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Wait-Time Analysis: A New Best Practice for Performance Management: Wait-Time analysis is a new approach to application and database performance improvement that allows users to make tuning decisions based on optimal service impact. Using the principles of Wait-Time analysis described in this white paper, DBAs, developers and application owners can align their efforts with the service levels desired by...; Tags: Performance, Best Practice, Confio Software, Wait-Time Analysis, Performance Management, Storage, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management; White papers 2006-09-01

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Gmail can be used as "Spam Bazooka": INSERT, the Information Security Research Team, has sucessfully created a proof of concept exploiting the "trust hierarchy" that exists between mail service providers. Taking advantage of the way Gmail forwards messages, the team was able to send 4000 messages in a short period of time from a single account...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Vulnerability, Spam, E-mail Providers, Security, Internet, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Logged into Google? You may see more ads: Google may be using its properties--iGoogle, Gmail and Apps--to step up its behavioral ad efforts. That's the conclusion from Piper Jaffray Gene Munster who tracks 400 searches on Google and Yahoo each month. Munster defines a behavioral ad as one that pertains to a past query. ...; Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Munster, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-09
A conversation with Charles Phillips, president Oracle: This morning I participated in a round table conversation with Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, discussing his take on Enterprise 2.0 technologies and how they apply to Oracle's view of the enterprise applications space. While there was nothing earth shatteringly new in what he said, some nuggets emerged. ...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Wall Street: Too much sway over the tech sector?: Every technology company has three main constituencies: Employees, customers and shareholders. Does that last category overwhelm the first two? Should it? These questions are worth asking--at least when it comes to putting technology companies in context. Vinnie Mirchandani and I had this back and forth about Wall...; Tags: Shareholder, Technology Company, Wall, Vinnie, Construction, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-09

A brief summary: This is not an excerpt from Brief - those ended last week, and next week we'll start the long and boring slog through the second volume in the series: Business Information Technology: Foundations and Culture. Its purpose, where Brief is addressed to top level executives and Defen is intended for...; Tags: Information Technology, MySQL, Jonathan Schwartz, Open Source, Databases, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Psystar: Just how loud is it?: Today was my second day with my spankin' new Psystar Open Computer. Following are some observations. I don't have a wireless card in it yet and my desk is too far away from my router to string an Ethernet cable, so I'm offline for the...; Tags: Card, Optical Drive, Bay, Wireless LANs, Serial ATA, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Storage, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Seeking the iPhone in Adobe's annual analyst briefings: Even if you're not an analyst, Adobe's 2008 financial briefings available online make interesting viewing, from its showcase of new AIR tools to the "soul" of Adobe, Google and Microsoft. And then there's the iPhone. The recordings cover the morning and afternoon sessions...; Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, David Morgenstern; Blog posts 2008-05-08
KinetiCast - online presentation and promotional tracking: With the meme about presentation tools and SlideShare yesterday I thought now was as good a time as ever to cover KinetiCast, a company in the online presentation space that I chatted with a couple of weeks ago. One of the things that mkes KenitCast unique is that they very...; Tags: Presentation, Presentation Creator, Productivity, AJAX, Web 2.0, Microsoft Office, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Office Suites, Software, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Top five (last-minute) digital camera accessories: Don't worry--you still have a couple of days to get it together for Mother's Day. If your favorite mom already has a digital camera, getting her one of these cool camera accoutrements is sure to put a smile on her face. Pandigital PanTouch Photo Frame ...; Tags: Accessory, Digital Camera, Camera, LensPen, Millipod/Wrap-up Combo, Janice Chen; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Health care debate is a neverending story: The longer I cover the health care beat, the more I realize it's the one market where no one is happy. This should not surprise. Supply is naturally limited, demand virtually unlimited. There seems no way to balance the two. Julie...; Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-08
NASA's lunar breathing system: When six astronauts share a 15 cubic meters spacecraft for weeks, how is it possible to avoid to be bothered by your fellows sweating and breathing? I've already written about staying clean in space, but NASA is going further this time. Its scientists are testing a lunar breathing system. The...; Tags: NASA, Carbon Dioxide, CAMRAS, Sorbent, Flows, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-08
KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of words: Xen cofounder and project lead Ian Pratt said predictions about his virtualization hypervisor's demise to the newer kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) technology are unfounded, a by-product of his competitors' imaginations. "There's no evidence for it. The Xen community is alive and well. Xen is a true...; Tags: Linux, Hypervisor, Linux Kernel, Xen, KVM, Xen Community, Virtualization, Hardware, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Brewster Kahle offers a cookbook for fighting security letters: Just talked to Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive about their successful settlement with the FBI of a lawsuit over a National Security Letter. The FBI had demanded personal information on a user; the Archive replied with a lawsuit challenging the propriety of the NSL. As part of the settlement,...; Tags: Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, Library, Brewster Kahle, Cookbook, National Security Letter, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Unixfication II: Can the Linux community get over its "not invented here" ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying to myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go until we become a...; Tags: GPL, Virtualization, Kernel, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Sun Solaris, Software, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Data Portability: Social Infrastructure still very much wanting: In a penetrating analysis of the Facebook developers forum, 20bits shows that the participation of programmers in the discussion about the Facebook platform is rapidly dwindling, which suggests the platform itself is incompatible with the needs of the market. The fewer programmers writing for the Facebook platform, the less relevant...; Tags: Facebook, Data Portability Standard, Social Networking, Development Tools, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mitch Ratcliffe; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Facebook reaches safety plan with states: Facebook has joined MySpace and inked a deal with 49 state attorneys general on a safety plan. Texas was the lone holdout. News.com's Caroline McCarthy reports: "We've agreed with 49 states and the District of Columbia to set up principles around Internet safety," Facebook...; Tags: Facebook, Agreement, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Harassment, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-08
Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward Microsoft: Samba's forthcoming version 3.2 release capitalizes on Microsoft's interoperability commitments while also guarding against patent covenants that threaten the GPL. Samba 3.2, which is expected to be released in roughly one month's time, offers improved integration with the Active Directory in Windows Server 2003 and recently released...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Jeremy Allison, Samba, Microsoft Corp., Samba 3.2, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-05-08
SaaSplaza opens European SaaS marketplace: Europe's first pureplay SaaS hosting venture opened its doors last month with a roster of 50 vendors and integration partners on board and an estimated 1 million end user subscribers. Based in the Netherlands but with a Europe-wide reach, SaaSplaza projects its platform will generate more than €100 million (around...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Microsoft Corp., SaaSplaza, Siennax, SaaSplaza Venture, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-08
New Dell Inspiron consumer laptops leaked! (hint: thin): Those tricky people over at Engadget have gotten their digital hands on the next crop of Dell Inspirons, and it's safe to say that thin is in. The Dell Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735 mid-range consumer laptops seem to share the same basic design and have, as...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Spec, Laptop Computer, Dell Inspiron, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-05-08