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  • VMware Vs. The Old School: Data Center Management Battle

    InformationWeek Infrastructure News
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:08 am
    With vCenter Operations Suite 5, VMware takes steps to manage the burgeoning virtual machine environment in a more advanced manner than traditional management tool vendors can.

  • Solid State Storage Can Save You Money

    informationweek.com
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:29 pm
    Solid-state storage is still expensive. Is it worth the benefits?

  • FBI seeks Big Brother-'Minority Report' hybrid

    InfoWorld News
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:42 pm
    Recognizing just how powerful a tool social-networking sites have become in orchestrating protests, rallies, and riots in the United States and beyond, the FBI is in the early stages of designing a complex system for monitoring tweets, Facebook status

  • Stolen iPhone Saved By iCloud

    InformationWeek News
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:38 pm
    New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police follow Find My iPhone directions to nab a suspect and recover an iPhone in the space of four hours.

  • For Apple, best numbers yet, mixed press on how it got there

    CNET News
    Josh Lowensohn
    28 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    We talk record breaking earnings, and reports of trouble in Apple's supply chain that made that possible in this week's edition of Apple Talk Weekly.
 
 
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  • For Apple, best numbers yet, mixed press on how it got there

    Josh Lowensohn
    28 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    We talk record breaking earnings, and reports of trouble in Apple's supply chain that made that possible in this week's edition of Apple Talk Weekly.

  • Adobe shows the raw, dark side of Photoshop CS6

    Stephen Shankland
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:19 am
    Photoshop CS6 will get a dark gray interface by default and, of course it inherits Lightroom 4's new raw-image editing controls.

  • Twitter boycott looms with censorship accusations

    Dara Kerr
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:53 pm
    When Twitter announced it would withhold tweets country-by-country based on local restrictions, it said it was being more transparent. But some users disagree.

  • Anonymous takes aim over Europe's SOPA

    Elinor Mills
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:36 pm
    Hackers are attacking sites and looking to expose information on European officials in response to the signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA critics say it's even worse than the Stop Online Piracy Act floated in the U.S.

  • Microsoft's Kelihos botnet suspect says he's innocent

    Edward Moyer
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:27 pm
    St. Petersburg, Russia-based Andrey N. Sabelnikov says he is "absolutely not guilty" of participating in the creation of the huge spam network that Microsoft shut down last September.
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    InfoWorld News

  • Dig deep into Lion: The best overlooked, underrated features

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Apple billed this summer's release of Mac OS X Lion as having more than 200 new features, but most coverage of Lion in the intervening months has focused on only a handful of them. While iOS-like navigation and app-launching interfaces, autosave/restore capabilities, AirDrop file sharing, and an emergency restore partition are by all means important, there are a lot of helpful tweaks and enhancements that can easily be missed.

  • FBI seeks Big Brother-'Minority Report' hybrid

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:42 pm
    Recognizing just how powerful a tool social-networking sites have become in orchestrating protests, rallies, and riots in the United States and beyond, the FBI is in the early stages of designing a complex system for monitoring tweets, Facebook status

  • Salesforce.com customers say new analytics should be included in core fees

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pm
    Salesforce.com customers are sounding off about the fact that an upcoming Analytics Edition of the CRM (customer relationship management) software will have an additional price tag, saying that the functionality it includes should be part of their base subscriptions.

  • As HP ejects WebOS, its creator departs HP

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:34 pm
    Jon Rubinstein, the force behind the WebOS mobile operating system, has quit Hewlett-Packard, where he's worked since the company's acquisition of Palm in 2010. "Jon has fulfilled his commitment to HP. We wish him well," HP said in a statement. Rubinstein joined Palm in 2007 as chairman and became CEO in 2009 after a long stint at Apple, where he was part of the group that developed the iPod.

  • Cisco aims to simplify, unify collaboration products' design, interfaces

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:28 pm
    Cisco is in the midst of a major initiative to better integrate its various collaboration products and to give their interfaces a uniform, consistent design in order to make them easier to use and more effective at helping employees work with each other.
 
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    iTWire - IT and Telecommunications news views and jobs

  • Facebook IPO on Wednesday?

    28 Jan 2012 | 2:49 am
    Circle the wagons, folks.  If you believe the hype-makers, it will be the end of the world as we know it when the widely rumoured Facebook IPO hits the streets on Wednesday February 1st.  Or will it?

  • The balkanisation of Twitter?

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:03 am
    You might have become used to the idea that what you see on Twitter is at least potentially the same as every other Twitter user following the same people and entering the same search terms. But that's about to change.

  • Internode aligns new-estate FTTH prices with NBN

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:07 pm
    Internode is offering Internet service to residents of more than 20 greenfields sites around the country. The plans match the company's NBN-based offerings.

  • World Wide Web community fights back against iOS and Android

    26 Jan 2012 | 10:29 pm
    As mobile applications running under proprietary platforms - iOS, Android, Windows, etc - proliferate the World Wide Web community has a vision to build equivalent functionality into the browser specifications so that application writers will have access to a much wider community without 'lock in' to any one platform.

  • Windows 7 migration process has a few holes

    26 Jan 2012 | 7:34 pm
    A company named Zinstall is attempting to plug a product by the same name which is used for PC migrations in businesses. But in the accompanying document, which provides details of the process, there are surprising lacunae.
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    ZDNET Video

  • Apple launches digital textbooks

    ZDNET.com
    19 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    At an Apple press event in New York City, executives from the company announce a new initiative to reinvent textbooks. The new software will attempt to unify online databases and the printed word into a single tool for students.

  • At CES, Ballmer highlights Windows phone, Windows 8, Xbox Kinect

    ZDNET.com
    10 Jan 2012 | 12:12 am
    At CES in Las Vegas, American Idol host Ryan Seacrest talks to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer about what to expect from the software giant in 2012. Ballmer previews the new Windows phone OS, Windows 8's metro UI and new Xbox Kinect features.

  • Gadgets galore at Sony's press conference

    ZDNET.com
    9 Jan 2012 | 9:37 pm
    At CES in Las Vegas, Sony executives show off the latest in the company's line of consumer electronics, from the company's new Xperia smartphone, to its new PlayStation Vita portable gaming system, to its Internet-enabled TVs.

  • CES 2012: Intel looks to 'wow' with concept Windows 8 ultrabooks

    ZDNET.com
    9 Jan 2012 | 2:20 pm
    At CES in Las Vegas, Intel's Mooly Eden updates the company's "ultrabook" efforts, including a concept transparent touch screen on the back side, coupled with the Windows 8 Metro user interface.

  • Kara Swisher demos the hottest (and quirkiest!) tech toys

    ZDNET.com
    14 Dec 2011 | 5:05 pm
    At a Churchill Club event, AllThingsD technology columnist Kara Swisher shows ZDNet some “must have” gift ideas for the holidays, including “lighted finger rats,” a tactile iPad screen, and a classic retro-phone handset designed for your smart phone.
 
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  • Two Weeks Later: Resolution Fails

    Jes Darmanin
    13 Jan 2012 | 2:52 am
    A special dedication to those that already broke their 2012 new year resolutions.

  • The Future of Business Intelligence [infographic]

    Jes Darmanin
    10 Jan 2012 | 9:20 am
    The infographic below (based on a survey of Business Intelligence professionals by TechTarget), explains the change in BI adoption since its beginnings in the late 1900s.  As you’ll see, the data shows that BI companies are seeking ways to offer easier-to-use software and more user-friendly options.  Also, it makes it clear that upcoming business intelligence trends will pave the way for the power shift that is on the horizon for BI. Thanks to DOMO for sharing this with us. 

  • “Puss in Boots” Comes Alive with Technology from HP

    Jes Darmanin
    16 Dec 2011 | 3:42 am
    HP Z800 Workstation with model escorts, Puss In Boots and Kitty Softpaws at the Hollywood premiere. DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. selected HP technology to push the boundaries of digital animation and produce the company’s most technically advanced film to date, ”Puss in Boots,” now showing in cinemas in Malta. To create ”Puss in Boots,” artists used more than 200 high-performance HP Z800 Workstations, allowing the flawless execution of exceedingly detailed and creative tasks. The workstations helped design everything in the film, from the swashbuckling hero Puss, to digital effects…

  • Diablo 3 – I think my jaw just dropped!

    Jes Darmanin
    12 Dec 2011 | 3:49 am
    The long awaited release of Diablo III now has a rumored release date – January 17th! The tentative release date was rumoured to be November 24th 2011, and this clearly didn’t happen so the next date is said to be hopefully on the 17th Jan 2012! Do note that this is not official, so take the news with a pinch of salt. Watch below the Cinematic trailer of this great upcoming game if you haven’t seen it yet!

  • USB Stick Contains Dual-Core Computer, Turns Any Screen Into an Android Station

    Jes Darmanin
    21 Nov 2011 | 3:57 am
    Norwegian company FXI technologies showed off a USB stick-sized portable computer prototype, complete with a dual-core 1.2-GHz Samsung Exynos ARM CPU (same as in the Galaxy S II), 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, HDMI-out and a microSD card slot for memory. Codenamed Cotton Candy because its 21 gram weight is the same as a bag of the confection, the tiny PC enables “Any Screen Computing,” the ability to turn any TV, laptop, phone, tablet, or set-top box into a dumb terminal for its Android operating system. The Cotton Candy has a USB 2.0 connector on one end and an HDMI jack on the other. When…
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  • Robert Heinlein, Makerbot, and the Pirate Bay

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:15 am
    Back in the 1960’s and 1970’s one of the interesting items in the Robert Heinlein universe was an item called a “Universal Pantograph” that would replicate almost any physical item you could think of. Makerbot Industries makes a 3D printer that will replicate just about any object that it has a CAD/CAM drawing for. The Pirate Bay has now started sharing/releasing public domain 3D drawings that will

  • No more Danger Will Robinson

    25 Jan 2012 | 8:56 pm
    This is really dating myself now but growing up as a child one of the most influential shows I watched was Lost In Space. That show captured my imagination and was the main reason I became interested in space and science/fiction. I never forgot that show and even revisited that series as an adult and watched the whole series again, every show, to make sure I didn't miss out on any episode :) It

  • Great Statistics Book for "Data Science" Self-Learner

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:26 pm
    A "Head First Statistics" book is an easy read and a great starting point for learning of the fundamental Statistics topics, and it is best suited for those interested in learning on their own.                                                   

  • Project Management Lite: Model for Project Team Organization

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:20 pm
    Typically an organization chart is used to create the design and reporting structure of a project team.  It identifies the roles that may be required within a project, as well as the areas within the consulting service provider that can provide ...

  • The Case for and Against Using Multiple ERP Systems Across Your Organization

    25 Jan 2012 | 5:32 am
    When most people think of ERP systems, they think of a single system. The common thinking behind enterprise software is that executives are generally looking for a single solution to integrate their entire business operations, processes and technologies. They want their entire employee base on a single system, a single
 
 
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    Computerworld Applications News

  • Salesforce.com customers say new analytics should be included in core fees

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:08 pm
    Salesforce.com customers are sounding off about the fact that an upcoming Analytics Edition of the CRM (customer relationship management) software will have an additional price tag, saying that the functionality it includes should be part of their base subscriptions.

  • Rubinstein leaves HP

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:54 pm
    Jon Rubinstein, known for his role developing the original iPod for Apple and for running Palm, has left Hewlett-Packard, where he's worked since the company's acquisition of Palm.

  • Oracle proposal would create single committee to oversee Java specs

    26 Jan 2012 | 1:43 pm
    If a new proposal by Oracle is accepted, oversight of Java technical standards will fall under the auspices of a single committee, rather than the current system, which has separate entities for Java EE/SE and ME.

  • Work Faster in Microsoft Excel: 10 Secret Tricks

    26 Jan 2012 | 8:35 am
    Excel puts lots of great tools on your desktop, but what each one of them does isn't always obvious, especially since so many Excel features are hidden.

  • Manage Your Downloads Better With This Free Version of JDownloader

    25 Jan 2012 | 5:02 pm
    Most people use their Web browsers for downloading files, but a browser isn't always the best tool for the job. If you are trying to download a YouTube video, or a very large file that may take hours, an external download manager might do a better job than your browser. JDownloader is one such download manager, and since it is Java-based, it works across Windows, Mac and Linux.
 
