Given that our critical infrastructure is owned almost entirely by the private sector, it's nonsensical to think that we can leave it to the federal government to fight our cyberwar, believes Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

The Obama administration's announcement that it was authorizing U.S. telecom providers to forge service agreements with their counterparts in Cuba was vacuous at best. Don Tennant, a former research analyst at the National Security Agency, puts things in perspective in this week's editorial.

It's not easy being green, but saving green is apt to be the real driver for business managers to re-evaluate data retention policies and to measure power consumption of every device in their data center, relates Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

Renegotiating contracts so they're less favorable to vendors need not be accompanied by guilt. Vendors have demonstrated that regardless, they're going to make discretionary layoffs to appease Wall Street, posits Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

Massive layoffs hopefully aren't an expedient first step being discussed at the IBM-Sun negotiating table, suggests Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

If IT vendors shoulder more of the burden of the recession, layoffs of IT workers can again become a last resort, urges Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

One of the best things about a gathering like Computerworld's Premier 100 conference is that you get glimpses of how things could be when someone dares to question the way things have always been, observes Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

If anything serves as a springboard out of the recession, it won't be technology alone, insists Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

Knowing when to back off from an IT initiative is key to any CIO's survival during these tough economic times. But even more critical is knowing which projects to champion in the first place, outlines Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

The persistence of an IT manager driven by principle and a quest for justice is reminiscent of the David-and-Goliath story that inspired the film Flash of Genius, admires Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

Imagine how much more constructive the H-1B debate would be if it were conducted in a manner in which opposing viewpoints were appreciated and respected, suggests Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

Foreign workers aren't the enemy, nor are those who hire them; the enemy is the sense of hopelessness that triggers misplaced blame in difficult times, believes Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

Service orientation is too much about architecture and too little about attitude. The price of that will continue to be lost jobs, holds Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

A casualty of the economic downturn that's less immediate than job losses, but increasingly worrisome, is the loss in opportunities for the sharing of knowledge and experience, notes Don Tennant in this week's editorial.

We have some good IT leaders, but apparently none good enough to fix the broken executive compensation system, laments Don Tennant in this week's editorial.