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Botnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts

News But Matthew Fine, supervisory special agent with the FBI, said the fact criminals are now going to jail for botnet attacks is a step in the right direction. If we don't find a way to make it less profitable to do this, it won't go away.

Tags: isps, law, fbi, security

[10 Apr 2008]

The truth about software as a service

Comment Other SaaS vendors such as WebEx, Citrix Online and iLinc, all specialists in online conferencing, provide their applications on-demand but only once a local agent has been downloaded and installed. But there is a problem, even more than for a CRM...

Tags: hosted, applications, saas, browser

[23 Jan 2008]

Combining the Best of Agent and Agentless Monitoring Webinar

whitepaper Listen as industry analysts, end-users, and HP Software Group provide insight on how to maximize your resources by combining the best of Agent and Agentless Monitoring. Lisa Erickson-Harris, EMA Research director, who discusses the benefits of the...

Tags: monitoring systems

[16 Dec 2007]

Monitoring IT Infrastructure in the Web Applications Era

whitepaper Read “Monitoring IT Infrastructure in the Web Applications Era” today to learn more about an affordable, agent-less monitoring solution. With the budget constraints you’ve been facing, you’ve probably had to restrict your real-time monitoring...

Tags: web development and design, device, monitoring, bmc software

[12 Dec 2007]

How closely are you monitoring?

Comment A software agent might help IT departments monitor the capacity of a RAID array, for example, or assess how many empty CPU cycles an underused server was burning through. Plug an SNMP (simple network management protocol) or RMON (remote monitoring...

Tags: monitoring, management, efficiency, performance

[10 Dec 2007]

TechNet Webcast: Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.0 (Level 200)

whitepaper The attendee of this webcast will learn more about Windows Vista Hardware Assessment, a centralized, agent-less inventory tool that provides auto-generated upgrade recommendations and detailed reporting.

Tags: windows vista, tool, assessment, vista

[28 Aug 2007]

Freecycle Diaries: Anyone for tennis?

Comment The average secret agent probably takes less care with data drop-offs. In the latest episode of the Freecycle Diaries, Natasha Lomas finds it easy to unload a last will and testament pack but can't give away a tennis racket, no matter how hard she...

Tags: freecycle

[30 Apr 2007]

Integrating IBM Director With IBM Tivoli Monitoring

whitepaper It monitors IT resources across the enterprise in an agent-oriented or agent-less fashion. The IBM Director integration into IBM Tivoli Monitoring provides IBM Director customers with access to the complete Tivoli Enterprise management environment.

Tags: monitoring systems, monitoring, agent, tivoli

[26 Apr 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Heathrow's iris scan failure

Comment After flying from some distant country I arrive at Heathrow to be confronted by a long line of humanity waiting for the immigration agent's eye. The electronic analysis was more or less instantaneous.

Tags: airport security, biometrics, heathrow, iris scan

[18 Apr 2007]

From CIO to consultant: The first month

Comment Arranged for you by the company travel agent? But with the prospect of a £2,000 bill, it was online for a more cost-effective alternative - a nice hotel five minutes' walk from the conference hall at less than half the price.

Tags: business travel, consultant, cio

[20 Mar 2007]

Spiceworks IT Desktop Allows You to Manage a Small or Mid-sized Network for FREE

whitepaper Now available in beta version, Spiceworks IT Desktop is an agent-less monitoring application that takes less than five minutes to get up and running. Most IT monitoring and management tools are designed for use in large enterprises and are...

Tags: high availability, desktop, disk, networked

[04 Dec 2006]

Bare-Metal Backup Solution Offers New Revenue Opportunities for IT Service Providers

whitepaper This agent-less, bare-metal backup solution enables multi-site enterprises to: It isn't easy for IT service providers to find the right service delivery platform. After all, any technologies they deploy must scale to address the functional and...

Tags: security standards, service providers, providers, backup

[04 Dec 2006]

Performance Management: New "Hybrids" Combine Agent and Agentless Technology, Deliver Best of Both Worlds

whitepaper The results suggest that an ideal performance management solution would deliver advanced, in-depth functionality at a lower cost, with less maintenance, than agent-based platforms. To understand the challenges organizations face in reducing...

Tags: infrastructure management, functionality, performance management, effectiveness

[07 Nov 2006]

Physical Embodiments for Mobile Communication Agents

whitepaper This paper describes a physically embodied and animated user interface to an interactive call handling agent, consisting of a small wireless animatronic device in the form of a squirrel, bunny, or parrot.

Tags: cellular equipment, agent, behaviors, primitives

[19 May 2006]

Ignore consumer tech at your peril, CIOs warned

News He said in a statement: "A primary agent of this phenomenon is the second internet revolution in which the internet serves as a proving ground for new technologies. David Smith, VP and Gartner Fellow, said consumers are now more tech-literate and...

Tags: consumerisation, gartner

[05 May 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 31.03.06

Round-Up Our man Sam is an FBI agent (called Neville) escorting a crime informant to a court case. However, if the Round-Up did go the trouble of including such a warning, it would have less room to write about sex, violence, gore, bad language, digs at...

[31 Mar 2006]

Former US spy slams UK's ID card plans

News Bill Scannell is a former agent at the National Security Agency (NSA) and now a huge privacy advocate, currently heading up a campaign against the introduction of a national driving licence across the US.

Tags: bill scannell, id cards

[23 Jan 2006]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: The work/life balancing act

Comment I negotiated the final sales price with the agent (and indirectly purchaser) via text message while travelling on the train; the contracts exchange was orchestrated by mobile phone from a hotel lounge during a meeting; and the agent and I later...

Tags: mobile working, teleworking

[19 Jan 2006]

CIO Agenda, part 3: The battle for credibility

News Michael Elliot, IT director at toy-maker Hasbro, said: "The CIO on the board movement seems to have cooled, and the CIO as process champion or senior change agent has yet to gather pace. But while some see a continued move away from the perception...

Tags: business, cio

[20 Dec 2005]

Agent-Less Versus Agent-Based Data Collection: Select the Best Approach for Your Environment

whitepaper The GSM software architecture is flexible enough to leverage both agent-based and agent-less data collection methods, depending upon the type of information required and available interfaces to the device or application.

Tags: collection, agent, data collection, leverage

[15 Nov 2005]

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