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- Discover Financial Services CIO: Diane Offereins
- Diane Offereins, CIO at Discover Financial Services speaks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about the company's underdog role in the financial services industry. She also talks about deploying new technologies that will help spur growth and gain efficiencies, such as virtualization, web services, and mobile payments. by Administrator
- Tags: CIO, Discover Financial Services, Payment, Operational Accounting, Virtualization, Strategy, Finance, Hardware, Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Discover Financial Services CIO: Diane Offereins
- Diane Offereins, CIO at Discover Financial Services speaks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about the company's underdog role in the financial services industry. She also talks about deploying new technologies that will help spur growth and gain efficiencies, such as virtualization, web services, and mobile payments.
- Tags: CIO, Discover Financial Services, Payment, Operational Accounting, Cloud Computing, Finance, Diane Offereins, Virtualization, Strategy, Hardware, Management
- Videos 2008-02-05
- A scrappy innovator
- Diane Offereins, CIO at Discover Financial Services describes how the company competes against Visa, MasterCard and American Express by emphasizing programs that use the company's credit and debit networks. by Administrator
- Tags: Discover Financial Services, Networking, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Short clip: Discover on being a scrappy innovator
- Diane Offereins, CIO at Discover Financial Services describes how the company competes against Visa, MasterCard and American Express by emphasizing programs that use the company's credit and debit networks.
- Tags: Discover Financial Services, Networking, Diane Offereins
- Videos 2008-02-05
Additional Resources
- Young man yells at cloud
- Nice theory, but..."Or as Mark Twain once said, ?Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket.?"But isn't moving to the "cloud" putting all your eggs all in one basket...and that all you can do is watch...because you have NO control over it.And how about when your "cloud"...
- Tags: Desktops, Thin clients, SECURITY, Young Man
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Smartphone battleground: Apple and Google head to China
- The Apple vs. Google smartphone race is coming to China - and from early reports, it looks like Apple is eyeing the rougher road to the top. According to a report in the Financial Times, Apple couldn't come to a revenue-sharing agreement with the big dog mobile...
- Tags: China, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., China Mobile Ltd., Apple Inc., Smartphone, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousing
- Data warehouse player Teradata has been increasingly mentioned by the likes of Oracle and HP so much so that you have to wonder what all the hubbub is about. Teradata is a company that has come up frequently through my various case studies in a past life....
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Teradata, Oracle Corp., Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Google on the defensive as book deal starts to come apart
- Google on the defensive as book deal starts to come apartall books should be free in electronic formCan't the publishers see the tidal FOSS wipping out proprietary software?They don't realize that there is an analogy between copyrighted books and proprietary software that points to their demise.It's already happening with the...
- Tags: INTERNET, Google Just, Google Inc., book deal
- Discussion threads 2009-04-29
- PCI Security Compliance: The Facts - What PCI Security Means for Your Business
- The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS was jointly developed by American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, Master Card Worldwide and Visa Inc. The PCI DSS is now actively maintained by the PCI Security Standards Council, and represents a multifaceted standard that includes requirements for security management,...
- Tags: Payment, Comodo, PCI, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2009-04-27
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11: Lots of Tech but Short on Polish
- At first glance, Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (SLED 11) is virtually indistinguishable from the company's Free/Open Source and community supported Linux distribution, openSUSE 11.1. But does SLED 11 have the extra polish and the value add to justify its position as Novell's premier enterprise...
- Tags: Novell Inc., SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux, SuSE, Linux, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, UNIX, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Firefox 3.1 renamed 3.5
- Firefox 3.1 renamed 3.5Politics, Truly...To be honest, while that is a mild list of improvements, nothing there is monumental enough for a .5 edition.My question, to a much larger point, is why did this take so long to get here, if it is actually here? I suppose the version number...
- Tags: Web browsers, Web site development, Firefox 3.1, Mozilla Firefox, version number
- Discussion threads 2009-03-05
- PCI DSS Compliance: Overview and Common Issues
- The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a set of comprehensive requirements for enhancing account data security, developed by the founding payment brands of the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI-SSC), including American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa inc. International. The PCI-DSS was created...
- Tags: Payment, Compliance, Consulting, Data Security, PCI, Outsourcing, Storage, Hardware, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- White papers 2009-01-30
- Heartland finds malware in bank card payment system
- Heartland Payment Systems, a publicly traded company that provides bank card payment processing services to merchants in the U.S., has suffered a malware breach that may be linked to a "widespread global cyber fraud operation." In a statement (see Adam O'Donnell's coverage), the company said its system...
- Tags: Bank, Payment, Malware, Fraud Operation, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Operational Accounting, Viruses And Worms, Financial Services, Security, Finance, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- Lifecycle Process for Changes to PCI DSS
- The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS secures cardholder data that is stored, processed or transmitted by merchants and other organizations. The standard is managed by the PCI Security Standards Council PCI SSC and its founders - American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa...
- Tags: PCI Security Standards Council, PCI, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Webcast: Take Control: Optimize Spending and Cost Control
- From everyday business expenses related to sales and service to training and collaboration, business depends on spending and investment to improve the bottom line. Unfortunately, many companies are currently struggling to control their expenses as well as effectively tracking costs and managing policies and compliance. The good news is, despite...
- Tags: Webcast, On-demand, Cost Control, Cloud Computing, Financial Services
- Webcasts 2008-09-16
- TechCrunch50: Day 1
- When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- SEC introduces IDEA
- Earlier today, Christopher Cox, SEC chairman introduced IDEA - Interactive Data and Electronic Applications, an XBRL framework for surfacing information used by investors. In prepared remarks, Cox said: "It will be faster, cheaper, better [than EDGAR.] Better data analysis will have a positive impact on the market as a whole....
- Tags: SEC, Investor, Analysis, IDEA, Cox, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Flypaper: flash presentations for the rest of us
- Last week I took a peek at the unfortunately named Flypaper Pro, a product that allows the creation of high quality Flash content but without all the programming skills that are normally associated with this kind of thing. I say unfortunately named because for me, it...
- Tags: Co-founder, Programmer, Programming, Flypaper Pro, Development Tools, Financial Planning, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- 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
- Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking group
- Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking groupJust wait until Paypal gets hijackedSo far this has just been child's play. Sooner or later there's going to be some serious financial consequences, and not just for the site owners.RE: Photobucket's DNS records hijacked by Turkish hacking groupThat's all very well... but...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Photobucket, Turkish, hacking group, DNS Records, DNS, hacking
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
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