Opinion

First look: HP Z600 workstation with twin Westmere Xeons

What can you do with 24 logical CPUs on the desktop? Even half that many can slash your video rendering time from hours to minutes — as the Z600 showed, with one CPU tied behind its back

By Brian Chee

Mar 26, 2010 4 mins

Doubleplus ungood! Big Brother’s designs on mobile

The carriers announced their visions at CTIA and Mobile World Congress — here's how to interpret their real goals

4G AT&T Technology Industry

Mar 26, 2010 9 mins

Agile development should be more than just a buzzword

SAP hopes agile methods will help accelerate the pace of its innovation, but its commitment to change rings hollow

By Neil McAllister

Mar 25, 2010 6 mins

Agile Development Software Development Technology Industry

The data-integration buzzkill for cloud computing

The bad news is that you forgot about the data integration. The good news is that cloud computing is on your résumé

Cloud Computing Databases

Mar 25, 2010 3 mins

Questioning open-core licensing for open source software

While not perfect, open-core licensing is a sustainable model for open source vendors, their customers, and yes, their VCs

By Savio Rodrigues

Mar 25, 2010 5 mins

Software Development Technology Industry

Making the switch to Visual Studio 2010

As Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 edge toward production release, Microsoft shops should be assessing when best to make the switch

By Martin Heller

Mar 25, 2010 3 mins

Development Tools

Think you're safe if you post from home? Think again: Social Sentry alerts your boss to tweets and posts he might not like, even if you're outside the corporate network

By Bill Snyder

Mar 25, 2010 5 mins

Privacy

Google: A bull in China’s shop

As promised, Google uncensored its Chinese search engine, and now Beijing is wreaking revenge. Fasten your seat belts, folks, it's about to get bumpy

Software Development Technology Industry

Mar 24, 2010 4 mins

A better monitor for your mission-critical Exchange environment

Microsoft SCOM is impressive, but it's too complex for first-line responders. Luckily, there's a better option

By J. Peter Bruzzese

Mar 24, 2010 6 mins

The mandated purgatory of offshore tech support

Gripe Line readers share insight on Dell tech support and why you're bound for endless frustration when your call lands offshore

By Christina Wood

Mar 24, 2010 3 mins

Careers

Energy Star for data centers has bright sides, dark sides

Though overly broad, rating system will encourage measurement and efficiency

By Ted Samson

Mar 24, 2010 6 mins

Careers Technology Industry

There’s more than one way to define help desk ‘support’

When it comes to IT support, make sure you understand the user's request before deciding it's more than you can deliver

By Bob Lewis

Mar 24, 2010 3 mins

The knowledge gap in the early days of PCs

An IT instructor takes us to a time when PCs were first entering the workplace and tech know-how wasn't easy to come by

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Mar 23, 2010 3 mins

Data Management

Mobile computing moves beyond the smartphone

Mobile devices are becoming more dissimilar — a marked contrast to what happened with PCs. Is that good or bad?

Mar 23, 2010 6 mins

Citrix accelerates XenDesktop 4 with Feature Pack 1

Citrix enhances its VDI product and tries to entice away VMware virtual desktop customers with special promotions

Mar 23, 2010 4 mins

Software Development

Building private clouds: 3 dos and 3 don’ts

Although few companies actually have private clouds yet, the basic principles for success are clear

Mar 23, 2010 3 mins

Cloud Computing

Don’t get trapped in your employer’s politics

When your office environment is politically charged, maintaining your equilibrium and your sense of personal integrity calls for tact and forbearance

By Bob Lewis

Mar 22, 2010 4 mins

High school Webcam follies, part II: Dumb and dumber

The Lower Merion School District's 'Webcamgate' scandal continues. Cringely updates us on the latest twists and turns

Endpoint Protection Privacy

Mar 22, 2010 5 mins

Veeam’s SureBackup transforms VMware image backups

New virtualization technology verifies not only every backup but every virtual machine, while saving time, money, and storage

Data Management Technology Industry

Mar 22, 2010 5 mins

The InfoWorld Westmere blade server shoot-out

Intel's Xeon 5600 — code-named Westmere — was just announced, but InfoWorld already has deep benchmarking results on Westmere blade servers from Dell, HP, and IBM

By InfoWorld Staff

Mar 22, 2010 3 mins

Tsunamis and falling crates: Behind the blade server review

If it was easy, everyone would do it. Here's what happened behind the scenes at the 2010 InfoWorld blades shoot-out

