Stories about: International Truck and Engine

A self-service Web-based TCO calculator was released today which estimates the return on investment of VMware infrastructure including a detailed report on potential cost savings.

Peek inside most enterprise data centers today, and you'll probably find at least one or two x86 boxes running VMware's server virtualization software. Odds are good the technology got there as part of an effort to consolidate an upward-spiraling number of industry-standard servers.

Automobile repairs and recalls annoy manufacturers as much as they do consumers, adding billions annually to their business costs. IBM hopes a new bundle of software and services it has developed will help auto manufacturers cut their warranty costs by deploying an analytics-based early warning system. The company is at this week's AutoTech conference in Detroit to talk about its work over the past 18 months developing the product.

In today's job market, everyone wants to stand out from the crowd, and obtaining a technical certification might seem like a great way to show off your skills. But is it worth the investment of at least several months and hundreds, possibly thousands, of dollars?

Information technology auditors don't like to think of themselves as cops, but they do monitor IT projects for delays, mistakes, undue risks and other costly and embarrassing problems. Often coming from corporate auditing backgrounds, IT auditors have to evaluate two areas: project progress and political winds. It's an IT auditor who must tell a powerful CIO what's gone wrong under his command and then break the bad news to senior management.

The wear and tear of flying between Illinois and Texas to help care for his ailing grandparents, their ranch and their lumber business finally got to Todd Purifoy. He decided to quit his job as enterprise e-mail administrator at Chicago-based International Truck and Engine Corp.