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10 things you can do to organize and lead effective meetings

It's easy to disparage those tedious meetings that are run by someone else--but are your own meetings any more useful and productive? These pointers will help ensure that your colleagues don't cringe every time they receive a meeting notice with your name on it. Every so often,...

Tags: Messaging, Effective Meeting, Attendee, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Policies And Procedures, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

Download resources 2006-02-09

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Internet Governance Forum goes to Egypt and hits a few snags

Yeah, leave it to the Arab countries to defend freedom.ntAllow the UN to practice "Governance" over the Internet?I will never understand the sort of cognitive disconnect required in order to think that it's a sane idea to let the world's premier body of corruption, mostly run by the world's political...

Tags: Internet Governance, Internet Governance Forum, Totalitarianism, Article 29, Human Rights, Universal Declaration, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

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

Long-term Mozy for Mac review

Sad to read thisI have not found a "cloud" solution to backup either.I tried Backblaze, but the 1 month for the initial backup was not for me. Then, when I UNinstalled it, I was shocked to find a bit of it running on my iMac over 3 months later.The problem...

Tags: Backups, Desktops, backup, Mozy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, online backup

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

From fear to value; CIO strategies for propelling business through the economic crisis

Your aspiration: As a Chief Information Officer, drive change, innovation and efficiency to help build a smarter enterprise that will prosper amidst global competition. Your daily challenge: As a Chief Information Officer, deliver business results faster and better-with less. Chief Information Officers are being counted on to...

Tags: CIO, Chief Information Officer, Economic Crisis, Strategy, Leadership, Management

White papers 2009-10-26

Adobe CEO Narayen joins Dell board

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen was appointed to Dell's board of directors. Dell said in a statement that Narayen will replace Bank of America executive Sallie Krawcheck. Narayen's appointment is effective immediately. Krawcheck is resigning to focus on being president of Global Wealth and Investment Management for Bank...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Board, Krawcheck, Corporate Governance, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-29

7 fundamentals of IT project success

7 FundamentalsI agree that most of the failures are not because of technical issues. Project managers often focus on the mechanics of managing the activities. There needs to be a focus on business value. This can only come from the business.Adding to the Stakeholder involvement item you...

Tags: Strategy, IT Solutions, Project Leadership, information technology, IT Project Success

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Pano, Sun Ray, and the Wintel gestalt

Distributed Computing is now180 degrees out of sync with the bandwagon. That means that Murph's ideas are being adopted whilst mine are being ignored. I guess this proves that I am not a mirror of Murph.DumbRays are just as expensive as this Pano stuff. And what do you get for...

Tags: Wintel, DumbRay, Pano, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-12

Safran (MorphoTrak, Inc.) Improves Performance 200% to 300% With Scalable and Efficient Database

Safran wanted to optimize performance of the Printrak Biometric Identification Solutions BIS system used by criminal justice and civil agencies to manage identification data and ensure meeting contractual obligations for performance levels. The challenge was to maintain profit margins in competitive mobile technology market with an easily configured, cost-effective solution...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, SAFRAN, Performance Management, Databases, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

Case studies 2009-09-01

2009 Audi Q5

Photo gallery:2009 Audi Q5Small SUVs present a good compromise of practical cabin space, carlike drivability, and good fuel economy. Or, at least, they should. But some small SUVs we've tested failed on that third trait. The Acura RDX and the Land Rover LR2 turned in worse economy than we expected,...

Tags: Downtown San Francisco, navigation system, Audi Q5, Audi AG

Product reviews 2009-08-13

So you're going to sell software or work a trade show booth...

...it's time to get it right! I get pitched software 24/7. Along the way, I hear and see some pretty amazing things but too often I get my ear bent for way too long by folks who can’t get to the point. Why? Because these pitchmen and...

Tags: Software, Trade Show, Empathy, Sales Strategy, Telemarketing, Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Healthcare, Sales, Marketing, Marketing Research, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-08-12

First American Improves Application Performance and Mobility With F5 and VMware

The First American Corporation, a Fortune 500 company based in Santa Ana, California, supplies businesses and consumers with online information in five primary industry segments, including title insurance and services, specialty insurance, and data and analytics. First American is the country's largest such information provider. Traditionally, each business unit had...

Tags: F5 Networks Inc., Performance, Information Technology, Mobility, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Strategy, Hardware, Management

Case studies 2009-08-01

ScreenHaven 4.1 (Mac)

ScreenHaven is one-to-many desktop screen sharing application. It is designed to be a partner to a telephone conference (i.e. TeleKit) to reduce the need for travel. It takes periodic images (webcam, whiteboard, whole screen shots, sections or areas surrounding the mouse) and stores them on the server for use within...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Screen, Conference, Holy Mackerel Software, ScreenHaven, Linux, Open Source, Telecom & Utilities, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-30

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

Pumping Up IT Muscle Helps This Fitness Equipment Leader Gain PCI Strength

Headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, Nautilus, Inc. is a global fitness products company providing innovative, quality solutions to help people achieve a healthy lifestyle. The challenge was to deploy an automated method for meeting regulatory compliance, to find a proactive method for detecting unauthorized changes and to reduce time spent investigating...

Tags: Information Technology, PCI, Leader, Tripwire, Tripwire Enterprise, Change Management, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management

Case studies 2009-07-18

Paglo SaaS offering provides means to harness untamed collection of log and IT resources data

Paglo, the IT management software-as-a-service SaaS company, recently announced a new low-cost service that allows companies to tackle the Herculean task of trying to winnow out a rapidly growing mountain of log data. With log data piling up in terabyte leaps and increasing regulatory pressure to maintain...

Tags: Security, Software-as-a-service, Performance, Information Technology, Service, Paglo Logs, Log Management Service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Performance Management, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Meeting the Five Key Needs of Next-Generation Cloud Computing Networks With 10 GbE

Cloud computing promises to bring scalable processing capacity to a wide range of applications in a cost-effective manner. Some applications like large social networking sites (Web 2.0) are natural fits for cloud computing's scale and efficiency. Other emerging cloud computing applications include Software as a Service SaaS, Platform as a...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware

White papers 2009-07-01

Addressing Compliance Requirements for Privacy, Data Retention, and e-Discovery

Protecting individual and financial data, retaining data, and meeting e-discovery requirements are common compliance requirements across geographies and industries. Finding accurate, usable, and cost-effective solutions for meeting these requirements can make the difference between achieving compliance goals or leaving the organization vulnerable through unsecured use of sensitive data. ...

Tags: Trend Micro Inc., Compliance, Privacy, Data Retention

White papers 2009-06-17

CompuTex Linux found in Israel

The reason I didn't see Affordy at the show was because the company did not have a booth, just a meeting room. "The organizers wanted to put us in the software area and we didn't think it’s the most effective place for us to be." by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Software, Tools & Techniques, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Sorry, the Help Desk Doesn't Cover That.

Dion Hinchcliffe has another good post up, this time on Cloud vs open source: there's a third dimension I'd like to expand on, and that's user support. After all the strategic planning is done, the plumbing hooked up and sawdust swept up, the...

Tags: Environment, Dion Hinchcliffe, Dion, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-06-14