Stories by: Rafael Ruffolo

To avoid getting lost in today's constantly evolving online marketplace, you should be looking to upgrade your e-commerce system within the next six to 12 months.

If you're thinking about open sourcing a project in the near future, Mozilla Corp. might be the perfect blueprint to follow.

Canadian data breach notification guidelines -- jointly created by the Information and Privacy Commissioners for British Columbia and Ontario -- have made their way to the land down under.

If your IT projects are consistently late and over budget, chances are you haven't implemented Agile software development practices.

The black market for software vulnerabilities is booming, with bugs regularly being sold for thousands of dollars a piece online. And one of the only ways to reduce this steady stream of hacks, according to Geekonomics author and IT security pro David Rice, is for software companies to simply write better code.

Virtualization will be the biggest driver for IT infrastructure and operations spending over the next several years, according to a report from Gartner.

The widely criticized Microsoft and Novell interoperability agreement has been a success for his company, said Novell CEO Ron Hovespian.

Citrix Systems' US$500 million acquisition of XenSource, along with VMware's massively successful IPO last week, has further legitimatized the hot virtualization space, but it may also be causing some disillusionment among the open-source community.