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“As 802.11n slowly crawls toward becoming a wireless standard, IT managers have to decide whether it's the right time to switch. Unfortunately, the standard is stuck in draft status. Here's why.”

Tom Austin, a Gartner analyst, told attendees of the Gartner symposium that Google doesn't care about the enterprise, but that doesn't mean the internet giant won't play a key role in serving up applications "in the cloud" to corporations during more...

Two Gartner analysts said the words that enterprises dread, and that will move alternate operating system proponents to tears of joy: "Windows as we know it needs to be replaced."

“Sometimes, IT leaders are told that the company runs Windows, period. But that doesn't stop them from wishing for the forbidden fruit: One CIO explains why he'd like to bring Apple to his enterprise.”

Most users want a free Internet, but that's not going to be possible by 2010, Gary Beach argues. Without a major investment by those who own the pipes, the likes of Verizon, AT&T and Comcast, Internet traffic will come to more...

IT executives from a variety of industries concede that social networks are here to stay, but they are still working to find ways to give employees what they want and protect the company at the same time.

“As the new generation of workers blurs the line between work and play online, a study by Symantec shows that IT departments need to balance the security risks these users pose with the techno-savvy they bring to the office.”

Developer release lauded as "sweet!" but puts the focus on security, interoperability and better programming features rather than the user experience.

Bad CIOs are a blight on the IT profession and on the organizations that employ them. The following list of behaviors common among bad CIOs will prevent you from hiring them into your organizations. If they're already there, it will more...

Deciding when to use any language--including Ruby--depends on the appropriateness to task and the amount of yak shaving necessary. Zed Shaw explains when Ruby's MRI or JRuby is the best language for the job, and when it really isn't.