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

Beyond the Childs case: The network as art, and why managers need to get that

More information coming to light shows just how in the dark Terry Childs' managers really are.

By Paul Venezia

Jul 23, 2008 5 mins

Data security meets disco fever

Seductive Asian agents, wayward Brits, purloined Blackberries — it sounds like a LeCarre novel, but it's really a true story. Cringely dives deep into a sex/spy scandal of Olympian proportions and talks about what this means for you and your da

By Robert Cringely

Jul 23, 2008 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Excluded from an ITIL project

You're an expert, the results will affect you, and you're entirely ignored. Now what?

By Bob Lewis

Jul 23, 2008 4 mins

Technology Industry

A Windows admin tames Open BlueDragon

An experiment in Web site deployment reveals free support for open source can be just as good as costly vendor support

By J. Peter Bruzzese

Jul 23, 2008 5 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Apple’s iPhone contracts leave developers speechless

Apple's free iPhone SDK may be the most hazardous download on the Internet

By Tom Yager

Jul 23, 2008 5 mins

Technology Industry

Phipps to lead Sun Open Technologies Practice

Simon Phipps hopes to change the way Sun deals with intellectual property rights.

By Savio Rodrigues

Jul 23, 2008 2 mins

Open Source

This?! This is the DNS flaw?

I casually read Halvar Flake's post speculating on the nature of the DNS flaw this evening. Everyone and their brother appears to be in panic mode over this, but I was blown away by the simplicity. Halvar might have missed a small detail or two,

By Paul Venezia

Jul 23, 2008 2 mins

VMware makes ESXi embedded hypervisor free

VMware CEO Paul Maritz goes on the offensive against Microsoft Hyper-V by announcing its embedded hypervisor product, ESXi, will be free.

By David Marshall

Jul 23, 2008 2 mins

Software Development

VMware shares fall after full year outlook expressed

VMware's stock price drops after Q2 earnings report conference call completed.

By David Marshall

Jul 23, 2008 3 mins

Software Development

Some interesting points on the Childs case

As I mentioned in my post on Sunday, my inbox has been quite busy recently. I've received several notes from past colleagues of Terry Childs, some who worked with him well before he was employed by the City of San Francisco, some more recently.

By Paul Venezia

Jul 22, 2008 3 mins

Microsoft at OSCON

Can a panel of so-called experts make sense of open source?

By Zack Urlocker

Jul 22, 2008 3 mins

Open Source

Madness, I say!

Why I am still right about the whole ESB thing.

By Dave Linthicum

Jul 22, 2008 4 mins

Software Development

Steroid sales still flourishing on the Web

LegitScript and KnujOn report on "extensive steroid distribution networks online" and the Registrars who allow them to exist

By Martin Heller

Jul 22, 2008 3 mins

Software Development

Top 10 Reasons SOA Fails

Things to think about as you move towards SOA

By Dave Linthicum

Jul 22, 2008 1 min

Software Development

Clever students make hapless admin’s job a nightmare

Kids will be kids — especially when the school IT admin learned everything he knows from a "For Dummies" book

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Jul 22, 2008 3 mins

Data Management

Windows desktop performance: Setting the record straight

How the industry keeps forgetting just how slow Vista really is

By Randall Kennedy

Jul 22, 2008 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Can high tech really improve baseball?

Baseball may be a game of inches, but does it have to be monitored by IBM?

By Ephraim Schwartz

Jul 22, 2008 5 mins

Technology Industry

Dell notebook turns into a Bad Buy

<P>The reputation of Dell's support has certainly had its ups and downs over the years. But the experience of one reader who recently bought a Dell notebook at Best Buy makes me wonder if company executives just don't care anymore wha

By Ed Foster

Jul 22, 2008 5 mins

Technology Industry

Meta IT: Strategy framework for change

Meta-IT represents a new IT management framework and governance packaged into a set of results-oriented best practices

By Tony Bishop

Jul 21, 2008 3 mins

Technology Industry

An open source solution to climate change

Scientists are pondering an idea of adding lime to seawater to reduce CO2 levels. The open source collaboration model is being used to flesh out the idea.

