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Storage arrays are dead; long live the tape library I've been watching and waiting for years for a vendor to proclaim the demise of disk storage, and this week it finally happened. The vendor who made the bold statement is Sun, specifically CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz. Fifteen backup programs to safeguard your data There's no way around it: Malware happens, drive failure happens, natural disaster happens. If your data isn't backed up, it's gone -- or it will require an extremely expensive, not-certain-to-succeed recovery operation. September 25, 9:30 a.m. PDT Old hard drives still full of sensitive data Hard drives full of confidential data are still turning up on the second-hand market, researchers have reported. September 21, 10:16 a.m. PDT Fear of insider threats hits home The more money that companies spend on securing their IT operations from external attack, the more it seems they become aware that the potential threat posed by their own employees remains their most significant risk.  September 18, 10:42 a.m. PDT Dell Latitutude laptops sport Seagate's encryption HD marvel Dell has become the latest and largest vendor to offer laptops featuring Seagate's full disk encryption hard drive, the 2.5 inch Momentus 5400 FDE.2. September 18, 7:58 a.m. PDT Adaptec's little SAN that can Many different combinations of drives, controllers, and software are available in storage arrays for small and midsize businesses, but one example that you should not miss is the Snap Server 720i that Adaptec trotted out last week. September 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT Data explosion shakes up IT In just three years, the bytes of data generated by digital cameras, mobile phones, businesses IT systems, and devices will equal the number of grains of sand on the world's beaches. September 13, 7:54 a.m. PDT Sony shows off unique Rolly audio entertainment player Now you don't have to dance to your favorite tunes -- your audio player can dance for you. September 10, 5:17 a.m. PDT Exclusive: NetApp crowns new entry-level storage array king NetApp today is announcing new heirs to the thrones of its entry-level storage arrays, the FAS250 and FAS270. These crown princes, the FAS2020 and the FAS2050, yield more capacity, better performance, and improved manageability -- at a similar or lower price. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta. Now open source software is becoming big business. “Now hiring” is a common sight on project home pages, and .org and SourceForge sites that used to point straight to source code archives are redirected to .com URLs that celebrate the commercial success of what started out as collaborations among unpaid coders of like mind. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Best of open source in storage Combining “open source” and "storage” in the same sentence used to trigger a sardonic grin, but no longer. The availability of free and open software is as true today for storage as it is for operating systems and applications. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT FTC seeks more data on Intel flash spinoff U.S. government antitrust regulators have asked Intel Corp. and STMicroelectronics NV to provide more information about their plan to spin off their flash memory unit into a new company, the vendors said Thursday. August 30, 8:30 a.m. PDT Mtron unveils faster flash-based disk drives South Korea's Mtron Co. Ltd. is adding to its line-up of already speedy solid-state disk drives with new models that offer faster reading and writing of data. August 30, 4:08 a.m. PDT Hitachi and Seagate take one giant leap with laptop drive encryption Now that the capacities of small form-factor drives have hit hundreds of gigabytes, just about any corporate database can easily fit on a laptop. That affordable capacity gives users the opportunity to work outside the office on projects with large data footprints. But it also can expose your company to liability if a storage device holding classified data falls into the wrong hands. August 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT IFA: Battle over high-def formats comes to Berlin Visitors to the IFA consumer electronics show, which opens Friday in Berlin, will have ringside seats to the war over high-definition disc formats raging between Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. August 28, 6:03 a.m. PDT Open source storage gets a virtual lift It has been a while since I last discussed Coraid, but two announcements the company made at LinuxWorld earlier this month have me thinking about AoE (ATA over Ethernet) these days. August 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Update: Seagate planning flash-based solid-state drives Seagate Technology plans to add solid-state drives based on flash memory chips to its lineup of storage products sometime in 2008, the company said Thursday. August 23, 4:23 a.m. PDT Toshiba readies 320GB laptop drive Toshiba will start producing a 320GB hard-disk drive for laptop computers before the end of this year, the company said Tuesday. August 21, 5:09 a.