Opinion

Sabio Does SMB Storage With a Few Hiccups

(This review was done by Brandon Sutherlin of the ANCL Lab, so be nice people — Oliver) By Brandon Sutherlin Sabio's CM-4 storage appliance is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. But while it does its job as a data storage appliance, ot

By Oliver Rist

Oct 4, 2006 5 mins

Preview: Egenera BladeFrame EX looks sharp

After a rather nice fall drive to Egenera's headquarters in Marlboro Mass. (nice, with the exception of Rt 495, which is never nice, yet always a uniquely Massachusetts experience), I spent the day in their labs taking a good look at the new Bl

By Paul Venezia

oreilly.com — Online Catalog: CSS: The Missing Manual

  I'm a network geek and my website has never really caught up with what I'm really doing. So when I got a website template built for  me, I found a baffling array of HTML code in the artist's template. Out of self de

By Brian Chee

The ROI of Benchmarking

I've gotten a lot of emails since Part 3 of the recruiter series, so while I’m sifting through them, I thought I’d change the topic real quick to something else that’s just as important as bashing recruiters. I was just on the

Oct 4, 2006 9 mins

Building relationship and negotiating skills

Dear Bob …So this is the million-dollar question:  How do people <i>learn</i> the skill set required for effective relationship management and contract negotiation?Is it just time and experience in the workforce

By Bob Lewis

Nexaweb offers framework for AJAX, Java

Nexaweb Technologies at the AJAXWorld Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, Calif. this week unveiled Nexaweb UCF (Universal Client Framework), giving developers the flexibility of using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) or Java for Web applicatio

Oct 4, 2006 1 min

Information vs. Services…Know the Differences

Services are very different than points of information production or consumption because they denote behavior. Indeed, they are application functions that you may extend from one application to another by leveraging some type of service delivery stan

By Dave Linthicum

Oct 4, 2006 1 min

Test Center Tracker: Amazon’s SOA experiment

Amazon's SOA play: InfoWorld Lead Analyst Jon Udell looks at Amazon's recently announced FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon), which will make Amazon's warehouse, its customer service, and its pick, pack, and ship machinery available to sellers

By Ted Samson

Evolving Amazon’s services into products

Developing internal Web services is easy; the hard part is bringing them to market

By Jon Udell

IT’s virtual asset economy

Pooled assets make sense, but they still must be allocated fairly

By Tom Yager

Careers Security Technology Industry

VMware Makes Image Conversion Easier

As virtualization and server consolidation continue to catch on in the data center, companies continue to search for ways to migrate their physical servers into virtual machines. Since VMware is currently the global leader in the server virtualizatio

Google launches search API

Google on Tuesday launched Google AJAX Search API 1.0, enabling developers and publishers to add a Google search box to their site or build Web applications on top of Google's offerings. The API was unveiled at the AJAXWorld Conference & Exp

Oct 3, 2006 1 min

Spring framework released

The Spring 2.0 Java framework was released Tuesday, with such a great user reception that the download site has been crashing, according to a representative of Interface21, which has guided the project. The company is working to mend the situation. A

Oct 3, 2006 1 min

Service Design and Step 11 and 12 of my 12 Steps to SOA

Service Design and Step 11 and 12 of my 12 Steps to SOA Download file…

By Dave Linthicum

Oct 3, 2006 1 min

Software Development Technology Industry

An IT soap opera: Passion, programming don’t mix

Careers are bound to suffer when dirty dealings enter the workplace

By InfoWorld Anonymous

Oct 3, 2006 3 mins

Avamar Announces Efficient Backup and Restore for VMware

Avamar Technologies, provider of enterprise data protection software, announced that it was adding support for VMware. They hope to offer a solution to eliminate the challenges that customers face today around quickly and efficiently backing up and r

Oct 3, 2006 2 mins

VMware’s VI3 Upgraded with new Features

VMware announced today the first official minor dot release to its VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) product released back in June of this year. The updated release brings VMware ESX Server to 3.0.1 and VMware VirtualCenter to 2.0.1. Both updates are ava

MuleSource trots out ESB upgrade

MuleSource on Tuesday is releasing version 1.3 of Mule, which is an open source enterprise service bus for integration projects. Mule features a simplified development model that has prompted its use in many enterprise integration scenarios, MuleSour

