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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up In fact - as an aside - even Whitehall is putting IT on a diet, with the government's green IT champion, Chris Chant telling silicon.com the public sector has "stopped eating pies and put ourselves on a diet" when it... [20 Nov 2009]
Salesforce.com plans social networking for business
News Salesforce.com has unveiled a technology that it says will bring the functionality of consumer technologies such as Facebook and Twitter to the business world. Speaking at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce... [19 Nov 2009]
Does your business really need an office?
Comment At the recent Workplace Trends conference, one speaker dared to ask: "Do we even need an office these days? He writes at www.richardleyland.com or follow him on Twitter @leylandrichard. Richard Leyland... [17 Nov 2009]
Digital Dilemmas: Should your business be on Twitter?
Comment silicon.com's Natasha Lomas deconstructs this Digital Dilemma. You need to ask yourself two things: are my customers on board the microblogging bus? Ask yourself if you care, truly care.... [16 Nov 2009]
Role Management
White Paper To make the right decision for organization, one need to ask the right questions and avoid common pitfalls. Role management can be both very challenging and very rewarding to customers seeking simplified user... [13 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.11.09
Round-Up Incidentally, if you're looking for something more useful to put on your iPhone than an anodyne pop crooner, silicon.com has several suggestions to keep you going here. The survey also detected that women are far more... [13 Nov 2009]
Eight Questions to Ask About Your Intrusion-Security Solution: Why Intrusion Prevention - Not Detection - Is Essential
White Paper After all, IDS and IPS solutions are designed and engineered for fundamentally different purposes. An Intrusion Detection System is a classical out-of-band device that merely detects and generates alerts for suspicious traffic, making it... [12 Nov 2009]
Change Is the Enemy of Security & Compliance: 10 Questions You Should Ask Yourself About Changes to Your Network
White Paper This whitepaper lists 10 ways that enterprise environments typically change and what one can do to identify, analyze and manage these changes and their associated risks on an ongoing basis. Any device attached to network without... [12 Nov 2009]
Future-proof your outsourcing: Stay flexible
Comment In terms of outsourcing your IT, you need to think about all the different aspects which could impact the scalability of your service, and ask questions such as: do you really need more from your supplier? [12 Nov 2009]
Information Systems Security Management: A Critical Research Agenda
White Paper This paper builds on the critical research tradition in information systems to ask whether there are signs of ideology, hegemony and other critical concepts in the security literature and management practice. [11 Nov 2009]
No more tax breaks for offshoring?
Comment You must ask: Lawyers Belinda Doshi and Nick Beecham explain how financial firms can protect their business. Banks, insurance companies and other financial services providers should be aware of an important change to the... [11 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Jimmy Wales on what's next for Wikipedia
Comment In an exclusive interview, Wikipedia founder and silicon.com Agenda Setter Jimmy Wales talks to Natasha Lomas about what's next for Wikipedia and why the site needs geeks of all kinds. There's a vast majority of... [05 Nov 2009]
WPA2 Security: Choosing the Right WLAN Authentication Method for Homes and Enterprises
White Paper Ask a hundred CIOs what three things about WLANs (wireless LANs) strike fear into their hearts, and the answers are likely to be similar: Security, Security, Security. Sure, you want good coverage. Sure, you want to... [03 Nov 2009]
5 Rules of Effective Negotiating
White Paper You won't know what you can get until you ask. Negotiation is an interactive process by which people reach mutual agreement on solving a common problem, but for many people this is easier said than done In this white... [03 Nov 2009]
Windows Server 2008: What To Expect
White Paper When they hear that a new version of Windows Server is coming out, they often ask, "How different is it? Most IT professionals who deal with ever-changing technology appreciate consistency and predictability. [03 Nov 2009]