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    IT security news - Google News

  • Opinion: Data Privacy Day serves as reminder of risks companies may face in ... - The Star-Ledger - NJ.com

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:12 am
    The Star-Ledger - NJ.comOpinion: Data Privacy Day serves as reminder of risks companies may face in The Star-Ledger - NJ.comBy Times of Trenton guest opinion column By Doug Borden According to the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), Data Privacy Day is set for today. Is a Data Privacy Day necessary? How concerned should we be about identity theft? Data security?Data Privacy Day 2012: Not Necessarily a Cause for CelebrationPropertyCasualty360Tech Leaders Call for Global Harmony on Privacy, SecurityComputerworld New ZealandOld Storage Devices Are Prime Security RiskIT Business Edge…

  • "Executed" corpses dumped in restive Syrian city - Reuters

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:38 am
    RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty"Executed" corpses dumped in restive Syrian cityReutersBy Alistair Lyon | BEIRUT (Reuters) - The bodies of 17 men previously held by Syrian security forces have been found in the city of Hama, activists said on Saturday, victims of a deadly struggle between President Bashar al-Assad and those determined to Russia Clashes with Europeans, Arabs Over Syria UN ResolutionVoice of AmericaUN Security Council discusses crisis in Syria, reviews Arab-European draft Washington PostSyrian endures another day of unrestCNN InternationalRadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyall…

  • Japan, Russia to boost economic and security ties - Fox News

    28 Jan 2012 | 5:13 am
    Fox NewsJapan, Russia to boost economic and security tiesFox NewsTOKYO – The foreign ministers of Japan and Russia agreed Saturday to strengthen economic and security cooperation but made no progress on resolving a long-standing territorial dispute that has kept the two nations from concluding a peace treaty.Japan, Russia to boost economic, security tiesCBS Newsall 204 news articles »

  • Security chief during Mexico's 'dirty war' dies - Sacramento Bee

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:28 am
    Security chief during Mexico's 'dirty war' diesSacramento BeeNazar Haro headed Mexico's now-dissolved Federal Security Directorate from 1978 to 1982 at the height of the government's "dirty war" against leftist insurgents. He was arrested in 2004 and put under house arrest on charges stemming from the and more »

  • Social Security and You: Tax time - San Antonio Express

    28 Jan 2012 | 1:11 am
    Deseret NewsSocial Security and You: Tax timeSan Antonio ExpressQuestion: I am ready to file my income tax return, but I need the form from Social Security that shows how much I received last year. Should I have already received it, and how can I get one if it is lost? Answer: Taxpayers are busy gathering all the 5 Intriguing (and Less Painful) Fixes for Social SecurityDailyFinanceSOCIAL SECURITY… How They Lie To UsBusiness InsiderMitch Daniels' SOTU Response Is Wrong on Social SecurityHuffington Post (blog)Salon -American Thinker -Canada Free Pressall 44 news…
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  • Tab Sweep - GlassFish patch, is PaaS Middleware over IaaS, NetBeans tips, JCP updates, ...

    alexismp
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am
    Note: if you're reading this using a feedreader, please make sure you've updated to the updated TheAquarium feed. Recent Tips and News on Java, Java EE 6, GlassFish & more : • GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1.1 Patch 15 (GlassFish for Business) • PaaS is not Middleware over IaaS (Reza) • Sneak peak at Java EE 7 - Multitenant Examples with EclipseLink (Markus) • Building and testing ADF applications with Maven, JSFUnit, Arquillian and Embedded GlassFish (Dablomatique) • NetBeans 7.1 IDE: Shelve and Un-Shelve Changes (John) • NetBeans 7.1 IDE: Inspect and Transform…

  • Driving Operational Efficiency with eTOM

    Sanjeev Sharma
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:25 pm
    The distinction between network operator Communications Service Providers (CSPs) and virtual CSPs e.g. MVNOs is decreasing by the day driven by industry deregulation and proliferation of IP based networks that have lowered barriers to entry. This hyper-competition is creating continuous pressure on CSPs to shorten time-to-market cycles for PLM and FAB (fulfillment, assurance and billing) processes to differentiate. The pursuit of this goal though, is hampered by the complex organizational structure with silos aligned to customer segments. service types or service bundles. Consequently,…

  • 7u4 Developer Preview is now Available

    user9148787
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:51 pm
    The early access build of Java SE 7 Update 4 (7u4-b09) is now available for download.Please report any bugs to http://bugreport.sun.com and share your comments with us at our Java SE Snapshots: Project Feedback Forum. You may subscribe to our Java SE Developer News feed or if you prefer emails, enter your email address here:

  • 6u32 Developer Preview is now Available

    user9148787
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:49 pm
    The early access build of Java SE 6 Update 32 (6u32-b01) is now available for download.Please report any bugs to http://bugreport.sun.com and share your comments with us at our 6uN Early Access Forum. You may subscribe to our Java SE Developer News feed or if you prefer emails, enter your email address here:

  • ATG Live Webcast: Virtualization and Cloud Deployments of Oracle E-Business Suite

    BillSawyer
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:51 pm
    Do you need to improve your hardware utilization, speed-up provisioning, improve end-user satisfaction, increase the productivity of your E-Business Suite system administrators? If so, you need to attend the next installment of our ATG Live Webcast series on Feb. 2, 2012: Virtualization and Cloud Deployments of Oracle E-Business Suite Join Ivo Dujmović, Director, Applications Development, for this wide-ranging discussion on the topics virtualization and cloud deployments of Oracle E-Busienss Suite. The agenda for the Virtualization and Cloud Deployments of Oracle E-Business Suite webcast…
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    An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology

  • Nested Tables 101

    26 Jan 2012 | 3:55 am
    From An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology   A nested table is much like an associative array but you do not determine the index. The index grows by using the extend command and the index is always an incrementing integer value. You can use the DELETE attribute to delete individual elements so you will always want to

  • Record Types 101

    19 Jan 2012 | 4:06 am
    From An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology     A record type is a simple structure that combines multiple datatypes into a single package.   DECLARE TYPE r_person IS RECORD ( fname VARCHAR2(30), lname VARCHAR2(30), age NUMBER ); v_person r_person; BEGIN v_person.fname := 'Lewis'; v_person.lname := 'Cunningham'; v_p

  • 2011 in Review and 2012 Goals

    10 Jan 2012 | 3:59 am
    To get where you want to be in life, you need to have goals. It doesn't matter if you want to advance professionally, improve a hobby or lose weight, goals help you achieve your desires.   I think it's important to look back at the previous year and see how you did as far as your goals. When I see how realistic my previous year goals were, then I can decide how to set my goals for the current year. Unfortunately, I didn't list my goals for 2

  • For those in the US - Stop SOPA!

    30 Dec 2011 | 6:59 am
    From An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology   I rarely, if ever, bring up politics. Currently the US Congress is considering legislation that I think is reprehensible. I really can't believe that we, as a nation, have come to this. I have been reading about this for a while. I guess I have been in denial that it would really happen.   Have you heard of

  • Associative Arrays 101

    19 Dec 2011 | 7:00 am
    From An Expert’s Guide to Oracle Technology   An array is one way to store multiple variables in a collection. In PL/SQL we will often refer to an array of objects as a collection. If a record is a way to think of a specific row in a table, a collection type can be thought of as the rows in the table.   The original pl/sql table that was offered in pl/sql is the index by table also
 
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    MySQL Performance Blog

  • MySQL Configuration Wizard Updated

    Baron Schwartz
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pm
    We’ve released an updated version of the MySQL Configuration Wizard we announced at the end of last year. If you don’t remember that announcement, here’s the short version: this is a tool to help you generate my.cnf files based on your server’s hardware and other characteristics. We’ve gotten really good feedback on this tool, including this nice mention on Stack Exchange: Percona just built a tool to do just that called the Configuration Wizard. I tested it out once just to see what it would return and the results were pretty darn close to what we were using on…

  • How to recover a single InnoDB table from a Full Backup

    Miguel Angel Nieto
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:50 pm
    Sometimes we need to restore only some tables from a full backup maybe because your data loss affect a small number of your tables. In this particular scenario is faster to recover single tables than a full backup. This is easy with MyISAM but if your tables are InnoDB the process is a little bit different story. With Oracle’s stock MySQL you cannot move your ibd files freely from one server to another or from one database to another. The reason is that the table definition is stored in the InnoDB shared tablespace (ibdata) and the transaction IDs and log sequence numbers that are…

  • Schedule for MySQL Conference 2012 is Published

    Peter Zaitsev
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:17 am
    I am pleased to announce the schedule for Percona Live: MySQL Conference And Expo 2012 is now published. This is truly great selection of talks with something for MySQL Developers, DBAs, Managers, people just starting to use MySQL as well as looking for advanced topics. We have talks about running MySQL on extremely large scale in a Web as well as running MySQL In the Enterprise Environments. Some speakers have spent over decade pushing MySQL to its limits, others have in depth experience working on MySQL Code. We have many talks which are covering Oracle MySQL, and forks such as MariaDB,…

  • linux.conf.au 2012 roundup

    Stewart Smith
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:31 pm
    I spent last week at linux.conf.au in Ballarat, Victoria (that’s the Victoria in Australia, not wherever else there may be one) which is only a pleasant two hour drive from my home town of Melbourne (Australia, not Florida). I sent an email internally to our experts detailing bits of the conference that may interest them – and I thought that it may also interest our wider readers who are interested in all levels of the software stack. For those that don’t know: linux.conf.au is one of (if not the) most awesome technical conference in the free software space. It…

  • Preventing MySQL Emergencies Webinar

    Espen Braekken
    24 Jan 2012 | 2:20 pm
    On the 25th of January at 10 am PST, I will present a webinar on preventing MySQL emergencies titled “Preventing Downtime in Production MySQL Servers”. The material I will present is based on in-depth research done by Percona across many production servers.  We analyzed more than 150 emergency cases and categorized our findings to help you learn ways to avoid production downtimes. Join us to learn more about why emergencies happen (it may be different than what you think) and what you can do to avoid them. Sign up for the webinar now by visiting our webinar page…
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  • CES show for the Enterprise launches with CITE – Be there!

    Susan Scrupski
    12 Jan 2012 | 9:06 am
    Get Connected at CITE in San Francisco (March 4-7, 2012). The onslaught of new devices and ease of use for circumventing a large company’s boring IT environment, has been gaining traction in every corner of the knowledge worker universe.  Finally, a new conference has cropped up to take a look at these issues (and opportunities) exclusively for the Enterprise.  As such, I’m pleased to announce I’ve joined the Advisory Board of the Consumerization of IT Conference (COIT), an IDG Enterprise event.  I’m still learning my way around, but I’m 100% excited about…

  • #OccupyEnterprise and Start your own Revolution

    Susan Scrupski
    30 Dec 2011 | 8:00 am
    This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no fooling around / No time for dancing, or lovey dovey, I ain’t got time for that now… Life in Wartime – Talking Heads The world changed in 2011.  Did you feel it?  No doubt you saw it changing on TV, on Twitter, on YouTube, on your mobile phone.  Did your heart swell with pride?  Did the emotion of a history-changing moment grip you and render you teary-eyed?   There were so many events this year that captured our attention.  Regimes crumbled, cities burned, young revolutionaries rejoiced.  And…

  • More Serendipitous Social Upside Vignettes

    Susan Scrupski
    26 Oct 2011 | 10:28 am
    Continuing with my series on unexpected windfalls and other business benefits realized from socialworking, here are two more examples.  I need to anonymize these to protect the member companies.  One is a large retailer, the other is a large life sciences multi-national. Social Delivers the Goods (and more) We’ve all had that experience when we waited for that shiny, new appliance to be delivered.  In this case, it was a washing machine.  Our member, a large retailer, prides itself on its service to customers in its appliance department.  When the delivery driver arrives at the…

  • Attributes of a Socially Optimized Business

    Susan Scrupski
    18 Oct 2011 | 8:00 am
    Once again, I had the great pleasure to work with my colleagues on an XPLANATiON with our Social Business Council members.  We interviewed a core group of our members to identify the attributes that comprise the whole of the socially optimized business.  I think you will agree, the results are fabulous. Where are you on the course from Start to Social? Attributes of a Socially Optimized Business View more presentations from Dachis Group Special thanks go out to members @briantullis, @jimworth, @kendomen, @kimberlymahan, @kristenritter, @seanwinter, @dpontefract, @bricejewell, @robcaldera,…

