Opinion

On being a Difficult User

A user's persistence pays off in the case of the problematic download

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Nov 4, 2008 5 mins

Data Management

Real-time business intelligence you can act on

Continuous intelligence promises to improve the pace of business — and the bottom line

By Ephraim Schwartz

Nov 4, 2008 5 mins

Business Intelligence

MySQL needs to reconsider closed source

As Sun's high-end systems revenue erodes, a re-think of taboo around MySQL's product strategy is needed.

Nov 4, 2008 3 mins

SOA is shrinking…the TLA

SOA, the concept, will be with us for a long time — long after SOA the buzzword does not get as much play in the press.

Nov 4, 2008 3 mins

Zero tolerance, right off a cliff

Sometimes, people in authority act in ways that are nearly impossible to believe. Here's an example.

By Bob Lewis

Nov 4, 2008 3 mins

Brenda Michelson and I Talk about SOA Process

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Nov 3, 2008 1 min

Digging into MySQL billing data from Sun

Sun's billing data yields a wealth of information

Nov 3, 2008 3 mins

TiVo suggestions quagmire

The trouble with TiVos

By Christina Wood

‘SOA is inevitable’?

Perhaps 'SOA is inevitable,' but the degree of adoption will be larger dependent on our ability to put the right business case to the people who own and control budgets

DHL to cut over 6 million paper invoices by 2010

Company turns to e-billing to reduce paper, ink, and fuel waste

Nov 3, 2008 1 min

Escape from voting machine Hell

As the presidential election finally arrives, we're hip deep in horror stories about voting machines run amok. Here's how to make sure your vote really counts.

By Robert Cringely

Nov 3, 2008 3 mins

Windows Azure’s hypervisor isn’t Hyper-V

Advancements from the Azure hypervisor are making their way into Hyper-V — although by all accounts Hyper-V is the hypervisor platform that should have more maturity

Cisco continues to invest in VMware and ESX

Cisco invests an additional $13.3 million in VMware by taking away 500,000 shares from Intel

How to succeed with small business cloud computing

For small businesses, cloud computing can be a great tool for matching computing resources to computing needs (and your budget) when demand fluctuates

By Curt Franklin

A Cobol programmer with a seven-year employment gap

What to do when you can't find the job you want and haven't been able to for far too long

By Bob Lewis

Nov 2, 2008 3 mins

Devon IT’s GSI program; and DataCore and Citrix team up

Devon IT, a leader in thin client technologies, announced a new Green School Initiative. And at Citrix Summit 2008, DataCore Software announced that resellers worldwide have gained momentum delivering DataCore storage virtualization in combination wi

Nov 1, 2008 1 min

RESTful SOA patterns

At the SD Best Practices conference, Dan Diephouse of MuleSource gave a talk about Patterns for RESTful SOA. We discussed this subject prior to his talk.

By Martin Heller

Oct 31, 2008 3 mins

5 scary things I’ve heard in the world of SOA

Happy Halloween everybody!

Oct 31, 2008 1 min

I’m a PC, she’s a Mac. Are you a sucker?

Microsoft has launched the next phase of its $300 million effort to convince us that Vista is not a dog — while quietly pushing its replacement, Windows 7. What's wrong with this picture?

By Robert Cringely

Oct 31, 2008 2 mins

The art and war of negotiation

What are you agreeing to when you sign a EULA? The Gripe Line finds out

By Christina Wood

Oct 30, 2008 4 mins

Orgs develop energy-efficiency spec for networking gear

Juniper, Ixia, and LBNL seeks industry input on new Energy Consumption Rating Initiative

Oct 30, 2008 3 mins

Report Builder 2.0

Microsoft just released Report Builder 2.0 for Katmai

By Sean McCown

Oct 30, 2008 2 mins

Databases

IT manager candidates seem a lot like presidents

With the U.S. elections upon us, I realized how much our current presidential choices look like just the kind of IT folks who have a shot at being CTO or CIO. Weird? You betcha.

By David Strom

Oct 30, 2008 4 mins

Jim Whitehurst may yet regret emphasizing a cost advantage

Open source vendors should focus on value delivered, or risk entering the spiral from paying customer to free user.

Oct 30, 2008 2 mins

Cloud computing isn’t all azure skies

Microsoft wants to bring developers to the cloud with Windows Azure, but is the new model all it's cracked up to be?

By Neil McAllister

Oct 30, 2008 5 mins

Powering down servers is a calculated risk

Vendors cite minimal risk to shutting down servers, yet some companies practice it to save energy

Oct 30, 2008 8 mins

A small-business cloud: Conversation with Daptiv

Daptiv provides collaboration and BI tools for businesses both small and very large. This conversation with Tim Low explores the company's products and technologies.

By Curt Franklin

Oct 30, 2008 5 mins

How WaveMaker added 700 customers in 9 months

WaveMaker's CEO provides tips for aspiring open-source startups.

Oct 30, 2008 2 mins

Microsoft’s 1-2 punch

Microsoft's Azure and Windows 7 could improve the company's tarnished reputation.

By Zack Urlocker

Oct 29, 2008 2 mins

Windows 7: The ‘dog food’ tastes bad

My first attempt at a Windows 7 migration left me feeling a bit queasy

By Randall Kennedy

Oct 29, 2008 4 mins

One criminal Internet registrar down…

EstDomains has finally lost its Internet Registrar accreditation due to the criminal activity of its CEO. Well, he *was* already in jail…

By Martin Heller

Oct 29, 2008 1 min

How eliminating vendor-paid-junkets cuts costs

Even if there's no cash coming out of your company's pocket you can put the vendor's expenditures to better uses.

By Bob Lewis

Oct 29, 2008 3 mins

Lenovo adds remote power management to new ThinkCentre line

New M58 and M58p desktops have earned EPEAT Gold, promise higher energy efficiency than predecessors

Oct 29, 2008 3 mins

SOA money crunch will drive changes…good and bad

Good ideas are good ideas, down economy or not

Oct 29, 2008 2 mins

A new Xen community project launches

The community-led project aims to design an API for performing VM introspection and implement the necessary functionality into Xen

Oct 29, 2008 1 min

Symantec and Mozilla Firefox for HP Virtual Solutions

Symantec and Mozilla Firefox for HP Virtual Solutions ensures that employees can utilize the Web productively while keeping business PCs stable and easier to support

Oct 29, 2008 7 mins

Why Windows 7 will be better than Vista

Microsoft's new OS is being shaped by data phoned home from users' PCs

By Tom Yager

Oct 29, 2008 6 mins

System Center is more than just a buzzword

From system monitoring to backup and recovery, solution lineup provides a wealth of capabilities to admins

By J. Peter Bruzzese

Oct 29, 2008 4 mins

Windows: Unsafe at any speed, part deux

Are there viable alternatives to Microsoft Windows? And what happens when tech bloggers make snide remarks about political candidates? Read on for the enlightening answers.

By Robert Cringely

Oct 29, 2008 5 mins