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Evaluating Your Network and Assessing Your Risk in a Unified Communication Implementation

As the due diligence phase of a UC project, network evaluation and security assessment are far from glamorous activities. Nonetheless, this phase needs to be approached methodically and zealously at once, with a commitment to both breadth of scope and attention to detail. Certainly, lack of diligence and thoroughness during...

Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Diligence, Networking, Security

White papers 2008-11-24

Blockbuster can start due diligence on Circuit City

Circuit City said Friday that it is exploring strategic alternatives and will allow Blockbuster and investor Carl Icahn to "conduct additional due diligence." Last month, Blockbuster announced a rather perplexing plan to acquire Circuit City in an attempt to take two struggling retailers and make one strong...

Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Diligence, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-09

Data loss CEOs should go to jail

Data loss CEOs should go to jailKeep them RESPONSIBLE even if ....Make ANYONE who requires personal data to be collected responsiblefor its safekeeping even if sent/stored offshore. This way theresponsibility cannot be defused or passed on elsewhere.Only if......a sole proprietor would go to jail for the same offense.Data loss...

Tags: Financial services, diligence

Discussion threads 2007-12-08

A better way to fight the FUD

A few days ago I criticized the OSDL and asked its leadership to display some PR skills.Yesterday, OSDL President Stuart Cohen leftanswered the call. Listen to a master at work:"There was a lot of due diligence around the world with people looking at the code and looking at software stacks,...

Tags: diligence, PR skills.Yesterday

Blog posts 2005-03-11

Download this sample IT due diligence report template

Performing a technology due diligence is a good way to understand your client's technology and assess the financial implications of its technology plans. Here is a template you can use to organize your next IT due diligence effort.

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Financial, Information Technology, Diligence, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management

Download resources 2002-01-25

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SaaS and cloud computing: A look at the due diligence

Cloud Computing as a Good OptionCloud computing is revolutionizing the way users interact with applications and access computing power. Cloud offerings may come in the form of a single application, like e-mail or CRM, or may be bundled into entire suites of applications and tools required to run a particular...

Tags: Virtualization, E-mail, software-as-a-service, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-12-02

Patch time for FreeBSD users as Zero-Day exploit is published

See if you get that type of transparency and responsiveness from MSNot gonna happen.Microsoft provides quite a bit of information in their patch reports.[i]See if you get that type of transparency and responsiveness from MS[/i]Have you ever read a patch report from Microsoft? I doubt it.HeySomeone on ZDNet actually notices...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Patches, setuid, zero-day bug, FreeBSD, Linux, Microsoft Corp., BSD

Discussion threads 2009-12-02

SaaS and cloud computing: A look at the due diligence

CIO Scott Lowe walks through the buy vs. build analysis for software as a service and cloud computing. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting, Virtualization, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-11-25

Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency

Spoken like someone without a clueBut then again, what can be expected from trolls anymore?Originality?Security & AccessGrant the LEAST amount of access for the end user.DENY then ALLOW, why would you open up Port 80 to the world if you only do business in the United States or local area...

Tags: agency, cloud provider, legality, data centre, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Gawker Media tricked into featuring malicious Suzuki ads

A group of cybercriminals have successfully managed to trick Gawker's ad sales team into featuring malicious ads serving Adobe exploits (CVE-2008-2992; CVE-2009-0927) and scareware, by impersonating a legitimate ad agency inquiring about an upcoming Suzuki ad campaign. According to Gawker Media, the malware distributors were one of...

Tags: Advertisement, Gawker Media, Suzuki, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Bible Proverbs for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Bible Proverbs for iPhone contains almost 600 separate entries organized into these sections: anger, associations, blessings, death, dishonesty, deliverance, desire, diligence, evil, faithfulness, family, friends, enemies, generosity, goodness, gossip, government, guidance, hatred, honor, hope, humility, pride, instruction, integrity, jealousy, joy, judgment, knowledge, laziness, life, love, lying, mercy, neighbors, obedience, parenting,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Bible, E-mail, Government, Smart Phones, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-26

Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0

Its not too often I endorse a new service - in fact, I never have without a lot of due diligence and at least some production history.   So, for the first...and potentially only....time ever, I'm telling you that I'm truly excited about the launch of Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0.  I'm...

Tags: Socialtext, Enterprise 2.0, Framework, Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman, Ross, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Calling all global cooling, how about a little help here?

Don't shoot the messenger, you might not like it that the earth is getting hotter and that we need to do something about it, but, don't get mad at those reporting it.You probably don't like all of the photos of open water over the arctic either. Nor would you want...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, tax, climate change

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

73% of residential VOIP subscribers to use wireless VOIP phones by 2009

COIP Cellular Over Internet Protocol is Bandwidth Hog Answer to VOIPInteresting,Having been an advocate of VOIP since beginning, and seeing the improvements in technology eliminating the early poor quality call clarity. Cellular Over Internet Protocol, or COIP, as in VOIP, has broken new ground with the first dial tone on...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP phone, phone, wireless, VoIP, CoIP

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

From Gimmiv to Conficker: The lucrative MS08-067 flaw

Danger Will Robinson, Danger.[i]By December 2009, a second variant appeared with new propagation techniques ? spreading via removable and mapped drives, and network shares with weak passwords. This updated worm also started blocking access to anti-virus and security-related sites.[/i]You either have a typo or a time machine. December...

Tags: Linux, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Patches, Common-sense, Microsoft Corp., financial danger, computer

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

Dell and Perot: What this means

Look at more than the upside to any acquisition Dell and Perot are getting married. This acquisition puts approximately 23,000 Perot services employees in with Dell. (see Larry Dignan's detailed post on the transaction ) (here's an InfoWorld post, too) From the macro view,...

Tags: Acquisition, Dell Computer Corp., Perot, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate

Any bets on how long it takes someone to hack in and screw it up? nt...Why don't I feel good about this???Hmmm... Could it be that some government a55-clown could store sensitive data in the cloud... And that there are tons of other countries with extremely skilled hackers that would...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Virtualization, Apps.gov, agency, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Confronting Risk in Business Relationships and Emerging Markets: Enhanced Due Diligence and Corporate Intelligence

The reputational and business risks associated with conducting business in emerging and expanding markets, with new business partners, agents, joint ventures, vendors, suppliers and distributors are increasingly significant for business executives as a result of the current financial crisis which demands highly efficient and effective business decision making. Moreover, the...

Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, Emerging Market, Real Estate, Channel Management, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Business Operations, Marketing, Finance

White papers 2009-09-11

Top 10 Risks of Offshore Outsourcing

Minimize your risk!Very in-depth and informative article! Outsourcing should be done in baby steps. Before jumping into bed with an outsourcing company and transitioning an entire department make sure you know what you want to accomplish by outsourcing.There direct saving and in-direct saving due to the time and energy...

Tags: Managed hosting, outsourcing, baby step, offshore outsourcing

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

'Custom XML' the key to patent suit over Microsoft Word

Well...It's kind of odd/fun/amusing that Microsoft after doing its big OOXML song and dance is being hoist on its own petard by a patent on custom XML.I do wonder if Microsoft in stumping up OOXML did much at all in the way of diligence with regard to patents on custom...

Tags: XML, Microsoft Corp., patent, Custom XML, Custom Inc., Microsoft Word

Discussion threads 2009-08-12