Reviews

Running agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AgentCore delivers an enterprise-grade infrastructure and operations layer for deploying and managing AI agents at scale, with a few wrinkles.

By Martin Heller

Mar 12, 202620 mins

Amazon Web ServicesGenerative AIIaaS

Microsoft .Net Core review: Finally ready for prime time

All Microsoft’s next-gen development stack needed was adequate tooling, APIs, libraries, and documentation. They’re here at last

By Matthew Mombrea

Apr 26, 2017 11 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Web Development

NoSQL grudge match: MongoDB vs. Couchbase Server

Which document database? From ease of installation and backup flexibility to index design and query capabilities, a few key differences point the way

By Jonathan Freeman

Apr 20, 2017 16 mins

Databases Software Development Technology Industry

Review: Samsung Galaxy S8 fails the likability test

The big-screen Android smartphone is too slick for its own good, with poor design decisions that render it unnecessarily hard to use

By Galen Gruman

Apr 18, 2017 7 mins

Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Review: Samsung Dex nearly nails smartphone-as-desktop

Difficult setup and hardware issues mar an otherwise successful marriage of a smartphone to the traditional desktop experience

By Galen Gruman

Apr 18, 2017 9 mins

Samsung Electronics Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Review: VMM 2016 stiffs Azure, older Hyper-V

System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager shines for Windows Server 2016, but does little for prior versions of Hyper-V

By Brien Posey

Apr 17, 2017 7 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V: More secure, but not faster

Hyper-V 2016 tightens VM security and eases management, but seems to have lost a step

By Brien Posey

Apr 12, 2017 12 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Linux Mint 18.1: Mostly smooth, but some sharp edges

The latest version of Ubuntu-based operating system offers long-term support

By Tom Henderson

Apr 10, 2017 6 mins

Open Source Software Development

Backup software features that IT managers love and hate

Systems administrators in the IT Central Station community identify the best, and worst, features of backup software from HPE, Veeam and Altaro.

By IT Central Station

Apr 5, 2017 5 mins

Data Management Security

Review: Amazon QuickSight covers the BI basics

A promising data analysis tool in the cloud, QuickSight is easy to use but limited in terms of visualization types

By Martin Heller

Apr 5, 2017 12 mins

Analytics Business Intelligence Data Visualization

Review: Windows 10 Creators Update is worth waiting for

In fact, wait as long as Microsoft will let you, since this is mostly a minor upgrade

By Woody Leonhard

Mar 29, 2017 12 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Review: VMware vSphere gets much-needed facelift

vSphere 6.5 is easy to install, sports a new VM management console, and takes a stab at Docker integration

By Brendan Allen

Mar 27, 2017 15 mins

Software Development

iPad smackdown: Microsoft Office vs. Apple iWork vs. Google G Suite

Your iPad can largely function like a laptop with two of the three main office productivity suites

By Galen Gruman

Mar 27, 2017 22 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Review: SaltStack shifts devops into high gear

SaltStack Enterprise 5.0 draws on high-speed messaging for superior scalability and control, but the web UI is still catching up

By Adam Bertram

Mar 22, 2017 15 mins

Careers Devops Technology Industry

Smackdown: Office 365 vs. G Suite management

Users don't directly see these capabilities, but they are core to managing your productivity and collaboration platform

By Galen Gruman

Mar 16, 2017 7 mins

Careers Security Small and Medium Business

Review: MongoDB learns cool new tricks

With useful graph search capabilities and important stability improvements, MongoDB 3.4 is a no-brainer upgrade

By Jonathan Freeman

Mar 15, 2017 10 mins

Databases Software Development

Review: Microsoft Teams almost as bad as its beta

Despite the beta feedback, Microsoft cuts corners on user interface, functionality, and cross-platform support. When will it learn?

