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- VMware Software Enables Fast Server Deployment and Management, Effective Disaster Recovery, and Remote Desktop Environment
- With the company's rapid growth and commitment to innovation, Wamego Telecommunications Co., WTC began to look for a server consolidation strategy in January 2005. At the same time WTC began looking for a server consolidation solution, it was also looking for a solution to streamline desktop computer deployment. WTC set...
- Tags: Software, Remote Desktop, Environment, VMware Inc., Disaster Recovery, VMware Software, WTC, Server Consolidation, Servers, Desktops, Hardware
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- Intel maintains commitment to education
- Despite dismal economic times, Intel, creator of the Classmate PC, an associated software stack, and a pedagogical model for its use in schools, has reaffirmed its commitment to education. Today, the company announced that it had achieved its goal of 1 million volunteer hours from its employees. According...
- Tags: Education, Intel Corp., Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Support.com: We'll kill your crapware for free
- Support.com on Monday will roll out a free service designed to remove crapware from your PC. This public service has a bit of a motive: Support.com--essentially the Jiffy Lube of the PC industry--wants your future business. Here's how this will work: Folks call 1-800-PC-Support or log on...
- Tags: Software, PC, Support.com, Netbooks, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone
- Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending Jason D. O'Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs: Real Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD warns of 25% drop in Q4 sales Larry Dignan: AMD:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., Health Care, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Coming on Patch Tuesday: 8 bulletins, 6 critical
- The final Microsoft Patch Tuesday for 2008 will be a big one: 8 bulletins covering serious code execution flaws in a wide range of ubiquitous software. According to the company's advance notice mechanism, six of the eight bulletins will be rated "critical," Microsoft's highest severity rating. The...
- Tags: Flaw, Microsoft Corp., Bulletin, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Harden Facebook? Sure, but where to start?
- * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Paul F. Roberts You may have heard the news that everybody's favorite social network, Facebook, won a big legal settlement on Monday against spammers who were using the 100 million strong network to distribute what the...
- Tags: Facebook, Application, Network, Attack, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- With 256-bit encryption, Acrobat 9 passwords still easy to crack
- Following ElcomSoft's claim that despite the 256-bit encryption Acrobat 9 passwords are susceptible to more efficient brute forcing than Acrobat 8 passwords -- a claim that Adobe confirmed citing usability trade-offs and urged users to take advantage of its improved passphrase mechanisms -- ElcomSoft's Dmitry Sklyarov and Vladimir Katalov provide...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Password, Adobe Acrobat, Encryption, Dancho Danchev
- 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
- Information Agenda: A strategy shift from applications to information
- Stuck between business challenges on the one hand, and information management systems on the other hand which simply limit your ability to respond. IBM's Tom Inman wants an easy way to spread your information across the board. Commentary--As the CIO of a flourishing business, you are happy to report...
- Tags: Information Management, Business, Information, Information Agenda, IL&P, Competency Center, Strategy, Management, customer relations, IBM, application agenda, IT, Tom Inman IBM, Special to ZDNet, Tom Inman IBM Information Management division, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2008-12-04
- The emerging case for open business methods
- The Internet has been the genesis of countless useful business innovations over the last several decades. These include a globally unified e-mail network, the advent of search engines, the rise of rich user experiences and SaaS, and most recently cloud computing to name but a few. But perhaps...
- Tags: Network, Industry, Business, Business Strategy, Business Method, Reasons Organization, Dave Bort, Internet, Strategy, Open Source, Management, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Market player machinations may warp, but not 'kill', SOA
- Dave Linthicum recently offered a somewhat dour assessment of the SOA market, determining that there at least five things killing SOA as we know it these days: Venture capitalists by micromanaging SOA vendors; Sarbanes-Oxley by scaring away SOA vendors; Big consulting firms (by mismanaging SOA...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo
- Adobe Systems, Inc. announced yesterday in a statement that it will eliminate 600 full-time positions, or roughly 8 percent of its workforce, amid weaker than expected fourth quarter earnings. Fellow ZD blogger Larry Dignan notes that demand for Creative Suite 4 was weaker than expected and the...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macworld, Workforce Management, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- iPod touch gets VoIP, steals some iPhone thunder
- The 'funnest' iPod ever has kicked it up a notch. Bam! Thanks to a microphone adapter and some free software called Truphone, the second-generation iPod touch is now capable of courting consumers as a VoIP mobile phone, in the most literal of senses (just...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, VoIP, Apple iPod, Call, Apple iPod Touch, Truphone, Truphone Application, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Coding Slave: 'Software is expensive'
- Why do so many enterprise software projects run over-budget? The obvious answer: folks under-estimate expenses across the software life cycle. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Software, Developer, Project, Bob Reselman, Tools & Techniques, Software Development, Management, Software/Web Development, Michael Krigsman
- 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
- JavaFX Q&A
- To learn more about the technical aspects of today's launch of JavaFX including its support in NetBeans and Eclipse I spoke in depth with Eric Klein, VP of Java Marketing at Sun, and Octavian Tanase, Senior Director of the Java Platform Group. For a more business oriented perspective see the...
- Tags: Developer, Application, Mobile, Ed, Eric, FX, JavaFX Script, Q., FX Common, Flex, Programming Languages, Java, 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
- Secunia: Less than 2% of Windows PCs fully patched
- It's long been established that the unpatched state of the Windows monoculture is the reason we are facing a malware epidemic. Yet, the latest vulnerability patching statistics from Secunia's PSI Personal Software Inspector is a major eye-opener for everyone tracking the security of the Windows ecosystem. According...
- Tags: Program, PC, Malware, Windows PC, Secunia, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Security, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Management, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Open source thrives in downturn
- Collaboration initiatives are all about streamlining business processes, and the interfaces between legacy closed systems and open source stacks are an increasingly common place to find business collaboration environments. According to research firm Gartner, open source software is present in 85% of enterprises and the...
- Tags: Intalio Inc., Collaboration Initiative, Alfresco, Open Source, Oliver Marks
- 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
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