November 2006 - Posts
Even though today marks the official launch of the business edition of the Vista operating system from Microsoft, it already feels like we're all suffering a bit of Vista fatigue largely because people have been talking about it for the past five years.
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In 2007 there is a high probability that IT budgets are going to be adjusted to reflect rising electricity costs, which in short means that a lot of IT organizations might have less to spend next year because they need to help offset rising electricity
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As the fourth quarter capital budget season is upon us, one of the things that IT finds frustrating is how a perfectly good machine that was bought just over a year ago can become as slow as molasses despite that fact that no new applications have been
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Every now and again somebody talks about a future breakthrough that sounds pretty cool, only to discover that somebody else is already moving in the same direction but on a slightly different path.
The somebody else in this case is Sentillion,
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Given the general movement to free software as a service offerings in the consumer space that will be funded by advertising, it was only a matter of time before somebody came up with a free suite of security tools that is similarly funded by advertising.
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In two separate but closely related announcements this week, the arc of Microsoft’s ambitions in the SAAS (software as a service) arena became a lot clearer.
First up is Microsoft’s intention to create an exchange for electronic commerce on top
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While security vendors are quick to play the fear card when it comes to trying to get you to buy their products, one of the issues that terrifies security vendors most is the high cost of security. Instead, vendors like to bandy about terms like "unified
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Everywhere you turn these days it seems like everybody is talking about the need to re-engineer the data center and all related system and storage management processes. None of them are particularly wrong. In fact, most of them have very compelling arguments
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While it’s pretty clear that encryption needs to be a much higher priority in the wake of a variety of well-publicized data leakage scandals, there is very little consensus about what’s the right encryption strategy given all the competing strategies.
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With little to no fanfare PC manufacturers such as Dell have rolled out business-class PCs that are ready for Vista that all seem to contain a new component not always associated with PCs for corporate applications. In the case of the Dell machines that
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The two best-known choices for accomplishing the migration to Vista are expected to be the Windows Easy Transfer Companion, which is reportedly expected to arrive in early 2007, and the PCMover tools that Laplink Software has committed to making
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One of the ugly truths about IT is that we collect so much data that more often than not, the data we have collected is conflicted. This situation most often arises because there multiple isolated systems that have different records about the same thing.
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