  • The Sabermetrics of Social: A Weapon of Mass Disruption

    Susan Scrupski
    10 Oct 2011 | 9:00 am
    Jonah Hill is not a sexy guy.  He was perfectly cast, however, juxtaposed against Brad Pitt in this year’s academy award contender, Moneyball.  If you’ve not read the book or seen the film, the plot premise centers on the true story of how an under-financed ball team, The Oakland As, leveraged the black art of sabermetric principles to divine a record-breaking season in professional baseball.  The true star of the film was Hill’s character, Peter Brand (Paul DePodesta in real life), who brought a dweebish Ivy League blandness to the romance of American baseball by…
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  • The truth about Apple and Android market share

    happygeek
    23 Jan 2012 | 7:42 am
    Is Apple really 'closing the gap' on Android as far as smartphone market share is concerned, or is there more to the battle of the mobile handsets than the latest set of headline figures suggest? Certainly if you take the research, and associated press releases surrounding it, from Nielsen regarding smartphone sales then you might be forgiven for thinking that Android handsets are in danger of being overtaken by iPhones in terms of handsets in, well, hands. The NeilsenWire release in question doesn't help by loudly proclaiming "More US Consumers Choosing Smartphones as Apple Closes the…

  • US Department of Defense hit by Chinese security takeaway

    happygeek
    14 Jan 2012 | 5:36 am
    Sykipot is not a new Trojan Horse by any means, but the variation found to be attacking Department of Defense smart cards is certainly something that government agencies need to be worried about. United States government agencies, that is. It's doubtful the Chinese government will be too worried about them, considering that the Sykipot-led attacks against these US government agencies would appear to be originating from China itself. Security specialist AlienVault has uncovered evidence that the attacks might stretch right back as far as March 2011 and have been targeting a number of agencies…

  • How to hide the fact you've just robbed a bank online

    happygeek
    9 Jan 2012 | 5:08 am
    Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks are, sadly, not news these days; they are a fact of online life. But word of how the latest SpyEye Trojan-driven MITM attacks are using clever post transaction fraud systems to effectively erase the evidence of the crime from the victims' view certainly deserve to be. Attacking online bank accounts in both the US and UK, the attacks were first spotted just before the seasonal holidays took hold by researchers at Trusteer, a security company which works with banks to protect customers from just such threats as MITM attacks. What is a MITM attack exactly? Well,…

  • How secure is Windows 8 photo gesture login?

    happygeek
    2 Jan 2012 | 6:44 am
    How will Microsoft differentiate Windows 8 in an already crowded Windows OS user space? How about, for one, with the use of a photographic gesture security system for logging in? The idea of using a photo to identify and authenticate the user is not without some pretty obvious problems (ambient lighting, bad hair day, forgetting to shave could all screw up your chances of using the computer that day) which is why Microsoft developers have thought outside of the box on this one. The important part of the 'photographic gesture security system' can be found in the gesture bit. Instead of using a…

  • Free Dirt Dozer Scanner Defeats $150 Dirt Jumper DDoS Toolkit

    happygeek
    29 Dec 2011 | 9:11 am
    You might not have heard about Dirt Jumper yet, but the bad guys have. In fact, the high-risk and highly-effective DDoS toolkit is probably the most aggressive of the malware tools being employed by DDoS attackers at the moment, and the situation is set to get much worse very quickly as versions of Dirt Jumper are now appearing for sale at underground Web marketplaces for as little as $150 a time. Prolexic Technologies, which specialises in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation services, has today issued an in-depth threat advisory for Dirt Jumper together with a custom-developed…
 
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  • 5 Tips For Starting a SaaS Business

    Kevin Dobbs
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:18 am
    At Montclair Advisors I work with many different types and sizes of software firms that are jumping into the SaaS business model for the first time.   Here are a few tips that I would tell a new client who is looking to get into the SaaS business in 2012. Think “Whole Product” A SaaS offering is more than just software, it is also the services to get the product up and running, training, support, the infrastructure and security. For most SaaS firms, they really view their platform as synonymous with their company’s overall brand, which includes more than just the…

  • SaaS Predictions for 2012

    Kevin Dobbs
    29 Dec 2011 | 2:36 pm
    As it turned out I was right about 50% of my predictions last year, so here’s my educated guesses for what is going to happen to the SaaS market in 2012: #10  Oracle will buy Netsuite. I know this isn’t much of a surprise since Larry Ellison owns approximately 65% of Netsuite, but with the RightNow acquisition, this type of move makes more sense as part of coordinated Cloud acquisition strategy. #9  SaaS IPO window remains open. There are a number of SaaS firms who have either filed, like Eloqua, or are seriously considering going public in 2012, like Workday, Dropbox, Box, and…

  • SaaS Business Profile: Eloqua

    Kevin Dobbs
    6 Dec 2011 | 1:45 pm
    Company:          Eloqua Started:             1999 Located:            Vienna, Virginia Geography:       Global Market:              Revenue Performance Management Products:         Marketing Automation platform and Revenue Performance Management applications that help growing businesses align their sales and marketing teams, identify and nurture revenue opportunities and measure marketing and sales effectiveness Customers:       Adobe, AON, Dow Jones, ADP, Fidelity, Polycom, and National Instruments Website:           Eloqua Blog:              …

  • SaaS Momentum – Major Funding Announcements

    Kevin Dobbs
    21 Nov 2011 | 1:03 pm
    Over the past few months SaaS companies have continued to announce very large funding rounds as they are demonstrating the power of their subscription-based business platforms.Many of these firms are deciding to do large private rounds before filing to go public. Here is a quick round-up of some of these firms: The company has raised an amazing series B round of $250 million.Dropbox is the Cloud storage company that is very popular with mobile phone and iPad users.They have about 70 employees and have secured more than 40 million customers in the past 12 months.This round put the company’s…

  • Interesting 2011 Oracle OpenWorld

    Kevin Dobbs
    11 Oct 2011 | 6:29 pm
    For the SaaS world, Oracle’s OpenWorld has lately been all about hardware and the Exastack products.These offerings have limited appeal to all but the largest SaaS ISV’s.   The good news is that there were some new announcements though that were much more interesting for the SaaS community at last week’s Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco.  Here is a quick summary of the news and drama: Oracle Public Cloud This was a welcome move by Oracle, to finally embrace their vision of the Cloud.Oracle is re-packaging many of their assets including the Exastack, Java, and the Oracle Database…
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    Righteous IT

  • Consulting (Part 7) — Work? What Work?

    Hal Pomeranz
    1 Jan 2012 | 11:00 am
    Hal Pomeranz, Deer Run Associates The last two installments in this series of articles on consulting have focused on how to go about finding work.  But one of the important questions every consultant should consider is who their target customer is.  The answer to this question affects how you go about selling your services.  For example, if you decide that providing services to the legal industry is the way you want to go, then you should look at writing articles for Bar Association journals and speaking at legal conferences.  Also, when you get inquiries about possible consulting…

  • Consulting (Part 6) — Work Finds Experts

    Hal Pomeranz
    18 Dec 2011 | 11:00 am
    Hal Pomeranz, Deer Run Associates In my last post in this series of articles on consulting, I suggested that you’re better off if you don’t have to spend a lot of unbillable overhead time searching for work.  The article covers several ways to position yourself so that you’re more likely to run into unsolicited contract offers– “make the work come to you” rather than having to go find your next assignment yourself. Another mechanism for putting yourself into the path of potential job offers is to build a reputation as an expert in your chosen field.  This…

  • Consulting (Part 5) — Finding Work

    Hal Pomeranz
    11 Dec 2011 | 11:00 am
    Hal Pomeranz, Deer Run Associates One thing I haven’t addressed in this series on consulting is how to go about finding work for yourself.  This is a huge topic in and of itself, and I’ll likely spend several posts covering this subject. At a high level, there are two basic approaches to getting your next assignment: you can go find the job, or it can come find you.  Going and finding the job means watching mailing lists and job boards for possible openings, and running down the leads.  Possibly you’re looking at even “cold calling” organizations in your area…

  • Consulting Advice from a Friend

    Hal Pomeranz
    30 Oct 2011 | 12:00 pm
    I’m on vacation for a little while, but wanted to leave you with something to read on the subject of consulting. Celeste Stokely is an old friend and long-time consultant. She was a huge help to me when I was first getting started with my business. Everybody should take the time to read her Golden Rules of Consulting and her advice on one Key to Successful Consulting.  These documents contain fundamental principles that I use every day to guide my business.

  • Consulting (Part 4) — Insurance Matters

    Hal Pomeranz
    16 Oct 2011 | 12:00 pm
    Hal Pomeranz, Deer Run Associates Many folks who are thinking about striking out on their own are concerned about having affordable medical insurance.  COBRA benefits from a previous employer are incredibly expensive and generally are only available for a limited period.  But insurers typically don’t want to deal with individuals or small businesses that are just starting out and have no revenue history. One common option is to take advantage of health care benefits from a spouse or domestic partner.  If one member of the couple is working a full-time job with benefits, then the they…
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    The State of Security

  • Experiment: Knowledge Fuels Ideas, Experience Guides

    Adam Montville
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:26 am
    When I was but a wee lad, I was given chemistry sets, electrical sets (low voltage, I promise), erector sets, and piles of books about the world and its inhabitants.  Knowledge fueled ideas and experience was my guide.  While I’m quite certain I didn’t have the scientific method mastered at the age of eight, I [...]

  • How do you eat an elephant?

    Shawna Turner-Rice
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:15 am
    If we were hoping for news related to breaches to slow down now that we were out of 2012, it looks like we’re already out of luck, even though we aren’t out of January. Seeing Symantec and Zappos in the news already this year can make those responsible for protecting their organizations feel like there’s [...]

  • Security-to-Business: Some translation required

    Dwayne Melancon
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
    I’ve had a lot of interest around my recent posts on how to communicate the value of information security to the business.  With that in mind, I wanted to share a method used by one of the enterprises I’ve been working with. Security & the Business: The “Mars and Venus” problem In this enterprise’s past, [...]

  • Predictability and Visibility: The Cure for Sleepless Nights

    Cindy Valladares
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:26 am
    What makes security, risk and compliance officers sleep at night? Key factors include: visibility, predictability, optimization & business alignment.

  • Breaches: truth or consequence

    Dwayne Melancon
    18 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    I’m a Zappos customer, having bought quite a number of pairs of shoes for my family, and I got an email this week with very clear notification that their site had been breached, along with a lot of information regarding exactly what had been compromised.  I don’t like it that there was a breach, but [...]
 
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    Phil Windley's Technometria

  • Podcatchers for Smartphones

    26 Jan 2012 | 10:20 pm
    As you might guess, given that I'm Executive Producer of IT Conversations, I like listening to podcasts. I'm also an iPhone user. Not to put too fine a point on it: iTunes sucks rocks for listening to podcasts. The problem is mostly that iTunes has a crappy interface for subscribing to and managing podcasts. It also downloads only one episode per day, with no way to change the defaults. Moreover it will stop downloading podcasts that you haven't listened to for a while and you have to remember to go in an start it up. I started feeling like I had to "take care of iTunes" like it was a…

  • My Letter to Senator Hatch in Opposition to PIPA

    20 Jan 2012 | 9:42 am
    The Honorable Orrin Hatch 104 Hart Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Fax: 202-224-6331 Dear Senator Hatch, I'm writing to express my opposition to the Protect IP Act (PIPA). I have a PhD in Computer Science, have taught Computer Science at BYU, started several high-tech businesses in Utah (one of which, iMall.com, sold to Excite@Home in 1999 for $450 million), was the CIO for the State of Utah under Gov. Michael Levitt, and am the Precinct Vice-Chair in Lindon 04. I'm pleased with Sen Reid's decision to postpone the vote and with your recent opposition to PIPA. However I'm still concerned…

  • Delivering Flowers with a Distributed Event System: Event Subscription in Action

    14 Jan 2012 | 9:50 pm
    This semester, I'm teaching a class at BYU, CS462. We're using Opher Etzion and Peter Niblett's book Event Processing in Action as the class text. The text uses a flower shop and delivery driver scenario as the running example throughout the book. Here's a description: The flower stores in a large city have established an agreement with local independent van drivers to deliver flowers from the city's flower stores to their destinations. When a store gets a flower delivery order, it creates a request, which is broadcasted to relevant drivers within a certain distance from the store, with the…

  • The Live Web is Live!

