Opinion

XDS Goes From Stealth to Virtual Desktop

For the past four years, XDS Inc. has been operating in stealth-mode developing their patent-pending virtualization technology used to deliver desktop environments to any device. Coming out of stealth-mode, the company finally announced the official

VMware’s Product Voted Best for Building the New Data Center

VMware Gains Recognition from Network World as the #1 Product for Building the Next Generation Data Center VMware, the virtualization software solution giant, announced in a press release that Network World has named VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) the

IT heavyweights plot The Green Grid

IT's thirst for energy is growing exponentially, but the supply of reliable, clean power isn't keeping pace. Thus companies are facing not only swelling utility bills struggling to keep their servers cool and humming, but, according to Gart

Plenty of green standards a’brewin’

Jeremy Kirk from the IDGNS has compiled quite a laundry list of groups from all over the map that are exploring standards for energy efficiency in the data center. The European Commission, for example, is contemplating "codes of conduct" fo

Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) 5x exhibitors: non-profits

There was a great variety of exhibitors at the <a title="SCALE 5x: Southern California Linux Expo" target="scale5x" href="http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/scale5x">SCALE 5x (5th annual Southern California Linux Expo)&

System Restore on Windows Vista

A week ago I wrote about my investigations into System Restore on Windows XP and Windows Vista. I have since heard back from a program manager at Microsoft, who said of the Vista default disk allocation: We believe that the default value 15% is very

Test Center Daily: New blogs on the block

Desktop tech and green IT: We've added a couple more entrees to InfoWorld.com's blog buffet. Test Center Contributor Randall C. Kennedy is the author of the new Enterprise Desktop blog in which he'll be honing in on — as the blog titl

Bots and DDoS attacks: a primer

Knowing the inner workings of botnets and their attack styles can help you formulate a defense — or outlast an attack

Clariion call

EMC and Dell add another Clariion model to the lineup, but the emphasis this time is on data protection

AT&T Fights for Exporting Software Jobs

I'm having an unusual experience right now – I find myself actually rooting for Microsoft to win a lawsuit. But I do have to wonder just how consistent the folks in Redmond will be in adhering to the legal position they are now taking, particula

Can Google Apps Premium make money or is it just meant to pop Microsoft’s balloon?

For me it is not a question of whether or not Google Apps Premium Edition for $50 per year, per user, will be a Microsoft killer. Over time, as SaaS [Software as a Service] becomes ubiquitous and is acceptable to enterprise-level companies, it certai

DreamScene? More Like “A Nightmare on Vista Street.”

Today I installed "DreamScene" and kissed my CPU cycles goodbye. The official marketing moniker for Microsoft's seductively frivolous new "motion desktop" technology (one of those Ultimate Extras we've been promised sinc

DBAs Don’t Poop

I'm often curious what drives the new standards of professionalism. It seems like we've swung to the other side from a few decades ago, and I'm waiting for it to even out. Here's what I mean. It's really gotten so that you ca

Can’t find what you’d love to do for a living? You’re not alone

<p>Penelope over at Brazen Careerist is plumbing the depths of a question I ask myself all the time: "My job is ok, but do I really <em>love</em> it? What <em>would</em> I really love?"</p> <p>I

Microsoft bolsters collaboration server

Microsoft has released version 1.2 of its Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Power Tool, which is intended to improve the user experience for the Team Foundation Server collaboration server for application development. Formerly known as Power

Meetings are necessary, but they don’t have to suck

<p>Meetings can be frustrating and have a pretty low productivity-per-minute, but the answer is not to go off the pundit deep end and avoid them altogether. Many useful, and most big, things are accomplished by teams of people, and occassionall

Preview: SaaS meets BPM in Lombardi Blueprint

Lombardi Software is looking to help companies reduce complexity and improve communication during BPM mapping with its new Blueprint application — a Web-hosted modeling tool, now in beta, that allows employees to collaborate on business processes vi

Understanding SOA Architectures and Models…SOA RM

A few people who have been reading my blog and listening to my Podcast, as well as reading other SOA blogs and articles, have become a bit confused pertaining to the notions of: – SOA Reference Model(s) – SOA Reference Architecture(s) And how all of

Test Center Tracker: Beat the bots

Botnet resources: Roger Grimes compiled a handy – and thorough – list of reading material about botnets and denial of service attacks. Check them out on the Security Adviser blog and get up to speed fast. VoIP to go: VoIP on your cell – is it a pipe

Dell seeks a clue, will LG sue?

