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Accelerating Mission-Critical Oracle Applications Throughout the Distributed Enterprise

From Oracle E-Business Suite to PeopleSoft Enterprise, Siebel, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, and JD Edwards World, Oracle offers a full complement of integrated business solutions that improve functional best practices, integrate Web services, provide predictive analysis and enable more flexible, collaborative business processes. Many businesses today rely on Oracle applications to...

Tags: Centralization, Oracle Corp., Performance, Juniper Networks Inc., WANs, Strategic Planning, Performance Management, Globalization, Network Technology, Networking, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2008-06-01

Who benefits from data center centralization?

Who benefits from data center centralization?The difference is in control/managementCentralized processing with decentralized control works - centralizing both does not.But notice that Wintel/data processing essentially force the centralization of both, and Unix does not. You can centralize control with Unix, but you don't have to. Instead you put everything...

Tags: Data centers, Strategic planning, Regulations, benefit, data center, centralization, money organization, data center centralization, server

Discussion threads 2008-03-19

IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?

IBM announces the Z10: Is the mainframe still relevant?z10 - Change of Ideology in EnterprisesI think the z10 is going to be the future winner, especially in the virtualization arena. The problem will be getting large corporations to "buy" in to the purchase. In the old days of...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Virtualization, centralization, networking equipment, mainframe, server, Z10, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-27

Red shift meets event horizon

Red shift meets event horizoncentralization risksPhil, Excellent post - much food for thought. I actually agree that there are dangers in too much centralization of the computing grid, though I think that, for economic reasons, we're going to see considerably more centralization for the foreseeable future (though far from total...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Strategic planning, Greg, Amazon.com Inc., data center, centralization, event horizon, Subodh

Discussion threads 2007-12-13

Cisco Wide Area Application Services Version 4.0 Optimizations for Microsoft SMS

Enterprise IT organizations struggle to maintain service packs, hotfixes, patches, and antivirus definition files for remote workstations and servers. As the workforce grows in an increasingly distributed fashion, distributing installation files and update files to a large number of users becomes cumbersome and consumes large amounts of network capacity. The...

Tags: Centralization, Optimization, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., SMS, Microsoft Systems Management Server, Cisco Wide Area Application Services, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management

White papers 2006-08-01

Normative issues in the Cocoon strategy

Normative issues in the Cocoon strategyCentralization is not all rosyPlacing ALL of your documents in one "basket" means a major single-point-of-failure. If your network/server infrastructure is anything but rock-solid, don't do it.Not to mention SOx and the "separation of roles" issues! Any server with sensitive docs would need all sorts...

Tags: Groupware, Microsoft Office, centralization, strategy, Cocoon

Discussion threads 2006-04-21

The Benefits of Centralization in Wireless LANs Via the Cisco Unified Wireless Network

This paper addresses the benefits of 802.11 wireless LAN centralization via the Cisco Unified Wireless Network. It discusses how centralization of Wireless LANs WLANs delivers advanced features and benefits that are easy to deploy, scale, and manage. These benefits include ease of deployment, ease of upgrades, reliable connectivity through dynamic...

Tags: Centralization, Network, Benefit, WLAN, Cisco Systems Inc., Wireless Network, Wi-Fi, LANs, Wireless LANs, Strategic Planning, Wireless, Networking, Strategy, Management

White papers 2006-02-01

Reduce IT Costs Using Citrix Presentation Server 4

Nowadays, IT organizations are looking for ways to cut costs and deliver more value to the enterprise. They are turning to data center and server centralization and consolidation to significantly reduce costs, while at the same time, seeking ways to improve IT systems and infrastructure management to deliver even higher...

Tags: Centralization, Information Technology, Citrix Systems Inc., Server, IT Cost, Strategic Planning, Data Centers, Strategy, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2005-10-01

Best Practices in Web Management

How Web activities are managed touches the heart of an organization's culture. The organizing of Web activities emerges as a common theme from most of the recommendations in this paper. Best-in-Web organizations have developed various approaches to organizing their Web activities, all of which involve some degree of centralization. (Centralization,...

