In many fields, jargon is everything. It is the glue that binds students, practitioners and theorists alike. It communicates in depth meaning and substance in a few words, and sometimes in a few syllables. Yet at the interface of business and technology, communicating effectively can be a problem in the Tower of Babel category. [...]

Flip open or click on just about any IT industry publication and you are bound to come across virtualization. It’s the new big thing that IT managers world across are using to consolidate and effectively leverage their server environment. Long dead is the notion of ‘one application, one server’. But virtualization is something that within [...]

Many of us want to do good things with our lives. Many of us would love to give back to the community, volunteer at the local soup kitchen or join the Red Cross. Yet many of us often see life as a zero sum game, where the tree huggers go broke and the people who [...]