Stories by: John Edwards

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The incredible shrinking data center 03 November, 2009 06:09

Tom Gonzales is planning to shrink his company's data center footprint from 45 feet by 15 feet to a mere 12 feet by 12 feet -- and he couldn't be happier. "We're using more space than we need," he says. "We're going to return some of that to the company."
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Does GPL still matter? 11 August, 2009 04:00

Jeff Haynie reached a crossroads last summer. Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, a firm that develops open source cross-platform application development software, made a decision filled with implications for his company's future. That decision: to toss away his upcoming product's Gnu General Public License (GPL), the best-known and most popular free software license, in favor of what he viewed as a more business-friendly alternative. "We initially started the product with a GPLv3 license and we decided last summer to move the license to Apache," Haynie says.
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Open-Source Routers Are Becoming an IT Option 22 June, 2009 14:12

Many large IT operations are extensively using open-source technology -- in operating systems, applications, development tools and databases. So why not in routers, too?
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Securing your virtualized environment 23 March, 2009 08:20

Virtualization promises to make IT departments more flexible, more efficient and -- perhaps most crucial in these tough times -- more frugal. But one advantage the technology doesn't provide is an escape from the need for strong security measures.
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Cutting Through the Fog of Cloud Security 24 February, 2009 09:22

As cloud computing's security gaps become more visible, users are finding ways to safeguard their data.
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Small notebooks pose big threat 23 December, 2008 02:10

They're highly portable, inexpensive, very popular — and a potential security nightmare. Running against the trend of mobile computers featuring progressively larger processors, memory, storage, screens and price tags, ultraportable notebooks promise to streamline and simplify their users' lives. Easy to carry, capable of running only a handful of modest applications and affordably priced, ultraportables have emerged over the past year or so to become one of the hottest mobile computing trends.
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Financial crisis: The tech innovations at risk 01 October, 2008 08:45

September 2008 will certainly go down as one of the blackest months in Wall Street history. Venerable financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and AIG abruptly vanished or were radically overhauled. Investors lost loads of money -- in some cases, fortunes -- and ordinary taxpayers are now finding themselves funding an industry bailout that could cost a staggering US$700 billion, perhaps even more.
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Who provides what in the cloud 28 August, 2008 09:33

The news that US telecommunications provider AT&T has joined the rapidly growing ranks of cloud computing providers reinforces the argument that the latest IT outsourcing model is well on its way to becoming a classic disruptive technology.
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Google's unhappy Android developers 13 August, 2008 07:30

For a long time, Google has led a largely blissful existence, fostering a widespread perception -- sometimes in direct contradiction to the facts -- that it can do no wrong. Yet the company's controversial Android mobile platform venture threatens to seriously dent this notion, at least with some of the people it needs most.
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Future watch: Under development - new millennium barcodes 11 December, 2000 12:01

Barcodes have been prominently displayed on magazine covers, cereal boxes and other retail products for more than 25 years, and they aren't about to disappear.
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Hope for the Storage Starved 29 November, 2000 12:01

Believing that you can never be too rich, too thin or have enough storage, IBM Corp. researchers have created a new class of magnetic materials that could pave the way for hard drives and other data storage systems to store over 100 times more data than existing technologies.