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The problem with bringing your own device to work is when you lose it and IT decides to remotely wipe your phone -- including your personal content. This week, I learned about two ways IT could control enterprise content while leaving your personal contact untouched.

Life was a lot simpler for IT when everyone used Windows PCs and applications, but today employees are interacting with a variety of devices and different approaches to software, and you need to find a way to manage this new environment.

Even though Nasdaq was fully aware that its trading systems would be bombarded by the Facebook IPO on Friday, it turned out the systems had trouble handling the volume, leaving Nasdaq embarrassed and Facebook with a disastrous first day, and proving once again the need for worst-case pre-launch testing.

It's always easy to shy away from the latest buzzwords and pass them off as the passing fancy of the day, but gamification can drive usage for your software or service. You just have to be clever about how you implement it.

While IP battles might not concern lesser players, the ones among the tech titans hurt us all by creating an atmosphere of uncertainty in the market.

This infographic provides an overview of three big open source content management systems: WordPress, Drupal and Joomla!.

Even Oracle might not have known what it had when it brought Google to trial, but when the trial began to turn around the idea of copyrighting APIs, it couldn't have gone better for an old-school enterprise software company with a lot to lose if the cloud and open source continue to take over IT.

Legacy systems present a whole set of problems when you are trying to implement new systems, and the way these older systems interact with the new ones, just might cause a performance issue. Can you identify the system in the picture?

We all know Big Data is in full hype mode right now, but the fact is that you can use data as a strategic advantage for your company, and you may want to get more comfortable with the tools out there help you make sense of it all.

This week we look at how to hire a good mobile programmer, a round up of Big Data vendors and a new semantic search tool.

iOS devices might be seen as toys in some IT circles, but a new tool from OpenText that lets you run Unix applications might change that perception

Hippo had a good year in 2011 and the beat continues in 2012 according to figures released by the company. It joins Nuxeo and WordPress as open source content management platforms reporting good earnings news and it shows that open source products can make money.

Google showed incredible stupidity, arrogance or both when it sniffed not just WiFi networks, but private information such as email addresses while it was at it. When you purport to do no evil, you better have a better grip on what's going on inside your business.

You're in IT and you have a bad reputation at your company. You're aloof, overpaid and you don't do enough. Have you ever stopped to consider why people feel this way? It could be because the rules of engagement are changing and you need to learn to communicate better.

It's Friday and that means another round of 5 Links for Developers and IT Pros. This week includes two stories from RIM's user conference by Wayne Rash and Pam Baker. Plus should CIOs know how to code? Well, should they?

In a recent interview with MIT professor Andrew McAfee, who coined the term Enterprise 2.0 to describe Web 2.0 tools being created for the Enterprise, he likened big data analysis to the invention of the microscope because it lets you see things that were previously invisible.

The Financial Times of London recently took the unusual step of shutting down its iOS app in favor of a HTML5-only approach. It works for them, but would it work for your company too?

The company behind open source blogging platform WordPress could generate almost $50 million in revenue this year. Pretty remarkable for an open source tool, wouldn't you say?

When Facebook engineers faced a monumental monitoring problem, they went to work on it themselves and developed a custom tool to help them sift through the monstrous data store. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be plans to open source it.

When Microsoft made an investment today in the Barnes and Noble Nook, at the very least, the Android tablet market just got a little more entertaining -- and Microsoft got to take on all kinds of demons from Apple to Google to Amazon.com -- an even open source. Certainly great technology theater if nothing else.