Ari Zilka on Terracotta's VMware integration On the eve of JavaOne, Terracotta Founder and CTO Ari Zilka talks with Andrew Glover about how they are integrating Terracotta with VMware, as well as cross-application data sharing and other new features in the recently released version 3 of Terracotta.
iPhone SMS bug Plus, Firefox 3.5 bugs, Chinese censorware postponed not abandoned, and more
Get a Ph.D. in Cisco: Become a Cisco Certified Architect Fred Weiller, director of marketing for Learning@Cisco, explains why Cisco created another high-level certification that combines technology know-now, architecture skills and business acumen.
Cisco won't chase Amazon in cloud; IT spending continues 2009 drop Cisco Systems won't try to compete with pay-as-you-go cloud computing providers such as Amazon, and instead will sell its infrastructure to those companies and provide its own software as a service. Also, Forrester Research said Tuesday that global IT spending would decline by nearly 11% in 2009 before vendors and end-user organizations begin to see some signs of recovery later this year and early next year.
Cloud storage and the data center cave Cloud storage and security problems raised by this new model is on the mind of John Clancy, president of Iron Mountain Digital. Clancy also discusses the unique data center Iron Mountain operates in a cave 220 feet below the Earth’s surface in Boyers, Pa.
Baldoni: What's in a Title? Some of the meanest corporate fights are over who's supposed to be doing what. In this three-minute podcast, John Baldoni explains why defining employee titles can help circumvent turf wars.
China postpones deadline to install Web filtering software Plus, Juniper puts stop to presentation on hacking ATMs, U.S. and Italy to tackle cybercrime, and more
Apple confirms Steve Jobs back at work Plus, Japanese researchers harness brain waves for wheelchair control, IBM wins order limiting duties of executive hired by Dell, and more
Microsoft to charge more for Windows 7 in Europe than U.S. Plus, news of Jackson's death slows down Web sites, China Telecom wants to offer BlackBerry, and more
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 35 David McInnis founder of PR Web introduces his new start up, Podcast of the Week JB Glossinger from Morning Coach; Ten Tips to Shake the Recession Blues, YouTube Annotations, Google Negative Keywords, Netbooks, Golden Rule #7 Trust is Golden and AuthenticatedTestimonials, 302 Redirect Links, 5 Things to do when launching a new website, Scott Wright from StreetWise Security Zone, The Real Tim Jones, Chi from Mamas Dresser, Song of the Week Kerry Politzer Love is in the Atmosphere. Call in line 206-888-6606
Google lets in more users for Google Voice Plus, EC wants countries to coordinate broadband plans, PC upgrade cycle may be around the corner, and more
Don't Just Survive - Thrive! How Optimizing the Contact Center Will Help Your Plan Succeed During the 2010 AEP Your plan’s contact center is key for driving enrollments, but it can also become a compliance and service nightmare. In a year of budget cuts and having to do more with less, plans need to work smarter to increase enrollments and maintain CMS compliance. Join us for a special free webinar event to learn how to thrive in this rapidly changing and regulated market. Now is the time to plan your contact center strategy for the upcoming Annual Enrollment Period and implement best practices to make it smooth and successful.
Intel and Nokia join forces for mobile devices Plus, Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account hacked, spreads porn trojan, Samsung, Numonyx collaborate on PCM specs, and more
China stands firm on Green Dam deadline Plus, Apple employees see Jobs back at work, Japan threatens South Korea with WTO action over batteries, and more
Steve Jobs had liver transplant Plus, Embattled Satyam changes name, Twitter grows faster than other sites, and more
Episode 93: Vector Graphics Episode 93: Vector Graphics
Thomas Jefferson would be awful at Twitter Keith and guest co-host Matt Hamblen talk about Twitter's role in Iranian unrest, whether the Palm Pre can disguise itself as an iPod, and why most of us are still behaving badly with our cell phones.
Woman hit with $1.92M fine for sharing files Plus, Microsoft's Zune HD has Tegra inside, RIM sees BlackBerry growth slow, and more
Buying Software to Manage IT Finances Can a software purchase now save money in the long run for the IT group? Denise Dubie talks with HP's Ken Cheney about the company's new IT financial management software, services and strategy.
Google tight-lipped about co-founder's EC meeting Plus, SAP aims to help microcreditors, U.S. bill would limit broadband subscriptions based on usage, and more
MySpace cuts 30 percent of staff Plus, IRS now wants to repeal cell phone tax, US senators to investigate exclusive handset deals, and more
MySpace cuts 30 percent of staff Plus, IRS now wants to repeal cell phone tax, US senators to investigate exclusive handset deals, and more
Data Domain board urges rejection of EMC bid Plus, Twitter plays role in Iran, Bull launches supercomputer, and more
Warrant issued for hacker in Italian probe Plus, Symantec's GoAnywhere goes nowhere, Microsoft settles antitrust case for $100M, and more
Rambus reaches tentative settlement with EC Plus, Microsoft to ship Windows 7 without IE in Europe, Google readies relational database, and more
Adam Smith: What's Next for Google Book Search? Google has scanned millions of books and made snippets available online through its ambitious Book Search program. The project has taken heat from authors and publishers, but Adam Smith, Google's director of product management, says it's a good thing for academe.
Former Apple exec takes helm at Palm Plus, Signs Apple nears Chinese iPhone deal, Symantec and McAfee hit with fines, and more
Has the Smartphone Gone Mainstream? With the Palm Pre, iPhone 3GS and Nokia N97 hitting the world this summer, Carla and Keith discuss whether the smartphone has gone mainstream, or if more work is needed before Suburban Sally adopts it. Plus, with better wireless networks, will people finally begin to start watching video content on their phone?
Microsoft under antitrust investigation again Plus, Adobe patches flaws, HP launches energy-efficient servers, and more
iPhone 3G S announced Spam volume down 15 percent after 3FN gets shut down, Dell to include open source software in hardware bundles for SMBs, T-Mobile confirms hack
China requires Web filtering software on PCs Plus, Nvidia says packaging problems hasn't hurt its laptop GPU business, Intel invests in Japanese WiMax operator, and more
Episode 92: Apraxia Episode 92: Apraxia
Adobe readies first quarterly patches Plus, Via updates Nano chip, Jobs will soon return to work, and more
Best Practices for Automating and Optimizing Your Accounts Payable Download our joint webcast to learn more about the EMC and 170 Systems Accounts Payables Solution. Our joint solution is the only proven scalable application for high volume transaction processing that delivers a rapid return on investment-with a typical payback in 7 months. View this recorded webcast to learn how AP process automation can deliver your ROI in just 7 months
Telcos get immunity from NSA lawsuits Plus, BenQ plans an Android netbook, Verizon launches Caas, and more
Microsoft to offer Vista upgrades for Win 7 Plus, Intuit buys online payroll provider, Intel looks to daylong netbook battery, and more
Computex gives look at what’s next in PCs and mobile devices Intel’s unveils new ultra-low voltage processor, smartphones based on the Android platform launch, and more
Google to launch e-book service AMD unveils 6-core chips, Acer's Android phone to launch in Q4, and more
Mother May I" selling! A Sales Plan to Survive an Acquisition You're on top of your game. You're the alpha dog of your sales organization. You've got your own territory, you're bringing in sales and no-one's telling you to slow down. All of a sudden your company gets acquired by a large conglomerate and instead of being top dog you're playing a bit part and you have to ask permission from your company's account manager before you can sell into an account. Welcome to the world of "mother may I?" selling! In this episode Joe and Mike discuss what you can do to adapt and thrive in a "Mother may I" selling environment.
5 Strategies for Building World Class Sales Organizations John Holland is co-author and co-founder of CustomerCentric Selling® discusses the characteristics and operational metrics of World Class Sales organizations and sales individuals.
Microsoft launches Bing Plus, Dell results flop, Google catches wave, and more
Phishing site spams contacts of Twitter users New Core i7 chips appear for sale online, IDC sees server sales drop in Q1, and more
Best-in-Class Succession Planning, The Real Scoop 73% of organizations will have succession planning in place next year. What about yours? Join Kevin Martin, Research Director HCM, Aberdeen Group and James Harvey, Product Manager, Taleo Corporation for an informative hour on succession planning. Find out what really works and see the impact at the strategy and application levels.
90 percent of mail is spam VMware buys stake in Terremark, Greenpeace rates IBM and Sun highly for low emissions, and more
How Florida's Budget Woes Affect Faculty Members The state's top public universities face one of the nation's worst budget challenges but have largely managed to cope with the money shortages, for now.
Unbundling IE would create problems for ISVs Facebook access blocked by Iran, Chinese man jailed for extorting virtual items, and more
Speaking of Security Podcast #149 Discussion on securing personally identifiable information with Jon Oltsik, Principal Analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group.
The God's gift Syndrome Dealing with a new sales manager Did you ever work for a company who hired a new senior sales manager and both the company leaders and new manager acted as if they were god's gift to sales? They run around the organization touting how "everything is now great" and that the new manager will bring us to the promised land.
6 Tips To Stop Data Leakage From Your Organization A Dark Reading Vendor Perspectives WebCastHow can you help your company from becoming the next bad headline? Join TechWeb and compliance and security experts, John Metzger from Sophos and Nagraj Seshadri from Utimaco. Together, during a one-hour live WebCast, they will discuss how you can protect your company and customer data.
Ron Nutter's Help Desk Tool Chest Troubleshooting wired and wireless networks
The Cost-Based Business Case for Data Loss Prevention This Aberdeen Group Report illustrates that Data Loss Prevention technologies can in fact be deployed in a cost effective manner. Based on Aberdeen customer research, this paper provides the criteria you will need to make the business case for deploying a data loss prevention solution in your enterprise. This paper also showcases a mini-case study focused on the TCO of an RSA DLP customer.
Microsoft cancels EU antitrust hearing Twitter hit by phishing attacks, Mulcahy steps down at Xerox, and more
NetApp buys Data Domain for $1.5 billion Conficker still on the loose, VMWare makes VSphere available, and more
HP revenue drops Appeals court investigates conflict of interest in Pirate Bay case, Sun plans Java app store, and more
China toughens cybercrime rules Twitter seeks revenue, Microsoft opens MyPhone beta, and more
What Microsoft's Extended Support for XP means to IT Also, Amazon.com blames glitch on a cataloging error, Oracle highlights software maintenance revenue in its earnings call, and more
Successful Virtual Desktop Deployments with VMware: Where to Start and Proven Best Practices Architecture and product selection are critical elements of successful virtual desktop deployments that directly impact the virtual desktop infrastructure’s ability to realize a return on investment (ROI) and ensure user acceptance. This session focuses on the necessary virtual infrastructure, server, storage, network and security architectural decisions that can make or break desktop virtualization projects. View this live webcast and find out how virtualization: Optimizes existing IT infrastructure; Reduces IT power, space and cooling consumption; Avoids redundant infrastructure costs; Increases availability and business continuity; Improves desktop manageability and security
Dell uses Via Nano laptop chips in servers Established domains host malware, DRAM slump continues, and more
Save Money, Save the Environment - How to do both Learn what can be done to reduce costs, while supporting green computing to reduce technology carbon footprints. This webcast explores ways in which we can make cost saving adjustments on a personal level, as well as on departmental and corporate levels. Attend this educational webcast to look at ways to begin making a difference.
We'll make it up on volume!... Keeping the cost of sales down is important to the health of any organization. It can also be important to a sales person's compensation that is based on net profit as opposed to gross revenue. So how do you keep your cost of sales down? In this episode Joe and Mike discuss techniques and approaches to reduce the cost of sales.
Richard D. Legon: Staying Strategic During the Recession The recession is presenting college governing boards with big challenges, says Richard D. Legon, president of the Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities. In a conversation with The Chronicle, Mr. Legon describes how boards can be strategic in tackling financial-planning problems.
5 Rules for Keeping Your Sales Job in a Recession Sales expert, author and founder of SalesGravy.com, Jeb Blount spells out the five rules Sales Professionals and Sales Leaders need to know to keep their job during this recession.
EU ruling on Intel could launch civil suits HP recalls laptop batteries, Google blames routing error for outage, and more
How Cloud Computing Pays for Itself Thousands of small and midsize businesses are boosting sales with a hassle-free CRM solution that pays for itself from day 1. Watch a Webinar to hear Forrester Analyst Bill Band explain how Salesforce CRM lets you: *Get quick results with no upfront costs *Route leads faster and close more deals *Make the most of your marketing dollars
CFO Viewpoint: Linking Operational & Financial Planning in Global Organizations What is driving the finance department to become a hub for the integration of financial and non-financial data into forecasting and planning? To learn why, CFO Research Services surveyed 400 CFOs to obtain their views on the priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes. Download this whitepaper to learn the results from this survey.
What’s New in QlikView 9 QlikView 9 represents the most significant release to date of the powerful analytics and reporting software - building on its history of groundbreaking features with each product release. The enhancements in QlikView 9 build on the product’s reputation of powerful, yet simple analytics enabling end-users to make smarter business decisions – faster.
Ballmer says innovation key to recovery Jobs not expected to appear at Apple's WWDC, Intel says EU testing antitrust law limits, and more
EU hits Intel with $1.44 billion antitrust fine Windows 7 to be released by year end, Intel says Oracle's Sun acquisition creates opportunity for Itanium, and more
Customer Spotlight: City of San Diego Uses Virtualization for Consolidation and Application Deployment Learn how the City of San Diego, California is using VMware virtualization solutions to consolidate servers and make application deployment easier while increasing productivity and easing the IT budget. View this live webcast and find out how virtualization: Optimizes existing IT infrastructure; Reduces IT power, space and cooling consumption; Avoids redundant infrastructure costs; Increases availability and business continuity; Improves desktop manageability and security
Windows 7 out by holidays SAP kicks off Sapphire, AMD gains on Intel, and more
No Business as Usual: The New Economics of IT The world and economy are changing. Corporate budgets and belts everywhere are tightening as company executives do their best to ride out the storm of these financially uncertain times. Smart CIOs everywhere are reevaluating how budget dollars are allocated, searching for ways to reduce existing IT cost models, and break free from the handcuffs of single-vendor solutions. By replacing proprietary software solutions with commercial open source alternatives, you can significantly reduce operational and capital expenditures. Read this whitepaper to learn more.
Speaking of Security Podcast #147 A lively conversation with Shannon Kellogg, Director of Information Security Policy for EMC's Office of Government Relations on security related activity in Washington, DC.
Speaking of Security Podcast #148 This week's Speaking of Security podcast features a topical discussion on business continuity planning. Recent global concerns regarding a potential Swine Flu pandemic have organizations looking at possible operational and business disruptions. Sam Curry, VP of Product Management for RSA is our guest.
Getting a Sales Job! Perfecting The Interview Process. Part 3 of a 3 part series In this economy its very tough to find a good sales job. With companies downsizing there are a lot more candidates than there are jobs to fill. That's why if you are looking for a sales job its more important now than ever to use a deliberate, strategic approach to getting it. In part three of this three part series on getting a sales job Joe and Mike discuss how to prepare for the interview process.
EU to hit Intel with antitrust fine on Wednesday Sun shareholders sue to block Oracle takeover, Microsoft to test Windows 7 update mechanism, and more
Time to Change: New Thoughts on Supporting Business Change Learn how a new, interconnected economy is forcing companies to manage an ever-growing information network − and the best way to adopt new technologies to give you greater flexibility for faster growth while maintaining business integrity.
Selling in Tough Economic Markets In this podcast, EOS Editor Leah Rust interviews Mike Brooks (aka Mr. Inside Sales). The two discuss challenges that face salespeople today and strategies for building rapport with prospects.
GE to invest $6 billion in health IT Oracle will stay in hardware business after Sun acquisition, Dell working on Android-powered netbooks, and more
Brian C. Rosenberg: Can Liberal-Arts Colleges Survive? Residential liberal-arts colleges are expensive to run, so the flagging economy has forced them to take a close look at how they do business. Brian C. Rosenberg, president of Macalester College, describes which liberal-arts institutions will survive and thrive in a newly cost-conscious era.
Java Posse #248 - Interview with John Ferguson Smart Interview with John Ferguson Smart
AMD reorganizes, combines CPU and GPU groups Cisco sees revenue drop sharply, Symantec hurt by lower security sales, and more
Microsoft lays off more workers South Korea and Google face off over YouTube, Swedish man arrested for stealing Cisco source code, and more
Getting a Sales Job! Assessing your qualifications and resume building. Part 2 of a 3 part series In this economy it’s very tough to find a good sales job. With companies downsizing there are a lot more candidates than there are jobs to fill. That’s why if you are looking for a sales job it’s more important now than ever to use a deliberate, strategic approach to getting it. In part one of this three part series on getting a sales job Joe and Mike discuss how to go about assessing your qualifications and building a resume.
Mid-Year Checkpoint: Security Threats in 2009 In spite of the economic recession, security continues to be a dominant IT priority in 2009. There are too many threats and vulnerabilities creating a perpetual increase in IT risk. In this webcast, security experts discuss: Current security challenges and threats; Preparing for new risks with less money and fewer people; Cost-effective threat prevention; How to make IT Security = Business Security
Improving Healthcare Systems and Services with VMware, MEDITECH and Perot Systems MEDITECH healthcare organizations recognize the value of their technology investment and its long-term impact on every aspect of their organization throughout the continuum of care. The technology solutions available from the MEDITECH Solutions Group within Perot Systems are designed to optimize and extend the value of MEDITECH systems throughout their lifetimes. In this webcast, Perot Systems discusses how their partnership and deep experience with MEDITECH and VMware provides hospital systems with the most robust and cost-effective, virtualized solutions for managing healthcare information systems (HIS) and electronic medical records (EMR) systems.
Google service pushes Gmail, calendar items to BlackBerry devices Amazon working on a Kindle reader for newspapers and magazines, RIM opens its BlackBerry push technology to third-party developers, and more
HR Shared Services: A Fresh Look Get an updated look at human resources shared services by BusinessWeek Research. The overall premise is that in the current economic milieu, the payoff from shared services only continues to grow.
Get Closer to Your Best Customers: A Shift in Customer Strategies in Time of Crisis Learn what companies can do in economic downturns to position themselves for later success. Find out what changes to make to customer strategy; how to align your organization to best support a winning approach; and how to drive excellence in execution to achieve results in today’s economy.
Strategies to Mitigate Information Risk: Data Loss Prevention and Enterprise Rights Management As data breaches continue to plague organizations worldwide businesses must consider every weapon available to combat information threats. Enterprise Management Associates highlights the complementary values of Data Loss Prevention and Enterprise Rights Management as a strategic approach to information risk control.
Java Posse #247 - Roundup 09 - Design and Engineering Roundup 09 - Design and Engineering
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Looks at Using an LMS to Supplement On-The-Job Training Programs Using an LMS to Supplement On-The-Job Training Programs
Toshiba refreshes its netbooks Fujitsu launches a laptop that runs on wind power, Sharp laptop replaces the trackpad with an LCD panel that has an embedded optical sensor, and more
Tivoli Storage Manager 6.1 – Next Gen Management for Today’s Data Centers From its inception, Tivoli Storage Manager was designed to be a highly scalable and available data protection solution. However, Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 takes data protection scalability to the next level with a new relational database, based on IBM DB2 technology, designed to store many more objects and manage more data. Greater availability is delivered through enhancements such as online, automated database reorganization. Download this whitepaper to learn about the new features of TSM 6.1 that ease management issues and increase performance.
Windows XP will still be available after Windows 7 release Oracle sued for alleged patent infringement by i2, court case pitting RealNetworks against Hollywood studios will resume next week, and more
How Smaller Businesses Can Lower Messaging This year IT departments in all organizations, but especially those with fewer than 1,000 people, are under pressure to deliver a better messaging system at a lower cost. How can your IT organization save money while still delivering the same benefits your current email system offers (or perhaps even adding features and functions)? What are the compelling arguments to consider alternative technologies to Microsoft Exchange and other leading email systems? Join Osterman Research and Ipswitch on April 30, 2009 at 1:00pm EDT / 10:00am PDT for an interactive Webinar about one of the hottest topics in messaging today: delivering more functionality at lower cost, and how organizations are benefiting from alternative messaging technologies in 2009. Michael Osterman, President of Osterman Research and Brad Senter, Product Marketing Manager for Ipswitch iMailServer v11 will share their perspectives on the return-on-investment case for alternatives to Exchange, and how others are saving on their overall IT budget with this technology. You will also learn about recent improvements in the newly released iMailServer v11 that offer enhanced security, ease of use and administration, and support for mobile users. In this interactive Webinar you will get answers to questions like: How can you deliver better security, lower administration costs, and more mobile functionality to your users? What are the common challenges and frustrations that smaller organizations face in keeping up with resource constraints and demands from users? What are the lessons and implications from a new messaging cost-model for smaller organizations? And, you will be able to hear some recent case study successes with iMailServer, and have a chance to get your questions answered by the experts in an interactive Question and Answer session.
Office 2007 Service Pack 2 supports ODF AMD pulls dual-core server processors from its lineup and cuts prices, RealNetworks' CEO takes the stand to defend his company's DVD-copying software, and more
Episode 91: Problem-Based Learning Episode 91: Problem-Based Learning
5 Ways to Simplify Your Network Security (and save money) Learn 5 ways in which IT departments can reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and do more with their security budget. Hosted by moderator James Hilliard and featuring compliance and security expert, John Metzger from Sophos, this live Webcast will focus on how to manage the increasing pressure and security requirements businesses face with stretched IT budgets and resources.
DMTF forms open cloud incubator Also, Apple gets sued after pressuring open source iTunes project, U.S. president Obama says 3 percent of GDP will go toward R&D, and more
Speaking of Security Podcast #146 Forrester's Rob Koplowitz talk about the growth of Microsoft SharePoint in enterprises and the importance of putting governance around SharePoint as the platform becomes more strategic to companies.
