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- Out-of-Band Management: The Integrated Approach to Remote IT Infrastructure Management
- For decades, business imperatives for Information Technology IT have remained constant - to cut costs and improve service levels and productivity. Although not new or unique, these imperatives have taken on renewed urgency in today's Internet-driven economy. IT is no longer the inwardly focused domain of technology specialists, but rather...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Avocent Corp., Imperative, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-12-01
- NetBeans may be a hedge for ISVS against messy client choices
- I just had an intriguing analyst briefing with some NetBeans folks at Sun Microsystems, and I'm beginning to think the public discussion on the Eclipse-NetBeans thing (or is it mostly the SWT-Swing thing?) is missing the larger strategic perspective. From the vantage of an architect or CIO -- and not...
- Tags: imperative, clientS, Sun NetBeans
- Blog posts 2006-01-25
- Strategic Networking Imperatives for the Real-Time Enterprise
- Can the IT infrastructure be leveraged to make employees more productive? Can it be leveraged to create new revenue opportunities and help create stronger engagement with customers? Can IT revolutionize the very nature of how business is done? How customer contacts take place? How information about suppliers and customers is...
- Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Information Technology, Imperative, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-01-17
- Infrastructure Optimization
- An organization must obtain the best inputs and align technology imperatives with business imperatives. Therefore, business-IT alignment has become a top priority for most CIOs, be it to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations, enable faster time to market or increase customer intelligence. All the critical applications that create value rely on...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Optimization, Information Technology, Imperative, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-11-01
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- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Nokia to unveil touchscreen phone next week
- Nokia to unveil touchscreen phone next weekNokia, maybe too late for the crowd?Now that more choices exist doesn't mean that people will be trashing their Apples. The market is pretty saturated and the prices seem to be dropping. Just how much profit can be made is not clear...
- Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Telecom & Utilities, Nokia Corp., phone, touchscreen phone, touch screen
- Discussion threads 2008-09-26
- China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymity
- China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymityClearly a crimefighting imperativeThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights is such a nuisance.RE: China proposes UN policy to defeat anonymityHmmm, this is quite disturbing. While I can see the benefits in one hand I see abuses in the other. And the abuses I see...
- Tags: INTERNET, Internet service providers (ISPs), Spam, Now Let
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- LHC a sure sign that Europe is the center of physics
- LHC a sure sign that Europe is the center of physicsHmmm, the brain drain is more thanlosing our people to Europe... it's our poor education system. It's amazing how low on the scale we are for developed nations when it comes to education. Especially in the lower grades where it...
- Tags: INTERNET, fascism, LHC, sure sign
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- The moral hazard of Microsoft-branded PCs
- Ed Bott asked a few days ago whether Microsoft should get into the PC hardware business. The question is clearly driven by the recent success of Apple computer. Because Apple makes both the hardware and most of the software that runs on it (at least, out of the box), they...
- Tags: PC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hardware, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit
- |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploitSo, Linux's BIND the first to be exploited...So, Linux's BIND the first to be exploited...Nice work!CoolNate, nice post and analysis!Wasn't the replacing the ns.victim.com cache entry part of the Halvar Flake speculation? I thought first part of the exploit was to...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, Operating systems, Alecco, DNS, ruid, exploit, HD Moore, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- AIIM Market IQ Research
- There is a torrent of information available on Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 technologies available to inquiring minds, but making sense of it all is another matter. As is so often the case, the more information you find, the harder it can be to get an clear...
- Tags: Enterprise 2.0, AIIM, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Mozilla API aims to make embedding easier
- Mozilla has launched a project to make embedding its applications easier. The project, which is garnering some attention on Mozilla's mailing list, is designed to create an application programming interface API that's easier to use. Connecting a few dots it would appear that Mozilla is preparing...
- Tags: API, Mozilla Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users loseCompetition?Does Viacom think that a 10 minute pixellated clip of a show or movie is really competition for seeing the entire show/movie on a TV or big screen? This is getting ridiculous. If anything, having these clips on YouTube is free...
- Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, Viacom Inc., Google IP, YouTube Inc., IP, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Microsoft's multicore strategy
- Microsoft's multicore strategymulticoreinfoA link is provided to this blog on http://www.multicoreinfo.com , the hub for multicore related resources.Moderately talented?"...enables the moderately talented to produce functional software. Enabling Visual Basic programmers to exploit multicore chips is no mean feat."Say what? I use VB because its easier and faster to develop...
- Tags: multi-core, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Makes Better Decisions With Microsoft Business Intelligence
- CMS was tracking performance manually, and only a few times a year. The Board of Education would ask for custom, ad-hoc reports that required significant district resources to produce and that offered very little transparency into program effectiveness. With limited resources, rapid growth, and hundreds of different programs, it was...
- Tags: Performance, Microsoft Corp., Content Management System, Performance Management, Content Management, Corporate Governance, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-06-25
- Psystar offers 10.5.3 update for Open Computers
- In an email to owners last night, Mac cloner Psystar announced that they've made available a version of Mac OS 10.5.3 that's safe to install on their Open Computer Mac clones. The update must be downloaded from Psystar's Web site and is not available via Software Update. ...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Update, Machine, Productivity, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Computer, E-mail, Corporate Communications, Desktops, Web Site Development, Operating Systems, Hardware, Internet, Marketing, Online Communications, Software
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- The tattered history of OOP
- This is a guest blog by frequent contributor Mark Miller - a followup on our earlier discussions of the effectiveness and value of the object oriented programming idea. OOP has been a mixed bag, but I say this only because...
- Tags: Message, Software, Object-oriented Programming, Smalltalk, Idea, Data, Object-oriented, Unix, Object, Alan Kay, Way Object-orientation, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Xerox: Gel ink will be the future
- There may come a day when we're buying a tube of ink gel for our printers. Xerox on Thursday said it is previewing what it calls a "cured gel ink technology" that prints on plastic and foil. Xerox's plan is to take digital printers to the packaging...
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper, Image Quality, Inkjet Printer, Ink, Gel, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- 10 things you can do to motivate your team
- To get things done these days, working in teams is almost imperative. But how can you motivate a team to accomplish your objectives? How can you avoid common mistakes that can kill performance and morale? Calvin Sun offers some suggestions for keeping your staff focused and on track.This download is...
- Tags: Team, Calvin Sun, Team Management, Management
- Download resources 2008-05-28
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