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- The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda
- Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...
- Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Data center design 101
- I don't have to design data centers, but I do have to play a knowledgeable wonk on the Web from time to time. With that in mind, I attended two data center presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium to see what I could learn. My knowledge about...
- Tags: Data Center, Tiers, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- PresSTORE 3.2 (Mac)
- PresSTORE is a data management system that seamlessly scales up from small over medium up to enterprise-sized businesses. The concept of an integrated data management and security solution is built into PresSTORE's core. The data is managed throughout its life cycle, from the moment of its creation, to the inevitable...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Archiware, PresSTORE, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-23
- Jigsaw Pieces Can Be More Agile Than Platforms
- Box.net, the little company that likes to tweak Goliath Microsoft's nose with digs at Sharepoint - the billboard above is near Microsoft's silicon valley digs -Â announced an alignment with Salesforce.com CRM earlier today. Nothing earth shattering here at first glance: it makes perfect sense for...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Microsoft SharePoint, Compliance, Box, Content Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Software As A Service (SaaS), Enterprise Software, Software, Emerging Technologies, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Looking beyond Windows 7 and Office; Pondering the alternatives
- No reason to look beyond Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office, its a complete solution out of the box for every business need. Pondering the alternatives will take all of 5 seconds before realizing the alternatives won't live up to what Microsoft has to offer.Preceding message brought to you...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Loverock Davidson
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- IBM launches systems management in a box
- IBM has launched two Tivoli-branded, systems-management appliances aimed at companies with fewer than 1,000 employees and departments of larger enterprises. IBM has launched two Tivoli-branded, systems-management appliances aimed at companies with fewer than 1,000 employees and departments of larger enterprises. The company said the launch brings Tivoli's enterprise-level...
- Tags: IBM Corp., It Services, Network Administration, Networking, IBM, Tivoli, systems management, Manek Dubash ZDNet UK
- News items 2009-10-19
- TechGuard keeps spam and botnets at bay with one-click, enterprise-level security for SMBs, SOHOs
- One of the most difficult things for a small or medium business to do is set up a security scheme that's effective, affordable and intelligible to the average employee. Chesterfield, Mo. and Baltimore, Md.-based TechGuard is attempting to address that problem by bringing its enterprise and government-level...
- Tags: Security, Firewall, Network, SOHO, Small And Medium Business, TechGuard, SM, Smb/Sme, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- I've joined the Dachis Group
- As the worlds of internal enterprise, small, medium sized businesses and partner collaboration networks evolve, an increasing level of intersection with the social media world - the conversation with end users - is inevitable. The implications of this are enormous. While many people can grasp the immediate...
- Tags: Social Media, Vision, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- CIO Jury: Will Snow Leopard boost Macs for business?
- Surprise to no-one hereLittle support for enterprise-level apps and CIOs won't adopt Apple? Color me surprised. This one I found amusing though:"The primary issue for us is always security and after that the need for applications to work reliably on the Mac OS."So volume-licensing of an AV/malware suite is more...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Desktops, Vertical industries, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Intel's Maloney: Enhanced technology can address demands of new data center
- At the afternoon keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, Executive VP Sean Maloney took some time to talk about what Intel is doing to address the needs of the enterprise and the changing data center. The reality, he said, is that the data center is undergoing a...
- Tags: Data Center, Intel Corp., Slot Machine, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- CIOs hit the snooze button on Snow Leopard
- Wow, how wrong can you be?Quote from the first paragraph of the article...[i]The [b]assumption[/b] was that this one feature could have the same kind of impact in opening the Mac market to corporate users as Exchange integration had on bringing the iPhone to business professionals.[/i]Seems that TechRepublic is way out...
- Tags: Marketing research, Snow Leopard, snooze button
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux beats Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in value, cost
- Evaluate the savings, performance, and overall value of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployment versus a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 deployment. In this whitepaper, the two systems are compared over a six-year period, with various e-commerce configurations covering small, medium, and large business scenarios. This comparison takes into consideration...
- Tags: Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Microsoft Windows, Hardware
- White papers 2009-09-01
- BlackBerry Curve 8520 marks consumer, business power play for RIM [hands-on review]
- The first thought that springs from your mind when you pick up the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8520 is, "You know, I could get the hang of this." That's what Research in Motion, BlackBerry's maker, is hoping. The new Curve...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., BlackBerry Curve, RIM BlackBerry, Curve 8520, Lithium-cell Battery, Multimedia Menu, Handhelds, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Handy Backup Server 6.3.0 (Windows)
- Handy Backup Server is all-included workstation backup solution for small and medium business enterprise networks. The utility supports files-based and image backup of both network workstations and the central server, has numerous backup options, a flexible scheduler and can run as Windows service under Windows Vista/XP/2000 and 2008/2003 Server. In...
- Tags: Backup Server, Server, Microsoft Windows, Handy Backup Server, Backups
- Software downloads 2009-08-06
- TechRepublic's CIO Jury: Split on deploying Windows 7
- IT departments have largely ignored Windows Vista and stuck with Windows XP as the corporate standard. However, Windows 7 has received a warmer response from IT professionals than Vista did, and TechRepublic’s CIO Jury is split down the middle on whether to deploy Windows 7. On July...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., CIO, Information Technology, Director Of Information Technology, Jury, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Cloud DR services are real
- There is a lot of hype surrounding cloud and I'm usually not one to join the hype but in the case of cloud-based backup and disaster recovery services (I'm trying to use the IT service continuity but it hasn't caught on yet), these service are available today and they address major...
- Tags: Recovery, Information Technology, Service, Storage-as-a-Service, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management, Stephanie Balaouras
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- SipGate Brings Enterprise Telephony to the Cloud
- Cloud communications took a twist yesterday with the launch of Team Edition by SipGate. The Web-based service replaces both phone systems and phone lines with a Web-based softphone, allowing small and mid-size companies to move their corporate phone service to the cloud. At the same time, the lack of scaleable...
- Tags: Phone, Collaboration, Telephony, Softphone, SipGate, Deployment Time, Auto-attendant, Telecom & Utilities, LDAP, Data Centers, Telecommunications, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium?
- Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium?Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium?Much like running Windows XP Home on my laptop, Windows 7 Home Premium seems to be enough for most people. Who encrypts their files? The RAM limit is much because by the...
- Tags: Operating systems, RAM Limit, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 Home, Windows 7 Home Premium, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-06-29
- Intel urges SMEs: Don't delay PC refresh
- Intel urges SMEs: Don't delay PC refresh wow companies want you to buy stuff from them...details at 11I'd be interested in knowing how they arrived at the correlation between......older PCs and malware. I can't see why an older system would be any more likely to get malware than a brand...
- Tags: SMB/SME, Cyberthreats, Intel Corp., small and medium enterprise, PC Refresh, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-06-29
- With drop.io, real-time collaboration in the cloud
- Is cloud computing a load of bull or the real deal? For drop.io founder and CEO Sam Lessin, it's everything...literally. Without it, his company and its eponymous service -- which allows two-click sharing of anything with anyone, privately -- might not exist. I spoke...
- Tags: Cloud, XMPP, ZD, SL, Drop.io, Groupware, Collaboration, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Software, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
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