Getting a Sales Job! Assessing your qualifications and resume building. Part 1 of a 3 part series In this economy it’s very tough to find a good sales job. With companies downsizing there are a lot more candidates than there are jobs to fill. That’s why if you are looking for a sales job it’s more important now than ever to use a deliberate, strategic approach to getting it. In part one of this three part series on getting a sales job Joe and Mike discuss how to go about assessing your qualifications and building a resume.
QlikView for SAP Companies have spent millions automating their business processes, but many still lack the ability to fully leverage their wealth of data contained in SAP. QlikView in-memory analysis, with the specially-designed QlikView Connector powered by SAP NetWeaver®, enables SAP users to perform quick, flexible, visual, ad-hoc analysis and reporting, which can include combining data from external non-SAP sources.
Oracle buys Sun Also, the Pirate Bay Four are found guilty, Panasonic Eco House claims to be carbon neutral, and more
U. of California President Says Public Colleges Can't Go On Like This Mark G. Yudof, president of the University of California, believes the budget structures of public universities are unsustainable. He talks about how federal and state governments could change their approach to financing higher education and the shifts colleges themselves should consider in how they operate.
Under the Radar 2009 Live Presentation by Jonti McLaren, President & Founder of Symplified, on April 24, 2009.
VMware to embed RSA security into vSphere 4 Also, a U.S. judge will extend Microsoft's antitrust consent decree, a gang of six criminals has built a botnet of 1.9 million hacked computers, and more
Java Posse #246 - Newscast for April 23rd 2009 Newscast for April 23rd 2009
VMware vSphere 4 Unveiled: Get Ready for the Next Generation of IT Services VMware vSphere™ 4, the next generation of products from VMware®, is poised to transform datacenters into efficient, shared, resilient cloud infrastructures and enable IT organizations to deliver the next generation of flexible and reliable IT services. Join this webcast to get an overview of how VMware vSphere dramatically reduces capital and operating costs and increases control over delivery of IT services while preserving the flexibility to choose between any type of OS, application and hardware, hosted in-house or using external resources.
Cheaper virtualization becoming a reality Also, AMD reports bigger quarterly loss than last year, Mozilla plugs 12 holes in Firefox, and more
Episode 26: Interview with Brooke White, Training Manager for LANDesk Software, Incorporated Brooke White, Training Manager for Avocet’s LANDesk Division discusses their use of the SyberWorks Hosted Learning Management System to provide customer, employee and partner training.
Ron Nutter's Help Desk Tool Chest Preparing Financially for a Layoff
Is Java as we know it doomed? Also, VMware unveils its vSphere cloud OS, Pirate Bay defendants appeal the guilty verdict, and more
Seven steps for weathering the economic storm Steve Goldman, director of enterprise architecture at CME Group, talks about how IT can buckle down during the down economy while still planning for the future. Goldman's talk was the keynote address at IT Roadmap Chicago.
Speaking of Security Podcast #145 The Speaking of Security Podcast is providing extensive coverage of RSA news during RSA Conference week. We will be presenting two podcasts. The first is an overview of all the product and solution announcements made by RSA this week. The second (featured here) is a podcast discussing an addition to the authentcation solution portfolio.
Storage Area Network (SAN) Technology and Management Implementing a storage area network (SAN) isn't what it was 4 years ago. The technology has improved and the cost per port has declined. If you are thinking about updating your SAN infrastructure, spend an hour attending this educational webcast to make your technology decision easier.
Oracle buys Sun Microsystems Also, Adobe unwraps a new version of Flash, Gartner says India is losing outsourcing lead, and more
Java Posse #245 - OSGi Interview OSGi Interview
Speaking of Security Podcast #144 The Speaking of Security Podcast is providing extensive coverage of RSA news during RSA Conference week. We will be presenting two podcasts. The first (featured here) is an overview of all the product and solution announcements made by RSA this week. The second is a podcast discussing an addition to the authentcation solution portfolio.
Cloud Slam 2009: On Demand Identity for the Cloud Darren Platt, CTO at Symplified, presents live at the Cloud Slam Conference. Platt was Securant's 1st VP of Engineering joining in 1996. Darren managed the first 3 releases of ClearTrust through 2000. He grew the engineering team to 40 people under tight bootstrap budgets in the hyper-competitive dot-com hiring boom. Darren co-authored AuthXML and represented Securant on the standards bodies. With the sale of Securant, Darren managed the transition of ClearTrust into RSA's product portfolio and continued to represent RSA on the standards bodies. In 2002, Darren joined Ping Identity as one of its 1st 3 employees leading Ping's technology strategy and its transition into enterprise software. At Ping, Darren was given product, development and team management responsibility for Ping's conformance services and led the entire lifecycle of Ping's SOA security product, PingTrust.
Protecting and Nurturing your Brand Learn how to protect your brand in difficult economic times. Get answers to these questions: How can your company ensure delivery on its brand promises to customers? How can you meet sustainability concerns and protect brand value? And how can you develop the type of workforce associated with a world-class brand?
Sun launches new servers Also, Sanyo unveils laser projector, Sony intros new Walkman, Honda shows off two motion assistance devices, and more
Java Posse #244 - Newscast for April 16th 2009 Newscast for April 16th 2009
Cisco joins with NetApp to pull storage into Unified Computing System Also, PC shipments fall less than expected, Yahoo plans another round of layoffs, and more
How spam is killing the environment Also, eBay plans to spin Skype off with an IPO, Intel reports a sharp drop in profit and revenue, and more
Episode 90: Multiple Intelligences Theory Episode 90: Multiple Intelligences Theory
Achieve Aberdeen “Best in Class” -- Automate Accounts Payable An Aberdeen research study evaluated 160 enterprises and identified “best in class” A/P strategies and tactics. This webcast discusses how to achieve “best in class” performance with Accounts Payable Automation, and obtain benefits such as: (a) More granular perspective on operations, (b) Better visibility and control to finance management, and (c) Improved cash management.
The Profitability Perspective: How Automated Reporting Drives Better Decisions IDC recently completed a survey of 600 worldwide respondents on issues around profitability reporting, enterprise requirements, users of information, and technology system support. This special study highlights some key survey findings, which collectively show that profitability reporting is increasing in importance and the use of technology and more sophisticated costing and reporting solutions is high on the agendas of many companies.
3 Steps for Getting Started Using Salesforce CRM Learn how to get immediate, quantifiable results with Salesforce CRM—in days, not weeks or months. Watch this 30-minute Webinar, hear about TFC’s rapid success, and see how to: *Bring your data into Salesforce CRM in no time *Make the application yours with quick, easy customization *Drive record-breaking user adoption
Managing Risk in Perilous Times: Practical Steps to Accelerate Recovery In this whitepaper, the Economist Intelligence Unit examines the lessons that have been learnt from the current financial crisis, and propose ten practical lessons that could help companies to address perceived weaknesses in risk identification, assessment and management. The research is based on in-depth interviews with leading participants from the financial services industry, along with a selection of independent risk experts.
Java Posse #243 - Interview with AMD Java Labs Interview with AMD Java Labs
Google outlines API deprecation policies Also, speculation swirls that Microsoft could be designing hardware and software for parallel computing, both Microsoft and Oracle will release security patches Tuesday, and more
How much is it? The fundamentals of pricing what you sell. If you’re fortunate enough to sell something that allows you the flexibility to negotiate price, it is important to maximize the deal while making it more attractive to the buyer. In this episode Joe and Mike discuss various aspects of pricing products and services that you should consider before preparing your next sales proposal.
Google outlines API deprecation policies Google outlines API deprecation policies
Java Posse #242 - Inteview: Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR Inteview: Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR
Java Posse #241 - Roundup 09 - Design 101 Java Posse Episode 241 - Roundup 09 - Design 101
The week in review: IBM and Sun merger talks break down Also, Acer launches 20 new products, Mousegrip helps you exercise while checking e-mail, Nanotouch solves the fat finger problem, JAXA unveils a new supercomputer, Skype helps marriages, GM and Segway unveil the PUMA, and more
The week in review: IBM and Sun merger talks break down Also, Acer launches 20 new products, Mousegrip helps you exercise while checking e-mail, Nanotouch solves the fat finger problem, JAXA unveils a new supercomputer, Skype helps marriages, GM and Segway unveil the PUMA, and more
Success in a Challenging Economy: Finding & Nurturing the Right Prospects Organizations can spend a high percentage of their marketing budget on lead generation efforts, only to find that their leads aren't converting. Finding qualified leads has become more challenging than ever before, while making marketing planning and prospect nurturing more critical. Watch Finding & Nurturing the Right Prospects and gain a deeper understanding of strategies for identifying and nurturing high-value leads in a challenging economy.
Macs in the Enterprise Macs are making an increasingly large impression on corporate environments, bringing with them the need to effectively manage them alongside their Windows counterparts. In this podcast from Inside Mac Radio, host Scott Sheppard discusses with Lubos Parobek, VP of Product Management at KACE, how KACE Systems Management appliances can assist systems administrators to automate such tasks as software distribution, patching and help desk using an integrated cross platform approach, one that eliminates time consuming desk visits and gets Mac and PC support staff working collaboratively.
Conficker gets bold update Also, Microsoft found guilty of patent infringement, a handful of companies make offers for Nortel, and more
SOA comes back quietly SOA gets realistic
IT Executives Driving Business Growth in Today's Economy During this special 30-minute webinar, Intellinet CEO, Hardin Byars, will share case studies exhibiting how IT executives have leveraged technology — including cloud computing, BI, and more — to drive bottom-line growth and save millions in operational costs.
Google pours Java into App Engine Also, Intel unveils Jasper Forest, Microsoft warns of fake security software, and more
The IBM BladeCenter HS22 with the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series
Intro to Virtualization Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way people compute. You may ask yourself, who should use virtualization? Why should you use it? How does it work? What does it do? Why do more than 100,000 IT organizations worldwide rely on VMware technology to solve complex business challenges? This webcast provides a basic overview to virtualization solutions from VMware and explains the technology that enables virtualizations, as well as the features and benefits of VMware solutions.
Two surveys paint bleak IT job landscape Also, earthquake victims in Italy turn to technology, VMware guarantees 50 percent savings, and more
Speaking of Security Podcast #143 This week's Speaking of Security podcast features Part Two of a discussion on the latest online fraud trends.
Project Remus on Xen; 5nine Software on Microsoft Hyper-V Project Remus sets out to solve high availability for Xen-based hypervisor technology, while 5nine Software has announced a new P2V planner solution for Microsoft's Hyper-V.
Microsoft limits Office 2003 support Merger talks between IBM and Sun break down, U.S. FBI raids Dallas ISP, and more
Microsoft limits Office 2003 support Merger talks between IBM and Sun break down, U.S. FBI raids Dallas ISP, and more
BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights #39 We are pleased to distribute through our podcast feed the lastest edition of Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect: Analyst Insights podcast.
Java Posse #240 - Google Collections Library and Glazed Lists Interview Google Collections Library and Glazed Lists Interview
Mobile wares debut at CTIA Plus, Canada looks to recycle more e-waste, Intel launches new processors, and more
Java Posse #239 - Newscast for April 2nd 2009 Newscast for April 2nd 2009
Conficker may be more widespread than security experts anticipated Plus, Rackable buys once-major player Silicon Graphics, and more
Parallels Workstation Extreme and the hosted virtual desktop Pass-through video helps make the case for desktop virtualization's impending popularity
CEO Mark Taber on Gartner BPM Summit, the BPMS market and ActiveVOS in Q1 In our latest podcast, I sat down for a quick chat with Active Endpoints’ CEO Mark Taber to recap our recent attendance at Gartner’s BPM Summit and the company’s approach to the BPMS marketplace. Mark detailed the reasons for the success ActiveVOS BPM had in Q1, despite these challenging economic times. Note to competitors (yes, we know you’re listening (-: ): you will squirm more than a little as Mark details how customers are able to get into production with ActiveVOS BPM with only modest levels of professional services billings. And a special treat: I got Mark to spill the beans about some of the future plans for ActiveVOS. A must-listen podcast for anyone interested in using BPM to improve their business results.
The Case for Email Archiving in a Recession Why are many organizations adopting new Email Archiving technologies during the current recession? With a tight IT budget, what are some of the primary cost savings you can achieve with this technology? What are the primary benefits of today’s leading email archiving solutions? Join Osterman Research and Trend Micro on April 2, 2009 at 2:00pm EDT / 11:00am PDT for an interactive webinar about one of the hottest topics in messaging today, Email Archiving, and how organizations are benefiting from this technology during the current recession. Michael Osterman, President of Osterman Research, and Chris Taylor, Product Marketing Manager of Trend Micro, will share their perspectives on the return-on-investment case of archiving, and how others are saving on their overall IT budget with this technology. You will also learn about recent e-discovery judgements and news, and hear insights that will help IT avoid liability and costs, and lower e-discovery costs. In this interactive Webinar you will learn answers to questions like: How can you archive to reduce storage costs, gain compliance, and lower e-discovery costs? What are the common challenges and best practices for Email Archiving on a tighter budget? What are the lessons and implications from recent e-discovery cases in the news? And, you will be able to hear some recent case study successes with Email Archiving, and have a chance to get your questions answered by the experts in an interactive Question and Answer session.
Microsoft asks President Obama for bailout funding -- really? Plus, Confickr worm past but researchers insist we're not in the clear yet, HP tests Google Android for netbooks, and more
Loraine Lawson interview Loraine Lawson interview
Episode 89: Webinars Episode 89: Webinars
Speaking of Security Podcast #142 This week's Speaking of Security podcast features a discussion of the latest online fraud issues and trends.
Is Your Industrial/Manufacturing Website Really Winning You Business? This white paper focuses on the best practices and stumbling blocks associated with leading industrial/manufacturing website design as it relates to effective prospect engagement and lead generation.
How to Generate Leads for Small Business Learn how small businesses can level the playing field and generate leads efficiently by leveraging inbound Internet marketing strategies and tools. This free webinar will cover all the basics of search engine optimization, business blogging, social media marketing, and more to get found by more prospects and generate leads online for your business. Topics: How to leverage inbound marketing to generate leads efficiently for your business; How to use SEO, blogs, and social media to drive more website traffic and leads; How to capture more leads with customized calls to action and landing pages; What to measure in your lead generation efforts
The Renewed Finance Function: Extending Performance Management Beyond Finance Learn how the role of the finance team has changed in recent years due to increased oversight from regulators, more active investors, and company-specific changes in business operations. Running transactional processes with close control, improving efficiency, and cutting costs pushes finance to continually evolve its processes and systems.
Creating Sales Opportunities by Using the News In this podcast, Leah Rust, the editor of EyesOnSales, interviews Jill Konrath, a best selling author and sales consultant who specializes in cracking into corporate accounts. The two discuss creating sales opportunities from using the news. Using the news to create sales opportunities is a powerful sales tool that is available to everyone, costs almost nothing, and is a technique that you can start using today! Listen for Jill's tips and capitalize on this great technique.
QlikView for Business Answers QlikView makes the powerful simple, and enables users to slice and dice their data without limits. With QlikView, there’s no more waiting for outdated reports or lengthy deployment hassles. For the first time, the power of real-time business answers is in the hands of all users – so they can make better decisions and take action now.
U.S. high-tech industry gains jobs, creating optimism Plus, Sun confirms layoffs this week, Intel touts 17 new Nehalem chips, and more
Java Posse #238 - Interview with Rod Johnson Interview with Rod Johnson
Java Posse #237 - Roundup 09 - Java Plugin Architectures Roundup 09 - Java Plugin Architectures
Red Hat CEO questions relevance of desktop Linux Plus, Google adds semantic technology to search engine, Intel's touts forthcoming Xeon chips, and more
Episode 88: Nutshelling Episode 88: Nutshelling
Leadership Communication Strategies for a Multigenerational Workforce. Vicky Jarosz, Executive Vice President of i3Logic, Inc. discusses leadership communication strategies for a multigenerational workforce.
Transfer Volumes: Accelerating files, email and backup with fewer resources More data? Traveling further distances over the WAN? With data and server consolidation stressing WAN’s to the limit and new initiatives coming down the pipe, it’s hard to deliver key applications reliably. Learn how to solve your organization’s unique latency and performance challenges – without simply writing blank checks. Discover optimization solutions that keep costs down.
Salesforce.com weaves Service Cloud and Twitter together Plus, Apple in talks to sell iPhone in China, IBM lawyers are examining Sun contracts, and more
SOA Research Project from LSU's Matt Levy SOA Research Project from LSU's Matt Levy
Java Posse #236 - Steve Harris of Oracle Interview Oracle at Java Interview
Aberdeen Survey Results: CFOs' View of Accounts Payable Aberdeen conducted a research study evaluating 160 enterprises in January 2009, and identified “Best in Class” companies that based on their A/P strategies and performance. This white paper shares the results of this survey, and provides recommendations on how companies can achieve similar “Best in Class” performance from their accounts payable departments.
HR Analytics Come into their Own HR analytics are a critical tool, especially now, for keeping HR and orgainizational-development executives strategically oriented, and for presenting to business leaders the kid of data they can relate to, rely on and use. Read the article by the EIU to learn more.
Java Posse #235 - Newscast for March 19th 2009 Java Posse #235 - Newscast for March 19th 2009
The week that was: A flying car, IBM in talks to buy Sun Plus, Google updates Mars maps, Nokia's new phone, and more
BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights #38: Cutting IT Costs We are pleased to present the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights podcast with Dana Gardner and a distinguished panel of industry analysts who offer their suggestions to help IT reduce costs during the economic downturn we are experiencing today.
The Top 5 Security Concerns Keeping One IT Director Up at Night Today’s targeted threats in and outside of the business network take advantage of the new technologies that support an increasingly mobile workforce. Learn about the top 5 concerns of one real-life IT director, and how he protects a manufacturing business with over 1000 employees. Dave Berardinelli of H.H. Brown will discuss how he addresses today’s security concerns, such as managing the internal threat, controlling internet access, and satisfying industry compliance.
Aberdeen Survey Results: Best Practices for Network & Application Visibility Aberdeen surveyed 167 organizations to examine best practices for improving visibility into network and application performance. In this white paper, Aberdeen shares the results of its survey and provides recommendations for companies looking to achieve “best of class” network and application performance management.
Microsoft releases IE8 while Google puts Chrome back in beta Plus, Oracle reports falling software license revenue, Microsoft blames Azure outage on OS upgrade, and more
How Quicken Loans is Getting More From Their Online Channel Are you properly investing in your online channel to take full advantage of the customers already coming to your site to do business with you? Watch and listen as Matt Cardwell, Director of eCommerce Marketing for Quicken Loans’, shares the best practices and strategies that enables Quicken Loans to have a deeper understanding of their online customers and make the most of every online customer interaction. Specifically the webcast covers: Quicken Loans’ case study of how they deliver on the promise of a superior web experience. Low and No-Cost strategies to get more insights on your online customers. Best Practices to prioritize which areas of your site are critical to optimize and which can be put on the backburner.
Episode 87: Bluetooth Episode 87: Bluetooth
Cisco shakes up IT's hardware buying ways Plus, Dell expected to launch luxury laptop, SAP holds more layoffs, and more
Speaking of Security Podcast #141 This week's Speaking of Security podcast features an update from Washington, DC on cyber security issues and pending legislation.
The authors of "SOA Governance" The authors of "SOA Governance"
CA unwraps new storage software for cutting IT costs and complexity Plus, U.S. government office denies a Freedom of Information Act request concerning anti-counterfeiting trade agreement, Microsoft's share of Web searches hits 12-month low, and more
Aligning Your Industrial/Manufacturing Internet Marketing with Your Business Plan The internet is central to your industrial/manufacturing marketing. However, a majority of manufacturing companies don't think their websites are the strategic marketing resources they should be. This white paper discusses the latest trends, challenges and practical advice on how to approach aligning industrial/manufacturing marketing efforts in an interactive world.
Data Leakage For Dummies©: Don't become a data loss headline All too often the loss of data results from well-meaning employees making innocent mistakes. But these mistakes can lead to infringement of data protection laws and ultimately damage to your reputation and brand. View this webcast, featuring security expert Jonathan Tait from Sophos, to learn how to significantly reduce your risk of sensitive data loss with a series of practical steps.
Marketing in a Recession In a recession, marketing budgets are often the first to get slashed. For many that means cutting programs, cutting spending and cutting staff in order to make it through the economic downturn. But marketing in a recession isn't about marketing less, it's about marketing better and smarter. This webinar will share techniques for marketing more efficiently and effectively, particularly on a tight budget.
Business Intelligence for Decision Makers: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers Although many organizations have made significant investments in data collection and integration, it is a rare enterprise that can analyze and redeploy its accumulated data to actually drive business performance. To gain greater business insight and transparency, organizations require a new generation of business intelligence tools that will allow cross-enterprise, inter-enterprise and external data to be integrated and analyzed. Companies that are able to harness the copious amounts of information IT systems generate will have the inside track on the competition: gaining better understanding of customer needs, identifying trends earlier, and using the resulting lead time to capitalize on opportunities. In the years to come, actionable business intelligence promises to deliver a formidable competitive advantage to firms that leverage its power.
Ask the Experts: 3 Leading Sales Gurus Answer Your Most Pressing Sales Questions Leading Sales Experts Jill Konrath, Jonathan Farrington, and Kendra Lee field a wide range of questions about sales and sales management.
Managing Risk through Financial Processes - Embedding Governance, Risk and Compliance The Economist Intelligence Unit surveyed 446 senior executives about their views on their financial processes and their attempts to improve them. Survey respondents came from the finance, risk, general management, strategy/business development and information technology (IT) functions. Download this whitepaper to learn the results of this survey.
