E-discovery in the cloud? Not so easy

Your company is embroiled in a lawsuit, and your general counsel has come to IT for help in conducting e-discovery on a batch of data. You easily gather some of the information from storage in your data center, but some of it is sitting in the cloud. Easy enough, you think, to get that data as well.

By Tam Harbert | 07 March, 2012 03:08

Tags: cloud computing, internet, legal

IT's age problem

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

By Tam Harbert | 22 November, 2011 03:05

Tags: careers, it management

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.

By Tam Harbert | 19 July, 2011 02:51

Tags: hardware systems, Mainframes, servers, Toigo Partners International

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.

By Tam Harbert | 31 March, 2011 05:53

Tags: cloud computing, hardware systems, IBM, internet, Mainframes, servers

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.

By Tam Harbert | 08 February, 2011 05:09

Tags: Virtualization

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.

By Tam Harbert | 19 January, 2011 03:33

Tags: it management, security

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?

By Tam Harbert | 21 December, 2010 04:57

Tags: it management, staff management

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.

By Tam Harbert | 22 September, 2010 05:13

Tags: applications, Applied Materials, business issues, collaboration, Kraft Foods, personnel, SAS Institute, software

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?

By Tam Harbert | 17 June, 2010 05:28

Tags: privacy, security, social networking

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.

By Tam Harbert | 09 February, 2010 04:30

Tags: data centre, flash storage, storage

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.

By Tam Harbert | 06 February, 2009 08:58

Tags: green IT

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.

By Tam Harbert | 14 October, 2008 09:54

Tags: it management, staff management

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.

By Tam Harbert | 21 August, 2008 15:25

Tags: telecommuniting

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.

Confessions of a Cobol programmer

Last year, Michael Vu, a 40-year-old independent IT consultant, found himself in a wholly unexpected place midway through his career.