Ruby on Rails hands on: What's so hot about Rails?

Speedy Recovery
Humana's Perfect Service business strategy has meant shifting its focus from processing transactions to advocating for consumers. At the center of this strategy is Humana's IT organization, which in the past few years has made a big shift of its own, from a traditional software development and support group to a highly flexible and ultrafast team of systems integrators.

Data Tools Help Schools Meet Federal Mandates
School districts are using tools from SPSS Inc. to help gauge the performance of students and schools as they strive to meet the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Prescription: New Skills
Human's IT group hires people for their business and communication skills as much as for their technical expertise.

Career Watch
Promoting IT among women and minorities, promoting the Midwest among IT professionals, and taking your work on vacation.

Prescription: New Skills
Human's IT group hires people for their business and communication skills as much as for their technical expertise.

Data Tools Help Schools Meet Federal Mandates
School districts are using tools from SPSS Inc. to help gauge the performance of students and schools as they strive to meet the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Six tips for adding wireless devices to your environment
A medical center CIO shares best practices when PDAs, BlackBerries, smart phones and the like must be hooked up to your network.

Exabyte gets gobbled up
Data storage vendor Tandberg plans to purchase tape storage systems manufacturer Exabyte for about $28 million, leaving the industry with one less independent manufacturer of tape drives.

Expert: Preserve privacy by not spying on staff
An Australian privacy expert suggests that the current craze for protecting data privacy by spying on the workers who handle it is perhaps counterintuitive. But organizations undertaking in-house surveillance -- and firing offenders -- defend its use.

Bush Calls for Interoperable Fed Health IT Systems
President Bush has signed an executive order requiring four government agencies that oversee federal health care programs to support new HHS standards by Jan. 1.

Sink or Swim
When a project is sinking, how do you decide if it's better to save it or let it die? And if it is worth saving, how do you get it back on track?

Taking on Water
Ten warning signs that your project is in trouble

Six tips for adding wireless devices to your environment
A medical center CIO shares best practices when PDAs, BlackBerries, smart phones and the like must be hooked up to your network.

Review: LG's Chocolate is sexy but clumsy
LG's Chocolate combines a cell phone and an MP3 player. It's a good idea, and the device is downright sexy -- until you start to use it.

Six tips for adding wireless devices to your environment
A medical center CIO shares best practices when PDAs, BlackBerries, smart phones and the like must be hooked up to your network.

Ripping and replacing can be a September budget booster
Want to save money right now? Get rid of these manual procedures that drain help desk resources, waste valuable storage space and cost ongoing licensing fees.

Opinion: Do you need air gaps for storage security?
Partitioning an array and/or a storage network may not be enough to satisfy air-gap-sensitive users.

Opinion: What's slowing data encryption? Plenty
Encryption key management, concern over vendor lock-in and the cost of purchasing, implementing, and managing encryption technology have all inhibited adoption.

Mastering the Middleware Muddle
Advice on how to develop a successful integration strategy.

Common-Sense SOA Approach
A list of tips on how to build an effective SOA.

Opinion: Do you need air gaps for storage security?
Partitioning an array and/or a storage network may not be enough to satisfy air-gap-sensitive users.

Former Sun storage chief becomes Extreme CEO
Canepa comes to Extreme after 10 years at Sun, where he most recently served as executive vice president of the Network Storage Products Group.