Java Posse #234 - Roundup 09 - Project Coin Java Posse #234 - Roundup 09 - Project Coin
Deliver on Your Marketing ROI Objectives The CMO is under more pressure than ever, especially facing the prospect of slowing economic conditions. This pressure is directly connected to an inability to show business relevancy and a return on marketing investments. EMC Interactive Marketing Solutions enable marketing organizations to effectively manage their brand assets and marketing content. As a result, campaigns have more impact, costs are reduced, and ROI is maximized.
Episode 25: Interview with Robert Whitcomb, Director of Human Resources & Organizational Development for Alaska’s Chilkoot Indian Association Robert Whitcomb, Director of Human Resources & Organizational Development for Alaska’s Chilkoot Indian Association discusses their use of the SyberWorks Hosted Learning Management System to provide leadership training and job skills training to prepare native members for management roles in tribal government and to obtain jobs in the local community.
Episode 86: Instant Messaging Episode 86: Instant Messaging
Strategic Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Streamlined With PerformancePoint Server 2007 Organizations are significantly streamlining their strategic planning processes to accelerate Performance Management using a single application - Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007.
U. of Alaska Just Says No to Earmarks Mark R. Hamilton, president of the University of Alaska Statewide System since 1998, has dramatically reduced the number of FEDERAL earmarks the system receives. Mr. Hamilton, a retired Major General in the U.S. Army, explains why in this interview.
New SOA New SOA
The Two Faces of Risk: Cultivating Risk Intelligence for Competitive Advantage Need to optimize your risk management program? Strategic risk management is crucial because of increased regulatory pressures, stakeholder pressures, the impact on capital costs, the personal effect of corporate risk, and the effect of the Internet of quickening the pace of dealing with risk factors.
Ron Nutter's Help Desk Tool Chest More tools for job hunters
KACE Talks Virtual Kontainers Virtual Strategy Magazine interviews KACE on its release of KACE Virtual Kontainers. The interview starts with a quick discussion around KACE’s history in the area of virtualization, then goes on to cover what Virtual Kontainers are and how they can benefit customers. Learn how this new solution stands out from its competitors as well as some hints as to what is planned for the future.
Three Myths About Internet TV If you would like to identify three myths about Internet-Video-to-the-TV, this audio is for you. First Myth. Although some consumers are connecting laptop computers to their TVs in order to get Internet Video on the sets, the phenomenon is inconsequential to the mass market. This is a myth for two reasons. First, the application is not as “geeky” as the uninitiated might suppose as evidenced by this video. Second, the practice provides an irrevocable transcendent experience. Specifically, users become accustomed to having unlimited Internet access on the TV. Eventually, they conceptualize the TV as a dual-function device. In one context it is a traditional television and in another it is a giant monitor into the Internet Cloud. As such, it is a forcing-factor that will ultimately lead TV-set manufactures to provide browser-centric televisions. Second Myth. The laptop-as-TV-Media-Controller application requires a lengthy cable from the TV to the living-room sofa where the user holds the laptop. This is a myth because LogiTech fails to advertise that a wireless mouse and keyboard eliminates the cable. Third Myth. Consumers won’t use the laptop-as-TV-Media-Controller application because they are intimidated by the appearance of a browser on the TV screen. This is a myth because we’ve been surfing the Net for 10 -15 years. The browser is probably the most familiar software we use and most of use it daily. This video also demonstrates the familiar use of a browser on the TV. This is Third Generation Television. To learn more click here where you can purchase a copy or our research report or download a free Prospectus. Free Webinar: Five Catalysts for Internet TV We will soon be offering a free 30 minute online Webinar to discuss the Five Catalysts that will drive Internet-Video-to-the-TV this year. Please email me if you are interested in attending. My email is phil(at)insidedigitalmedia.com
Speaking of Security Podcast #140 The week's Speaking of Security podcast discusses the release of RSA enVision 4.0, the premier platform for Secuity Information and Event Management/Log Management.
Java Posse #233 - Java Posse Roundup 2009 Live Java Posse #233 - Java Posse Roundup 2009 Live
ActiveVOS 6.1
Leverage Web Experience Management to Create a Dynamic Next-Generation Website The fundamental shift in how consumers interact online—and their resulting high expectations—has not only influenced site design and design, but also redefined what makes an appealing and effective website. Marketers are now looking at web management technologies to capitalize on new revenue channels. EMC Documentum Web Experience Management simplifies the execution of your next-generation website by focusing on the tools that combine traditional publishing approaches with new and innovative web practices.
What Does Green Really Mean? Learn how environmental resource constraints for the first time are placing limitations on corporations' ability to cope with growing demands. See how important it is to balance capacity, performance and reliability demands with space and energy limitations.
BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights #37: BPEL4People: Human Tasks in Business Process Applications Active Endpoints’ own Michael Rowley joins Dana Gardner’s analyst round table for an update on the BPEL4People standard and the results of the recent activities that are guiding the development of this standard.
Episode 85: Distance Education Episode 85: Distance Education
The Cost Cutting Conundrum Greg Tennyson, Salesforce.com Chief Procurement Officer, and Dave Stephens, Coupa Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist, have successfully implemented procurement technologies and processes at organizations known for their operational excellence, scalability and growth. Watch this webinar and discover how you can a) Confront current economic challenges head-on with easy-to-use, affordable, and fast-to-deploy technology b) Establish a strong technology, process and cultural foundation from which to launch corporate cost-savings initiatives c) Develop a procurement baseline and measurement strategy that ensures you are focusing on what works.
Is Your Support Solution Smart Enough? As an IT provider, you can certainly imagine this scenario: your CEO calls from the road because his BlackBerry is down – and he can’t receive critical email. Pivotal moment here. Is your support solution smart enough to quickly solve the issue? Luckily, there’s an on-demand remote support solution that is. Find out more in this must-read white paper for enterprise IT.
Prime Visibility Founder on Domain Names for eCommerce Businesses The use of domain names to enhance an ecommerce "footprint" is growing in popularity. We've asked Andrew Hazen, the founder and CEO of Prime Visibility, a Long Island, NY-based Internet marketing firm, to explain domain-name strategies to us. Hazen is an Internet pioneer, having founded Prime Visibility in the late 1990s. The firm specializes in search engine optimization and pay-per-click ad management, and its clients include Fox News, Lauren Hutton, Adelphi University, among others. Hazen joins Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock.
To Reach Obama's Goal, Colleges Should Get Billions From U.S., Cal State Chief Says Charles B. Reed, chancellor of the California State University system, wants the federal government to provide direct aid to four-year colleges based on the number of students they enroll who are eligible for Pell Grants or who are from underrepresented minority groups. He says that such a program, which he estimates would cost $12-billion to $14-billion, would help institutions meet President Obama's goal for the United States to have the world's highest proportion of college graduates by 2020. It would do so by covering some costs of remediation and other support services for students who need extra help to remain in college and earn a degree.
The clear differences between SOA and cloud computing The clear differences between SOA and cloud computing
Why Midsize Companies Need Business Intelligence Solutions in this uncertain global economy Learn how midsize companies are putting in place a business intelligence information infrastructure - making them more likely to adhere to their budgets and deadlines, concentrate on improving the overall business rather than just one department, and reward employees accordingly.
How the Economic Crisis Will Affect IT Security The global economic downturn may affect IT departments more than just having to manage under decreased budgets. Sudden acquisitions and mergers that require quick IT integration, opportunistic attacks and phishing, additional and potentially more severe regulations, and the impact of these factors on critical priorities, all place greater emphasis on IT security. In this webcast featuring a security expert from EMA, you will hear about: The challenges and opportunities in IT security and risk management; How to contain costs even as security needs rise; The biggest risk now facing IT departments; Ways that Tripwire helps ease security worries.
Are You Headed for a Data Center Disaster? Today's technology is placing demands on the physical infrastructure of data centers like never before. Learn what the experts have to say about how this is changing the world as we know it and how you can best prepare yourself for a Data Center Disaster. Sponsored by APC.
Java Posse #232 - Newscast for February 25th 2009 Java Posse #232 - Newscast for February 25th 2009
The iDeal iPod Suppose the iPod Touch had a fully functioning browser along with Bluetooth connectivity. Such a device could connect to a flat-panel TV and display HD video on the TV screen. The on-board WiFi of the Touch would connect to the home network and thence to the Internet. Thus users could watch any Internet Video instead of only those at websites providing applications at the Apps Store. Bluetooth would enable a remote keyboard and mouse to provide a lean-back viewing experience 15 – 20 feet distant from the TV screen. While today’s iPod Touch has Apple’s Safari browser it will not play Flash content. Thus, watching YouTube via the Touch requires the use of the YouTube app. A fully functioning browser with the Flash plug-in would enable videos from nearly all websites including Hulu, YouTube, and Inside Digital Media. Apple already provides High Definition cables to connect the Touch to a flat-panel TV. The kit includes a power supply so that the Touch can be powered from wall sockets when displaying video on the TV. However, the experience would be better if an HDMI socket were included on the Touch. Additionally, today’s Touch uses the dot-11g standard for WiFi. If it were to instead use dot-11n the experience would approximate that of a hard-wired connection. Even in the absence of a fully functioning browser, consumers are likely to discover that the Touch will display an ever-growing number of Internet Videos on the TV. That’s because popular websites, like YouTube, are developing apps for the Apps Store. Additionally, many video websites that don’t yet have an application at the Apps Store are available as podcasts via iTunes. One example is Inside Digital Media. While today’s Touch fails to offer Bluetooth specific appliances are available for it from a number of vendors such as Motorola’s wireless headphones. Additionally, hacks enabling Apple’s standard Bluetooth keyboard to work with the Touch are available. The alert reader will recognize that the preceding analysis also applies to the iPhone. Also if the iPod Touch had a microphone it could be used with Skype as a cordless phone. But that’s another story and a good one.
nCircle Officer on Questionable PCI Compliance Fees Many merchant account providers are now automatically assessing payment card industry (PCI) compliance fees to their ecommerce-merchant customers. But, are these compliance fees fair, or even accurate? In some instances, merchants who don't qualify for PCI compliance are reportedly still charged fees by the merchant account providers. We asked a PCI compliance expert about this. Tim Erlin is Principal Product Manager with nCircle, a security consulting and compliance firm. He joins Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock.
What's Dragging Europe Down The Continent may have avoided the subprime loan mess, but now it's struggling to prop up its subprime countries, according to BusinessWeek Executive Editor John A. Byrne and Bureau Chief Jack Ewing
Episode 84: Serial Bus Episode 84: Serial Bus
Enhancing Retail Operations with Unified Communications Customers expect interaction in a number of different ways—voice, SMS, email, video, or live in‐store. Unified communications solutions today are leveling the playing field and allowing all retailers to compete effectively. Join this webcast to learn the benefits of unified communications solutions, and how unified communications can enhance your operations and enable you to provide better customer service.
Sales Funnel Reality Check: Finish Fast or Get Ready for Next Year? Best-Selling Author Mark Sellers provides insights on how best to read and use your sales funnel.
The End Game for Internet-Video-to-the-TV During the past month we repeatedly observed that consumers are connecting laptop computers to flat-panel TVs thereby accessing Internet Video on the TV screen. While the laptop-as-TV-Media-Controller is becoming an important computer application, it is not the “end game”. Ultimately, TVs will connect directly to the Internet. While they may have a new browser that works with a simple remote unit instead of a keyboard, they will provide unrestricted Internet access. The laptop-as-TV-Media-Controller application is merely a “forcing factor” to the final scenario. One soon-to-be-announced example will come from Gordon Campbell who was Intel’s first Director of Marketing. He now runs Personal Web Systems which is making browser-centric semiconductor chips. The laptop-as-TV-Media-Controller application cannot be stopped. Flat-panel TVs and laptop computers have common connection sockets for legitimate reasons. One example is for PowerPoint presentations in an office setting. As multimedia content in such presentations grows, HDMI sockets are likely to proliferate on nearly all laptop computers. Once the laptop and TV are mated, the user perceives the TV as nothing more that a giant monitor for the laptop, which is exactly what it is. The perception leads users to expect unlimited Internet access. The TV’s remote unit enables users to switch from conventional TV to Internet access with a single button-click. When the screen is set on “TV input” consumers interact with it as a TV. That means they expect to use a hand-held remote. When the screen video source is set to the laptop socket, consumers interact with it as a computer monitor. That means they expect to see a browser and use a mouse and keyboard. It’s an intuitive, almost subconscious, switch in expectation much like depressing either the accelerator or brake pedals in your car. Thus, in time, consumers will habitually perceive the TV as a dual-purpose screen. In one instance it will be a conventional television. In the other, it will be a giant monitor for the Internet. Much like the iPhone is both a phone and an Internet browser, the flat-panel TV will be both a television and Internet screen. It’s as certain as tomorrow’s sunrise. This is Third Generation Television.
Unlock the Power of Your Brand How do you manage brand assets such as product images, corporate videos, and marketing collateral? What does it take to automate the creation of those assets, and make them available instantly— wherever and whenever they are needed? During this recorded webcast you will learn how to strengthen your brand and improve your customer experience. You’ll find out how to quickly and easily find, manage, and transform digital assets for delivery to multiple channels, as well as ensure that those assets adhere to brand guidelines. And, you’ll see a product demonstration, showing the solution in action.
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 35 David McInnis founder of PR Web introduces his new start up, Podcast of the Week JB Glossinger from Morning Coach; Ten Tips to Shake the Recession Blues, YouTube Annotations, Google Negative Keywords, Netbooks, Golden Rule #7 Trust is Golden and AuthenticatedTestimonials, 302 Redirect Links, 5 Things to do when launching a new website, Scott Wright from StreetWise Security Zone, The Real Tim Jones, Chi from Mamas Dresser, Song of the Week Kerry Politzer Love is in the Atmosphere. Call in line 206-888-6606
Is SOA hot or not? Is SOA hot or not?
Speaking of Security Podcast #139 RSA Conference '09 is fast approaching. This week's Speaking of Security podcast provides an update on what to expect at this year's event.
March Madness Basketball and Internet TV If you would like to learn how the NCAA basketball tournament could feed demand for getting Internet Video to the TV, this audio program is for you. CBS is giving Microsoft and the Win-tel computer makers a great opportunity to boost demand for their products in advance of next month’s March Madness. Unfortunately it looks like they are going “to the ball” by ignoring the opportunity to promote the TV-to-Laptop connection. Such a laptop-as-Media-Controller configuration empowers viewers to watch any game via live streaming video through the laptop to the TV screen. Specifically, CBS selected Microsoft’s Silverlight (a Flash competitor) for a new player that will provide three times the quality of the standard player. Quality is important given the fast-moving action of basketball. Consumers will be able to download the new player at www.ncaa.com/mmod at no charge. The new player will make the games look even better on your TV once you figure-out how to get Internet Video streams to play on the set. Therein rests the opportunity for the Win-tel suppliers. First, connect your laptop to a flat-panel TV. Most have common connection sockets, but HDMI works best. You can buy a new laptop with HDMI for as little at $400. Second, let the laptop’s on-board WiFi link to your home network and thence to the Internet. Third, choose the games you want to watch live from the website. Fourth, buy a wireless mouse and keyboard if you want to control the TV from your sofa. Regrettably it looks like it looks like the Win-tel ecosystem is missing the opportunity to promote the TV-to-Laptop Internet Video experience because the new player will not be available for download until March 10th. Come on Microsoft! This is an easy pass from CBS in a place where Apple can’t even cover you. Don’t fumble it H-P! Get your head in the game, Dell! Learn something about the game, LogiTech! Last year March Madness Internet viewership grew by 165% to nearly five million people. The games are ad-supported and therefore free to the viewer. The ad revenues are also large enough to make the entire venture highly profitable to CBS.
Business Intelligence for the Small to Medium Sized Business "As information flows more freely in the business world, decisions need to be made quicker and based on sturdier data. The analytical capability that was once reserved for large enterprises has now permeated the world of Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs) and provided a solid foundation of visibility into what really matters to these companies. Aberdeen's research shows a marked uptake in the use of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions in the SMB market over the past year. Based on feedback from almost 650 end-user organizations, this report serves as a roadmap for SMBs looking to improve their analytical capability and achieve Best-in-Class performance through the deployment of BI."
Madness at Fox and NBC On Thursday www.hulu.com announced that they will not permit viewers who are using Boxee software to access Internet Video streams. Background Hulu is a website owned by NBC and Fox that provides high quality streaming of popular television shows and movies. Most of the shows are from NBC and Fox, but others are also available such as Comedy Central’s Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report. The website is entirely legal and supported with advertising. Additionally, there are over 100 movies. Boxee offers free software for Apple computers (and Apple TV) enabling the devices to access a larger number of online sites, like Hulu, where Internet Video is legitimately available. Boxee’s basic advantage is that it permits users to control the interface with a simple six-button remote made by Apple. There are two ramifications. First, it permits Apple TV users to get Internet Video at many websites instead of merely iTunes, and watch them on the TV. Second, if an Apple computer is connected to a television, the user gets to watch the Internet Video on the TV screen and control it with a simple remote. Present Action Hulu has been told by Fox and NBC to deny access to consumers using Boxee software. The parent companies apparently don’t want Hulu content to display on a TV screen.
James R. Zanewicz: Marketing Academic Inventions in a Tough Market With the economy on the ropes, moving academic inventions from the lab to the marketplace is increasingly important — and increasingly challenging. James R. Zanewicz, director of the Office of Technology Transfer at the University of Louisville, says universities need to be more flexible in the deals they negotiate and more realistic about the money they expect to earn.
Data Center Cooling and High Density Applications Learn all about Data Center Cooling and High Density Applications. This video shows common cooling problems and best practice solutions to these problems.
Java Posse #231 - Newscast for Feb 19th 2009 Java Posse #231 - Newscast for Feb 19th 2009
Is TV-to-Laptop-to-Internet Geeky? If you are curious to know whether connecting a laptop to a flat-panel TV is an effective and “user-friendly” way of getting Internet Video to the TV, this video interview is for you. Our guest today is a man named Scott who connected his laptop computer to a 46-inch flat-panel TV. He wanted unlimited Internet Video on the new television. Scott has a MBA and works in the financial services industry as a non-technical executive.The video convincingly demonstrates several key points. First, navigating to any Internet Video on Scott’s TV is no more complicated than navigating on a computer. Second, the laptop is hardly noticeable among the devices connected to the TV. Scott keeps it closed-up and has the DVD tray facing to eject outward so that there is no need for a separate DVD console player. Third, with his integral wireless mouse and keyboard, Scott gets a comfortable lean-back viewing experience of Internet Video 15 – 20 feet distant from the TV screen. Scott’s principal reason for connecting the laptop to the TV was to optimize his prior investment in the TV and surround-sound audio system. He also recognizes that there will almost certainly be substantial growth in the amount of video that will become available on the Net. He feels that a $400 - $500 investment in a dedicated laptop to thereby enable unrestricted Internet access on his TV is a good value. Scott considers that the availability of HDMI sockets on the laptop as crucial to the economic justification since it provides High Definition video and audio. Scott has two HDMI inputs into his TV. One is from the cable set-top box and the other is from the laptop computer. Thus, merely with a one-button selection of “source” on his TV remote he can choose to watch either (1) cable TV video or (2) Internet Video. This is Third Generation Television.
When Service Means Survival BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Jena McGregor discuss how companies are handling customer service during the recession.
Episode 83: Voice Recognition Software Episode 83: Voice Recognition Software
SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Discusses Learning Management System (LMS) Integration with Salesforce.com Stuart Campbell, Director of Software Engineering for SyberWorks discusses his article, “Considerations when Integrating a Learning Management System (LMS) with SalesForce.com.”
Design and Deliver More Effective Marketing Programs In today’s interactive world, marketing organizations face critical challenges. For example, they must deliver compelling customer experiences while achieving tough ROI metrics. Join this webcast, to learn best practices and technologies for (a) managing global marketing campaigns more effectively, (b) building a powerhouse brand center, and (c) protecting your valuable digital assets.
Leveraging Unified Communications in the Contact Center In spite of all the attention given to enterprise unified communications in the last few years, an important component is often overlooked: the contact center. This is a mistake, as a UC strategy is just as critical to customer facing activities as it is to internal communications. This webcast will discuss the role that the contact center plays in a successful unified communications strategy, focusing on best practices for leveraging contact center and UC applications in tandem and how companies can make use of existing and next generation technologies to make this happen.
Optimize Pay-Per-Click Spend & Get More Out of Your Online Lead Generation Investment Everyone is talking about getting more bang for their marketing buck, but few actually know how to do it - and prove it. At a time when marketing funds are shifting from offline to online, are you utilizing the web to its fullest and getting the most out of your marketing efforts? Join this webcast and hear real strategies that you can use now to put your online demand generation activities onto a new and better trajectory.
Internet Video Viewership Statistics If you would like quantified estimates of the growth of Internet Video and market share statistics, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Will Richmond who is the Editor of VideoNuze.com. His website is one of the leading sources of information about broadband video. Recently Will compiled statistics from Commscore that reveal two basic points. First, Internet Video use has grown over 100% in the last two years. Second, over that period, YouTube increased its market share from around 16% to over 40%. Will concludes with two recommendations. First, program providers should post their content at YouTube. He believes that YouTube has made significant advances in piracy protection and is anxious to share ad revenues with premium content providers. Second, he also advocates that such providers syndicate their content a multiple Internet sites. We would add a couple of other points. First, everyone who has video on their website should consider having their own YouTube channel. Many viewers use YouTube like a search engine in the sense that they regard the site as the place to search for online video. So if you are not on YouTube they may miss your videos altogether. Second, as Internet Video moves onto the TV all the points above become imperatives. This is Third Generation Television. To learn more click here where you can purchase a copy or our research report or download a free Prospectus. Will Richmond of VideoNuze invites you to a Broadband Video Leadership Evening in New York City on March 17th. To learn more click here.
