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HP Data Protector 6.0 Software Object Consolidation: "Best Practices"

whitepaper This solution enables to create synthetic full backups and virtual full backups with an operation called object consolidation allowing implementing an incremental forever backup strategy. The incremental forever paradigm means that except for the...

Tags: back-up

[16 May 2008]

Q&A: James Gosling, 'father of Java'

Comment But always in a way done in a spirit of co-operation. And is Microsoft destined to rule the enterprise forever? Why is Sun's Java going the GPL open source route? Are software development costs doomed to spiral out of control?

Tags: gpl, microsoft vista, sun, open source security

[19 Mar 2007]

Phil Young

Q&A Running IT in a 24/7 operation and waiting for that dreaded call at 2am in the morning. Last CD bought/downloaded: Forever Faithless - Faithless. What do most people call you? Sir (only joking - Phil is fine).

Tags: amtrak, phil young, q&a

[30 Aug 2005]

Devil's Advocate: Ignore IT change at your peril

Devil's Advocate: Ignore IT change at your peril

Comment But more than that, vendors who consider server-based operation a luxury create problems. Yet the cry forever goes up that top management is not getting value for its IT cash. But, argues Martin Brampton, factoring in incremental pressures on...

Tags: devil

[23 Nov 2004]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Hype and Skype

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Hype and Skype

Comment The mode of operation spans the normal fixed/mobile phone behaviour, plus the use of email to establish contact and prompt the use of Skype, iChat, etc. The founders of the Kazaa file-sharing network have hit the headlines with an internet...

Tags: skype, voip, cochrane

[21 Apr 2004]

Staying Ahead of Network Attacks Forever!

whitepaper In just an hour, you will learn how to prepare your organization against the SANS/FBI's Top 20 Security Vulnerabilities, insulate yourself from damage by worms like SQL Slammer and new threats as they occur, make better use of your internal...

Tags: network security

[24 Feb 2004]

Devil's Advocate: Productivity gains

Comment Is it really the case that however much we attempt to modify processes, we are wasting our time in an established operation? Examples of this abound and it is evident that even companies that seem like top performers find it impossible to stay in...

Tags: martin brampton, devil's advocate, devil

[12 Aug 2003]

Microsoft to license Unix code

Microsoft to license Unix code

News AT&T sold the Unix intellectual property to Novell Networks, which in turn sold it to the Santa Cruz Operation. We have no objection to free software, which has been around forever. According to a statement from Microsoft, the company will license...

Tags: license unix, lawsuit with ibm, sco, microsoft

[19 May 2003]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Short-termism of the worst kind

Comment But there is no excuse and no place for short-term stupidity and muddled thinking that damages the long-term operation and viability of any group. Compiled at home after a very long week trying to get the right decisions made inside a large client...

Tags: short-term, short-termism, sense, uncommon sense

[23 Apr 2003]

Devil's Advocate: Is faster better?

Comment When computer access was strictly limited, far more effort went into thinking about the correct operation of a program. It is a cliché to claim the only constant is change and that change is forever speeding up.

[19 Mar 2002]

Linux on the desktop: Inevitable?

Comment The internet - itself the product of a certain openness of standards and co-operation - has also fed open source, making easier a form of software development based on virtual communities working together.

[24 May 2001]

Union rules: Dot-com staff lose start-up mentality

Union rules: Dot-com staff lose start-up mentality

News Amazon's UK operation claimed no moves toward unionisation have happened here, although the French office reports that French postal union, Sud PTT, has been handing out pro-union leaflets outside Amazon's single distribution centre, which houses...

[24 Nov 2000]

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