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Breaking Through the Dissimilar Hardware Restore Challenge

When Symantec LiveState™ Recovery was first released, it changed the way that bare metal system recovery was performed for Windows® systems, making it rapid, simple, and reliable. Now with the latest release and the new Restore Anyware Option, LiveState Recovery enables unprecedented speed and ease of recovery to dissimilar hardware...

Tags: Recovery, Software Spectrum, Hardware

White papers 2005-11-01

Converging System and Data Protection

The long-term viability of your business depends largely on the security and availability of both your IT systems and data. Indeed, in today's competitive marketplace, any advantage you may have can quickly disappear if you can't perform data restoration and bare metal system recoveries quickly and efficiently in the event...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Software Spectrum, Security

White papers 2005-09-01

Differentiating the Business Value of Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services

Microsoft customers and partners have asked for more information that differentiates and more clearly articulates the business value of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003. This white paper is for business decision makers and IT-focused business professionals who work in medium and large organizations that have deployed...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Software Spectrum, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Software, Groupware, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2005-04-01

Enterprise Project Management - IT Governance and the Program Management Office

Organizations are challenged to track and measure the effectiveness of a large number of projects in various aspects of their work, and aligning Information Technology costs with business objectives is becoming increasingly important. Executives--especially those accountable for the success or failure of IT spending–would benefit from better ways to select...

Tags: IT Governance, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Software Spectrum, Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution, Project Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, It Operations, It service Management, Management

White papers

Collaborative Governance: The Role of Collaboration Technologies in Supporting the Homeland Security Mission of Justice and Public Safety Agencies

The Homeland Security mission represents an extraordinarily complex challenge for justice and public safety agencies seeking to implement a national strategy for identifying, preventing and responding to potential threats. Despite good intentions and a significant amount of effort to develop a joint federal,...

Tags: Collaboration, Agency, Software Spectrum, Homeland Security Mission, Homeland Security, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Marketing

White papers

Achieving Compliance and Strategy Execution Using Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005

As they strive to achieve compliance while continuing to strengthen their competitive edge, more and more organizations are turning a keenly interested eye toward Business Performance Management BPM. But with the wrong approach, BPM can be a costly, high-risk proposition. The right approach – one that emphasizes incremental and validated...

Tags: Strategy, Business Performance Management, Microsoft Office, Compliance, Software Spectrum, Microsoft Corp., Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers

The Benefits of Continuous Data Protection

Today’s Windows-based organizations face a number of ongoing challenges when it comes to data protection. First, data volumes continue to grow at nearly 40% to 50% each year, making it increasingly difficult for administrators to back up mission critical data in acceptable time frames or within available backup windows. In...

Tags: Software Spectrum, On-demand, Benefit, Continuous Data Protection, Backups

White papers

Additional Resources

Students: the broadband troubleshooter

Student? Moved out of halls? Ready to move into your new student digs? Heads up. Following on from my series of harrowing entries regarding my broadband trouble, it's about time I sat you down and explained a few things about ISP's, phone lines, telecoms...

Tags: Tenant, Phone, Broadband, Phone Line, Internet Service Provider, Tag, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-24

2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."

July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...

Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Ballmer does Windows; Johnson joins Juniper

Update: Microsoft had its annual management shakeup--these things tend to happen at the end of the fiscal year--and Kevin Johnson is leaving as head of the company's platform and services division. As a result, Johnson's unit is split into two--Windows and online services--and CEO Steve Ballmer becomes the primary advocate...

Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Parallels releases Parallels Server for Mac

I almost missed Parallels' announcement of Parallels Server for Mac. I didn't speak with company representatives. All I saw was a press release. It was nearly lost in a huge pile of other mail in my inbox. Although there are several virtual machine software products that support...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Virtual Machine, Parallels Server, Parallels Management Console, Toolset, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-07-24

COPA suffers another blow

InformationWeek is reporting on the latest blow to the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. COPA imposes heavy fines on libraries and schools among other institutions that fail to prevent children from "content harmful to minors." If you're asking just what constitutes "harmful to minors", so...

Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Minor, Regulations, Government, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Hands-on: App Store Ad Hoc distribution

There's only one official way to get "legitimate" software for the iPhone 2.0 and iPod touch – via Apple's included App Store. The much-heralded service offers almost 1,000 free and paid application in numerous categories and has been well publicized over the last week. I recently had...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Advertisement, Apple Inc., Identifier, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-23

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

No e-commerce worries here? Amazon doubles earnings

Updated: Amazon's second quarter earnings doubled from a year ago as sales jumped 41 percent and executives said that the e-tailer may be benefiting from a slowing economy courtesy of its free shipping deals. On Wednesday, the company reported net income of $158 million, or 37 cents a share,...

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Quarter, Amazon.com Inc., Earnings, E-business, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experience

Despite having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look. Despite ostensibly having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look....

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox Live, Video, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, LiveParty, Spotlight Channel, Xbox Experience, Games, Game Players, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox Live, Sarju Shah, Gamespot

News items 2008-07-23

NY gov signs game bill into law

New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...

Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot

News items 2008-07-23

Microsoft turns to users for new wave of Xbox games

Taking a page from Facebook and YouTube, Microsoft will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types of games available on its console. SEATTLE--Microsoft will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types...

Tags: Microsoft Xbox Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Games, Game Players, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Reuters, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox

News items 2008-07-23

PaaS embraces client access licensing

Platform-as-a-service is going through a similar rite of passage as conventional software did when it met the Web in the late 1990s - trying to work out the fairest way to license occasional users. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Enterprise Software, PaaS, Extranet, Coghead, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Business Services, Pricing, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-07-23