Opinion

Can SDN Make Optical More Accessible?

The Church of Zuckerberg, now welcoming converts and creators

O come ye Facebook faithful, Cloud Starchaser wants to spread the good word of Saint Mark of Palo Alto. Do you have what it takes to save humanity?

Preparing for the B2C-enterprise revolution: My New Year’s enterprise tech resolution

My resolution is to prepare my team for what will be a massive transformation of software services and infrastructure in the enterprise.

The best smartphones and tablets of 2014

Sure, there were lot of mobile flops this year, but that makes these winners even sweeter

Strike while it’s hot: Create your own cloud career opportunities

The cloud is a great space for more money and new challenges, but you may need to be creative to get in on the action

Geeks give back: Be an open source tester

Want an open source project to be the best it can be? Volunteer your time and become a tester

Are your applications API-ly working together?

Application architectures keep evolving. APIs and microservices are the latest style and make applications “API-ly” work together

Hey Microsoft, why limit Exchange Online filtering services?

A warning to never daisy-chain services is bad advice meant to avoid a Microsoft product's weakness; there are better options you can use

Don’t make Google the whipping boy for others’ failings

Sometimes Google does do evil, but blaming it for the disconnect between the law and the Web is a huge mistake

Hands on: Build a Storm analytics solution

Storm lets you create real-time analytics for every conceivable need. Here's a tasty example using Twitter data and source code hosted on GitHub

Containers: The new building blocks for apps

Moving to containers is in demand and is in tune with the devops trend toward delivering microservices

Docker’s tremendous upside could upset some enterprises

Docker is straightforward to adopt and solves key problems — and could trip up your cloud app migration strategy

Make sure your data is housebroken

You'd never come home with a dirty, pest-infested and untrained puppy you randomly pick in the street. So why would you bring into your systems unclean, ungoverned data of dubious origin?

Get started with FreeBSD: A brief intro for Linux users

If you've never tried FreeBSD, take a few minutes now — you might be surprised

MacBook to Chromebook: No regrets

Two years on, switching from a MacBook Pro to a Chromebook was the right answer for this geek. Read on for hints and tips

Peering into the future of software development

InfoWorld introduces a new blog and a new downloadable guide to cover the fastest-moving area of enterprise tech

Bring on our robo-lords; they can’t be worse than us

With all due respect to Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk, the coming AI aristocracy might not be so bad

Does SDN Simplify Or Complicate Network Management?

Should SDN Admins Worry About Security?

Your cell phone number: To give or not to give

More and more companies assume your phone is your second-factor authentication, raising potential for abuse

More enterprises are building their own private clouds

Generic offerings, specialized needs, and a desire to own one's destiny are shifting IT away from third-party private clouds

Structured Connectivity Bolsters Next-Gen SAN Performance and Reliability

MongoDB gets its first native analytics tool

SlamData adds its own extensions to the SQL language, enabling analysts to query MongoDB directly, without conversion to an RDBMS or Hadoop database

Real innovation, not false bravado, disrupts markets

From cable TV to taxi cabs, innovative disruption is shaking up markets and changing people’s lives

Today’s multiheaded malware needs a multipronged solution

By analyzing and predicting process behavior, a new approach to endpoint protection overcomes the limitations of traditional AV detection and sandboxing

In threat assessment, the ‘who’ matters

Knowing who could come after you helps you prepare the appropriate defenses and response

CNTL + ALT + Defeat?!? The anatomy of government hacking

A comprehensive look at the scope and rationale behind the surge in hacking afflicting government IT services

We all will be coders: Don’t fear the future of software development

Software development is unrecognizable from what it was 20 years ago, and in 10 years it will be completely different again.

We all will be coders: Don’t fear the future of software development

Code savvy users will demand a customized user experience like never before

Welcome to the next wave of enterprise computing

Software-defined everything, a fresh stack of cloud-based technologies, and a new view of enterprise architecture are transforming business technology

Think different: 5 cool geek gift ideas

Good for the holidays or any time of year, these off-the-beaten-path items will stand out

Break free or be broken: Escape from management hell

One by one, the developers slip away at a company where the execs mismanage employees, funds, and customer relationships

IT leaders: pitchers or catchers?

In pro baseball, the catcher signals the pitcher how to throw the ball. Similarly, IT needs to inspire lines of business to make the right choices, or they will be left to deal with the curveballs sent their way.

Ho ho no! While you shop this season, beacons will spam you

Marketers have found a new channel to abuse, but it doesn't have to be this way

No, you can’t buy a cloud at Best Buy

Cloud computing is confusing enough, without personal NAS providers muddying the waters

Could regulatory compliance be an IT competency?

Even if you feel that we have far too many regulations, there’s something to the idea that compliance should be done well

The beginning of the end of the private mail server

Thanks to overzealous filtering by mail relays, the small mail server is becoming an endangered species

A shadowy consortium opposes your Internet privacy

A cabal of communications companies wants to kill a new Internet standard that will make your Web experience faster and safer

Fake clouds: The last gasp of client-server

You call that a cloud? I do not think that word means what you think it means

Fibre Channel Tutorial – The Basics

Open standards face an uphill climb in the cloud

Despite initial enthusiasm for open technologies, enterprises are favoring proprietary big-name cloud providers

Keep out hijackers: Secure your app store dev account

Stolen credentials are blamed for a fraudulent App Store offering — and could easily have been prevented

Breaking free from real-time data

Let’s break free from the fallacy of real-time data when there's actually a much better, and clearer concept: right-time data.

Storm or Spark: Choose your real-time weapon

Storm and Spark are two open source projects that are transforming real-time business intelligence, but which one is right for your project?

Is SDN Real? You Bet It Is

Should SDN Start Over Again?

When iPhones fly? Don’t put it past Apple

You can have your bigger screens and better battery life — Apple is too busy taking future iPhones to the skies

The 5 themes you hear in an Azure outage

Whether it brings knee-jerk outrage or Manic Pixie Dream Girl positive spin, the truth is that the cloud is still maturing

Peeling back the layers of the smarter city

What's the key to making cities smarter? Extend data-driven analytic infrastructure across every aspect of urban existence

Storm or Spark: Choose your real-time weapon

Real-time business intelligence is going mainstream, thanks in part to the Storm and Spark open source projects. Here's how to choose between them