John Edwards
Contributing writer
John Edwards is a veteran business technology journalist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and numerous business and technology publications.
Make mine modular: The rise of prefab data centers
Prefab data centers have many benefits, but beware of vendor lock-in
Grow your data center with colocation
Colocation is quicker and a lot less expensive than building your own new data center
How to minimize server-consolidation mistakes
Inadequate planning, faulty assumptions, or failure to quickly detect post-deployment glitches can entrap consolidation projects
Does GPL still matter?
As open source gets more commercial, GPL's idealism is overridden by developers' business needs
4 tasks you fear to outsource but should try
To save money, reconsider these ripe outsourcing opportunities you may have never (or were afraid to) put on the table
Financial crisis: The tech innovations at risk
Analytics, SOA, storage networking, and cloud computing providers face huge fallouts as financial customers wither
Who provides what in the cloud
More and more tech companies promise cloud offerings. But they're not all the same. InfoWorld's guide to what the key companies offer
Google's unhappy Android developers
Controversy around its SDK, rumors of a Symbian tie-up, and the iPhone's star power call the mobile OS into question