Stories by Tam Harbert

IT's age problem

Age bias: Some consider it IT's dirty little secret, or even IT's big open secret.

New job for mainframes: Hosting private clouds

Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he's likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a much-hyped new name for what mainframes have done for years, he'll say.

New job for mainframes: Cloud platform

Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he's likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a new name -- and a lot of hype -- for what mainframes have done for years, he'll say.

Desktop virtualization: Confusion over software licensing

When Dataprise Inc., an IT services company, helped a customer with a desktop virtualization project last year, it found itself dealing with desktop virtualization's dirty little secret: No one -- including vendors -- seems to know how to license the software.

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Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad

It's a CIO's worst nightmare: You get a call from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), saying that some of the Microsoft software your company uses might be pirated.

How to foster teamwork among techies

Collaboration is all the rage among corporate executives these days, which means IT is busy providing systems that turn that vague concept into a real business benefit. But what happens when it comes time for techies themselves to collaborate?

Collaboration, IT-style: How to do it right

Collaboration is all the rage among corporate executives these days, which means IT is kept busy providing systems, tools and procedures that turn the vague concept into a real business benefit.

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Employee monitoring: When IT is asked to spy

It's 9:00 in the morning, or 3:00 in the afternoon, or even 10:00 at night. Do you know what your users are up to?

SSD storage fixes data center bottlenecks for a price

As a new decade opens, more and more data centre operators find themselves struggling with an enterprise bottleneck not of their own making.

Making the move to government IT

As wave after wave of corporate layoffs remake the American business landscape, IT managers find themselves wondering if they should consider a personal bailout strategy of their own -- government IT job.

Keep your key projects off the chopping block

How to save make-or-break IT initiatives in troubled times.

What role should IT play in reining in energy costs?

IT buys the technology; facilities buys the energy. That's the way it's always been in corporate America. But that may be changing.

The trouble with telecommuting

Telecommuting is back on workers' radars in a big way these days, thanks to gas prices that were a whopping 30 percent higher this summer than last.

Get tough on telecommuting: 6 questions to ask

Telecommuting is back on workers' radars in a big way these days, thanks to sky-rocketing petrol prices.

Beeps, blips and IT: Making sense of sensor data

It's no exaggeration to say the '00s have been the decade when the electronic sensor left the factory floor and went, well, everywhere.