Execs say Apple swiped iPhone design from Korean electronics giant

Gauging Net consumption

Peel back the energy onion, and you’ll find the Internet sucks up a lot of juice

SWsoft Announces Support Agreement with Microsoft

According to a recent press release, SWsoft, a recognized leader in server automation and virtualization software and maker of the award-winning Virtuozzo operating system virtualization software, has signed an agreement with Microsoft that helps SWs

3 Things I Forgot the Mention in the Mashup Article

If you spotted my article, "Enterprise mashups meet SOA," in this week's InfoWorld you may have noted some of the core ideas, such as: "The line is blurring between the enterprise and the Web. Mashups live on that porous perimeter

6.5 Decisions you should make on purpose

<p>When it comes to careers, a lot of us spend way too much time on autopilot. Rather than taking control of our own direction, we let someone else decide what promotions we should be interested in and what career paths we should take. This is

Four reasons to cultivate greener IT pastures

I just moved from a small apartment in Oakland to a new house in Sacramento. The cat and I are adjusting quite well, thank you, aside from the fact that I don't currently have a kitchen. Or a hot-water heater. Or downstairs flooring. This may no

Preview: Business Objects’ newest platform release is more than meets the eye

As one of the titans of business intelligence (BI) platforms, Business Objects has been slowly but surely acquiring technology and integrating it into their existing foundation. A careful reading between the lines of the marketing for their newest re

On Reviewing

When Thomas Pynchon's new novel Against the Day came out last November, I read all the reviews I could find. For example, Michiko Kakutani led with this scathing description&nbsp;in the November 20th New York Times: Thomas Pynchon's new

IBM’s Power6 looms large

To see the future of computing, check out IBM's latest rev of its Power chip architecture

DiVitas opens up its cell-to-Wi-Fi gateway

Mobile Convergence Appliance makes cellular and VoIP a more viable combo than InfoWorld and swimsuits

How much does a manager need to know?

Dear Bob … As an applications manager, I often wonder exactly how much detail should I know about an application. I get hundred of questions about application design, functionality, servers, files, and databases, most I can answer, but there are a

YOU Made the Bed, So Don’t Make US Lie in It

I'm gonna go ahead and finish off the topic I started on yesterday but didn't get to finish. And knowing me, I'll probably expand on it a little too, and maybe even go off on a couple tangents. I'm talking about the whole salary a

Your turn: Predict the next big thing

Will merger of Sirius and XM radio be renamed S&XM?

I don't care if the new name for a merged Sirius and XM satellite radio is something like S&XM, its future is still doomed. The news that XM satellite radio and Sirius satellite radio want to merge should come as no big surprise. Despite XMs

InfoWorld LIVE! #5: Streaming Live at 4pm

And here's another episode of InfoWorld LIVE! radio. We're talking about ways to physically protect your business. ADT isn't the only option anymore. Now you've got ways to control data access to your PCs, security cameras you can

A hard question with at least one easy answer

<p>I've gotten a few emails since starting to blog here with what boils down to a really basic question. What is a leader? The question might be basic, but the answer can be very complex, and whole industries have sprung up to answer it.&l

Scientific evidence on balance

<p>A new study co-sponsored by the Center for Creative Leadership published in the January edition of the Journal of Applied Psychology finds that being committed to family not only increases a person's overall well-being, it also improves

Test Center Tracker: More virtualization goodies

Virtual vital signs: Microsoft released its free Virtual PC 2007 to the masses — David Marshall says it may be the last version of Virtual PC we'll see. You can download Virtual PC 2007 here. And if you missed last week's InfoWorld Virtual

Danger inside the firewall

That nice, new Linksys wireless router might as well have been a ticking bomb

SaaS, not so fast

Software as a Service has its limitations in the enterprise

SaaS, not so fast

Software as a Service has its limitations in the enterprise, writes Ephraim Schwartz Last week's column was an upbeat look at SaaS (software as a service from the point of view of companies that are currently deploying SaaS solutions. This week

Run Over By Road Runner’s Abuse Department

It can be tricky complaining to your ISP about abuse from other subscribers on their network. As one Road Runner customer found out recently, it's all too easy for them to decide that if you're the squeaky wheel, you must be the problem. &q

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Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 Goes Gold

It's been a long road since Connectix Corporation first came out with Connectix Virtual PC. And then back in February of 2003, Microsoft acquired that technology and then shortly thereafter released Microsoft Virtual PC 2004. With the world&#039

OpenVZ Virtualization Project Adds New Features

OpenVZ, the open source project supported by SWsoft, announced a set of new features found in its operating system server virtualization software. The software can now deliver checkpointing and live migration support for IA64 processors. This, accord

Parallels Desktop for Mac Updates with RC3

While I'm still thinking about that "unofficial" VMware Fusion 3D video circulating around the Internet, Parallels decided to up their ante with yet another release candidate version of their Desktop for Mac product. Release Candidate

When crazy is OK

Ajax Design Patterns

The other day I got a press release that started: Sehr geehrte Redaktion, Letzte Woche sind einige Neuerungen auf&nbsp; http://www.canoo.net livegeschaltet worden: Vorschl&auml;ge wie bei Google Suggest… I got a big kick out of reading the

Thoughts about the economics of offshoring

Dear Bob …Not really an Advice Line issue, but I'd appreciate your thoughts:Society is learning about economics and outsourcing. Lose high paying jobs, lose tax revenue, etc. The experiment continues and a few profit at the expense of the many

Crackpot tech: Solid-state drives

Crackpot tech: DC power