Opinion

Phoenix aims to accelerate HyperSpace adoption

Through strategic partnerships with Asus and NEC, Phoenix is going after the consumer notebook market to quickly gain adoption of HyperSpace

Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Android developer leaks Cupcake details

Some sweet news about the next incarnation of the open-source mobile OS

By Amber Bouman

Jan 28, 2009 1 min

Microsoft’s Web Sandbox open sourced

Microsoft's open-source project aims to reduce the security risks around Web 2.0 and mashups

Security Software Development Technology Industry

Test Center: How secure is Opera?

Opera Software's underrated browser is rich in both features and granular security controls, but misses important Windows protections

By Roger Grimes

Jan 28, 2009 8 mins

Educational tools evolve for the classroom — and meeting room

From high-tech whiteboards to downloadable Web-design curricula, new technologies are improving the learning experience

By J. Peter Bruzzese

Jan 28, 2009 6 mins

Windows 7 beta uses trickery to fix Vista compatibility

Microsoft is determined to make Windows 7 a much cleaner upgrade than Vista, even if it has to tell a few lies to do it

By Tom Yager

Jan 28, 2009 6 mins

An argument over paging space, and who won

There are ways to persuade. Embarrassing those who disagree with you in public isn't one of them, no matter what your opinion of them is.

By Bob Lewis

Jan 28, 2009 5 mins

Can America’s IT leadership continue?

Dan Lyons asks whether Silicon Valley could become another Detroit. Methinks not likely.

When a company’s owners ask for a questionable purchase

Using company money to buy personal items isn't a problem. Accounting and reporting it incorrectly would be a problem.

By Bob Lewis

Jan 27, 2009 2 mins

IBM rolls out SNOW to streamline supply chains

Consulting offering aims to help companies cut costs, CO2 from their supply chains

Jan 27, 2009 3 mins

APP-V, MED-V, and missed opportunities

Holding back on its legacy emulation play is a mistake for Microsoft

Jan 27, 2009 3 mins

VMware reports a strong Q4 but an uncertain future

VMware beat analyst revenue estimates with its fourth-quarter results on Monday, but don't expect 2009 to be so rosy as the company cites problems with the ongoing economic uncertainty

Jan 27, 2009 2 mins

Lots of talk, few skills

The new network administrator decided to show off his technical expertise. But it became very clear that his staff knew more than he did.

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Jan 27, 2009 3 mins

Data Management

Article 708: A new breed of compliance for IT?

Article 708 of the National Electric Code could mean big changes for datacenters as cloud computing creates more and more touchpoints for systems that affect national security

By Ephraim Schwartz

Jan 27, 2009 5 mins

Is it safe to watch the news at work?

A readers discovers a worrisome truth about CNN's video plug-in

By Christina Wood

Jan 26, 2009 4 mins

Don’t blame Vista

Sure, we hate Vista. But falling PC sales in a wretched economy are why Microsoft's last quarter was a dog

By Bill Snyder

Jan 26, 2009 4 mins

Don’t bite that Apple, it’s full of worms

Mac malware is spreading across the Net via pirated software. But the nasties attacking Windows are even worse. It's getting ugly out there.

By Robert Cringely

NY Times: Will cheap and free prevail?

The New York Times reports on how "creative destruction" is driving adoption of netbooks, open source and virtualization software among consumers and enterprise IT.

By Zack Urlocker

Jan 26, 2009 2 mins

Dream team of cloud computing and SOA?

The trick is to determine which services, information, and processes are good candidates to reside in the clouds, as well as which cloud services should be abstracted within SOA

By David Linthicum

Jan 26, 2009 2 mins

Getting Lucid about Lucene

Lucid Imagination sets out to become the commercial entity behind Apache Lucene and grow its enterprise market share

Jan 26, 2009 2 mins

Windows 7 first impressions, and Microsoft’s XP problem

Windows 7 is an improvement to Vista, but that might be too little, too late

By Paul Venezia

Jan 26, 2009 5 mins

Virtual Computer raises $15 million and makes a new friend in the industry

Virtual Computer raises a large round of Series B funding in this down economy, $15 million. And they also form a relationship with Citrix at the same time.

Surgient’s virtual datacenter updated with Woven Systems’ 10 Gig

Surgient uses Woven Systems to move to 10 Gigabit Ethernet to improve the performance of its hosted virtualized datacenter service and avoid a cabling mess at the same time.

Hard disk crash aftermath

Martin had at least two sets of backups for the hard disk that crashed. Nevertheless, recovery is taking some thought.