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Hospital undergoes wireless surgery For years, wireless technologies have only shown up in many U.S. hospitals in the form of rolling computers with Wi-Fi network access, but as evidenced at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, times are changing. August 13, 2:37 p.m. PDT Desktop on a USB drive ready for enterprises Software that lets you carry your data, applications, and personal desktop around on a USB-attached device is expanding into enterprises. July 29, 9:03 p.m. PDT Intel brings datacenter advances to server networks Later this year, Intel will help server network interfaces take advantage of the major recent advances in datacenters: multiprocessor systems, multicore processors, and virtualization. July 23, 12:40 p.m. PDT The SMB backup dilemma Every time I hear a pitch for an SMB backup solution it comes complete with a chilling statistic that suggests smaller companies are tone-deaf to data protection. July 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Lasers could make disk drives a hundred times faster Researchers have demonstrated disk write speeds one hundred times faster than current hard drives. The method uses a laser to heat the recording surface and alter its magnetic field. There is no equivalent read speed increase though. July 5, 7:47 a.m. PDT Fast guide to fancy SAN management No longer tied to a monolithic enterprise price tag, many of the sophisticated storage management capabilities outlined below can now be found in affordable SAN midrange systems from Compellent, iQstor, Xiotech, and other vendors. July 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Midrange SANs master high-end features SAN storage systems continue to evolve quickly, with features trickling down from market leaders such as EMC and Hitachi Data Systems to midtier players. The three systems reviewed here, from Compellent, iQstor, and Xiotech, offer a surprising array of functionality including nearly every feature one might find in $250,000 enterprise-class systems except CAS (content addressed storage). Their impressive feature sets include 4Gbps FC (Fibre Channel) connectivity, iSCSI support, tiered storage, local and remote replication and snapshots, and even thin provisioning, boot from SAN, virtualization, and automatic expansion of volumes. Compellent even provides automatic migration of data from first- to second- or third-tier storage -- an ILM (information lifecycle management) tool that is usable without requiring a complex setup. Both Compellent and Xiotech offer monitoring and support services similar to those the tier-one storage vendors provide to large enterprises, allowing customers to respond proactively to projected failures. July 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Quantum's new appliance could attract OEMs Quantum introduced a disk storage appliance Monday that could both appeal to enterprise customers and improve its partnerships with other storage vendors. June 25, 11:44 a.m. PDT Samsung begins producing 1.8-inch SSDs Samsung Electronics has begun producing a flash memory-based solid-state disk drive for mobile computing applications. June 25, 4:09 a.m. PDT Classic Storage Insider, part I Mario Apicella is on vacation, so in his absence we present two classic Storage Insider columns for your reading pleasure. This week, the spotlight is on SANs: their protocols and standards, and how they could affect you. June 22, 3:00 a.m. PDT Mtron claims speediest solid-state disk Solid-state disks (SSDs) are fast becoming popular as drop-in replacements for hard-disk drives but they are not all alike, said South Korea's Mtron. June 20, 5:24 a.m. PDT HP brings sanity to storage Hewlett-Packard is developing new storage hardware that will make it easier for administrators to assign the right amount of storage to different departments in an organization. June 19, 4:42 a.m. PDT Suit up your storage network with business sense No longer capable of remaining on the sidelines as a separate administrative domain, today's networked storage must be managed with a deeper awareness of business objectives. June 18, 3:00 a.m. PDT Taking RAID out of the box A reader that identifies himself as "Layman" suggests that all the fuss I made in my blog about the reliability of disk drives is somewhat old school. June 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT EMC strikes first partnership with Indian outsourcer EMC Corp. will train more than 1,000 Wipro Ltd. staff in the use of its storage technologies as part of an alliance announced by the companies on Wednesday. June 13, 4:09 a.m. PDT Tech companies set goals for energy efficiency A group of some of the biggest technology companies said they've committed to a plan to improve the power efficiency of equipment they make and use. June 12, 1:05 p.m. PDT Flash guys show certified ReadyBoost drives Flash memory stick makers are showing off USB (Universal Serial Bus) drives at Computex that have been certified to work with Windows Vista's ReadyBoot and ReadyBoost functions, which improve boot-up times and the software start-up speeds in PCs. June 8, 7:01 a.m. PDT Sun Fire