By Galen Gruman

Mar 14, 2017 13 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Review: QNAP TVS-882T NAS piles on the features

With a built-in hypervisor, countless add-ons, and even a remote control, this ‘storage’ server might solve some problems you didn’t know you had

By Paul Venezia

Mar 9, 2017 7 mins

Data Management Technology Industry

Smackdown: Office 365 vs. G Suite collaboration

Google’s G Suite has long mastered document collaboration. But now Microsoft Office has come on strong. Is it enough?

By Galen Gruman

Mar 8, 2017 18 mins

Cloud Computing Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

13 reasons not to use Chrome

Chrome may be the world’s most popular browser, but it isn’t necessarily the best one

By Peter Wayner

Mar 2, 2017 8 mins

Software Development Technology Industry

Review: Visual Studio 2017 is the best ever

Visual Studio 2017 is not only smaller and faster, but armed for many more use cases than previous versions

By Martin Heller

Mar 1, 2017 19 mins

Mobile Development Small and Medium Business Web Development

The best Go language IDEs and editors

Among dozens of options for developing Go programs, Gogland, Visual Studio Code, and Cloud9 rise to the top

By Martin Heller

Feb 22, 2017 10 mins

Development Tools Golang Open Source

The best Go language IDEs and editors

Among dozens of options for developing Go programs, Gogland, Visual Studio Code, and Cloud9 rise to the top

By Martin Heller

Feb 22, 2017 10 mins

Development Tools Golang Open Source

5 open source security tools too good to ignore

Look to these clever open source tools to keep secrets out of source code, identify malicious files, block malicious processes, and keep endpoints safe

By Fahmida Rashid

Feb 21, 2017 9 mins

Open Source Security

5 open source security tools too good to ignore

Don't miss out on the growing number of freely available tools for protecting your networks, hosts, and data

By Fahmida Rashid

Feb 21, 2017 9 mins

Development Tools Open Source Security

Smackdown: Office 365 vs. G Suite productivity

Can you really use Google’s G Suite instead of Microsoft Office? Here's how they compare on Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS

By Galen Gruman

Feb 15, 2017 19 mins

Cloud Computing Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Hands-on: Microsoft Teams fails in its debut

Once again, Microsoft cuts corners on user interface, functionality, and cross-platform support. Will it ever learn?

By Galen Gruman

Feb 14, 2017 12 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development Technology Industry

Review: Microsoft’s Nano Server offers mega advantages

Microsoft’s stripped-down Windows Server 2016 deployment option reduces the ops burden, but supports only a limited number of server roles

By Brien Posey

Feb 8, 2017 7 mins

Cloud Computing Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Hidden gems: 14 Python libraries too good to overlook

Parsing, image processing, web crawling, GUI creation — these little-known Python libraries have you covered

By Serdar Yegulalp

Feb 7, 2017 10 mins

Development Tools Software Development

First look: LibreOffice 5.3 takes a cue from Microsoft Office’s ribbon

But LibreOffice's new MUFFIN UI is opt-in and clearly still a work in progress

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jan 30, 2017 4 mins

Open Source Software Development

Cloud monitoring: Users review 5 top tools

We asked system administrators to identify the best and worst features of five leading software suites for cloud monitoring

By IT Central Sta

Jan 30, 2017 8 mins

Careers Cloud Computing

InfoWorld’s 2017 Technology of the Year Award winners

InfoWorld editors and reviewers pick the year's best hardware, software, development tools, and cloud services

By InfoWorld Staff

Jan 25, 2017 43 mins

Development Tools Open Source Technology Industry

Technology of the Year 2017: The best hardware, software, and cloud services

InfoWorld's 2017 Technology of the Year Award winners recognize the best tools and technologies for developers, IT pros, and businesses

By Doug Dineley

Jan 25, 2017 3 mins

Analytics Open Source Technology Industry

Review: Scikit-learn shines for simpler machine learning

Well-tended Python framework offers wide selection of robust algorithms, but no deep learning

By Martin Heller

Jan 18, 2017 8 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Open Source

Review: DigitalOcean keeps the cloud simple

With a great UI, fast machines, low prices, and useful guides, DigitalOcean is an excellent choice for developers

By Peter Wayner

Jan 11, 2017 8 mins

Cloud Computing IaaS

Review: Caffe deep learning conquers image classification

Caffe offers a strong brew for image processing, but the project shows signs of stalling

By Martin Heller

Jan 4, 2017 9 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing

Review: Microsoft Windows Defender comes up short

Windows 10 antivirus tool works well for consumer devices, but management quirks limit its enterprise usefulness.