    11 Jan 2012 | 9:30 pm
    My book, The Live Web: Building Event-Based Connections in the Cloud, has been released and is on Amazon. Having the book actually available is great, although slightly anti-climatic after the thrill of just being done last November. :) The book is my look at the future. When Eric Schmidt talks about a personalized house or we contemplate how commerce or health care will change in a completely connected world, that's the Live Web. Buying the book: If you are going to order a copy from Amazon, do be a favor and order it on Friday, January 13th. I'm trying to get the book to move up the…

  • Foursquare and Personal Data in a Personal Event Network

    6 Jan 2012 | 8:25 am
    Lately I've been exploring APIs that push data and the use of personal data. While we're proponents of the Evented API specification, there are already a number of APIs that push data in some way. One of those is Foursquare.com. The Foursquare push API will call a URL anytime a user checks in. (Foursquare calls it the "real-time" API, but I'm coming to dislike that term as a description for this functionality.) They post data to a URL of your choosing. Turns out, with the Sky API accepts event signal URLs (ESLs) that meet the Evented API Specification and Foursquare can use properly formatted…
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  • Aberdeen Analyst Insight Paper: ERP & BI: When 1+1=3

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Prompted by volatile markets and a troubled economy, the need to contain or reduce cost is key for small to medium size enterprises. In the pursuit of cost reductions and in the struggle to sustain and grow revenue and profits it becomes more and more important to preserve the level of visibility that becomes elusive as SMEs grow in both size and complexity. SMEs are turning more and more to both ERP and BI solutions to gain visibility and control.Request Free!

  • Making Critical Connections: Predictive Analytics in Government

    24 Jan 2012 | 8:50 pm
    Predictive analytics can help your agency make critical connections. Predictive analytics technologies combine advanced analytical techniques with decision-support capabilities. Solutions incorporating predictive analytics enable various types of government organizations to explore data and gain insights that lead to informed decisions.Request Free!

  • Continually Improve Program Outcomes: Measure What Matters and Gain Detailed Insight Into Program Performance

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  • 4 Steps to Maximize Customer Profitability

    24 Jan 2012 | 8:20 pm
    You'll discover the basics of customer analytics, how it is being applied in today's banking environment and the benefits it can deliver for your organization. You'll also learn about the proven IBM solutions for customer analytics that banks around the world rely on to improve customer profitability.Request Free!

  • Insurance Study: Transforming Customer Relationships with Analytics

    24 Jan 2012 | 8:20 pm
    Read it now and understand the impact business analytics are having on today's insurance industry.Request Free!
 
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  • HTML5: Background Processes with Web Workers

    23 Jan 2012 | 1:50 pm
    The course demonstrates practical examples for detecting web workers support, setting up workers, implementing shared workers, and handling errors. Exercise files are included with the course.Topic focus:Understanding API differences in shared workersAlong with the free video training tutorials you will also receive monthly offers, tips, and insider information you won't hear elsewhere--including special discounts extended to newsletter subscribers.After taking advantage of the free video training, you can access all of the video tutorials by becoming a member of the Online Training…

  • Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta Preview

    23 Jan 2012 | 1:50 pm
    The course covers the new Book module and integration with Blurb, an online book printing service; the video playback and editing options, including the ability to color, tone, export, and publish movies; and the image editing enhancements in Lightroom 4, including the Image Adjustment Brush for correcting color and noise.Topics include:Why use Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta?Video playback and trimmingEditing the color and tone of a video fileOrganizing video files in a Lightroom databaseCapturing a still image from a video fileExporting or publishing a video to your hard driveAlong with the free…

  • Drupal 7: Creating and Editing Custom Themes

    23 Jan 2012 | 1:50 pm
    The course explores how Drupal default themes are configured and structured and how to install and edit a theme. The course also explores the tools a designer needs to create a Drupal 7 theme, using HTML, CSS, PHP, and Drupal templates, or migrate an existing Drupal 6 theme to Drupal 7. Exercise files are included with this course.Topics include:Using the Devel and Theme Developer modulesExploring the Appearance interfaceUsing the Backup Migrate module to create content for a web siteEnabling cachingAlong with the free video training tutorials you will also receive monthly offers, tips, and…

  • Joomla! 1.6: Creating and Editing Custom Templates

    23 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    The course also covers advanced styling techniques, such as creating multiple layouts within the same Joomla! template, configuring menus and submenus, and implementing template overrides and template styles. Exercise files accompany the course.Topics include:Understanding Joomla!Template filesGetting the HTML comp ready for conversionConverting from index.html to index.phpInstalling the package fileAlong with the free video training tutorials you will also receive monthly offers, tips, and insider information you won't hear elsewhere--including special discounts extended to newsletter…

  • The Business Value of Next-Generation ERP: Perspectives for IT Management in Manufacturing

    17 Jan 2012 | 11:20 am
    Written by Martin Butler Research, analysts in business technology and IT systems, and Epicor Software, a worldwide leader in enterprise solutions, this report will help your organization understand in simple business language how you can profit from the latest, agile ERP technologies.Business Value of Next-Generation ERP - Perspectives for IT Managers shows IT professionals in Manufacturing how ERP can help:support unique business processes with flexible service-oriented-architecture (SOA) technologycontrol enterprise-wide security and audit trailsimprove end user efficiency with ease of use…
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  • Server Virtualization: Branching Out of the Data Center

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:20 pm
    Yet, they continue to place a few essential applications locally because of performance, survivability, or compliance requirements. By making use of server virtualization, these lean branch offices can increase utilization of local infrastructure, reduce application downtime and recovery time, and shorten the time needed to deploy local applications while lowering infrastructure and operating costs.Request Free!

  • The Important Role of Storage for Success in Server Virtualization

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:20 pm
    Server virtualization is an ever more important tool for reducing cost, increasing availability, and enhancing business agility. But for many organizations, the savings that come from server consolidation are the primary reason for server virtualization.Request Free!

  • Cloud Computing - Latest Buzzword or a Glimpse of the Future?

    24 Jan 2012 | 5:20 pm
    The chairman of the Cloud Summit Executive 2008 conference reportedly started the event by joking that he asked 20 people to define cloud computing, and got 22 different answers.The term came into vogue a few years ago and has since generated its share of controversy. Here are some descriptions they found for cloud computing:Something that will "profoundly change the way people work and companies operate." (The Economist)"Reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users." (Wikipedia)"The next step in the evolution of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology."…

  • Ten Reasons Why You Should Consider Enterprise-Class Tape for Open Systems Storage

    23 Jan 2012 | 5:20 pm
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  • 5 Must-Ask Questions for SAN Storage Consolidation Success

    23 Jan 2012 | 5:20 pm
    They've put together a list of five such questions you should consider as you embark on a SAN storage consolidation project. They're also going to explore the features of Oracle's Pillar Axiom 600, an industry-leading SAN storage system that helps solve many of the problems you might face as you consolidate your storage environment.Request Free!
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    Minicom Blog

  • Escaping the pitfalls of remote data center management

    Minicom Blog
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:38 am
    Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) continues to be a hot topic for data center managers in 2012 and while it’s important to keep up with new tech developments, it’s equally important to once in a while stop, and make sure that your basic management needs are really covered.When dealing with IT infrastructure in a data center, remote access methods have become a key part of the IT manager’s tool box. But managing these tools is a sizable job in itself. In every IT environment there are a variety of remote access tools that have been purchased departmentally or have…

  • Data center security - a look at the other side of the firewall

    Minicom Blog
    18 Jan 2012 | 4:04 am
    In today’s cyber world nobody in his right mind, business or individual, operates without a firewall. But – did you know that around 80 percent of all security threats to organizations come from the inside? Astonishingly enough most companies focus their security resources on preventing external hackers from causing them harm, and no matter how successful firewalls and various intrusions detection/preventing systems are, they are not of much help when the attack/intrusion comes from within the organization, behind the firewall doors…While people, or workers from within your organization…

  • KVM over IP – the IT manager’s life insurance

    Minicom Blog
    5 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    It’s a known saying that your customers are the bestadvocates of your solutions and products. When that happens, your chances ofclosing the deal rise dramatically. In a recent sales meeting with a prospectcustomer one of our sales managers, Moti, experienced just that!The customer is fortune 1000 company in the insuranceindustry that is consolidating its three legacy data centers into a new “lightsout” data center, looking to streamline operational costs, increase efficiencyand productivity of their IT staff and of course provide better service totheir on-line customers. Moti started…

  • Mixing Up The Future Data Center

    Minicom Blog
    21 Dec 2011 | 8:10 am
    As we get into December, end of theyear in sight, its summary and predictions time. We look back, evaluate andlearn, and more excitingly we look around and try our best to foresee what thefuture holds for us. Data centers are no exception. Last week, at the GartnerData Center conference in Las Vegas, Dell VP of Enterprise Marketing andStrategy Praveen Asthana presented a veryinsightful look on just how mixed the Data Center of the future will be.According to Dell, the race of technologies to win over the data center won’tbe won by any single discipline, but rather the result will be a…

  • How long does the glue on DCIM post-it notes last?

    Minicom Blog
    13 Dec 2011 | 7:41 am
    As a top IT pro in the data center, you’re probablychuckling because you actually know the answer to that question!When it boils down to Data Center Infrastructure Management(DCIM) monitoring your equipment is just not enough. Even the most organized ITmanager has innumerable sticky notes papering their walls.  Accompanied with a host of homegrownspreadsheets dedicated to organizing the long lists of IP addresses, passwords,and multivendor equipment information you need to access and control your IT infrastructuresmoothly, on a daily basis.  And thatmakes perfect sense – those…
 
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    Business Technology Roundtable

  • Market Insights on the Pending Business Tablet Invasion

    David Deans - BTR moderator
    24 Jan 2012 | 11:52 am
    Here's the scenario, you're a busy executive working away from your office and you just want to quickly research something on the Web. You turn on the company-provided notebook computer and you wait the standard 3-6 minute delay, before you can actually use it. The corporate IT department has numerous mandatory processes that must load first -- such as virus protection, data backup, system and app software updates, etc. -- on a typical Windows system. That's often dozens of processes running at start-up, and some will consume 100 percent of the available processing power. That automated cycle…

  • Managed Cloud Service Provider Deployment Plans

    David Deans - BTR moderator
    16 Jan 2012 | 3:10 pm
     As more multinational business executives and IT managers consider embracing managed cloud service offerings, many are wondering how the service provider landscape is evolving -- and where providers plan to differentiate their capabilities. Much of the initial market insight focused on the key emerging trends, but now we're starting to see more detailed analysis. A new market study by Infonetics Research details operator plans for managed cloud services -- including their strategies and approaches to offering services, how services will be delivered now and in the future, and top…

  • Tablet Use in Business to Gain Momentum in 2012

    David Deans - BTR moderator
    22 Dec 2011 | 3:00 pm
    The early-adopter trials have begun, the commercial apps are being developed -- it's now a given, purpose-built tablets will be used in more mainstream business settings during 2012. Besides, executives and IT managers at multinational companies will likely witness this phenomenon first, particularly in the more advanced markets. According to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC), media tablet shipments in EMEA reached more than 12 million units in the first three quarters of 2011 -- growing to 20 million units by the end of the year. Although business purchases…

  • Five Predictions for Managed Cloud Services in 2012

    David Deans - BTR moderator
    14 Dec 2011 | 11:19 am
    The proof-positive business impact from managed cloud services deployment, including the numerous associated productivity benefits and anticipated cost-savings, have pushed cloud computing well into the mainstream during 2011. As we move into 2012, International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that this evolution will continue as more users test the growing capabilities of the public cloud services that are already available. However, by 2015, IDC envisions a very different scenario -- one where cloud services will become commonplace, thereby forcing significant changes in the ongoing…

