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Consolidated Client Infrastructure: Exciting End User Computing Solution: This webcast shows how to lower desktop total cost of ownership, while raising levels of security, service quality, and ease of management with centralized desktop compute and storage resources.; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Consolidated Client Infrastructure, TCO, Roi/Tco, Storage, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware; Webcasts 2007-01-01
HP Consolidated Client Infrastructure: Enhance Data Security While Lowering Costs: HP's award winning Consolidated Client infrastructure CCI is the first viable alternative for corporate or enterprise end user computing that greatly enhances security and enables dramatic total cost of ownership TCO savings without compromising the end user's computing experience. CCI does so while allowing your users to access their blade...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Consolidated Client Infrastructure, Data Security, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting; White papers 2005-11-01
Baptist Healthcare System Improves Security, Manageability With Consolidated Client Infrastructure: Baptist Healthcare System is one of the largest not-for-profit health care systems in Kentucky which owns acute-care hospitals in Louisville, Lexington, Paducah, Corbin and La Grange, and in Elizabethtown. When Baptist Healthcare System decided to consolidate five business offices across the state into one, the IT department needed to provide...; Tags: Security, Hewlett-Packard Co., Consolidated Client Infrastructure, Health Care, Baptist Healthcare System, Data Centers, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; Case studies 2005-11-01
Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI) Proves Better for Users, IT Administrators, HP Bottom Line: This case study explains how HP used its own Consolidated Client Infrastructure CCI solution, which leverages thin client and blade technologies, to solve top challenges in five of its business units. Those challenges included: Standardizing application deployment and access Maintaining shared PCs for shift workers ...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Consolidated Client Infrastructure; Case studies 2005-11-01
Consolidated Client Infrastructure Improves Desktop Management at Sallie Mae: Founded in 1973 as a government-sponsored entity, Sallie Mae was chartered as a secondary market, purchasing student loans. The company wanted to improve IT management and security related to software development. Sallie Mae wanted a reliable solution that would free up IT resources and strengthen security. Long-time technology provider HP...; Tags: Desktop, Hewlett-Packard Co., Desktop Management, Consolidated Client Infrastructure; Case studies

PC Blades Enable Cinergy to Outsource Work and Maintain Strong Security: Cinergy is a household name in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, serving 1.5 million electric customers and 500,000 gas customers. Cinergy sourced its application development and support work to a company relying on a remote workforce. Cinergy knew that it could benefit from this type of model, but it had concerns...; Tags: Cinergy Corp., Security, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Blade, Consolidated Client Infrastructure, Outsource, Data Centers, Blade Servers, Printers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Peripherals; Case studies

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What paper trail?: I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....; Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-25
How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability: The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...; Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity: Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame: Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...; Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-25
News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...; Tags: Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop: Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon: Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...; Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky; Discussion threads 2008-07-24
Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up: Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens delivered strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was solid and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale. Ahead of its earnings report statement Thursday Juniper made the Johnson news official. The company has...; Tags: Revenue, Juniper Networks Inc., Kevin Johnson, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon: I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...; Tags: CERT, DNS Server, Server, Kaminsky, Dan, Patches, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest; Discussion threads 2008-07-24
The little wind turbines that could: The little wind turbines that couldAll righty then...Here's the scoop. The average american household uses 14,000 kWh/year, about 1,200 per month in round numbers, meaning a 6kWh generator is about the right size--assuming the wind never dies.I couldn't find prices for Proven Energy, but a Quiet Revolution 6kWh unit costs...; Tags: Engineering, battery, turbine; Discussion threads 2008-07-24
Speculation over possible Skype backdoor: There's growing speculation coming out of Europe that there's a backdoor in Skype that allows remote eavesdropping of telephone conversations. A report in the reputable Heise Online says the issue was discussed at a meeting with ISPs last month where high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior...; Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little: Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a littleNew Coke?Actually, given the way it has been and is being sold, is it not the New Kool-Aid?With Vista selling so well already ...... as shown in revenues from the previous quarter, Microsoft can expect to gain substantially...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Mac OS X, Mendel, Apple Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-07-24
Mossberg: MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable: In a scathing indictment of Apple's MobileMe service, the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg calls the service "far too flawed to be reliable." The US$99 per year service – which is supposed to push contacts, calendars and email from iPhone to computer – has been hobbling along...; Tags: Apple Inc., MobileMe, E-mail, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-07-24