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  • 10 multi-million dollar data security snafus

    IT Manager Daily
    Megan Berry
    9 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Think your company has all its data security bases covered? Think again. The simplest security measures are often overlooked. Here are 10 examples of data security snafus that cost companies millions of dollars – and one incident that put the company out of business altogether. Learn from their mistakes to avoid multi-million dollar payouts.  The Ponemon Institute Total Direct Cost Estimate for each incident was calculated using figures reported by the Ponemon Institute in its 2009 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach. The institute found that the direct cost of each compromised record…

  • Which IT projects have the biggest impact on the bottom line?

    IT Manager Daily
    Sam Narisi
    15 May 2012 | 2:40 pm
    Here’s some good news for IT managers trying to get new projects approved by the CFO: A study has found that IT investments can significantly boost a company’s profits. However, that’s only the case for some kinds of IT spending.  As IT managers know, tech departments often get passed over for budget increases in favor of other areas that are seen as more crucial for producing revenue. However, investments companies make in IT have a bigger impact on profitability than comparable spending in advertising and research and development, according to a recent study published in…

  • Hardening the network against targeted APT attacks

    SearchSecurity: Network Security Tactics
    14 May 2012 | 8:41 am
    Mike Chapple offers best practices to defend your network against the latest threat to the security landscape, targeted APT attacks.

  • Storage WANs Present Optimization Challenges

    InformationWeek News
    15 May 2012 | 2:10 pm
    Wide area networks are increasingly used for cost-effective remote replication and backup, but typical branch office WAN configurations may bottleneck the storage WAN.

  • Storage WANs Present Optimization Challenges

    InformationWeek Infrastructure News
    15 May 2012 | 2:10 pm
    Wide area networks are increasingly used for cost-effective remote replication and backup, but typical branch office WAN configurations may bottleneck the storage WAN.
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  • Storage WANs Present Optimization Challenges

    15 May 2012 | 2:10 pm
    Wide area networks are increasingly used for cost-effective remote replication and backup, but typical branch office WAN configurations may bottleneck the storage WAN.

  • ONC To Medical Practices: Get A Security Officer

    15 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    An Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology guide calls for medical offices to select a privacy and security officer.

  • Where On Earth Is Motorola?

    15 May 2012 | 12:52 pm
    Motorola's handset business has been MIA throughout 2012 as it waits for Google to clear regulatory hurdles for the acquisition. But has Motorola already lost too much market momentum?

  • 5 Steps To A Strong SMB Mobile App

    15 May 2012 | 11:50 am
    It's easier than ever to create a mobile app, but just because you build it doesn't mean anyone will come. Here's how to get consumers to actually use your apps.

  • Quantum Unveils Appliance For Big Data

    15 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    StorNext M6600 Metadata Appliance stores up to 800 million files.
 
 
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    InfoWorld News

  • Mozilla readies app marketplace for public beta

    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    Mozilla Marketplace, which is Mozilla's entrant in the online application store arena, is set to move to a public beta stage in a few weeks, a company official said on Tuesday.

  • Android boosts open source development for mobile

    16 May 2012 | 5:00 am
    For the third year in a row, mobile open source software projects have more than doubled in number, with the current count at around 18,000, up from around 8,000 in 2010.

  • LightSquared's bankruptcy is a cautionary tale

    15 May 2012 | 7:11 pm
    After more than a year of active testing and debate over LightSquared's plan for a nationwide, wholesale 4G network, the now bankrupt company may end up as no more than a cautionary tale for mobile investors. Industry observers say there are three things that might bring some value to LightSquared's main asset, a chunk of disputed radio spectrum: The company could swap the spectrum for another block, sell it to another carrier, or win a lawsuit against the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. But all three are unlikely, they said.

  • iPad returns to tablet dominance, reports iSuppli

    15 May 2012 | 6:09 pm
    After a brief dip in late 2011, the Apple iPad has firmly reasserted its position as the dominant player in the tablet market. According to the latest figures released today from market intelligence firm iSuppli, the iPad is projected to account for 61 percent of all tablets sold this year, up from 55.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011.

  • Red Hat preps RHEL 7 for second half of 2013

    15 May 2012 | 5:42 pm
    The next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), version 7, is targeted for release in the second half of 2013, Red Hat said on Tuesday, as it also celebrated the 10th anniversary of its enterprise OS. Red Hat aims to release a major new version of its OS every three years and updates about every six months, according to Jim Totten, vice president and general manager at Red Hat's Platform business unit.
 
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  • EMBED 2012 to showcase best use of ICT in Maltese education

    Jes Darmanin
    23 Apr 2012 | 3:20 am
    Teaching history through ICT is the running theme of ‘EMBED 2012: Best Use of ICT’, a six-day event at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, between April 25 and 30. The event will also bring to a close a very intensive scholastic year in terms of ICT-related educational projects. Organised by the Curriculum Management and eLearning Department (CMeLD) within the Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education (DQSE), and the Directorate for Educational Services (DES), the exhibition will showcase the latest technologies and approaches towards the use of ICT in…

  • DrawSomething – the new Smartphone Phenomenon

    Jes Darmanin
    19 Apr 2012 | 9:01 am
    Draw Something is one of the latest apps to take the world by storm and it’s growing at an incredible rate. I won’t go into detail about the app itself since there are so many sites reviewing it already (feel free to read this article on AppBoy). The basic idea behind this game is that you simply have to draw one item from a list of 3 options (different at every round) and the other player (can be a random player from all over the world or from your social network list) has to guess what you are drawing. Of course, most players are pretty bad (including myself) with drawing on a…

  • Nokia’s Windows Phone LUMIA Now in Malta

    Jes Darmanin
    13 Apr 2012 | 9:43 am
    Intercomp, authorised distributor for Nokia phones in Malta, is announcing the launch on the local market of the Nokia Lumia, powered by Microsoft’s latest Windows platform. The Nokia Lumia is the first Windows smartphone that resulted from the Microsoft – Nokia collaboration. Two models are currently available, namely the Lumia 710 and the Lumia 800. The Nokia Lumia 800 features head-turning design, vivid colors and the best social and Internet performance, with one-touch social network access, easy grouping of contacts, integrated communication threads and Internet Explorer 9. It…

  • A TED speaker’s worst nightmare

    Jes Darmanin
    23 Mar 2012 | 6:00 am
    Colin Robertson had 3 minutes on the TED stage to tell the world about his solar-powered crowdsourced health care solution. And then… the whole talk turned out to be a wonderful and hilarious prank by ImprovEverywhere.

  • Shireburn Software exhibits at two international shows

    Jes Darmanin
    17 Mar 2012 | 2:00 pm
    Shireburn Software will be exhibiting their unique Concessionaire Analyzer+ (CA+) product on standard 5316 at Passenger Terminal Expo 2012 in Vienna from 18th to 20th April and on stand 13 at the ACI EUROPE Airport Trading Conference and Exhibition, taking place in Oslo between 23rd and 25th April. Concessionaire Analyzer+ allows sales data from concessionaires to be centrally collected, and be the subject of Business Intelligence, enabling terminal management to assess values of spend by passenger, carrier, route, day of week, location etc., and gives insight into the impact of…
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    DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia

  • Second phase of energy-saving consumer electronics subsidies to begin at May 17, says MOEA

    16 May 2012 | 3:47 am
    Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has announced a second phase of subsidies for consumer electronics, with a total budget of NT$700 million (US$23.7 million), that will last three months starting May 17 to August 16, 2012. The subsidies are mainly for energy-saving consumer electronics such as air conditioning systems, TVs, and 30-inch and larger displays.

  • Apple iOS to maintain tablet dominance in 2012, says IHS

    16 May 2012 | 3:28 am
    After suffering a temporary dip in market share in the fourth quarter of 2011, Apple's iOS is expected to reassert its leadership of the worldwide tablet space in 2012, according to an IHS iSuppli Worldwide Tablet Market Tracker report from information and analytics provider IHS.

  • Nvidia introduces new standard for HPC with Kepler-based Tesla GPUs

    16 May 2012 | 3:24 am
    Nvidia has unveiled a new family of Tesla GPUs based on the Nvidia Kepler GPU computing architecture, which, according to the company, makes GPU-accelerated computing easier and more accessible for a broader range of high performance computing (HPC) scientific and technical applications.

  • Ledtech to see increasing revenues

    16 May 2012 | 3:06 am
    Ledtech reported that its LED lighting revenues in April were at an all-time high and is expected to grow even more in May with the possibility of its gross margin reaching 50% for the year.

  • Chongqing government offers financial incentives to boost notebook shipments

    16 May 2012 | 3:04 am
    The local government of Chongqing, western China, has offered financial prizes of CNY150 million (US$23.8 million) in total to encourage notebook shipments, with a recipient required to have monthly shipments in May or June 2012 exceeding shipments in any month in January-April, according to sources from Taiwan-based supply chain makers.
 
 
 
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  • Ready or not, Afghan security transfer accelerating - CNN

    16 May 2012 | 5:15 am
    Sydney Morning HeraldReady or not, Afghan security transfer acceleratingCNNBy Nick Paton-Walsh, CNN Afghan security forces will now be responsible for 75% of the country, with ISAF forces in a support role only. Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- NATO forces are here until 2014, but each day the demands on them lessen as Afghan Australia pledges $100 million annually for 3 years from 2015 to Afghan Washington PostAustralia pledges $300 million to Afghan forcesBoston.comAustralia Pledges $300 Million to Help Afghan TransitionVoice of America (blog)Stars and Stripes -Sydney Morning Heraldall 238…

  • Arrest of Newark Airport security supervisor renews interest in 1992 slaying - Boston Herald

    16 May 2012 | 4:21 am
    The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)Arrest of Newark Airport security supervisor renews interest in 1992 slayingBoston HeraldBy Shawn Boburg / The Record (Hackensack NJ) HACKENSACK, NJ — The arrest of an illegal immigrant — who authorities say worked as a Newark Airport security supervisor under a false identity for 20 years — has renewed police interest in the 1992 Newark Airport's underreported security problems cause for concernThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)Newark airport security worker pleads not guilty to ID theftLos Angeles TimesReport: TSA security breaches…

  • Centrify Appoints headtechnology as New Distributor in Eastern Europe ... - MarketWatch (press release)

    16 May 2012 | 2:02 am
    Centrify Appoints headtechnology as New Distributor in Eastern Europe MarketWatch (press release)SUNNYVALE, CA and BRACKNELL, UNITED KINGDOM, May 16, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Centrify Corporation, the leading provider of security and compliance solutions that centrally control, secure and audit access to cross-platform systems, and more »

  • Unisys to Provide End-to-End Security and Safety Assurance for World's Largest ... - MarketWatch (press release)

    16 May 2012 | 2:02 am
    Unisys to Provide End-to-End Security and Safety Assurance for World's Largest MarketWatch (press release)BLUE BELL, Pa., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS) , today announced it had signed a four-year framework agreement with the ITER project to provide end-to-end physical security and safety assurance at its facility, and more »

  • Cambodian security forces evict more farmers from their homes; activists claim ... - Washington Post

    16 May 2012 | 1:38 am
    Jakarta PostCambodian security forces evict more farmers from their homes; activists claim Washington PostPHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodian activists say a 13-year-old girl was shot to death Wednesday in the latest of several clashes between villagers and authorities trying to evict them to make room for development. Hundreds of armed police and soldiers Girl in Cambodia killed during violent evictionKFVSall 114 news articles »
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    Oracle Bloggers

  • QotD: Donald Smith on Community Stars in OpenJDK

    $utils.escapeXML($entry.author)
    16 May 2012 | 5:40 am
    Luckily, we are getting help. The London Java Community has done a great job of pushing along information about how to do builds and providing very constructive and timely feedback on these topics. And there’s a developer from SAP named Volker Simonis who has done a fantastic job at documenting his own experiences building OpenJDK on a number of platforms. There are lots of stars in the community, but we’re always looking for more!Donald Smith, Director of Product Management in the Java Platform Group at Oracle, in an interview for the latest edition of the Java Magazine.

  • Placeholder Watermarks with ADF 11.1.2

    Duncan Mills
    16 May 2012 | 5:17 am
    I'm sure you're all familiar with the concept of watermarking an input field to provide the user with a greyed out hint as to what to do with it.  This is often used in search boxes or UIs where space is at a premium and you really don't have room for a label. Here's a small screenshot that shows what I mean: As you can see,  both the filter field and multi-line field have such text.  As soon as the user starts to enter values in these fields the watermark will disappear only to reappear if the user clears out the field.  In the past, there have been various JavaScript…

  • What's New in Oracle WebCenter Sites 11g: Social Computing Integration and User-generated Content

    Christie Flanagan
    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    It’s no secret that the online experience has been completely transformed by social computing.  Increasingly, individuals are looking to interact with brands socially and to share their experiences with their extended social networks.  For online marketers, this creates a host of challenges. Businesses need to incorporate social computing capabilities into their online presence in order to create an interactive experience that helps build community engagement. At the same time, businesses must take care to assert a level of control that safeguards brand integrity. With the latest…

  • Do you have an eye for helping others learn?

    Grant Ronald
    16 May 2012 | 2:57 am
    I'm looking for a candidate to join our Product Management team who will be responsible for helping others learn.  The technology is  Oracle ADF/JDeveloper but what is possibly more important is your ability to design learning aids, tutorials, a training material.  So if you are an instructional designer with an eye for technologies like ADF, and excel at creatively producing technical content, then I'd like to hear from you.  More details on Lynn's blog. Full details of the job post can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/adfcurriculumjob or search for IRC1787711 at…

  • UK OUG call for papers–your middleware success!