TIME Financial Toolkit, Episode - 5 Katherine Lanpher talks with TIME's business reporting team about Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner's stimulus propsal, the TARP bailout and Obama's financial team
IDC's Sandy Rogers IDC's Sandy Rogers
4 Ways to Improve Lead Management Learn how salesforce.com customer Data Domain revolutionized their lead management system to close more deals. In this Webinar you’ll hear how Data Domain achieved lead management success through: a) Real-time lead visibility b) Tighter collaboration between sales and marketing c) Rapid sales response to leads d) Real time campaign ROI for all leads. Learn how you can achieve greater sales success with Salesforce-driven lead management.
How to Combine SEO, Blogging and Social Media for Results Finished with the basics of SEM? Ready to take it to the next level? Did you know your SEO strategy should use social media to build link authority? And that your social media strategy should leverage your blog content? And that your blog strategy should be guided by your SEO results? Learn how you can use blogging, social media and SEO together for even better results than any technique alone.
QoS Explained The business value of data varies widely and changes over time; therefore, storage systems should flex to accommodate those changes. Unique to the Axiom system, storage QoS technology enables the business agility that traditional networked storage systems promise, but have not delivered
The Modern Virtualized Data Center Data center resources have traditionally been underutilized while drawing enormous amounts of power and taking up valuable floor space. Storage virtualization has been a positive evolutionary step in the data center, driving consolidation of these resources to maximize utilization and power savings, as well as to simplify management and maintenance. With all of the benefits of virtualization comes a wholesale change in the way that you must plan for implementation, management, backup and recovery. This whitepaper discusses ways to provision your storage in the same manner as you provision your virtualized servers. The result is better server consolidation, resulting in improved cost savings.
How to Use Measurement to Manage Your Industrial/Manufacturing Website as an Effective Sales Channel To get the most out of your Industrial/Manufacturing online marketing investment, you need to analyze your overall strategy. Using measurement strategies and tools to manage your website as a sales channel can help you determine what's working and what's not. This white paper for Industrial and Manufacturing companies discusses what to measure to track ROI, and the tools to use.
ThomasNet's CAD Technology Demonstration: Increase Sales Opportunities There are two key ways in which CAD technology delivers bottom-line results. First, it can help suppliers increase sales opportunities and conversions. Research has shown that 80% of CAD drawings which are downloaded and inserted into designs result in a purchase. Watch this demonstartion and see how ThomasNet's techology can assist with your own CAD drawings and files.
Apple and Digital Living Room If you would like to learn how Apple might take center-stage in the digital living room, this audio is for you. Following our February 4th post about how the Mac Mini might be modified to provide Internet-Video-to-the-TV, there’s been a flurry of speculation about the company’s potential to enter the TV set business in a couple of years. The idea is that Apple would enter the category with a game changing product concept much like it did in the cell phone business with the iPhone. It’s not a bad idea. However, much of the justification for an Apple Television discussed in the press centers on the company’s ability to leverage the iTunes store and add a DVR. There’s nothing wrong with the notion, except that it misses a bigger point, unless free podcasts of most TV shows and movies at places like hulu are also at iTunes. In our analysis the critical asset for an Apple Television would be a graphical interface that can be controlled by a simple remote combined with an applications platform much like the one for the iPhone. The applications platform will be crucial since consumers are going to be naturally resistant to limitations on Internet Video content. For example, they’re going to have a decided preference for free viewing at ad-supported websites. Such a platform will enable websites that want to be easily accessed by Apple Television users to join the Apple ecosystem. For example, a future Apple Television platform will likely come pre-loaded with hulu.com, YouTube, abc.com and other popular video destinations. But if sites like Veoh and Blip.tv want to be included, they’ll be permitted to develop their own apps. In short, if an Apple Television comes to market it will likely have an interface and platform much like Boxee is already offering. Unfortunately for Boxee, it will likely be developed by Apple itself.
Rackspace Executive on Future of Hosting Rackspace is a preeminent hosting company. It was launched in San Antonio in 1996 and now, in 2009, the company's stock is publicly traded. Rackspace's 2008 revenues exceeded $500 million and it has data centers located around the globe. John Engates is Rackspace's chief technology officer and he joins Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock to discuss cloud computing and other hosting trends.
McPherson Says Lincoln Was Self-Confident, Able Man McPherson Says Lincoln Was Self-Confident, Able Man
Creating an Integrated View of your Customer with Eric Peterson : Create More Value from Your Existing Investments: An Integrated Approach to the Who, What, Where, When, How and Why of your online channel Hear Eric Peterson of Web Analytics Demystified discuss how combining the power of your individual web site optimization solutions such as web analytics, voice-of-customer and Tealeaf will enable you to more effectively manage your web site and better serve your customers.
Home Wreckers BusinessWeek Executive Editor John A. Byrne and Senior Writer Brian Grow discuss how the banking industry has been actively undermining efforts to keep people in their houses
Data Management for Business Intelligence As the sheer amount of information available for Business Intelligence (BI) applications has grown, and the sophistication of BI capabilities has accelerated, organizations are striving to improve time-to-information for business users. Data storage and retrieval decisions have started to be made based on cost rather than fulfilling a business need, and this has led to compromises that impact business performance. In January and February of 2008, Aberdeen Group conducted a research program among 333 respondents from several industry sectors, geographies, company sizes, and job roles. The program included an on-line survey and several one-on-one interviews.
Boxee Improves on Apple If you would like to learn how to use a simple remote with Apple devices to watch Internet Video on TV without being limited to iTunes content, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Avner Ronen who is the CEO and Co-Founder of Boxee. His company provides free software enabling Apple computers (and Apple TV) to display Internet Video on televisions using an interface only requiring the six-button remote that Apple itself manufactures. Here’s how it works. First, connect the Apple laptop to the television. Typically this is done with two cables. One called DVI is for the video and the second is optical audio. The Apple TV unit connects via HDMI. Second, download free Boxee software. Once installed it is pre-loaded with a number of popular video websites including hulu and YouTube. As noted, the software is specifically designed to work with the Apple remote, so there is no need for a mouse and keyboard on the coffee table. The company also has an Alpha version for Windows computers and is working on software permitting the iPhone and iPod Touch to function as remotes. Despite its advantages Boxee has two problems. First, Internet access is limited. Thus, there is still a Walled Garden of content, although the acreage is far bigger than iTunes. Boxee intends to address this problem by offering the software as a platform for others to layer-on their own applications. In short, they want Boxee to be like the iPhone Apps platform. Thus, if somebody, like Veoh or Daily Motion, wants to be on Boxee then they develop an application for the platform. The next time consumers use the software the new apps appear in the Boxee menu. Second, Boxee recognizes the value of Long-Tail content but does not yet permit a Google search function. They intend to provide it by offering a virtual keyboard on the TV screen. In our experience, such keyboards are cumbersome. Thus, Boxee may find that consumers will actually prefer to have a familiar keyboard on the coffee table. If so, then it sort-of defeats the purpose of Boxee altogether.
Beschloss Says Lincoln Was Person of `Self-Doubt' Beschloss Says Lincoln Was Person of `Self-Doubt'
Episode 24: Interview with Debbie Kenny of Information Mapping, Inc. Debbie Kenny, Vice President of Information Mapping talks about their use of the SyberWorks Learning Management System to track and manage their Learning Solutions training practice.
Episode 82: Reciprocal Teaching Episode 82: Reciprocal Teaching
Holzer Sees a Lot in Common Between Lincoln, Obama Holzer Sees a Lot in Common Between Lincoln, Obama
Speaking of Security Podcast #138 This week's Speaking of Security podcast features a discussion with Roland Cloutier, VP and CSO of EMC on the release of the new Security for Business Innovation Council report examing the information security challenges created by the current economic crisis.
Java Posse #230 - JavaFX Interview from Devoxx 08 Java Posse #230 - JavaFX Interview from Devoxx 08
My review and comments around the Open Group Conference My review and comments around the Open Group Conference
Episode 155 | The Big Chill, Competence: Is Your Boss Faking It? The Big Chill Competence: Is Your Boss Faking It?
Saving Time and Money with Desktop and Application Virtualization Virtualization has been saving companies millions of dollars for years by consolidating servers. Now that same technology is being used for desktops and applications. Not only is virtualization changing the paradigm of client computing, but it is lowering IT costs as well. From simplifying everyday tasks, extending hardware lifecycles, going green and increasing uptime, there are many opportunities for your organization to save.
Does Virtualization Put Security at Risk? The cost benefits of virtualization are so great that the current economic situation will drive IT departments to greater adoption of the technology. However, security continues to be of utmost concern, especially as virtualization is used beyond pre-production environments. This webcast discusses: The types of virtual environments where security is at most risk; How a lack of virtual security can affect both you and your customers; Why it is important to "bake" security into deployment
Conficker under the microscope Paul Ducklin, Head of Technology for Asia Pacific, discusses the true threat from 2009's widespread Conficker virus - which spread via a variety of techniques including USB sticks - with Patrick Gray, host of the ITRadio program 'Risky Business'.
Kearns Goodwin Says Lincoln Sought Diversity of Advisers Kearns Goodwin Says Lincoln Sought Diversity of Advisers
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 34 Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda about selecting a domain and internet presence. WineLibrary TV’s Gary Vaynerchuk discusses Personal Branding, Social Media Tips, Twitter, PopURL’s, Tech Crunch, Following your Followers, and Gossip Girl. Contest Winner Seth Godin’s book Tribes. Call in line 206-888-6606
John Dozier, of Dozier Internet Law, on eCommerce Legal Risks John W. Dozier, Jr. is an attorney, a former Internet executive and a pioneer in the practice of Internet law. His firm, Dozier Internet Law, focuses exclusively on Internet and ecommerce issues. He joins Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock to discuss legal risks that confront smaller ecommerce merchants, and how best to avoid them.
Java Posse #229 - Newscast for February 6th 2009 Java Posse #229 - Newscast for February 6th 2009
Mario Cuomo Compares Obama to Abraham Lincoln Mario Cuomo Compares Obama to Abraham Lincoln
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 37 Ten Free or Low Cost Strategies for Marketing in a Recession Jay Berkowitz Live at the American Marketing Association in Charleston, SC. FREE traffic from SEO Create a FREE Offer (UVP) Measure the cost to acquire a Lead Learn from the Competition Google Optimizer eNewsletters Create a virtual sales force Engage in Social Media Web Optimized PR Build Your Personal Brand Call in line 206-888-6606
Danger Ahead ExxonMobil, the king of Big Oil, has an out-of-date strategy as its reserves shrink and its rivals look to the future. BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne interviews Steve LeVine on his story
Every Dollar Counts: Getting the Most Out of Your Collections Contact Center Companies face many challenges in today’s economic environment, and missing collection opportunities is a costly mistake. How can companies improve their collections processes when agents are not as effective as they need to be when interacting with a debtor? Learn how to increase collections by targeting your delinquent accounts to ensure you are reaching the right debtor at the right time with the right collector skill set. See how the latest contact center capabilities can work together in a unified environment to reduce costs by improving collector effectiveness and providing targeted feedback to drive self improvement against KPI goals.
Best Practice Tips for Managing Virtualization Using survey data, several new case studies, and expert analysis, leading IT analyst firm EMA investigated 18 key Virtual Systems Management (VSM) disciplines, 17 key VSM metrics, critical integration capabilities, satisfaction ratings, and more. The result is the industry’s first in-depth study to quantify what outcomes best-in-class virtualization deployments can deliver, and how the best organizations achieve these results. Learn about: Key VSM disciplines and how they make a difference to virtualization success; Key VSM metrics and how enterprises can measure their own success; Best-practice recommendations for IT professionals and vendors.
Create Marketing Content with Impact by Integrating 3D Product Images The explosive growth of digital media has created new opportunities for marketing organizations to build more effective and compelling customer communications. As the PC has evolved to support higher image quality, 3D images have become more prevalent both in print and on the Web. An integrated Brand Management Solution from EMC and Right Hemisphere lets you take advantage of the power of 3D images in your marketing campaigns by enabling you to easily manage and reuse 3D images across multiple communication channels.
Herrmann Sees U.S. Unemployment at 9.25% by End of Year Herrmann Sees U.S. Unemployment at 9.25% by End of Year
Episode 81: Metacognition Episode 81: Metacognition
Moving from Vendor to Trusted Advisor Moving from Vendor to Trusted Advisor
Talent Management for the Twenty-First Century In this article, Peter Cappelli, Human Resources Thought Leader, discusses a fundamentally new approch to talent management that takes into account the great uncertainty businesses face today. His model patterns that of supply chain management. By borrowing lessons from operations and supply chain research, firms can forge a new model of talent management better suited to today's realities.
Speaking of Security Podcast #137 This week RSA takes a deeper look into the RSA/Microsoft partnership and explores how the value of building security into business applications can create flexible, consistent and adaptable information security for today's organizations.
Johnson Says U.S. Should Nationalize Problematic Banks Johnson Says U.S. Should Nationalize Problematic Banks
Course 3: Self Provisioning of a User Account Achieving sanity with identity and access management is not challenging. With the right solution, IT can automate hire-and-fire user provisioning, and allow changes (i.e. updating a an employee’s address in an HR application) to be made across all applications within the organization without administrator intervention.
TIME Financial Toolkit, Episode - 4 TIME's Katherine Lanpher talks with TIME's business reporting team about the 4% mortgages, a new financial world order and understanding Obama's stimulus
Java Posse #228 - Roundup 08 - Scala in the Enterprise Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2008 - a technical session on using Scala in the enterprise, and what we can learn from Java
Galbraith Doesn't See Financial Crisis Ending Anytime Soon Galbraith Doesn't See Financial Crisis Ending Anytime Soon
Nextopia CEO on eCommerce Site Search A robust site search function can increase conversion rates for ecommerce merchants. Correcting color matches ("tan" vs. "sandstone"), correcting misspellings, and suggesting alternative products are all products of a high-level site search. Sanjay Arora joins Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock to explain all of this. Arora is CEO of Nextopia, a Toronto-based site search provider.
VMware Infrastructure: The Right Investment for a Tough Economy Now more than ever, IT organizations must find a way to cut costs, quickly and dramatically, in order to weather the onslaught of this global economic crisis. Analysts and CIOs agree that virtualization is the most strategic IT investment a company can make in these troubled times, and more than 100,000 customers across the world — including all of the Fortune 100 — are already using VMware solutions to “do more with less,” turning financial woe into an opportunity to improve IT operations while making an immediate and positive impact on the bottom line.
Understanding and Mitigating Security Risks in Virtual Environments While virtualization has operational and economic rewards, the reality is that when information security controls are improperly implemented or neglected in virtualized environments, real security risks and exposures can be created faster than ever. The good news is that information security can take some practical steps right away to limit operational and security risks. Webcast highlights include: The pros and cons of virtualization for information security; A tour of the new information security challenges in VMware ESX; Seven practical steps to take to implement effective security controls across virtual and physical infrastructures
Building the Data Center of the Future: Switch Communications Are you wondering what the data center of the future will look like? Switch Communications already knows. Switch is breaking new ground with a 407,000 square foot co-location facility designed to handle super-high densities of up to 1,500 watts per square foot. And they're relying on Schneider Electric's broad portfolio of products to make it possible - from APC's Symmetra Megawatt UPS and Square D's switch gear to TAC's building management system and Pelco's security cameras.
5 Tips for Advanced B2B Business Blogging B2B Business Blogging TipsYou've launched a business blog and you're ready to take the next step. How do you promote your blog to increase subscribers? What do you write about and how do you brainstorm new blog post ideas? This webinar will cover tips on how to turn your blog into a powerful tool for your business, helping you engage customers in a conversation while also improving your search engine rankings.
How Thin Provisioning Simplifies Storage Management As IT organizations work to maintain application availability while controlling costs, a greater emphasis on operational efficiency is essential. One key area where operational efficiencies can be achieved is in the storage infrastructure. Traditional storage systems are inherently inefficient, with multiple arrays of dedicated storage and various management points. Thin provisioning is now recognized in the industry as a critical approach to simplifying storage management while drastically improving capacity utilization. This whitepaper provides an overview of Thin Provisioning and its benefits that include: (1) Higher utilization rates, (2) Ease of provisioning and management, and (3) Lower capital expenditures.
Economist Intelligence Unit: Business intelligence Putting information to Work A recent survey by "The Economist" on BI / Analytics revealed the following IT priorities: - Platform standardization - Process embedded analytics - Performance management - Speed (in-memory processing) - Information quality You will notice a strong match between customers' needs, and SAP's offerings and strategy for BI and Analytics - confirming SAP's vision and direction. This (independent) study was sponsored jointly by SAP and Intel, further demonstrating SAP's commitment and thought leadership for BI / Analytics. An integral element of a larger BI / Analytics campaign by SAP and Intel, this work will also further the market's awareness and recognition of SAP's leadership in the BI / Analytics space.
Lagarde Sees Economic Crisis Affecting All Industries in France Lagarde Sees Economic Crisis Affecting All Industries in France
Motley Fool's Gardners Say Time Horizon Crucial to Investing Motley Fool's Gardners Say Time Horizon Crucial to Investing
Northeastern U.'s President: Finding Opportunities in the Recession Joseph E. Aoun, Northeastern University's president, explains how the financial struggles of the middle class will lead to shifts in the traditional model of higher education — and how his university is coping with the economic downturn.
What Should Microsoft Do? After its recent disappointing earnings report, Microsoft should give serious consideration to stimulating demand for PCs by fostering the next “Killer Application” for the Win-tel platform. Such an application is likely to emerge this year as consumers discover flat panel TVs and laptop computers have a number of common connection sockets. Once attached, the laptop functions as a Media Controller for flat panel TVs thereby enabling consumers to watch Internet Video on their televisions. In such a configuration the TV acts as a giant monitor for the laptop. The laptop’s built-in WiFi connects to a home network and thence to the Internet. Given a remote mouse and keyboard consumers can watch Internet Videos on their TVs in a comfortable lean-back viewing experience. This is good news for Microsoft for several reasons. First, the PC laptop is considerably less expensive than a comparable one from Apple. Thus, consumers seeking to buy a new laptop for the Media Controller application are more likely to choose a PC. Second, Apple’s more competitively priced MacMini does not have HDMI sockets. This is a significant impediment because an HDMI cable provides high definition and transports both audio and video whereas two cables are required for the MacMini. Third, a laptop PC provides unlimited Internet access whereas the Apple TV only permits consumers to purchase content from iTunes. Unlimited access enables users to visit any website including ones like www.hulu.com that provide popular TV shows and movies free to the viewer in an ad-supported business model. Microsoft can encourage the adoption of the Media Controller application in a number of ways. First, they should provide clear instructional videos online showing consumers how to connect the laptop to the flat panel TV. The videos should fully describe the entire process, including dual screen set-up. They should be abundantly available online and not merely at Microsoft’s website. For example, they should be featured on Microsoft’s own YouTube channel. Second, versions of Windows from XP onward should be updated with downloads that make it easier for consumers to use the dual screen mode and set screen resolutions that are suitable for monitors the size of a TV screen.
Harvard's Porter Grades Obama Stimulus Plan `C-Minus' Harvard's Porter Grades Obama Stimulus Plan `C-Minus'
Roubini Says Top Four U.S. Banks Are Insolvent Roubini Says Top Four U.S. Banks Are Insolvent
Could Google Fix Detroit? BusinessWeek's Executive Editor John A. Byrne and What Would Google Do? author Jeff Jarvis on how the search giant could teach automakers about reconnecting with their customers.
Episode 154 | A Lesson Straight from Mars , Can Wall Street Find a Safer Way to Package Assets? A Lesson Straight from Mars Can Wall Street Find a Safer Way to Package Assets?
Optimize the Network for Cost Efficiencies - Where the Strategic and Tactical Converge Operational savings is the most critical business investment in network management according to a recent Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) survey. At the same time efficiencies are needed, new initiatives such as virtualization, data center consolidation, security and VOIP are pushing networks to the limit. How do the megatrends in network management impact you? What are the best organizational and technical strategies for responding to these trends? How can an integrated lifecycle approach to network management help? What is the role of automation in reducing costs?
A look ahead into 2009 security threats Website threats have become the trend, social engineering continues to lure people to open spammed emails and click malevolent links, and now the return of the malicious attachment has made a startling comeback. All of these security issues, plus State-sponsored cybercrime could make 2009 a year of fear. Join this live TechRepublic Webcast, moderated by James Hilliard and featuring guest speaker, Graham Cluley, Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos as they discuss and take questions regarding security threats for 2009 and beyond.
The Six Worst Presentation Habits and How You Can Avoid Them Tim Wackel, founder and president of the Wackel Group gives us an informative and entertaining look at some of the worst habits that can destroy a sales pitch (and possibly a deal!). He will teach us how we can avoid these presentation pitfalls.
How to Improve TV Set Sales A recent (1/20/09) Wall Street Journal article projects an 18% decline in worldwide TV set sales this year. However, manufacturers can improve that performance by promoting a popular method that enables Internet Video to be watched on the TV. Specifically, consumers are discovering almost by accident that flat-panel TVs conveniently mate with laptop computers. Thus connected, the laptop WiFi connects with the home router and thence to the Internet. In such a configuration the TV functions as a giant monitor for the laptop thereby permitting any Internet Video or website to be viewed. Essentially, the laptop becomes a Media Controller. A remote mouse and keyboard completes the scenario in an entirely comfortable lean-back experience from the living room sofa. There are four reasons why consumers select laptops, as opposed to alternate devices, for TV-to-Internet hook-up. First, they provide unlimited access to the Internet. Second, they are commonly available. Third, the laptop is surprisingly inexpensive compared to alternate appliances, especially considering its general-purpose capabilities. Fourth, since consumers have been surfing the Web for 10 – 15 years, they are comfortable with a browser. TV set manufacturers can improve their own sales prospects by promoting the laptop’s Media Controller application in at least three ways. First, they should provide clear instructional videos online showing consumers how to connect the laptop to the flat panel TV. The videos should fully describe the entire process, including dual screen set-up. They should be abundantly available online and not merely at the supplier’s website. For example, each manufacturer should have a YouTube channel. Second, they should vigorously advertise the capability of their sets to easily mate with laptop computers. Third, most importantly, they should plan to ultimately integrate such capability into the set itself. In the final analysis the laptop-as-Media-Controller is a “forcing factor” that points to a feature that is likely to be mandatory in future televisions.
