Opinion

The H-1B visa has got to go

With more than 200,000 tech workers on the unemployment line, there's no longer any reason to look abroad for employees

By Bill Snyder

Feb 12, 2009 6 mins

25 facts you should know about green IT

What's the biggest power hog in the datacenter? Who urged the president to support green federal datacenters? Find out these answers and 23 more facts below

By Ted Samson

Feb 12, 2009 5 mins

Viewers respond to video: The power of ’emotional metadata’

Nothing tops video's ability to teach, sell, sway, or convince. Streaming video players can tell you whether your message hits home — and how viewers react to it

By Tom Yager

Feb 12, 2009 6 mins

MissionKit 2009 supports XBRL, HL7

XBRL "changes everything" in terms of business intelligence; Altova is making XBRL generation and reporting much simpler

By Martin Heller

Feb 11, 2009 3 mins

When vendors go bust

The MPC Corporation mess isn't over: What rights do you have if the company that sold you a computer is now defunct?

By Christina Wood

Feb 11, 2009 5 mins

Forbes: Open source means business

Will we see more open source startups in this weak economic climate?

Feb 11, 2009 2 mins

Pulsing with IBM

An informal survey of IBM Pulse attendees reveals most view SOA as a long-term strategic direction

Feb 11, 2009 2 mins

Dead man blogging

Still planning to make millions as a blogger? Don't quit your day job just yet. The era of blogging for bucks may already be over.

Feb 11, 2009 4 mins

Microsoft offers guide to help secure Hyper-V

The new Beta Hyper-V Security Guide provides authoritative guidance from Microsoft that can help you with the security of your virtualized Windows Server environments.

Feb 11, 2009 2 mins

Why Microsoft’s XP-to-Windows-7 upgrade strategy is right

Although the approach isn't as simple as upgrading from Vista, it will prevent major headaches for both users and IT

By J. Peter Bruzzese

Feb 11, 2009 7 mins

My review and comments around the Open Group Conference

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Feb 10, 2009 1 min

What are the tasks of management?

There are eight, all focused on what makes management different from leadership: Leadership is about getting others to follow; management is about delivering results.

By Bob Lewis

Feb 10, 2009 1 min

Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Oh, my phone! Microsoft’s slip-up

Microsoft unveils its My Phone syncing service early

By Amber Bouman

Feb 10, 2009 2 mins

The hidden advantage of support bundles

How collecting info for your support bundles often solves your problem

By Sean McCown

Feb 10, 2009 2 mins

Databases

A memorable IT meltdown — for the wrong reasons

An IT manager's 'hostile termination' plus one missed detail create an unbelievable situation

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Feb 10, 2009 3 mins

Data Management

Managing VMware storage with Vizioncore vOptimizer Pro

Vizioncore's vOptimizer Pro enables customers to right-size their storage environments in compliance with VMware's best practices and helps automatically resize virtual machines

Feb 10, 2009 5 mins

Windows 7: Is it so hard to say “we’re sorry”?

What Microsoft's decision to not offer XP upgrade support from Windows 7 says about its attitude toward IT

By Randall Kennedy

Feb 10, 2009 4 mins

The case for unintelligent machines

Forget complex processes — for most business problems, single-purpose "dumb" computers might just be the way to go

By Ephraim Schwartz

Feb 10, 2009 5 mins

Kindle 2.0 available February 24

Amazon has announced a faster, lighter Kindle, but the changes are mostly incremental.

Feb 10, 2009 1 min

How to decide on an MBA specialty

Different fields have different characteristics. If you're good at more than one, choose by matching them to how you think about risk and opportunity.

By Bob Lewis

Feb 10, 2009 3 mins

Sidestepping pay-to-play phone support

One man is outraged at the price of phone support for a Hewlett-Packard system

By Christina Wood

Did a US congressman leak classified intel on Twitter?

Michigan Republican Peter Hoekstra's taking heat for revealing his "secret" trip to Iraq on Twitter. Yet more proof that Web 2.0 tools are changing Washington — for good and ill.

Intel’s disruptive move with the 386

Intel's launch of the 386 helped transform the company and the industry. While now regarded as brilliant, at the time it was just a series of steps in an overall strategy.

Don’t waste a good crisis when selling SOA

Sometimes it pays to leverage the negative

Feb 9, 2009 2 mins

Doyenz: Virtual appliances meet the cloud

Newly arrived Doyenz offers its cloud-based managed service called 'Automated Virtual IT' to SMBs. Imagine it as a virtual computer vendor in the clouds.