    JuergenKress
    16 May 2012 | 2:36 am
    UK Oracle user group launched their call for papers. We would like to invite you to submit your SOA and BPM articles. The submission deadline is 1st June 2012 GMT midday. You can also register as a speaker. To register as a speaker and submit abstracts please click here. Why should I present? Speaking at the UKOUG conference is a rewarding experience, a chance to share your knowledge and raise your personal profile at the leading Oracle User conference in the UK. You will gain insights from fellow speakers as well as receive feedback from delegates on your presentation content. "As…
 
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    MySQL Performance Blog

  • Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.23

    Vadim Tkachenko
    14 May 2012 | 12:33 pm
    Our previous GA release of Percona XtraDB Cluster caused a lot of interest and feedback. I am happy to announce next version Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.23, which comes with bug fixes and improvements. List of changes: Fixes merged from upstream (Codership-mysql) Support for MyISAM, now changes to MyISAM tables are replicated to other nodes Improvements to XtraBackup SST methods, better error handling New SST wsrep_sst_method=skip, useful when you start all nodes from the same sources (i.e. backup) Ability to pass list of IP addresses for a new node, it will connect to the first available…

  • Testing Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo

    Vadim Tkachenko
    10 May 2012 | 3:30 pm
    I was lucky enough to get my hands on new Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo card. So I decided to run the same series of tests I did for other Flash devices. This is ioDrive2 Duo 2.4TB card and it is visible to OS as two devices (1.2TB each), which can be connected together via software RAID. So I tested in two modes: single drive, and software RAID-0 over two drives. I should note that to run this card you need to have an external power, by the same reason I mentioned in the previous post: PCIe slot can provide only 25W power, which is not enough for ioDrive2 Duo to provide full performance. I mention…

  • New distribution of random generator for sysbench – Zipf

    Vadim Tkachenko
    9 May 2012 | 7:50 pm
    Sysbench has three distribution for random numbers: uniform, special and gaussian. I mostly use uniform and special, and I feel that both do not fully reflect my needs when I run benchmarks. Uniform is stupidly simple: for a table with 1 mln rows, each row gets equal amount of hits. This barely reflects real system, it also does not allow effectively test caching solution, each row can be equally put into cache or removed. That’s why there is special distribution, which is better, but to other extreme – it is skewed to very small percentage of rows, which makes this distribution…

  • Zero-downtime schema changes webinar recording

    Baron Schwartz
    8 May 2012 | 3:22 pm
    The recording and slides for my webinar on zero-downtime schema changes with MySQL are available now. Don’t miss Vadim’s webinar tomorrow!

  • Webinar: MySQL and SSD

    Vadim Tkachenko
    8 May 2012 | 2:18 pm
    Just as a reminder – tomorrow, May-9, 2012, at 11am PDT I will be giving a free webinar “MySQL and SSD”. This is the same talk I gave on Percona Live MySQL Conference, so if you were there – you probably will find nothing new. Otherwise, you are welcome to join!
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    DaniWeb IT Discussion Community

  • Regular expression as a function of highlighting search text

    piotrekw
    16 May 2012 | 5:40 am
    I have e.g. example: $some_text='some example text [title=some_title]some title[/title] next text'; and I want make function, which will search for the word. I make function: function text_check($text,$search_word) { $text = preg_replace('/'.$search_word.'/i','<span style="color: red;">'.$search_word.'</span>',$text); return $text; } $search='title'; echo text_check($some_text,$search); How to construct a function of instruction which will steer clear of the bbcode [title=some_title]?

  • Apache does not start on XAMPP

    bamous
    16 May 2012 | 5:26 am
    Apache does not start on XAMPP I have installed XAMPP on XP PRO and I can not start apache when i press start, following message appears. "Busy... apache started on port 80 WARNNG: terminating worker thread 0" Please help.

  • A questen for experienced ones

    willson1
    16 May 2012 | 5:26 am
    One person in market from ten year doing SEO having the site services and same keywords as we have for our site ,we start effort on SEO and get our site on top 1st position with in 5 month ,but that person is doing SEO from ten year why we get the 1st position so quickly ,how our keyword come at top in 5month , is there any thing like maturity level after that Google imposes some hard rules on site ,or what is this i am totally confused

  • Immediately close form after saving

    Gus_19
    16 May 2012 | 4:54 am
    I have my form checked if it's dirty when a user goes to close it. If its dirty is true, the user is asked if they would like to save the data. When they click yes, the 'save event' is called. The problem I'm having is trying to get the form to completly close after saving. At the end of the save I put in me.close(), but another form closing event is triggered. Is this the correct way to dictate having the form close immediately after saving the data or is there a better way? If it is, I must have it placed in the wrong part of my code. Immediately after the "success" dialog box is displayed,…

  • Add Application to facebook fan page , graph api

    masocha
    16 May 2012 | 4:51 am
    l have installed application to page using https://www.facebook.com/add.php?api_key=valid_api_key&pages=1 but when l go to the page l cant see the page tab that supposed to hve been created.
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    Byte by Byte

  • Teriyaki Recipie

    mybluevan
    1 May 2012 | 12:09 pm
    Teriyaki 3 parts soy sauce 6 parts mirin ("sweet cooking seasoning", can be bought in alcoholic and non-alcoholic versions at an Asian market) 1 part "sugar" (honey, sugar, etc. I prefer honey.) ~1/4 part rice vinegar equal parts finely minced fresh ginger and garlic to taste. (I use 2 cloves of garlic to 12 T. soy sauce and an equal amount of ginger.) Combine in a small sauce pan and simmer for a few minutes till it just starts to thicken slightly and take on a more honey-like consistency. Remove from heat once sauce has reached desired consistency. Take the strips of…

  • 2012 Goals Update (2012-2-8)

    mybluevan
    8 Feb 2012 | 1:50 pm
    Well, looks like it's time for an update on my goals for the year. Training has been going pretty well so far. I need to get the road bike fixed up so that I can use that for training. I'm clearly not cut out for running. All things considered though, it's going well and I'm starting to see progress. I missed a night for the first time yesterday. It may have had something to do with it being really cold, all my exercise clothes being dirty, or being extra tired. I'm going to put my money on being lazy and forgetful though. (Maybe I should have made better memory a…

  • Apache Log Script

    mybluevan
    1 Feb 2012 | 1:10 pm
    Those of us who administer web servers know that we should be checking our log files on a regular basis. But seriously, who has time for that? If you run a busy server this could mean spending hours each day. I understand that there is some software out there to help process log files and send you alerts when something looks fishy, but if you're running a small to medium sized server that may seem a little overkill. Plus, there's always a chance they could miss something. Thus, I have created a little customizable bash script that can be run as a cron job at midnight and will e-mail…

  • Some Personal Goals in 2012

    mybluevan
    1 Feb 2012 | 8:39 am
    To the end of making some life improvements this year I've decided to post some goals for 2012. Train for and climb Mt Whitney Weigh in at 60-70 KG Learn Morse Code Get my Extra License (HAM radio) Hack my sleep cycle Reduce my junk Simplify my life/schedule Carry on a simple conversation in Japanese Keep my room/house reasonably clean Track my progress on this blog This is just a starting point, subject to change. I don't know if I'll get it all done or not, but at least I have something to work towards. Also, there are other areas in my life that I wish to grow in as well…

  • College Statistics

    mybluevan
    4 Oct 2011 | 10:54 am
    What really happens in college these days: 1% actually learn something useful 4% prove what they already know 95% learn how to slide by/cheat/fake their way through life 3% actually spend time in productive study 97% learn the art of getting wasted After graduation: 1% wind up getting a full-time job in their field 4% wind up with a low paying retail/menial labor job 95% are still unemployed
 
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    Smart SaaS

  • SaaS Business Profile: ServiceNow

    Kevin Dobbs
    8 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Company:        ServiceNow Started:            2004 Located:          San Diego, California Geography:     Global Market:            IT Solutions Products:         Cloud-based services that automate enterprise IT operations. Key Customers: AGL, Bosche Siemens, CERN, Emory University, Equinix, Harrods, John Lewis, Juniper Networks, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NHS, PWC, REI, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Staples, University of San Francisco Website:           Service-Now Blog:                ServiceNow Commentary Twitter:…

  • SaaS Business Profile – Hubspan

    Kevin Dobbs
    24 Apr 2012 | 11:40 pm
    Company:        Hubspan Started:             2000 Located:           Seattle, Washington Geographies:  Global Market:              Cloud Business Integration Products:         B2B Integration Key Customers: Ariba, CNET IBM, Interra IT, Middleware Management Partners Corp, NetSuite, NuBridges, SciQuest and Visa Website:          Hubspan Website Blog:                Hubspan Connections Twitter:            @Hubspan Recent News Hubspan Announces Six New B2B SuiteApps for NetSuite’s SuiteCloud Computing Platform Hubspan Channel…

  • SaaS Business Profile: Lumesse

    Kevin Dobbs
    16 Apr 2012 | 11:00 am
    Company:             Lumesse Started:                  2003 Located:                Guildford, UK Geography:          Global Market:                  HCM, Integrated Talent Management and Learning  Products:              Lumesse TalentLink and Lumesse Learning Key Customers:  Siemens, Heineken, Levi Strauss & Co, Nike, GlaxoSmithKline, Tommy Hilfiger Website:                Corporate Website Blog:                      Voice of Lumesse Recent News: Learning made easy – Lumesse ETWeb v11.1 introduces award-winning…

  • The Maturing of the Social Enterprise

    Kevin Dobbs
    20 Mar 2012 | 9:17 pm
      After attending CloudForce conference in San Francisco last week it started to become apparent that Salesforce.com’s strategy around the Social Enterprise might be real after all.I have to admit that the first time that I heard about Chatter and the Social Enterprise, I was skeptical, but now that more than two years have gone by, I am starting to believe that this could be a major shift in the SaaS market. There have been a number of big players emerging out of the social software market over the last five years including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, or and even Yammer.It is clear…

  • Four Emerging Hybrid SaaS Strategies

    Kevin Dobbs
    6 Mar 2012 | 8:00 am
    Gartner projects that the global SaaS market will grow to more than $21 billion by 2015, with a CAGR in excess of 15%.  This means that the SaaS market will be growing 5 times faster than the traditional on-premise software market and customers are now making a serious pivot towards SaaS.  This change in buyer preferences has become a big driver for many traditional ISV’s to start seriously considering moving their businesses towards SaaS.  This move to the Cloud is causing traditional software businesses new set of unique challenges such as: How much will my firm have to invest in…
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    The State of Security

  • Conficker Me

    Michael Thelander
    15 May 2012 | 11:40 pm
    An article caught my eye last week that I couldn’t ignore. It was by turns interesting, infuriating and illuminating, with a simple and matter-of-fact headline: “Thanks to weak passwords, Conficker worm still rampant.” It was from SC Magazine and it made me gack just a little. Flashback to 2008. In November of that year Conficker [...]

  • Communicating the value of Information Security – Part 2

    Dwayne Melancon
    15 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Last week, I shared the first part of my learning about best practices for connecting InfoSec activities to the business. In part 2, I talk about the value of knowing your business.

  • Are your security people lying about the impacts? Probably, but not on purpose.

    Shawna Turner-Rice
    14 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    Security is a complex, often nuanced, topic. Today there’s a lot of subjectivity in 100% security oriented discussions. Business people like non-squidgy objective numbers. To make security investment decisions, security people have to sell their area to the business; which means speaking their language. As a consequence, security people are often trying to make objective [...]

  • Communicating the value of Information Security – Part 1

    Dwayne Melancon
    8 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Earlier this year, I began writing about my project relating to "connecting security to the business." Essentially, I want to find repeatable methods to help information security people communicate the business value of their activities to non-technical audiences. Starting today I'll be sharing some of the things I'm learning on this journey.

  • Do We Need Information Security Outlaws?

    Adam Montville
    4 May 2012 | 10:30 am
    I have to admit that I am an addict.  I’m addicted to the FX program, Sons of Anarchy.  The SOA is a motorcycle gang club operating outside the law in a small California town called Charming.  The local police chief is in the club’s pocket, as is a particular county sherif’s deputy.  The citizens of Charming [...]
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    Phil Windley's Technometria

  • Standard Information Sharing Labels

    15 May 2012 | 6:45 pm
    Some years ago, based on an idea that came up on a train ride to the airport from OSCON, Kaliya Hamlin, Aldo Castaneda and I put together a The paper for the W3C Workshop on Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication was accepted for presentation on identity rights agreements. The idea is that you ought to be able to mark up data you share to let people know how it can be used. Think Creative Commons for personal data. Recently a number of people, including myself, Drummond Reed, and Marc Davis, discussed a similar idea at a WEF Tiger day. Joe Andrieu has a proposal that is slightly…

  • Rich Sharing and Personal Channels

    15 May 2012 | 3:08 pm
    The Social Web has shown us the power of connecting. Facebook has friends, LinkedIn has connections, and Twitter has followers. These channels allow their owners to communicate with others, although their capabilities vary greatly. But the resulting relationship graphs are stilted because their proprietary nature makes interoperation and extension difficult—in spite of all of the money and time invested in creating APIs to access them. I look forward to a relationship network that is based on open standards just as the email network and indeed the Internet itself are. The power of the…

  • Unlocking Data Exchange: The Long Tail of Data

    9 May 2012 | 5:15 pm
    Much has been made of data lately. And with good reason. Data and the ability to exchange and process it are at the heart of modern society's productivity and prosperity. Data and algorithms are the engines that drive the economy in the 21st century. But data is often onerous to obtain, difficult to trust, and hard to understand. Fixing these problems—making trustworthy, understandable data flow more freely, consistently, and reliably—will provide a wellspring of new ideas and companies to prosecute them. This post makes a case that there is a structural problem standing in the…

  • PDS Interoperability

    2 May 2012 | 11:57 am
    Last week in London, I attended a workshop Iain Henderson put on at Innovation Warehouse on Personal Data Store interoperability. He used the following illustrative use cases to talk about what interoperability means for a personal data service (PDS): As an individual, I want to be able to pick up my data from one personal data service (locker etc.) and drop it into another with minimal fuss As an individual, I want to be able to have applications run on my personal data, even when it exists in multiple different services As an individual, I want the apps I had running on my personal data in…

  • Starting a High Tech Business: Being Startup Compliant

    27 Apr 2012 | 4:01 pm
    I'm the founder and CTO of Kynetx. This series of articles relates my discoveries and feelings about starting a high-tech business. This is the thirty-second installment. You may find my efforts instructive. Or you may know a better way---if so, please let me know! I run into people all the time whose lives are not startup compliant. They express a desire to start a company and have ideas, but they've made choices that limit their ability to live the startup life. They say "I'd like to start a company, but I need a salary." Starting a company requires extreme flexibility in personal finances.
 
