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Facilities Management Company Saves Money and Cuts Project Management Time in Half

The Linc Group Linc provides facilities management and building system services to more than 100,000 customers in 45 states and internationally. Linc cost-effectively maintains and improves building facilities for its clients, maximizing energy efficiencies, and optimizing operations. Linc has thousands of internal and external projects running concurrently and needed an...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Facilities Management Company, Linc Group, Office Project Server 2007, Microsoft Office, Project Management, Office Suites, Software, It Operations, It service Management

Case studies 2007-11-01

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Who gains from Microsoft's free Morro antivirus?

Microsoft is dropping its subscription-based antivirus software in favor of a free package, code-named 'Morro'. ScanSafe Internet-security expert Mary Landesman investigates Microsoft's motives. Commentary--Microsoft is to replace its paid-for antivirus product with a free one, citing an altruistic desire to spread protection around the world. But many are less...

Tags: Software, Brazil, China, India, Microsoft Corp., Infection Rate, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Security, Morro, Microsoft, Mary Landesman, antivirus, free, OneCare, Mary Landesman, ScanSafe, Special from ZDNet UK

News items 2008-12-01

Virtualization and Emulex

Although I wouldn't have thought of Emulex and virtualization technology at the same time, a conversation with the company changed my viewpoint.  How did Emulex achieve the improbable? Read on. Here's what Emulex says about itself Emulex makes a wide range of enterprise-class products...

Tags: Emulex Corp., Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-01

'Dumbing down' the security profession

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Shyama Rose The market for the development and implementation of source code analysis static and dynamic tools is swelling. Companies are increasingly relying on source code analysis tools to identify security-related vulnerabilities. The demand and reliance...

Tags: Analysis Tool, Vulnerability, Analysis, Tool, Productivity, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-01

Distributed and Parallel Database Systems

The maturation of Database Management System DBMS technology has coincided with significant developments in distributed computing and parallel processing technologies. The end result is the emergence of distributed database management systems and parallel database management systems. These systems have started to become the dominant data management tools for highly data-intensive...

Tags: Database Management System, Database Management, Database System, University Of Alberta, Databases, Storage, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2008-12-01

Did the iPhone kill satellite radio?

A Slashdot post notes the sad state of affairs at satellite radio's Sirius XM and that it's starting to look like a "failed" company. why would anyone want to pay for proprietary hardware and a limited selection of a few hundred stations all controlled by one company? Since...

Tags: Apple iPhone, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Satellite, Sirius, Satellite Radio, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Taleo: Management's comments regarding their November to forget

A Different and More Optimistic View - Execs Confirm Many Prior Assumptions Last week, Taleo's Katy Murray, CFO, and Nate Swanson, Investor Relations, were kind enough to spend a few minutes with me to discuss my recent post on Taleo. The overall tone was positive and not...

Tags: Taleo Corp., Operational Accounting, Revenue Recognition, Sales Strategy, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Sales, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Will Detroit run out of road?

In the next two weeks we'll see what chance there is for any of those on the waiting list to get their plug-in Chevy Volt, or whether there'll be a Chrysler 2010 model. On December 2, the automakers are to deliver their own plans for salvation to the Congress....

Tags: Automobile Company, Bush Adminisitration, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Security Lessons and Your Personal Firewall

There's an interesting dynamic I've been noticing and discussing a lot recently - people and companies are grappling with how to project some facets of their lives and information online while keeping other areas secret. As i suggested in my previous post, it...

Tags: Facebook, Firewall, Personal Firewall, Security, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Icahn: 'I like Jerry'; Yahoo needs Microsoft search deal

Carl Icahn says he likes Jerry Yang and notes the former Yahoo CEO is a "charismatic guy," but Yahoo needs to do a Microsoft search deal since the company can't afford to fight Google. Icahn's remarks, made in an interview with Barron's subscription required a few days...

Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-29

IBM, HP update workflow and forms software with an eye to cutting paper waste

I love it when competing vendors do something semi-related within days of each other, because it makes these posts so much more relevant. So, here's the deal: Both IBM and Hewlett-Packard are making some noise right now about the impact of enterprise document management technology on green technology agendas. I...

Tags: U.S. Army, Hewlett-Packard Co., Workflow, IBM Corp., Document Management, Tools & Techniques, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-28

Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail

If your company is considering trying to take advantage of the brewing conversations about Mumbai on social networks to squeeze in news about your company -- don't. by Jennifer Leggio

Tags: Marketing, Mumbai, Social Media, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-11-28

Icahn averages down on Yahoo; Searches for break even

Carl Icahn added to his stake in Yahoo just before Thanksgiving and bought more than 6.77 million shares. Naturally, folks need to find the meaning in Icahn's move. Kara Swisher notes that Icahn may have upped his investment because Jerry Yang's replacement is about to...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Kara, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-28

Hapax CEO recognises importance of shared infrastructure moving forward

I had an enjoyable conversation with Mark Redgrave recently, ahead of his company's unveiling of their 'meaning platform,' Amplify. Mark is CEO of London-based Hapax, a company that has been applying patented technology to natural language processing NLP since 2000. According to the Press...

Tags: Natural Language Processing, Advertisement, Brand, Ontology, Amplify, Branding, Marketing, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-11-28

Business Service Automation: HP and Virtualization

Michel Feaster, Director of Products, Business Service Automation, of HP and I had an interesting conversation about managing, automating and orchestrating workloads and system resources. Although a cringe a bit when HP uses "BSA" as an acronym because it makes me think of things such as the BSA Motorcycles or...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Business Service, Automation, Strategy, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-11-28

A Guide to Secure Email

The term 'secure email' can have many different meanings. This whitepaper unpacks the concept of secure email, with a focus on Public Key Infrastructure PKI. It also covers other aspects of secure email such as encryption and digital signing, Transport Layer Security TLS, and the ongoing management of secure email...

Tags: Marshal Ltd, E-mail, Online Communications

White papers 2008-11-28

Chill-Off project tests various recipes for real-world data center cooling

It seems appropriate as I hunker down in my rather chilly office that I pen this post about the ongoing data center "Chill-Off" projects being run by the Association For Computer Operations Management AFCOM in Northern California. The intention of the Chill-Off demonstrations/tests is to monitor the effect of modular...

Tags: Data Center, Blog, Data Centers, Blogging, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-27

SMS fees impacting Twitter feature

Just this week, I was applauding Twitter for rejecting an offer from Facebook. One reason I noted was that Twitter's SMS text feature makes alerts from twittering (tweeting?) news outlets such as ZDNet even more valuable. Now, that feature seems headed for the history books as wireless carriers impose fee...

Tags: Wireless Carrier, SMS, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Dell gets a jump on Black Friday, a $389 desktop with 20-inch LCD

Dell is getting an early start on Black Friday. The company has been running daily specials at www.dell.com/everyday for some time, and there have been some good deals on consumer desktop and laptops. But some of the best deals are currently hiding under the umbrella of "Small and Medium Business"...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., LCD, Monitors & Displays, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Components, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Semiconductors, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Is on-demand slowly killing traditional broadcasting?

I'm not a big TV watcher to be honest. In the UK, we have the "licence fee" which you need to pay the government before you even connect the telly to the wall. If you don't, you can bet your arse you'll have armed police storming the windows to your...

Tags: On-demand, Broadcasting, Cloud Computing, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-11-26