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Mario Apicella, Storage Adviser

An unblinking look at disaster recovery
Posted: May 16, 2008 3:00 a.m.
I recently received a message in my inbox reminding me of the importance of disaster recovery: The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1 -- setting the stage for heavy losses and damage. ... Yet, most real-world problems -- while potentially devastating... more
Latest Storage Sprawl Podcast
05/16/08
I recently received a message in my inbox reminding me of the importance of disaster recovery: The Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1 -- setting the stage for heavy losses and damage. ... Yet...
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Roger A. Grimes, Security Adviser

Defending "Fixing the Internet"
Posted: May 16, 2008 3:00 a.m.
Last week I publicly released a white paper called Fixing the Internet: A Security Solution in this blog. I proposed three main ideas: Put together an Internet security dream team of experts to solve the hard issues Create an Internet global infrastructure... more

Martin Heller, Strategic Developer

Avoiding Vista?
Posted: May 15, 2008 11:07 a.m.
InfoWorld recently ran an article by Eric Lai of our sister publication ComputerWorld called Developers explain why they're avoiding Vista. I'm afraid that for me, and probably for most of you, this falls in the "D'oh" department. The subhead... more

Tom Sullivan, InfoWorld Daily

SOA vendors and value, part 2
Posted: May 15, 2008 10:49 a.m.
Continuing his discussion about SOA vendors' misguided focus, David Linthicum asserts that integration is indeed important. "You bet it is. But it's not architecture, it's a part of architecture ... the more holistic concept is architecture and you... more
Latest InfoWorld Daily Podcast
05/15/08
Continuing his discussion about SOA vendors' misguided focus, David Linthicum asserts that integration is indeed important. "You bet it is. But it's not architecture, it's a part of architecture ......
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Ephraim Schwartz, Reality Check

Dissecting the AT&T memo on the iPhone limit of one to a customer
Posted: May 15, 2008 10:34 a.m.
By making a few assumptions here and there let’s see if we can figure out what’s going on behind the scenes at AT&T and Apple as it concerns their iPhone strategy. The internal memo, shown on the AppleInsider site says that customers may... more

Rodrigues & Urlocker, Open Sources

Winning with the family
Posted: May 15, 2008 10:24 a.m.
Last week I learned that Sun has put its 3 database groups (Java DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL) under Marten Mickos. First off, who knew Sun had such a broad database portfolio???? Second, smart move putting them all under Marten. In speaking with Marten's... more

David Linthicum, Real World SOA

Part II: SOA vendors focus too much on integration and not enough on architecture
Posted: May 15, 2008 5:02 a.m.
I seem to have hit a nerve with my last post "SOA vendors focus too much on integration and not enough on architecture." You can read the comments, but the reaction was: Vendors…no like (based on IP addresses). End users…confused (based... more
Latest THE SOA REPORT Podcast
05/15/08
I seem to have hit a nerve with my last post "SOA vendors focus too much on integration and not enough on architecture." You can read the comments, but the reaction was: Vendors…no like (based...
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Neil McAllister, Fatal Exception

Parallel processing calls for a Fortress mentality
Posted: May 15, 2008 3:00 a.m.
When you're the inventor of one of the most successful and influential programming languages of the last decade, what do you do for an encore? Judging by demos at the recent JavaOne conference, if you're Sun Microsystems, you invent another programming... more

Ted Samson, Sustainable IT

Green IT numbers don't lie
Posted: May 15, 2008 3:00 a.m.
Stark statistics shed light on the needs driving green computing If a picture's worth a thousand words, how many are statistics worth, I wonder? I have some numbers this week that speak volumes as to why so many companies have green IT on the brain ... more

Curtis Franklin, SMB IT

A conversation with Numara Software
Posted: May 15, 2008 2:13 a.m.
One of the interesting things about my job is that I get to talk to many people from a lot of different companies. Some of these conversations will turn into Test Center reviews; many won't. It dawned on me that I was being selfish in not sharing more... more
Latest Emerging Enterprise Podcast
05/15/08
One of the interesting things about my job is that I get to talk to many people from a lot of different companies. Some of these conversations will turn into Test Center reviews; many won't. It dawned...
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Sean McCown, Database Underground

