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TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7

IT departments have largely ignored Windows Vista and stuck with Windows XP as the corporate standard. However, Windows 7 has received a warmer response from IT professionals than Vista did, and TechRepublic’s CIO Jury is split down the middle on whether to deploy Windows 7. On July...

Tags: TechRepublic Inc., CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Jury, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-07-28

Intel IT Director 1.5 (Windows)

Intel IT Director is a simple application that uses Intel vPro technology to help address key IT security, data protection and network health concerns of small businesses. Intuitive, easy to use tool to configure and use platform technologies; Centrally monitor configuration and health of other computers; Intel IT Director enables...

Tags: Monitor, Director Of Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Intel Corp., Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2009-06-15

Lessons Learned -- Fixing Email Failures Propel IT Director into Strategic Role

Faced with back-to-back email server crashes in remote office locations, an IT Director had to make a strategic business decision. Read this informative article that recently appeared in Iron Mountain's Digital Authority eZine and gain insight on why backup plans, integrated with a remote third party, are critical. Find...

Tags: Iron Mountain Inc., Director Of Information Technology, Backups, E-mail, Online Communications

White papers 2007-09-06

PAETEC Case Study: Morrison Mahoney LLP

The inability to identify points of failure, coupled with a lack of reporting capabilities, also made it difficult for the Director of Information Technology to confidently continue with a point-to-point infrastructure. In order to ensure voice redundancy, Director of Information Technology turned to a telecommunications consultant. PAETEC provided the Director...

Tags: Director Of Information Technology, PaeTec, VPNs, Telecommunications, Security, Networking

Case studies 2007-04-05

Don't Be Mad, Just Leave

The UK National Health Service NHS is in the midst of a £12.4 billion IT project meltdown, which has been called the “greatest IT disaster in history”. According to Silicon.com, Accenture has now left the project, turning over its remaining work to CSC. From the article: ...

Tags: Accenture Ltd., Director Of Information Technology, UK National Health Service, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2006-09-29

UNICOM Technology Group Case Study: Large New England School System

For a period of four years, the school district has been receiving E-Rate funding, totaling approximately $5 million, to reconstruct their entire network infrastructure. Their management team was looking for a way to leverage technology to ease communications and increase productivity. The IT Director opted to work with a single...

Tags: Unicom, Director Of Information Technology, LANs, Networking, Network Technology, Network Administration

Case studies

Recognizing and Resolving Congestion on the Network

For eight years, Layton Construction had experienced problems with congestion on its network. The company has two T1 lines dedicated to Internet connectivity. Lately, the problem had become severe to the point that the IT staff was fired and was brought on as IT Director to find and resolve the...

Tags: Network, Cymphonix, Director Of Information Technology, Congestion, Internet, Networking

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End-to-end encryption is the key to protecting data and reputations

In order to avoid the financial and brand damage associated with data breaches, businesses need to consider deploying end-to-end encryption as a tamper proof way of securing data. Commentary - Media outlets around the globe highlight new data breaches at an alarmingly regular rate. Forrester estimates that the cost...

Tags: PCI, Organization, Data Breach, PCI DSS, Encryption Key, encryption, security, Paul Meadowcroft Thales, Special to ZDNet, Paul Meadowcroft, Thales, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-11

Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity

Sounds like excuses to me.If it can't be shown on the bottom line, its useless.IT really needs to be aligned with business needs.From what I have heard talking with several managers, IT needs to come out out the silo and focus on delivering business needs and services. From what...

Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, IT Operations, information technology, customer service

Discussion threads 2009-11-11

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

What's a brick?

Shortly after I posted my blog on CalStar making building materials from coal ash, I heard from the American Brick Industry Association BIA. They feel CalStar is ripping off centuries of brick brand equity. Here is the email with BIA's side of the brick business: "I...

Tags: Brick, CalStar, ASTM STANDARDS Here, Branding, Blogging, Manufacturing, Marketing, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting

Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...

Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Missing what open source cannot afford

FOSS needs some town hallsto get free air time on the news and to educate the users on the perils of closed source.I have to disagree ...I'm not sure how isolated you are, but my experience with open source through OpenNMS has been quite different.Sure, companies like mine that are...

Tags: open source, OpenNMS

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Smart grid report from Lexington Institute explores benefits, pitfalls

Smart grid, demand response and smart appliancesWhen I need to explain the smart grid in a sentence, I simply describe it as the coupling of a digital network on top of our existing grid structure. What?s the big deal with doing that? Digital information on the grid gives all sorts...

Tags: grid, demand response, Smart Grid, benefit

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Cloud in Context - The 451 Group's ICE Summit

As we've seen from IDG World Expo's recent OpenSource World/NGDC/CloudWorld conference, putting on events is often a great deal of work. Outside events can make event the best planned event surprisingly interesting or totally irrelevant. In this context, I've been speaking with Rachel Chalmers, Director of The 451 Group's Infrastructure...

Tags: Event, Supplier, Conference, Budgets, Channel Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Strategy, Marketing, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-21

Army embraces Wiki for field manuals

The Marines might have banned Facebook but the Army is adopting wikis. The New York Times reports that the Army is wikifying seven field manuals in an attempt to better exploit the knowledge of field commanders and soldiers. “For a couple hundred years, the Army has been writing...

Tags: Times, Wiki, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-14

Enterprise architecture heads north: report from Open Group

John Meyer of The Open Group sent some detailed dispatches from the group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference, being held this week in Toronto. Thanks to John for a great job summarizing many of the key insights coming from the conference -- some highlights from day one are summarized below:...

Tags: Open Group, Enterprise Architect, Electronic Arts Inc., Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Enterprises seek better ways to discover, manage and master their information explosion headaches

Listen to the podcast. Download the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript. Download the transcript. Learn more. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Join a free HP Solutions Virtual Event on July 28 on four main IT themes. Learn more. Register. ...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Podcasts, Strategy, Data Centers, Internet, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-07-21

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

Coca-Cola Teaches The World To....

"Participating in the community of the consumer." I love that phrase.  That's the way Jim Keyes, Blockbuster CEO described their Facebook group - which is for the most part, despite all our conversations to the contrary, is what most people think of when you say "community" or "social network"...

Tags: Facebook, Fan, Coca-Cola Co., Beverage, Customer, Machine, Coke, Coca-Cola Freestyle, Food & Beverage, RFID, Manufacturing, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-07-15