Paul Venezia
Senior Contributing Editor
Paul Venezia is a veteran enterprise architect and senior contributing editor at InfoWorld, where he writes analyses and reviews.
Open source: How e-voting should be done
An open source approach to open voting systems is essential to the integrity of our electoral process. Here's a technical blueprint for securing the vote
Are sealed-in laptop batteries a good idea?
When Apple introduced its new MacBooks recently, it touted a doubled battery life -- but noted that the laptops' batteries were sealed into the case, not user-swappable as is the norm on laptops.
San Francisco's mayor gets back keys to the network
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom met with jailed IT administrator Terry Childs Monday, convincing him to hand over the administrative passwords to the city's multimillion-dollar wide area network.
Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue
Last Sunday, Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, was arrested and taken into custody, charged with four counts of computer tampering. He remains in jail, held on $5 million bail. News reports...
Sun's X4150 shows the beef
Sun has developed a 1U chassis design that can handle an impressive number of drives, yet also provide for a standard two-socket Intel-based mainboard and the company's signature four gigabit Ethernet interfaces, not to mention a...
Stratus' fault-tolerant, RHEL juggernaut
The last time I had a Stratus server in the lab, it was the ftServer W Series 4300, back in January 2006. That was a Windows-based system, and discussions with Stratus about Linux distributions showed that although it had a Linux...