X4500 server crams 48 drives into 4U To anyone with a base level of computer knowledge, the concept of a single system with 48 hard drives seems insane. To IT folks, it’s even more outrageous; most disk arrays are limited to 15 drives per shelf and certainly aren’t mounted in a server chassis. To Sun, 48 drives in 4U of space is just the newest entry in its line of x64 servers. June 7, 12:34 p.m. PDT Solid-state disks coming on strong If you're in any doubt that flash memory-based solid-state disks are on a course to quickly replace hard-disk drives in laptop computers, just take a look along the aisles of this year's Computex trade show. June 7, 4:57 a.m. PDT HP, IBM fight to 2nd place tie in storage If the competition between IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the computer storage business were a horse race, you'd need a photo to determine how they finished the first quarter. But it would only be for the second place ribbon. June 7, 4:21 a.m. PDT 2007 InfoWorld CTO 25: Phil Nail As concerns over potential power shortages and global warming rise, some IT leaders are just now dipping their toes into the waters of energy efficiency and environmental responsibility. But Affordable Internet Service Online (AISO) co-founder and CTO Phil Nail has been riding high atop the ecogreen wave since the 1990s. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Toshiba develops laptop HD DVD-RW drive Toshiba will unveil in Taipei on Tuesday a slim HD DVD rewriter suitable for use in laptop computers. June 4, 5:27 a.m. PDT Taiwan's miCard chosen as global memory card standard A Taiwanese research institute has produced a new global memory card standard, the miCard (Multiple Interface card) designed to work in smaller consumer gadgets such as digital cameras, mobile phones, as well as any device with a USB (Universal Serial Bus) plug, which are common on PCs. June 1, 5:47 a.m. PDT Betting on the future of parallel NFS Are you using or planning to use NFSv4 (Network File System version 4)? I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the answers to that question are a flat-out no or a quizzical stare, because this latest incarnation of the Linux/Unix file system is still a long way from becoming a mainstream solution. However, let me make it clear that this impasse is not for lack of merit, because NFSv4 has a lot to like. June 1, 3:00 a.m. PDT NHK pushes optical disc speed limit It's an interesting contrast: consumers are fast ditching videotape for DVDs and hard disks, but the people who make TV shows are sticking to tape for some cutting edge applications. When it comes to recording broadcast-quality HDTV, today's optical disc systems just can't spin fast enough to keep up with the video -- but that may be about to change. May 29, 5:32 a.m. PDT Former Hitachi Data Systems chief to head up HP storage In its quest to re-energize its storage business, Hewlett-Packard has recruited the former president and CEO of storage rival Hitachi Data Systems (HDS). May 25, 2:22 p.m. PDT Ritek to start mass producing BD-RE discs Taiwanese disc maker Ritek plans to start mass producing BD-RE (Blu-Ray Disc Rewritable) discs as well as HD DVD-RE (high definition) discs in the third quarter of this year, a small but important step to helping reduce the cost of such discs for users. May 22, 7:43 a.m. PDT Startup skirts datacenter bottlenecks with cache Seeking to alleviate the bottleneck woes of I/O-intensive apps, startup Gear6 today announced CACHEfx, a scalable cache appliance that makes as much as 5TB of cached data available to applications without having to retrieve it from storage. May 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT A small step to improve disk reliability The storage industry isn't necessarily known for being a fast mover. Take for example this memo, dated October 2003 (it’s in Microsoft Word format), in which Seagate made clear the need to move the physical block size of disk drives to 4,096 bytes instead of 512 bytes. May 11, 3:00 a.m. PDT Clustered NEC arrays scale from gigabytes to a petabyte Taking a cue from its supercomputing legacy, NEC Corporation of America on Wednesday introduced a series of storage arrays that achieve new benchmarks in scalability, performance, and availability for the storage vendor by scaling from a terabyte to a petabyte nondisruptively and offering different hard drive classes in the same enclosure. May 10, 4:46 a.m. PDT Startups class of '06: Where are they now? In 2006, InfoWorld uncovered 15 startups that emerged after the nuclear winter that followed the dot-com bust with cool, useful technologies. Well, another year has brought a new crop of startup darlings, such as the companies we're profiling each day in May for our Month of Enterprise Startups (MOES) feature. But MOES got us thinking about last year's startups. In the year that has followed, how have these innovators fared? May 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Rover, IBM extend CDP to laptops Road warriors in search of much-needed file backup and recovery relief may need look no further than their wallets thanks to a CDP (continous data protection)-enabled