Episode 80: Kirkpatrick Training Evaluation Episode 80: Kirkpatrick Training Evaluation
Microsoft delivers IE8 RC1, VMware reports solid quarterly results, AMD has no replacement plan for Geode low-power chip, and more Microsoft delivers IE8 RC1, VMware reports solid quarterly results, AMD has no replacement plan for Geode low-power chip, and more
Speaking of Security Podcast #136 Ari Juels from RSA Labs has written a new suspense novel that presents a collision between ideas in the world of cryptology and the world of ancient Greece. Hear all about it on this week's Speaking of Security podcast
An Update on the BPEL4People & WS-Human Task Standards Last week, Active Endpoints’ Michael Rowley participated in the quarterly face-to-face meeting of the OASIS Technical Committee working on the BPEL4People and WS-Human Task specifications. In this very engaging podcast, Rowley describes the inner workings of TC’s (something you usually don’t hear much about), describes the work the TC has recently accomplished and articulates the grand vision for business process management (BPM) and workflow that the committee has been working on. If you’ve been wondering about the state of standards-based BPM and workflow systems or, frankly, if you think BPEL and BPEL4People have dropped out of sight, I strongly encourage you to listen to this podcast. You’ll hear how some the of most important thought-leaders in the IT world, including IBM, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, TIBCO and, of course, Active Endpoints, are working towards a BPM world in which standardized systems make it possible to implement business processes in ways we haven’t been able to reach as yet. We hope you enjoy this look at BPM today and in the future.
Recession-Proof Your Business Email Through Outsourcing Major trends in 2009 impacting IT teams responsible for email management Recent Osterman Research survey results on 2009 IT Budget trends Trends in Messaging and Collaboration that are driving SaaS popularity Business benefits of hosted email – in any economy
Geiger Says Lawsuit Could Expose Madoff's Swiss Assets Geiger Says Lawsuit Could Expose Madoff's Swiss Assets
TIME Financial Toolkit- Episode 3 TIME's Katherine Lanpher talks with TIME's business reporting team about the 'survivor's guilt in the workplace,' a dispatch from Davos at the World Economic Forum, and a recession glossary.
Sneak Peek: 2009 Desktop Management Roadmap In 2009, VMware plans to release the next generation of its enterprise desktop solutions with a focus on improving the end-user experience, integrating client- and server-based virtualization, and simplifying IT infrastructure management. View this webcast to: Get an overview of new protocol, management and client technologies. Get a glimpse of the VMware View™ reference architecture and learn how to implement the software in both large and small environments. Discover the advantages of managing virtualized applications and infrastructure in a more flexible, streamlined manner. View this live webcast and find out how virtualization: Optimizes existing IT infrastructure; Reduces IT power, space and cooling consumption; Avoids redundant infrastructure costs; Increases availability and business continuity; Improves desktop manageability and security
Atlas Air Atlas Air moves from a home-grown messaging approach to a process-driven, middleware platform built on SOA and IBM WebSphere software. As a result, the cargo airline is expecting an 80% cost reduction in its integration efforts and more.
Wireless app dev marches on in these troubled times, Sprint-Nextel to layoff 8,000 employees, Microsoft postpones datacenter planned for Iowa, and more Wireless app dev marches on in these troubled times, Sprint-Nextel to layoff 8,000 employees, Microsoft postpones datacenter planned for Iowa, and more
BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights #36: SOA - dead or alive? Ann Thomas Manes, vice president and research director for application platform strategies at Burton Group, has created quite a stir in her recent post where she says that although the term “SOA” is dead, the requirement for service-oriented architecture is stronger than ever. In this lively podcast, Dana Gardner interviews a panel of industry luminaries to help calibrate the life span of SOA and to expand on Ms. Manes’ position on SOA being under significant pressure, in particular due to today’s abysmal economic climate. Panelists include: Anne Thomas Manes; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and prolific blogger on ZDNet and ebizQ; Dave Linthicum, founder of Linthicum Group and; JP Morgenthal, senior analyst at Burton Group. Have a listen to this podcast and determine for yourself whether SOA is dead or alive. Whichever camp you belong to, we hope you’ll agree that ActiveVOS is truly an affordable, 100% standards-based, all-in-one BPMS that delivers “architecturally correct” SOA-based applications easily and quickly, empowering you to achieve your services goals today.
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 33 Podcasting is Alive and Well! Listen to All Stars of Podcasting including Shel Holtz, Adam Curry, Jay Berkowitz, Joseph Jaffe, Cliff Ravenscraft , Mitch Joel, Mignon Fogarty also known as Grammar Girl, Terry Fallis, Jay Moonah and others on a rebroadcast of Joseph Jaffe’s Is Podcasting Dead conference call podcast. Call in line 206-888-6606
Third Generation Television: Third Catalyst (Long-Tail) If you would like to learn how the growing abundance of Long-Tail content is driving consumers to get Internet Video on their televisions, this video is for you. In earlier podcasts we demonstrated the first two catalysts. The first is the concept of a “Media Controller”, the initial version of which is the commonly available laptop computer. When a laptop is connected to the television, the TV functions as a giant monitor while the Internet-connected computer enables users to watch Internet Video in a lean-back experience with remote mouse and keyboard. The second catalyst is the growing availability of popular TV shows and movies at ad-supported websites that are free to the viewer. The best example is www.hulu.com. Today’s show is about the third catalyst which is the rising interest in Long-Tail content available on the Internet but not on conventional TV. The 5 billion monthly streams at YouTube are only one indication of just how massive the interest really is. Examples include out-of-syndication TV shows, older documentaries, personality interviews, and instructional videos. Today’s show provides clips of three Long-Tail videos. First is from an old documentary entitled The Ascent of Man. The narrator demonstrates how Pythagoras may have discovered the Pythagorean Theorem 2,500 years ago. Second is an interview with Stephen Hunter who authored such novels as Point of Impact, Black Light, Hot Springs, A Time to Hunt, and 47th Samurai. Point of Impact was made into a movie entitled Shooter. The principal character in the novels is named Bob Lee Swagger who is a former Marine Corps sniper. During the interview Hunter comments that Swagger’s character is based upon a “real” guy named Carlos Hathcock. The third clip from an interview with Hathcock himself.
Ledergerber Says Credit Suisse, UBS Troubles Affect Zurich Ledergerber Says Credit Suisse, UBS Troubles Affect Zurich
Java Posse #227 - Newscast for Jan 22nd 2009 Newscast for Jan 22nd 2009
The week that was: Obama's inauguration slows down Web, Seagate tries to fix faulty drives, cell phones slim down to fit on a wrist, and more The week that was: Obama's inauguration slows down Web, Seagate tries to fix faulty drives, cell phones slim down to fit on a wrist, and more
Microsoft to layoff 5,000 employees, Intel to close 4 facilities and cut up to 6,000 jobs, Apple beats expectations, and more Microsoft to layoff 5,000 employees, Intel to close 4 facilities and cut up to 6,000 jobs, Apple beats expectations, and more
Healthcare IT: Vital Support in Critical Situations As healthcare systems and networks emerge in the place of stand-alone hospitals, new technologies like online applications, mobile devices and electronic records management help improve efficiency and allow medical personnel to stay connected to vital data. To keep these life-critical operations running smoothly, healthcare IT providers must be equipped with mission-critical remote support solutions. Is your IT helpdesk prepared?
Episode 153 | The Davos Conference, Thrown for a Loss: Super Bowl Parties Episode 153 | The Davos Conference, Thrown for a Loss: Super Bowl Parties
Harvard's Goldman Sees Russia Worried Over Ruble Weakness Harvard's Goldman Sees Russia Worried Over Ruble Weakness
What's New in VMware View - Next Generation of VDI VMware recently announced the launch of the next generation of its virtual desktop infrastructure solution, VMware View™. This solution gives desktop IT more control over desktops and applications while saving time and money associated with operations such as provisioning, updates and deleting users from your environment. This flexible and scalable architecture will improve IT responsiveness to changing business and user demands. View this informative webcast to see a technical deep dive of the new features.
Ron Nutter's Help Desk Tool Chest Idiots guide to the perfect resume, tattoo removal and other job search skills
Trust Your Employees To Do A Good Job According to Two Blue Peas co-founder, Sarah Brown, it is important to trust your employees to do a good job. “Owning a business and pouring your blood, sweat and tears into it makes it incredibly difficult not to micromanage employees, but you simply can’t," says Brown. "Always try to surround yourself with folks smarter than you, and create an ownership society where every employee has a true vested interest in your success
Sun's open source Java gets mixed reviews, IBM reports strong earnings and does not hold layoffs, Qualcomm buys AMD's handheld chip division, and more Sun's open source Java gets mixed reviews, IBM reports strong earnings and does not hold layoffs, Qualcomm buys AMD's handheld chip division, and more
Episode 79: Domains of Learning Episode 79: Domains of Learning
Luigi Zingales Opposes U.S. Bank Nationalization Luigi Zingales Opposes U.S. Bank Nationalization
Learn It, Get It, Keep It - Sales Best Practice Learn It, Get It, Keep It - Sales Best Practice
Surviving Today's Economy with Sales Forecasting 2.0 Is your sales forecasting causing you to leave money on the table? According to Gartner Group, lack of visibility into sales trends could be costing you as much as 10% of revenue. Monthly snapshots and manual roll up processes delay delivery of the typical sales forecast by up to 8 weeks. And then when you do get a forecast, how long does it take you to make sense of it? The result? Not enough time and insight to act and close all possible revenue. Watch and learn how Right90 makes it easy to see in real-time how and why your sales forecast has changed so you can take corrective action before its too late.
Enterprise Performance Management for Finance Read how SAP solutions for performance management help you improve corporate performance by aligning strategy with the actions required to achieve it. You can consolidate financial and nonfinancial information to gain insight into the factors that drive business success.
Bridging the IT / business gap Organizations are realizing the increasing importance of the business analyst's role within a company as a way to bring technology and process improvements to projects. Mary Gerush, an analyst with Forrester Research, discusses the role of the business analyst, the skill sets needed, and how IT and business can formalize the role of the business analyst and harness their power.
Course 2: Auto Provisioning of a User Account Educational Series: "Sanity in an 'I- Need-to-Update-My-Address-Again' World" Achieving sanity with identity and access management is not challenging. With the right solution, IT can automate hire-and-fire user provisioning, and allow changes (i.e. updating a an employee’s address in an HR application) to be made across all applications within the organization without administrator intervention.
Advertising Tactics That Still Work Advertising has changed. Companies can no longer simply interrupt consumers with advertising messages and expect them to march off and buy something like little credit-card wielding lemmings. But ad tactics that reach out to customers when they're already interested or that tell authentic stories are still an effective way to increase site traffic. These would include pay-per-click, contextual video advertising, and coupon ads.
Cisco preparing to elbow its way into the server fray, Intel announces chip price cuts, IBM introduces LotusLive, and more Cisco preparing to elbow its way into the server fray, Intel announces chip price cuts, IBM introduces LotusLive, and more
TIME Financial Toolkit- Episode 2 Katherine Lanpher talks with TIME's business reporting team about Obama's financial plan, the stock market, and a psychological road map to the economic downturn
Burns Says Comparison of Obama to FDR Is `Over-Emphasized' Burns Says Comparison of Obama to FDR Is `Over-Emphasized'
How to Use FaceBook for Business Welcome to a world of conversations and relationships. Facebook is not an evil time-waster, a community just for college students, or something scary or irrelevant for marketers – even you B2B folks. Facebook is a tool (a social utility, as they would say) for connecting people with those around them. And, as with any social media tool, marketers have an opportunity to use Facebook to expand their online footprint and engage with customers directly. Join this free webinar to learn how to get started using Facebook to market your business.
HR Analytics: Gaining Insights for the Upturn Find out how workforce analytics is being used to significant strategic effect, helping HR organizations make decisions on cutting programs to lower costs, reduce workforce, and reallocate talent to ensure strategic business goals are met. (BusinessWeek Research, 2009)
Making the Business Case for HR Investments Explore how HR systems can provide strategic benefit to both the HR department and the business overall, for use in building a business case for HR investments. In addition, this paper discusses SAP's role in the important market for HR systems.
Winning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets Harvard Business Review experts who have spent decades studying talent management and leadership development make recommendations specific to attracting and retaining talent in developing nations: 1. Make compelling promises about your company's brand, opportunity, and purpose that appeal to employees and 2. Keep the promises. Read more to learn how to compete during this global war for talent
Have a Fully Integrated Marketing Plan Websites are no longer pages of text in a vacuum. Good websites interact with your customers . Search engines are beginning to place a greater importance on video, photos, blogs and much more. Why? Because it makes a website more relevant by serving the user's needs. That means your online marketing strategies must coincide with your traditional marketing techniques. Be smart about how you add these new elements and consider how each will play a role in your marketing plan. When you have a truly integrated marketing plan, you are sending a consistent message about your brand
Speaking of Security Podcast #135 This week's Speaking of Security podcast features a discussion on data protection and security event management issues with a principal from Deloitte & Touche, one of RSA's key alliance partners.
Third Generation Television: Second Catalyst If you would like to learn how the growing abundance of popular TV shows and movies at ad-supported websites is acting as a catalyst to mass market adoption of Internet-Video-to-the-TV, this video is for you. Last week’s show discussed the concept of a “Media Controller” as the first catalyst that is driving the adoption of Third Generation Television. The initial version of a “Media Controller” is the commonly available laptop computer. In such a configuration, the TV functions as a giant monitor for the Internet-connected laptop thereby enabling users to watch Internet Video in a lean-back experience with remote mouse and keyboard. The second catalyst is the growing abundance of TV shows and movies at ad-supported websites that are free to the viewer. For example, the major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox) are posting many current and previously popular TV shows at places like www.hulu.com and on their own websites. Other websites like Veoh.com provide indexes that link to legitimately available TV shows and movies on the Net. While a number of services (e.g. Amazon-Video-on-Demand) and appliance makers (e.g. Xbox) are starting to provide a “Walled Garden” of Internet-Video-to-the-TV, ultimately consumers will not be satisfied with limited access. Most have been surfing the Web for over ten years and will come to view a “Walled Garden” as a “Walled Prison”. Additionally, most of the movies and TV shows available from Amazon-Video-on-Demand, iTunes, CinemaNow, Xbox, and similar services require the consumer to pay a rental or purchase fee. Instead consumers are likely to have a decided preference for the free viewing of ad-supported websites and will only pay to rent or purchase recently-released motion pictures that are otherwise unavailable for free viewing.
Java Posse #226 - Roundup 08 - RIA Ecosystem This was recorded before the release of Java 6 U 10 and JavaFX, so many of the points about the size and performance of Java applets are no longer true, nor is the prediction that interest may be lost in JavaFX after JavaOne. It will be interesting to revisit this subject at the upcoming Java Posse Roundup 2009.
Case Study: A Marketer’s Blueprint to Successful Lead Management Learn how BearingPoint designed a successful lead scoring and nurturing system within their organization that increased their qualified leads by 78% and decreased their buy cycle time from months to weeks. See the blueprint they used and gain valuable insight on how your organization can increase “sales ready” leads and drive marketing ROI.
The week that was: Palm shows new phone, Tom Hanks and Howard Stringer try futuristic glasses, mobile internet devices shrink, and more The week that was: Palm shows new phone, Tom Hanks and Howard Stringer try futuristic glasses, mobile internet devices shrink, and more
The Science of Persuasive Design: Convincing is Converting PET design is HFI's latest research-based methodology leveraging the science of persuasion, emotion, and trust to guide users to make decisions that lead to specific actions. In this webcast, you learn the scientific basis of PET design, as Spencer Gerrol, Executive Director, and Kath Straub, Chief Scientist, review key research findings on consumer decision making and persuasion. Learn how these findings can be applied to make your communication strategy and website more effective! Learn key persuasion strategies Discover when and why they work (and don't!) See how others have applied these same principles Learn how to measure their effectiveness on your own site Kath and Spencer highlight real world examples of great persuasive design, and demonstrate how key persuasive strategies (such as: social proof, perceptual contrast, obedience to authority, framing, and scarcity) can be applied to improve designs. Join Kath and Spencer to see the power of PET design in action.
iPhone Developer Derek Del Conte on Mobile Credit Card Processing Derek Del Conte is co-founder of Innerfence, a developer of iPhone applications. Innerfence's latest app is "Credit Card Terminal," which allows the processing of credit card transactions on the iPhone, and merchants who sell products off-site or remotely could benefit from it. Del Conte joins Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock
Getting Started with Google App Engine in Eclipse Mano Marks shows you how to get started with App Engine in Eclipse
Network World 360 Nortel is attempting to put the brakes on its financial free fall by seeking bankruptcy protection in the United States, Canada and Europe. Barely a week after revealing he suffered from a hormone imbalance, and vowing to stay on as Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, in a letter issued Wednesday, told Apple employees he is stepping aside for six months.
Microsoft refreshes Azure cloud tools, Google and Motorola plan layoffs, Nortel files for bankruptcy, and more Microsoft refreshes Azure cloud tools, Google and Motorola plan layoffs, Nortel files for bankruptcy, and more
Yahoo and Palm: Rebounding or last gasps? Carla and Keith discuss the news announcements from Yahoo (new CEO Carol Bartz) and Palm (new Pre smart phone) and whether this news will help these companies rebound, or if it's the last gasps to stay alive. How does CEO upheaval affect companies, especially new startups? Plus: Keith talks other CES news, how he did in the Rock Band Challenge, and other DEMO alumni updates.
Lessons Learned from an Enterprise RCP Application During the implementation of a major financial application for a large financial institution, the RCP Company learned a lot about how to use Eclipse RCP as an application platform and especially some of the short-comings of the current platform. This webinar goes through some of the lessons Tonny and his team learned, and discusses some of the changes that could be made to Eclipse RCP to get a better platform for enterprise applications.
Episode 152 | In Lean Times, McDonald's Only Gets Fatter, The Threat of a Global Trade War In Lean Times, McDonald's Only Gets Fatter The Threat of a Global Trade War
Zetland Says Bottled Water Costs Up to 10,000 Times Tap Water Zetland Says Bottled Water Costs Up to 10,000 Times Tap Water
Taking Control in an Uncertain Economy In times like these, you need to take control of your business. You must act on every lead, win every deal, and keep every customer. But it’s also important to keep costs and risks low—and not wait months or years to see ROI. No wonder more than 51.800 companies of all sizes and industries choose Salesforce CRM. Learn how easy it is to hold on to customers and run your business better.
Is your T&E Expense Management Process Optimized for this Tough Economy? Learn how best in class companies are cutting costs by managing the entire T&E lifecycle.What is meant by a "holistic approach to managing travel and expense"? And how does that approach help drive down costs, especially in the face of a challenging economic climate? Join Aberdeen Group analyst William Browning as he discusses his latest findings from his latest research report entitled "Managing The T&E Lifecycle: Integrating Processes, Driving Performance". View now to learn how an integrated lifecycle could significantly enhance your organization’s visibility into operations and cost, while also driving greater compliance.
Elements of the Efficient Enterprise, Part 4: Capacity & Change Management Want to manage your data center's capacity like a pro? Then use real-time data to track your power and cooling uses. Efficient management of the physical infrastructure is now an imperative. To enable the IT hardware to meet the needs of your business, you want to keep your infrastructure operating smoothly while delivering the agility to meet ever changing requirements. Power, racks and cooling have all become the building blocks of a fully integrated system to address the needs of today’s complex computing environments.
How to Use Twitter for Marketing & PR There's a lot of buzz around Twitter but many marketers don't know how to translate that buzz into a worthwhile marketing tool for their business. Most people's first reaction to the social media "micro-blogging" tool is that it is a waste of time, but as Twitter becomes more and more mainstream, businesses are now using Twitter to engage with customers, reach the media directly, and further establish themselves as thought leaders in their industry. Attend this free webinar to learn all the basics of how to use Twitter to market your business.
Measuring Inbound Marketing You've started a blog, signed up for twitter, and set up a Facebook Business Page - now how do you know if it's working for you? This webinar will provide all the basics of how inbound marketing-driven businesses should measure their on-going campaign efforts. This includes understanding key business, website, search engine optimization, blogging, social media, and paid campaign metrics, and most importantly, learning how to draw insights from this new wealth of information.
Best Practices and Lessons for SOA Deployments In this era of unprecedented change, organizations need agility to adapt rapidly. SOA is a business-driven IT architectural approach that supports agile business innovation and optimization. Download this whitepaper to learn the best practices and lessons for SOA deployments -- gathered from the thousands of companies who have completed SOA deployments.
Actual Storage Utilization and your IT Bottom Line IT budgets are shrinking even as the reliance on data availability grows. Now more than ever, IT managers must spend carefully to keep from negatively impacting the bottom line. One area where IT departments can realize significant savings is in storage. This white paper provides a simple breakdown of the actual costs paid for storage when real-world utilization and performance numbers, in addition to costs, are surfaced.
Catching up with Microstaq Christina Butkiewicus catches up with Microstaq President & CEO Sandeep Kumar, who talks about what the company has been up to since launching at DEMO in September, what new features have emerged and new business opportunities being explored.
IT learns to do less with less, Yahoo picks new CEO, Microsoft issue first Windows 7 patch, and more IT learns to do less with less, Yahoo picks new CEO, Microsoft issue first Windows 7 patch, and more
Episode 78: Information Commons Episode 78: Information Commons
28 Web Conference Training Tips Mary Polley-Berte, Director of Customer Support and Training for SyberWorks discusses her article, “28 Web Conference Training Tips.”