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  • Mailing 101: Insider Tips on How to Reduce Business Mail Costs

    15 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how your business can take advantage of postal discounts and ways to leverage existing rates to minimize your expenses. Get practical insider tips on utilizing new mailing tools and services to not only increase revenue, but also reduce mailing costs.Topics & Objectives:Classes of Mail: what are they and how can you get the best pricing?Understanding postal discounts that could apply to your businessHow to increase sales with new mailing tools and servicesHear successful business mailing storiesRequest Free!

  • Free Trial Download: VIPRE Antivirus Business Software

    14 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    VIPRE Antivirus Business is the cost-effective and easy-to-manage business virus protection for small- and medium-sized businesses. It's easy to set up and use via an intuitive management console. It's the business antivirus built with IT administrators in mind. Try VIPRE free for 30 days to see how this security solution can benefit your organization.Request Free!

  • The Total Economic Impact of HP 3PAR Storage

    14 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    On average, HP 3PAR Storage customers achieved a 10.4 month payback with a 55% ROI over a 3-year evaluation period and a significant reduction in CapEx and OpEx over that same period as a result of thin provisioning, maintenance costs avoided and labor productivity gains.Sponsored by HP and IntelRequest Free!

  • The Busy IT Manager's Guide to Evaluating Antivirus Solutions

    14 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    When evaluating antivirus solutions for your organization, price does not equal value. Consider the value delivered and the problems the solution will solve for your company. This on-demand webcast discusses:Evaluating antivirus solutions todaySetting up a simple but effective evaluation labPlanning for a systematic, quantitative approachAddressing key administrator usability criteriaPerforming end-user experience testsAssessing performanceRequest Free!

  • Defining Tier One Storage in the Modern Data Center

    14 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    What was a simple environment just a few years ago with mainframes or a few large servers to be supported has evolved into a complex web of virtual machines, clouds, and expanding user expectations -- factors which demand and create flexibility, but do so in a way that pushes a lack of predictability upon the storage infrastructure. Learn what your criteria should be for tier-1 storage.Sponsored by HP and IntelRequest Free!
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  • Five Predictive Imperatives for Maximizing Customer Value

    15 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    With predictive analytics, you can meet your customers' evolving needs with forward-looking insights that anticipate changes in customer attitudes, preferences, and actions. This white paper from IBM describes how a set of five predictive imperatives can help ensure that your company maximizes the value of its customer relationships and sustains higher levels of revenues and profits.Request Free!

  • Seven Reasons You Need Predictive Analytics Today

    15 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Read this white paper to uncover why predictive analytics is becoming a necessity for companies to gain and maintain advantage: Why predictive analytics has emerged as a proven way to gain competitive advantage; how you can use your company's accumulated information to predict effective ways to increase sales, enhance customer relationships, address consumer needs, and more; and how predictive analytics enables people all across your business to gain more insight, make better decisions and take more decisive actions when they matter most.Request Free!

  • Customer Analytics Pay Off: Driving Top-line Growth by Bringing Science to the Art of Marketing

    15 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Read this Executive Report to learn how an effective customer analytics strategy can help drive top-line growth, avoid unnecessary costs and increase customer satisfaction. Understand where your organization is in its pursuit to gain deeper customer insights with four stages of organizational capabilities and associated customer analytics strategies: gain insight from the information explosion; share information internally and across value chain; move from reaction to prediction; and adapt business models that enable faster creation of value.Request Free!

  • Cloud for Dummies, IBM Midsize Company Limited Edition

    10 May 2012 | 4:50 pm
    This eBook gives mid-sized companies insights on what it means to create flexible pools of computing resources that break down silos in your company so you can perform in a smarter & proactive manner.Request Free!

  • High Performance Organizations Empower Employees with Real-Time Mobile Analytics

    1 May 2012 | 4:50 pm
    Based on a 2010 study by the Aberdeen Group, many organizations are still in the early stages of adopting mobile business intelligence (BI). Initially focusing on senior executives with mobile access to management information, companies are now deploying mobile BI throughout the organizations to empower their front-line workers.This Aberdeen Analyst Insight highlights the challenges to come, and brings focus to issues that organizations need to consider in order to successfully deploy mobile analytics to their front line.Request Free!
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  • Free Trial Download: VIPRE Antivirus Business Software

    14 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    VIPRE Antivirus Business is the cost-effective and easy-to-manage business virus protection for small- and medium-sized businesses. It's easy to set up and use via an intuitive management console. It's the business antivirus built with IT administrators in mind. Try VIPRE free for 30 days to see how this security solution can benefit your organization.Request Free!

  • Increase Sales and Conversions With a Well-designed Web Site

    7 May 2012 | 1:50 pm
    Creating an online presence is just as important as getting your name out to your local consumers. Grow with the Internet by learning how to pick the right type of design for your market as well as how to sell directly from your website.You will also receive free price quotes from web design vendors that best fit your needs.Request Free!

  • Six Steps for Orchestrating the Requirements Process

    3 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
    How do you become an agile enterprise but still deal with all the intricacies of managing an effective and controlled requirements process? The latest research shows that almost 50% of organizations struggle with managing customer requirements because they use hybrid agile and waterfall approaches. Organizations that do hybrid development face unique challenges in dealing with the impact of changing requirements across projects, maintaining traceability across the application delivery lifecycle, and working with disparate tools and processes. Read this white paper from requirements management…

  • Creative Shorts: Business Agility through Agile Lifecycle Practices

    3 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
    In this report, discover the strategy for employing Agile lifecycle practices to ensure end-to-end agility for application and service delivery.Request Free!

  • VDI Monitoring & Performance Management Best Practices with Brian Madden & Gabe Knuth

    1 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Download this On-Demand Webinar and learn more about:User experience focus vs application silo focusQuick identification of performance bottlenecks vs fingerpointing between network, server, desktop teamsProactive vs reactive performance management Turning data overload into actionable insightUnderstanding the whole VDI environment end-to-end vs silo focusInsight into user and application behavior and performance impactTools for VDI planning and design vs implementation Why monitoring of virtual desktops is different from virtual serversHow to right-size your VDI infrastructure Agent vs…
 
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  • How CIOs Migrate their IT Applications to the Cloud

    David Deans - BTR moderator
    10 May 2012 | 5:08 pm
    As the role of cloud computing is growing around the globe, many CIOs and other senior IT decision makers are facing challenges with their existing network infrastructure -- to support the migration of their business applications to the cloud. A new international study by Cisco Systems revealed the ongoing challenges associated with public or private cloud deployments. These latest research findings provide insight into the current state of cloud service adoption and the chasm between IT expectations and network realities. The survey also examines the experiences of IT professionals regarding…

  • Cloud-Based Collaboration Services in Asia-Pacific Gov

    David Deans - BTR moderator
    7 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Government agencies are reportedly one of the primary benefactors of managed cloud services. According to the results from a recent market study by IDC, IT decision-makers across the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) found that 59 percent of public sector respondents are confident in the ability of their internal IT departments to deploy private cloud environments. However, IDC Government Insights cautions that high levels of private cloud adoption may not bode well for a collaborative and citizen-engaging government and preemptive measures should be taken for collaboration to take place…

  • Exploring the Trends in Global Business Communications

    David Deans - BTR moderator
    20 Apr 2012 | 4:37 pm
    Today, most important executive relationships are globally distributed, but many business leaders still say that they want more collaboration in person. Particularly during activities such as brainstorming for new ideas, managing a specific crisis or making presentations. This is among the key findings from a new Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) survey. While the primary function of meetings is to build relationships with customers, some 89 percent of EIU survey respondents say communications where the parties can see and respond to each other benefit internal business functions such as…

  • Five Megatrends are Driving the Personal Cloud Era

    David Deans - BTR moderator
    16 Apr 2012 | 2:30 pm
    If you believe that you've had to learn more about the safe online operation and ongoing management of your PC than you ever wanted to know, then you'll be pleased to discover that there's relief on the horizon. According to the latest market study by Gartner, the reign of the personal computer is coming to an apparent close. By 2014, the personal cloud will replace the personal computer -- and this transition will likely include greater use of media tablets, chromebooks or other similar devices. Gartner analysts said the personal cloud will become the foundation for a new era that will…

  • Why Big Data Applications Adoption is Accelerating

    David Deans - BTR moderator
    9 Apr 2012 | 6:07 pm
    Big Data applications have gained new momentum in the marketplace, as the benefits of working with larger and larger data sets enables analysts to spot key business-related trends. International Data Corporation (IDC) released a worldwide forecast of Big Data opportunities, noting that the market is expected to grow from $3.2 billion in 2010 to $16.9 billion in 2015. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40 percent -- or about 7 times that of the overall Information and Communications Technology (ICT) market. "The Big Data market is expanding rapidly as large IT companies…
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  • Fluid IT – It’s about the Business

    info@executivebrief.com
    16 May 2012 | 4:38 am
    If your business is often put into a position of making strategic decisions based on the inflexibility of IT solutions, try Fluid IT – a combination of best of breed technology strategy with the cloud operating model organization – and no IT decisions would determine where and how you do business again.

  • The Agile Project Manager – The Secret Sauce: Team Appreciation

    info@executivebrief.com
    10 May 2012 | 8:45 am
    Solid agile project managers know how to enhance appreciation dynamics in a team. Setting up an “appreciative environment”, though, may call for additional focus on the related areas of positive psychology, strengths-based ‘movement’, and appreciative inquiry.

  • The Cost of Doing Nothing May Exceed the Cost of Changing

    info@executivebrief.com
    9 May 2012 | 4:56 am
    Lack of technological progress or hardware failures will sooner or later result in expensive consequences. Replacing legacy systems is the only way out, but it shouldn`t necessarily be a painful process. Just choose the most suitable approach and learn how to mitigate risks and control costs.

  • Agile User Interface Design

    info@executivebrief.com
    8 May 2012 | 4:39 am
    Learn how to design the user interface in Kanban and Scrum employing a user-centric, iterative, and collaborative process. Start with a high-level design sketch, take advantage of the team's collective creativity, and make your detailed design decisions step by step as part of the product backlog grooming work.

  • When Workloads Are Seriously Out of Whack: 11 Leadership Tips

    info@executivebrief.com
    7 May 2012 | 4:46 am
    Does your virtual team have explicit norms about addressing workload imbalance? If not, here are eleven leadership tips to help you effectively apportion work among your team members and restore harmony.
 
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    Modis

  • Around the IT Industry 5/7-5/11

    Modis
    12 May 2012 | 7:29 am
    Microsoft Repeating Browser History? In the early 1990s, Microsoft took a lot of flak from legal entities claiming that their Internet Explorer browser was so intrinsically tied to their Windows operating system that it constituted a monopoly and thus future revisions of Windows were designed to operate without depending on the IE browser. Now, Microsoft [...]Around the IT Industry 5/7-5/11 is a post from: Modis

  • Ben Silbermann, the Mind Behind Pinterest

    Modis
    8 May 2012 | 10:19 pm
    Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann recently spoke with Hunch founder Chris Dixon at the Austin, Texas conference known as South by Southwest (SXSW). During this interview, Silbermann reflected on the origins of his business, his reasons for doing things the way he has, and hinted at the future of Pinterest. Silbermann had spent years working in [...]Ben Silbermann, the Mind Behind Pinterest is a post from: Modis

  • The Fastest Growing Tech Industries in America

    Modis
    1 May 2012 | 8:48 am
    In today’s economy, having the drive to succeed and the knowledge to remain strong in your field may not always be enough to keep your job. Companies are laying off thousands of workers every year as demand for certain services diminishes. In these desperate times, it may not be enough to have the right certifications [...]The Fastest Growing Tech Industries in America is a post from: Modis

  • Around the IT Industry 4/23-4/27

    Modis
    27 Apr 2012 | 9:34 am
    Bing vs. Google Search engines are a vital component of the Internet, and almost everyone who uses the Internet uses a search engine to find the content they seek. While there are literally dozens if not hundreds of search engines out there to choose from, the two that dominate the industry are Microsoft’s Bing and [...]Around the IT Industry 4/23-4/27 is a post from: Modis

  • How Legislation aiming at Piracy and Copyright Infringement Can Affect Information Technology

    Modis
    25 Apr 2012 | 9:12 am
    The Internet has expanded a great deal since its conception and with it comes a large spectrum of users from all walks of life. While SOPAandPIPAhavefailed in the United States from protests by tech giants such as Google and Wikipedia, other bills have snuck under the radar. These laws aim to turn the tides against [...]How Legislation aiming at Piracy and Copyright Infringement Can Affect Information Technology is a post from: Modis
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  • The ABCs of CPU Testing and Inspection

    Converge
    2 May 2012 | 12:54 pm
    Before your company buys CPUs through an independent distributor, what kind of inspection capabilities should you check for to ensure that quality can be completely verified? Converge CPU commodity manager Matt Bergeron says that beyond doing the typical visual inspection, the best distributors will offer additional in-depth testing services. In fact, the industry veteran says there are three key capabilities buyers should look for. We’ll call them the ABCs of CPU testing and inspection:Authenticity Tool – Does the distributor use a processor identification tool to verify the…

  • An Inside Look at Electronics Commodity Management

    Converge
    18 Apr 2012 | 10:44 am
    When technology manufacturers and service providers need to procure hard-to-find electronic components or recover value from excess inventory, they often work with an independent distributor like Converge. In addition to these solutions, some independents also offer a valuable resource that few other sources can provide: in-depth market intelligence. Converge has a team of dedicated global commodity managers who are solely focused on knowing everything about their specific commodities – who makes the parts, who uses the parts, what they’re selling for, and how those price points are…

  • New Converge Podcast: Quality Assurance in the Independent Market

    Converge
    4 Apr 2012 | 1:12 pm
    How can you be sure that you are getting true assurance of quality when procuring electronic components in the independent market? That’s the topic of a new podcast available on the Converge website. Counterfeit prevention is a hot topic that everyone in the electronic components industry is talking about. In a Q&A session highlighting some of the most commonly asked questions, Converge supply chain expert Scot Hennessey addresses issues such as these: What has led to the rising concern about counterfeit components? What is the real risk from substandard parts in the…

