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Job interviews: So you think you've got them sussed?

Comment At least convey a desire to explore this opportunity thoroughly so that you can decide whether it is for you or not - you may well still have doubts at this point and that's fine. However good you think you are at job interviews, it doesn't hurt to...

Tags: promotion, interviews, careers

[15 May 2008]

Data Center Consolidation

whitepaper Looking at the major trends in the Federal agency IT environment, it is clear that DCC is at a tipping point, with widespread action imminent in all sectors of government. Although given little attention by most consolidation strategies and...

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08

Round-Up CEO Jerry Yang, the sticking point came over the valuation of the internet giant. A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions said the decision on whether to roll out the scheme nationwide would depend on the results of these new trials.

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, governement

[09 May 2008]

Structured Firewall Design

whitepaper A firewall is a security guard placed at the point of entry between a private network and the outside Internet such that all incoming and outgoing packets have to pass through it. To resolve conflicts, the decision for each packet is the decision...

Tags: firewalls

[03 May 2008]

Structured Firewall Design

whitepaper A firewall is a security guard placed at the point of entry between a private network and the outside Internet such that all incoming and outgoing packets have to pass through it. To resolve conflicts, the decision for each packet is the decision...

Tags: firewalls

[03 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News I'm not suggesting it was the agenda item, although we've had some of those meetings as well, but increasingly [in] CIO conversations… sustainability and wanting to understand what our perspective was - what we're doing from a product development...

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

Why IT must escape the belt-tightening

Comment Organisations that cut IT budgets as a knee-jerk reaction to the tightening economy are missing the point. That last point is critical. It might steel the nerve, galvanise the appetite for some appropriate risk taking, or it could drive hasty...

Tags: value, recession, budgets

[18 Apr 2008]

Inline Analytics: Driving Profitability At The Point of Opportunity - The Alphablox Solution

whitepaper By integrating analytics in line with business processes, the Alphablox solution removes these obstacles, with concrete benefits for business, technical, and extranet audiences. The new Internet infrastructure has interconnected employees...

Tags: database management, analytics, linkages, action

[10 Apr 2008]

HP StorageWorks Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server Always on Technologies White Paper

whitepaper Complete redundancy throughout the architecture provides no single-point-of-failure, and non-disruptive online upgrades ensure that data is always available. HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVA) and XP Disk Arrays deliver state-of-the...

Tags: database management, storageworks, arrays, art

[10 Apr 2008]

Data Warehouse Volume Growth Continues

whitepaper Database Vendors Teradata, a division of NCR, and Oracle has published two multibyte TB (terabyte) decision support benchmarks at the three TB volume point. These are the first multi-terabyte TPC-H benchmarks submitted, and they require some 22 TB...

Tags: business intelligence / data warehousing, benchmarks, tb, vendors

[10 Apr 2008]

Rapid Application Development for J2EE Using Adobe ColdFusion 8

whitepaper For many IT managers and business-focused decision makers, today's technology trends are presenting a unique and important inflection point. While Adobe ColdFusion software is widely used throughout a large majority of organizations today, the Java...

Tags: software engineering

[03 Apr 2008]

White Stuff settles on secure EPOS network

News The network supplied by Vodat and run by Thus, allows the store network to send and receive real-time point of sale and store performance data. The Vodat system conforms to the Payments Card Industry secure data standard and this, Luscombe-Mahoney...

Tags: pci, eft, white stuff

[02 Apr 2008]

Microsoft SQL Server Migration Pays Big Dividends for SAP/ERP Customers

whitepaper As companies approach an inflection point in their ERP system lifecycle - whether it is the need for a hardware refresh, significant capacity increase, or merger-driven database consolidation - they often re-evaluate their hardware and database...

Tags: application servers

[28 Mar 2008]

Automating McAfee ePO: Practical Ways to Use McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0 to Save Time and Improve Compliance

whitepaper Using three typical user scenarios - McAfee point product deployment, virus outbreak, and auditor visit - it briefly demonstrates key techniques that will benefit most organizations. This paper describes some of the most beneficial ways to apply...

Tags: security management

[28 Mar 2008]

Virtualization Is More Than Virtual Machine Software

whitepaper Without these things, an organization is very likely to waste time and money on a patchwork quilt of incompatible point solutions. Decision-makers face the imperative to develop a clear understanding of the organization's needs as well as an...

Tags: virtualization

[28 Mar 2008]

What governance can really mean to business

Comment As a pivot point between causes of problems and a source of relief from them, it could almost be the poster child for a campaign to remind organisations of the critical nature of getting to grips with their information: if you don't even know what...

Tags: risk, data management, compliance, governance

[28 Mar 2008]

Gov't pledges to take e-crime seriously

News The centre would provide leadership and expertise to co-ordinate investigations nationwide and collate reports from forces across the country, as well as offering a central point of contact for reporting cyber crime.

Tags: e-crime, e-crime crackdown, cyber crime, crime

[26 Mar 2008]

FIMPE Fideicomiso Improves Operational Efficiency With a Solid IT Infrastructure

whitepaper The challenge was to automate the approval process to accelerate handling of requests for affiliation and installation of Point-of-Sale Terminals (PSTs) and accelerate the PST affiliation and installation process.

Tags: infrastructure management

[24 Mar 2008]

Students get blanketed in wi-fi at Brum uni

Case Study This means the client no longer has to make a decision about which access point to connect to as the hardware chooses for them. Chris Lea, senior network specialist at the university, explains: "Instead of seeing a whole number of access points...

Tags: wi-fi, security, birmingham, wired

[18 Mar 2008]

Police forces lack e-crime expertise and resources

Police forces lack e-crime expertise and resources

News The unit would provide leadership and expertise to co-ordinate investigations nationwide and collate reports from police forces across the country, as well as offering a central point of contact for reporting e-crime.

Tags: cio jury, e-crime, cio, crime

[18 Mar 2008]

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