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- Trusted Computing – Getting Started In Three Easy Steps
- It is a reality in today's business environment that enterprise and government data is vulnerable to attack. Critical incidents are reported by the media daily including identity theft, information leakage, data destruction, sensitive data exposure due to lost or stolen computers, and unauthorized access to corporate networks. With the increased...
- Tags: Trusted Computing Group, Trusted Computing, Wave Systems Corp., Security Chip, Information Technology Industry, Identity Theft, Quality, Security, Business Operations
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- 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
- Why IT can't seem to deliver measurable productivity
- Sounds like excuses to me.If it can't be shown on the bottom line, its useless.IT really needs to be aligned with business needs.From what I have heard talking with several managers, IT needs to come out out the silo and focus on delivering business needs and services. From what...
- Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, IT Operations, information technology, customer service
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them
- And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...
- Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- 18 truths: The long fail of complexity
- Agree *****One of the best distillations of what 'risk' actually is, and why complexity exponentially increases it, I have read.But more to the point takes a realistic, rather than optimistic or pessimistic, view of how to asses it. And correctly acknowledges the 'human' factors involved in both cause, and...
- Tags: Strategy, HEALTHCARE, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- Water, water everywhere. So why not use it to create steam?
- Here is a lesson on how little we can put in the blog...and still call it our own. Could you write less and still get paid ???sheshEver heard of Nuclear powered ships? They heat water that flashes into steam and thus turns the turbines.This short article.I think the...
- Tags: Fuel cells, hydrogen, steam
- Discussion threads 2009-11-02
- Economic Aspects of Cloud Computing
- The new paradigm of cloud computing is taking over individual and business computation tasks. The cloud is dissociated from super-computers offering computational services in the early information age by the following. Cloud computing provides a solid framework for resource planning, the most crucial problem of the IT industry, as well...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware
- White papers 2009-10-27
- What's a brick?
- Shortly after I posted my blog on CalStar making building materials from coal ash, I heard from the American Brick Industry Association BIA. They feel CalStar is ripping off centuries of brick brand equity. Here is the email with BIA's side of the brick business: "I...
- Tags: Brick, CalStar, ASTM STANDARDS Here, Branding, Blogging, Manufacturing, Marketing, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Healthcare: How Cerner Cuts Costs With VMware
- Cerner, a leading provider of healthcare information technology solutions, deploys world-class healthcare applications in the datacenter and on the desktop. The attendee will learn about a desktop reference architecture utilizing both VMware ThinApp and VMware View, the industry leading desktop virtualization solution. Cerner has built technology that enables location awareness...
- Tags: Cerner Corp., Desktop, Health Care, VMware Inc., Virtualization, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Hardware, Human Resources
- Webcasts 2009-10-20
- Uptime Institute Seminar
- I'm on my way to the Uptime Institute's How to Plan, Justify, and Manage a Major Data Center Project seminar in Atlanta, GA. I hope to meet some of the attendees as well as members of the Institute's staff. Who is the Uptime Institue? Here's how the Institute...
- Tags: Data Center, Uptime, Uptime Institute, Institute, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Ellison's keynote: Linux, Exadata, the Governator and more
- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage for the final keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 today - an afternoon session that followed lunch and got off to a rough start when Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan who was scheduled to speak after Ellison came on stage first and spent 45 minutes...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, IBM Corp., Ellison, Fusion, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head
- I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld. The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees? Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- The key to understanding Google - CEO admits it is a media company
- that's not the main pointThe main point is that FOSS enabled Google to make tons of money by leveraging the community and media companies failed to jump into this bandwagon.Thanks for the confirmationGlad you took the time to make it even more obvious.But - "they" still won't believe you ...RE:...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Web browsers, Google Inc., McDonald's Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- Who is a Candidate for Desktop Linux?
- I personally do not fall into the group of people that can easily migrate away from Windows, but that doesn't mean you or someone you know can't make the switch. As I said in earlier post last month, the work that I...
- Tags: Desktop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Desktop Linux, Computer, Super-Casual Web Surfer, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-10-11
- Manufacturing Company Improves Security, Saves Power, Expects to Reduce Costs by 5 to 15 Percent
- Incorporated in 1984, Greenply Industries Limited is India's leading interior infrastructure company with annual sales revenue of U.S $190M. Greenply is the market leader in its industry in India, and is one of the fastest growing, Globally. It is looked upon as a pioneer of using Information Technology to enable...
- Tags: Security, India, Microsoft Corp., Greenply Industries Ltd., Microsoft Windows 7, Manufacturing, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Sales, Management
- Case studies 2009-10-11
- CTIA: Genachowski taps wireless industry to help foster growth, innovation
- As the mobile industry continues to go through its changes, the eyes are increasingly focused on Washington, specifically the Federal Communications Commission. To kick off the conference, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski stepped on to the stage before the attendees of the CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment conference...
- Tags: Innovation, Mobile, Industry, Broadband, Spectrum, CTIA, Wireless, Mobile Data Usage, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Enterprise Advocates launches; Targets IT buyers
- A band of analysts and industry experts have formed Enterprise Advocates, an advisory group geared to the buy side of the information technology equation. The group, which includes ZDNet's Dennis Howlett and Oliver Marks, is a timely addition to the tech buying equation. In addition to Howlett...
- Tags: Roster, Information Technology, Webinar, Analyst, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Azigo 2.0.0.36 (Windows)
- Azigo helps simplify your online life, through the industry-standard technology of Information Cards. Azigo provides one-click login and registration for web sites that accept Information Cards. The RemindMe feature helps you save money when you shop online by reminding you of discounts and deals that you have already earned through...
- Tags: Azigo, Web Site Development, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Web Technology, Internet, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-05
- Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager
- There's been a good flow of conversation around the role of 'community management' in large companies recently, with an underlying idea that although it's a tough job things will work out if the right people are involved, although Dennis Howlett recognises the danger of burn out....
- Tags: Exec, Community Manager, Underling, Underlings, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-03
- The Case for Thermoelectrics in the Data Center: A New Approach and Use of an Old Science
- Over the past several years' corporate enterprises and the Information Technology IT industry in general have increased their awareness relating to the "Greening" of the data center or the "Greening of IT" for the main purpose of reducing energy consumption and costs. Many standards, technologies and best practices have been...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Applied Methodologies, Data Centers, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2009-10-01
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