  • Advanced Component Testing: Decapsulation

    Dwight Gerardi
    21 Mar 2012 | 12:54 pm
    For the past month, I have been blogging about advanced testing methods for electronic components, discussing XRF analysis and X-ray imaging. The last advanced testing process I will explain in this series is decapsulation. At Converge, we have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to substandard components, and we have invested in numerous advanced testing capabilities to help ensure the safety of our supply chain. If any discrepancy raises a red flag during our 76-point inspection – from suspicious markings to inaccurate measurements – our engineers can use these advanced methods…

  • Advanced Component Testing: X-ray Imaging

    Dwight Gerardi
    7 Mar 2012 | 9:36 am
    In my last post, I wrote about XRF analysis in the first of a three-part series on advanced component testing capabilities. Converge offers each of these capabilities in-house as an added quality assurance measure for our customers. If any discrepancy raises a red flag during our initial 76-point inspection – from suspicious markings to inaccurate measurements – our in-house certified engineers use advanced testing methods to further investigate the authenticity of the components. One of those testing methods is X-ray imaging. Everyone is familiar with X-ray technology. It is very…
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  • Europe: Computer shipments down, Lenovo on fast growth track

    Evelyn Laeschke
    11 May 2012 | 9:03 am
    London (ip-192.com): PC shipments in Western Europe totaled 15.5 million units in the first quarter of 2012, a 3.1 percent decline compared to 2011. The PC markets of Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain were the worst hit. "Although we saw moderate growth in professional PC shipments, the overall PC market in Western Europe showed a decline,” said Meike Escherich, principal analyst at Gartner. “Consumers continued to focus their spending on alternative computing devices like smartphones and media tablets." The professional PC market declined 2.5 percent in the first quarter of 2012, but saw…

  • Computers can identify cancer treatment targets

    Evelyn Laeschke
    8 May 2012 | 10:21 am
    Brisbane (ip-192.com): Computers can be used to identify cancer treatment targets that wouldn't otherwise have been considered, according to research by an Australian team. “Cancer is not a disease caused by single genes,” said Professor Mark Ragan from The University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB). “Rather, it is changes to the underlying gene regulatory networks that prompt tumors to grow and spread. Understanding gene regulatory networks in healthy and diseased tissues is therefore critical to devising effective cancer treatments. These networks involve vast…

  • Computer: Scientists develop bio-engineered hard drives, wires

    Evelyn Laeschke
    4 May 2012 | 11:56 am
    Leeds (ip-192.com): Tomorrow’s computers will feature larger hard drives and speedier connections – there is nothing new about that. But how about using magnet-making bacteria to build the computers of the future? Researchers at the University of Leeds have used a type of bacterium which 'eats' iron to create a surface of magnets, similar to those found in traditional hard drives, and wiring. As the bacterium ingests the iron, it creates tiny magnets within itself. The team has also begun to understand how the proteins inside these bacteria collect, shape and position these "nanomagnets"…

  • Australian scientists call for research data to be open source

    Evelyn Laeschke
    3 May 2012 | 9:37 am
    Kensington (ip-192.com): Hackers should be role models for freeing up access to the "source code" of clinical trials - patient-level data – scientists from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia argue. They are calling for the open sharing of clinical trial data in the medical research community, saying it would be instrumental in eliminating bottlenecks and duplication, and lead to faster and more trustworthy evidence for many of the most pressing health problems. Hackers revolutionized the software industry by countering the economic and cultural motivations that drove…

  • 2011: Malicious attacks up 81%, 1.1 million identities stolen

    Evelyn Laeschke
    2 May 2012 | 11:08 am
    Mountain View (ip-192.com): The number of malicious attacks on computers and networks skyrocketed by 81 percent in 2011, while the number of vulnerabilities decreased by 20 percent. Advanced targeted attacks are spreading to organizations of all sizes and variety of personnel, data breaches are increasing, and that attackers are focusing on mobile threat. In addition, the number of unique malware variants increased to 403 million and the number of Web attacks blocked per day increased by 36 percent, Symantec concludes in its 2011 Internet Security Threat Report. “In 2011 cybercriminals…
 
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    The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement

  • Response to “Eight Problems with Big Data”

    admin
    26 Apr 2012 | 9:11 am
    After reading Jay Stanley’s ACLU article on “Eight Problems with Big Data,” it is worth reflecting on what could be construed as a fear-mongering indictment of the use of big data analytics and the implication that big data analytics and its implementation of data mining algorithms are tantamount to all-out invasion of privacy. What is interesting, though, is the presumption that privacy advocates have been “grappling” with data mining since “not long after 9/11,” yet data mining was already quite a mature discipline by that point in time, as was the general use of customer data…

  • Data Governance and Quality: Data Reuse vs. Data Repurposing

    admin
    22 Feb 2012 | 1:48 pm
    I have been assembling a slide deck for an upcoming TDWI web seminar on Strategic Planning and the World of Big Data, and I am finding that I might sometimes use two different terms (“data reuse” and “data repurposing,” in case you ignored the tootle of this post) interchangeably when in fact those two words could have slightly different meanings or intents. So should I be cavalier and use them as synonyms? When I thought about it, I did see some clarity in differentiating the definitions: “data reuse” means taking a data asset and using more than once for…

  • Prohibition, Mandating “Ethical” Compliance, and Data Quality

    admin
    20 Feb 2012 | 5:01 pm
    I just finished reading a very interesting book on the evolution of Prohibition in the US in the mid-late 1800s and early 1900s. The book, “Last Call” by Daniel Okrent, followed the temperance movement that started with a bunch of men pledging to stop drinking through its alignment with the women’s suffrage movement, to the passage of the Prohibition amendment, followed by its eventual repeal. One revelation to me was that , according to the author, the political processes that enabled the passage of prohibition essentially created the modern methods of political lobbying,…

  • Data Governance and Federal Agencies

    admin
    8 Feb 2012 | 3:28 pm
    As I was thinking about the content for an upcoming training session on data governance and government activities, I reflected on some experiences in government consulting that were addressed via some aspect of data governance. For simplicity, I thought I’d distill those thoughts into an example demonstrating the need for a comprehensive data governance strategy for federal agencies. Here we go: There is an agency with a number of divisions. Each division has a number of programs, each program has a number of business processes, and each process has one or more applications as well as one…

  • Things I Want to Know About Customers

    admin
    16 Jan 2012 | 8:22 am
    Since it has been a while since I posted to this blog (busy, busy – but busy is good!), I decided to take a break this morning and log some ideas that basically relate quality information to customer visibility. Let’s list a bunch of things we want to know about our customers and then consider the implications regarding information utility: 1)    Identity: I want to know who each customer is, how I can identify each customer, and how I can distinguish different customers. 2)    Contact information: Effective marketing and customer service both demand access to the customer. 3)   …
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  • What’s the deal with new domains?

    jonathanedwards@integral-it.co.uk
    30 Apr 2012 | 7:34 am
    The world of domain names can seem a strange one. If you run a website, you’ve probably encountered it, if only briefly. Look beyond the .com and .co.uk domains that we’re all familiar with and you’ll find an absolute plethora of other domain name extensions – or top level domains (TLDs), as industry insiders call them.

  • Are you ready for the EU’s cookie law?

    jonathanedwards@integral-it.co.uk
    5 Mar 2012 | 7:26 am
    Back in May last year, the EU’s Privacy and Communications Directive came into force. Commonly known as the EU cookie law, the government decided to phase its implementation after realising that most websites were unprepared for it and even experts seemed unsure of its implications.

  • Stop your business drowning in data

    jonathanedwards@integral-it.co.uk
    5 Mar 2012 | 6:05 am
    Together, we are creating unprecedented amounts of data. In 2010 Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed that every two days we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilisation up to 2003.

  • Integral MD named in regional awards

    jonathanedwards@integral-it.co.uk
    22 Feb 2012 | 7:53 am
    Integral IT’s Managing Director has been named in Insider Media’s 42 under forty two awards.

  • The cloud is an easier way to upgrade your IT

    jonathanedwards@integral-it.co.uk
    13 Feb 2012 | 4:33 am
    Even in these cash-strapped times, there’s little point in putting off an IT upgrade for too long. Technology still changes fast. The latest software and applications can help you do new things and be more efficient. And – perhaps more pressingly – equipment tends to age, warranties expire … and sometimes things break.
 
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    RES Software Blog

  • Notes from the road – 14 – Reflecting Back on MMS 2012

    Sean Donahue
    1 May 2012 | 5:05 pm
    MMS has left Las Vegas… for Good? As we closed the expo doors on another Microsoft Management Summit and shut off the lights, I have to wonder if this will be the last trip to the strip for a long time to come. Rumors were abundant this year that MMS would see its final year as a trade show in 2012. But Brad Anderson wowed the audience at his Day 2 keynote by announcing MMS 2013 would be in New Orleans in June. I for one am already looking forward to the natural weight loss conditions of New Orleans during the Summer. But New Orleans was not the only “hot” topic at MMS this year. At RES…

  • How to run a Service Orchestration Run Book task on the requester’s machine

    Rob de Korte
    27 Apr 2012 | 9:19 am
    If you want to enable your users to request software installations or other machine related actions on their own computer with  Service Orchestration and RES Automation Manager, you need to make sure that Automation Manager is able to determine which Agent to schedule the Run Book to. This article describes how you can accomplish that. On the Automation Manager side Create a Run Book that performs the desired task(s) on the user’s machine. This could be a software installation but also a defragmentation or predefined cleanup task. When configuring the Job inside the Run Book make sure…

  • Notes from the Road 12 – SAM Competency: Mission Accomplished

    Sean Donahue
    10 Apr 2012 | 11:04 am
    Achieving SAM competency by Microsoft is an important milestone for RES Software, and marks the first time a vendor within the user environment management space has received this official recognition from Microsoft. SAM I am and I do not like green… It’s not often that I get to step to the mountain top and proclaim such a unique achievement in a software company, but today is not like any ordinary day. Today marks the day that RES Software has announced achieving the Microsoft SAM (Software Asset Management) competency. I am beside myself with pride at this particular accomplishment…

  • Notes from the Road 11 – Microsoft User Experience Virtualization

    Sean Donahue
    3 Apr 2012 | 8:36 pm
    Park City; It’s not just for skiing anymore. I think the best way to start this latest NFR blog is with a hearty congratulations to my old colleagues and friends at Microsoft. Earlier today they announced the much anticipated official Beta of a project code named “Park City”, or officially UE-V. User Experience Virtualization has been in the pipe for a long time now and with this announcement by Microsoft today it sends a clear message across the user state virtualization space. And that message must absolutely be taken seriously -or desktop modernization projects could be in jeopardy.

  • Pinning Part 2 – Pin to StartMenu combined with Zero Profiling in a RES managed environment.

    Patrick van Grinsven
    29 Mar 2012 | 1:00 am
    In part 1 I showed you how pinning to the taskbar works in a RES Workspace Manager managed environment, in this article I will show you how you can pin shortcuts to the StartMenu and have them stored with the use of Zero Profiling. For a customer that wanted to have users some mandatory shortcuts pinned to the StartMenu I created a solution for this with the help of Zero Profiling and the use of “User Profile Directory” Which ways are there to pin items to the StartMenu from a Workspace Manager session.   RES Workspace Manager has no options for pinning items to the…
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  • Looking for Computer Repair Shops?

    Seth Reid
    8 May 2012 | 3:27 pm
    Looking for computer repair shops in Appleton, WI?  Sometimes it can feel overwhelming when your computer won’t work and you don’t know who to turn to.  Can you trust the kid down the street? Will the Geek Squad do a good job and charge a fair price?  How do you know?  That’s why we have testimonials posted of all our happy clients so that you know A) These guys know what they are doing. AND B) You’ll be satisfied with the job you paid for. Fixing a computer can sometimes be as simple as plugging in a loose cable.  And other times it can be one computer program…

  • Don’t Be A Phishy!

    Seth Reid
    2 Apr 2012 | 1:14 pm
    Phishing is a crime commit against users ( that’s you ) over either email or instant messenger.  A phisher will attempt to get your personal information, financial/credit card information, or even your login and password to your online accounts.  Phishing is basically a new spin on the age old art of CON-ing.  The criminal tries to gain your confidence by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business in an online communication.  It even happened to myself once when I received a VERY VERY official looking email from what I thought was an angry ebay buyer.  So in a panic I clicked…

  • Computer Help In Appleton, WI Tip of the Day

    Seth Reid
    28 Mar 2012 | 9:22 am
    Computer security and protecting your company’s intellectual property is a necessity in today’s digital world filled with hackers and pirates and all the scary people in dark rooms etc…  So here are some basic rules of thumb to follow when protecting that precious data: 1) Always use a secure password.  I recommend at least eight characters long and NEVER use words that are in the dictionary.  Also, use special characters.  The difference in how long it takes to crack the passwords “computer” and “ComPut3R!” is mind boggling.  A well designed…

  • Appleton Computer Repair Tip of the Day

    Seth Reid
    9 Feb 2012 | 12:39 pm
    Tech tip of the day for all of you computer users in Appleton, Oshkosh, Milwaukee, and beyond.  Did you know there is a quick and easy way to get rid of pop-ups without clicking on them?  That’s right!  You should NEVER click a pop-up that you were not expecting, because that is one of the main ways viruses enter your computer system. So, next time you are sitting there and out of no where a browser window pops up and says “You just won XYZ, click here to claim your prize!”; all you do is hold the ALT key on the keyboard and while you hold it, tap the F4 key up at the top…

  • Facebook Fake News Report Contains Virus

    Seth Reid
    8 Feb 2012 | 10:50 pm
    Computer viruses never seem to take a day off.  And today is no exception.  It is estimated by security firm SOPHOS that more than 60,000 Facebook users were tricked into clicking a fake news report that WWIII had just broken out.  So remember to always, always be on your guard.  Try to get in the habit of stopping yourself before clicking and saying “This could be a computer virus.”  Even just a few seconds can let the logic return to you and you can go check a real news site without clicking the picture. If you do get infected, run your anti-virus program right away and if…
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  • The Search for Enterprise Search

    Paul Wormeli
    15 May 2012 | 9:23 am
    May 14, 2012. Two kids grew up working on totally different skill sets and, understandably, developed radically different approaches to meet their objective. The first kid was about the notion of searching the rows and columns of databases, learning to create keys that made it possible to very quickly find the rows that contained the data [...]