By Paul Venezia

Mar 22, 2010 6 mins

Your best route to dispute resolution

When things go wrong with a new piece of equipment, you have several options to protect yourself from poor dispute resolution

By Christina Wood

Mar 22, 2010 5 mins

Data Management Technology Industry

The big data addiction

The data explosion isn't just about size — it's about how our dependence on ever-expanding data feeds on itself

By Matt Prigge

Mar 22, 2010 4 mins

Viacom vs. Google: As the Tube turns

In the ultimate Silicon Valley soap opera, mud flies as court documents reveal the details of Viacom's copyright infringement suit against YouTube

Mar 19, 2010 5 mins

Inside the heads of smartphone shoppers

A Google survey of what people look for in smartphones reveals patterns that IT and developers should know

Mar 19, 2010 5 mins

The cloud’s three key issues come into focus

Once it got past the vendor hype, the Cloud Connect event revealed the three key issues that need to be addressed

Mar 19, 2010 3 mins

Cloud Computing

Beware the perils of offshore tech support

An Adobe customer looks for an Audition expert and finds frustration in what may be yet another disturbing tech support trend

By Christina Wood

Mar 18, 2010 4 mins

Careers

The National Broadband Plan needs to be fixed — already

Special interests are already undermining the National Broadband Plan and the FCC's vagueness on implementation is playing into their hands — Web users must act now

By Bill Snyder

Mar 18, 2010 6 mins

The FBI on Facebook: Watching every move you make

It seems U.S. law enforcement wants to be your friend on Facebook, Twitter, etc. The good news? Personal privacy may actually be making a comeback, says Cringe

Privacy Technology Industry Twitter

Mar 17, 2010 5 mins

IBM gives KVM vote of confidence with new development and test cloud

The choice of RHEV as the hypervisor for IBM's new cloud computing service could give relative newcomer KVM a big boost as an enterprise technology

Careers IT Skills and Training

Mar 17, 2010 4 mins

PaaS Technology Industry

How to make sure IT certifications actually matter

Has the certification golden ticket become nothing more than fool's gold? Here's how to get real value as a employee or employer

By J. Peter Bruzzese

Mar 17, 2010 9 mins

IT contractors: Keep track of your real customer

Your true customer is the person who decides whether to use your services again, regardless of the chain of command

By Bob Lewis

Mar 17, 2010 4 mins

Why the iPhone doesn’t need multitasking

Competitors — not iPhone users — sound the alarms about the iPhone's lack of true multitasking. That should tell you something

By Tony Bradley

Mar 17, 2010 5 mins

SQL and relational databases: They’re not right for the cloud

The data processing requirements of cloud computing is causing many to leave SQL and relational databases behind

Cloud Computing Databases SQL

Mar 17, 2010 2 mins

Advances in modularity enable on-the-fly PC upgrades

Vendors are slowly developing features to extend the life of machines and components

By Ted Samson

Mar 17, 2010 5 mins

Dell Technology Industry

Open source: Less profit, more fun

It's a bad time to be an open source startup trying to survive on support revenue — but it's a great time for open innovation

By Eric Knorr

Mar 16, 2010 4 mins

Development Tools Technology Industry

Why Google Android developers should avoid multitouch

Android phones have multitouch screens, but few applications support multitouch gestures — here's why

By Martin Heller

Mar 16, 2010 2 mins

An important meeting minutes away, a login that won't work, and a highly stressed CFO create a help desk situation that calls for patience in this tech tale

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Mar 16, 2010 3 mins

Data Management

Modern multicore and the next generation of IT

This ain't your daddy's Cadillac. How Intel's Westmere and AMD's Magny-Cours will change the face of IT forever

By Paul Venezia

Mar 16, 2010 4 mins

Did Uncle Sam try to kill Wikileaks?

A leaked document reveals a strategy by the U.S. Army to hack the whistle-blowing Web site and take it down. Read on for the chilling details

Mar 15, 2010 5 mins

VMware promotes free SpringSource tc Server licenses

Will the offer of free licenses attract Java developers to VMware's virtualization and cloud environment?

Cloud Computing Development Tools Software Development

Mar 15, 2010 3 mins

Three questions for storage buyers

Here's how to walk the line between spending too much and not buying enough storage hardware

By Matt Prigge

Mar 15, 2010 6 mins

What Apple won’t say about the iPad: A few answers emerge

Two key business needs will be supported: Microsoft Exchange email, and Microsoft Word format export from the iWork Pages app. But many questions remain unanswered

Mar 15, 2010 5 mins