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Why you must rein in your power users
Comment The Payment Card Industries Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), which any business taking credit or debit card payments should adhere to, recommends "auditing all privileged user activity" as well as avoiding the use of vendor-supplied... [25 Nov 2009]
Outsourcing: CIOs' tips on getting it right
News By the end of this year Tube Lines - the company responsible for maintaining a large part of London Underground's rail network - is on course to have fewer than 24,000 calls to its service desk and a 95 per cent reduction in the number... [24 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome OS
Cheat Sheet Also reinstalling the Chrome OS after a system crash will be far simpler than it is with a Windows or an alternative Linux OS. Google have used their Chrome browser as the basis for a new operating... [23 Nov 2009]
Salesforce.com makes more friends in the cloud
News The plan is to integrate CA's Agile Planner with its Clarity project and portfolio management system, which allows for the use of agile and other development methodologies. Meanwhile CA announced its... [20 Nov 2009]
Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment Peter Raettig, IT operations manager at Trinity Mirror, says the most important issue to consider when approaching virtualisation is to realise that not every system can be virtualised. Another company that has switched... [20 Nov 2009]
Outsourcers to fall victim to cloud computing rush?
News At the same Google Atmosphere event, Jeremy Vincent, CIO of car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover, said cloud computing had the potential to end a perpetual battle against system complexity faced by IT directors. [19 Nov 2009]
See Through Your Systems Complexity
White Paper Predict and avoid system problems-often before end users are impacted IBM Tivoli Monitoring is a powerful solution designed to consolidate and simplify systems monitoring and management across complex,... [17 Nov 2009]
Creating and managing value with IBM Tivoli Service Management Center for System z
White Paper This white paper will show how System z can give you the visibility, control and automation your business needs to become more successful. Server sprawl can divert valuable time and resources away from pursuing your core... [16 Nov 2009]
Stop Getting Strangled by Your Supply Chain: Enhancing Supply Chain Management Using RFID
White Paper The ultimate benefit of use of RFID based supply-chain integration is to find ways of constantly monitoring and improving the whole system by using all the available data. Real time data creates an unprecedented level of... [14 Nov 2009]
Beyond System Center: Addressing Systems Management Needs Across the Entire IT Infrastructure
White Paper For many organizations, Microsoft's System Center suite provides a powerful automated systems management platform to address a significant portion of the needs inherent in today's dynamic IT environments. [13 Nov 2009]
IP Security Management (IPSM): BLC 6000 Multi-Service Access Platform
White Paper These value-added software enhancements, which are embedded in the Occam Operating System (OS), are standard with all BLC 6000 equipment and include this paper's topic: IP Security Management. Occam... [13 Nov 2009]
Alliance Encryption Server for System i
White Paper The Alliance Encryption Server for System I incorporates encryption key management, compliance audit trails, and authentication of client applications. The Alliance Encryption Server for... [13 Nov 2009]
Top Five Oracle Tasks for Windows Administrators
White Paper Oracle is a complex software system that requires a good deal of care and feeding in order for the organization using it to reap its maximum benefits. In a resource-constrained system, monitoring storage... [13 Nov 2009]
The Evolution of Security Information & Event Management: (and the Technology That Can Take Us There)
White Paper As the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) market has matured, products within the market have lost the ability to quickly respond to threatening situations, and no longer meet the requirement to be a... [13 Nov 2009]
Centralizing Identity and Access Management in Unix/Linux Environments: Using BoKS to Overcome the Inherent Security Gaps of NIS
White Paper Tools like 'Sudo' introduce yet another layer of user management and authorization on top of the operating system. As a result, centralized administration of user identities and configuration settings... [13 Nov 2009]