  • What year is this, anyway?

    Paul Wormeli
    7 May 2012 | 2:41 pm
    May 7, 2012. It seems like part way into any given new year, the pundits and the prognosticators declare that this is the year of the [pick your own favorite trend]. As we began 2012, there were lots of people contending that this was the year of the cloud, so cloud computing was going to [...]

  • Long Live LTE

    Paul Wormeli
    1 May 2012 | 1:29 pm
    May 1, 2012. Long-term Evolution (LTE) is well entrenched in the commercial smartphone and broadband world, with multiple offerings of phones and modems; however, unfortunately, the public safety market usually takes a while to mature to catch up with the commercial world – maybe it never really catches up at all. One of the indicators [...]

  • A Guide to Global Products

    Paul Wormeli
    23 Apr 2012 | 9:22 am
    April 23, 2012. As I travel around the country and attend various law enforcement and justice functions, I have frequently been amazed at how many people are unaware of the many helpful products that have been developed by the Global (Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative) Advisory Committee (GAC) to the Attorney General. The GAC has [...]

  • Making Multi-Purpose Systems

    Paul Wormeli
    18 Apr 2012 | 1:03 pm
    April 18, 2012. One of the early uses of computers in the police field was to generate the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). In order to do so, the early adopters of computer technology created a computerized repository of the data on hand-written police reports that needed to be entered in order to calculate the Return [...]
 
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  • How to use Amazon sales rank tracking to provide real-time Internet marketing insight

    David Mercer
    15 May 2012 | 3:12 am
    The Amazon sales rank is an hourly updated measure of the relative sales performance for products sold via Amazon. Tracking Amazon sales ranks can be used as a good indicator of sales performance in real time, as well as for powerful competitive sales analysis. From an Internet marketing perspective, having a real-time record of the changes in an Amazon product's sales is incredibly useful for gathering intelligence on conversion rates and ROI (Return on Investment). read more

  • Does your company have a skills shortage? How to adapt your corporate recruitment strategy

    David Mercer
    14 May 2012 | 9:42 am
    Startups and business experience perennial shortages of highly skilled personnel. Recruitment becomes an expensive ordeal, often with unsatisfactory results. This is largely because companies insist on using hiring strategies are ineffective and outdated. Even companies that use the latest social media platforms for headhunting and recruitment are largely doing the same old thing, just on a shiny new platform. read more

  • 5 step Internet marketing & SEO 'how to' for professionals

    David Mercer
    14 May 2012 | 4:09 am
    Want to know how to to get more clients via Internet marketing? Professionals in all industries can benefit greatly from implementing quick and easy Internet marketing and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) - you don't even need any technical or Web experience to get started. So long as you put a little bit of effort into your website or blog on a regular basis, you can build a thriving practice - with customers coming to you, rather than you having to pay for advertising to attract them. The nice thing about Internet marketing and SEO for professionals is that it is "localized". You can only…

  • 10 step assessment: How to hire an SEO consultant or Internet marketing company for your business

    David Mercer
    12 May 2012 | 4:55 am
    Are you looking to hire an SEO company? How about social media marketing, or general Internet marketing for your business? Hire the right company using my ten easily verifiable, online indicators of SEO and marketing competence. SEO and marketing are crucial services for any business hoping to get traffic and make money online. This article shows you free tools, tips and tricks to grade the SEO, social, technical, and marketing skills of the people you entrust with the success of your enterprise. read more

  • The top five SEO services for small business, 2012

    David Mercer
    11 May 2012 | 1:45 am
    Check out this list of the top five SEO services and companies for small business in 2012. Also included is an "Honorable mention" section for SEO companies that offer great SEO or SEM products and services, but didn't quite make it into the top five. Regardless of whether you are looking for a complete suite of SEO tools to help monitor and manage your content, to hardcore SEO anlaytics software for business, to top quality SEO advice and consulting, this list of the top five SEO services, 2012, has something to suit your needs. read more
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  • DoD enterprise architecture to serve as the foundation for forthcoming iEHR

    mbernhart
    13 May 2012 | 9:19 pm
    The enterprise architecture established by the Military Health System's electronic health record way ahead, will serve as the basis of the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments' integrated electronic health record, known as the iEHR. While the iEHR EA will be based on work already completed by each department, the "baseline iEHR architecture is the MHS EHRWA architecture," according to an April 3 memo (.pdf) from Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs, obtained by Nextgov. The memo expands upon and clarifies a June 2011 statement that the…

  • ISPs actively scan defense contractor Internet traffic under DoD program

    dperera
    13 May 2012 | 8:48 pm
    Defense companies can volunteer to have Internet service providers scan their traffic for known malicious code identified by the Defense Department, the Pentagon announced May 11. The announcement comes as the Pentagon also said May 11 in the Federal Register it intends to formalize a cyber threat information sharing effort underway known as the DIB pilot ("DIB" stands for defense industrial base). The traffic scanning program, said Eric Rosenbach, deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy in an interview with mouthpiece organ the American Forces Press Service, is known…

  • Spires: DHS reducing redundancy

    dperera
    12 May 2012 | 6:04 pm
    In an effort to reduce redundancy, the Homeland Security Department has identified 13 major functions that DHS undertakes and is looking to integrate information technology systems within those cross-cutting areas, said DHS Chief Information Officer Richard Spires May 11. "It turns out, if you count it up--and we have--…we actually have 117 different screenings that we do," Spires said, while speaking at a lunch event put on by AFCEA NOVA in Tysons Corner, Va. For example, Customs and Border Protection screens cargo and individuals that cross borders, while the Transportation…

  • Audio: Richard Spires speaks at AFECA NOVA

    dperera
    11 May 2012 | 2:58 pm
    Richard Spires, chief information officer of the Homeland Security Department, spoke May 11 during an event put on by AFECA-NOVA in Tysons Corner, Va. Click below on the media player to listen to his remarks in full. During his speech, Spires said he has four general priorities as a CIO: Rebalancing the civil servant/contractor ratio and creating better career paths for IT professionals at DHS; Improving IT management at the department; Rationalizing the IT infrastructure; and Expanding the OneDHS to include areas of more shared functionality across DHS components. Related Articles: Spires:…

  • DISA eyes BYOD mobility strategy

    mbernhart
    11 May 2012 | 2:43 pm
    The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to stand up a bring your own device, or BYOD, mobile policy for personnel connecting to unclassified networks, according to a slide deck (.pdf) presented May 7 at the DISA Mission Partner Conference in Tampa, Fl. The BYOD plan is part of DISA's long term strategy and likely won't happen until fall 2013 at the earliest, according to the slides. In the interim, DISA's short-term approach is to accept pre-selected devices to connect to unclassified networks. During the next two months, DISA is performing "structured testing to…
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  • Flipboard Brings Sound to Your Social Magazine

    16 May 2012 | 12:17 am
    Flipboard Brings Sound to Your Social MagazineFrom Snoop Dogg to "Fresh Air" -- Flipboard Partners with SoundCloud, NPR and PRI; Now People Can Listen to Their FlipboardPALO ALTO, Calif/PRNewswire/ --&nbsp;The newest edition of Flipboard™, release...

  • Social Media in the Utilities Sector

    15 May 2012 | 3:36 pm
    Social Media in the Utilities SectorDate: 21st to 22nd May 2012Location: The Grange Holborn Hotel, London, United Kingdom http://www.smi-online.co.uk/media-utilities36.aspBecome adept with the ‘Big Four’ networks: Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Fa...

  • Introducing Genome from Yahoo!

    15 May 2012 | 2:16 am
    Introducing Genome from Yahoo!, a New Solution Capitalizing on Yahoo!'s Vast Data and Designed to Significantly Improve Online Marketing CampaignsData Driven Best-in-Class Technology Uncovers Optimal Targeted Audiences at Scale in a Premium Media ...

  • Yahoo! Names Fred Amoroso Chairman and Appoints Ross Levinsohn Interim CEO

    15 May 2012 | 2:14 am
    Yahoo! Names Fred Amoroso Chairman and Appoints Ross Levinsohn Interim CEOBoard Announces Settlement with&nbsp;Third Point LLCSUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--&nbsp;Yahoo! Inc.&nbsp;(NASDAQ: YHOO) today announced that the Board of Directors has...

  • Adobe Delivers Web Experience Management in the Cloud

    15 May 2012 | 2:06 am
    Adobe Delivers Web Experience Management in the CloudComprehensive Cloud Offering Accelerates Enterprise Marketing CampaignsLONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Adobe Digital Marketing Summit EMEA“Adobe CQ in the cloud, now enhanced with CQ Cloud Manager, ena...
 
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  • A significant number of home PC users don’t practice effective personal data safety measures, according to Paragon Software SURVEY

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    15 May 2012 | 6:09 am
    10K users surveyed back up and defrag regularly, but do not take advantage of alignment, wiping, and other data safety technologies. Every third PC user knows little about virtualization Paragon has conducted an online survey of more than 10,000 owners of the company’s latest Hard Disk Manager products where respondents were asked to answer 22 questions [...]

  • Paragon Software offers new exclusive opportunities to affiliates!

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    25 Apr 2012 | 7:19 am
    GREAT DEAL FOR PARAGON AFFILIATE PARTNERS We appreciate the work of our affiliates so much that we decided to increase commissions to 50% for each Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite sold for the next two months! From May through June 2012, all affiliates registered through the Avangate Affiliate Network will earn 50% on our bestselling [...]

  • Softmart now offering Paragon Software’s data backup, disaster recovery, and storage optimization products

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    18 Apr 2012 | 2:34 am
    value-added reseller (VAR) Softmart now carries Paragon’s line of data storage, disaster recovery software and storage optimization software, including Hard Disk Manager (HDM) Server, Drive Backup (DB) Server, Partition Manager (PM) Server and the Paragon Alignment Tool (PAT). Since 1982, Softmart has been a trusted resource for software, hardware, and IT services.Softmart provides turnkey [...]

  • Paragon Software lets users enjoy the benefits of virtualization!

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    17 Apr 2012 | 8:31 am
    Paragon Software invites every single user to enjoy the benefits of virtualization by joining unprecedented 3-DAYs-Giveaway of its newest virtualization solution! Virtualization Manager 12 Compact normally priced at $29.95, is available for FREE to all friends on Paragon Facebook until April, 20th. Click “LIKE” button to get access to the Giveaway and follow the simple steps [...]

  • New Paragon Virtualization Manager 12 Professional solves all virtualization challenges efficiently!

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    16 Apr 2012 | 1:55 am
    New – fastest and safest partitioning engine for all virtual management tasks. Any type of migration (P2V, V2V, V2P and P2P), including migration from 2TB+ physical drive to a smaller virtual drive. Paragon Software’s extensive research into the virtualization and data management markets found that even competent virtualization adopters had common problems with virtualization and data [...]
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  • IPhone 4S Vs Galaxy S3: Digital Camera Comparison

    Tomin Markose
    12 May 2012 | 12:02 am
    By the launch of Samsung galaxy s3, the Apple IPhone 4s got a pretty new and smarter rival in terms of hardware specifications. One of the main features for both most talked is the features about its camera. Since the Galaxy S3 is newer in technology, the camera segment of this phone is improved a lot by Samsung.Looking into the similarities..Both devices has an 8 megapixel resolution (3264x2448 pixels) camera which is a standard for new era smartphone. (exceptions are there  Sony Xperia S and Nokia N8 -12 megapixels)Both phone cameras…

  • Download K9 Protection Browser For Android

    Tomin Markose
    9 May 2012 | 8:53 pm
    Have you ever find anything wrong in kids using your smartphone especially for surfing internet?. If there's enough protection for unwanted contents, tablets and smartphones are always suitable for kids too. All you want to do is block the adult/violence contents on your phone. Is it sounds too difficult, then the K9 Protection Browser will do it for you. Web security company Blue Coat Systems announced that its K9 web protection browser is now available for download from Google play.Other web browsers like opera mini, this one will also support almost all android tablets and…

  • Play Subtitle .srt Files With Movie File

    Tomin Markose
    8 May 2012 | 11:35 pm
    Most of us choose watching movies with subtitles. Many movies that we download from internet has subtitles merged with movie file (.avi, mkv, mpg, divx, mp4) so that no need for another subtitle files to be inserted. But in most cases, the movie may not have, subtitles included. so we should download appropriate subtitle file (generally with extension .srt) separately. You can get subtitle for any movies by simply a Google search {MOVIE NAME<space>srt subtitle}. You''ll get better results if the MOVIE NAME is replaced with the file name of the video…

  • Micromax Funbook: Another tablet below Rs.10000

    Tomin Markose
    8 May 2012 | 1:13 am
    The tablets in the entry level market are now giving the best hardware stuff with very low price tag. The Micromax funbook is not an exception. Like Akash tab, Micromax also aims at the large proportion of students in India. According to the major reviewers, Micromax is done well with funbook and it compensates the disadvantages of the elder low cost tablets like Aakash tab and BSNL low cost tablets. One of the major advantage of this tablet is that it runs on the latest android operating system ICE CREAM SANDWICH (Android 4.0). It really is a big plus for this device…

  • Download Firefox 12 for Windows

    Tomin Markose
    7 May 2012 | 10:04 am
    As always,Mozilla is a step ahead in delivering the updates to windows users as they've released Firefox 12 web browser. The opt-in system for plug-ins is not yet available but the version 12 includes a little more features and new tools for developers. ( opt-in plugin system is a new feature that lets users turn off all plug-ins by default and enable them manually when required) New to Firefox 12The software update procedure made more easier.The web page source code includes line numbers.Improvements in search results ("Find in Page")Links placed in the download…
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    IS Decisions' Blog

  • Password Policy: Sharing Passwords

    4 May 2012 | 4:48 am
    This is a guest post by W. Benson Dana, IT internal auditor for the Maine state government. At one point in my career, I worked at a place where management in one unit had allowed a senior manager to collect the log on and email passwords of the employees of the unit. There had been complete resistance to giving up this policy, and the excuse was that this unit’s mission and objectives were unique (how many times does the internal auditor hear this excuse?) and that this arrangement was absolutely necessary. I called a meeting and here is my description of the meeting agenda: « We…

  • UserLock is part of PC Mag’s Best Apps for 2012

    23 Jan 2012 | 3:28 am
    UserLock, our software solution that limits concurrent logins, restricts access, monitors, alerts and reports on session activity throughout the corporate Windows network, has been picked by PC Mag to be part of their “25 excellent applications for small-to-mid-sized businesses to consider in 2012”. Samara Lynn, Lead Analyst at PC Mag, describes UserLock as “an impressive product”, emphasizes its efficiency and scalability and highlights its usefulness for organizations that have to adhere to compliance regulations like HIPAA or SOX. UserLock allows Network Administrators to:…

  • 70% of young workers ignore IT security rules: how to tame them?

