Eric Lai

Companies will be able to define, enforce policies controlling who can see what data. Upcoming features: database clone, continuous backup

Web 2.0 remains largely on the fringe in corporate America. Nine out of 10 IT workers never use social networking or videoconferencing for work, Forrester says...

Need to crawl billions of Web pages? There's an app for that. Aptly named 80legs Inc. leverages a 50,000-computer grid to search and crunch millions of pages in minutes at $2 a pop...

For all the benefits they bring, a business intelligence system rollout can be pretty expensive for most organizations. Four IT leaders share their secrets on how they panhandled for a BI budget and came out with a cheap, profitable and effective deployment

The open source office suite is aping Microsoft's ribbon GUI in its redesign, causing the faithful to revolt

But can enterprises take open-source alternatives Hadoop, Voldemort seriously?

The burgeoning NoSQL community, made up of Web and Java developers, promote building your own data storage. But can enterprises take open-source alternatives Hadoop, Voldemort seriously?

The best strategy is limited rollouts of Linux targeted at the employee populations most likely to accept the open-source operating system, according to survey firm Freeform Dynamics