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- New ways emerge to head off datacenter problems while improving IT operations
- Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Integrien. Complexity in today's IT systems makes previous error prevention approaches for operators inefficient and costly. IT staffs are expensive to retain, and are increasingly hard to find. There is also insufficient information about what's going on in the context of an...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Problem, Operator, IT Staff, IT Executive, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- Engineering Firm Improves Branch-Office Backup Consistency With New Solution
- Grontmij is a European engineering consulting firm based in the Netherlands, with 130 branch offices, more than 7,000 employees, and 15,000 projects each year. The firm wanted to strengthen the protection of its branch-office data, which was backed up nightly to tape media by local operators. However, approximately 20 percent...
- Tags: Grontmij, IT Staff, Backups
- Case studies 2007-11-13
- Shipping Company Halves Data Backup Time, Lowers Costs, Boosts Dependability
- Mediterranean Shipping Company MSC USA is a subsidiary of a Geneva, Switzerland - based shipping company that operates 352 container vessels worldwide. The 10-person MSC USA IT infrastructure staff manages the data, computers, and network for 1,200 staff in 26 U.S. offices, and there is never enough time in their...
- Tags: Shipping Company, Data Backup, IT Staff, Backups
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Russian Conglomerate Handles Deluge of Spam While Automating E-Mail Management
- One of the largest privately held organizations in Russia, SOK Group encompasses more than 40 companies. It had a highly complex IT infrastructure and was using many manual processes to monitor traffic on its e-mail servers and to deploy new domains. The company decided to upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Information Technology, Microsoft Exchange Server, E-mail Management, Spam, Microsoft Corp., IT Staff, E-mail Servers, Groupware, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Security, Management
- Case studies 2007-10-04
- 63% of financial companies and 62% of government organizations plan to hire IT staff
- According to Gartner, 63% of companies in the financial services industry plan to add IT staff over the next 12 months. The runner-up is the government sector, with 62% of US public, nonprofit organizations planning to grow their tech headcount.
- Tags: IT Staff
- Blog posts 2005-07-26
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- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- This is a purely text based tour of a data processing center - note the acronyms used to distance staff from users and the heavy reliance on secrecy and sharp job boundaries. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: IBM Mainframe, Data Center, Data-processing, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private networkBut who is monitoring the monitor?Gartner's statement not worth quoting. They are the most worthless thing to hit IT.Was Childs the only IT person on staff that knew anything about computers? That's what it sounds like. But this isn't that hard to believe. Most IT...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Most IT department, private network, network, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Managing growth - a followup to yesterday's guest blog
- Yesterday, Dean Cycon of Dean's Beans wrote a guest blog for this column on "Starbucks' Dirty Little Secret". The blog is worthy of some followup, as well as some additional information that Dean shared with me about their corporate philosophy. Growth is good for a company,...
- Tags: Trader, Blog, Dean Cycon, X2 Development Corp., Strategy, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Judge refuses to reduce 'rogue' admin's bail
- Breaking news: A San Francisco judge just refused to lower Terry Childs' bail from $5 million, the SF Chron reports. Prosecutors said that by rigging the network so that key programs were held in memory so that they would be deleted when the network was shut...
- Tags: Bail, Administrator, Network, Sheriff, Prosecutor, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison
- [ UPDATE:Â Davidson was found dead, involved in an apparent murder-suicide that involved his wife and 3-year-old daughter. ] Edward "Eddie" Davidson, a notorious e-mail spammer who was sentenced to jail time in April, has escaped from a federal prison camp in Florence, Colorado. Davidson...
- Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Restitution, Davidson, Federal Prison Camp, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Zuora: the future business model?
- I recently caught up with Tien Tzou, CEO of Zuora, the billing management company that offers Z-billings, an on-demand service. In his opinion, the business model of the future will be subscription based and this brings challenges of its own. "Pricing is a much more complex...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Billing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- The evolution of search over traditional BI
- Today's business intelligence tools are great at tracking tradional numbers but fail to quench business's thirst for more information says Commentary--A recent Gartner report predicts that IT’s involvement in business intelligence BI will diminish in time as business users adopt new technologies to quench...
- Tags: Payment, Data, Analyst, Information, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, business intelligence, search, Sid Probstein, Attivio
- News items 2008-07-22
- Updated:Will social media lead to user generated unemployment?
- [Updated with video.] I'm spending a few days at Fortune Magazine's invite-only Brainstorm conference. It's an excellent lineup of speakers and the audience is full of top tech industry luminaries. Brad Smith, CEO of Intuit, was just on stage and he spoke about trying to harness...
- Tags: Intuit Inc., Social Media, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- The key barrier to health care reform
- The key barrier to health care reformReducing residenciesHey, at least Georgia [b]has[/b] residencies. Arizona's University Hospital has, thanks to Andrew Weil, turned all of its general practice residencies into NCCAAM-funded "alternative health care" training programs.If you think it's bad now, wait until your insurance only covers "therapeutic touch" and...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, barrier, health care, residency, physician
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?
- If sameness is a recipe for losing, how do you win?OT but relevant: The heavy tread of IT.Quoting from the stern warnings about SharePoint from another Comment:“As many shops are discovering, SharePoint is also a development platform that people both inside and outside of IT use to create intranets,...
- Tags: Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- 3wgate Internet Cafe Billing Client Software (zip)
- 3wgate is an Internet cafe and billing software. Also good as a network management solution for businesses that want to control staff access to the Internet. Notable features of this software are browsing billing, site blocking, throway ticket/solo time, blocking/unblocking of sites, application, file download, usb devices, and control panel....
- Tags: Billing, Internet Cafe, USB, Network Management, SIRL Technologies, 3wgate, Internet, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-07-21
- Proving Scoble wrong, Qik lives on and opens public beta to boot
- Qik, a popular streaming mobile video service, has finally opened its public beta program and has released a slew of new features to go along with it. This is great news considering last month tech pundit Robert Scoble declared Qik all but dead in the wake newcomer Kyte. ...
- Tags: Public Beta, Robert Scoble, Handset, Video, Integration, Qik, Kyte, Kyte.tv, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninjaLiberties"Mr. Future President, while you’re at it, could you also do something about all of the civil liberties we’re losing because of the ‘war on terrorism’? That’d be great. Thanks!"that is the point of Cyber Czar - censor what...
- Tags: SECURITY, cyber-security measure, comprehensive cyber-security measure, Obama, cybersecurity
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Offshore outsourcers turn cautious
- Offshore outsourcers turn cautiousCautious? Or gone?I lost my job in a Wipro outsourcing...Fortunately I had five other offers from other organizations who were happy to have me. My previous employer is struggling with issues and helpdesk tickets behind schedule as well. Make sure your contracts and SLAs...
- Tags: outsourcing
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- FastScale Composerâ„¢ Suite
- I just spoke with Jerry McCloud, VP of Business Development of Fastscale Technology, about the newest release of their product, FastScale Composerâ„¢ Suite. This product is aimed at reducing the complexity of creating and maintaining virtual machine images. Previous versions of the product supported VMware's ESX Server. This version adds...
- Tags: Software, Environment, Image, Virtual Machine, FastScale Composer Suite Software Environment, Desktop Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
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