INFOWORLD BLOGS
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- Mario Apicella:
Storage Adviser
- Tony Bishop:
The Real-Time Enterprise
- J. Peter Bruzzese:
Enterprise Windows
- Brian Chee:
Geeks in Paradise
- Robert X. Cringely:
Notes From the Field
- Ed Foster:
The Gripe Line
- Curtis Franklin:
SMB IT
- Roger A. Grimes:
Security Adviser
- Martin Heller:
Strategic Developer
- Randall C. Kennedy:
Enterprise Desktop
- Eric Knorr:
Editor's Blog
- Bob Lewis:
Advice Line
- David Linthicum:
Real World SOA
- Neil McAllister:
Fatal Exception
- Sean McCown:
Database Underground
- David Marshall:
Virtualization Report
- Rodrigues & Urlocker:
Open Sources
- Ted Samson:
Sustainable IT
- Ephraim Schwartz:
Reality Check
- Tom Sullivan:
InfoWorld Daily
- Bill Snyder:
Tech's Bottom Line
- Paul Venezia:
The Deep End
- Lena West:
Social Tech
- Jon Williams:
New York CTO
- Tom Yager:
Ahead of the Curve
- Tom Yager:
Enterprise Mac
- Mario Apicella:
BLOGROLL
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- Rodrigues & Urlocker, Open Sources
- Questioning Josh Berkus on how to encourage a community
- Posted: May 9, 2008 10:40 a.m.
- Like Zack, I too enjoyed Josh Berkus' tongue in cheek session on how to destroy a community. Josh provided an anti-list for those who would like to encourage a community as follows: Familiar tools Discourage poisonous people Document everything Accessible... more
- Curtis Franklin, SMB IT
- Critical SMB Tools: what could you not work without?
- Posted: May 9, 2008 9:10 a.m.
- I've seen a lot of products and services in the last couple of weeks, and it's started me thinking about the tools that make a real difference in the way I work -- the tools I would really have trouble doing without. Not surprisingly, most of my critical... more
- Latest Emerging Enterprise Podcast
- 05/09/08
- I've seen a lot of products and services in the last couple of weeks, and it's started me thinking about the tools that make a real difference in the way I work -- the tools I would really have trouble...
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- Tom Sullivan, InfoWorld Daily
- The sweetest wireless LAN system
- Posted: May 9, 2008 8:44 a.m.
- If you work at a smaller business, you'll know it hasn't been easy to find a small, secure, managed wireless network that's also easy to deploy and administer. Look no further. The Test Center's Curtis Franklin Jr. reviews Ruckus Wireless' ZoneFlex... more
- Latest InfoWorld Daily Podcast
- 05/09/08
- If you work at a smaller business, you'll know it hasn't been easy to find a small, secure, managed wireless network that's also easy to deploy and administer. Look no further. The Test Center's Curtis...
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- Martin Heller, Strategic Developer
- TopCoder: developer productivity and code quality through competition
- Posted: May 9, 2008 8:36 a.m.
- Wednesday I had lunch with Mike Morris, Senior Vice President of Software Development at TopCoder. That's his picture at the left. He had an interesting story to tell. I was vaguely familiar with TopCoder through their programming contests. I was never... more
- Robert X. Cringely®, Notes from the Field
- Geek Week: Another Google exec fled; librarian defeats Feds
- Posted: May 9, 2008 8:21 a.m.
- Going, going -- Google. The hejira from Google continues, as head Google spin doctor Elliot Schrage has taken a position with – who else? -- Facebook. Schrage is the sixth top-shelf G-exec to fly the coop to Facebook over the last year. (Though... more
- Sean McCown, Database Underground
- Microsoft's backup compression
- Posted: May 9, 2008 7:25 a.m.
- I still have a hard time getting jazzed about Katmai's backup compression. Again, it's probably because I've been using LiteSpeed for so long, and it's just not news anymore. Not to mention it still has licensing problems. I believe that I talked... more
- Neil McAllister, Fatal Exception
- Virus outbreak at JavaOne
- Posted: May 9, 2008 3:24 a.m.
- Java may be impervious to computer viruses, but not even the JRE sandbox can protect against viruses of the microbial kind. According to the San Francisco Department of Public Health, several persons who attended the JavaOne conference currently underway... more
- Mario Apicella, Storage Adviser
- Solid-state upgrades: Risky business
- Posted: May 9, 2008 3:00 a.m.