Oct 2, 2006 1 min

An ethical question about whistleblowing

Dear Bob …Years ago I worked as a junior employee for a public agency. One of the staff in another office completed an environmental analysis of a complex land use issue. The analyst was subsequently directed to change his conclusion and to delete

By Bob Lewis

Are IT Recruiters Worthless? (Part 3)

You know, these hot topics are the ones I really love because they get everything all stirred up. And at the very least people get to talking. I've had a lot of comments about something I said in the first installment, and I'd like to clari

Oct 2, 2006 9 mins

JetBrains upgrades Java IDE

JetBrains on Monday is announcing the release of its IntelliJ Idea 6.0 Java IDE, which expands support for Java standards. Highlighted are enhanced Java Enterprise Edition capabilities including JSP (JavaServer Pages) Web content development improvem

Oct 2, 2006 2 mins

Sowing the seeds of open source storage

Evolving technologies like iSCSI and 10-Gig could lead to a new crop of competitors to proprietary storage

By Neil McAllister

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

IPod LCDs: Made to Be Broken?

One has to wonder if a manufacturer ever has to honor its warranty when a device develops a cracked LCD screen. Can't the company always, as we've often seen, just dismiss the claim by presuming the customer must have been at fault? That&#0

By Ed Foster

Robot Warranty is Automatically Truncated

When you purchase a three-year extended warranty on a product, you might assume that means you're covered for three years. But it may not always work quite that way, as one reader discovered with an extended warranty he purchased from Sharper Im

By Ed Foster

A License to Gripe

From the licensing labyrinth to laptop lamentations, from anti-piracy antics to pathetically poor products, readers have plenty to gripe about these days. What's your beef, about these or other IT-related topics? Let's chat about it. On Wed

By Ed Foster

Oct 2, 2006 1 min

Atempo Announces VMware Support in Time Navigator

Atempo, Inc., provider of data protection and storage security for trusted information lifecycle management (ILM), announced a new release of its Time Navigator (4.1) product. Time Navigator is a highly scalable data protection and archiving solution

Oct 1, 2006 2 mins

Jaluna Reintroduces Itself as VirtualLogix

Real-time virtualization software company, Jaluna, Inc., has completed a re-branding of its corporate identity and announced an extensive change to its product strategy. The company's new name, VirtualLogix, hopes to better reflect the company&#

Oct 1, 2006 2 mins

Webinar: The New Economics of Virtualization

Intel and Virtual Iron have teamed up to provide this 1 hour WebEx webinar on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at 10:00 am CDT (GMT -5:00, Chicago). Listen as Jim Fister from Intel and Mike Grandinetti from Virtual Iron talk about emerging virtualization sol

Oct 1, 2006 1 min

A prayer for my modem

So after years of diligent service for several masters, my sister's iBook G3 800 finally died. It was quick and painful. I ordered her a new MacBook with a 100GB disk and 1GB of RAM, and it became the first x86 Mac I've used to date (I&#039

By Paul Venezia

Sep 30, 2006 1 min

Rebuilding The State

See? It's what plenty of folks have been saying all along… at least when it comes to entertainment, the viewer does actually know what they want. I just downloaded the entire first season of The State, the hysterical sketch comedy show that or

By Paul Venezia

Sep 30, 2006 3 mins

Voltaire Announces GridVision Enterprise Software

Voltaire, a provider of grid backbone solutions, announced a new software solution for the management and automation of dynamic Grid computing environments in the data center. The software enables true automation of repetitive IT tasks associated wit

Sep 30, 2006 2 mins

Qlusters Announces openQRM Pro

Qlusters, a provider of open source data center provisioning and management software for both physical and virtual environments, recently announced the availability of openQRM Pro. The offering allows users to request hardware and software resources

Sep 30, 2006 3 mins

IBM Launched New Tape Virtualization Solution

IBM recently announced the next generation of tape virtualization solutions as they introduced the IBM System Storage TS7700 Virtualization Engine. It's a mainframe virtual-tape offering that is designed to improve tape processing while attempti