  • Cisco CloudVerse: a Comprehensive Cloud Framework

    David Deans - BTR moderator
    7 Dec 2011 | 11:02 am
    Multinational company CEOs are one of the most vocal advocates of the managed cloud services phenomenon. Many have been through the painful process of watching helplessly as their CIO championed the deployment of monolithic ERP and CRM systems -- only to discover that these huge enterprise software projects failed to live up to their promise. Meanwhile, purposeful line-of-business executives have successfully utilized software-as-a-service (SaaS), with their CEO's support, to break free from the legacy IT platforms and thereby give their employees the business technology (BT) productivity…
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    Modis

  • Around The IT Industry 1/23 – 1/27

    Modis
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:16 pm
    Symantec recommends disabling pcAnywhere in light of Anonymous threat Symantec acted in an unprecedented manner when it recommended users disable the product pcAnywhere until Symantec could resolve “vulnerability risks.” The company admitted that its network was breached in 2006, and the source code was put into the hands of Anonymous recently. 5 Microsoft Apps That’ll Impact the IT Industry Scott Lowe from TechRepublic outlines 5 apps from Microsoft he thinks will dramatically affect IT over the next few years. One of the apps he mentions is the System Center Configuration Manager…

  • Fantasy Information Technology: Building Your Dream Team

    Modis
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:01 am
    If you were faced with the toughest IT problem on Earth, it would be useful to have a team of the best IT professionals ever. What if you could have any person, real or fictional, helping you out? Which people do you think would be most capable of solving any IT issue that comes their way? Here are the top 6 IT gurus who could most likely vanquish any IT enemy. Larry Page (Credit) Unless you’ve somehow managed to obtain all of your information by searching at the library or texting one of those pointless companies that answer your random questions, you’ve heard of Google. You’ve most…

  • Around The IT Industry 1/16 – 1/20

    Modis
    19 Jan 2012 | 5:06 pm
    Websites black out in SOPA, PIPA protest, senators withdraw support After Wikipedia, Google, and other websites voiced their concerns about the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, millions of people tweeted about the legislation, mostly in support of the protesting. A few Senators have pulled support for the bills. 10 questions to consider before picking an internal social network Many companies might have decided to incorporate internal social networks, but choosing the best one is a different story. Here are 10 questions to answer before making your decision.

  • Our 2012 Salary Guide simplifies your salary negotiations.

    Tori Johnson
    18 Jan 2012 | 9:32 am
    When it comes to building a great IT team or pursuing an IT career, the issue of salary is sure to come up. Employers want to offer a competitive wage in order to attract top talent and keep their high-performing employees performing at their peak. At the same time, professionals want to make sure they are earning a fair salary that aligns with their credentials, their workload and their job market. That’s why we’ve developed our 2012 Salary Guide. It is a roadmap for simpler, more effective salary discussions and a guide to understanding the market and its hot skills. And it’s…

  • The Female IT Professional

    Modis
    17 Jan 2012 | 12:53 pm
    When you think of IT professionals, you probably imagine a man. Why? Well, there’s a running stereotype that men do that sort of work, but it’s not based on fiction. The gender gap in information technology has been present, but people have been working more and more to alleviate this discrepancy. So how bad is the gap? Here’s a look at what’s going on for women in the IT industry. What are the numbers? The lack of women in tech-related jobs probably goes all the way back to college. According to a Computing Research Association report, 18% of computer science and computer engineering…
 
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    Converge Blog

  • Converge 2011 Survey Respondents Seek Quality Assurance

    Converge
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:16 am
    Several months ago, Converge conducted its biennial customer satisfaction survey, which many blog readers probably received. If you were one of the hundreds of people who took the time to give us your valuable feedback, we cannot thank you enough. We view this survey as an opportunity not only to gauge (and improve) our performance level, but also to gain valuable insights about the electronic components industry from our global customers. Converge customers are the innovators of today’s latest technology. They build electronics to fulfill every vertical need from telecommunications to…

  • Consignment Visibility Tool Simplifies Surplus Remarketing

    Converge
    11 Jan 2012 | 8:50 am
    Trying to remarket surplus electronic components can be a tremendous amount of work for manufacturers and EMS providers. Unless your company is equipped with market intelligence, it’s not easy to find out how much your excess inventory is really worth or who might be interested in buying it. There is also the danger of finding the wrong buyer – e.g., a broker instead of an end user – whose markups and fees can minimize your financial return. In addition, dealing with product staging and global shipping logistics can be a real hassle when those activities are not part of your company’s…

  • Q&A with Scot Hennessey on Supply Chain Disruptions

    Converge
    20 Dec 2011 | 10:40 am
    Shortages. For OEMs and EMS companies, few words can impart more angst and uncertainty. Electronic component shortages can virtually stop production lines, resulting in substantial loss of productivity and revenue. So what can manufacturers do to keep production (and profits) on track when the supply chain is unexpectedly disrupted? To learn more about supply chain disruptions, we discussed this topic in a Q&A with Scot Hennessey, Director of Sales for the Americas at Converge.Q: What is the main cause of supply chain disruptions? A: Supply chain disruptions can be caused by two different…

  • Why Working with an IDEA Member is a Great Idea

    Dwight Gerardi
    7 Dec 2011 | 9:30 am
    Have you ever seen an independent electronic components distributor touting its affiliation with a group called IDEA and wondered what that meant? What’s the big idea behind IDEA – and why should you care? IDEA is the Independent Distributors of Electronics Association. This is a non-profit trade association whose mission is to enhance the quality of electronic products and services in the independent market, and to standardize the techniques and methods used to test and screen parts. Before IDEA was formed in 2006, each distributor had to rely on its own collected information and…

  • Download Free Shortage Market White Paper

    Converge
    23 Nov 2011 | 8:30 am
    Sooner or later, every technology-driven company will face an electronic components shortage. After all, the only predictable thing about the electronics supply chain is that it’s unpredictable. So how can manufacturers keep production lines moving when needed parts are not flowing through the typical distribution channels? That is one of the topics explored in the Converge white paper “Finding Components in a Shortage MarketThis brief white paper also answers the most common questions about navigating the potential pitfalls of widespread supply chain disruption and allocation,…
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  • Code injection risk: Symantec recommends disabling pcAnywhere

    Evelyn
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:40 am
    Sunnyvale (ip-192.com): Symantec recommends that users disable or uninstall its pcAnywhere. The company, best known for its suite of antivirus software, says that source code stolen by hackers in 2006 may expose vulnerabilities in the remote access software. “Malicious users with access to the source code have an increased ability to identify vulnerabilities and build new exploits,” Symantec says. “Additionally, customers that are not following general security best practices are susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks which can reveal authentication and session information. General…

  • Cloud computing: SaaS used to augment business intelligence

    Evelyn
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:38 am
    Stamford (ip-192.com): Nearly one third of organizations uses or plans to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions. According to a survey of 1,364 IT managers and business users of BI platforms in the fourth quarter of 2011, only 17 percent of organizations have replaced or plan to replace parts of their core business intelligence (BI) functions with cloud/SaaS offerings, information technology research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. says. However, almost a third (27 percent) already use or plan to use cloud/SaaS options…

  • Fourier transform: New algorithm improves compression

    Bernd
    19 Jan 2012 | 1:07 pm
    Cambridge (ip-192.com): MIT researchers developed a new algorithm that improves on the fast Fourier transform (FFT), a mathematical operation that decomposes a function into its constituent frequencies, known as its frequency spectrum. The new algorithm could be particularly useful for image compression to allow smartphones to wirelessly transmit large video files without draining batteries or consuming monthly bandwidth allotments. Under some circumstances, the improvement can be dramatic - a tenfold increase in speed. The Fourier transform is one of the most fundamental concepts in the…

  • Super-Identity: Project focuses on real and cyber identities

    Evelyn
    18 Jan 2012 | 9:44 am
    Southampton (ip-192.com): The complex nature of identity, both in the real world and online, is the focus of a three year study at the University of Southampton. The project, which will investigate ‘Super-Identities’, aims to tackle the issues associated with unreliable and counterfeit identification and provide a faster and more efficient way of combating the problem. “The capacity to identify one another is vitally important,” said project leader Dr. Sarah Stevenage, Head of Psychology at the University of Southampton. “It underpins social dialogue, commercial transactions,…

  • Wikipedia: Site goes dark over anti-piracy bill

    Evelyn
    17 Jan 2012 | 10:48 am
    San Francisco (ip-192.com): Wikipedia plans to black out its English language website for 24 hours on Wednesday, January 18, in protest over proposed anti-piracy legislation under consideration in the U.S. Congress. “Today Wikipedians from around the world have spoken about their opposition to this destructive legislation," said Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. "This is an extraordinary action for our community to take - and while we regret having to prevent the world from having access to Wikipedia for even a second, we simply cannot ignore the fact that SOPA and PIPA endanger free…
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    ITPRO Africa

  • EVENT: ITPRO Africa IDM Management Shootout

    Marlon Duminy
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:12 am
    ITPRO AFRICA is proud to announce our first event for 2012! ITPRO Africa IDM Management Shootout We’ve invited two guest speakers from Microsoft and Quest Softwareto give their viewpoints on the subject matter of Identity Management. You are invited to come along, listen and most of all interact with our guests. Make sure that you [...] Related posts: ITPRO Africa Cape Town Event – 10 June 2010 ITPRO Africa Event – Call for speakers ITPRO AFRICA Cape Town Registration site has gone live

  • Using the Exchange Management Shell from C#

    Hannes de Jager
    15 Nov 2011 | 5:39 am
    I’m wanting to build on my previous post titled “Using PowerShell from managed code” to show how to invoke the Exchange 2010 Management Shell from managed code. Since Exchange 2007, the primary management tool for Exchange is the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). The EMS is really just a PowerShell session with Exchange specific extensions loaded. [...] Related posts: Using PowerShell from managed code More Exchange 2010 goodness – Exchange Management Shell Quick Reference for Exchange 2010 Using PowerShell to Bulk Create Exchange users with unique passwords

  • The Future of the IT Pro and the IT Architect

    Marlon Duminy
    25 Oct 2011 | 4:01 pm
    So last week I attended Tech-Ed Africa 2011 and had to trek all the way to Durban on South Africa’s east coast, where it became as clear as the lovely South African blue skies … Microsoft is punting their  Cloud offering in extra-large doses. One of the first talks I attended turned out be an [...] Related posts: The Future of hosted Exchange The Future of Windows The future of hosted Exchange using Exchange 2010 SP2

  • PHP Applications: Pt 4 – SquirrelMail

    Robby Pedrica
    19 Oct 2011 | 1:56 am
    Squirrelmail is one of the old guard, starting life out in 1999 already. Written to HTML 4 specs, SqM tries to be as compatible as possible with the widest range of browsers. This also alludes to the fact that SqM is bare-bones at the core, with standard email functionality and not much more. The idea [...] Related posts: PHP Applications: Pt 1 – Mantis PHP Applications: Pt 3 – Dokuwiki PHP Applications: Pt 2 – phpMyAdmin

  • PHP Applications: Pt 3 – Dokuwiki

    Robby Pedrica
    11 Oct 2011 | 8:05 am
    Wikis have come of age in the last few years, and provide a means of collating and storing documentation in a shared manner without the overhead of a full document management system. Dokuwiki itself is a flat file-based solution making backups, management and installation straightforward. Installation is as simple as transferring the installation files to [...] Related posts: PHP Applications: Pt 2 – phpMyAdmin PHP Applications: Pt 1 – Mantis
 
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    The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement

  • 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)   …

  • TDWI Solution Summit: Master Data, Quality, and Governance

    admin
    15 Dec 2011 | 9:43 am
    I am honored to be one of the co-moderators of the upcoming TDWI Solution Summit on Master Data, Quality, and Governance, to be held March 4-6 in Savannah, GA. I attended one of these events in the past, met a lot of people currently engaged in launching an MDM project, but this year I have helped to find some cases studies that focus on master data as a result of good data quality and governance techniques, not the driver. Please go to the web site and check it out, then apply to be a delegate! Hope to see you there!