- Hardware upgrades can be a blast. Slide 2GB more RAM in your machine and everything just works faster and smoother. Updating a laptop or desktop with an SSD (solid-state drive), however, can be tricky and not so rewarding, as I am finding. I haven't... more
- Latest Storage Sprawl Podcast
- 05/09/08
- Hardware upgrades can be a blast. Slide 2GB more RAM in your machine and everything just works faster and smoother. Updating a laptop or desktop with an SSD (solid-state drive), however, can be tricky...
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- Roger A. Grimes, Security Adviser
- Fixing the Internet
- Posted: May 9, 2008 3:00 a.m.
- Long–time readers know that I often rant about how insecure the Internet is, and how few solutions will do anything to change that equation during the next 5 to 10 years. I've also recommended a handful of solutions over the years, and accepted... more
- Randall C. Kennedy, Enterprise Desktop
- Are MCSEs too stupid to learn Linux?
- Posted: May 8, 2008 12:04 p.m.
- That's the conclusion seemingly reached by the resident *NIX zealot on another news site. According to this joker, learning Linux, Solaris or any other *NIX derivative requires a degree of conceptual understanding that MCSEs are either unwilling or unable... more
- Jon Williams, New York CTO
- Bloggers beware
- Posted: May 8, 2008 5:42 a.m.
- As we are now all a part of the brave new world of blogging, I am personally discovering some of the unintended outcomes of a CTO blog. At my previous company, I started blogging well after I became CTO, and some of my team read it out of curiosity... more
- Bill Snyder, Tech's Bottom Line
- Out in the cold: small businesses' ERP deficit
- Posted: May 8, 2008 3:00 a.m.
- It took the United States just 45 months to defeat the combined forces of Germany, Japan, and Italy. It has taken SAP 48 months to get Business ByDesign, its SaaS (software as a service) play for the SMB market, off the ground. And it still isn't ready... more
- Ted Samson, Sustainable IT
- SynapSense employs wireless sensors to monitor and map datacenter health
- Posted: May 8, 2008 3:00 a.m.
- Measure, measure, measure: It's one of the pieces of advice repeatedly doled out to companies looking to make their datacenters more energy-efficient. Without question, it's a sound suggestion; if you don't know where you're starting from, how do you... more
- Ed Foster, The Gripe Line
- Apple Leaves Hawaiian Investor in the Cold
- Posted: May 8, 2008 12:27 a.m.
- You'd think a technology company would be able to figure out an online system to allow all of its investors to cast their proxy votes. But one reader reports that for years he's been unable to participate in proxy voting for Apple's annual meeting, apparently... more
- Latest Ed Foster's Gripeline Podcast
- 05/08/08
- You'd think a technology company would be able to figure out an online system to allow all of its investors to cast their proxy votes. But one reader reports that for years he's been unable to participate...
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- David Marshall, Virtualization Report
- Leostream's long virtualization journey reaches $3 million Series A funding
- Posted: May 7, 2008 8:16 p.m.
- It has been reported by Private Equity Hub that Waltham, MA-based virtualization software company Leostream finally completed a $3 million Series A round of funding which was led by Meakem Becker Venture Capital. What's particularly interesting about... more
- Latest The Virtualization Report Podcast
- 05/07/08
- It has been reported by Private Equity Hub that Waltham, MA-based virtualization software company Leostream finally completed a $3 million Series A round of funding which was led by Meakem Becker Venture...
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- InfoWorld Staff, Tech Watch
- It's JavaOne, but where's Scott?
- Posted: May 7, 2008 5:22 p.m.
- Scott McNealy, who was the longtime CEO of Sun Microsystems and still is company chairman, has been absent from the company's JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week. A longtime fixture at the event even after stepping down as CEO in 2006, McNealy... more
- Tom Yager, Ahead of the Curve
- The Green Delay: A timely proposal for IT energy conservation
- Posted: May 7, 2008 10:06 a.m.
- "I hope I'm dead before I'm 50." This was said in an entirely unemotional, matter-of-fact fashion by someone who had gotten a poorly timed, age-appropriate, red state public school treatment of both sides of the global warming debate. Is it, as was ... more
- Bob Lewis, Advice Line
- When interviewees volunteer off-limits information
- Posted: May 7, 2008 6:34 a.m.