By Savio Rodrigues

Jul 21, 2008 1 min

Open Source

Handling unmotivatable employees

You can't motivate all employees. Sometimes, reliable is good enough.

By Bob Lewis

Jul 21, 2008 2 mins

Technology Industry

Your to-do list just got longer

IT is expected to do any number of impossible tasks, but there are 7 things that it ought to be doing (but isn't)

By Eric Knorr

Jul 21, 2008 3 mins

Technology Industry

VMware still predicting the end of Windows

VMware exec claims that virtualization and virtual appliances will put an end to monolithic operating systems like Microsoft Windows.

By David Marshall

Jul 21, 2008 3 mins

Software Development

The RIAA vs the mothers of prevention

After years of terrorizing its best customers, the RIAA may soon be brought to its knees — by a handful of angry moms. Would you mess with them? Cringely advises against it.

By Robert Cringely

Jul 21, 2008 4 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Distillation of the Childs case so far

New information, some hypotheses, and — unfortunately — some more questions about the San Francisco LAN case.

By Paul Venezia

Jul 20, 2008 6 mins

Secure small business storage on the Web?

Live Mesh and SpiderOak offer two different takes on secure Web-based file storage that can work for small business

By Curt Franklin

Jul 19, 2008 5 mins

Technology Industry

Transitive works with Hyper-V; and VMware advances Workstation

Transitive Corporation is bringing its QuickTransit solution and Solaris/SPARC applications to Microsoft's Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 environments. And VMware has been beefing up its desktop virtualization product, Workstation 6.5 Beta, giv

By David Marshall

Jul 19, 2008 1 min

Software Development

Locks of Love

Donating my hair for cancer victims

By Zack Urlocker

Jul 18, 2008 2 mins

Open Source

Notes from the (San Francisco City IT Department) Underground

This week, I wrote a few posts about Terry Childs and the City of San Francisco's "hostage situation". Based on the smattering of information made public, there seemed to be much more — and much less — to this story than city officia

By Paul Venezia

Jul 18, 2008 2 mins

VMware employees may get new pricing on stock options

VMware employees may be getting the chance to receive new pricing on their underwater stock options.

By David Marshall

Jul 18, 2008 2 mins

Software Development

Forrester projects growth in open source DBMS

Cost savings drive adoption in new web-based apps

By Zack Urlocker

Jul 18, 2008 1 min

Open Source

Of Apple, Psystar users, and copyright

<P>I don't know whether or not Psystar is guilty of the many charges Apple makes <A href= http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9110212&intsrc=hm_list">in the lawsuit</A>

By Ed Foster

Jul 18, 2008 2 mins

Technology Industry

Microsoft + AOL: Let no man tear them asunder

Is Microsoft about to swallow AOL, or is this just another feint in the endless struggle to conquer Yahoo and achieve mediocrity in the search marketplace? Cringely has a few ideas, as well as some key questions for all you Microsoft fans out there.

By Robert Cringely

Jul 18, 2008 2 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

The limits to foreign country-ness

Blaming boorishness on culture is nonsense.

By Bob Lewis

Jul 18, 2008 2 mins

Technology Industry

Buffer overruns and the C run-time library

Buffer overrun exploits are bad, but having your program abort when it sees a long string isn't much better. There's a magic word you need to know to use the security-enhanced Microsoft C string functions effectively.

By Martin Heller

Jul 17, 2008 3 mins

Software Development

Are ESBs hurting SOA? Or is it just bad architecture?