    30 Dec 2011 | 7:18 am
    According to a report recently issued by Cisco Systems, 7 out of 10 young employees frequently ignore IT policies and two-thirds said they believe their company’s policies need to be modified. About 61 percent said corporate IT security isn’t their responsibility, believing it is that of their employer or the maker of their devices. Of those who were aware of IT security policies, 70% of employees worldwide admitted to breaking policy with varying regularity. Among the different reasons, the most common was the belief that employees were not doing anything wrong (33%). One in five…

  • We curate Microsoft related news for you

    22 Dec 2011 | 9:06 am
    Volunteers among IS Decisions’ Team constantly review dozens of information sources (websites, blogs, Twitter accounts, etc.), carefully select content for its quality, originality and relevance, and create compelling online magazines. Our goal is to provide IT pros with online resources that help them easily get useful, up to date information about Microsoft technologies, IT security and more, in order to streamline their technology watch activities. Topics we cover include: Microsoft “Microsoft’s products, people and strategies” Windows Infrastructure “Hot off the…

  • Check the December issue of IS Decisions Wire

    19 Dec 2011 | 8:41 am
    The December issue of IS Decisions Wire, our bimonthly E-newsletter is out. Drawing inspiration from Microsoft’s Metro design language, IS Decisions Wire celebrates an elegant and clean look & feel that we hope you will find pleasant to look at and interesting to read. Subscribe now to get the next issue: it’s free!
 
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  • “Social Obligation” – The Trouble with Gamification

    markjowen
    8 May 2012 | 5:40 pm
    What follows is one of my post that was recently published on AIIM’s site as an “Expert Blogger”. (The original can be read here) ———————————————————————– “Social Obligation” – The Trouble with Gamification “Social”, in an “inside-the-firewall” perspective, is often related to sharing information, sharing knowledge, as well as creating a greater degree of transparency. This includes, often, having a personal profile,…

  • How do I influence to get the desired behaviour?

    markjowen
    3 May 2012 | 2:38 pm
    Reblogged from Project Management in Practice: I attended a training by an industrial psychologist Keith McGregor covering topics on why people behave the way they do and how to use strategies to get the outcome that you desire. For the first few hours, I was thinking this is a total waste of time. By the end of the second day, I had changed my mind. While I am still not convinced about the entire content of what was presented, I did take away some strategies to help me get the outcomes I want from my project team members. Read more… 857 more words Shoaib Ahmed, a friend of mine who…

  • IT needs to be less “T” and more “B”

    markjowen
    19 Apr 2012 | 7:44 pm
    What follows is one of my post that was recently published on AIIM’s site as an “Expert Blogger”. (The original can be read here) ———————————————————————– IT needs to be less “T” and more “B” There is a “feeling” in the world of the Information Professional at the moment that there is too much focus on the “T” in IT. That is, the IT department focuses too much on “technology”.  Usually at the…

  • Dousing the flame

    markjowen
    15 Apr 2012 | 5:09 pm
    A friend of mine gave me a call the other day. His name is Carl. I’ve known him for a long time so he lets me call him “Carl”. Carl’s a young guy and has been quite passionate about the computer world. He has his own blog and used to write quite some eclectic material. Recently, however, he had been rather reticent with his ponderings. As I hadn’t spoken to Carl for awhile, I arranged to meet him for a drink. It was quite at the bar. There was a group of guys who seemed to be discussing how to run a “search” project, but we tried to steer clear of…

  • The Importance of “Rituals” in Professional Relationships

    markjowen
    12 Apr 2012 | 7:14 am
    In a TED talk, Dr Abraham Verghese says that: “The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.” In this talk he describes how there is the ritual that is often the most important thing for the doctor-patient relationship. It is the “human contact” that makes the patient feel that there are being cared for. One interesting example Verghese gives, is the “ritual” of the daily rounds (in a hospital). In earlier years, this involved a group of junior doctors crowding around a more senior one as they went from bed…
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  • How To Gift E-books To Your Friends

    Sheetal
    15 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    In this world of reading and publication that is becoming paperless we intend to read our books on readers such as Nook, iPad, Sony reader or even the Kindle. This development has made gifting a book to a book reading lover a challenge. But gifting a e-book is not as difficult as it seems to [...] No related posts.

  • Face Recognition Camera App

    Rajiv
    10 May 2012 | 8:33 am
    We already have heard some time back about face recognition software, which was started as a password for opening laptop. Facial-recognition service released by face.com few years back has gained more popularity with development of  application for smartphones called KLIK  which is a camera app that can quickly tag your Facebook friends and display their [...] Related posts: More Megapixels Are Not Always Better In Digital Camera

  • More Megapixels Are Not Always Better In Digital Camera

    Sheetal
    8 May 2012 | 7:58 am
    When purchasing a digital camera we usually inquire about the megapixels. Lets break the word and at first know about what is pixel. Pixels are points arranged in a grid format on a digital image that can be reproduced in any size as small squares or dots that put together form a picture. Each of [...] No related posts.

  • Environment Friendly Biodegradable Robots Of Future

    Sheetal
    7 May 2012 | 6:40 am
    We have all come up to the world of robots and have started using them in some kind of form , shape or design. Scientist have predicted the extensive use of robots in the future times. At present robots are usually made of metals or plastics that usually give durability to a product but still [...] No related posts.

  • Individual Dynamic Keystrokes Generate A New Password ID

    Sheetal
    30 Apr 2012 | 6:46 am
    In the digital world of today all of us need to remember passwords to secure our accounts one password for the Facebook  account, one for email account, one for online banking account and the list goes on and on and on. You tend to make sometimes easy passwords which are not safe for every kind [...] Related posts: Brain Signals,The New Password Identification System Is Your Internet Surfing Hijacked By Someone
 
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  • Switching Technical Support Services Vendor With Ease

    15 May 2012 | 6:35 am
    Changing technical support services vendor means lot of hassle and re-working or drafting new contract terms to accommodate the new set of requirements expected from the new service provider. Companies generally avoid changing technology vendor and end up renewing contract. Continue reading Switching Technical Support Services Vendor With Ease [Article source: Free Article Directory - Sooper Articles]

  • Choosing The Right Continuous Data Protection Software For Your Backup Need

    15 May 2012 | 6:20 am
    Continuous data protection software, hailed as a viable enhancement to traditional backup appliances, operates by creating a backup whenever a change is made to data. But there are different kinds of CDP products making headway in the market, but all of them may not be suitable for your particular b Continue reading Choosing The Right Continuous Data Protection Software For Your Backup Need [Article source: Free Article Directory - Sooper Articles]

  • Computer Repair Services Available In Dallas, Texas

    15 May 2012 | 2:30 am
    With increasing dependence on computers, the computer repair services have assumed great importance. And if Dallas, Texas is where you are located you are sure to be spoilt for choice when it comes to computer repair service centers. Continue reading Computer Repair Services Available In Dallas, Texas [Article source: Free Article Directory - Sooper Articles]

  • The Evolution of Continuous Data Protection

    20 Apr 2012 | 2:30 pm
    Continuous data protection facilitating nonstop data backup is looked upon as a replacement for traditional backup processes. CDP has succeeded in overcoming the shortcomings that were visible when they first appeared in the market. In this article we'll trace this progress. Continue reading The Evolution of Continuous Data Protection [Article source: Free Article Directory - Sooper Articles]

  • Remote Backup Solution as Alternative To Tape Backup

    8 Mar 2012 | 1:36 pm
    Data backup at remote sites has always posed problem for companies. Tape backups come with own set of disadvantages. However remote backup solution can address the issues with regard to remote site backup and is increasingly being used by organizations of different sizes. Continue reading Remote Backup Solution as Alternative To Tape Backup [Article source: Free Article Directory - Sooper Articles]
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  • Thompson Told Yahoo Board He Has Cancer: WSJ

    15 May 2012 | 6:45 am
    Departed Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, 54, told the board before he resigned over the weekend that he was just diagnosed with thyroid cancer and was starting treatment, the Wall Street Journal said overnight. It isn’t clear exactly where this piece is supposed to fit in the puzzle but if it’s a sympathy bid it may not have worked. All Things Digital says Yahoo is claiming he’s gone for “cause” over ethics violations because of his phony computer science degree – which appeared in Yahoo’s regulatory filings – and won’t be getting much in the way of severance. Heidrick & Struggles…

  • TreeHouse PRM Customers Make CRN Magazine's 2012 Channel Chiefs List

    14 May 2012 | 11:50 am
    TreeHouse Interactive (www.treehousei.com), a provider of on-demand partner relationship management (PRM) and marketing automation solutions, has announced that several customers using its Reseller View PRM solution have been included in CRN Magazine’s 2012 Channel Chiefs list of executives as the who's who of channel management. Several TreeHouse customers also recently received the publication's prestigious 5-Star Partner Program award. The 5-Star Partner Program rating recognizes the elite subset of Partner Program Guide vendors that give solution providers the best partnering elements…

  • Atlantis Computing Partners with VMware to Simplify Infrastructure

    14 May 2012 | 11:03 am
    Atlantis Computing, a provider of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions,has announced the release of Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI 3.2, a solution that enables VMware View customers to deploy virtual desktops with no storage. Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI can help simplify VMware View deployments by enabling customers to deploy virtual desktops using only server CPU and RAM, while at the same time delighting users with a faster than PC experience. Without storage, the infrastructure is easier to manage and the CAPEX including the servers and Atlantis…

  • PTO Finds Key RPost Patent 100% Valid

    14 May 2012 | 6:45 am
    A US Patent and Trademark Office re-examination has found a basic RPost proof-of-delivery patent valid. In a sweeping decision all 89 of its claims have been left standing against challenges of prior art. Patent holders dream of such things. It is understood to be a so-called “final final” decision covering items such as time-stamp authentication. No one except the PTO knows who made the claims of prior art but that unknown challenger reportedly dumped scads of documentation on the PTO for it to wade through and failed. It’s bad news for the slate of companies RPost is suing in federal…

  • Proview’s US Suit Thrown Out

    11 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    A California Superior Court last Friday threw out Proview Electronics’ three-month-old infringement suit against Apple over the iPad trademark. The dismissal only came to light the other day. Proview claimed Apple duped it when Apple bought the iPad trademarks from it in 2009 for $55,000 because it didn’t disclose who its middleman was working for. The trademark was reportedly registered in 10 countries. Proview wanted the 2009 deal set aside and Apple stopped from using the iPad name. Proview Electronics is the Taiwanese subsidiary of Proview International Holdings, and a sister firm of…
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  • The Smart Machine – A Win-Win Proposition

    Manish Grover
    14 May 2012 | 9:25 am
    Gone are the days when payments were made by card. Now, it is that time when a consumer at a ball game waves her hand in front of a vending machine, and it dispenses her favorite drink along with a …

  • Key CPG Trends & Implications

    Indy Sawhney
    10 May 2012 | 9:25 am
    A number of factors are shaping CPG organizations worldwide. A few key trends worth mentioning are – mobile technology adoption, increased demand for brand engagement, real-time consumer advocacy, strong competition from private labels, striving for retail excellence, collaboration with customers, …

  • Can Gamification help achieve better adoption?

    Vinay Dixit
    30 Apr 2012 | 7:20 am
    You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. This proverb holds a lot of meaning in almost everything we do in our life, especially when we implement technology to do ‘stuff’. Technology can enable enterprises …

  • Customer Management Vs Customer Expectation Management

    Amit Kumar
    20 Apr 2012 | 9:25 am
    Indian IT services companies take pride in themselves in building a service oriented mentality over the years, and perfecting the art of customer management. Countless people have highlighted the term “Customer Handling” in their resumes and public profiles. Many people …

  • Approval Systems – Public and Private Clouds

    Giridhar LV
    18 Apr 2012 | 9:25 am
    In any organization, you know that there is a defined process to raise a request for all your needs. This request then goes to your manager for approval. If approved, your wish is granted and you are happy. At MindTree …
 
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    The Accidental Successful CIO

  • CIO Strategy Tips From Randy Mott

    Dr. Jim Anderson
    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Image CreditRandy Mott is a CIO who knows a great deal about strategy You wouldn’t think that a CIO who just got fired from his job at HP would have a lot to teach us about IT strategy, but that’s where you’d be wrong. Randy Mott is a CIO who has been around the block a few times. He’s worked for Wal-Mart, Dell, and he was CIO at HP. When HP’s CEO, Mark Hurd, got fired Randy had to go because he was too close to Mark. However, that all doesn’t mean that we can’t learn a thing or two from how Randy runs an IT department when he’s in charge… IT…

  • Why FedEx’s CIO Has His Head In The Cloud

    Dr. Jim Anderson
    9 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Image Credit Why would a package delivery company care about cloud computing? When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight, who are you going to call? Probably FedEx, the package shipping company. What you might not know is that FedEx has an enormous IT infrastructure that they use to move all of those packages around. Why would they be thinking about messing with success and moving this mission critical support system into the cloud? Building A Package Shipping Private Cloud The situation that FedEx’s CIO Rob Carter found himself in will probably sound familiar to most of…

  • CIO Lessons From Zynga: Don’t Manage Like They Do!

