

InfoWorld CTO 25: Jim Lester

Senior vice president and CTO, Aflac

InfoWorld CTO 25: Addison McGuffin

CTO, Health Care Service Corp.

InfoWorld CTO 25: Brian Behlendorf

Founder and CTO, CollabNet

InfoWorld CTO 25: Carl Banzhof

Vice president of technology and co-founder, Citadel Security