  • Institutionalized Entity Identification Problems

    admin
    13 Dec 2011 | 8:36 am
    It has been a while since I posted an entry – mostly signs of “busy-ness” in trying to wrap up projects before the end of the year. However, I did have an interesting experience recently with one of our customers, with whom we are working on developing a best practices guide for data governance. For this customer, I was being provided with badge access to be able to get in and out of the building, and we had an appointment with security to have the badge created (as well as a bunch of other security-type things). As some of you might know, I never use my first name, but go…

  • Unique Identification, Health Care, Protection of Personal Health Information, Upcoming Webinar

    admin
    17 Oct 2011 | 11:47 am
    I have a friend in the neighborhood, and coincidentally he shares a name with another person who also lives in our neighborhood. As a joke, while I refer to my friend by his name (say for argument’s sake it is “Arnie Hollingsworth”), I refer to the other guy as “The Other Arnie Hollingsworth.” Apparently, though, the local pharmacy doesn’t have the same sense of humor or sense of differentiation. My friend recently got a notice from the pharmacy that his prescription was about to run out and that he needed to come in to get it refilled Except that it…

  • Changing Assumptions About Data Use

    admin
    8 Sep 2011 | 7:39 am
    I was reading Tom Redman’s blog posting at the data roundtable about the customer-supplier model for data and thought it would be worth raising a particular question regarding an ongoing assumption about data use. Tom’s posting suggests that as individuals should cast themselves into a supplier or customer role. The suppliers should consider who the customers are and ask themselves whether they are meeting their customers’ needs. The customers should consider who the suppliers are and “act like customers.” This model may work in a constrained environment where…
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    CSPCentral

  • Draft TCP Code takes a beating

    Peter Moon
    11 Jan 2012 | 9:50 pm
    The jungle drums are sending negative messages about the new TCP Code proposed by Communications Alliance.  If the rumours are correct, ACMA is on the verge of refusing to register the draft Code, opting for more aggressive legislative regulation of the telco industry instead. What’s it all about? In a nutshell, the Australian Communications and Media Authority has been calling for stronger telco consumer protections since it completed its ‘Reconnecting the Customer’ enquiry last year. In response, Communications Alliance developed an upgraded version of the current…

  • Mythbuster: ‘Entire agreement’ clauses lock out misrepresentation claims

    Peter Moon
    11 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    People are often confused about the effect of clauses that say ‘You acknowledge that we have made no other promises or representations to you.’ Often you see such clauses quoted in support of an argument that a claim for misrepresentation cannot succeed where a contract contains this clause. But that ain’t necessarily so.  In fact, it ain’t even normally so. ‘Entire agreement’ clauses Typically they read something like this: This document is the entire agreement between you and us and you acknowledge that we have made, and you rely on, no promise, representation…

  • CSP Central Update

    admin
    4 Jan 2012 | 2:23 pm
    Happy New Year! We are currently working on a new and improved CSPCentral and hope to relaunch during 2012. Feel free to contact us with any queries. Best Wishes The CSPCentral Team

  • ACCC takes aim at mobile internet

    Erhan Karabardak
    6 Oct 2009 | 7:25 am
    The ACCC has announced the launch of an Information Paper entitled “Mobile and Other Wireless Internet Speed Claims and the Trade Practices Act 1974″. The Information Paper has been developed to assist ISPs and Telcos in ensuring that their advertising for mobile and wireless internet is compliant with the Trade Practices Act 1974, and in particular the consumer protection provisions such as s52. In launching the Information Paper, ACCC Chairman, Graeme Samuel said that: “The ACCC is concerned by companies over-promising and under-delivering the speeds available on mobile…

  • ACCC executes perfect hit on Telstra, Optus and Vodafone

    Peter Moon
    14 Sep 2009 | 9:05 am
    After months of secret negotiations, Telstra, Optus & Voda have rolled over and ‘offered’ ACCC a court enforceable undertaking … equivalent to court injunctions … to stamp out false advertising in the broadband and telephony industry. When legal advisers warn second and third tier telcos and ISPs about advertising content, the single most common retort is ‘Telstra gets away with it’ and ‘We saw an Optus ad like that’ and ‘But Voda says the same thing’. It’s a pretty good argument.  If the giants can do it, why…
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    Blog

  • 2012: The year of the tablet for small businesses

    jonathanedwards@integral-it.co.uk
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:27 am
    Since the iPad was launched in 2010 tablet computers have taken the consumer market by storm and large businesses didn’t take long to catch on. With the technology becoming both more advanced and more affordable, it looks like 2012 will be the year small businesses embrace the tablet.

  • Where to find photos for your website

    jonathanedwards@integral-it.co.uk
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:57 am
    There’s nothing wrong with taking a DIY approach to building your company’s website. If you choose your tools carefully it is possible to create a professional looking website without spending a fortune on web designers.

  • Shouldn’t every company have a coder?

    jonathanedwards@integral-it.co.uk
    17 Jan 2012 | 2:48 am
    Computer programming is big news this January. On this side of the Atlantic, education secretary Michael Gove reckons the information and communications technology (ICT) curriculum in England’s schools is “demotivating and dull”. He wants to replace it with courses more focused on computer science and programming.

  • Coping with Christmas

    jonathanedwards@integral-it.co.uk
    20 Dec 2011 | 4:14 am
    Christmas is an unusual time for most businesses. Some shut down altogether during that no-mans’-land period between Christmas and New Year. Others stay open, but find staff numbers severely depleted as people realise they can enjoy almost two weeks off while using just a few days of holiday.

  • How long does the keyboard have left?

    jonathanedwards@integral-it.co.uk
    14 Dec 2011 | 1:52 pm
    The humble keyboard has served us well for years. Over a hundred years, in fact – the QWERTY layout we still use today has been with us since 1872, and the letters were arranged specifically to reduce the chance of the typewriters of the day jamming.
 
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    RES Software Blog

  • RES Automation Manager : the Dispatcher discovery process

    Rob de Korte
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:47 am
    In one of my previous blog articles I promised to give you a closer look at the Dispatcher Discovery process. It took me a while but now I will fulfill that promise. Together with my colleague Bas van Goor I created an overview of the discovery process and in this article I will walk you through it. Why do we actually need a discovery process? The RES Automation Manager Agent doesn’t communicate directly with the database. It does so by means of one or more Dispatchers and for an uninterrupted communication process it needs to have a list of functional and reachable Dispatchers in its…

  • The Answer: RES HyperDrive

    jdgiwettlaufer
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:55 am
    Today RES Software announced an exciting new addition to the RES Software portfolio that answers one of the biggest challenges users and IT face today — securing and compliant access to user data.  Without an enterprise-class solution, users have adopted their own “Follow Me Data” solutions, and brought personal, public and cloud-based services into the office, bypassing structured corporate services with personal, consumer services.  This has created risk for the business, and unless IT can provide seamless solutions to the user, the trend will continue. RES HyperDrive is a…

  • Performance tuning tips RES Workspace Manager 2011 – Part 2

    Roland van Dorp
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:02 am
    Since I like this way of providing information more and more, encouraged by very positive feedback from our partners and customers, here a short addition to my last performance tuning blog. Recently we run into an alarm state 1 at the beautiful orange colored RES Suppport floor: two reports of a slow responding RES Workspace Manager environment, could not be a coincident, although…. Performance blog 1 didn’t help, part 2 is born by that. Luckily the issue has been sorted out quickly, check out the first one below. Remove RES Workspace Manager full install from Database/SQL…

  • Notes From The Road – Part 7 … Product Certifications Deliver Confidence

    Sean Donahue
    23 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Are you certifiable? As I sit in my hotel room at the Park Hotel in the heart of beautiful Amsterdam, pondering my “Tim Tebow-ian” lifestyle, my mind turns to the subject of certifications. What else would I think about in Amsterdam? This is a subject I have gained a lot of experience in over the past 20 years. 20 years? Did I just type “20 years?” I cannot believe I am able to say that I have been in the software industry for two decades. I could have sworn I was only 29 years old! Anyway, while at the RES Sales Kick Off event here, one of my new colleagues from the USA and his…

  • Best practices on configuring RES Virtual Desktop Extender

    Guido Drissen
    18 Jan 2012 | 2:18 pm
    In 2011 RES Software released RES VDX and RES Subscriber for VDX. These are the next generation applications of Workspace Extender and RES Subscriber. By using this software, it’s possible to use locally installed applications in a remote desktop. At the Support department we receive questions regarding several different aspects of this product. In this article I will mention some best practices and FAQ’s of RES VDX. The configuration can be different when using RES VDX in a standalone configuration from a configuration when it’s integrated into RES Workspace Manager. Both…
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    The IJIS Factor

  • The Wrong Direction

    Paul Wormeli
    24 Jan 2012 | 1:21 pm
    January 24, 2012. The Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a drug dealer based on the use of GPS technology to track the offender that led to his arrest. The court ruled that the police should have obtained a valid warrant in order to use this technology. In fact, a warrant was obtained but [...]

  • Collaboration Technology

    Paul Wormeli
    16 Jan 2012 | 9:14 am
    The purpose to which technology is applied drives its features and functions, and sets the limits and boundaries for what is included or excluded in product or service packaging. It follows then that it is helpful to define a purpose to which a set of technologies is applied in a single and very clear statement [...]

  • The Right Priorities

    Paul Wormeli
    9 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    As the year 2012 emerges from the shadows of 2011, almost every magazine, blog and article is about predicting the future. The typical article is entitled something like “What’s Hot this Year.” Rather than make a lot of predictions that may or may not be useful, and even if they are right may be inconsequential, [...]

  • Do standards defeat innovation?

    Paul Wormeli
    23 Dec 2011 | 9:55 am
    Kshemendra Paul, who runs the Program Management office for the Information Sharing Environment (PM-ISE), is fond of talking about his vision of the future being built on ”standards based innovation”—which sounds like a good slogan, until someone asks if this is an oxymoron. If information technology is based on standards, is there any room for [...]

  • When will the data get smart?

    Paul Wormeli
    9 Dec 2011 | 11:50 am
    Over 225 people attended WIS3 (Workshop on Information Sharing and Safeguarding Standards) on December 5. Organized by the Program Manager of the Information Sharing and Safeguarding Environment, “WIS3 is an interactive workshop bringing together government and industry leaders to chart the future for standards in the Information Sharing Environment.” There was strong participation from industry [...]
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    Site prebuilder blogs

  • Breakthrough marketing: How to get your business noticed

    David
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:44 am
    Businesses can take off overnight. Social networks, global media, the Internet, marketing and word-of-mouth that spans the globe can drive your message to millions of people instantly. But it rarely "just happens". If you've been marketing your startup, product or business online then you'll have seen product launches that seemed to come out of nowhere to become the hottest thing around, or videos and content that have gone viral driving millions of potential customers through to the originators - the "Charlie bit my finger" YouTube video sensation netted that family several hundred thousand…

  • How are Bing and Yahoo outcompeting Google for startup traffic?

    David
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:46 am
    Yahoo and Bing are consistently sending more highly targeted organic search traffic to my startup than Google. How is this possible? Google dominates the search market, with about 66% of US traffic - clearly a far greater percentage of search traffic than all of the other search engines combined. So if Google has the lion's share of the search market, why are Yahoo and Bing sending my startup, design-a-webpage.com, qualified organic search traffic for the SEO keywords and phrases that are targeted by the site? The answer could be part of a strategy to claw their way back. Let's take a look...

