Word is going around that Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, is parting ways with Sun. Matt Asay blogs about it and says it's a good thing Widenius is taking his dissent on the road: At this point, however, Monty has done the right thing with his dissent. He has...

During an appearance at the Citi Global Technology Conference on September 4, Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell faced the same question that he's been answering for months: What is Microsoft's online strategy now that the company has decided against buying Yahoo? by Mary Jo Foley

One of the questions raised by our recent discussion of e-voting options is how far the IT myopia revealed there permeates our other IT activities: to what extent, in other words, is the presence of an obvious IT component likely to blind us to the rest of the system? by...

This whole greening the data center business is getting out of hand - everywhere you look someone's preaching this, but the logic behind it simply doesn't stand up. Virtualization does not save energy - it just moves usage out of the data center. Hardly anyone talks about the real...

It's the sort of work politicians have been doing for decades, only with much greater depth, because the database is deeper, and with a purely scientific motivation. by Dana Blankenhorn

With better data reach and inclusion, come better results. So BI allows leaders can establish the trends early that will determine their future success or failures. In a fast-paced, global, hyper competitive business landscape these insights are the currency of success for the future. The better you do BI, the...

The "IT system used to identify terrorist threats that has been crippled by technical flaws," according to a memo from the House of Representatives. The failed system is part of a central US government repository of data called the mother of all databases. by Michael Krigsman

HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...

Through my keen observations, deep procrastination and occasional drunken ramblings, there are three things which annoy me about a service or product before I even use them. These three things, from a consumer's point of view, are the following: having a product with a...

The key thing differentiating the appliance computing community from the data processing one was its absolute focus on making the money, instead of on counting monies magically made by somebody else, somewhere else. by Paul Murphy

If you've got college-age kids who are getting back to class this weekend, you'll be thrilled to know that their dorms and professors will be picking up where you left up in terms of instilling green habits. A survey from the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals...

The bottom line lesson from a report on finding and fixing a performance problem in MySQL has nothing to do with locks or DTrace and everything to do with open source and how access to code and tools is making the extraordinary seem ordinary. by Paul Murphy

At IDF, the chipmaker announced a power-control feature in its new micro architecture, claiming it is 'pretty compelling' for enterprises. Intel unveiled on Tuesday a new aspect of its upcoming microprocessor architecture, which promises better power management and efficiency. Speaking in the afternoon keynote on day...

Brian Shield, CIO for The Weather Channel, tells us about their LEED certified HD studio and the company's push towards greener data centers. by Andrew Mager

If you needed a university certificate in China during the last couple of months, there's a big chance that a group of ten people could have supplied with you such, going a step further and adding your details in more than ten government databases across different provinces in the country,...

Guest post: This is a post by Barry X Lynn, CEO of 3Tera, in response to a discussion about whether cloud computing is industrial strength. Lynn can be found on the 3Tera blog. There have been multiple white papers and articles written on the topic -...

Akamai disputes Limelight Networks' take on its infrastructure and my recent post, Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet. Limelight, however, says its implementation facts are accurate and that it absolutely stands behind its words.Keep in mind that the two companies compete fiercely and have different takes on...

I admit it, even I was skeptical. When I received the first demonstration of the Silverlight plugin and the NBCOlympics.com web site back in March of this year at the 2008 Microsoft Technology Summit, where a group of Open Source experts gathered from around the world were asked for feedback...

Oracle said it has had more than 23,000 downloads of its Oracle Business Indicators application for the iPhone. Oracle and Salesforce were among the first with what I'd call real enterprise apps for the iPhone delivered via Apple's App Store. In fact, I'd argue those two--along with...

What the CoBIT framework does is establish minimal guidelines for data center operational documentation -as distinct from the actual operation. by Paul Murphy