By Martin Heller

Jan 26, 2009 6 mins

Higher education needs a national computing cloud

Cloud computing is vital to the future of higher education in America, so I beseech President Obama to take action

By whurley

Cloud Computing

Reflections on the inauguration

It was wonderful. It was inspiring. Now it's over – let's get back to work.

By Bob Lewis

Jan 24, 2009 2 mins

Rackable Systems introduces hardware-based virtualization with its MicroSlice architecture

In this down economy, Rackable Systems claims that its new line can provide a lower-cost alternative to server virtualization

Jan 23, 2009 2 mins

SNIA presents spec for green-storage power measurement

Spec divides storage systems into categories and measures idle power in gigabytes per watt

Jan 23, 2009 3 mins

Don’t get hooked on expensive vendors

How to negotiate an excellent deal with your vendors.

By Sean McCown

Jan 23, 2009 6 mins

Databases

It’s all architecture!

Our thinking about SOA and cloud computing needs to evolve, not shift

By Dave Linthicum

Jan 23, 2009 2 mins

Microsoft’s $8.5 billion problem

Bad financials, massive layoffs, and now Microsoft may have to pony up billions to settle a suit with disgruntled Vista users. How will the tottering giant respond?

By Robert Cringely

Jan 23, 2009 3 mins

Agile Development CIO Java

Evaluating Agile

Understand the costs and benefits of transitioning to Agile, or not

By Sue McKinney

Jan 23, 2009 5 mins

Open source’s role in the recent software layoffs

It may not be what you think

Jan 22, 2009 2 mins

GPU computing is about massive data parallelism

For embarrassingly parallel problems, for example digital tomography, an under-$10,000 Tesla personal supercomputer can beat a $5 million Sun CalcUA. CUDA makes the parallel programming tractable.

By Martin Heller

Jan 22, 2009 4 mins

Autonomy acquires Interwoven

Is this a sign of more consolidation in the software industry?

By Zack Urlocker

Jan 22, 2009 1 min

Quest looks to offer storage help; and ToutVirtual adds hypervisor support

The Virtualization Report recently talked about Quest Software advancing their virtualization strategy with the launch of vWorkspace 6.0, technology it acquired from Provision Networks. And Quest has also recently acquired MonoSphere Technology so th

Jan 22, 2009 1 min

The generation gap: Windows on multicore

Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 show their multiprocessing mettle in our dual-core and quad-core performance tests

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Jan 22, 2009 12 mins

Tech to Obama: Think patent reform

Repealing software patents could give a much-needed boost to the tech industry in troubled economic times

By Neil McAllister

Jan 22, 2009 5 mins

Servers by Cisco: Why they won’t matter

Ignore the hype. The networking giant's entry into the server market won't make much of a difference to enterprise IT.

By Bill Snyder

Jan 22, 2009 4 mins

Microsoft bolsters power management in Windows 7

Developers look at how to better manage idle state, devices, and extensions

Jan 22, 2009 6 mins

Windows on multicore test results

Windows Vista and Windows 7 take better advantage of multiple cores than Windows XP, but not enough to overcome XP's greater efficiency

Jan 22, 2009 2 mins

Windows on multicore: How I tested

Simulating multiprocess workloads using DMS Clarity Studio's ADO Stress, MAPI Stress, and WMP Stress workload objects

Jan 22, 2009 3 mins

Skipping the support ticket at Mozy

Can social media take you out of the support queue and straight to an answer?

By Christina Wood

Jan 21, 2009 3 mins

Microsoft should not buy Zend

Microsoft stands to attract more open source credibility through its partnership with Zend than an acquisition would ever provide

Jan 21, 2009 4 mins

One lousy hard disk can ruin your day

A hardware failure sent Martin to Circuit City's going-out-of-business sale, where the discount is only 10 percent

By Martin Heller

Jan 21, 2009 4 mins

InfoWorld accepting Green 15 award nominations

Nominate your organization's 2008 green IT projects by Feb. 25

Jan 21, 2009 1 min

Enterprise clouds: The secret is the workload

The cloud is the long-term strategic delivery model that will enable IT as a service while reducing virtual sprawl in the datacenter — if firms design, build, and operate it correctly

By Tony Bishop

Jan 21, 2009 6 mins

Google’s iPhone interface is gone baby gone

Google abruptly pulled the plug on its custom mobile interface, leaving both iPhone and Android fans in the lurch. Is this a sign of things to come from Google Inc.?

By Robert Cringely

Jan 21, 2009 3 mins