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- Wow! Top execs say they are influenced by social networks
- What this means for B2B marketers:Trade publishers have tried, unsuccessfully, for years to build such on-line communities which they could control and mine. As it turns out, customers (C-level execs) like everyone else want to own and control their own networks. If customers are increasingly turning to each other for...
- Tags: NETWORKING, social networking, network, social media, Astak
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Phishing experiment sneaks through all anti-spam filters
- A recently conducted ethical phishing New study details the dynamics of successful phishing experiment impersonating LinkedIn by mailing invitations coming from Bill Gates, has achieved a 100% success rate in bypassing the anti-spam filters it was tested against. The experiment emphasizes on how small-scale spear phishing campaigns...
- Tags: Anti-spam, LinkedIn, E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- News Corp. prepares to destroy more online value
- Finally Good PointsYou may have wanted to mention that comcast wanted to buy out 51 percent and then charge. Maybe they are delaying the inevitable but a reverse scenario? Due to sites like Hulu and other I and other have not paid for cable or satellite for over 3 years....
- Tags: OpenOffice, Piracy, Blogging, Network technology, Hulu, News Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary
- In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's...
- Tags: E-reader, Device, E-book, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless, B&N, Nook, Cover-flow, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Future ERP
- Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...
- Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- SharePoint Statistics: The Real Reason Behind SharePoint's Price Tag
- What would you say is the most expensive part of a SharePoint deployment? A recent study by InfoTrends, a consultancy, identified where the money is being spent on SharePoint and where it's not. The results may surprise you. So I was speaking the other day...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- The T-Mobile-Microsoft Sidekick data disaster: Poor IT management going mainstream
- If you're a T-Mobile Sidekick user who put data, contacts and other items in the cloud we have some bad news for you: Your data is gone...probably forever. With cloud computing increasingly reaching the masses the average consumer will soon be enmeshed in the world of poor IT management. Welcome...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, T-Mobile, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- Responding to Today's Demands with a Dynamic Infrastructure
- As the world becomes more instrumented, intelligent, and interconnected, the demands on your infrastructure continue to grow. IBM continues to chart a strategy to help you deliver a new kind of infrastructure. One that helps you reduce costs, manage risks and improve service. A dynamic infrastructure — designed for a...
- Tags: Infrastructure, IBM Corp.
- Webcasts 2009-10-01
- Tripwire Security Case Study: Aria System
- Aria Systems is the leading provider of subscription billing solutions and offers the only "Monetization Platform" encompassing the full spectrum of Billing and Customer Lifecycle Management services. The challenge was to demonstrate PCI DSS compliance as a Level 1 Merchant, to implement PCI solution quickly and without additional staff and...
- Tags: Security, Billing, Tripwire, PCI, Server Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Servers, Virtualization
- Case studies 2009-09-19
- HP to Cut Loose its BPO operations?
- Why sell what you just bought? A recent Channel Insider article raised the concern that HP might sell off or shutter some of its outsourcing business. Specifically, the article speculated on the BPO operations that EDS brought into the firm as part of HP’s acquisition of EDS....
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., BPO, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-09-07
- Saudi Agency Improves Service Reliability With Centralized Service Desk
- Saudi Post depends on technology for the effectiveness and efficiency of its high-quality and modern postal services. Thus, the IT department saw itself as a reliable service provider that met customers' needs at or above expected service levels. When Saudi Post unveiled a blueprint for next-generation postal services, IT management...
- Tags: Service Desk, Information Technology, Saudi Agency, Saudi Post, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Saudi Postal Service Centralizes IT Operations and Support, Enhances Service
- IT is business-critical for Saudi Post, an organization that relies on technology for effective and efficient delivery of high-quality and modern postal services. The IT department saw itself as a reliable service provider that met and exceeded customers' needs, and IT management knew that processes, people, and the IT service...
- Tags: Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- FaceFeed: the enterprise perspective
- Having seen some of yesterday's jocular references to the marriage between FriendFeed and Facebook hence FaceFeed in the title it got me thinking about the enterprise perspective - if there is one. Earlier in the day and before the announcement, I was listening to an old buddy of mine. We...
- Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Channel Management, Leadership, Marketing, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Don't rely on industry averages for cost of downtime
- On a weekly basis, I get at least one inquiry request from either a vendor or an end-user company seeking industry averages for the cost of downtime. Vendors like to quote these statistics to grab your attention and to create a sense of urgency to buy their products or services. BC/DR planners...
- Tags: Risk Assessment, Demographics, Industry, Downtime, BC/DR, Insurance, Financial Planning, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management, Stephanie Balaouras
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Value Engineering Certification 6.0.6.2 (Windows)
- This is the only online value engineering course approved by "SAVE International" for Mod I - Part I Certification. Lectures include: 1. VE Overview; 2. Value Engineering Concepts and History; 3. Project Scope & Budget; 4. Modeling techniques; 5. Planning for VE services; 6. The VE job plan; 7. Function...
- Tags: Certification, Microsoft Windows, Analysis
- Software downloads 2009-08-10
- What's your energy IQ?
- IT services and consulting company Varsity Technologies has operated with a green IT sensibility for quite some time. But now it has translated that philosophy into a formal new service that it is calling Energy IQ. Patrick Ciccarelli, CEO and senior consultant for Varsity, says his Energy...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Information Technology, Varsity Technologies, Strategy, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Conversation with Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing Customer
- I recently had the opportunity to communicate with Joel Chaplin, CIO at Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing customer, and thought you'd like to read a bit about that conversation. By the way, I posted Liquid Computing and the dynamic datacenter back in March 2009. Please introduce...
- Tags: Virtuoso, LiquidIQ, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Data Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Some important truths about pen-testing
- Guest editorial by Alberto Soliño Penetration testing is a highly scientific, metrics-driven approach to IT security that has been in practice since almost the dawn of the modern computing era when programmers first began conducting organized tests, or “hacks†of their own, or others’ technologies to test...
- Tags: Process, Security, Penetration Testing, IT Security, Information Technology, Organization, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Ricoh latest imaging tech company to offer "green office" assessment
- A couple of years ago, when the managed services mantra was particularly sexy, pretty much every printing or imaging peripherals vendor you can name from memory spun out some sort of managed service designed to manage the print lifecycle. Now, of course, the buzz du jour is "green office," and...
- Tags: Ricoh Corp., Imaging, Document Management, Managed Hosting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
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