flash drive unveiled today by Rover Technology Fusions. May 7, 3:00 a.m. PDT Will server virtualization end the FC-iSCSI debate? Let’s take a trip to the future this week. Imagine that we travel forward in time -- say, 100 years from now. How will the technological landscape of storage change in one century? What will our descendants think of the state of our technology? May 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Exclusive: Intransa realizes dreams of 10Gb iSCSI Ever since the announcement of 10Gb Ethernet, many storage managers have looked forward to 10Gb iSCSI. The hope was that for the first time, iSCSI would actually have not only a cost advantage over FC (Fibre Channel), but a performance advantage as well. May 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Startup enters I/O virtualization fray Virtualization startup 3Leaf Systems today announced its flagship V-8000 Virtual I/O Server, as well as $20 million in Series B investment, led by Intel Capital. May 1, 12:33 p.m. PDT Onaro looks to bridge app-storage gap Seeking to aid enterprises in their ongoing struggle to better align storage resources with application requirements, Onaro today released an upgrade to its SANscreen Application Insight product. April 30, 3:00 a.m. PDT Another step toward 10 Gig SANs Sometimes in my work, things just seem to fall in place, as if someone were pulling the strings behind the scenes. I am not suggesting that there is any conspiracy here, but last week's column on FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet), a new proposed standard to consolidate transport for both FC (Fibre Channel) and Ethernet, was a great segue into this week's announcement of a new 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch from Woven Systems. April 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Microsoft eyes datacenters in a box Fast, cheap and all over the place. That's how technology experts behind Microsoft's fast-growing Live offerings envision the future of the enterprise data center in a Web 2.0 driven world. April 18, 10:42 a.m. PDT What the enterprise can learn from consumer technologies Today’s corporate end-users are far more tech-savvy than their productivity with IT tools indicates. After all, screen-deep in IMs, widgets, and elaborate consumer Web apps, they’re proving themselves well-versed in the production and distribution of content as facilitated by the consumer Web 2.0 craze. April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT PG&E extends rebate program to storage Pacific Gas & Electric, a California-based energy utility, is extending an energy-savings rebate program, already available for servers, to disk storage equipment. April 6, 4:19 p.m. PDT Asustek to ship motherboard with HD interface Asustek Computer plans to launch a PC motherboard in April with an interface that will allow users to watch high definition (HD) movies on either the Blu-ray Disc or HD-DVD formats. March 28, 7:11 a.m. PST Samsung to double capacity of solid state disk drive Samsung Electronics plans to begin shipping a solid-state disk drive with double the capacity of its current highest capacity drive in the second quarter of this year, it said Tuesday. March 27, 6:03 a.m. PST Hitachi to slash workforce, close HDD plant in Mexico Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to close a manufacturing plant in Mexico and lay off around 11 percent of its 40,000-person global workforce in a bid to shore up its hard disc drive (HDD) operations. March 22, 4:28 a.m. PST Raidon offers small RAID module for the masses Taiwan's Raidon Technology has developed a small RAID (redundant array of independent, or inexpensive, disks) module that fits neatly into a 3.5-inch drive bay. March 19, 4:28 a.m. PST APC's good Big Brother How’s the weather in your datacenter? Could you pull up a time line graph of temperature, humidity, and maybe even video footage of the room on a whim? Using APC’s NetBotz monitoring appliances and InfraStruXure Central management console, you could. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST All-in-one backup for SMBs Choosing a proper backup solution can be a challenging task for a small business that may lack the time and skill to implement a winning mix of backup application, tape device, and intermediate disk layer. If ever there were a niche that cried out for an appliance-based solution, this is it. March 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Betting on top storage speed Some areas of the storage market are crowded with too many similar products. Think, for example, of clustered IP SANs -- it's something of a niche segment, but it's vibrant with competing solutions from vendors like EqualLogic, Intransa, and LeftHand Networks. March 9, 3:00 a.m. PST Palm brings its Treo to China Palm announced Wednesday that it would launch its Treo 680 handheld in China, and increase its presence in the Chinese market by opening a research and development (R&D) center there. March 7, 8:12 a.m. PST IBM surpasses HP in storage hardware sales IBM earns bragging rights for surpassing Hewlett-Packard in 2006 storage hardware sales, though it still trails