Forbes has published a rather dense (and by dense, I mean packed with information, rather than mentally deficient) article by Kenneth Brill examining the explosion in data center construction and the...

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Angel Herrero de Frutos Speaking of Enterprise 2.0, it seems that the CIA is well on board with the trend. I don't know if the director filled out the recent...

© psd The last time that COBOL (that's COmmon Business Oriented Language, a 1950's era mainframe programming language) got this much press was just prior to Y2K, when the effort to purge...

EDIT: I've recovered and reposted this entry from Google's cache. So, not long after I mention my general skepticism of CIO surveys, I am building yet another article around one... because...

I made fun of Managed Objects new social-networking influenced CMDB interface product myCMDB when it was announced last month, critiquing both the kindergarten playground name of the software and the...

The great thing about writing about information technology is that you can always find a controversy... and data to support your side of it. So, while last week I posted that a recent Goldman Sachs...

It looks as though Sun isn't the only big player with spare network capacity anxious to get in on the cloud computing hype. AT&T has announced, by way of a deal with the US Olympic Committee...

Would that more CIOs come from the ranks of consultants! It's a bit like cops and criminals, I suppose; the best detectives are those who can put themselves in the place of the criminal,...

Sun's floundering utility computing initiative, Network.com, is being spun off into a separate business unit, reports the Register. The move seems likely to form the first step in an effort to...

IBM announced today that it will be investing more than $400 million on two new data centers dedicated to cloud computing purposes, one opening in their Research triangle Park facility in North...