Episode 23: Interview with Fran Schnack of Advanced BioHealing, Inc. The holiday episode looks at the e-learning program rollouts discussed over the last year.
Getting Down to Business BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne talks to Jane Sasseen about Barack Obama's inauguration, the new power players, the upcoming business battles, and the stimulus wish-list
Paul Krugman Sees Need to Get Stimulus Plan Out `Fast' Paul Krugman Sees Need to Get Stimulus Plan Out `Fast'
Cisco News & Reviews Cisco targets Aironet 1140 Access Point at easing 802.11n deployment 01/13/09 Cisco this week released its Draft N Aironet 1140 Series Access Point, designed to ease the adoption of the 11n wireless standard. Ken Presti talks to Chris Kozup, manager for mobility marketing at Cisco, about the limitations of deploying 11n and how the 1140 eases the process. They also discuss what types of applications benefit from 11n.
SCO proposes reorganization, Forrester projects a decline in global IT spending, researchers uncover common browser bug that could enable crooks to nab banking credentials, and more SCO proposes reorganization, Forrester projects a decline in global IT spending, researchers uncover common browser bug that could enable crooks to nab banking credentials, and more
Neuro Web Design Podcast It's funny what the brain makes us do. A recent flow of books on the subject of the brain when it comes to marketing and making decisions is due in part to better understanding of how the brain works. For this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast I visited with Susan Weinschenk, author of NEURO Web Design - What make them click? Dr. Weinschenk is currently Chief of Technical Staff at Human Factors International (HFI). She manages the sales, consulting services and training development and delivery for the USA operations of HFI. She is also a well known, international, public speaker.
TIME Financial Toolkit TIME's Katherine Lanpher talks with TIME's business reporting team about the a report card for President Bush, a new bottom for the housing market, Bernie Madoff and citigroup
Jebsen & Jessen Reduces TCO and Improves Performance with DB2 IBM and Electra helped Jebsen & Jessen Reduce TCO and Improve Performance with DB2
Greenwald Sees `No End' to Auto Production Overcapacity Greenwald Sees `No End' to Auto Production Overcapacity
Privacy [Part 1]: Why Should You Care? In Episode 6, Ev Johnson, CPA and Ken Askelson, CPA.CITP, CIA discuss the shifting business and regulatory landscape with respect to Privacy, and why businesses and CPAs need to be concerned about how they collect, use, and maintain personal information.
Data Quality: A Survival Guide to Marketing In this paper, Frank Dravis, Six Factors Consulting, discusses how even with the finest marketing organizations, the success of marketing ultimately comes down to the data. Surrounding the data and storage application are people, processes, standards, and technologies used to manage that data. This white paper from SAP BusinessObjects focuses on these concepts as they pertain to marketing, and particularly as they are supported by data quality functions inside of the broader EIM framework.
IBM System z10 Business Class Technology Benefits How the System z10 Business Class server delivers cutting edge technology at a lower cost entry point
IBM System z10 Business Class Launch When your customers and partners interact with your business – what do they see?
The Ajax developer's toolkit - Nate Shutta As Java-based Web developers have learned to take JavaScript seriously, the rush is on for tools that enrich the Ajax-development experience. In this JavaWorld podcast, Foundations of Ajax co-author Nate Shutta talks with Andrew Glover about the component libraries, debuggers, and frameworks he uses for Ajax. Nate also discusses projects and trends that reveal new directions for Ajax as a foundation technology for Web 2.0.
Adobe takes LiveCycle app to the cloud, Microsoft reworks site to make Windows 7 beta available for download, World Bank bars Wipro from contacting it directly, and more Adobe takes LiveCycle app to the cloud, Microsoft reworks site to make Windows 7 beta available for download, World Bank bars Wipro from contacting it directly, and more
Search Engine Optimization and Information Architecture Online retailers and their web designers can build a well structured Internet store organized into themes or categories that will make it easy for shoppers and search engines alike to find important information and product pages.
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 32 Ten Strategies for Job Hunting in a Recession, TGR Podcast Contest update how to win Seth Godin’s Tribes, Marketing Meet Up at Affiliate Summit Boston, Marketing Tips.com, Twitter Secret Society, Share a Sale, Widget Technology, Customer Service is the New Marketing, How to evaluate a presentation, Song of the week Midnight Poker Call in line 206-888-6606
Third Generation Television: First Catalyst If you would like to learn how modern laptop computers conveniently enable Internet-Video-to-the-TV, this video is for you. Third Generation Television is an idea whose time has come. Its defining characteristic is Internet-Video-to-the-TV. After years of anticipation, the scenario is presently becoming a reality and moving into the mass market. One unexpected catalyst is the modern laptop computer which easily connects to flat panel TVs. In such a configuration, the TV functions as a giant monitor for the laptop. Since nearly all laptops have built-in WiFi, the result is unlimited Internet Video at the TV. Use of a remote mouse and keyboard enables a comfortable lean-back viewing experience of Internet Video 15 – 20 feet distant from the TV screen. Over one-third of U.S. homes currently have a flat panel TV. By 2011 it is estimated that nearly 90% of us will have at least one unit in our homes. Nearly all the sets provide HDMI sockets which are also increasingly common on laptop computers. Since around 70% of computers purchased by consumers are laptops, it seems plausible that the next computer “Killer App” will be laptops used as Internet “Media Controllers” for the TV. As popularity of the application becomes more obvious, computer makers will design laptops to be even better suited to the application thereby making it still easier for consumers to get the Internet viewing experiences that they want from their TVs. Simultaneously, there is a growing abundance of popular video on the Internet. For example, the major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox) are posting many current and previously popular TV shows at ad-supported websites like Hulu.com. Since the sites are ad-supported the shows are free to the viewer. Additionally, the Internet provides a nearly infinitely Long-Tail and not all of it is user-generated content. For example, out-of-syndication TV shows are on YouTube as well as a great many documentaries, author interviews, and old movies.
Search Engine Optimization and Information Architecture Online retailers and their web designers can build a well structured Internet store organized into themes or categories that will make it easy for shoppers and search engines alike to find important information and product pages.
Moosejaw implements a real multi-channel solution with IBM Moosejaw has tied together the Website with their sales center, with the Point of Sale System in the store and this integrates their view of the customer, their view of promotions and their view of inventory across all of the channels so that they can provide the best customer service possible in their industry.
Managing Automation's Progressive Manufacturing 100 Awards, an Indepth Look Successful manufacturers must innovate to survive these economic times. The Progressive Manufacturing Awards Program, now in its fifth year, recognizes manufacturers that use advanced technology to transform their business and the industry. Managing Automation's annual PM100 awards focus the industry's brightest spotlight on winning projects and strategic initiatives centered around eight key progressive manufacturing disciplines. Managing Automation has expanded the Progressive Manufacturing Awards Program to recognize more best-in-class manufacturers from the US and abroad. This year we will recognize 100 outstanding manufacturers. View this webcast today to listen to David R. Brousell, Managing Automation's Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Moad, Managing Automation's Executive Editor, and 2008 Progressive Manufacturer of The Year, Mark Yatskievych, Manager, Manufacturing Systems from General Dynamics, discuss the awards program and the benefits of winning.
Java Posse #225 - Newscast for January 8th 2009 Java Posse #225 - Newscast for January 8th 2009
Supercharge Your Sales Team Register below to watch a brief overview tailored for a salesperson. See how Salesforce CRM lets you track your leads, deals, and accounts automatically with an online, pay-as-you-go solution.
New World Value: The Strategic Impact of Business Application Suites in Today's Corporate Environment
Playing with fire at CES Keith and Jason tackle CES 2009 in Las Vegas covering everything that's hot and not in the world of consumer technology.
Palm launches new smartphone and OS, Asustek sees slower demand for Eee PC, Satyam tries to reassure customers, and more Palm launches new smartphone and OS, Asustek sees slower demand for Eee PC, Satyam tries to reassure customers, and more
Haunted by Symantec Ghost? Learn About a New and Superior Approach Retro fashion might be in style, but old-fashioned point-imaging solutions such as Symantec Ghost lack important capabilities and cannot save you the time and money of more contemporary solutions. Learn how to save significant time and money over Symantec Ghost by using a systems deployment appliance.
Coupon Strategies To Improve Sales According to a Dec. 10, 2008 comScore report, coupon use grew 63 percent for the one week period beginning Dec. 1, 2008 compared to the first week of December 2007. This may be the time for your online store to start providing coupons and other promotional offers to customers. Some strategies for including coupons on your site include creating coupon landing pages, including coupons in email newsletters, creating coupon or discount RSS feeds and mentioning them in your pay-per-click ads. However you choose to integrate coupons to your site, make sure your shopping cart software is equipped to support the discounts you offer.
Doctors’ Grades Help Patients Decide on Healthcare As more consumers use the web to research their medical needs and choices, the greater the demand for some type of performance metrics in healthcare delivery. This dynamic taking place in healthcare is causing greater competition among providers, and more healthcare marketers to look for ways to tell their story. Healthgrades dot com is one of several sites that provide detailed reporting on physician performance, legal issues, and hospital outcomes. Within the last year, surveys of hospital outcomes mandated by Medicare are now available to the public. These points of data are piling up to create a mountain of information for patients to sort through as they make a decision on healthcare. To be sure, reliance on a general physician and friends and family are important, but checking that information against a report card gives a bit more substance behind a decision. Other physician rating sites include Find a Doc, Vitals, and RateMDs In this podcast with Christopher Boyer of Healthgrades.com , we explore some of the reasons why millions of people are using these sites. We get into what tactics hospital marketers should be evaluating to tap into the stream of information patients and their families are accessing. The most important indicator to examine social media and understand the impact of rating sites is the powerful element of “intended search” in healthcare. Those searching for healthcare information are usually doing so because of a need. It is more than likely it is an urgent need. Healthcare is different in this regard that many other industries. People can causally shop around a vacation destination or a car without a making a purchase, it’s unlikely that people are casually browsing hiatal hernia or slip disk remedies.
In twist, Microsoft looks beyond the PC, Lenovo to lay off 11 percent, EMC also will cut workforce, and more In twist, Microsoft looks beyond the PC, Lenovo to lay off 11 percent, EMC also will cut workforce, and more
Linking Related Theme Pages To Improve SEO Consider using a technique called link siloing to improve search engine optimization for your site. The idea is to link related theme pages supporting pages together, adding the linking structure of the theme, or silo. Remember that links help shoppers move up and down within a silo, and links help search engines rank how important a given web page is.
Making Compliance Easy Whether you are just beginning to implement regulatory compliance standards or are anxious to reduce the cost of your current compliance efforts, this webinar on Application Lifecycle Management can help you simplify your life. Join Daniel Magid from Aldon as he discusses methods of implementing automated systems that can ensure regulatory compliance while helping you to improve the productivity of your development efforts and the quality of the software you deliver.
Behind the scenes with Joe Schurman Eileen Brown talks with Joe Schurman about his new book "Microsoft Voice and Unified Communications." He gives examples of how to customize MVUC solutions today and how to become involved with the MVUC associated programs.
Getting Involved with CodePlex Jim Newkirk discusses CodePlex projects with Sara Ford and Jonathan Wanagel. Learn about some of the most popular open source projects posted on CodePlex.
CodePlex- Open Source Project Hosting (Video) Jim Newkirk discusses CodePlex with Sara Ford and Jonathan Wanagel. Learn about Microsoft's Open Source Project Hosting solution.
Network World and Forrester Research: NAC and Beyond Joel Snyder of Opus One chairs a discussion with Forrester Research analyst Rob Whiteley, and Shane Buckley, Nevis COO, on the present state of NAC, its future direction and the overall value to customers.
Customer Webinar: SOCCCD Success Story The South Orange County Community College District (SOCCCD) has over 40,000 faculty and students on two main campuses plus the district office. Hear how SOCCCD deployed Nevis to implement role-based access controls to sensitive district data.
Customer Webinar: Aptuit Success Story Aptuit is a global biosciences firm with over 1,800 employees. They deployed Nevis to control guest access to the network and sensitive systems, as well as to control intellectual property they share with partners through the collaborative drug development process. Hear how they deployed Nevis to accomplish a wide range of network security objectives.
Managing Through a Crisis BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Emily Thornton discuss the challenges and opportunities managers face in times of turmoil like these.
Customer Webinar: UCDSB Case Study The Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) is a large rural school district in eastern Ontario, Canada. Jeremy Hobbs describes his Nevis deployment which facilitates identity-based access policies for over 40,000 users at over 100 campuses on his network. Jeremy takes listeners through tangible ROI cases, such has improving user policy management and wireless gateway administration that saves him multiple person-years in IT costs. Jeremy is sold on an identity-based network infrastructure and what it can do to enable his users to be more effective as well as reduce his own overhead costs.
NAC on Steroids: Bulking Up to Defend Your Corporate LAN Dominic Wilde, Nevis' vice president of marketing, talks about the corporate need for NAC solutions, and why NAC may not be the complete solution for many organizations. Hear him describe the Nevis vision of LAN security solutions and identity-based policy enforcement in this 27 minute podcast.
The Evolution of Travelocity's Portfolio Management Processes & Tools In this session you will learn how Travelocity was able to reach its corporate objectives for innovation and growth by using Primavera's PPM Solution.
The Path to Profit: Transforming Projects into Relationships It's accepted wisdom that the shortest path to new business is to expand services to existing clients. This webinar discusses account management strategies that can transform single project transactions into multi-project, long-term client relationships. At the end of the session, you'll have an approach for managing client relationships for value, growth, and profitability.
Understanding Your New Buyer In today's market for professional services, the buyer is in the driver's seat. Selling professional services is a time-consuming, costly, and unpredictable process. Firms that rely on conventional sales strategies to land projects are not keeping pace with the demands of the new breed of buyer. In this webcast, we discuss what's changed for today's buyer and focus on how clients now buy professional services.
Webcast with John Hagel III: The Sustainable Edge Because the global marketplace is changing so rapidly, the successes professional services organizations have had creating more efficient organizations do not automatically lead to sustainable, profitable growth. To help you understand the changing dynamics and the path to profits, Primavera presents this webcast featuring renowned author and business strategist John Hagel III.
Episode 151 | The Auto Bailout Keeps Growing, and Growing, Pension Losses Could Whack 2009 Corporate Profits Episode 151 | The Auto Bailout Keeps Growing, and Growing, Pension Losses Could Whack 2009 Corporate Profits
Webcast with Dr. Mary Lacity: The Surprising Things that Matter Most to Clients This session reveals some of the key findings that emerged from Dr. Lacity's research, including: What clients look for in service organizations' resource management capabilities; Why clients care about service organizations earning a profit on each engagement - and how to enlist their help in doing so; How to create successful client-service organization partnerships for effectively managing an engagement
Webcast with Dr. James Alexander: Unleash the Power of Your Hidden Sales Force This practical, hands-on Webinar shows you all the steps you need to get started maximizing the credibility and revenue power of your engineers, consultants, and field service professionals. This session reveals some valuable up-selling techniques and processes to leverage your technical force for success including: How to create the “Balanced Selling Wheel: Technical Services with Up-Selling”; The Six Choice Development Model for services in selling services; Key customer relationship-building techniques that never fail.
Turbo Todd rants on social networking, digital-to-analog TV signal converters, and more developerWorks resident philosopher, Todd Watson, lets fly on Facebooking with old elementary school contacts, getting productive for 2009, and helping grandma with the TV signal converter box.
Make the Most of ITSM in 2009: Best-Practice Advice from Your Peers Leading IT analyst firm EMA takes a look at the big picture shaping strategic plans for IT Service Management (ITSM). Based on survey data from 140+ enterprises, we’ll answer key questions such as “What are the business drivers and challenges facing today’s ITSM efforts?” and “What best practices advice can I gain from the efforts of other companies like mine?” We’ll review: Technology, process, and cultural issues; EMA expert predictions for 2009; and real-world advice on ITSM disciplines like incident and problem management, the service desk, change, configuration and release management, the CMDB, service catalogs, and asset management.
Speaking of Security Podcast #134 The first Speaking of Security podcast of 2009 features Jon Oltsik from the Enterprise Strategy Group. Jon shares his perspective on trends in information security for the new year.
Ultimate Analysis Laptop Part 2 - Software Selection, Tableau's forensic hardware Ultimate Analysis Laptop Part 2 - Software Selection, Tableau's forensic hardware
5 Ways Employees Can Sabotage Your Network 01/07/09 With a poor economy and layoffs looming at a company, the most trusted employees can often turn and become an insider threat. Tim Connelly from Netcordia discusses five different ways that they can attack your network as a way for revenge or even profit (from data theft).
EDS drives down its costs with the Oracle Grid EDS is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. Hear how EDS’ small steps towards the grid has resulted in one of the largest commercial database grids in the world.
Sun scoops up Q-layer for cloud computing wares, VMware names former Borland CEO to its COO post, BestBuy sells refurbished iPhone 3Gs, and more Sun scoops up Q-layer for cloud computing wares, VMware names former Borland CEO to its COO post, BestBuy sells refurbished iPhone 3Gs, and more
The Importance Of PageRank PageRank is a proprietary mathematical formula (algorithm) that Google uses to calculate the importance of a particular web page/URL based on incoming links. The PageRank algorithm assigns each web page a numeric value. That value is a particular URL’s PageRank
Making mashups with Info 2.0 - Part 7 Take Web 2.0 to work with Info 2.0. Create situational applications. Get the Web resources to do it.
Making mashups with Info 2.0 - Part 6 Making mashups with Info 2.0 - Part 6
Making mashups with Info 2.0 - Part 3 Get an overview of mashup hub and learn how to harvest information from the Web.
SOA - Saving time and money Pep Boys, the automotive aftermarket retail giant, needed to completely revamp their point-of-sale approach in order to stay competitive. With IBM’s help, they were able to quickly implement a communication layer that leverages legacy systems and allows them to reuse other key investments, saving time and money, while improving business. Hear how they did it.
PROGNOSIS support for Nortel at VoiceCon 2008 Product Manager for PROGNOSIS John Dunne and Eric Krapf of VoiceCon discuss PROGNOSIS Recorded at VoiceCon Orlando 2008, this podcast is a discussion of the addition of Nortel support to the PROGNOSIS product line as well as a look at the impact this will have on the market. The release of PROGNOSIS IP Telephony Manager 9.5 incorporating support for Nortel gives PROGNOSIS the only complete telephony management solution for the top 3 IP telephony vendors. It allows organizations tasked with monitoring VoIP deployments from multiple vendors to view the performance of their entire system in a single, unified view. Service providers can either segment performance data by customer or drill down on an individual customer's details. Dunne also discusses the deep insight and business level reporting that PROGNOSIS offers as well as the real time troubleshooting that enterprises need to ensure that service levels and KPIs are being met. An increasing number of organizations are beginning to realize the value of VoIP as a strategic investment and Dunne explains the ways in which PROGNOSIS allows customers to maximize their return on this investment.
Sweating the Details and Assuring VoIP and IPT Success The final instalment in a series of podcasts by PROGNOSIS and Realtimepublishers Following on from Ongoing Operations, this 31-minute podcast is the conclusion to the series designed as a complement to the 8-chapter eBook, The Definitive Guide to Successful Deployment of VoIP and IP Telephony. Cavanagh reiterates those factors which are critical to a successful implementation with further discussion of budgets, technical considerations. Cavanagh pays particular attention to the compliance issues which govern the operation of a network, including record retention, taxes and fees, call recording and the handling of emergency services. To conclude the series, a final, comprehensive checklist is provided for the implementation of a modern, packet-based telephony system that can help you ensure that all the critical details, large and small, are covered.
Ongoing Operations The fifth in a series of podcasts by PROGNOSIS and Realtimepublishers Following on from Voice Over Packet Design and Pre-deployment Testing, this 28-minute podcast is designed to complement and extend the 8-chapter eBook, The Definitive Guide to Successful Deployment of VoIP and IP Telephony. The ongoing operations phase of any VoIP project requires a methodical re-assessment of your existing implementation plans. This is to make sure your existing strategy is still relevant for your organization's long term goals. Through practical examples and case studies, Cavanagh explains not only how to assess potential problems in your implementation, but also how to effectively manage all the day to day challenges of your IP telephony system.
Voice Over Packet Design and Pre-deployment Testing The fourth in a series of podcasts by PROGNOSIS and Realtimepublishers Following on from VoIP Network Design Considerations, this 20-minute podcast is designed to complement and extend the 8-chapter eBook, The Definitive Guide to Successful Deployment of VoIP and IP Telephony. This is the phase in our project where we will learn for the first time if our combination of expectations setting, design and project management is really going to be a success or a failure. And because we have promised a definitive guide to successful deployment, we will point out ways that your project may go astray, so that you may avoid those possible pitfalls. In this podcast we return to our global enterprise case study and take a closer look at how they actually implemented their global VoIP project and provide a blueprint for your own project.
Network Design Considerations The third in a series of podcasts by PROGNOSIS and Realtimepublishers Following on from Kicking off your VoIP and IP Telephony Project, this 7-minute podcast is designed to complement and extend the 8-chapter eBook, The Definitive Guide to Successful Deployment of VoIP and IP Telephony. Intelligent network design is a vital step in the IP Telephony lifecycle. In this phase of the project, industry expert Jim Cavanagh discusses in-depth the business and technological issues you are likely to face when assessing your network readiness for VoIP. He argues that considered network planning can sometimes mean the difference between success and failure. Cavanagh covers these topics in a clear, concise format for both technical and non-technical professionals alike, going beyond the theoretical to provide guidance gained from some of the world’s largest enterprise deployments.
Kicking off your VoIP Telephony Project The second in a series of podcasts by PROGNOSIS and Realtimepublishers Following on from the Introduction to Deploying VoIP in the Enterprise, this 17-minute podcast is designed to complement and extend the 8-chapter eBook, The Definitive Guide to Successful Deployment of VoIP and IP Telephony. Providing extra tips and highlights from the eBook, industry expert Jim Cavanagh examines the business drivers for migrating to VoIP such as enabling new services or reducing costs, and examines the planning and assessment phases of the IP telephony lifecycle. Cavanagh covers these topics in a clear, concise format for both technical and non-technical professionals alike, going beyond the theoretical to provide guidance gained from some of the world’s largest enterprise deployments.