  • Five small business web design tools you can't live without

    David
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:24 am
    Getting your small business online can be difficult, until you have found the right combination of tools. In particular, creating a professional look and feel for your webpages is crucial for building trust and reputation (both hugely important for making sales). This post isn't going to rehash the old favorites like wordPress, Joomla or Drupal. These CMS (Content Management Systems) are fairly well known and widely used. If you're not using one of these for your website or blog then you should definitely take a look. Instead I thought I would list the online tools, relating to web design,…

  • InfoGraphic: Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point" outselling nearest competitors by over five to one on Amazon

    David
    24 Jan 2012 | 3:21 am
    Do a search on Amazon for books on advertising, and it's no surprise that Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point" shows up first. It's been a smash hit for quite some time now - around ten years and counting. The premise that a well considered and precise action can induce desirable effects far in excess of the initial "push" is clearly an infectious one in itself. Ok, so the book is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Neat. But I wanted to see exactly how it stacks up against other top advertising books. Continuing in my series of posts about leading books in various business related disciplines,…

  • Social buzz: How to get market leaders to talk about your content

    David
    23 Jan 2012 | 7:11 am
    Small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs often have a hard time building up a decent amount of social buzz, hype or interest around what they are saying. Last week, I "made Guy Kawasaki's day", with this article entitled "Guy Kawasaki's 'Art of the start' outsells other titles by marketing gurus". Guy's share on Twitter drove thousands of hits through to my blog. The way the Internet has evolved, it is now crucial to build social trust and authority to help drive traffic, in addition to the organic search traffic that comes from creating SEO enhanced, focused and relevant blog (or other)…
 
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    Government IT News

  • Google privacy change sparks concern

    David Perera
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:49 pm
    Compulsory changes in Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) privacy policy for consumers, announced by the company Jan. 24, got a quick reaction from government experts, who warned their application in Google Apps for Government could jeopardize government information. The new policy, which the company says will become effective on March 1, will permit Google to share data between its services. For example, through data collected from a location-enabled service, such as an end-user logging into a Google account from an Android mobile device, Google will be able to target regional advertising to the end…

  • Data.gov, USA.gov moving to the cloud; FBI: Insider stole Federal Reserve code;

    Molly Bernhart Walker
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:44 pm
    > Data.gov, USA.gov moving to the cloud. Press release> Former Federal CIO Vivek Kundra publishes academic paper. Announcement and paper (.pdf)> State Department launches customized site "My State Department." Post (DipNote Blog)> FBI: Insider stole Federal Reserve code. Article (BankInfoSecurity)> DHS looks to consolidate its HR IT systems. Article (FedNewsRadio) And Finally... Chad Ochocinco confuses House of Representatives with House of Lords, addresses Boehner as "kind sir." Article (AP via WaPo)

  • VA caps iOS device deployment, eyes BYOD

    Molly Bernhart Walker
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:13 pm
    iOS device deployment at the Veterans Affairs Department remains limited even though the department has allowed iPads and iPhones since October 2011, said VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker during a Jan. 25 press call. Fewer than 1,000 iOS devices are currently at VA. Baker said it will stay under the 1,000-device cap until a mobile device management system is in place. "We're not bumping up against that limit yet," he said. An October 2011 solicitation on FedBizOpps revealed VA was looking to buy a system that enables the secure connection of 10,000 mobile devices to VA's…

  • VA reviews FOIA process after veteran record breach on Ancestry.com

    Molly Bernhart Walker
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:51 am
    The Veterans Affairs Department mistakenly exposed more than 2,200 veteran records containing names, birthdates and social security numbers when it responded to a Freedom of Information Act request from family history website Ancestry.com. The website requested a deceased veterans database containing information on 14.7 million individuals, said VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker during a Jan. 25 press call. The massive database, which is managed by the Veterans Benefits Administration, pulls from a variety of sources and occasionally living veterans are accidentally added to the…

  • Smart Grid grantees' cybersecurity plans lacked elements, says IG

    David Perera
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:12 pm
    More than a third of the cybersecurity plans submitted by recipients of Energy Department grants for smart grid development lacked some required elements, says the DOE inspector general. In a report dated Jan. 20, the IG says Energy received a $3.5 billion appropriation under the Recovery Act in 2009 to distribute as grants, and ended up making awards to 99 recipients, with individual awards ranging in value from $397,000 to $200 million. As part of the grant process, Energy required recipients to submit a cybersecurity plan that described the controls they intended to implement, but the IG…
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    SMP Updates

  • More on offer at the Cloud Computing World Forum 2012

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:12 am
    More on offer at the Cloud Computing World Forum 2012The Cloud Computing World Forum will be returning to a larger venue for 2012, making room for extra theatres, further seminars and more attendees to meet, learn and network with fellow industr...

  • WEFLive

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:33 am
    WEFLive.com from KPMG is monitoring Twitter and Tweets from Annual World Economic Forum 2012 held in Davos, Switzerland. The extent and nature of comments from non-delegates since debates began. The site also identifies tweets and tweeters by thei...

  • Social Media Widens the Discussion at Davos, says KPMG

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:13 am
    Social Media Widens the Discussion at Davos, says KPMGTORONTO/PRNewswire/ -- The spread of social media at the Annual World Economic Forum 2012, in particular the use of Twitter, has extended the dialogue beyond the meeting rooms and corridor...

  • Rhapsody Acquires Napster International

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:54 am
    Rhapsody Acquires Napster InternationalAmerica's number-one premium subscription music service is off to a strong start in Europe, by acquiring Napster businesses in Germany and the UKSEATTLE/PRNewswire/ -- Rhapsody announced its Europea...

  • SHAZAM Launches Adaptive Payment's Pentagon Mobile Payment Application

    25 Jan 2012 | 2:51 pm
    SHAZAM Launches Adaptive Payment's Pentagon Mobile Payment ApplicationDiscount rate of 1% for PIN debit transactions for all merchants that use Pentagon offeredDES MOINES, Iowa and FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla/PRNewswire/ -- The SHAZAM network to...
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    Paragon Software Blog

  • Paragon Software and Insight Integrated Systems partner to bring a solution to companies suffering from storage perfomance issue due to partition misalignment

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    8 Jan 2012 | 8:23 am
    Paragon Alignment Tool Optimizes Systems by Aligning Affected Drives after Transition from 512-Byte to 4K-Byte Sector Partitions Paragon Software has partnered with Insight Integrated Systems (IIS), a division of Insight Investments LLC, the industry expert in technology solutions and financing options, to provide the Paragon Alignment Tool (PAT) to companies suffering from disk drive partition misalignment. [...]

  • CES 2012 Flash: Incompatibility between digital multimedia devices is eliminated with Paragon’s UFSD Cross-Platform Technology

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    6 Jan 2012 | 7:53 am
    Paragon Software to Demo UFSD Cross-Platform Technology for Consumer Electronics Market Needs at Showstoppers @ CES 2012 Paragon Software showcases its Universal File System Driver (UFSD) – a cross-platform software tool providing full support for exFAT file systems in all types of consumer electronics devices, regardless of the platform on which they are running, at ShowStoppers [...]

  • Paragon Software to demo UFSD Cross-Platform technology and discuss the coming Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite at ShowStoppers at CES 2012

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    5 Jan 2012 | 8:07 am
    UFSD cross-platform technology The bad news: Modern multimedia systems — including set-top boxes, portable media players (PMP), smart phones and tablet PCs — based on Android, Linux, ThreadX, Windows CE and other embedded operating systems, provide the ability to play multimedia files. Common incompatibility issues arise when launching multimedia files from storage media formatted on Windows, [...]

  • Season’s Greetings for Paragon’s friends!

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    27 Dec 2011 | 5:09 am
    Paragon Software Team wishes you and your families a wonderful Holiday Season and a Happy New Year! We look very forward to hearing from you in 2012! Random PostsParagon announces Competitive Upgrade Program – 50% discount for owners of HFS+ drivers who upgrade to Paragon HFS+ for Windows 8Adaptive Restore WeekNTFS for Mac OS X 8.0Virtualization [...]

  • Paragon Software extends a Holiday SALE!

    Ksenia Schevjeva
    26 Dec 2011 | 1:47 am
    Extend your holiday season with Paragon’s X-mas Sale! Enjoy SPECIAL PRICES on Paragon’s bestselling software! Do not forget to check Paragon’s Facebook page for limited-time offers! *The offer expires January 15th, 2012 Random PostsCONTEST from Paragon Software! JOIN NOW!How to Perform a Bare-Metal Backup and Recovery (video)Find YOUR TREATS for Halloween!Hard Disk Manager 11 Professional is out!Paragon Software extends [...]
 
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    Tricks Windows

  • Adam Tab 2 Coming soon With TI Chips

    Tomin Markose
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:55 am
    Notion Ink Design Labs announced their second version of their Adam tablet earlier in this week. The previous version released in 2010 was not a successful one but the company is going to launch Adam II by completely redesigning the hardware and software of Adam 1.Instead of the NVIDIA TEGRA chip that powers up the previous version, Adam 2 will have a chip from Texas Instruments (TI). The tablet will run a customized version of Android 4.0 or Ice cream sandwich. The company promising some unique features in Adam II has been missed by…

  • 8 Reasons Why You Should not Buy Aakash Tab

    Tomin Markose
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:56 am
    After launching the Aakash tablet, which is the lowest priced tablet computer ever, doublts about its reliability are being arised. Sadly, the sales reports shows Aakash tab was disappointing for those who got Aakah on their hands. According to tech guru's around the web, the newer version of akash - Ubislate 7 plus  will be similar to Chinese gadgets and have a SIM card option. Here's the top ten drawbacks of Aaksh tablet or this could be the reasons why this tab is a failure.10 Disadvantages of Aaksh Tab.1. Very slow processor: - Dont expect any multitasking…

  • Nokia Lumia 900 Vs Nokia Lumia 800 Quick Comparison

    Tomin Markose
    14 Jan 2012 | 11:55 am
    The First Windows phone with 4G network technology from Nokia is unveiled at press conference on  International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Of course this phone will be an answer to all allegations about windows OS, and will arrive in the United States in March, according to a Nokia Developer Website. The former device from the Nokia lumia series family was the Nokia Lumia 800 a.k.a  Nokia Sea Ray which misses the 4G LTE network capability. Here's the quick comparison between these two smartphones about subtle features of…

  • Corning Gorilla Glass 2 Review and Testing

    Tomin Markose
    11 Jan 2012 | 1:57 am
    Mobile phone display's are getting bigger and bigger manufacturer's need them to protect from scratch and accidental damage as bigger sizes costs big. Corning Gorilla Glass is used by 500 plus manufacturers to protect more than 500 million sophisticated electronic devices such as Smartphones, Laptops, Tablets,  portable media players etc from damage. For your information,Gorilla glass is a special kind of alkali-aluminosilicate sheet glass processed to be thinner than usual glasses and damage resistant. Corning demonstrated and tested the…

  • Top 5 Smartphones in 2012

    Tomin Markose
    10 Jan 2012 | 10:32 am
    If your're going to buy a smartphone, wait for the new set of smartphones that are going to be released by smartphone makers in 2012. The upcoming smartphone models in 2012 includes the most awaited HTC Titan II and many more sleek devices. Here's the list of 5 hot smartphones that are going to make the market active in 2012. 1. HTC Titan IIHTC made public debut of Titan II at CES 2012. There are two things that makes you interested in this phone. First of all It's a windows phone. After Lumia 800 from Nokia, this is going to be the leading windows mobile phone…
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  • 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: Limit or…

  • 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 (22%)…

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    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 presses for…

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    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!

  • How to remotely deploy Internet Explorer 9 on your network

    13 Dec 2011 | 4:09 am
    Simple and direct deployment Easily deploy the new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser on chosen computers by following these instructions. Download the four existing IE 9 packages from the Microsoft Web site - IE9-Windows7-x64-enu.exe - IE9-Windows7-x86-enu.exe - IE9-WindowsVista-x64-enu.exe - IE9-WindowsVista-x86-enu.exe Open RemoteExec and go to Remote Jobs/New Remote Job/Multiple actions through the Configuration tree. Click on Add Files to execute/deploy in the Quick access pane. A browser will open. Browse to the four downloaded IE 9 packages, select them and click on Open. Go to the…
 
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  • SCRUMMaster Training – my impressions

    markjowen
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:43 am
    In my earlier posts (here, here, or here) you can read how I have recently “discovered” Agile/SCRUM. Having seen the challenges that can be encountered with the Waterfall, or PRINCE2, model, I am keen to learn more about this alternative approach. To that end, I sent myself off on a SCRUMMaster course. In this post I want to give my impression of the training course – what was good about it, what worked, what didn’t, and what was wrong with the course. Before I do, I need to clarify that these are my own opinions and not those of my anyone else that I have regular, or…

  • I think I underestimated what AIIM’s “Certified Information Professional” is

    markjowen
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:45 pm
    Recently Laurence Hart wrote a blog post about the new AIIM “Certified Information Professional” certification. In response to this I made a comment  that I needed to be convinced that the CIP wouldn’t be just another of the many certifications that are available. (I refereed to it as JAC – Just Another Certification) Laurence posted a second blog post where he discussed, further, the type of content that he encountered in the exam. This assuaged some of my concerns, but also prompted me to do something that I should have actually done in the beginning, and that…

  • Working with Global Teams: Not all in the same room

    markjowen
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:36 am
    This is part of the Working with Global Teams series Previous Post: Working with Global Teams: Pesky Time Zones Revisited ——————————————— A friend of mine,Shoaib Ahmed, has an excellent blog on Agile, and Project Management.  He’s based in New Zealand, and as New Zealand is literally so far away from “the rest of the world” (said with a cheeky wink), he has a pretty good idea of some of the challenges that are met when working in a globally dispersed group. Shoaib’s latest post…

  • Different Systems and Different Silos – A Real-life Disaster

    markjowen
    22 Jan 2012 | 9:15 am
    What follows is a post that was recently published on AIIM’s site as an “Expert Blogger”. (The original can be read here) ———————————————————————– Different Systems and Different Silos – A Real-life Disaster Discussions had been going on for months. Plans had been drawn up. Even though the main tasks had been itemized, there was agreement that these would still have to be refined further into the project. Nothing had been done…

  • Is True Enterprise Search actually possible?

    markjowen
    17 Jan 2012 | 2:52 am
    What follows is the first post that I published on AIIM’s site as an “Expert Blogger”. (The original can be read here) ———————————————————————– The idea of “Enterprise Search” is an attractive one. It certainly would be its weight in gold to have a single search location where key words can be entered, and within a fraction of a  nanocentury[1], results would be displayed that include both structured, and unstructured, content…
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  • Watch Your Tv And HD Videos Remotely From Anywhere

    Rajiv
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:40 am
    Now you can watch your favorite TV shows remotely if you have a slingbox also called set-top box connected to TV. It is a small device connected to your computer, TV or any device having video output device. It uses broadband connection to stream videos signal and users can can remotely view and take control [...] No related posts.