By David Strom

Jan 3, 2017 8 mins

Security Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

Face-off: Oracle vs. HPE for data warehousing

Considering a data warehouse system? Download this free report for side-by-side comparisons of rival products from Oracle and HP Enterprise, based on reviews written by enterprise users of the products

By Computerworld Staff

Jan 3, 2017 1 min

Analytics Software Development Technology Industry

5 rock-solid Linux distros for developers

Developers want power, flexibility, stability, and ease, and these Linux distributions have it all

By Serdar Yegulalp

Dec 21, 2016 14 mins

Development Tools Software Development

5 rock-solid Linux distros for developers

Developers want power, flexibility, stability, and ease, and these Linux distributions have it all

By Serdar Yegulalp

Dec 21, 2016 14 mins

Development Tools Open Source Software Development

MXNet review: Amazon’s scalable deep learning

Amazon’s favorite deep learning framework scales across multiple GPUs and hosts, but it's rough around the edges

By Martin Heller

Dec 14, 2016 12 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Open Source

Review: Microsoft Teams tries to do Slack one better

Microsoft is now offering the beta of Teams, its new group communications tool, which promises a new level of productivity for Office

By Preston Gralla and Gabe Gralla

Dec 13, 2016 18 mins

Microsoft Office Small and Medium Business Software Development

IBM MaaS360 delivers powerful, easy-to-use mobility management

The Maas360 implementation, although suffering from a dizzying array of options, does a very respectable job with only a minimum of rough edges

By Tom Henderson

Dec 12, 2016 10 mins

Small and Medium Business Technology Industry

8 free virtual appliances you’ll love

These prebuilt LAMP, MEAN, ELK, WordPress, and other handy stacks amount to gain without pain for developers and admins

By Paul Ferrill

Dec 7, 2016 11 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development Technology Industry

4 top disaster recovery packages compared

System administrators identify the best features — and what’s missing — in four leading software suites for disaster recovery

By IT Central Station

Dec 6, 2016 6 mins

Security Technology Industry

Microsoft Word vs. Google Docs: Which works better for business?

Has Docs caught up to Word as an enterprise productivity application? We compare the two word processors to see which wins in today's online environment

By Preston Gralla and Gabe Gralla

Dec 6, 2016 38 mins

Software Development Technology Industry

Review: GitLab rocks version control

Thanks to a solid foundation and delightful extras, this open source VCS is a serious contender

By Jonathan Freeman

Nov 30, 2016 13 mins

Development Tools Open Source Small and Medium Business

Review: GitLab rocks version control

Thanks to a solid foundation and delightful extras, this open source VCS is a serious contender

By Jonathan Freeman

Nov 30, 2016 13 mins

Development Tools Open Source Software Development

First look: Visual Studio for Mac is here at last, almost

Xamarin-inspired IDE will allow C# and F# programmers to develop for iOS, Mac, and Android on a single machine, but is currently limited

By Martin Heller

Nov 23, 2016 11 mins

Mobile Development Software Development Technology Industry

Review: Spark lights up machine learning

Spark ML brings efficient machine learning to large compute clusters and combines with TensorFlow for deep learning

By Martin Heller

Nov 16, 2016 9 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Open Source

IT users review 6 software test management tools

Developers use test management tools — from vendors such as HPE, Microsoft, and IBM — to manage their software quality-assurance programs, and identify the best and worst features

By IT Central Station

Nov 14, 2016 8 mins

Software Development