Feb 9, 2009 7 mins

Microsoft unveils Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Dynamics AX

Free add-on enables companies to track energy consumption, GHG emissions, and other green-oriented stats

By Ted Samson

Feb 9, 2009 2 mins

Unobtrusive JavaScript and jQuery

Reading "jQuery in Action" spurred Martin to learn about the unobtrusive JavaScript style

By Martin Heller

JavaScript Software Development

Terry Childs: The jailhouse interview

Thirty minutes with San Francisco's most famous network administrator

By Paul Venezia

Feb 9, 2009 5 mins

The cost of cloud downtime

Cloud computing promises dramatic savings — but only if downtime is kept in check

By whurley

Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Cloud Computing

A tsunami of smartphones

As usual, the hottest new handsets are hitting the Asian market, but for once the U.S. releases aren't lagging that far behind

By Amber Bouman

Feb 8, 2009 3 mins

How to evaluate a change in title and reporting relationship when considering a career move

What matters most is the real role of the CEO and whoever you report to, not their titles, or yours.

By Bob Lewis

Feb 8, 2009 2 mins

HP MediaSmart Server & IoSafe better together

I've just been talking to one of my classmates that has a small 5 person architectural firm that was previously looking at hiring an IT contractor to setup a file server for them. Over coffee it very quickly became clear that while a full file s

By Brian Chee

Feb 7, 2009 3 mins

What Mickos’ departure means to Sun

Marten's departure is unfortunate, to say the least, but not an insurmountable loss for Sun

By Savio Rodrigues

Feb 6, 2009 1 min

New Kindle next week?

Amazon readies its Kindle 2.0 announcement but may face competition from Google and the iPhone

Feb 6, 2009 2 mins

Should foreign workers be the first to get canned?

Bad economic news has some people urging tech firms to lay off H-1B workers in favor of U.S. citizens. Is this the right thing to do? Cringe isn't so sure.

Feb 6, 2009 3 mins

Lanamark enables, expands virtualization capacity planning

Lanamark Suite 2009 adds support for profiling Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX, as well as 140 other enhancements to help with monitoring, reporting, and capacity planning

Feb 6, 2009 2 mins

E-discovery and the long, electronic arm of the law

Electronic legal discovery is where storage administration meets Damages

By Logan Harbaugh

Feb 6, 2009 3 mins

Defining an open source vendor

Arriving at a definition of an open source vendor is much more challenging than it seems.

By Savio Rodrigues

Feb 6, 2009 3 mins

Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Nokia security update and possible iPhone developments

Nokia releases an official fix for the Curse of Silence; also, iPhone rumors we'd like to see confirmed

By Amber Bouman

Feb 5, 2009 2 mins

HTML & CSS Reference plug-in for Firefox

Firescope is a free HTML & CSS Reference plug-in for Firefox

By Martin Heller

Feb 5, 2009 1 min

HTML Software Development Technology Industry

Michael Lewis on analytics, sports, and Wall Street

Including video from the SugarCRM conference keynote in San Francisco earlier this week

Feb 5, 2009 2 mins

Coping with the meltdown

Is tech really better off than the rest of the economy?

By Eric Knorr

Feb 5, 2009 3 mins

IT needs a return to the art of architecture

We've lost our way, focusing more on technology than technique, more on hype than core deliverables; architecture is our only path to better IT

Feb 5, 2009 2 mins

The case for supporting and using Mono

Novell's open-source .Net clone is alive and well, and it's turning up in surprising, useful places.

By Neil McAllister

Feb 5, 2009 5 mins

IBM’s Palmisano: Tech’s slumdog millionaire

IBM's cruel layoff options: Take a job in the Third World and lose your severance, move within the United States at your expense, or lose both your job and severance

By Bill Snyder

Feb 5, 2009 5 mins

Crank up the datacenter heat — with care

ASHRAE says it's OK to make the datacenter warmer, but a higher temperature could have unintended consequences

By Ted Samson

Feb 5, 2009 5 mins

Virtualizing the desktop – VMware goes open source and Pano Logic scores $6M

As server or hardware virtualization continues to increase in deployments and market share, eyes are still looking toward the potential dollars available in the much larger desktop market. VDI solutions have been thrown around for a while now, but th

Feb 5, 2009 1 min

Follow your cable company on Twitter

Comcast talks about how it is using social media to improve support — and its own reputation

By Christina Wood

Feb 4, 2009 5 mins

The six faces of Windows 7

It's finally official: Windows 7, the successor to Vista (we wish we missed ya), will be available in six delicious new flavors. Is anybody else out there getting deja vu?

Feb 4, 2009 3 mins