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The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08

Round-Up While the root cause of this issue is complex, it results from OEMs improperly placing a Windows XP image created for an Intel-based computer onto machines with non-Intel chipsets. So spare a thought for owners of some AMD-based computers who are...

Tags: google sky, amd, apple, work wise

[16 May 2008]

The Essential Role of Mental Models in HCI: Card, Moran and Newell

whitepaper In the formative years of HCI in the early1980s, researchers explored the idea that users form mental models of computer systems which they use to guide their interaction with the system. This was a powerful concept because it meant that if the...

Tags: artificial intelligence

[16 May 2008]

Major Medical Center Boosts Health of IT Systems, Cuts Update Time by 90 Percent

whitepaper Automated software updates are great - unless they reboot a computer that's needed to keep someone alive. Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center didn't want that to happen, and so it had to manually update systems used for patient care.

Tags: monitoring systems

[16 May 2008]

MSDN Webcast: Application Virtualization and Software Streaming Within Systems Management Server (Level 200)

whitepaper In this webcast, learn how application virtualization and software streaming within Microsoft Systems Management Server can accelerate application and operating system deployments, eliminate application conflicts by enabling to run any application...

Tags: monitoring systems

[15 May 2008]

XP SP3 throws off AMD machines

News Microsoft said in a statement: "While the root cause of this issue is complex, it results from OEMs improperly placing a Windows XP image created for an Intel-based computer onto machines with non-Intel chipsets.

Tags: windows, sp3, xp

[14 May 2008]

Greater Access to Data Helps Danish Foreign Ministry Resolve Network Issues Quickly

whitepaper For state security reasons, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark uses two separate computer network environments. Multiple management groups in Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 and Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 track...

Tags: monitoring systems

[14 May 2008]

LOB Application Compatibility: Using Microsoft IT's LOB Application Compatibility Testing Processes

whitepaper Application compatibility is a concern any time an organization deploys new software to an existing computer environment. Microsoft IT shares this challenge by being responsible for deploying and maintaining more than 1,500 internal LOB...

Tags: collaboration tools

[14 May 2008]

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment Although Hamon now has a business-focused role as CIO at Rok she started out as a techie, studying computing at the London Computer Electronic School and working in mainframe and PC programming in her early days.

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

HP close to buying EDS for $12bn

News An agreement between the world's largest computer maker and the IT services provider could come as early as Tuesday, according to the Journal. Hewlett-Packard is in talks to buy Electronic Data Systems, HP has confirmed.

Tags: hurd, compaq, eds, hp

[13 May 2008]

Trie-Based Policy Representations for Network Firewalls

whitepaper Network firewalls remain the forefront defense for most computer systems. These critical devices filter traffic by comparing arriving packets to a list of rules, or security policy, in a sequential manner.

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Network Firewall Policy Tries

whitepaper Network firewalls remain the forefront defense for most computer systems. These critical devices filter traffic by comparing arriving packets to a list of rules, or security policy, in a sequential manner.

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Data Center Solutions

whitepaper "A data center is a facility used to house mission critical computer systems and associated components. A data center must therefore keep high standards for assuring the integrity and functionality of its hosted computer environment.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Avfs: An On-Access Anti-Virus File System

whitepaper Viruses and other malicious programs are an ever-increasing threat to current computer systems. They can cause serious damage and consume countless hours of system administrators' time to combat. Most current virus scanners perform scanning only...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Publishing Company Improves Efficiency and Protection With Client Security Solution

whitepaper The company wanted client computer protection that would respond faster to Internet-based threats without disrupting business applications. Meredith Corporation, a media and marketing company, used a client security solution that slowed systems and...

Tags: network security

[10 May 2008]

Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT

News Green innovations abound in the IT department, the lifetime of systems has been extended from about three to eight years, employees only have one computer each and old machines are passed on to its international network of volunteer data gatherers.

Tags: met office, energy, green it

[09 May 2008]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News Fast-flux service networks are networks of compromised computer systems with public DNS records that are constantly changing, making it more difficult to track and control criminal activities. Security vendor Symantec has warned that the Storm worm...

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?

News IBM has launched tools to reduce computer energy consumption as the company hopes to boost its business of selling power-saving technologies. The products, announced at an IBM business-partner conference in Los Angeles, are designed to measure...

Tags: data centres, ibm, green

[01 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Security Risk Management (SMI IV) (Level 300)

whitepaper Well-connected IT infrastructures exist in an environment that is increasingly hostile to the continued reliability and functionality of computer systems. Attacks are occurring with increasing frequency, and often an organization is unable to react...

Tags: network security

[01 May 2008]

The Price of Progress: Assessing the Need for a Mobile Computing Migration

whitepaper The migration decision for enterprise mobile computer owners is not so clear. Eventually there is an end of life for every enterprise mobile computer. Birds fly south every winter because instinct tells them their biological systems can't withstand...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, migration, mobile computing, mobile computer

[01 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Threat Mitigation for Legacy Systems (Level 200)

whitepaper Legacy computer systems are often the focus of unwanted attention from attackers because their existence implies an elevated level of trust or interaction with internal applications that are critical to the organization.

Tags: anti-hacking

[01 May 2008]

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