Opinion

Rethinking VM data protection in cloud-native environments

KubeVirt promises a unified compute plane for both VMs and containerized workloads, but demands a new approach to VM life cycle management and protection.

By Bob Adair

Mar 26, 20267 mins

Cloud ComputingCloud-NativeKubernetes

Best of open source software awards: Productivity applications

Bossie winners for sound editing, 3D modeling, Web browser, image editing, PDF creation, and office productivity suite

By Doug Dineley

Aug 5, 2008 3 mins

Technology Industry

Best of open source software awards: Platforms and middleware

Bossie winners for server and desktop operating system, enterprise service bus, database, database admin tool, data migration, and desktop and server virtualization

By Doug Dineley

Aug 5, 2008 5 mins

Technology Industry

Best of open source software awards: Networking

Bossie winners for IP telephony, log file analysis, Wi-Fi scanning, wireless networking, router, and server, network, and VoIP monitoring

By Doug Dineley

Aug 5, 2008 5 mins

Technology Industry

Best of open source software awards: Enterprise applications

Bossie winners for content management, ERP, project management, application monitoring, BPM, reporting, portal, e-commerce, BI, and CRM

By Doug Dineley

Aug 5, 2008 6 mins

Technology Industry

Best of open source software awards: Collaboration

Bossie winners in social networking, wiki, mail and calendar, remote control, and blogging software

By Doug Dineley

Aug 5, 2008 3 mins

Technology Industry

Best of open source software awards: Development tools

Bossie winners for object database, version control, Web client library, parallel programming, business rule management, rich Internet applications, JavaScript framework, and Web services testing

By Doug Dineley

Aug 5, 2008 5 mins

Technology Industry

When You Need to Hit the Reset Button

Download file…

By Dave Linthicum

Aug 5, 2008 1 min

Software Development

Optimizing the slowest thing

In the early days of computing, it was much easier to identify and fix whatever was causing a processing slowdown. Today, though, that approach seems a whole lot harder to implement

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Aug 5, 2008 3 mins

Data Management

Is Windows “Midori” doomed to failure?

Microsoft's cloud computing strategy will fail if it seeks to discard the NT code base prematurely

By Randall Kennedy

Aug 5, 2008 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Net access in the wake of FCC vs. Comcast

The public may have won Round 1, but network providers will soon change the rules of the game

By Ephraim Schwartz

Aug 5, 2008 4 mins

Technology Industry

Vista up, XP down in latest community snapshot

The tide may be beginning to turn for Vista. In our latest snapshot of the Windows Sentinel community, Microsoft’s much-maligned OS (all flavors) shows up on ~31% of sampled systems – a gain of nearly 12 percentage points versus our previ

By Randall Kennedy

Aug 5, 2008 3 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Veeam Monitor 3.0 enters Beta period

Veeam Software's R&D department is moving with speed and precision, unveiling its second software product in the virtualization market a week apart — this time, Monitor 3.0 Beta.

By David Marshall

Aug 5, 2008 3 mins

Software Development

InfoWorld announces our 2008 Best of Open Source Awards

Come find out the vendors that won InfoWorld's 2008 Bossie awards. You'll find some OSS leaders and some surprise winners.

By Savio Rodrigues

Aug 5, 2008 2 mins

Open Source

Vista on a smaller scale

I recently posted about getting back in touch with Vista after a rocky start almost a year and a half ago. My conclusions were then (and are now) that Vista isn't the terrible disgrace that some might think. It's definitely not perfect, but

By Paul Venezia

Aug 5, 2008 3 mins

Centro tops 2 million units

Can Palm turn around their business?

By Zack Urlocker

Aug 4, 2008 1 min

Open Source

Will the real open source please stand up?

While the debate on 'what is open source' continues, the larger question of how to grow open source vendor revenue across the software market is still largely ignored

By Savio Rodrigues

Aug 4, 2008 2 mins

Open Source

Handling a “Blame Passing Glory Hog”

Office politics: How to trap a chronic blame-passer and credit-claimer.