It Exists - System i Delays. Missed deadlines. An overly complex infrastructure. More attention paid to managing IT than managing the business. Then they see the light. System i is a simple, fully integrated, proven solution with built-in security and more.
Making mashups with Info 2.0 - Part 1 Get started with mashup maker QEDWiki
The Definitive Guide to Successful Deployment of VoIP and IP Telephony The Definitive Guide to Successful Deployment of VoIP and IP Telephony is a 6-part podcast series designed to accompany the 8-chapter eBook by industry expert Jim Cavanagh. In this series, Cavanagh goes beyond the theoretical to provide guidance gained from researching some of the world’s largest enterprise IP telephony deployments – transforming valuable knowledge into a format you can put straight to work. Cavanagh is able to further explore the topics raised in the eBook by providing real world examples and case studies to illustrate his points. The author also provides checklists and electronic”Report Cards” that allow you to take a methodical approach to evaluating your current IP telephony deployment and management strategies. As a companion to the eBook or as a standalone series, these podcasts contain vital information you need to make informed decisions about your IP telephony deployment.
Episode 77: Self-Paced Learning Episode 77: Self-Paced Learning
Find out What’s New in E-Business Suite HRMS R12.1 Listen to Anand Subbaraman, Director for Oracle’s E-Business Suite, talk about what's new in E-Business Suite HRMS Release 12.1. Find out the latest enhancements and how it can help organizations compete more effectively.
Making mashups with Info 2.0 - Part 5 Learn how to publish and discover a widget.
Making mashups with Info 2.0 - Part 4 Learn how to create a widget in QEDWiki.
Making mashups with Info 2.0 - Part 2 Learn how to wire a widget into a mashup.
Sales Training 2009 - Routes to Sales Success Sales Training 2009 - Routes to Sales Success
IBM Training - A Day in the Life IBM and its business partners offer comprehensive training and education to help shorten the learning curve on all IBM technologies. They offer top-notch instructors and world-class training facilities. Watch a new video that shows you more about IBM Training by taking you through a day in the life of a trainee.
Steve Mills Pulse 2008 Keynote - Pulse 2008 kicks off Steve Mills, IBM Software Group Senior Vice President introduces the Pulse 2008 conference by laying out the challenges of managing your IT infrastructure and what it means to your business.
Robert LeBlanc Pulse 2008 Keynote - sercvice management and SOA Robert LeBlanc, IBM General Manager, Global Consulting Services and SOA, speaks about how Service Management and Service-Oriented Architecture work together.
Al Zollar Pulse 2008 Keynote - industrialization of operations Al Zollar Pulse 2008 Keynote - industrialization of operations
Taking Ideas to Market Primavera Systems is proud to present an informative webcast with professional services expert, Christopher Fox, Senior Partner at McMann & Ransford, the largest provider of management consulting, training, executive recruiting, and market research to the Professional Services industry. Fox will discuss the key steps to building and maintaining financially-strong account relationships with techniques that every account manager can use, not just superstars and rain makers.
IBM Cool Blue Technology - IBM BladeCenter Doug Balog, Vice President and Business Line Executive, IBM BladeCenter, talks about how IBM BladeCenter is designed from the ground up to help dramatically improve power utilization and reduce energy costs.
Course 1: Human Resources Provisioning Educational Series: "Sanity in an 'I- Need-to-Update-My-Address-Again' World" Achieving sanity with identity and access management is not challenging. With the right solution, IT can automate hire-and-fire user provisioning, and allow changes (i.e. updating a an employee’s address in an HR application) to be made across all applications within the organization without administrator intervention.
Don't Let Your Customers Be Duped By Phishing Emails Online customers are often duped by phishing emails A phishing email looks like a real email from your company instructing people to click on a link to update their personal information. The link actually goes to a fake version where a thief can collect credit card numbers and other information. Many of these emails look so real that even experienced Internet users will be fooled by them. This is a difficult problem to solve entirely, but make sure your customers know that you will never solicit their information via email.
Episode 150 | Feelin' Muji, The Carmakers' Bleak Year-End Numbers Episode 150 | Feelin' Muji, The Carmakers' Bleak Year-End Numbers
Ron Nutter's Help Desk Tool Chest Ultimate Analysis Laptop Part 2 - Software Selection, Tableau's forensic hardware
Industry analyst writes an obituary for SOA, security researchers compromise Intel's vPro platform, rumors of 16,000 IBM layoffs circulate, and more Industry analyst writes an obituary for SOA, security researchers compromise Intel's vPro platform, rumors of 16,000 IBM layoffs circulate, and more
Roadmap and Strategy update for Oracle WebLogic Portal Hear Josh Lannin, Director of Product Management for Oracle's Enterprise 2.0 and portal products, discuss Oracle's strategy and roadmap for WebLogic Portal (formerly BEA WebLogic Portal). Learn about feature updates, integrations and certifications specific to Oracle WebLogic Portal.
Leveraging Security Policies and Procedures for Electronic Evidence Discovery Being able to effectively respond to e-discovery requests depends on well-defined, enacted policies, procedures, and processes.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Special Edition Jim and Dave discuss the security implications of the January bulletins. MS09-001 is highlighted.
Nathan Harrington on social network visualization aids Nathan Harrington, IBM programmer and regular developerWorks contributor, talks about his new article, "Social networking open source visualization aids: Using Graphviz, the Google Chart API, and CAIDA's plot-latlong tool to analyze your social networks' attributes." And we run down the other titles highlighted this week.
Tom Schindl and the Future of Nebula Tom Schindl and the Future of Nebula
RWW Live: Running a Startup in a Down Economy In the first RWW Live of 2009, we tackle an issue that is of vital importance to all startups right now - how to navigate through the choppy waters of the current economy. Joining the ReadWriteWeb authors, our special guests on our live podcast show are entrepreneurs from BrightKite and Zoho, two startups that were recognized by ReadWriteWeb in our annual end of the year awards: Zoho won ‘Best Little Co’ and BrightKite won ‘Most Promising Little Co’.
How To Avoid Credit Card Chargebacks Every merchant wants to avoid a chargeback, but sometimes it seems like they have no control over customers who call their credit card companies and ask for refunds. For example, customers may choose the cheapest and slowest shipping option during an order and expect the package to arrive at priority shipping rates. They can then demand a chargeback, only to receive their merchandise soon afterwards.
Apple's Jobs sheds light on health issues, China sentences 11 software pirates to jail, Microsoft's Zune not ready for leap year, and more Apple's Jobs sheds light on health issues, China sentences 11 software pirates to jail, Microsoft's Zune not ready for leap year, and more
Roadmap and Strategy Update for Oracle Portal Hear Sanjay Kwatra, Consulting Product Manager for Oracle's Enterprise 2.0 and portal products, discuss Oracle's strategy and roadmap for Oracle Portal. Learn about feature updates, integrations and certifications specific to Oracle's Application Server Portal.
A Technical Look at How Parallel Processing Brings Vast New Capabilities to Large-Scale BI and Data Analysis Internet-scale data gathering, swarms of sensors outputs, and content signals from the mobile device fabric -- as well as enterprises piling up ever more kinds of metadata to analyze -- have stretched traditional data-management models to the breaking point. Yet advances in parallel processing using multi-core chipsets have prompted new software approaches such as MapReduce that can handle these data chores at surprisingly low total cost. What are the technical underpinnings that support the new demands being placed on, and by, extreme data sets? What economies of scale can we anticipate? To provide a technical look at how parallelism, modern data infrastructure, and MapReduce technologies come together, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke with Joe Hellerstein, professor of computer science at UC Berkeley; Robin Bloor, analyst at Hurwitz & Associates, and Luke Lonergan, CTO and co-founder at Greenplum. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2009/01/technical-look-at-how-parallel.html. Sponsor: Greenplum.
Introducing the New LogMeIn Rescue See how the rich feature set in the latest version of LogMeIn Rescue can help you solve your complex support needs simply. Technician Collaboration and Screen Sharing are just two of LogMeIn's new tools that can help technicians get more done and boost end-user satisfaction.
Web Analytics for Marketers - Brand, Direct, Online and Cross-Channel Learn how brand, direct, online and cross-channel marketers can all utilize web analytics. Join industry leading experts as they discuss the changing needs of marketers as it relates to web analytics.
The PMO Summit 2008 The PMO Podcast™ Featured Story This week The PMO Podcast™ Featured Story presents, “The PMO Summit 2008", an interview with Marie-Louise Adlercreutz, the Conference Director with the International Quality and Productivity Center, the IQPC. Are you seeking to setup a PMO this your or next? Could your existing PMO be more successful in its efforts to deliver projects within the set time-frame and budget? If so, this exclusive conference presents an invaluable opportunity for you to hear practical experiences that highlight best practice strategies from leading organizations. The PMO Summit 2008 is for PMO executives who want to take their program management efforts to the next level moving beyond a strict focus on technology and accreditation, but effectively incorporating the "soft skills" associated with team-building and leadership development to create a more holistic PMO strategy.
Java Posse #224 - Holiday 2008 Special Our traditional Odyssey into non-Java geeking, although there is a fair amount of Java meat if you can make it through to the latter half of the podcast. It's long, it's rambling, it's off topic, and it was fun.
The Single Best PR Advice for 2009 – Think Like a News Organization The problem with many companies trying to get PR and media coverage is they think like a company. They need to think like a news organization about themselves, their industry, and the communities in which they play. In the first Marketing Edge episode for 2009 we talk with Kevin Dugan, co-author of the Bad Pitch Blog. The Bad Pitch Blog is a must read for any PR or corporate communications professional, and more importantly, clients of PR organizations. Why clients? Because you don’t want to put your organization or your firm in a situation where the pitch becomes the news. We get into how not to craft a bad pitch and approaching PR with a different perspective in part because social media has changed the landscape of public relations Meanwhile here’s an old PR versus new PR list for 2009, Kind of like a PR fashionista list. Old PR Thinking News is only when the company has a new product, version or customer. News is something you distribute to the news media Avoid discussion of controversial subjects that impact the company No discussion of company strategy or internal debate Limit most of communication to print or text New PR Thinking Evaluate potential news items as if you were an editorial board of a multimedia publishing company monthly if not more frequently. Consider information as it is perceived by a variety of communities impacted by your company, that’s who really determines news. News can be targeted by community participation, posted to a blog, included in a podcast and a variety of other means, you don’t need to blanket the world Use the right medium, audio, video, print, mash-up, others to convey the story Get involved in issues that matter to your industry, whether you take a position or participate in the debate, don’t sit on the sidelines. You are your own media outlet, create a channel like blip.tv, blog, podcast, slide share, and make it easy for users to share with others. Video is not limited to TV, fully integrated multimedia news organizations may well be the right target for a pitch that was previously considered the realm of television.
Research Domain Names Before You Bid It is crucial to research a domain name before choosing it. Failing to do so may lead to a less than reputable name, problems with search engines, and low PageRank. This article emphasizes the importance of this procedure, and also includes tips to avoid tainted domain names before bidding.
Breaking SSL, PDP-8's & UltraCapacitors Leo and I discuss the newly discovered cracks in SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), Antique PDP-8 minicomputers, a new PDP-8 kit you can build, and the importance of next generation UltraCapacitors.
Restauration granulaire des environnements SharePoint Restaurez SharePoint rapidement et de manière granulaire avec Recovery Manager for SharePoint.
Is Silicon Valley Losing Its Magic? BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Steve Hamm discuss whether Silicon Valley still has its mojo, or will risk aversion and myopia kill the golden goose?
Episode 149 | Texas Braces for an Oil Bust, In the Downturn, Europe's Airlines Scramble to Merge Episode 149 | Texas Braces for an Oil Bust, In the Downturn, Europe's Airlines Scramble to Merge
Intelligent Branch Office Communication Strategies Craig Wilson, Principle Business Communications consultant and Bruce Mazza, Director of Avaya Intelligent Branch Solutions join Nick Lippis to discuss strategies that create value within branch offices through intelligent communication solutions.
Getting Started with Lead Nurturing Are you responsible for B2B lead management and want a deep dive into how to implement lead nurturing and scoring? This webinar imparts practical steps for developing your lead nurturing plan and gives you checklists you can use to ensure execution success. Includes a look at Marketo's own lead nurturing program.
Performance Management at the Hub of the Talent Wheel In this session, Lisa Rowan of IDC and Judy Sweeney of Taleo outline their research on why Performance Management has become the focal point of talent management. Learn all of the vital talent functions and how they work together for achieving true talent management maturity. Lisa's presentation is followed by Taleo's latest research on the benefits of unified talent management.
Improving IT Infrastructure with Change Management Increasingly, IT departments are regarded as service providers to end users. This means that IT manager must view hardware, software and IT activity with an end objective of ensuring exceptional service. For IT organizations, this means adopting best practices to ensure system availability, prevent disruptions, and meet compliance. To accomplish this, strong operational processes are required to support change management. Discover in this webcast: How strong change management processes can lower costs, reduce risks and improve service; Why automating the documentation of configuration items is important for meeting compliance and ensuring the CMDB is accurate.
Elements of the Efficient Enterprise, Part 3: Component Efficiency Striving for peak efficiency in your data center? Then don't underestimate the impact of energy-efficient components. Learn best practices to help your data center become more efficient.
A Green Strategy for Your Entire Organization With today’s market realities, going green is not only socially responsible, it’s an economic imperative. Traditional green IT strategies have focused on the data center alone. This white paper discusses how to realize energy efficiencies throughout the organization, and explores optimization strategies around the areas of people, workloads, and infrastructure.
5 Hidden Costs of Networked Storage IT departments of every size are re-evaluating their storage strategies based on new factors, such as energy usage and regulatory compliance requirements. IT professionals need to consider what they are really paying for. Many networked storage solutions come with “hidden” costs, which only crop up after the system has been installed and in service for a period of time. This white paper examines the issues to be aware of when evaluating networked storage solutions. It also explains how newer enterprise storage vendors have addressed the hidden costs of networked storage.
Increasing Business Agility: An Integrated Approach to Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management This SAP Executive Insight focuses on helping executives determine: What are the consequences of today’s typical GRC approaches? Where do their organizations stand from a GRC maturity perspective? How can they lay the foundation for an effective GRC strategy?
Time to Change: New Thoughts on Supporting Business Change
Aligning Sales Territories to Enhance Sales Productivity
Best Practices of the Best-Run Sales Organizations Executive Insight
Enhancing Interaction Center ROI in Turbulent Economic Times
Protecting and Nurturing your Brand
Automating CMS Core Measure Discovery and Analysis
Improving Retailer Responsiveness
Multi-Channel Optimization
Performance Matters Toward Transparent, Accountable and Effective Delivery of Public Services
Team Development with Zend Studio for Eclipse Today’s development organizations are under ever increasing pressure to be more productive. One key factor for productivity is effective coordination across development teams. PHP Expert Peter MacIntyre demonstrates how Zend Studio for Eclipse can help improve productivity and team coordination with capabilities to allow for effective use of Source Code Management, Code Refactoring, integration between development and deployment environments and more.
High Availability/Clustering with Zend Platform The Webinar provides a detailed discussion on Zend Platform session clustering and how PHP applications can take advantage of this highly scalable solution. Session clustering can also provide a more robust and reliable user experience by offering a highly available fail-over solution for your PHP environment. Learn how Zend Platform session clustering seamlessly enables your current single server PHP application to easily be distributed onto a cluster of servers.
Keene, Schneider Review 2008 Financial, Economic Turmoil Keene, Schneider Review 2008 Financial, Economic Turmoil
Curing the Bumbling Idiot Syndrome Are your users the first to notice an application performance problem? Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates explains how to change practices and technologies to ensure IT is the first to notice a problem and look less like idiots.
Java Posse #223 - Roundup 08 - Debugging Software Development Java Posse #223 - Roundup 08 - Debugging Software Development
TIME Recession Toolkit TIME's Katherine Lanpher talks with TIME's business reporting team about the forecasts on next year's economy, Bernie Madoff
BriefingsDirect Analysts Make 2009 Predictions for Enterprise IT, SOA, Cloud and Business Intelligence Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 35, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Dec. 19, 2008, our guests make their top five predictions for IT in 2009. We're going to look at what trends may have changed in 2008, but with an emphasis on the impacts for IT users, and buyers and sellers in the coming year. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum; Brad Shimmin, principal analyst at Current Analysis, Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and prolific blogger; Dave Linthicum, founder of Linthicum Group; Mike Meehan, senior analyst at Current Analysis, and JP Morgenthal, senior analyst at Burton Group. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner.
BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights #35: 2009 predictions In this final podcast of the year, Dana Gardner interviews key analysts for their 2009 predictions for enterprise IT, SOA, cloud and business intelligence. The panel also discusses the economy and the Obama administration’s impact on IT.
Vudu Takes Internet Video to the TV If you would like to learn about an appliance that permits users to access limited Internet Video content, including movie rentals, for viewing on the TV, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Edward Lichty who is the Executive Vice President of Vudu. His company manufactures a $300 appliance enabling consumers to get limited Internet Video on their TVs. Although there are limitations on the content available, set-up is said to be relatively simple. While Vudu normally uses WiFi to access the Internet, dongles are provided that claim to offer “plug-and-play” simplicity. One attaches to the Vudu unit and the other to the router normally used in a home network. If the user does not already have a router, she will have to buy one in addition to the Vudu appliance. Compared to other appliances, Vudu is an attractive unit because it uses P2P technology, network optimization, and pre-caching of content in order to enable users to begin the viewing experience promptly. There is no requirement to wait for a long download. Presently, the catalog of available content is heavily weighted toward movies which may be rented or purchased. Recently-released motion pictures are normally available for purchase at the time they are also released for DVD distribution. The waiting period for rentals is longer because the studios want to maximize revenues by first offering them for sale and later offering them as rentals. Currently, Vudu has about 11,000 movies in its catalog. Rentals for standard definition are $4 while HD movies can be rented for $6. Purchased movies are $20. In December the company announced two noteworthy initiatives. First, it now provides access to free Internet Video at YouTube. Second, the company launched a platform permitting developers to offer services via Vudu. It is much like the Apps Store at Apple for the iPhone. One, hypothetical, example of an app that could be attractive on Vudu would be access to the Internet Movie Database at www.imdb.com. Access to IMDB would permit Vudu users to investigate movies they might want to watch before making a selection.
BetterProcess Podcast Featuring ThomasNet: Bringing Buyers and Sellers Together Search ThomasNet to find manufacturers, distributors and service providers - from Actuators to Zirconium and everything in between. ThomasNet is built on the legacy of Thomas Register®, industry's trusted resource for 100+ years.
Catbird Security and 3Leaf Systems Getting Recognition Catbird was recently named one of 10 companies to watch in 2008 by CRN magazine, which makes good sense. The company's solution marries two hot market segments - virtualization and security. 3Leaf Systems has also been getting a lot of media attention lately and has also received recognition for its virtualization I/O solution.
Marvin Davis on a Take No Prisoners Approach to Excellence How to face tough times and fix problems before it's too late.
Drop My Rights Leo and I delve into the inner workings of a free, easy to use and useful yet unknown Microsoft utility known as "DropMyRights." It can be used to easily run selected, dangerous Internet-facing applications - such as your web browser and email client - under reduced, safer non-administrative privileges while everything else in the system runs unhampered.
Rails and Merb agree to merge, datacenters to cut spending in 2009, laptops sales top desktop PC sales in Q3, and more Rails and Merb agree to merge, datacenters to cut spending in 2009, laptops sales top desktop PC sales in Q3, and more
SOA and BPM: Understanding the Connection A panel of Oracle experts wraps up their discussion of SOA and BPM with a look at the automation of SOA governance and the overall impact on the ultimate success of a SOA intiative.
RWW Live Special: 2008 Year in Review For the final RWW Live show of the year, the ReadWriteWeb writers get together to review the year in Web technology.
Hot dog! Hot deal! IBM BladeCenter LS42 blade servers Learn about the new IBM BladeCenter LS42 2-socket blade server with 2+2 pricing that offers simple blade expansion with investment protection that no competitor can match.
IBM BladeCenter: The right choice Learn about the latest innovations of IBM BladeCenter. From the new SAN storage capabilities of the BladeCenter S to our newly announced blade servers including the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron-based BladeCenter LS22 and LS42.
IBM BladeCenter with Embedded Hypervisor Learn how you can deploy virtual machines in minutes with the IBM BladeCenter HS21 XM blade server with the VMware ESXi embedded hypervisor.
Visual Studio and Ruby improvements slated, Microsoft warns of bug in SQL Server, Palm gets cash infusion from VC firm Elevation Partners, and more Visual Studio and Ruby improvements slated, Microsoft warns of bug in SQL Server, Palm gets cash infusion from VC firm Elevation Partners, and more
IBM BladeCenter QS22 blade server Learn how the IBM BladeCenter QS22 blade server can solve the most demanding real-world computational challenges.
Stanford University's Zare Says Teachers Need to Inspire Stanford University's Zare Says Teachers Need to Inspire
Telelogic - Align IT investments to business objectives Rational Talks to You - Scott Hebner sits down with Redmonk Analyst Michael Cote to discuss the recent IBM acquisition of Telelogic and how this expansion of the Rational portfolio will enable customers to better analyze and manage change to their business processes
Rose to Rhapsody Rose to Rhapsody
Eclipse Modeling Interview with Stephan Eberle Markus Voelter interviews Stephan Eberle from Geensys at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008 after the first session of the Modeling Symposium. They discuss the Autosar Tool Platform open source project, nicknamed Artop.
