Opinion

Crackpot tech: Total information awareness

Crackpot tech: Quantum computing and quantum cryptography

Crackpot tech: Desktop Web applications

How likely are desktop Web apps to impact the enterprise

Crackpot tech: Autonomic computing

Crackpot tech: Semantic Web

Crackpot tech: E-books

Superconducting computing

Holographic & phase-change storage

Enterprise mashups meet SOA

Lack the bandwidth to build all the services you want? Then mash up services from publicly available APIs and get whizzy new applications for little effort

Mashup platform vendors

Mashup platforms run the gamut from established portal servers to bleeding edge Web pure-plays

Virtualization: Linux’s killer app

The proliferation of virtualization options gives Linux an edge over Windows

When crazy is OK

Science lesson: Just because a technology idea  is bizarre doesn’t mean it’s wrong

12 crackpot tech ideas that could transform the enterprise

These technologies straddle the divide between harebrained and brilliant as they promise to shake the pillars of tomorrow's enterprise

Crackpot tech: Artificial intelligence

Project Blackbox

InnoTek Announces New Release of VirtualBox Virtualization

InnoTek recently announced that it has released VirtualBox 1.3.4, an important update to its leading virtual machine product which is available as both, an open-source and a commercial application with professional support. The product has had over 8

VirtualLogix Offers Virtualization for Mobile Handsets

VirtualLogix, formerly Jaluna, introduced the availability of its VLX Mobile eXperimentation (VLX-MX) Edition for handsets. VLX-MX will be freely available this quarter, and will allow customers to evaluate VirtualLogix's mobile handset solution

Managing SOA Semantics Using Ontologies and Supporting W3C Standards…”Web 3.0?” Webinar

On Friday, March 2, 2007, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST, I’ll be hosting yet another free SOA Webinar. The Title is: Managing SOA Semantics Using Ontologies and Supporting W3C Standards…"Web 3.0?" You can register for it here. Last time we

Thinstall Announces Application Virtualization Suite 3.0

Thinstall Application Virtualization Suite 3.0 helps simplify the application process with its client-less application virtualization solution that allows applications to be packaged into simple EXE files that run in user-mode, isolated from the host

Citrix Announces Application Delivery Platform – PS 4.5

Citrix has announced the release of their latest version of Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 to help enable companies to deliver windows applications with better peformance, security and TCO. Version 4.5 comes with significant, new capabilities such as

Open Source Network Monitoring at SCALE 5x

More news from last week's <a href="http://socallinuxexpo.com" title="SCALE 5x" target=scale5x">SCALE 5x</a> event in Los Angeles! There were three network monitoring systems represented at the event. Zenoss,

Battle of the SOA Models…

MomentumSI's Todd Biske took me to task yesterday with my posting, okay reposting, of SOA Levels. "While these levels may be an accurate portrayal of how many organizations leverage technology over time, I don't see how they are an in

Test Center Tracker: Data protection and app virtualization

Plug those data leaks: Many researchers agree that data leaks are on the rise in the business world, and having your customer files or classified information fall into the wrongs hands can be quite costly. Test Center Analyst Mike Heck recently looke

System Restore on Windows XP and Vista

One of the first things I normally do when I set up a computer with Windows XP, right after I install anti-virus and anti-spyware programs, is to configure Internet Explorer (IE)&nbsp;and System Restore (SR) to use less disk space than their defa

Marching Toward SOA: Does EA Lead the Band?

On the 23rd, I'm participating in a Webinar entitled: Marching Toward SOA: Does EA Lead the Band? You can register here. You have to admit it's a compelling topic. Here is the description: "Enterprise Architecture and SOA implementatio

Understanding SOA Levels…Again

As I have been doing client work recently I've come across the notion of "SOA Levels" more than once, as consulting and product organizations attempt to define the space for their customer and client base. One of the common patterns is

Leadership and the rest of the balanced life story

<p>Striving for a balanced life has other benefits beyond just supercharging your creativity by taking advantage of your subconscious and leaving yourself the energy to be open to new ideas.</p> <p>If you have a balanced world vi

Making IT projects less painful

The following appeared as a comment, by "Steve," in response to "Problems with project estimation," Advice Line, 2/5/2007:* * *I feel really guilty. I live in that ideal company, small (90 people), outrageously fast paced, but ALW

Breaking the addiction to large storage vendors

Small vendors get innovative: Revinetix and Yosemite bring new data protection features to SMBs

DNS attack puts Web security in perspective

With more business apps running online, it's time to shore up DoS prevention measures

Google Relocates Texas Schools to Canada

There's a side of Google you don't see just doing searches — the impervious, insular side. But when the students and faculty at a large school district in Texas go searching, they're getting a glimpse of just how hard it can be to get

SOA Jump Start Webinar Today (2/15)

Don't forget about the free "SOA Jump Start Webinar" today!. Sign up here. This is a no hype, no selling, Webinar…just learning….

InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum 2007 Recap

First let me say, for those of you that made it to the forum this year in San Francisco, I hope your time spent at the event was as fun and interesting as mine was. I sincerely had a great time getting the chance to talk and interact with many of you

Southern California Linux Expo 5x

The 5th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 5x) was hosted at the LAX Airport Westin this past weekend. It was a relatively small affair, nothing as extravagant as LinuxWorld in San Francisco. The show floor was small and there were no large

Get Your Head Right

From time to time we all have these epiphanies that bring us back around to where we should be. I had one yesterday and thought I'd share it with you guys in case any of you are in the same funk I was in. In short, we all tend to take ourselves

Test Center Tracker: Treo security alert and Microsoft’s online video debut

Fix it or forget it: First it was Qualcomm not patching a vulnerability in Eudora WorldMail. Now, Palm is following that same path: it will not be fixing a Treo password bypass problem found by Symantec. Roger Grimes is appalled, and plans to dump hi

No one dies wishing they had gone to more meetings

<p>That <a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/leadtrenches/archives/2007/02/life_and_work.html">pointer</a> I found to Elizabeth's post over at the Career and Kids blog got me to thinking more about balance and getting

iTunes fans out of luck, Dell user shows off burned truck

Being for the benefit of Mr. Jobs, the fifth Beatle

Inventing a better future

Dean Kamen of Segway fame keeps cranking the ideas while paving the way for others

What do you mean I can’t virtualize this operating system?

Ok, you have your hardware in place; you've selected and purchased your virtualization platform; and now, you're ready to create your first set of virtual machines and install their guest operating systems. But wait… you want to install w

Rekindling the passion

Scott over at Pimp Your Work has an <a href="http://pimpyourwork.com/resistance-is-futile-attraction/">interesting piece</a> today on what to do when the passion starts to flicker at work, and some practical steps you can take t

Life and work

Elizabeth over at the Career and Kids blog has an interesting <a href="http://www.careerandkids.com/work-life-fit/">short entry</a> on balancing life, work, and relationships. Her take is that it's not balance that's i

Test Center Tracker: Wi-Fi and VOIP are ready to mesh

Seamless wireless: Enterprise Windows columnist Oliver Rist is taking a much-needed break from Vista and donning his prognostication cap. His prediction for this year: Wi-Fi and VOIP are going to converge in a big way. The bad news is, we likely won&

Ajax on Rails

On&nbsp;January 24, I discussed a not-very-focused book on Ajax, and mentioned its diversion to a discussion of Rails: "Near the end of the journey, we detour to Ruby on Rails, and finally get to its Ajax support; I'm not completely su

Rules Engines and SOA

As we move further down the learning curve with SOA, we are refining the "vision" of SOA, and defining details around the core technologies that make sense as we go. A good example of this are data abstraction/services layers, such as those

Dell’s dicey fortune

Investors and the SEC are going after Dell, but it shouldn’t have to take the rap alone

Wi-Fi and VOIP near full convergence

Don't expect revolutionary apps or cellular-provider cooperation anytime soon, though

3GSM Conference: Business imperatives are slowing down mobile advances

News coming out of the huge 3GSM conference in Barcelona is not that good for mobile business users. As predicted here, Reality Check, only yesterday mobile VoIP [Voice over IP] supported by the current cellular carrier network is not going to happen

InfoWorld LIVE! #4: Data Centers Here & Now

Just finished the 4th episode of InfoWorld LIVE! our pilot Internet Radio program (and, yes, sponsor slots are still open). This week, we're talking data centers. Big, bad, but still beautiful. Building them is changing, and not just the 'h

IBM brings a big tape to a small library

Would you expect to see a tape drive such as the IBM TS1120 that sports native dual 4G FC ports, uncompressed cartridge capacity up to 500 GB and a transfer rate of up to 100 MB/sec (without compression tricks) to become available on other than a mam