December 2006 - Posts
One of the things that have thus far eluded IT has been a relatively simple straight forward approach to identity management that could please the two camps within IT that habitually go to war over who is in control of the issue. The two camps that routinely
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There’s probably really no excuse for this not having happened earlier than now, but the good news is that encryption is finally on the cusp of going mainstream. After all, we have Microsoft getting ready to roll out BitLocker, and Seagate has come up
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The historic problem with a knowledge management systems is that they have always been canned systems created using a top-down methodology that never really reflects the changing dynamics of the business. So at best they usually wound up being expensive
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Cisco chief technology officer Charlie Giancarlo put forth an intriguing hypothesis on how the future of enterprise computing that claims that as Ethernet switches get faster they will emerge as a new bus architecture that links distributed processors,
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The first letter in the abbreviation of CEO usually stands for cheerleader so it’s not unusual to see chief executives leading the cheering section, as happened today with John Chambers at Cisco’s worldwide analyst conference in San Jose, Calif.
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With the advent of the holidays upon us the time may have come to consider a novel idea that most people would have written off as absurd only a few months ago. But as the processing power of consumer PCs continues to outstrip their corporate counterparts,
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You can’t help but wonder, given all the attention that Oracle is lavishing on building an applications empire to rival SAP, if the company has lost sight of all the things that have made Oracle the force to be reckoned with that it is today.
The
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As Microsoft gears up to lay claim to the next generation of Web-based computing in what promises to be a titanic battle with Google, never has so much been riding on the fortunes of one largely unheralded product.
When you look past all the vague positioning
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There’s nothing quite like the arrival of a new platform to get the competitive juices of a vendor going, and no where does that seem to be more apparent these days than at Hewlett-Packard.
A rejuvenated HP appears to be just spoiling for a fight with
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Every now and again several new concepts go mainstream enough to pull along another concept that many people might have considered a little too esoteric to have mainstream appeal.
Three concepts that have grabbed everybody’s attention as
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