Tags: Centralization, Web, Best Practice, U.S. Geological Survey, Strategic Planning, Channel Management, Strategy, Management, Marketing

White papers 2005-01-04

Security Special 6: Centralization and Identity Management

This webcast discusses about the necessity of having centralized user and access management, which is the foundation for Identity Management.

Tags: Centralization, Oracle Corp., Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Security

Webcasts

Additional Resources

Facebook introducing new security warning feature

With Facebook persistently under attacks from phishers and malware authors, looking for creative ways to efficiently exploit its users base, Facebook's security team has silently introduced a new "security warning feature" alerting its users on the potential maliciousness of the third-party site they are about to visit. Is the newly...

Tags: Facebook, Security Warning, MySpace, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-09-15

Whatever happened to CMP?

When this decade dawned, the big three technology news publishers were International Data Group, Ziff-Davis and CMP Media. Now, Ziff-Davis has been split into multiple pieces, including this site owned ultimately by CBS. And the initials "CMP" are nowhere to be found. The business that brings you...

Tags: Acquisition, Information Week, CMP Media, United Business Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Thin Clients, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Hardware, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Conversation with AppSense

In preparation for the upcoming VMworld, I've been speaking with representatives of quite a few suppliers who are offering something in the virtualization software space. A few days ago, I had the opportunity to speak with Martin Ingram, Vice President of Strategy for AppSense. Although I can't...

Tags: AppSense, Environment, Profile Management, System Protection, User Environment, AppSense Management Center, Staff Member, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-08-22

So what do I do first?

I almost titled this post "Tales of a newb technology director." Today is my first day in my new job as Technology Director for my school district. No more teaching except professional development, just technology. The BlackBerry has been ordered, I've finished mourning the loss of my...

Tags: District, Job Security, Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Help Desk, Training And Certification, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-01

Learning from Walmart

Learning from WalmartLower cost, much more flexibility- no help desk needed- lets you put sysadmins into user groups, reporting to user managers- eliminates most security and processing failure risks- gives you OS independent access to software - eliminates user impact and costs of evergreen policiesHow would SUN Ray help?ntSmart displays?"put...

Tags: Keyboards, Operating systems, Sun Ray, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., IT Development, Smart Display, Microsoft Corp., Murph

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

Spam attack shut downs Marshall Islands email service

Marshall Islands National Telecommunications Authority is reporting that a sustained spamming attack during the past 24 hours managed to cause a successful Denial of Service attack on the email services of the islands only Internet Service Provider. More info on the attack : More...

Tags: Internet Service Provider, Spamming, Attack, Email Service, Marshall Islands National Telecommunications Authority, E-mail, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Security, Online Communications, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-24

There's data and then there's asking for trouble

There's data and then there's asking for troubleRE: There's data and then there's asking for troubleoff campus activities are private matters and should be held private, even of local staff insolong as students have not disclosed them. It should be the students call to disclose or not these information, and...

Tags: Down-under, RTI

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

Online brand-jacking increasing

With the evolving sophistication of online scammers' understanding of social engineering and trust building online, the techniques they use to build authenticity into their scam propositions have started directly influencing a targeted brand's reputation online in the most negative way possible - the loss of a customer's trust into the...

Tags: Brand, Scammer, MarkMonitor, Phishing, Branding, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-03

Sabotage and the cost of change

Once upon a time, not so long ago and in a province well north of most of my American readers, I developed a complete membership management update strategy for a provincial political party. The key to the plan was ultimately the replacement of the four part paper card issued to...

Tags: Card, Client-server, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Servers, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-29

A distributed alternative to Twitter must respect what already exists

Lots of talk over the last few days among Twittervangelists about the need for some kind of open source and fully distributed version of Twitter to protect against the outages that continue to plague the service. "We're all creating artifacts and connections that are even more fragile...

Tags: Twitter, Branding, Marketing, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-05