- Dear Bob ...All this talk about interviews and illegal questions has me wondering ...If I'm interviewing someone, and they disclose information about themselves without my prompting, what do I do?For example, a very realistic question "Why did you leave... more
- J. Peter Bruzzese, Enterprise Windows
- Microsoft's Enterprise Project suite isn't just for the enterprise
- Posted: May 7, 2008 3:00 a.m.
- Keeping track of a project -- any project -- can be an overwhelming task, especially if you're dealing with multiple teams, various funding expenditures, and the ever-popular string of setbacks and delays that haunt projects. Microsoft has continued... more
- Brian Chee, Geeks in Paradise
- Wicked Cool PHP
- Posted: May 6, 2008 4:42 p.m.
- Wicked Cool PHP Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems by William Steinmetz with Brian Ward February 2008, 216 pp. ISBN-10 1-59327-173-5 ISBN-13 978-1-59327-173-2 $29.95 $17.95 PDF $35.95 PDF and Paperback ... more
- Ephraim Schwartz, Reality Check
- Outsourcing: Breaking up is hard to do
- Posted: May 6, 2008 3:00 a.m.
- A few months back, I blogged about getting more value from your outsourcing strategy: Rather than sign a single $1 billion-plus deal, break your services up. Smaller deals, focused on smaller projects or services, may be the new way to go, I conjectured... more
- Anonymous, Off The Record
- How to make a DBA blush
- Posted: May 6, 2008 3:00 a.m.
- As the person who keeps the local instant messenger gateway server running, I have worked with our DBAs to ensure the database is backed up and regularly purged of old records. With the occasional update and patch, it has been running more or less problem... more
- Randall C. Kennedy, Windows Sentinel
- Vista PCs: the hardware resources they are so hungry for
- Posted: May 6, 2008 2:45 a.m.
- Cross-tabular analysis. It's one of those nerdy-sounding terms that statisticians like to use when expounding upon their latest data-mining gems. It's also the lifeblood of the Windows Sentinel project. We use cross-tabular analysis to extract all sorts... more
- Tony Bishop, The Real-Time Enterprise
- 90 Days to Radical Cost Take Outs
- Posted: May 5, 2008 7:40 p.m.
- IT organizations are increasingly challenged these days just to keep the lights on. Additionally, the business is looking to cut costs, maximize efficiencies and reduce spend during these economically challenging times. IT leaders usually leverage ... more
- Eric Knorr, Editor's Blog
- Youthful indiscretions
- Posted: May 5, 2008 9:14 a.m.
- We tend to get a little serious about security at InfoWorld. Following the lead of ace contributing editor Roger Grimes, we focus on the ingenuity of new exploits and the endless race to stay ahead of criminal hackers who pounce on every new vulnerability... more
- InfoWorld Staff, Test Center Daily
- Lab test: Infortrend EonStor B12S Iometer results
- Posted: May 1, 2008 1:00 p.m.
- Enterprise storage is typically fast, reliable, large, and heavy, and consumes a good amount of energy. Infortrend's EonStor (see Mario Apicella's review) is fast, reliable, thin (1U), and a scant 45 pounds with 12 disks. All because it uses 2.5-inch... more
- Lena West, Social Tech
- Without the tech, Web 2.0 sucks
- Posted: Apr 19, 2008 1:52 p.m.
- It's really easy to fall in love with a Web app. The slick design. The fancy logos. But ultimately, it's all about the technology and being able to deliver what you say you can. Just ask HP. more
- Tom Yager, Enterprise Mac
- Ahead of the Curve: Back to the Mac
- Posted: Apr 16, 2008 11:36 a.m.
- Several months ago, I determined that my years-long fondness required reexamination. I quietly took a break from the Mac to get some perspective, to check out Vista, AMD, and Longhorn (Windows Server 2008) untainted by Apple's PR and uninfluenced by... more
- Paul Venezia, The Deep End
- ComCastastrophe Resolved
- Posted: Apr 14, 2008 9:29 a.m.
- A few months ago, I wrote about a ComCast Business circuit that had yet to be installed, despite the fact that the contract had been signed and initial fees paid six months prior. It was a sad tale, and one without resolution -- until Friday. Yes, on... more
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