This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. The recent Amazon cloud outage at its Northern Virginia data center will raise concerns among CIO’s looking to the “public cloud” to improve IT service delivery and reduce day-to-day operating costs. Industry claims of superior “up-time” performance, reliability and massive redundancy must now be revisitedRead… Read more »
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Image via Wikipedia vPro is a suite of high-impact technology that has just begun to make its presence known in mainstream IT organizations. vPro can help you bring your organization’s security structure into shape with features that make a dramatic positive difference. vPro technologies are implemented in the hardware and firmware of the Intel chipsetRead… Read more »
This week I had the incredible opportunity to spend a few days mountain biking in east Texas with some of the most important people of my generation. One of these people was the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. President Bush was hosting the Warrior 100k Mountain Bike ride at Lajitas GolfRead… Read more »
A few years ago, Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department revolutionized its patrols, the backbone of law enforcement, by installing laptops into squad cars, allowing officers to have true two-way communication with dispatchers, keep track of other calls and incidents in real time, simplify paperwork, locate other cars, and make their exact coordinates known to dispatchersRead… Read more »
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Image via Wikipedia Walking Through the Front Door Many corporations today have become dependant upon their websites. Where once websites were simply information portals or advertisments for their owners, they have transformed into something far greater. Today companies all over the world rely on their websites to log in remotely, provide news and information toRead… Read more »
On Thursday, February 10, in an act of friendship and cooperation on behalf of South Africa, paleo-anthropologist Lee Berger donated casts of recently uncovered Australopithecus sediba fossils to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Despite having explored the area hundreds of times, Berger only discovered the remains of this new early human ancestor in theRead… Read more »
Want the recipe for a real government shutdown? Combine 30% annual data growth, an explosion of virtual data, and an outdated federal back-up infrastructure. Adding more storage is not fixing the problem. But what’s the alternative? According to a new survey from CTOlabs.com and Carahsoft, there are numerous forward-thinking government IT professionals using data duplicationRead… Read more »
Invincea, the firm named “Most Innovative Company of RSA 2011,” will be conducting a webinar on Thursday April 28 at 2pm EST. The webinar will feature Dr. Anup Ghosh, Founder and CEO at Invincea. The topic of this webinar is Phishing and how to prevent it. I have not seen this webinar yet, but asRead… Read more »