October 2006 - Posts
In the real world, reputation is everything so it would seem to make sense that the same principles would apply to the cyber-world. But for some reason, when it comes to security most organizations, or people for that matter, take little responsibility
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Given all the concerns over complying with various regulations, you might have expected that the amount of interest in identity management solutions would be off the charts. But oddly enough, while identity management vendors have been trying to ride
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Probably the closest thing to a corporate YouTube that exists today is the network of videos that has been assembled by a company called Altus in Los Gatos, Calif.
What Altus does is work with a large number of technology companies such as Cisco to help
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Whenever you ask a CIO to name some of the most important projects he or she is working on today, disaster recovery almost always makes the list. In fact, the February 2006 spending survey published by CIO Insight shows that disaster recovery
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Every now and again a major vendor surprises us by rolling out a new product offering that while not being immediately practical for the vast majority of customers, it still serves to remind us that the real value of technology lies in innovation
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In any consumer-facing commercial entity, location is everything. Set up shop on a back street rather than Main Street and every retailer in the world will tell you it’s only a matter of time before you close up shop.
But in the age of the Internet,
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If we only knew what we knew about our customers, our cost of sales wouldn’t be so high.
That’s a common refrain these days that has led to a whole discipline known as Customer Data Integration-Master Data Management, or CDI-MDM, but if you've never
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There is growing concern that we may be headed toward a crisis around service-oriented architectures because of issues related to scale. The two most cited issues relate to the fact that an SOA application is typically dependent on remote services that
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While I can’t say that I knew Ray Noorda all that well, I would like to relate a story that shows just how much influence he wielded beyond his legendary contributions to shaping Novell Inc.
Back in the mid-'80s when I was a beat reporter for Digital
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When it comes to Symantec, the only prevailing issue of the moment is whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them end them.
Given the fact that
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In the course of the history of this industry, it’s become pretty apparent that it’s rarely the company with the best products that wins the day but rather the company that has the best route to market.
Microsoft, for example, has enjoyed a virtual lock
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Every now and again somebody takes two concepts and unites them to create something greater than the whole.
Such is the case with a forthcoming service from LogMeIn, a provider of a remote PC management service that competes with companies such as Citrix
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