By Bob Lewis

Aug 4, 2008 3 mins

Technology Industry

What in the world is wrong with Network Solutions?

I've posted a few notes on Network Solutions the past week or so, after a reader sent me an email saying that the resolvers he was given on a cut sheet were returning invalid answers. In the wake of the DNS bug, I speculated that these servers m

By Paul Venezia

Aug 4, 2008 1 min

Ed Foster has passed on, but let's keep his legacy alive. Gripe on, and give Ed's successor a leg up on continuing his mission.

By Galen Gruman

Aug 4, 2008 1 min

Technology Industry

Moo two: The second annual Bossie awards

Hear that lowing sound? It's the return of the Bossies, InfoWorld's awards for the Best of Open Source Software. This year we have 60 winners in 8 categories ranging from App Dev to Storage. As an added bonus, we've thrown…

By Eric Knorr

Aug 4, 2008 3 mins

Technology Industry

Microsoft bites the bullet on .Net suit

A tiny Texas firm just won its .Net patent suit against Microsoft. What does this mean for Web developers and the products they use? Are Adobe and IBM next? Cringely weighs in.

By Robert Cringely

Aug 3, 2008 3 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Stay with legacy applications or re-write them

One reader's suggestion: Connect COBOL to Web 2.0, and pay programmers more to support it.

By Bob Lewis

Aug 3, 2008 3 mins

Technology Industry

Certeon’s virtual appliance provides application acceleration

Certeon's virtual appliance software provides application acceleration in a VMware environment — the company says it will help you reduce your application response time by more than 95 percent to remote sites.

By David Marshall

Aug 3, 2008 5 mins

Software Development

GoGrid wants to be the new face for cloud computing

Well-known companies like Amazon and Google are going after the cloud computing market. But so are smaller companies with products like GoGrid, and they are looking to innovate and take over the cloud computing market from their larger competitors.

By David Marshall

Aug 2, 2008 3 mins

Software Development

Coding green, revisited

I'm obviously not the first person to think about the concept of coding green. I say that because after writing about the topic this week, I found this article on earth2tech titled "Your bad code is killing my planet," written last yea

By Ted Samson

Aug 2, 2008 2 mins

Technology Industry

Citrix XenServer 4.2 reaches public Beta status

Citrix announced that XenServer 4.2 is now available in a public beta format, and it includes a very impressive feature list thus far.

By David Marshall

Aug 2, 2008 2 mins

Software Development

Who’s Afraid of the Big .NET?

Holland-based Servoy aims to blur the lines between software on the desktop and software as a service. Can the little Dutch company take on Microsoft and win? Cringely weighs in (woozily) with a first person report.

By Robert Cringely

Aug 1, 2008 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Vista ReadyBoost and shadow copies work for me

Windows Vista has been taking plenty of heat in InfoWorld, but it does have some redeeming features, including ReadyBoost and shadow copies.

By Martin Heller

Aug 1, 2008 2 mins

Software Development

Bank of America to halve HVAC costs

Energy management system built on FDSI technology will reap big savings, reduce CO2 emissions by 14,000 tons per year

By Ted Samson

Aug 1, 2008 2 mins

Technology Industry

Maybe I’m not alone. Google goes after the Library of Congress

For those who read about my trials and tribulations with Google… it appears that after they let me off the hook, they've taken on the Library of Congress. Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL? HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you. Dave B

By Paul Venezia

Aug 1, 2008 1 min

Some reflections and a reader’s observations on the Terry Childs case

My main concern on the Childs matter is that the case against Childs may be built around a profound lack of understanding of the technology involved

By Paul Venezia

Jul 31, 2008 6 mins

iPhone reaches 1,000 apps, 25 million downloads

Is the iPhone platform outpacing Windows Mobile?

