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- Oracle9i RAC on Sun Meets the Availability and Performance Demands of Bacs, the UK's Electronic Payment Clearinghouse
- Bankers Automated Clearing Services BACS, the clearinghouse that enables electronic payments for the entirety of the UK, chose SunPlex systems and the Oracle9i Real Application Clusters RAC Database as the basis for its New BACS technology renewal program. These systems have the capacity, scalability and performance to comfortably manage BACS'...
- Tags: Electronic Payment, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle9i Real Application Cluster, Clearinghouse, Oracle9i, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Stanford University data breach leaks sensitive information of approximately 62,000 employees
- A data breach resulting from a stolen laptop has leaked sensitive information including Social Security Numbers of approximately 62,000 as reported by Stanford University former and current Standford University employees. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a site devoted to the collection of data breach information, reports this number as 72,000, and I'm...
- Tags: Sensitive Information, Stanford University, Data, Information, Stanford, Laptop Computer, Kroll, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Tearing down silos, brick by brick
- Tearing down silos, brick by brickEverything old is new again"...who advocates the establishment of an SOA competency center, supported by an SOA steering committee, that can serve as a clearinghouse and information center for all matters SOA."Given the history and track record of previous "competency centers" what a horrible name...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, silo, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- Tearing down silos, brick by brick
- I once heard a rumor that there actually is a company with two integration teams that actually meet and talk once or twice a year. Just a rumor, mind you. Lorraine Lawson brought up the whole issue of silos and lack of communication in a recent post,...
- Tags: SOA, Silo, Lorraine, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- IBM Case Study: GILFAM
- GILFAM, the public organization whose mission is to automate the land registry in this area of France, engaged IBM to design, develop and run a system that would allow transactions to be made online, as well as maintain the authenticity of the transactions. In automating the land registry, GILFAM needed...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Authenticity, Deed
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Data breaches: 2007 IT failure superstar
- Data breaches represented the most important category of IT failure during 2007. The year 2007 saw spectacular failures, ranging from improperly-paid teachers at Arizona State University ASU and the Los Angeles Unified School District LAUSD, to a massive implementation problem at the UK National Health Service NHS,...
- Tags: Breach, Information Technology, Data Breach, Disaster Recovery, Strategy, Data Management, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-29
- Is Linux enough for open source medical advocates?
- Is Linux enough for open source medical advocates?Linux Vendor Lock-in?[i]without giving them the power to switch vendors which open source delivers naturally[/i]Is not Linux and Open Source supposed to do away with software Lock-in?Just a matter of time.Hospitals are one of the killing zones pardon the pun for proprietary software...
- Tags: Operating systems, HEALTHCARE, hospital, McKesson, open source, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-12-11
- Who should bear the burden of de-fanging botnets?
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest Editorial by Dr. Adam J. O'Donnell If you are even peripherally familiar with modern computer security issues, you have heard about the current struggle to identify and repair botnet drones. These botnet networks are the primary...
- Tags: Service Provider, Business Services, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- "User-centric" starts with the social, not the commercial
- I'm on a bit of a tear today, but it is because I just got over a week of Percodan-induced drooling after I had some surgery on my aging shoulder. I don't know if it is just that I am coherent for the first time since last Friday or that...
- Tags: Bank, Intermediary, Money, Financial Services, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- DHS holds off on sharing high-res sat images
- Monday was supposed to be the day that the Department of Homeland Security began sharing its detailed spy satellite images with a range of government agencies. But DHS is delaying the launch -- revealed by the Wall Street Journal in August -- as Democrats voice concerns about the program, News.com...
- Tags: Agency, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Satellite, Advertising & Promotion, Homeland Security, Marketing, Government, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- TD Ameritrade discovers database breach
- TD Ameritrade discovers database breachThat's greatThat's great, I'd given them one of my "keeper" email addresses because I thought their site was secure. I wondered why I started getting so much spam on it. Now I know.Should I believe that, even though my SSN was in the same database, it...
- Tags: E-mail, Storage, TD Ameritrade, database breach, data breach, database
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Today's Debate: HIPAA, end it or mend it?
- Today's Debate: HIPAA, end it or mend it?Moot PointWhat happened to my rights?I don't think Hillary is the difference hereI think any President is going to mandate standards of care, including standards of record-keeping, which are interoperable and electronic.There are two sides in every business transaction, and one is the...
- Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, E-health, HIPAA, eHR
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- SAIC loses personal data on 500,000 military
- One would think one of the biggest Pentagon contractors would know a little something about data encryption. Alas, SAIC Inc. likely compromised the personal information of more than 500,000 military personnel and family members because it kept the information online and unencrypted, the Virginian Pilot reports.As usual in these...
- Tags: Security, Defense
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Microsoft to roll out dynamic-language layer for .Net
- Microsoft to roll out dynamic-language layer for .Netone more proprietary levelwho needs a new M$ level of lock in software?Clearly this is innovation--And Innovation is not the exclusive domain of open-source developers.At the risk of inviting flamers, I will say this: I do not accept the open-source software development model.The...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Tools & Techniques, Programming languages, Microsoft .NET, software, Java, language choice, open source, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-24
- UC medical school reports data breach
- In the latest of a series of data breaches at universities, the University of California at San Francisco says there was a breach at its medical campus, reports CNET News. The breach may have compromised personal information of 46,000 campus and medical center faculty, staff and students. Names,...
- Tags: Security, Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- SOA architects must be as much evangelists and consensus-builders as technologists
- Now that Service-Oriented Architecture SOA is percolating up inside enterprises -- sometimes as a set of strategic initiatives, but more often as discrete pilot projects -- the human resources needs are surfacing along with it. If youve got the right stuff, the budding role of SOA architect could be a...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA Governance, SOA architect, SOA, management, ITIL, IT Service Management, IT Management, Enterprise 2.0, Agile Development, .NET
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- MindMeister - collaborative web-based mind mapping
- MindMeister - collaborative web-based mind mappingI'm interested in MindMeisterThis is something for which I've been looking!My address is "info [at] adamcreighton [dot] com".I'm inLooks interesting and I would love to try it out. I'm bljarv@[google's email offering}.comI'd like to try it, Marcdave.leigh@cratchit.orgI'd like to try itismael@itredux.comYes pleaseI would like...
- Tags: collaborative Web, Mindmeister, FreeMind
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- YouTube: Is Viacom hurting innocent YouTubers?
- Corporate media giant Viacom is taking a stand against corporate advertising giant Google to defend itself against alleged copyright infringement at YouTube (see “Is the Google YouTube honeymoon over?”). Are innocent YouTubers caught in the high-stakes crossfire?Jim Moore recounts how he innocently uploaded a “friends and family” video of...
- Tags: Business Models, Advertising, Legal, Google, YouTube, Amateur Content, Google Software Applications, Copyright, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Students design the 'smart dorm' of the future
- Need a virtual landing pad outside your dorm window? The sky is the limit when predicting the college dorm room of the future. Gradware.com, a San Diego-based supplier of discounted software and hardware, has announced a student essay contest about how technology could be integrated into the "digital dorm...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
- By the numbers: A dismal year for data breaches
- With the Privacy Data Clearinghouse reporting that the number of data records lost has surpassed the 100 million mark you’d think the organizations that hold our data would be shamed into better security practices. ...
- Tags: data breach
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
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