    Dr. Jim Anderson
    2 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    Image Credit Sure they are successful, but for how long? Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past year and don’t know who Zynga is, they’re the online game company that has ridden Facebook’s coattails to success. They’ve created very, very popular games such as Farmville and Cityville and generated a great deal of money. However, it’s starting to become clear that Zynga is not very well run internally and this holds many lessons for CIOs… What’s Wrong With Zynga How would you like your staff to be describing your IT department in…

  • 4 Steps CIOs Need To Take To Make Their Process Improvement Projects Successful

    Dr. Jim Anderson
    25 Apr 2012 | 4:00 am
    Image Credit CIOs need to know how to keep process improvement projects going Pity the poor CIOs who gets the idea that what his IT department needs to do this year is to implement a process improvement project. It’s not that these types of projects are a bad thing to do, it’s just that all too often they don’t actually work out. Well, that was before we had a chance to talk about what CIOs need to do in order to make this a good use of everyone’s time… Why Process Improvement Projects Don’t Work Most Of The Time There are many reasons why IT process improvement…

  • CIOs Should Stop Sending Emails – Now!

    Dr. Jim Anderson
    18 Apr 2012 | 4:00 am
    Image Credit CIOs need to learn when NOT to use email Those cloning experiments sure seem to have only been able to create more sheep so far – and that’s not going to help overworked CIOs! It seems as though we have more things to do and less time than ever to get them done. Arguably the most important part of any CIOs job is to communicate with your staff. How you go about doing that can be critical to both your overall success and the success of your IT department. I’ve got news for you: if you’re using email to do this, then you’re doing it wrong. Email Has No…
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    Informatica Perspectives

  • Big Data, Big Problems: Leveraging Informatica 9.5 to Build an Effective Data Governance Strategy to Meet the Big Data Challenge

    Guest Author
    16 May 2012 | 2:07 am
    By: Chris Cingrani, Informatica DQ & MDM Practice Lead, Data Management Practice at SSG Big data is something that I am continually asked about by clients, as the subject continues to gain significant press.  While discussing this topic, I often … Continue reading »

  • Balancing Opportunity and Risk in Big Data

    John Haddad
    15 May 2012 | 9:12 am
    Informatica conducted a recent big data survey of 600 IT and business professionals in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The results found in the report entitled: “Balancing Opportunity and Risk in Big Data – A Survey of Enterprise … Continue reading »

  • Informatica 9.5 for Big Data Challenge #1: Cloud

    Judy Ko
    15 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Just five years ago, there was a perception held by many in our industry that the world of data for enterprises was simplifying. This was in large part due to the wave of consolidation among application vendors. With SAP and … Continue reading »

  • A Return to Big Data

    Julie Lockner
    14 May 2012 | 7:26 pm
    Quite a bit has happened on the topic of big data since my last post on Informatica Perspectives almost one and a half years ago.  I have spent a career working with organizations on how to get control over their … Continue reading »

  • Data Prefetching and Caching

    David Loshin
    14 May 2012 | 2:16 am
    Treating Big Data Performance Woes with the Data Replication Cure Blog Series – Part 3 OK, so in our last two discussions, we looked at the memory bottleneck and how even in high performance environments, there are still going to … Continue reading »
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    Quentyn Taylor's Blog

  • The Evil Shredder

    QuentynTaylor
    26 Apr 2012 | 4:34 am
    Shredders, the object of last resort for handling confidential information. Most education and awareness programs tell their users to always use a shredder to dispose of documents so office users ( and many home users) are very used to dropping anything sensitive into the shredder BUT none of them ( not even security professionals) ever check that the document was actually shredded. I was having a series of evil thoughts the other day and I was thinking about how one could subvert a shredder. Remember that if a bad guy was attacking, he would want to get confidential documents, and where do…

  • Desire Paths and what they tell us about security

    QuentynTaylor
    11 Apr 2012 | 9:11 am
    I heard an interesting term the  other day “desire path” it is a term used to describe the side paths that often pop up in parks away from the main path that people use as a short cut between the main path and a favoured destination. This got me thinking as to the similarities between desire paths and security policy ( I am starting to sound like BBC R4 “Thought for the day” here)  and the ways that we deal with them . Basically a desire path ( in a park for example) is an unplanned / un authorised path between a main path and a common destination. It can…

  • Is cheating a game a criminal offence ?

    QuentynTaylor
    4 Apr 2012 | 5:53 am
        When does cheating in a video game become a criminal matter ? I recently came across this story where by 2 men was accused of “cheating” video poker machines in Las Vegas.In essence they are alledged to: “the men would make small bets over and over again until finally winning a hand, then use a special button sequence to change the credits to a higher denomination and “access the previous winning hand of cards,” triggering a jackpot.” Now they have been charged with 650 felony counts of theft, criminal conspiracy, computer trespassing and…

  • Which is the most risky social network?

    QuentynTaylor
    27 Mar 2012 | 5:49 am
    Just before Christmas I was participating in a Secure Computing webcast on the subject of social networking and the question came up, “which was the most dangerous social network from a corporate point of view ? ” With more and more companies blocking Facebook, Myspace, Bebo etc it is obviously a hot issue. There was a poll of the participants between the options above and one addition, Linkedin. Unsurprisingly Facebook won as listeners of the webcast viewed it as the most dangerous from a corporate point of view, however I beg to differ. Whilst  we have all seen the news…

  • what is hiding in your email ?

    QuentynTaylor
    15 Mar 2012 | 7:27 am
    It used to be that all we had to fear in the corporate world email leak wise, was that company email would be read back to an executive in a court of law by an opposing lawyer. This would occur after lengthy deliberation by all legal entities concerned and could take months, or even years, from the 1st discovery process to when it finally popped up in court. If the email was of a particularly sensitive nature  the judge may rule that particularly salacious material was not for the open court. Journalists could always receive leaked emails but they would generally only release material…
 
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    Cerebellum Strategies

  • DoFollow Comments in WordPress

    tmonte
    14 May 2012 | 6:03 pm
    DoFollow Comments in WordPress WordPress default is for all comments to be noFollow, meaning that search engines will ignore them.  If someone has a relevant comment or link, why wouldn’t you want to reward your readers with a link?  I … Continue reading →

  • WordPress.com versus WordPress.org

    tmonte
    11 May 2012 | 1:24 pm
    WordPress.com versus WordPress.org When I decided to start Cerebellum Strategies, I made a conscious choice to host on Amazon EC2 and install my own WordPress instance from WordPress.org.  I like technology and figuring things out so this made sense for … Continue reading →

  • Amazon EC2 Backup and Restore

    tmonte
    11 May 2012 | 8:14 am
    Amazon EC2 backup and restore My first attempt at disaster recovery focused on the database and dropbox.  You can find the article here along with some tips on setting up Dropbox.  Unfortunately, this method only worked if the database failed. … Continue reading →

  • Disaster Recovery and Constructive Reflection

    tmonte
    6 May 2012 | 4:49 pm
    Disaster Recovery and Constructive Reflection I woke up Friday 5/4/2012 at 7 AM EST and checked my email to start my morning routine. The first thing I saw was this email. On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:18 AM, no-reply@monitor.us wrote: … Continue reading →

  • WordPress Database Dropbox Backups

    tmonte
    4 May 2012 | 5:13 pm
    WordPress Dropbox Backups WordPress is a popular package for creating websites and blogs. Dropbox is a service that provides cloud storage for files. Dropbox has three interesting advantages. First, Dropbox is encrypted to protect your privacy. Second, the software can … Continue reading →
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    CIOUpdate - Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders

  • The Beast of Burden: Cloud-Enabling Your Applications

    14 May 2012 | 2:58 pm
    Logicalis' Brian Day lays out the five things you really need to focus on to get the most out of your private cloud deployment.

  • How to Develop a Mobile Strategy

    10 May 2012 | 1:25 pm
    Given everyone's reliance on mobile devices and the BYOD phenomenon that CIOs are only starting to get their heads around, charting a roadmap for mobile communications across the enterprise is critical now -- as in today, writes Tom Chew of Slalom Consulting.

  • U.S. Government: Big is Just Inefficient

    9 May 2012 | 12:24 pm
    Transforming public sector inefficiencies, from old technologies to poor oversight, will take a renewed focus on technology and enterprise management practices, writes Faisal Hoque of BTM Corp.

  • Under My Thumb: Managing Your Private Cloud

    7 May 2012 | 3:03 pm
    There's plenty of ways to do things right (and wrong) but the tools are there to help you with the first part at least, writes Steve Pelletier of Logicalis.

  • It’s Time to Rethink Outsourcing

    20 Apr 2012 | 2:20 pm
    Like everything else in business and IT, it's time rethink the paradigms that made us so successful in the 1990s and 2000s. The 21st Century is here and better models are needed to recapture the high ground and grow, writes Cliff Justice of KPMG.
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    Wikibon Blog

  • Real Time Research, Hot IT Trends: #theCUBE 2012 Summer Tour

    Wikibon
    14 May 2012 | 2:22 pm
    Wikibon research is based upon open source sharing amongst peers and SiliconANGLE’s live video broadcasts with theCUBE are a great enabler of this mission. The upcoming schedule of shows highlight the biggest megatrends of IT including cloud computing, big data, converged infrastructure and more. Wikibon will share its latest research findings and go in-depth with IT practitioners on-air. Come join the Wikibon community on-site or streaming in the comfort of your home or office. All of the details for the summer tour: SiliconANGLE is proud to present live HD video coverage from some of…

  • The Finest Shade of Blue: #theCUBE @ SAPPHIRE 2012

    Jeff Kelly
    11 May 2012 | 11:02 am
    SAPPHIRE, SAP’s annual mega-show, is just days away. Taking place next week (May 14-16) in Orlando, expectations are high for the German software maker and (now) database player. At last year’s show, much of the focus was on HANA, SAP’s in-memory database, which promises end-users support for lightening fast analytics against large volumes of data. As I wrote then, SAP is betting the house on HANA, with plans to migrate its entire software and application portfolio onto the new database, as well as rolling out new, HANA-optimized analytic applications. SAP also declared last year that…

  • Facebook’s New Green Data Center

    Wikibon
    9 May 2012 | 8:19 am
    With more than 845 million users and counting, Facebook generates a lot of Big Data.  Managing it all takes a lot of space and a lot of energy.  After 16 months, Facebook’s new data center is up and running.  It only took 2,000 people, and 1.2 million hours, to get the server farms online.  Facebook now has two data centers in the United States.  The first is located in Prineville, Oregon; the new one is in Forest City, North Carolina. Source What makes this data center so special?  Recently, Wikibon wrote an article about green data centers in which it was mentioned that…

  • Metrics, ROI and TCO are great, but focus on what matters: A lesson learned from Southwest

    Scott Lowe
    9 May 2012 | 12:01 am
    We live in a metrics-obsessed world.  We find meaning in numbers.  How many of you check the stock market valuations once a day?  How many of you have a dashboard somewhere that shows you the stock market tickers throughout the day?  How many of you work in organizations that have set organizational benchmarks that consist of numbers? You’re not alone.  As humans, we yearn to find meaning in everything we do, so we assign value to our own activities and the activities in which we participate.  Those quarterly goals are just one instantiation of this fact, but there are certainly…

  • HP Gen8 server and Intel E5: A partnership demonstrating new ways to simplify IT

    Scott Lowe
    7 May 2012 | 4:56 pm
    I’ve been writing about how important it is for CIOs and other IT leaders to simplify their entire infrastructure environment in order to reduce the amount of care and feeding that goes into infrastructure in favor of activities that provide a direct bottom line benefit.  This week, I’m attending an event at HP’s Houston offices where a group of people are being pitched on HP’s latest generation of servers powered by Intel’s E5 processor line. HP is putting to market products that help strapped IT departments do more with less and that will allow CIOs to focus more of their…
 
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    " t e c h s a v v y "

  • QNX joins Car Connectivity Consortium

    Gokul Kartha
    18 Apr 2012 | 2:24 pm
    QNX Software Systems has joined the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), boosting the alliance’s efforts to establish standards for smartphone-based connected vehicles. The goal of CCC, which counts among its members many of the world’s major carmakers, automotive suppliers and consumer electronics and mobile phone firms, is to boost innovation and standardization of car connectivity solutions using smartphones. To achieve this goal, it has developed the so-called MirrorLink standard for smartphone-based in-vehicle connectivity. MirrorLink, which used to be known as Terminal Mode, has been…

  • Alpine Bringing MirrorLink to the U.S.

    Gokul Kartha
    18 Apr 2012 | 2:22 pm
    Alpine Electronics, Inc. (TYO:6816) finally avowed it will bring MirrorLink technology to the U.S. in an aftermarket car radio this year. MirrorLink is a new standard for enabling your car radio screen to literally mirror your cellphone screen as well as control the phone. The idea is that once you connect your phone to the radio, you don’t need to look at it while driving. The second goal is to attract so many suppliers to the platform that most phones will work with most car radios. “Consumers don’t want to wonder if their smartphone will be accessible in a certain car. They just want…

  • Android Vulnerability Debugged

    Gokul Kartha
    18 Apr 2012 | 2:18 pm
    A group of Italian researchers have discovered and neutralized a serious vulnerability present in all versions of Android, the popular operating system developed by Google specifically for smartphones and tablet computers. The vulnerability could have been easily exploited by malicious software applications, with the effect of making devices based on Google's operating system currently on the market completely unusable. The solution proved to be effective and will be included in a future update. The work was conducted by researchers working in various Italian universities and research…

  • Computer Scientist Leads the Way to the Next Revolution in Artificial Intelligence

    Gokul Kartha
    10 Apr 2012 | 1:19 pm
    Now, computer scientist Hava Siegelmann of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, an expert in neural networks, has taken Turing's work to its next logical step. She is translating her 1993 discovery of what she has dubbed "Super-Turing" computation into an adaptable computational system that learns and evolves, using input from the environment in a way much more like our brains do than classic Turing-type computers. She and her post-doctoral research colleague Jeremie Cabessa report on the advance in the current issue of Neural Computation."This model is inspired by the brain," she says.

