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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up Connect up your servers to a couple of exercise bikes and get a couple of your most out-of-shape techies to run them on pedal power. Wheezing. Coughing and spluttering. Unable to complete basic tasks without falling over. [20 Nov 2009]
Salesforce to launch social networking for businesses
Salesforce Chatter lets employees set up profiles to connect with co-workers, issue status updates to say what they are up to, and subscribe to feeds from people and from applications. Salesforce.com on Wednesday... [19 Nov 2009]
Clouds clear as Microsoft gives Azure a January launch date
News Project Sydney, which will allow users to connect up their own datacentre environment with services that are running with Windows Azure, is expected to launch next year. Microsoft's cloud-based computing platform Azure... [18 Nov 2009]
Photos: How Dubai's driverless trains get their wi-fi
Photo Meanwhile at the business end of the network, this is the connection portal that an iPhone-owning passenger will see if they use their smartphone to connect to the onboard wi-fi network. The Dubai Municipality is in the... [17 Nov 2009]
Unified comms: What it needs to succeed
Comment As Nick Kirkland, chief executive of IT leaders' forum CIO Connect, says: "Most CIOs I know are considering [UCC] projects rather than doing them. Vendors may be making a lot of noise about unified communications and... [17 Nov 2009]
Optimize your performance with the Smart Work Advisor
White Paper Smart Work Advisor shows how businesses can optimize their performance by providing a decision tree they can use to adapt dynamically, collaborate more effectively and connect people and processes inside and outside the... [16 Nov 2009]
Law Firm Cuts IT Costs by 90 Percent, Dismisses Server Worries with Online Services
White Paper Owner James Nolan uses technology to deliver excellent customer service and achieve paperless efficiencies, but his technology costs were too high, and it was too difficult to connect part-time workers to his firm's... [16 Nov 2009]
Six Strategies for Defense-in-Depth: Securing the Network From the Inside Out
White Paper To address these threats, the corporate network should no longer be a single homogeneous zone in which users connect from anywhere in the network and receive the same levels of access. The idea of perimeter defense when... [14 Nov 2009]
The Fastest Way to Scale Your Business to Business SSO Connections: PingFederate Auto-Connect
White Paper The goal of this paper is to detail both the business and technical factors that impact SAML scalability, and then describe how a new capability of PingFederate called Auto-Connect implements a dynamic SAML profile that... [13 Nov 2009]
The Role of Encryption in Data Protection
White Paper This PGP Webcast Summary is based on a presentation given in 2006 to Honeycomb Connect Banking Information Technology (B.I.T.executive members by Dave Cullinane, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for eBay... [13 Nov 2009]
Connect Every K-12 Laptop... Wirelessly, Effortlessly, Securely
White Paper The increased use of laptop computers in K-12 schools has created a unique opportunity to dramatically improve the quality of teaching and learning. The integration of audio, video and graphics animation, coupled with interactivity, has... [12 Nov 2009]
Management of Enterprise Wireless Costs
White Paper Most employees want a notebook PC with wide area wireless and Wi-Fi secure access to connect to the enterprise network wherever they are - at home, at work or while traveling. Off late managing enterprise mobility has... [12 Nov 2009]
Fixed-Mobile Convergence With UMA for Enterprises
White Paper One fast-developing area, Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) allows mobile phones to connect to Wi-Fi networks when available, taking advantage of the low cost, high bandwidth and extensive indoor coverage of Wi-Fi networks. [12 Nov 2009]
Why Switch From IPSec to SSL VPN: And Four Steps to Ease Transition
White Paper IPSec VPNs work by establishing a tunnel over the Internet to connect the internal corporate network to a site outside a corporate firewall or gateway. Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)... [12 Nov 2009]
Your Pathway to the Real-Time Enterprise
White Paper But Belgacom Explore is more than just a network: it is also a service platform to which customers can connect to gain access to a wide range of services. Belgacom Explore is an open standards MPLS network based on IP... [12 Nov 2009]
