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- 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
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- 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
- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability
- The core claim made by N-tier architecture proponents is that this structure breaks an application into modular elements that can be separately maintained and used for more than one application. In the simplest possible version of this you have at least one database server, at least one...
- Tags: Wintel, Client-server, PC, Application Server, Desktop Computer, Storage, Desktops, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Why are reformers destroying Veterans' health computer system?
- Roger Maduro right doesn't look like a hero. Like most heroes he never sought the status, just tried to do right and shine a light on what works. What works, he thinks is VistA, and the Veterans Administration system that computer code supports. In shining the light...
- Tags: Agency, Hero, U.S. Congress, Microsoft Windows Vista, Health Care, Computer, Roger Maduro, VA, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Cisco opens up integrated routers to third party apps
- Cisco on Thursday said that it has opened up its family of integrated services router ISR, which combines security, switching, routing and unified communications in one box, to third party developers. The announcement, being made at Cisco's partner summit in Hawaii, is designed to take advantage of the trend...
- Tags: Router, Cisco Systems Inc., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Leadership vs. Management
- This is the tenth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. Note that this is a draft for a new bit to be inserted before the extract published last week - a response to the many...
- Tags: CIO, Leadership, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- The worst PC myth of all
- The worst PC myth of allThe myth is that you know what you're talking about.You start off by defining "the best lie" and then you set about telling it.I've been working with personal computers since they were first invented, and have been working as a consultant to corporations using them...
- Tags: Desktops, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- The firewall is a little restrictive, don't you think?
- The firewall is a little restrictive, don't you think?I had the same issue...at my company when I put everyone even the boss on a proxy server to restrict Internet access to business sites only. People get snippy when you harness their Internet.RE: The firewall is a little restrictive, don't you...
- Tags: Firewalls, Network security, SECURITY, firewall, web filter
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
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