Has virtualization finally come of age for software development?

Convergence of work and play makes tools like iPad a joy.

Has the Internet become a bad neighborhood?

I’m not sure I buy into the suggestion that Facebook (via the Internet) brought down the Egyptian government. Nor am I necessarily an advocate of “liberating” societies. If the Internet is truly an instrument of liberation then perhaps we should fear it.

Cloud-based computing has created new challenges for authentication and authorization that we simply don’t have when we are able to maintain all of our applications and users inside the firewall. Claims-based authentication systems can help.

Two years ago Robert Capps, a senior editor at Wired magazine, published a seminal article, "The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine."

Identity management in an IT world that mixes the cloud, legacy mainframes, and everything in between has become very challenging.

I think we all know--or think we know--what cloud computing is.