I came across this article on TechTarget.com by Rich Seeley, outlining issues around ESB integration. "Enterprise service bus (ESB) intermediation remains an issue despite the adoption of WS-* standards, argues John Michelsen, chief architect at

By Dave Linthicum

Jul 17, 2008 2 mins

Software Development

So I got an iPhone, see…

A few weeks ago, I wrote a little post titled "Why the iPhone isn't for me". I listed seven reasons that the iPhone fell short of my needs and expectations. Needless to say, this generated some discussion, both public and private. Nobo

By Paul Venezia

Jul 17, 2008 3 mins

The criminal, digital divide

So after I wrote about the San Francisco network hostage situation yesterday, I started thinking a bit more about this situation. Based on all the data I've found in the press, it certainly appears that Terry Childs changed the passwords on some

By Paul Venezia

Jul 17, 2008 4 mins

A biological approach to security

Nervous marmots and masturbating monkeys: We can learn a lot about how to address software vulnerabilities by studying how animals react to threats in the wild.

By Neil McAllister

Jul 17, 2008 5 mins

Software Development

Warning: Google is becoming Microsoft’s evil twin

Google's monopolistic tendencies, as seen in its Yahoo search deal, are bad for business, bad for consumers, and bad for IT.

By Bill Snyder

Jul 17, 2008 4 mins

Technology Industry

Six tips for safely choosing an IT asset disposal partner

Picking the right company to help retire your IT gear could not only save you some cash and headaches, it could protect you from a regulatory nightmare

By Ted Samson

Jul 17, 2008 7 mins

Technology Industry

Is the Mac really any easier to use?

I've been a fan of the Mac and of Apple for many years, but, ironically, I'm not much of a Mac user. The last Mac I owned was more than 20 years ago. A few years ago I wanted to reduce how much remote Windows tech support I needed to provid

By Zack Urlocker

Jul 16, 2008 3 mins

Open Source

VMware to announce Q2 financials and outlook

VMware is expected to announce its Q2 financials and business outlook on a conference call July 22. How will the stock market react after the announcement?

By David Marshall

Jul 16, 2008 2 mins

Software Development

ERP for IT (ERP4IT) – An approach to creating greater shareholder value

Enterprise Resource Planning for Information Technology (ERP for It, ERP4IT) describes the automation of Information Technology. Wikipedia The management of people, capital, relationships, assets, and information is one of the most critical functions

By Tony Bishop

Jul 16, 2008 3 mins

Technology Industry

An outside scoop on San Francisco’s network lockout

If you haven't heard, San Francisco is being held hostage. At least, the city's new network is being held hostage. It seems that Terry Childs, a disgruntled network admin took it upon himself to lock out all the other admins from "the

By Paul Venezia

Jul 16, 2008 4 mins

VMware to raise prices in EMEA and ANZ

VMware expected to raise prices by 10% across EMEA and ANZ. What will higher prices do to the SMB market? And will this price increase help Microsoft Hyper-V?

By David Marshall

Jul 16, 2008 2 mins

Software Development

Is single vendor-driven open source a greater security risk?

How did two vulnerabilities in the widely used Spring Framework remain hidden for so long? And what are the security implications for single-vendor-driven open source projects?

By Savio Rodrigues

Jul 16, 2008 3 mins

Open Source

Whether leaders can motivate

Leaders can motivate employees – in fact, it's part of the job description.

By Bob Lewis

Jul 16, 2008 3 mins

Technology Industry

Memo to Microsoft, Yahoo, & Icahn: Just shut up and deal

It's BratFest 2008. As Microsoft, Yahoo, and Carl Icahn squabble like schoolchildren over who called the other one "stinky," Cringely longs for some adult supervision. Can't Google do something to make them stop?

By Robert Cringely

Jul 16, 2008 3 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Should you Fire your CIO?

One of the things covered in the recent Burton report was an instance where a new CIO was needed to get SOA going. Loraine Lawson does a good job covering the report, and the CIO angle in her recent post. "A new CIO coming on board during a busi

By Dave Linthicum

Jul 16, 2008 2 mins

Software Development