  • Nokia starts rolling out Microsoft Office for Belle smartphones

    Gokul Kartha
    10 Apr 2012 | 1:18 pm
    Nokia has started rolling out Microsoft Office Mobile apps, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for Belle smartphones. They announced Microsoft Office Mobile app earlier this February when Microsoft Apps rolled out.It would provide you quick access to your documents, you can save or send documents using Word mobile while preserving tables, SmartArt and charts, or the pinch/zoom functionality to easily view and edit documents. The PowerPoint mobile lets you edit presentation texts and speaker notes, and the Excel mobile lets you create charts, insert formulae or view rich data and charts…
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    Application Integration

  • Process Controls

    Ronald Nunan
    1 May 2012 | 3:30 pm
    This is the last post on the four part series of how to define an application integration tool. In the previous posts, we looked at Web Enablement, SOA Enablement and Application Integration. In this post, we will look at process controls and their relationship to the tools that facilitate the many needs of application integration. Controlling processes is an important aspect of most application integration implementations. Whether manually built into the integration effort through individually coded routines or using a tool to simplify process creation, it is typically the layer of the…

  • Verastream and Application Integration

    Ronald Nunan
    19 Mar 2012 | 9:08 am
    Continuing with our look at the most common Verastream uses, let’s examine application integration. In this use, Verastream plays its most pure middle-ware role. Application integration is generally thought of as using software to control the process of linking separate applications together. According to the Wiki Page Enterprise Application Integration, “Enterprise Application Integration is an integration framework composed of a collection of technologies and services which form a middleware to enable integration of systems and applications across the enterprise.” (At least that is…

  • Service Enabling your Legacy Applications with Verastream

    Ronald Nunan
    21 Feb 2012 | 9:52 am
    A couple of week ago, we introduced several of the more helpful things that Verastream is used for.  One of them was service-oriented architecture (SOA) Enablement. This means that Verastream can break old or ‘legacy’ applications into sets of reusable services, allowing these applications to operate as good citizens in your enterprise SOA.  Most likely your customer information control system (CICS) or other mainframe applications were not built to participate in an SOA. With Verastream, you can wrap an application, say your CICS-based General Ledger, and expose parts of it as…

  • Who Knew – Web Enabling Terminal Screens is Popular Again

    Ronald Nunan
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:07 am
    A popular method in the ’90s to enhance terminal applications – the practice of creating an appended front-end for older, typically character-based applications – has been around for years. That’s actually a longer time than the web has been around.  But since the mid to late ’90s, this practice has largely revolved around putting a graphical representation of an application represented in a browser – a web enabled user interface (UI). Useful for applying a modern and more functional UI to old applications, it had benefits in not requiring changes to the source or…

  • How do you describe an Application Integration tool?

    Ronald Nunan
    23 Dec 2011 | 12:52 pm
    In talking with someone who uses  Attachmate products, but does not have direct experience with a Verastream solution, I was asked what is it that Verastream does. It’s a good question, and one that doesn’t really have a single answer – primarily because Verastream can be used in different ways. You could describe Verastream by the technology itself. Verastream is a platform and set of tools used to facilitate the unlocking of legacy assets. Once unlocked, information from these systems can be put to use as needed. You could also dive into the technology that makes this happen, but…
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    Beetil Blog

  • Responding to requests – Sensible service management

    itskeptic
    14 May 2012 | 5:59 am
    Welcome to our third post in the IT Skeptic‘s (a.k.a. Rob England) Sensible Service Management Series.  In previous blog posts, Rob advised you to focus on what is simple, practical, useful and worthwhile.   Now in upcoming posts Rob will focus on some of the core processes that deliver on our goals of successful daily operations, growing the business, controlling costs, and keeping customers happy. We start today with what is the core of servicing customers: managing Requests. Remember this picture from our last post?   We are looking now at the Respond bit: when you are providing…

  • Join us at the itSMFnz 2012 conference

    Greg
    8 May 2012 | 6:49 am
    Beetil is proud to be a sponsor of New Zealand’s 2012 IT Service Management Conference and Exhibition being held from 12th to 14th June at the Mac’s Function Centre on Wellington’s waterfront. If you’re involved in IT Service Management or managing or providing IT services or support to your customers then you need to get along! Run by IT Service Management Forum New Zealand (itSMFnz), it’s a great chance to meet other service management professionals, hear from the leaders in the NZ and Australian ITSM community, and learn from their experiences. See…

  • Dashboard Queues

    Kathryn
    6 May 2012 | 5:08 am
    We’re proud to announce the arrival our dashboard queues! You can now quickly and easily access reports on your dashboards, as well as seeing the counts of each queue.   This not only lets you get to your relevant information faster, but careful design of your queues also gives you visibility into your organisation’s workload. We’ve been using them internally for a couple of weeks now, and we’re finding them of massive benefit already.  We hope you find them useful too. So let’s get you started with dashboard queues: Queues are essentially just saved reports…

  • The Beetil Roadmap 2012 Edition

    Dan
    2 May 2012 | 4:46 am
    We’ve been doing plenty of scheming here at BeetilHQ and have been planning out our roadmap for the rest of the year.    We’re often asked what’s on our roadmap so we thought we’d share it with you guys so you know where we’re headed.   If there are some “side trips” you’d like to recommend then we’d also love to hear your input. We’ve decided this year to focus on four main themes: productivity, customisation, customer portal, and integration. Let’s delve deeper and pick off some of the larger items of work we have on the…

  • Service Management Success: Delivering to Your Customers

    Dan
    3 Apr 2012 | 10:43 pm
    Welcome to our second post in the ITSkeptic‘s (a.k.a. Rob England) Sensible Service Management Series. In the last post Rob had talked about how better process builds a better business, and how important the customer is.  In this post Rob introduces us to the concept of service improvement the basic service management framework – no matter what kind of business you run.   Be sure to read on, as we’re giving away 12 copies of Rob’s next blockbuster book. Service Management focuses on success: delivering to your customers As we mentioned in a previous post, Service…
 
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    IT Certification Master

  • PMI Agile Certified Practitioner – PMI-ACP

    ICM
    15 May 2012 | 4:01 am
    The PMI-ACP certification is the newest product created by Project Management Institute. Gartner predicts that by the end of 2012, agile development methods will be used on 80% of all software development projects. If you company use agile practices with your IT team, the PMI-ACP can provide an opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of agile practices. It is the first certification that represents complete definition of agile. The exam is not based on a specific agile methodology (Scrum, XP, TDD, etc…), but covers principles, practices, tools and techniques across agile…

  • How to Take Charge of Your Project Management Skills with Tony Johnson

    ICM
    14 May 2012 | 3:21 am
    This is an interview with Tony Johnson. Tony was working as a Project Manager in the biggest IT companies and started Crosswind PM, which helps people to grow their project management career. This a long interview. But each word gives you an amazing value and knowledge. Tony is a real expert (PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, PMP, PgMP) and his company create the best training materials for Project Managers. In this interview you will learn: Why PMP is the most important certification for Project Managers? Do Project Managers need IT certifications? Do Project Managers need the MBA title? IT Certification…

  • New F5 Program: This Week in IT Certifications

    ICM
    12 May 2012 | 3:30 am
    Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in IT certification news. To help you stay up-to-date with IT certifications, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? F5 Announces a New Certification Program. The new F5 program presents 12 new certifications divided into 4 levels. What is the most interesting to all engineers, the highest level, Master Application Delivery Engineer will be a practice test. F5 is also going to provide new training materials. This month we’re going to publish an interview with Kenneth Salchow from F5 (the creator of…

  • PRINCE2 Foundation

    ICM
    11 May 2012 | 5:24 am
    PRojects IN Controlled Environment (PRINCE2) is a project management method and PRINCE2 Foundation is a first step to prove your understanding of this framework. At this moment APMG-International developed three certifications that help you understand the PRINCE2 method. PRINCE2 Foundation, Practitioner and Professional. Today we concentrate about the first step – PRINCE2 Foundation. You can confirm your knowledge and understanding on the PRINCE2 method with the foundation qualification. It’s a good place to start if your project management team (and company) supports PRINCE2. The…

  • EC-Council Network Security Administrator – ENSA

    ICM
    10 May 2012 | 3:38 am
    The EC-Council Network Security Administrator certification is one of the pure security certifications, created as an opposite certification for Certified Ethical Hacker. During preparation to the CEH certification you will learn almost everything about offensive security. During a preparation process for the EC-Council Network Security Administrator you will learn everything about “defensive” security (Just checkout the exam requirements). ENSA is CNSS-NSA endorsed. What Exams You Must Pass to Become EC-Council Network Security Administrator You must pass only one exam –…
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    IT Manager Daily

  • Which IT projects have the biggest impact on the bottom line?

    Sam Narisi
    15 May 2012 | 2:40 pm
    Here’s some good news for IT managers trying to get new projects approved by the CFO: A study has found that IT investments can significantly boost a company’s profits. However, that’s only the case for some kinds of IT spending.  As IT managers know, tech departments often get passed over for budget increases in favor of other areas that are seen as more crucial for producing revenue. However, investments companies make in IT have a bigger impact on profitability than comparable spending in advertising and research and development, according to a recent study published in…

  • IT pros like their jobs – but still want to quit

    Sam Narisi
    14 May 2012 | 10:56 am
    Some good news for IT managers: Most IT employees are satisfied and engaged in their jobs, according to a recent survey. But the bad news:  Once the job market improves, the majority still plan to jump ship for other organizations. IT employees will be more likely than workers in other areas to test the job market in the near future, according to a recent survey from recruiting firm Randstad Technologies. More than half (53%) of IT pros said they plan to explore other job opportunities when the market improves. That’s despite the fact that most are generally happy with the positions…

  • 4 keys for more efficient data centers

    Sam Narisi
    11 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    IT departments everywhere are under pressure to become more efficient, and one item that takes up a huge chunk of IT’s budget is powering the organization’s data center.  Here’s some advice on improving data center performance and increasing efficiency, according Mark Thiele, executive VP of data center technologies at Switch, who spoke at the recent Interop conference in Las Vegas: 1. Know your power Most small or mid-sized companies don’t have a facility that’s just a dedicated data center — the data is usually part of a general office space. That makes…

  • Getting users and execs on board with security: 3 pitfalls to avoid

    Sam Narisi
    10 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Of all the steps IT departments must take to keep their organizations secure, the most important may be to get users and management on board. But here are three common mistakes that prevent IT from promoting a security-conscious culture.  None of IT’s security controls will make a difference if the business’s culture doesn’t value security, says John Pironti, President of IP Architects, LLC, who spoke at the recent Interop conference in Las Vegas. IT security teams never get as much funding as they should, so IT has to leverage what they do have and get people to work for…

  • 10 multi-million dollar data security snafus

    Megan Berry
    9 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Think your company has all its data security bases covered? Think again. The simplest security measures are often overlooked. Here are 10 examples of data security snafus that cost companies millions of dollars – and one incident that put the company out of business altogether. Learn from their mistakes to avoid multi-million dollar payouts.  The Ponemon Institute Total Direct Cost Estimate for each incident was calculated using figures reported by the Ponemon Institute in its 2009 Annual Study: U.S. Cost of a Data Breach. The institute found that the direct cost of each compromised record…
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    mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

  • 7 reasons why mobile web apps are better for business than native apps

    Joe Stangarone
    15 May 2012 | 7:18 am
    If your business is planning to build native mobile apps, ask yourself this question: Are you building native mobile apps because you need to, or because you think you have to? While native apps are popular with consumers, they’re quite impractical for most businesses. To understand why, let’s first look at why native apps are popular with consumers. Native apps do a couple of things very well: They deliver highly graphical interfaces and they’re easy to find and download. While these are important factors for consumers, are they really important to your business? For most businesses,…

  • Even small IT staffs can accomplish big things

    Joe Stangarone
    14 May 2012 | 3:11 pm
    Fill in the blank: “Our company needs to _____________, but our IT staff is too small.” Based on feedback I received from a tech conference we recently attended, this is one of the biggest problems facing IT departments these days. IT professionals know how to help their companies, they just lack the time and resources to do anything about it. It’s a depressing thought–knowing how to help your company but realizing that you can’t. You feel stuck. But don’t worry…if you’re facing this problem, you’re not alone and you’re definitely not stuck. Here are two stories of…

  • Weekly recap: 10 reasons IT pros get a bad rap, tech tools for the iPad, and more…

    Joe Stangarone
    11 May 2012 | 8:03 am
    Every week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I’ve found over the past week. This week’s top articles focus on why IT pros get a bad rap, tech tools for the iPad, mobile web development, and more. I hope you find them useful: Mobile web development still has traction As mobile devices become more powerful and widely used, mobile web development becomes more important. This article highlights the latest advancements in mobile web development, as well as some important features coming in the near future. 10 reasons IT pros get a bad rap In many companies, there’s…

  • The 3 most important aspects of a business dashboard

    Joe Stangarone
    8 May 2012 | 7:55 am
    Here’s a question for you: What’s the difference between a worthless business dashboard and a dashboard that makes an impact? To help you understand, take a look at the two dashboards below. Which one is better? Dashboard #1 Dashboard #2 So, which dashboard is better? That’s somewhat of a trick question. There is no way you can answer that question without first understanding a little more about each one. Now, what if I told you that dashboard #2 is accessible from mobile devices and displays real-time data, while dashboard #1 displays week-old information and is only accessible from a…

  • New template lets you print custom labels straight from the web

    Joe Stangarone
    7 May 2012 | 3:48 pm
    If you, or anyone in your office regularly prints mailing labels, there’s a new m-Power template in the Project Exchange that will make your life a lot easier: The Custom Label Creator Template. Feel free to check out the demo right here. This new template creates web applications that pull data from your database and automatically organize it in a label-friendly format. How will this template make your life easier? Here are two ways: 1. It automates the label process: Printing mailing labels is a multi-step process: You must pull the data from your database, format it in MS Excel, and set…
 
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