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So what is the cloud, exactly? Experts want to know

So what is the cloud, exactly? Industry experts would like to know, according to a panel discussion today at Wharton Business School's 13th annual business technology conference, "Future Unleashed," in Philadelphia. The panel, which consisted of six industry leaders whose respective companies are...

Tags: Service, Cloud, JA, BL, PK, KH, AA, VC, MC, Hosting Industry, Cloud Computing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

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NolaPro Free Accounting 4.0.5053 (Windows)

NolaPro is a premium, completely free web-based suite. It includes AP, AR, Payroll, Order Tracking, Inventory Control, POS, B2B, and an Ecom Shopping Cart. Many plug-ins and add-ons are available such as a TimeClock, QB converter, development API, and a Hosting Manager revenue module for CPAs, VARs or consultants. Global...

Tags: Revenue, Accounting, Microsoft Windows, Noguska, NolaPro, Operational Accounting, Channel Management, Financial Services, Finance, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-15

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

Survey: Cloud confusion among IT could slow enterprise adoption

Security - Connectivity?Can the connectivity be guaranteed, if a glitchoccurs and thousands of customers are lefthanging saving $500 is hardly worth it.Plus, the security holes when dealing with data... Instead of worrying about....whether your are using the cloud or any other "buzz word" technology IT pros need only worry that...

Tags: Marketing research, information technology, good-IT pro, Well HERE, IT Pro, survey

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

SaaS: Shelfware as a service?

Think the conclusions are a bit flawedI think we can all agree that SaaS saves operational expenses, increases agility and improves the user experience. I don't think the fact that Salesforce.com has been successful can be held against the category.The shelfware point is a bit more subtle. The...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, shelfware

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Preview Party: Windows 7 makes a big splash in a Mac house

Did you hear the one about the Mac family that opened its doors - and its mind - to Microsoft Windows? For one night, Windows 7 took center stage in my living room as a half-dozen or so friends stopped by for one of the official Windows...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Raquel, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Hosted Hosting: Should Service Providers Go Hosted?

No one can argue the fact that the IT industry, even in these troubled economic times, is continuously developing at astounding rates. This can be seen across all sectors of the industry, whether it is application development, platform evolution, online services hardware development and even research. To some degree, though,...

Tags: Industry, Evolution, Service Provider, Hardware, Business Services, Software Development, Strategy, Software/Web Development, Management

White papers 2009-10-07

Probably the most awful, soul destroying thing I've ever seen

wow those were just AWFUL..thats about 6 minutes of my life i wont get back. CHEESE CITY! lol.RE: Probably the most awful, soul destroying thing I've ever seenYou are goddammed right. IT feels like I am watching the cast of Barney, as they keep nodding their heads at each...

Tags: Corporate communications, Blonde, video, second video, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Photos: Robots audition for Army

Army is hosting a Robotics Rodeo and challenging the industry to develop more robots to fill combat needs. by CNET News.com

Tags: Army, Photograph, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-09-03

Live Webcast: Scale Up and Save: Best Practices for High-Density Virtualization & Consolidation

Fast-paced and resource-constrained environments of today require IT decision makers to take fresh approaches in order to keep up with dynamic organizations. Join NEC and Intel in this live TechRepublic Webcast to understand market drivers for high density virtualization hosting. Discuss how leading edge...

Tags: Webcast, Consolidation, Best Practice, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-09-01

Apple's Snow Leopard Completely Blows It Virtually

RE: Apple's Snow Leopard Completely Blows It VirtuallyI think there is a lack of understanding of Apple's goals here. Mac OS can run perfectly fine on commodity hardware from Dell, etc. they just purposely prevent it from doing so. (Check out all the "Hackintosh" OS X boot-loaders if...

Tags: Operating systems, Apple Mac OS, Virtualization, Mac business, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, hardware, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard

Discussion threads 2009-08-30

Waking up to the full extent of virtualization options

While doing my morning expedition through the wilds of news sites, blogs and, of course, comic strip sites, I came across something by Laura McCabe, a partner at Hurwitz and Associates, titled "What is Virtualization, and Why Should You Care?" While Laura's comments are useful, she didn't try to present...

Tags: Software Technology, Environment, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-18

VMware's vision: Clouds everywhere

While I was making my way out to San Francisco for OpenSource World/Next Generation Datacenter/Cloudworld, VMware issued a press release stating that they were acquiring Spring Source, a supplier of Platform as a Service offerings. This, I believe, opens the door for VMware to offer a nearly complete, end-to-end solution...

Tags: Solution, Data Center, Open Source, PaaS, Vision, Supplier, VMware Inc., Tool, SpringSource, Spring Framework, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Password-reset flaw haunts WordPress admins

Open source and PHP at its worstI cannot fathom the design decisions that went into PHP. Maybe that's because there weren't any. That "language" I use that term in the broadest sense here is accident upon accident, quirk upon quirk, patch upon patch. PHP is a complete mess without a...

Tags: Scripting languages, PHP, Wordpress

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

You won't want an iPod (Tech which back-to-school students should avoid)

Back to school....This is good but don't quite see that these are all "back-to-school".For my student:Netbook - great for work and portability. It fits in his backpackFlash Drive - great for storing / transferring work on - now if the school had a working printer attached to their common...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., back-to-school student

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Google's campaign for Apps doesn't address the IT data elephant in the room

Updated: Google has launched a "Go Google" marketing push for Google Apps touting cost savings and recruiting users to spread the word. The campaign---modeled after Mozilla's Firefox marketing efforts---makes sense for browsers, but for skeptical IT buyers, Google drops the ball. Why? Google's campaign...

Tags: Google Inc., Information Technology, E-mail, Cloud Computing, Security, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Downloading content illegally vs. getting away with it

I have mentioned a few times before my somewhat controversial view on Internet piracy - the end-user downloading (and uploading, to some extent) of mostly videos, music files, software - and the issues which surround it. As this generation of students are the forerunners of the technological age, born into...

Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., RIAA, Licence, RapidShare, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Hey, kids! The days of free music are over.

Hey, kids! The days of free music are over.See this? Tiniest violin in the world. Playing just for the RIAA.Record labels and their industry kicking-dog the RIAA can go and do an unmentionable to themselves. They have been a parasite between musicians and fans for far too...

Tags: Free Music, music, MP3

Discussion threads 2009-08-01

RSA SecurID Helps NTT Europe Online Meet PCI DSS Compliance

NTT Europe Online NTTEO provides managed hosting, security and application management services to enterprises globally. NTTEO wanted to become fully Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS compliant in all areas of its business, from its datacentres through to HR procedures and to meet one of the 150 PCI...

Tags: RSA Security Inc., Two-factor Authentication, NTT Corp., RSA SecurID, PCI, Security Administration, Application Performance Management, Digital Security, It Services, Storage, Hardware, Security

Case studies 2009-08-01

Experts convene to analyze SOA's vital signs

Ron Schmelzer passed this on to me: he and the ZapThink crew are hosting an SOA confab next week in Boston that plays off the "SOA is Dead" theme we've been hearing so much about, titled "SOA: The Night of the Living Dead." And appropriately, Anne Thomas...

Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-07-16