By Zack Urlocker

Jul 31, 2008 1 min

Open Source

Knowing when to hit the SOA reset button

You may need to hit the button and not yet know it.

By Dave Linthicum

Jul 31, 2008 2 mins

Software Development

Get ready for Windows “Mickey Mouse”

Midori. Mojave. Mickey Mouse. They all have one thing in common: They're fictitious constructs assembled by people with vivid imaginations and way too much time on their hands. By now, we’ve all heard about the Windows "Mojave" d

By Randall Kennedy

Jul 31, 2008 3 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Open source ECM Alfresco now emulates SharePoint

Alfresco has added SharePoint Protocol support to the Open Source ECM Alfresco Labs (Beta) 3.

By Martin Heller

Jul 31, 2008 2 mins

Software Development

Cloud computing on whose terms?

As appealing as cloud computing may be, remember that the vendors hold the strings.

By Neil McAllister

Jul 31, 2008 4 mins

Software Development

Cloud computing goes open source

The cloud computing initiative of HP, Intel and Yahoo will funnel knowledge and perhaps code to the open source community.

By Bill Snyder

Jul 31, 2008 4 mins

Technology Industry

Coding green for the future

The burden of green doesn't just fall on hardware vendors; software developers need to crank out slimmer, more eco-friendly code

By Ted Samson

Jul 31, 2008 8 mins

Technology Industry

Code redundancy wastes my time!

A programmer's lament

By Larry Borsato

Jul 31, 2008 3 mins

Careers Java Software Development

VMware Fusion growing up with the 2.0 Beta 2 build

VMware's Mac OS X virtualization platform gets closer to a 2.0 release and has a number of new features being shown in the Beta 2 build announced today.

By David Marshall

Jul 31, 2008 2 mins

Software Development

Citrix gets help from the community for XenServer and XenApp

Citrix continues to push forward in the virtualization world, and they are getting help from their partner community. Two products, XenServer for the server virtualization market and XenApp for the application virtualization market, are both solid pr

By David Marshall

Jul 31, 2008 1 min

Software Development

Veeam releases its new VMware backup software

Veeam quickly pushes forward with the latest version of its backup software for VMware environments – Veeam Backup 2.0.

By David Marshall

Jul 31, 2008 3 mins

Software Development

Giving back with Open Source at LinuxWorld

A pair of open source aficionados are using open source to help school children build computer skills; find out how you can help.

By Savio Rodrigues

Jul 30, 2008 2 mins

Open Source

A primer on the Terry Childs case for the non-technical

Since I continue to read, see, and hear news stories on the Childs case that depart from reality, I figured I'd put together this handy primer for anyone non-techical who wants to really understand the case

By Paul Venezia

Jul 30, 2008 4 mins

Mobile Linux nothing new

Remember the Agenda Vr3 PDA? Vanity of vanities…

By Martin Heller

Jul 30, 2008 2 mins

Software Development

Anton Chuvakin is not an idiot

I remarked on a blog post by Anton Chuvakin a little while ago, discussing his apparent anti-admin stance. His post in response is quite entertaining, and no, he's not an idiot. His points on logging and auditing are spot on. If I had a dollar f

By Paul Venezia

Jul 30, 2008 2 mins

Handling a service recipient who refuses to plan

An "internal customer" who throws a production department into chaos.

By Bob Lewis

Jul 30, 2008 4 mins

Technology Industry

Desperately seeking enterprise search

As with the Internet world, search options abound for the enterprise, and compelling options abound, both for free and at a price

By J. Peter Bruzzese

Jul 30, 2008 5 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Pole axed: Microsoft and XP, Apple and Porn

How do you feel about Net censorship? Which OS would you buy? What's the most innovative company in the world? And is the Apple iPhone really all that? Cringely has been surveying Netizens on these hot topics. The results may surprise you.

By Robert Cringely

Jul 30, 2008 3 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development