  • How To Convert Your Windows 7 To Windows 8 User Interface

    Sheetal
    20 Jan 2012 | 5:57 am
    Do you wish to experience the Windows 8 beta version free in your Windows 7 PC though not touch screen but still the features are such that you won’t miss the touch screen effect. The Metro 7 app converts your Windows 7 user interface to look like Windows 8. Now let us see how to [...] Related posts: How To Install Windows Xp On Laptop Install Windows Vista Theme in Windows 7

  • How To Convert Any Car Into A Hybrid Car

    Sheetal
    18 Jan 2012 | 6:36 am
    Do you want to buy a Hybrid car but find it to be too expensive well now you can convert your old small car too into a Hybrid car but you feel it would be complicated and again put you into financial set back but not now any more. Now What Is Hybrid and Why [...] Related posts: How Hybrid Cars Can Outperform Ordinary Cars

  • How To Install Windows Xp On Laptop

    Rajiv
    16 Jan 2012 | 7:32 am
    Installing Windows Xp on Laptop can be quite difficult. Especially problem can arise due to compatibility issues. Mostly recommended by vendors is to use Windows Version 7  for better compatibility, easy installation with available supporting pack of driver files for getting most functions from laptop. Similarly the same supporting pack of driver files for Windows [...] Related posts: Install Windows Vista Theme in Windows 7

  • 5 Top Notch Android Games of the Year Past

    sarah
    13 Jan 2012 | 6:17 am
    2012 has already been set into spin as 2011 comes out of orbit and into history. Meanwhile the impact Android had on the tech world was nothing short of impressive. In the last quarter of 2011 there were over 700,000 Android activations occurring on a daily basis. While the android market surged from 200,000 in [...] Related posts: Utorrent support for Android Apple Xbox and Ps3
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  • Benefits of Using Online Remote Support

    5 Jan 2012 | 7:22 am
    When you find a problem in your system you need instant help to get that fixed. Onsite remote support allows you to obtain that help with just a couple of mouse-clicks. The benefits of using this kind of online support are many and those benefits are discussed in the following paragraphs. Continue reading Benefits of Using Online Remote Support [Article source: Free Article Directory - Sooper Articles]

  • File Recovery Utility to Deal With Data Loss

    2 Jan 2012 | 6:59 am
    The concern over losing important digital files can never be overrated. And hence file recovery utility has made its foray into the IT industry with such a big bang. We can follow certain simple methods in using this software that can ensure restoration of damaged or erased files. Continue reading File Recovery Utility to Deal With Data Loss [Article source: Free Article Directory - Sooper Articles]

  • Multitude of IT Services Offered In Dallas

    28 Dec 2011 | 10:22 pm
    Dallas being one of the largest economic centers of the USA, has become a buzzing center for Information technology industry with a growing number of IT services organizations finding the right infrastructure, policies and human resources pivotal for their growth. The city enjoys diverse business. Continue reading Multitude of IT Services Offered In Dallas [Article source: Free Article Directory - Sooper Articles]

  • Use of File Recovery Utility in Corporate Set Up

    20 Dec 2011 | 7:55 pm
    Companies put a lot of emphasis on data backup methodologies to ensure smooth business operation. Depending on the individual backup requirement, file recovery utility can be leveraged by businesses to enable accurate data restoration. Choosing the right recovery solution and manipulating it to ... Continue reading Use of File Recovery Utility in Corporate Set Up [Article source: Free Article Directory - Sooper Articles]

  • Advantages And Disadvantages of Online Storage Service

    8 Dec 2011 | 11:51 am
    Every organization values its organizational data and looks for means to store them safely for future use. And by virtue of cloud technologies and easy availability of internet, online storage service is largely catering to this requirement. But the solution might not be suitable for every business. Continue reading Advantages And Disadvantages of Online Storage Service [Article source: Free Article Directory - Sooper Articles]
 
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  • Thoughts on Big Data and Data Virtualization

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Big data and emerging data integration capabilities make it possible to generate insights from vast quantities of data, something that was not possible before and ultimately changing the way companies use information. The big data industry is seeing a boost in development and adaption recently, even though the technology was created years ago. This boost is driven by ever increasing amounts of data and the need to process it in flight and integrate with traditional data repositories, all with scalability and performance in mind. Today’s market requirements are to process petabytes of data…

  • Connectria Hosting Achieves “Off the Chart” Operational Efficiency

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:15 pm
    Nexsan, an independent provider of disk-based data storage systems, today announced that Connectria Hosting, a global managed hosting company, has deployed the Nexsan Flexible Storage Platform™ in support of the company’s cloud-based backup and recovery services for enterprise clients. In combination with CommVault® Simpana data and information management software, Nexsan’s storage systems have dramatically improved Connectria’s backup and recovery efficiency when compared to the previously deployed solution. Connectria Hosting is a global managed hosting company that provides…

  • Nexsan Recognized in CRN Magazine's Data Center 100

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:37 pm
    Nexsan, a provider of data storage systems, has announced that the company's E-Series and E5000 storage systems have been named in the 2012 Data Center 100 list of top technologies by CRN Magazine. The annual list features the top 100 vendors responsible for powering data centers with cutting-edge technologies that increase data center efficiency, performance and ROI while reducing energy consumption and cost. The 2012 Data Center 100 recognized Nexsan for its comprehensive range of enterprise-class, easy-to-use and efficient storage systems, offering customers the ultimate value proposition…

  • The New Partner Marketing Enablement

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:37 am
    Marketing assistance is one of the most requested benefits that partners ask for from the companies they represent. CRN’s Annual Report Card found that resellers value “channel enablement” more than anything else. This is echoed by Everything Channel’s recent recognition of “Channel Champions,” all of which have implemented partner marketing enablement in their programs. So what new trends are there in partner marketing enablement? How can you best help partners that are typically sales focused, have small marketing staffs and limited technical or financial resources? Here are…

  • InterDigital Gives Up Looking for a Buyer

    25 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Remember InterDigital? That’s the Pennsylvania patent-licensing company that hired Evercore Partners and Barclays Capital last summer to sell its patents, raising punters hopes that Google would buy it to console itself for losing the $4.5 billion Nortel mobile patent auction to Apple, Microsoft and friends. Players bid its stock up 50 bucks to a high of $82.50 in three days on such speculation little suspecting Google would turn around and buy Motorola Mobility and its patents a few weeks later for $12.5 billion. Well, Monday evening InterDigital’s board announced that it was giving up…
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  • What is the purpose of testing?

    Ananda Rao Ladi
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:50 pm
    Life has been very hectic in the last two months, before the New Year. This is the time, when our customers renew the IT contracts and prospects invite us to bid for new testing opportunities. This is a great time …

  • Crossing Swords – ARMed Intel

    Amit Kumar
    22 Jan 2012 | 10:59 pm
    Intel announced multi-year pacts with Motorola Mobility and Lenovo to develop smart phones and tablets at ‘CES 2012,’ one of the largest consumer electronics show on earth which concluded a few days back in Las Vegas. These devices are based …

  • Micro-marketing – the three Key Principles

    Manish Grover
    19 Jan 2012 | 10:26 pm
    Micro-marketing, which is about understanding, segmenting and targeting markets at a local level and also at an individual level is an important business analysis and planning tool. It helps to establish stronger relationships with customers and partners, boosts revenue realization …

  • vmUnify – Enabling VM Security

    Raghuveer Krishna
    17 Jan 2012 | 10:37 pm
    Today, many organizations face new security concerns because they are increasingly putting their most critical applications on Virtual Machines (VMs). One must be aware of this in order to protect against loss of sensitive data. The vmUnify advantage: Secure Multi-tenancy …

  • Virtualization Management Issues

    Giridhar LV
    15 Jan 2012 | 11:11 pm
    We have been interacting with CIOs and IT managers of multiple organizations and here is a list of management issues that we have noted: Tracking VMs: Virtualization has caught some of these CIOs and IT managers off-guard. For instance, to …
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  • Are CIOs Ready To Battle The X-Men (and X-Women)?

    Dr. Jim Anderson
    25 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    Image Credit CIOs Need To Be Careful Who They Decide To Fight Isn’t a global recession just great? For CIOs it has been: it pretty much got rid of one of their biggest headaches – having their star talent leave. Now that things are improving, a new challenge is starting to show up for CIOs: how to turn their Generation X workers into the IT leaders that the company is going to need for tomorrow… Why Things Will Be Different When The X-Men Are In Charge Tamara Erickson has been studying the differences between the Baby Boomer generation (those people who were born just after World…

  • 3 Questions That Every CIO Should Be Asking About Clouds

    Dr. Jim Anderson
    18 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    Image Credit Get over your excitement about clouds and start asking questions I love clouds, you love clouds, we all love clouds. It seems like everyone in IT is talking about cloud computing and how it’s the next big thing. Cloud computing has almost become a part of the definition of information technology. Look, I think that there’s a lot of good things about cloud computing, but I’m not convinced that it’s the right solution for everyone. This brings up the question of how a CIO can find out if cloud computing is right for his or her IT department. It turns out…

  • Video: Why Quiet IT Employees Should Make A CIO Nervous

    Dr. Jim Anderson
    16 Jan 2012 | 3:18 pm
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=467KGa6f-fM   When your IT employees aren’t complaining, that means that you’re doing a good job as CIO, right? Actually, it turns out that the answer is no. Dr. Anderson identifies why having quiet employees may be a bad thing for CIOs. He identifies who in your IT department is going to speak up first and who isn’t . Finally, Dr. Anderson shares his tips for how a CIO can get his or her employees to start talking to you! Get a free subscription to The Accidental Successful CIO newsletter by visiting the sign-up page at: http://goo.gl/NOfh2…

  • CIOs Want To Know Why IT Process Improvement Programs Fail

    Dr. Jim Anderson
    11 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    Image Credit They start out fine, but the ending is never pretty… It seems as though at least once a year CIOs get a bee in their bonnet and decide that the company’s IT department needs to knuckle down and improve its processes. This means that it’s time to implement one of those far-reaching process improvement programs. Oh, oh. No matter if it’s Six Sigma or some other flavor-of-the-week program, they all seem to end up the same way – having no lasting impact. Let’s take a look and see why this happens… Process Improvement Programs Don’t Work This type…

  • Cloud Computing 101: Just Exactly What Is A Cloud?

    Dr. Jim Anderson
    4 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    Image Credit CIOs need to understand just exactly what a cloud is So there I was the other day talking with one of my CIO customers and I was going on and on about how they could introduce cloud computing into their IT department. I had been working with this client for several years and we know each other very well so he felt comfortable in stopping me in mid-sentence. He said “Jim, I’ve been hearing a lot about this cloud computing stuff and I sorta know what is it, but I’m not sure that I fully understand it. ” Oops, I hadn’t realized that there were still…
 
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