Sep 30, 2006 1 min

Novell Announces Intel VT Support for Virtualization Solution

Novell announced the industry's first enterprise Linux-based virtualization solution built on Xen and optimized for Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel-VT). SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell running on Dual-Core Intel Xeon platforms

Sep 30, 2006 2 mins

moka5 Opens Beta Testing of LivePC

moka5 announced that it was launching a public beta program for its LivePC product which had previously been tested through an invitation-only process. Rather than following the traditional use of virtualization technology, moka5 LivePC instead moves

Sep 30, 2006 2 mins

Preview: WebAssist eases Dreamweaver e-commerce dev

You might think that sophisticated e-stores are back-ended by elaborate applications like Microsoft's Commerce Server. While that's true in some cases, there are about 85,000 developers building great e-commerce sites with Adobe Dreamweave

By Mike Heck

Sep 29, 2006 2 mins

SIP-based VoIP devices proliferating

SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) continues to gain traction among hardware and software vendors in the VoIP (voice over IP) industry. This week Codima Technologies, designers of network management tools, announced that it has extended the platform s

By Ephraim Schwartz

Sep 29, 2006 1 min

Network Security Security Technology Industry

IT conspiracy theories

Put on your tinfoil hats: Utilities, Google, and Sun may have secret master plans

By David Margulius

Sep 29, 2006 3 mins

Should Microsoft be in the anti-malware business?

New malware-fighting tools raise debate about making profit from holes in your own products

By Roger Grimes

Sep 29, 2006 6 mins

Malware Security

Are IT Recruiters Worthless (Part 2)

A couple of you left comments after my last article on this topic, and you were just amazed that I would dare show up to an interview in sweats. You have to understand a couple things. First of all, we’re talking about an 8am meeting 40 miles a

Sep 29, 2006 5 mins

Virtual Security served with virtual lunch

Somehow I missed the free lunch, but I still got my fill at the Virtual Security Roundtable hosted by Intel and Symantec yesterday at Intel Developer Forum. The free sandwich was designed to lure journalists into learning about the dire threat of &qu

By Doug Dineley

Sep 28, 2006 2 mins

InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum 2006 Day 2

For those of you in attendance, I hope you were able to make it to both days of the forum. Day 1 offered a lot of insight into the how and why of virtualization. And day 2 looked to be ready to capitalize on that momentum and continue to run the cour

Sep 28, 2006 4 mins

Test Center Tracker: Recapping the Virtualization Executive Forum

Like being there… virtually: The first-ever InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum took place in New York this week, and if you missed it, David Marshall over at the Virtualization Report blog has a nifty recap. Watch this blog and the Virtualiza

By Stephanie McLoughlin

Sep 28, 2006 1 min

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

10 rules for OS upgrades

With Windows Vista nearly upon us, it's time to devise a deployment plan

By Oliver Rist

Sep 28, 2006 3 mins

Say hello to AMANDA, a new open source storage app

Startup Zmanda to support backup applications for MySQL databases

By Mario Apicella

Sep 28, 2006 4 mins

Data Management

InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum 2006 Day 1

For those of you who were unable to attend the InfoWorld Virtualization Executive Forum 2006 event that took place on Monday and Tuesday of this week, you missed a really great time! Venue The Roosevelt Hotel seemed to be a fantastic venue for the fi

Sep 27, 2006 6 mins

Are IT Recruiters Worthless (Part 1)

This is a very timely topic for me for a couple reasons. First, since I changed jobs this year, I dealt with recruiters a lot, and second, there was a comment posted today that responded to another comment where the guy said recruiters were worthless

Sep 27, 2006 7 mins

US Government…SOA to the Rescue?

In this announcement the "Merlin Federal SOA Coalition," a consortium of SOA solution providers (aka, product vendors), announced the results of its "SOA What? – Who and What is Driving SOA Adoption in the Federal Government?" stu

By Dave Linthicum

Sep 27, 2006 1 min

Outing Cruella de Ville

Dear Bob …I have been thrust, willy-nilly, into a kind of business-consultant role for a large organization. I know many of the staff in this organization at various levels. I am on a team of employees and other outside people who are working on a

By Bob Lewis

Sep 27, 2006 5 mins