industry leader EMC, according to an industry report published Tuesday. March 7, 5:11 a.m. PST Samsung ships its first hybrid disk drive Samsung Electronics has begun shipping its first hybrid hard-disk drives that mix conventional magnetic storage with flash memory, it said Wednesday. March 7, 4:39 a.m. PST The Green Grid gets going Pleas to improve datacenter power-efficiency tend to be vague: Consolidate to fewer and more efficient systems; use virtualization to allocate resources based on need; and choose microprocessors, infrastructure components, and system architectures that are built with power conservation as a key objective. March 7, 3:00 a.m. PST Dell sees strong growth in Asian markets Dell is seeing strong demand for its products in several Asian markets and is pleased with customer acceptance of Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system, according to one of the computer manufacturer's senior executives in the region. March 6, 7:21 a.m. PST Virtualization in a USB drive Virtualization software leader VMware Inc. is testing a desktop virtualization program that can be stored on a USB drive and moved from one computer to another. March 5, 4:05 a.m. PST More IT war stories Off the Record, the real-world slice of life that graces the last page of InfoWorld, is one of our most popular columns. I know this from reader surveys and from all the e-mail I receive about it. As reader Roland Sickenberger put it recently, “It’s my favorite part of the magazine, kind of like a ‘Dilbert come to life’ thing.” March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Download DVD specification gets approval A technology that allows movies to be downloaded and burned to blank DVDs using the same content-protection system as commercial discs received official approval on Thursday. March 1, 6:17 a.m. PST Toshiba says 51GB HD DVD still under development A three-layer HD DVD disc with enough room for about 7 hours of high-definition video is still under development and hasn't been submitted for approval to the DVD Forum, the standard's governing body, despite reports to the contrary, Toshiba said Thursday. March 1, 5:56 a.m. PST EqualLogic's iSCSI SAN hits storage management high notes It seems that every time I configure an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN array in the company of folks who’ve never seen the process, they ask the same question: “Really? You’re already done?” The answer, always, is Yes. February 26, 3:00 a.m. PST LeftHand boosts its SAN/iQ Many companies would embrace the superior performance and enhanced reliability of clustered storage were it not for the fear that adoption would cost a fortune and lock them into proprietary hardware. February 26, 3:00 a.m. PST New choices in networked storage One of the best known names in NAS and iSCSI is Network Appliance, a company that has embraced SANs as well. Aneil Balkaran, manager of Windows on Unix at Consol Energy, runs an iSCSI SAN on a pair of clustered NetApp FAS 960 C boxes. These machines provide SAN and NAS all in the same unit. (See also "iSCSI: The rising enterprise star" and "The trends that shape iSCSI's trajectory.") February 26, 3:00 a.m. PST iSCSI: The rising enterprise star Fibre Channel was definitely not top of mind when Chris Brown hit the wall on disk space and, in mid-2005, decided to go shopping for a SAN. Brown is IT manager for DeltaValve, a division of Curtiss-Wright Flow Control. “I have an IT staff of two,” he explains, “and we do not have the resources to support Fibre Channel.” February 26, 3:00 a.m. PST The trends that shape iSCSI's trajectory Where is iSCSI headed? Good question. A recent blogstorm with posts from well-known names at EMC, EqualLogic, and NetApp among others leaves the answer in doubt. True, shipments of iSCSI gear continue to climb steadily, but conventional analyst wisdom dictates that iSCSI’s slice of the SAN market may remain quite thin. (See also "iSCSI: The rising enterprise star" and "New choices in networked storage.") February 26, 3:00 a.m. PST Fujitsu Siemens targets SMBs with new recovery system For midsize businesses seeking a relatively easy, inexpensive way to keep their servers running around the clock, Fujitsu Siemens Computers has launched a fully automated backup recovery system. February 22, 6:52 a.m. PST Hurd pressures HP storage sales team Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd's assessment of his company's storage sales organization was simple and blunt: "We just don't cover enough accounts," said Hurd on a conference call with analysts Tuesday discussing HP's latest quarterly earnings. February 22, 4:39 a.m. PST Gauging Net consumption However it is that urban myths get started, it’s kind of a bummer when one of them gets dispelled. A couple years ago, for example, a Chinese astronaut went into space and debunked the myth that the Great Wall is visible from up there. February 22, 3:00 a.m. PST EqualLogic adds to storage array product line Storage appliance maker EqualLogic says its newest product improves performance by doing a better job of balancing the data load between storage arrays in a network. February 20, 12:22 