Opinion

Sarbanes-Oxley will require a message-storage rethink

Regulatory compliance calls for better storage and retrieval of e-mail and other electronic messaging

IT salaries of 2004 

Ditch the tourniquets. The bleeding may have finally stopped

2004 InfoWorld Compensation Survey: What are you worth?

Hidden among drab statistics about the IT economy and salaries in the last 12 months, key signs point to some encouraging indicators

Brace your budget for Microsoft’s next move

Redmond has ambitious plans for its OS lines; keeping up won't come cheaply

In search of standards

The lack of interchange standards in the security industry hurts everyone

Sun adds management capabilities to Java Desktop System

Something for nothing

Dear Bob … When you work really hard on something, you have "pride in your craft" as well as a natural desire to see the end result of the whole project appear to best advantage when shipped. How can you keep from being prevaile

Have your people call my people

Dear Bob … Why do you suppose a middle manager would ask a subordinate to tell me to call her? I've always wondered why the middle manager doesn't just pick up the phone and call me herself. The first time this happened was in t

Integrating the unintegrated

Dear Bob … We are an organization constructed out of recent acquisitions — more than a half dozen large modules maintained by geographically and organizationally dispersed teams. The product manager's official goal is appli

A BlackBerry by any other name

No matter who makes your phone or PDA, it’s going to be a BlackBerry

Open source and visible source

Getting the benefits of open source and commercial software in one solution

Capturing user experience closes the feedback loop

Portable labs offer media-rich developer tools to tap ‘beginner’s mind’

VoIP vendor directory

Here’s where to turn when selecting a VoIP provider. Many of these vendors will be familiar, since most also sell legacy phone systems

Are you ready for VoIP?

Read this before implementing VoIP in your enterprise

Wearables have you dressed for success

Wearable PCs coupled with wireless networking show how new technology can breathe life into old business processes

The VoIP surge

How IP telephony is taking the enterprise by storm 

VoIP: the promise and the pain

Merging the phone system into the enterprise network makes perfect sense. But is it worth the investment?

Art and science of usability analysis

Interactive systems reach to the core of the user environment

Enterprise VoIP glossary

Voice over IP has a language all its own. Here are some of the common terms you’ll run into when evaluating a VoIP system

Making VoIP secure

When voice and data share the same network, extra measures must be taken to keep voice secure

Spam in the can

New York spammer gets up to seven years in prison after felony spamming — the start of a new trend?

Not-so-quick-and-dirty patch management

Priced affordably at zero dollars, Microsoft Software Update Services is primo pick for patching smaller networks

Sun rises on utility computing

Amid a rush of announcements, Sun sets the stage for its storage line

Systinet offers guaranteed delivery for SOAP messages

Cost accounting or trust?

Dear Bob … Do you have any ideas on how to sell infrastructure effectively? I especially have a difficult time fabricating (seems that way sometimes!) possible savings. I like to imagine that President Eisenhower had similar diff

Governance doesn’t solve everything

Recently, I've been in a bunch of conversations revolving around the subject of IT governance. It is, it appears, the latest solution-to-all-of-our-problems. Except it isn't. Governance is defined in the dictionary as a synonym for

Apple: Fit for IT, less fit for print

Coverage of the Mac platform cycles in and out of favor at InfoWorld, as it does in other IT publications. For the time being, it's either out or on its way out. I understand and respect that; all magazines have to change to meet the desires of

Tip o’the week

In the too-obvious-to-say (TOTS) department: Major premise: You can't make smart decisions if you don't know what's going on. Minor premise: You can't know what's going on by remote control – you have to see things f

Tablets, take two

After moderate success in verticals, Microsoft’s Tablet PC goes after the general market — again

Giving business wings

For PonyExpress delivery service, wireless opened up a world of opportunities

Network attached storage scales up

New technologies improve upon network attached storage, blurring the line between NAS and SAN

May the best tech win

BEA and Microsoft struggle to explain the merits of some slick technology

The long road to Longhorn

Microsoft is assigning developers more homework than ever

Preview: Visual Studio 2005

Will Visual Studio 2005 and the just-announced Visual Studio Team rekindle developers' passion for Windows?

Optical illusions

How we look at data determines what we can do with it

SAN breaks out of the datacenter

Technological improvements are driving down the cost of Fibre Channel hardware, placing SANs in reach of small to midsize businesses and departments

Research Report: Enterprise storage

Our survey of over 600 InfoWorld readers reveals conservative spending patterns and an obsession with disaster recovery

The right (wireless) stuff

With new encryption technology, you can have secure communications nearly anywhere on land or sea

Murder by service, 1-2-3

Windows XP has a bunch of performance-draining services that warrant eradication from end-user systems

Battling for affordable transport

SANs for small to midsized businesses open up new cost-containing drive technologies, but it's hard to kick the FC transport habit

HP Delivers Virtual Desktops

Blade PCs offer centrally managed workstations with easy recovery from hardware failure

Product Previews

Brownian motion

Dear Bob … I was happy to read your advice about two different ways to view career development – especially the idea that one's career can be seen as a series of assignments.  I realized that that is the tack I've been taking, b

Where to find the best advice

Dear Bob, I was hired to be the CIO/CTO of a small company that provides nationwide services (contract support – not IT; the industry doesn't matter). For the first year, I worked mostly in the area for which I was hired, but when the company r

One key to success

Tip o'the week: As an executive, you should have a 90-day plan. No matter how visionary your strategic goals, no matter how broad or deep the issue you're contending with, develop a way of making things happen that translate to something yo

N+I has bounced back, and its network operating center is a site to behold

Built from the ground up for the show, the N+I eNet boasts the best of the network world's best

The visible SAN from Apple

Xsan’s $999 per server SAN file system looks good on paper. Now what’s a SAN file system?

Supply chain by numbers

Complex mathematics helps business managers think outside the box

Dell takes heat, Feds cheat

Flaming servers served here

This year’s heroes of IT

We pay tribute to the innovators whose work is transforming the industry