IT spooning
Posted: May 14, 2008 8:06 a.m.
Have you ever been working on a problem and had a colleague pull his chair over to watch you? And the more you do, the closer he gets because he has to see your screen. And you actually end up spooning in your chairs. Well, let me tell you, it's not... more

Robert X. Cringely®, Notes from the Field

YouTube, copyrights, and copy wrongs
Posted: May 14, 2008 6:50 a.m.
The longer I stay in this business, the more I think I should have listened to my mother and become a copyright attorney. Don't get me wrong -- I love digging for dirt and punishing the technologically wicked, but just think of the employment opportunities... more

Bob Lewis, Advice Line

Motivating a clock puncher
Posted: May 14, 2008 5:18 a.m.
Dear Bob ...I agree with your perspective on clock punching Jim ("Rights, privileges, fairness and equality," Keep the Joint Running, 5/5/2008). But in the best of all worlds (which seems rare to me), the manager would be proactive instead or reactive... more

David Marshall, Virtualization Report

Microsoft opens Beta of its Offline Virtual Machine Servicing tool
Posted: May 14, 2008 5:05 a.m.
Microsoft has opened up the Beta program for one of its latest virtualization tools, the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool. The tool aims to address one of the new IT challenges created by virtualization - how do I keep my offline, stored or template... more
Latest The Virtualization Report Podcast
05/14/08
Microsoft has opened up the Beta program for one of its latest virtualization tools, the Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool. The tool aims to address one of the new IT challenges created by virtualization...
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Tom Yager, Ahead of the Curve

It's quiet, it's green, it's the rack o' my dreams
Posted: May 14, 2008 5:00 a.m.
When I refer to my lab, I use the term loosely. It's a 10-by-10-foot working space whose smooth walls channel the sound from every device with a fan straight into my ears. I share that room with every server I use and test. Of these, an 8-core Xserve... more

J. Peter Bruzzese, Enterprise Windows

Hopes for the future of Office 2007 collaboration
Posted: May 14, 2008 3:00 a.m.
The new Office servers I've discussed in recent weeks are diverse, opening up a wealth of opportunities: online forms, anywhere/anytime collaboration, advanced presence detection and VoIP technology, project management solutions, business intelligence... more

Tom Yager, Enterprise Mac

OS X Security: How I became a spam kingpin, went legit and turned detective
Posted: May 13, 2008 5:07 p.m.
I'm picking up the first-person account of a Leopard Server root exploit where it left off from my preceding post. I did slam the door on the ClamAV exploiter, and close observation for a couple of weeks allayed my concerns that any lasting hole had... more

Randall C. Kennedy, Enterprise Desktop

Hyper-V's Achilles' heel
Posted: May 13, 2008 3:00 a.m.
A house of cards -- that's how I'd describe the current state of the Windows device driver ecosystem. With so many Windows-compatible devices and so few competent driver developers, it's no surprise that hunting for driver updates has become a necessary... more

Anonymous, Off The Record

What is it you do again?
Posted: May 13, 2008 3:00 a.m.
In the late 1990s I worked for a Midwestern manufacturer. We ran a very small IT shop for the size of our corporation (8 people for a company grossing a third of a billion dollars annually, across 10 locations), and all of us in IT were expected to wear... more

Ed Foster, The Gripe Line

Suing Sony
Posted: May 13, 2008 12:37 a.m.
Trying to get your warranty honored on a laptop with a cracked LCD display is generally as easy as running through a brick wall. The presumption by the manufacturer is always that the damage is due to customer abuse. But one reader recently succeeded... more
Latest Ed Foster's Gripeline Podcast
05/13/08
Trying to get your warranty honored on a laptop with a cracked LCD display is generally as easy as running through a brick wall. The presumption by the manufacturer is always that the damage is due to...
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Eric Knorr, Editor's Blog

The long good-bye to the browser
Posted: May 12, 2008 3:00 a.m.
I can't believe I'm still using a Web browser. I spend as much time peering into its depths as I do reading and writing e-mail in Outlook -- maybe more now that certain Google apps have become part of my daily routine. When I stop and think about it,... 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

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

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

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

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

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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