p.m. PST 12 crackpot tech ideas that could transform the enterprise Technologies that push the envelope of the plausible capture our curiosity almost as quickly as the would-be crackpots who dare to concoct them become targets of our derision. February 19, 3:00 a.m. PST SAN and NAS virtualization After some years of false starts and false hopes, storage virtualization, also known as block virtualization, is finally proving its worth. All the major vendors have embraced it, most notably IBM, EMC, and HDS (Hitachi Data Systems); the solutions themselves have improved; and customers, typically large shops managing large SANs with intense data availability requirements, understand how to deploy it and where to get good ROI. No longer a technology in search of a problem, storage virtualization offers a way to address a wide range of storage management woes. February 12, 3:00 a.m. PST Hitachi and Archivas tie the knot The news of Hitachi Data Systems revealing its intention to buy Archivas probably did not surprise anybody because the two vendors have been partners for quite some time. February 9, 3:00 a.m. PST In Brief: Panasonic takes Blu-ray testing to Hollywood Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) will open a testing laboratory Friday for Blu-ray Disc content in Hollywood. The center will verify whether the Blu-ray Disc content of providers like movie studios meets technical specifications and can be played on a range of Blu-ray Disc hardware, the company said. Panasonic said at present there is no way to do this before discs are replicated. February 2, 7:47 a.m. PST So long, McData Brocade's acquisition of McData has come and gone in what feels like an abrupt change, despite months of elapsed time from start to finish. February 2, 3:00 a.m. PST Seagate unveils wireless portable storage Seagate Technology and Motorola both said Tuesday they had invested in the portable storage market, hoping to meet a rising need by users of cell phones and smartphones to carry gigabytes of digital photos and music in their pockets. January 30, 9:51 a.m. PST Women in technology: A call to action A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology. January 29, 3:03 a.m. PST Back to school: Getting girls into IT Despite the success of various education initiatives in the past several years, there’s little doubt that the shortage of women in technology begins on the playground. As such, many industry leaders and experts believe the long-term solution to the gender imbalance in IT lies in women technologists going back to school -- way back, to high schools and even elementary schools to mentor young girls, who too often give up on math and science at an early age. January 29, 3:02 a.m. PST Activism provides competitive advantage for IT Encountering another woman working in technology was a rare event for me when I started out in IT many years ago. In the years since, women have made significant strides, sometimes against great odds, proving their mettle as both tech execs and engineers. January 29, 3:01 a.m. PST Gender crisis in IT You don’t need a degree in statistics to recognize that IT is a men’s club. Just walk the floor of any tech conference or, in all likelihood, your own office — XY chromosomes everywhere you look. January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST FTC clears Brocade-McData deal The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has cleared the pending acquisition of McData by Brocade Communications Systems after an antitrust review, removing the last regulatory hurdle to the deal. January 24, 4:23 a.m. PST The smart business of diversity Carly Fiorina served as CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. After she was ousted, along with a $21 million exit package, Fiorina did what a lot of us would do if we had millions of dollars in the bank and some time on our hands: She wrote a book. In Tough Choices, published in October, Fiorina talks about rising to the top of a male-dominated culture. Fiorina spoke with InfoWorld correspondent Carmen Nobel for our upcoming feature on the issues women face in IT. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST Will EMC's information gamble work? In June 2006, EMC announced that it would acquire RSA Security for $2.1 billion, only to be met with a healthy dose of analyst skepticism and a 3 percent drop in its stock price. Many on Wall Street considered the price tag too high in light of RSA’s 2005 revenues of $310 million. Moreover, industry observers were disquieted by EMC’s unrelenting buying spree: RSA was merely the most expensive purchase out of a whopping 23 acquisitions it had made since early 2003, which have crossed the spectrum from systems management to content management to BPO. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST EMC demystified Reporters just love EMC. After all, there’s always something new to write about, given that the company has spent the past three years on a punch-drunk buying spree, acquiring shiny new companies at a rate of roughly one every other month. January 22, 3:00 a.m. PST > Hardware > Storage |
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