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Reducing Storage Fourfold and Lowering TCO Up to 50 Percent for Many Clients With Veritas NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition: EDS manages over 100 data centers for its customers, using tools from Symantec Corporation to streamline data center administration. One of these tools is Veritas NetBackup PureDisk software. This software centrally and automatically backs up data in a customer's remote offices to disk, eliminating the need to perform tape backup....; Tags: symantec corp., data center, veritas software corp., microsoft office, tco, electronic data systems corp., veritas netbackup, remote office, data centers, storage, storage management, backups, hardware, data management; Case studies 2006-09-15
Effective Remote Office Data Protection: For many companies, protecting remote office data can be a challenge. Companies may perform tape backups at each remote office, but this approach can be unreliable, cumbersome, and expensive. The alternative method, creating backups over a WAN, also poses problems because of the amount of data and the cost of...; Tags: data protection, microsoft office, remote office, backups, disaster recovery, data management; White papers 2006-09-12
Implementing Websense Enterprise Within Distributed Enterprises: Distributed enterprises are corporations with large numbers of remote locations, ranging from dozens to thousands of small offices. Typically, there are between 5 and 50 employees at each remote office, many of whom have Internet access, and no dedicated IT staff. Some of these organizations use a decentralized network topology...; Tags: websense inc., remote office, internet, servers, hardware; White papers 2004-11-09
U.S. Department of Transportation Turns to Legato and IMS Systems for Nationwide Information Protection Solution: Responsible for implementing critical safety programs, such as hazardous material handling, licensing, border protection, and inspections, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration FMCSA required a better way to protect its data collected in remote offices at which the FMCSA had limited IT staffing and insufficient backup infrastructure. IMS Systems immediately...; Tags: legato, branch office, u.s. department of transportation, ibm ims, remote office, fmcsa, backups, data centers, storage, hardware, data management; Case studies
The Trauma of Backup and Recovery for Enterprise Remote Offices: How to Stay Sane and Keep Your Data Safe: Backup and recovery in today's data-centric business environment presents numerous challenges. Add remote offices to the mix and the issues are compounded tenfold making the IT data center managers unable to control backup and recovery across their enterprises. While IT managers lack control, they have the full responsibility for making...; Tags: iron mountain inc., recovery, microsoft office, remote office, livevault corp., data centers, backups, storage, hardware, data management; Webcasts

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MS Patch Tuesday: Critical IE, Office, Excel patches coming: Next Tuesday (August 12th), Microsoft will ship 12 security bulletins with fixes for serious vulnerabilities in a wide range of of widely deployed products. Seven of the 12 bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. The critical bulletins will cover remotely exploitable...; Tags: microsoft access, vulnerability, patch management, activex control, microsoft internet explorer, microsoft corp., microsoft excel, microsoft windows, activex/com/com+/dcom, microsoft office, security, operating systems, software, software development, software/web development, office suites, ryan naraine; Blog posts 2008-08-07
Will the Olympics melt the Internet?: Okay, sky-is-falling fans and network neutrality proponents: We're about to find out whether the Internet can – or will – break down under the strain of mass consumption of streaming video. At least that's the opinion of Brick Eksten, the president and CEO...; Tags: nbc, network, video, stream, internet, corporate communications, web site development, marketing, tom steinert-threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-08-07
App Store blacklist continues, next victim: I Am Rich: It appears that Apple continues to remove and blacklist applications from the App Store without warning, notice or acknowledgment. First, NullRiver's NetShare tethering application was removed, reappeared and was removed again. Second, the extremely useful Box Office application renamed to Now Playing suddenly disappeared. The third application...; Tags: application, apple inc., notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, jason d. o\'grady; Blog posts 2008-08-07
A look at risk-reward: Apple may nuke apps on your iPhone remotely: Apple apparently can disable App Store software remotely on your iPhone 3G. The iPhone calls home and poof the application is nuked. Needless to say that this has caused a bit of a blog ruckus Techmeme. MacRumors notes that Apple has come under fire for removing App...; Tags: apple iphone, apple inc., 3g, tools & techniques, cellular phones, consumer electronics, personal technology, management, larry dignan; Blog posts 2008-08-07
Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source: In a previous discussion of OpenOffice versus Microsoft Office most respondents addressing the development issue seemed to prefer the Microsoft development tools over the comparable open source ones. I believe this is probably correct from the individual developer perspective, but wrong from the corporate perspective. by Paul Murphy; Tags: wintel, environment, microsoft office, apache software foundation, microsoft corp., technology, development environment, open source, paul murphy; Blog posts 2008-08-07
Intel: Linux has 'no place' on desktop: Intel: Linux has 'no place' on desktopIt's GainingI think Ubuntu and Wubi have made big strides in putting Linux on the desktop. My first encounter with Linux was back in the early(?)/mid 90s. I installed an early Slackware version of Linux on my 486 (along with OS/2, PC/DOS, Win 3.1...; Tags: operating systems, unix, open source, intel corp., ubuntu, wubi, newbie, linux, microsoft windows, desktop; Discussion threads 2008-08-06
TSA vendor finds lost laptop, remains suspended: Travelers who use the Transportation Security Administration's Registered Traveler program might be verified as good security risks but the same can't be said about Steven Brill's Verified Identity Pass, one of the TSA vendors that operates the program. VIP, under the brand name Clear, lost a laptop containing...; Tags: transportation security administration, laptop computer, vip, notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, richard koman; Blog posts 2008-08-06
Fake CNN news items malware campaign spreading rapidly: A currently active malware campaign taking advantage of a known social engineering tactic, namely, to entice the spammed user into clicking on a site with a fake news item in order to trick them into installing a fake Flash player (flashupdate.exe; get_flash_update.exe and watchmovie.mpg.exe), was massively spammed last night, with...; Tags: malware, social engineering, cnn, spyware, adware & malware, cyberthreats, e-mail, viruses and worms, security, online communications, dancho danchev; Blog posts 2008-08-06
Second Circuit overturns remote-DVR ban: Second Circuit overturns remote-DVR banThis had to go to court?Holy-wood! What a bunch of elitist greedy "Do as I say, not as I do" psuedo moralists!I've been using an external 750 Gig USB drive to store my recorded movies etc. for nearly a year now...So how is it Holy-Wood doesn't...; Tags: tv & home theater, holy-wood, remote-dvr, second circuit; Discussion threads 2008-08-06
Oracle: Gimme an L. Gimme an I. Gimme an N-U-X: Oracle: Gimme an L. Gimme an I. Gimme an N-U-XWidespread adoption in what arena?Everytime someone says this I can't help but wonder what they mean. Linux is quite common in the server room which appears to be the arena Oracle is talking about.Because "Unbreakable" went so well last time they...; Tags: unix, operating systems, open source, i. gimme, linux, oracle corp., gimme, n-u-x; Discussion threads 2008-08-06
Oracle: Gimme an L. Gimme an I. Gimme an N-U-X: Enterprise software giant Oracle is at LinuxWorld this week, positioning itself as head cheerleader for widespread adoption in the Enterprise. In addition to a keynote speech that discussed Oracle's position around Linux, as well as details of its own deployment, there were two announcements issued today. The...; Tags: data center, oracle corp., linux, data centers, unix, operating systems, open source, software, storage, hardware, data management, sam diaz; Blog posts 2008-08-06
IBM should spend another $1B to drive consumer adoption of its Symphony OpenOffice-Linux desktop: IBM should spend another $1B to drive consumer adoption of its Symphony OpenOffice-Linux desktopIbm should spend 1% of its revenueeach years to help , expend and monitor/sponsored open sourceUp to a certain point IBM OS/3 "pay back" linux or bsd flavor since we are into the "if/why not"...; Tags: unix, operating systems, open source, servers, desktop, ibm corp., linux, microsoft corp., symphony, server; Discussion threads 2008-08-06
Sensors to detect oral cancer in saliva: According to the American Cancer Society ACS, there will be about 35,000 new cases of oral cancer in the U.S. this year. The ACS also estimates that 'when oral cancer is identified in its early stages, patient survival rate is almost 90 percent, compared with 50 percent when the disease...; Tags: university of california at los angeles, team, researcher, protein, sensor, molecule, cancer, protein sensor, dr wong, team management, management, roland piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-08-06
IBM should spend another $1B to sell its Symphony OpenOffice-Linux desktop to the masses: IBM is enlisting the help of the top three Linux distributors to help its desktop Office and messaging software gain ground. It's a small step forward but Big Blue must reach out to the masses to win this game. At LinuxWorld, IBM announced that Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red...; Tags: microsoft office, ibm corp., linux, open source, unix, operating systems, desktops, software, hardware, paula rooney; Blog posts 2008-08-06
Zittrain explains the future of the Internet: Oxford professor and Harvard pioneer Johnathan Zittrain came to the CBS Interactive offices in San Francisco on Tuesday to speak and sign copies of his new book "The Future of the Internet... and How to Stop It". His presentation was called Civic Technologies. ...; Tags: router, technology, zittrain, internet, routers & switches, networking, andrew mager; Blog posts 2008-08-06