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Microsoft Webcast: Data Center Management With Visio (Level 200)

Microsoft Office Visio is a great IT tool that enables to convert static diagrams to dynamic visual dashboards. This webcast explores how Visio can help to increase effectiveness and efficiency to meet IT needs. This webcast shows how to plan data centers better, optimally utilize rack space, and save money...

Tags: Microsoft Visio, Data Center, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Visio, Data Centers, Digital Media, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Webcasts 2007-10-11

Microsoft Webcast: Network Security Management With Visio Professional 2007 (Level 200)

The attendee of this webcast will learn how to visualize, analyze, and communicate complex IT systems and processes with Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007. Microsoft Office Visio is a great IT tool that enables to convert static diagrams to dynamic visual dashboards. It demonstrates how Visio Professional 2007 can help...

Tags: Microsoft Visio, Security, Webcast, Network, Information Technology, Network Security, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Visio, Digital Media, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

Webcasts 2007-10-03

Additional Resources

Pepsico Saved from Suicide Campaign by Twitter?

It's not easy to push consumer products these days as discretionary spend dries up and advertising channels become ever fragmented. Understandable then when corporations are seduced into more edgier terrain by their creative agencies. And yet where trust and sustainability is at a premium, its hard to figure how BBDO convinced Pepsico to cross the line...

Tags: Advertisement, PepsiCo, Suicide, Twitter, BBDO, Christine Lu, TBWA, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Microsoft hires former Yahoo exec to run online services

Microsoft has hired former Yahoo executive Qi Lu to run its online services business. Lu will start on January 5 and report directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, according to a CNET report. The company also announced that Brian McAndrews, the former CEO of Aquantive and a...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., aQuantive Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Former Yahoo exec to head Microsoft Online Services; Former aQuantive chief quits

Microsoft's search for a leader for its beleaguered Online Systems business is over and at least one of its top execs seemingly is none too happy with the results. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., aQuantive Inc., Microsoft Corp., Exec, Lu, Research & Development, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-12-04

CRM 2009 Forecast - Part 2 - Sticking My Hands Out To Be Slapped

Last week at this time I was throwing my neck out there forecasting some of CRM's moves in 2009 - and no one chopped it off, thank goodness. So, now, in the same spirit, I'm going to do part 2 of three and stick my hands out to be slapped...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, PaaS, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Emerging Technologies, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Microsoft Big Brains: Dave Campbell

The Microsoft "Big Brains" series, via which I am profiling Microsoft's roughly two dozen Technical Fellows, continues. This week's fellow is Dave Campbell, the head of strategy and architecture for SQL Services. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Team, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Databases, Storage, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Microsoft to tweak 'compatibility view' with next IE 8 test build

Microsoft is planning to make further tweaks to the "compatibility view" feature in Internet Explorer IE 8 when it releases the next public test build in early 2009. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Web, Opera Software, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Web Site, Site, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Open source does not need new buzzwords

You can lose budget in the short term with Microsoft and its proprietary approach. But you will gain it back. A disciplined, long-term approach, based on open code and royalty-free standards, is how you keep the weight off. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Forrester Research Inc., Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-12-04

IBM launches first Linux-OpenOffice desktop with virtualization features

IBM has added a Linux desktop with new virtualization capabilities to its portfolio. The Virtual Desktop, which bundles Canonical's Ubuntu Linux, Virtual Bridges' KVM-based desktop virtualization software and IBM's Open Collaboration Client Solution, is available now, Big Blue announced on Thursday. None of the...

Tags: IBM Corp., Virtual Bridges, IBM Lotus Symphony, Linux, Virtualization, Desktops, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Schwartz: Three reasons you need JavaFX

In the run-up to today's launch of JavaFX, ZDNet sat down with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz to get his thoughts on JavaFX, Flash, and the future of Java. [ Read: Sun launches JavaFX 1.0, and JavaFX Q&A ] [Ed] Q. Why did Sun create...

Tags: Developer, Java Platform, Sun Microsystems Inc., JCP, Audience, JavaFX, Ed, Jonathan, Microsoft Obviously, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Owen Bird Law Corporation a Virtual Iron Customer

I recently had the opportunity to speak with Stephen Bakerman, Director of Information Technology, Owen Bird Law Corporation, a Virtual Iron customer. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with their software. Stephen's comments follow. Please tell me who you are and what your organization...

Tags: Environment, Virtual Iron, Stephen, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-12-04

News to know: Adobe; Windows 7; Sun; SOA; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A plea to the Windows team: Don't make Windows 7 too Mac-like Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study Michael...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Antivirus, Sun Microsystems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Home Entertainment, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Linux, Web Services, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Let's be smart about patching databases

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Slavik Markovich Every quarter, around the time of the Oracle Critical Patch Update CPU or the Microsoft "Patch Tuesday," rituals take place – some behind closed doors, others in the media. Web sites report of the...

Tags: Risk, Oracle Corp., Patch Management, Storage, Strategy, Databases, Security, Hardware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-03

So just what is a 21st Century Skill?

We hear a lot about 21st Century Skills lately; I'm certainly guilty of using the phrase. There's a whole website devoted to building them (actually, there are thousands, but this one has the domain name www.21stcenturyskills.org). We also know that a lot of our kids don't have them...

Tags: Student, 21CS, Ruby On Rails, Productivity, Domain Names, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-12-03

A new laptop for me is really all about the kids

It's no secret that I want one of the new MacBook Pros. I've blogged about it. I promised Santa I'd be a good boy for the rest of my whole entire life if I could have one. I've explained all of the great new features to my...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Laptop Computer, Computer, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Productivity, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Who are the John Does that Apple is looking for?

Who are the John Does that Apple is looking for?Your #2 suggestion is most likely the correct oneConsidering that Apple is using the DMCA to go after Wiki sites that [b]dare[/b] discuss iTunes, it isn't hard to believe that Apple wants to sue anyone and everyone who dares tinker with...

Tags: Wiki, Linux, Digital music, Digital media, Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, UNIX, Apple Inc., John Does, software, Apple iPod, Apple iTunes, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Almost every Windows PC contains at least one insecure program

Almost every Windows PC contains at least one insecure programI Think Obviously Not Windows-OnlyWell, I hope it was a case of the surveyors or researchers appropriately delimiting their sample. As to the ZDNet headline writers, perhaps, here, we meet our Dr. Pavlov.I was facilitating a skype roll-out at the office...

Tags: Operating systems, PC, insecure program, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Windows PC

Discussion threads 2008-12-03

Yahoo headlines: What's fact and what's rumor?

If you're tired of rampant speculation about Yahoo's future, including headlines from legitimate news sources that are fueling the blogosphere with rumor and unconfirmed theories, raise your hand. Just as I suspected. I know it's been a while since I...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Source, CEO, Blogging, Corporate Governance, Internet, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Extranet collaboration platforms - coming soon, but many-to-many problem remains

In our conversations with many information and knowledge management professionals, it's clear that their distributed and multicompany teams need better extranet collaboration tools. And they feel the problem is only getting worse as companies go virtual, global, distributed, outsourced, green, travel-less, and partnered, thus driving the need...

Tags: Extranet, PBwiki, Thomson Reuters Messaging, Networking, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2008-12-03