Eclipse Modeling Interview with Stephan Eberle Markus Voelter interviews Stephan Eberle from Geensys at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008 after the first session of the Modeling Symposium. They discuss the Autosar Tool Platform open source project, nicknamed Artop.
Eclipse Modeling Interview with Jos Warmer Markus Voelter interviews Jos Warmer from Ordina at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008 after the first session of the Modeling Symposium. They discuss the scalability of models.
Eclipse Modeling Interview with Markus Hermannsdoerfer and Moritz Eysholdt Markus Voelter interviews Markus Hermannsdoerfer from Technische Universität München (TUM) and Moritz Eysholdt from itemis at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008 after the first session of the Modeling Symposium. They discuss model evolution and migration.
Eclipse Modeling Interview with Jan Koehnlein and Sven Efftinge Markus Voelter interviews Jan Koehnlein and Sven Efftinge from itemis at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008 after the first session of the Modeling Symposium. They discuss Xtext - the Textual Modeling Framework and the storage format for textual models.
Automotive Symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe - Part 4 The development of embedded software in the automotive domain requires dealing with an increasing number of artifacts like requirements, analysis and design models, validation rules, configuration and calibration parameters or code, and increasing complexity managing the entire car lifecycle. Eclipse open source technology is providing unprecedented opportunities for building and integrating development tools for the automotive domain. Eclipse Modeling, JDT, CDT, DSDP and OSEE deliver excellent starting points and solutions. A steadily increasing number of commercial tool vendors offer Eclipse-based tools, such as AUTOSAR tool providers and Embedded Operating Systems vendors who offer Eclipse based Workbenches & IDEs. Other open source projects relevant to the automotive domain like TOPCASED are also based on Eclipse. The purpose of the Automotive Symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008 in Ludwigsburg Germany was to explore present or future applications of the Eclipse platform in the automotive industry, research and education. Part 4 of 4
Automotive Symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe - Part 3 The development of embedded software in the automotive domain requires dealing with an increasing number of artifacts like requirements, analysis and design models, validation rules, configuration and calibration parameters or code, and increasing complexity managing the entire car lifecycle. Eclipse open source technology is providing unprecedented opportunities for building and integrating development tools for the automotive domain. Eclipse Modeling, JDT, CDT, DSDP and OSEE deliver excellent starting points and solutions. A steadily increasing number of commercial tool vendors offer Eclipse-based tools, such as AUTOSAR tool providers and Embedded Operating Systems vendors who offer Eclipse based Workbenches & IDEs. Other open source projects relevant to the automotive domain like TOPCASED are also based on Eclipse. The purpose of the Automotive Symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008 in Ludwigsburg Germany was to explore present or future applications of the Eclipse platform in the automotive industry, research and education. Part 3 of 4
Automotive Symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe - Part 2 The development of embedded software in the automotive domain requires dealing with an increasing number of artifacts like requirements, analysis and design models, validation rules, configuration and calibration parameters or code, and increasing complexity managing the entire car lifecycle. Eclipse open source technology is providing unprecedented opportunities for building and integrating development tools for the automotive domain. Eclipse Modeling, JDT, CDT, DSDP and OSEE deliver excellent starting points and solutions. A steadily increasing number of commercial tool vendors offer Eclipse-based tools, such as AUTOSAR tool providers and Embedded Operating Systems vendors who offer Eclipse based Workbenches & IDEs. Other open source projects relevant to the automotive domain like TOPCASED are also based on Eclipse. The purpose of the Automotive Symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008 in Ludwigsburg Germany was to explore present or future applications of the Eclipse platform in the automotive industry, research and education. Part 2 of 4
Searching Internet Video for TV Viewing If you would like to learn about a video search engine that “looks” within the content of Internet video files, as opposed to relying upon metadata like conventional search engines, this Interview is for you. Our guest today is Suranga Chandratillake, who is the CEO of Blinkx.com. Although the company is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, it is headquartered in San Francisco. Blinkx operates a search engine dedicated to Internet Video. Unlike conventional search engines that can only “look” at the metadata of such files (e.g. the tags and titles); Blinkx actually inspects the text and phonetics. The company also recently launched a website that functions as an aggregating directory for TV shows that are legitimately available on the Internet, typically for free viewing. Recently I attached a laptop to my HD television in order to access Internet Video on the TV. The television is a 42-inch LCD flat panel and the laptop connects to it via an HDMI cable. Unlike earlier connection technologies, HDMI carries both video and sound and the video can be High Definition. The laptop connects to the Internet via dot-11g WiFi. From the sofa, I use a remote mouse and keyboard to surf the Web and watch Internet Videos on the TV is a lean-back viewing experience about 16-feet from the screen. It is fun to get Internet Video on the TV. I have logged my activities in order to understand how they may be changing my viewing practices. One of the most obvious changes has been heavy reliance upon search engines to find video of interest. This primarily reflects the “Long-Tail” characteristics of the Net that send me in search of content that I could never otherwise find on conventional TV. Thus, I believe that future mass-market consumers will also want to optimize the search function when they get their TVs jacked-into the Internet. While the Blinkx search engine crawls the Net effectively, it will identify a single video multiple times if the video is posted in several places. For example, Inside Digital Media video podcasts are often posted at YouTube, Veoh, and Blip.tv as well as our own website. Blinkx finds each posting and lists them separately. This might confuse the inexperienced user.
Automotive Symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe - Part 1 The development of embedded software in the automotive domain requires dealing with an increasing number of artifacts like requirements, analysis and design models, validation rules, configuration and calibration parameters or code, and increasing complexity managing the entire car lifecycle. Eclipse open source technology is providing unprecedented opportunities for building and integrating development tools for the automotive domain. Eclipse Modeling, JDT, CDT, DSDP and OSEE deliver excellent starting points and solutions. A steadily increasing number of commercial tool vendors offer Eclipse-based tools, such as AUTOSAR tool providers and Embedded Operating Systems vendors who offer Eclipse based Workbenches & IDEs. Other open source projects relevant to the automotive domain like TOPCASED are also based on Eclipse. The purpose of the Automotive Symposium at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008 in Ludwigsburg Germany was to explore present or future applications of the Eclipse platform in the automotive industry, research and education. Part 1 of 4
Resume tips for technology pros, the DRAM bailout moves forward, Lenovo releases a ThinkPad with two LCD screens, and more Resume tips for technology pros, the DRAM bailout moves forward, Lenovo releases a ThinkPad with two LCD screens, and more
Wired's Chris Anderson on the vision of "free" Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson joined us for a year-ender to talk about the ideas from his Wired article and forthcoming book on free and the future of business.
Elements of the Efficient Enterprise, Part 2: Modular Technology Want to stop wasting power with oversized legacy systems? Then use modular technology to pay as you grow. Standardization enables an easily scalable architecture designed to meet changing needs and future expansion. Through modularization can be fast to implement as well as lower total cost of ownership for IT environments.
How to compare data deduplication products W. Curtis Preston, vice president of data protection services for GlassHouse Technologies, discusses the challenges of deploying data deduplication products.
Java Posse #222 - Newscast for Dec 20th 2008 Java Posse #222 - Newscast for Dec 20th 2008
Knowing Your Festival Rights (Part 1) Are the issues of ownership impacting on the development of your festival? If you're worried about protecting your event concept and production ideas then this panel discussion/networking event run in partnership with CIDA will explode some of the myths surrounding festival design and management and help put your mind at ease. Leading experts will discuss some of the often contentious issues of intellectual property that may affect the festivals sector. This is an event that is aimed festival and event organisers or organisations who can share experience and be put into the picture regarding some of the best ways to copyright a concept, monitor brand usage and get the right contracts in place. Disclaimer: Own-it podcasts are for information only and are not a substitute for legal advice or support; all podcasts are related to UK only.
Living Rewired and Defeating Distraction Two authors present ideas for surviving and thriving in the online era.
BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights #34: cloud computing Dana Gardner interviews a panel of experts on the impact cloud computing will have on large, established IT vendors. A must-listen if you want to want to learn more about the next big trend in technology.
A look at the tech week that was: No Jobs keynote at Macworld '09, tips for securing your BlackBerry, Amazon as Santa sweatshop, and more A look at the tech week that was: No Jobs keynote at Macworld '09, tips for securing your BlackBerry, Amazon as Santa sweatshop, and more
Why Web Services Security Should Be a Key Part of Your Web IAM Security Strategy Too many organizations are considering their Web services security architectures separately from their IAM and security management strategies. This is a mistake. This podcast will address the following questions: *Why Web Services and SOA are linked to IAM *Why organizations are further opening their applications and data to partners and customers with Web services *How should organizations manage a transition to Web services *How can the CA IAM solutions help enable and secure this
GTR 151: Green Blogger Series: Maryanne Conlin of Ecopreneurist GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily talk Maryanne Conlin, a lead writer for the green business-focused blog Ecopreneurist.com, and a marketing consultant with expertise in targeting LOHAS consumers. 
Episode 148 | Cementing the Future, eBay Bids for Revitalization Episode 148 | Cementing the Future, eBay Bids for Revitalization
Pay-per-click Expert on Advertising in a Recession News reports indicate that revenue growth for Google and other search engines is slowing. Bids on keywords and keyword phrases, some say, are softening. Could all of this be an opportunity for ecommerce merchants to increase PPC ad spend and gain more customers? We asked this to Tina Kelly, a pay-per-click advertising expert and an Online Marketing Manager for Netconcepts, a pay-per-click and search-engine-optimization marketing firm.
Rational Telelogic Strategy and Vision Rational Telelogic Strategy and Vision
Value for insurers with dynamic BPM capabilities Insurers are becoming increasingly customer-focused. Learn how dynamic BPM can optimize insurance processes, giving rise to a new approach which dynamically assembles reusable assets for a higher level of customization and helps deliver more customer-focused products and services.
Executive perspective: The IBM-ACI Alliance Philip Heasley - CEO & President of ACI Worldwide, discusses the business value to IBM and ACI customers, of ACI's December 2007 decision to base its next generation payment application portfolio on IBM middleware running on the IBM Mainframe - The System z.
Value for bankers with dynamic BPM capabilities Today's banking payment operations are often fragmented, complex, inflexible and costly. Learn how dynamic BPM can optimize banking payments processes giving rise to an entirely new approach which dynamically assembles reusable assets for a higher level of customization and enhanced customer experiences.
Value for telcos with dynamic BPM capabilities Telecoms need to attract new customers, refocus on customer satisfaction and consolidate existing relationships. Dynamic BPM can optimize processes giving rise to a new approach which dynamically assembles reusable assets for a higher level of customization and helps deliver more customer-focused products and services.
Investment Outlook BusinessWeek's Executive Editor John A. Byrne and Senior Editor Suzanne Woolley discuss investing strategies for 2009, including ways to keep your money safe.
Tough Love for SOA Vendors SOA Report - More tough love for SOA vendors
IBM InfoSphere Warehouse features IBM InfoSphere Warehouse is a dynamic, integrated data warehousing solution that delivers all the functions required to deploy, maintain and evolve an intelligent data warehouse.
Sisters of Mercy - Visibility and automation improve service delivery “IBM Service Management solutions are facilitating a business process transformation that fosters a culture of productivity and continuous improvement, so we can help our providers better serve patients.”- Will Showalter, Chief Operating Officer for Mercy Information Services Division, Sisters of Mercy Health System
Adobe extends AIR to Linux desktops, Yahoo to scrub personal data after three months, Mozilla issues patches for Firefox, and more Adobe extends AIR to Linux desktops, Yahoo to scrub personal data after three months, Mozilla issues patches for Firefox, and more
Executive perspective: The IBM-ACI Alliance Philip Heasley - CEO & President of ACI Worldwide, discusses the business value to IBM and ACI customers, of ACI's December 2007 decision to base its next generation payment application portfolio on IBM middleware running on the IBM Mainframe - The System z.
Speaking of Security Podcast #133 is week's Speaking of Security podcast features part two of an interesting discussion with Uri Rivner, Head of New Technologies for RSA. Uri talks about what organizations can do to combat fraudsters. Through a layered security approach, organizations can stay one step ahead to mitigate the risk of fraudsters targeting their business.
Speaking of Security Podcast #133 This week's Speaking of Security podcast features part two of an interesting discussion with Uri Rivner, Head of New Technologies for RSA. Uri talks about what organizations can do to combat fraudsters. Through a layered security approach, organizations can stay one step ahead to mitigate the risk of fraudsters targeting their business.
How to Simplify Archiving and Security for Your Multi-Platform Communications Data A multi-platform messaging system can dramatically boost productivity, but brings risks to your organisation’s security and compliance efforts. To minimise these risks, you must capture data and enforce policies on e-mail, IM, mobile, VoIP or conferencing use to safeguard confidential information and meet regulatory demands. And doing so means added burdens in administration as well as a drain on resources and budget. Attend this enlightening webcast and learn how Quest Archive Manager and Policy Authority for Unified Communications can help your organisation address these challenges so it can reap the benefits of multi-platform messaging system. You will discover how to reduce storage costs, improve e-discovery response time and maintain strict compliance by efficiently preserving and protecting business-critical messaging data throughout your entire environment.
Microsoft preps emergency IE patch, Jobs to skip Macworld amid health questions, Taiwan announces bailout for DRAM makers, and more Microsoft preps emergency IE patch, Jobs to skip Macworld amid health questions, Taiwan announces bailout for DRAM makers, and more
Smartphone Support: A Must-Have for Enterprise IT To take advantage of all the benefits of smartphones and mobile devices, IT must deliver remote smartphone support that is efficient, easy to use, affordable, and secure. Palm Valley Health Care’s support team does just that. To ensure nurses spend more time in the field with patients, and zero time on the technical issues, Palm Valley’s IT department recognized early on that it needed an easy and cost-effective way to support their mobile devices – without having the nurses bring them in for service. View this webcast on demand as the experts discuss the best way to support mobile devices and smartphones.
Episode 76: Communities of Interest Episode 76: Communities of Interest
Surviving the Economic Downturn: Are You Ready to Move to a SaaS Model? Faced with intensifying competition, demanding customers, as well as a desire for more stable revenue streams and stronger customer relationships, software companies are increasingly transitioning to the Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model. Join us on this webinar to explore the state of the SaaS industry in tough economic times and discover how outsourcing SaaS software development can save you money whether you're just starting out in the industry or are already a well established player. The webinar reviews how both established and start-up technology companies are partnering with GlobalLogic for Global Product Development that delivers high quality, accelerated time-to-market and lower TCO while showcasing the GlobalLogic Service Delivery Platform, a set of components that provides a software delivery architecture and standards-based software environment for the design, development, deployment and management of SaaS applications.
Why Customers should upgrade to the latest release of Oracle’s Siebel CRM Listen to George Jacob, Group Vice President, CRM discuss the advantages of upgrading to the latest release of Siebel CRM and how the cost of upgrading is actually just a fraction of what you think.
2008 Holiday Round Up This year's holiday episode looks at the year in review and the various topics covered on the SyberWorks e-Learning Podcast Series.
SMILA - SeMantic Information Logistics Architecture The amount and diversity of information is growing exponentially, mainly in the area of unstructured data, like emails, text files, blogs and images. Poor data accessibility, user rights integration and the lack of semantic metadata are constraining factors for building next generation enterprise search and other document centric applications. Missing standards result in proprietary solutions with huge short and long term cost. SMILA is an extensible framework for building search solutions to access unstructured information in the enterprise. Besides providing essential infrastructure components and services, SMILA also delivers ready-to-use add-on components, like connectors to most relevant data sources. Using the framework as their basis will enable developers to concentrate on the creation of higher value solutions, like semantic driven applications. This webinar will present the SMILA project (emphasizing the integration possibilities), provide the status report about the latest project developments and give a short demonstration of currently implemented features.
Tinker Federal Credit Union -- Intelligent Workload Automation “This has been instrumental in helping us save nearly $225,000 a year, extend branch hours by five hours, and improve energy efficiency." Steve S. Mooney, Vice President, IS Operations. Tinker Federal Credit Union
Eaton Corporation - Managing energy in the data center “Working together, IBM and Eaton offer a truly comprehensive view of the data center environment to help companies make strategic decisions on energy usage, service levels and workload throughput in the data center.” - Dr. Kenneth Uhlman, Director, Data Center Business Development, Eaton Corporation
Turbo Todd collides with some 2008 search words Popular developerWorks blogger Todd Watson riffs on some of the top search words of 2008 and his own experiences with places and events surrounding them.
Marketing Podcast with Wendy Vinson with E-Myth Worldwide As some of you may know I spent some time working with Michael Gerber and the E-myth and Michael wrote the foreword to my book. I had the opportunity to work with the folks at E-Myth Worldwide last month as I conducted a two-day marketing intensive in Sonoma County. It was a great event and a great opportunity to reconnect with some old friends. One of those old (and by that I mean long-time) friends is Wendy Vinson, who currently serves as the President / Chief Operating Officer at E-Myth Worldwide. Wendy joined me for this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast to discuss the E-Myth point of view and E-Myth Worldwide programs.
SOA and BPM: Understanding the Connection A panel of Oracle experts discusses the connection and synergy between SOA and BPM, and their impact on efficiency and agility.
MapReduce-scale Analytics Change BI Landscape as Enterprises Mine Ever-Expanding Data Sets Internet-scale data sets and Web-scale analytics have placed a different set of requirements on software infrastructure and data processing techniques. More types of companies and organizations are seeking new inferences and insights across a variety of massive datasets -- some into the petabyte scale. How can all this data be shifted and analyzed quickly, and how can we deliver the results to an inclusive class of business-focused users? Such companies as Greenplum are now focusing on how MapReduce approaches are changing business intelligence (BI) and the data-management game. To provide an in-depth look at how parallelism, modern data infrastructure, and MapReduce technologies come together, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke with Tim O’Reilly, CEO and founder of O’Reilly Media; Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research, and Scott Yara, president and co-founder at Greenplum.
Identity and Access Management 101 Overview Educational Series: "Sanity in an 'I- Need-to-Update-My-Address-Again' World" Achieving sanity with identity and access management is not challenging. With the right solution, IT can automate hire-and-fire user provisioning, and allow changes (i.e. updating a an employee’s address in an HR application) to be made across all applications within the organization without administrator intervention.
Episode 147 | How Struggling Cities Can Reinvent Themselves, Can Congress Pass an Auto Bailout Bill Nobody Likes? Episode 147 | How Struggling Cities Can Reinvent Themselves, Can Congress Pass an Auto Bailout Bill Nobody Likes?
Apple pushes out critical Mac OS X security patches, Motorola wins next-gen mobile contract in China, North Korea gets 3G service, and more Apple pushes out critical Mac OS X security patches, Motorola wins next-gen mobile contract in China, North Korea gets 3G service, and more
New Orleans Saints consolidate servers with IBM BladeCenter S The New Orleans Saints consolidated 20 servers onto an IBM BladeCenter S and virtualized their applications with VMware, allowing the team to better utilize available space, reduce its carbon footprint, improve data availability and enable IT portability.
Irshad Raihan on the XML Challenge IBM's Irshad Raihan talks about the XML Challenge sponsored by the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) running now through Feb 1 2009. He desribes the contest, levels of participation, prizes, and talks about IDUG.
The IDUG Community The President of the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) and IDUG members talk about the benefits of being part of the IDUG community.
Trust ME! Selling Consulting Selling Consulting Services as a Sales Professional There is a big difference between selling products and selling services. As a sales professional its important to understand what those differences are. In this episode Mike and Joe talk about the unique characteristics of selling services and strategies sales professionals can utilize to increase your chances for success.
IT Systems Analytics Become More Crucial as Cloud and SaaS Adoption Raises Complexity Bar Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing are changing the nature of IT systems' performance requirements and heightening expectations for end users of applications and myriad services. Increasingly, this expected level of visibility, management, and performance will apply to those serving up applications as services regardless of their hosting origins or models. To learn more about how systems log tools and analysis are aiding providers of cloud and SaaS, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke with Phil Wainewright, an independent analyst and director at Procullux Ventures and SaaS blogger at ZDNet and ebizQ, as well as Jian Zhen, senior director of product management at LogLogic.
Volusion CEO on High-Performing eCommerce Sites What, exactly, makes for a high-performing ecommerce site? We asked this question to Kevin Sproles, the founder and CEO of Volusion, a hosted shopping cart firm that boasts over 10,000 clients. Sproles is an ecommerce pioneer, having founded Volusion in 1999. It is now a leader in ecommerce solutions, and Spoles has seen thousands of ecommerce sites over the years. He is also Volusion's Chief Software Architect and he speaks here with Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock.
Microsoft sees a huge increase in IE attacks, Alcatel-Lucent drops WiMax to cut costs, Intel invites developers to use parallelism, and more Microsoft sees a huge increase in IE attacks, Alcatel-Lucent drops WiMax to cut costs, Intel invites developers to use parallelism, and more
Interview with Xen Open-Source Virtualization Founder and Citrix VP Ian Pratt - December 15, 2008 - Episode 67 In episode 67, Douglas Brown interviews Ian Pratt, Vice President of Advanced Products for Citrix Systems, Inc. Ian is also the co-founder of XenSource, the company Citrix bought and turned into the XenServer solution, along with the head of development of the Xen open-source hypervisor project. Needless to say we were very excited to have Ian on the show. Ian and Douglas discuss Ian's role at Citrix along with his views on everything from client side hypervisors to virtualization security, to the differences between the Xen hypervisor and Citrix's XenServer hypervisor.
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 31 David Meerman Scott and The New Rules of Marketing and PR, Two Ways to win a copy of Seth Godin’s new book Tribes, Ten Golden Rules Podcast Intern Loukas Koufodontes and the site MarketingRopes.com, Fail Forward, an amazing Song of the week Blake Morgan’s version of Maybe I’m Amazed Call in line 206-888-6606
Internet Video in a Lean-Back Viewing Experience While many of us would like to display Internet-Video-on-the-TV, another way to get the lean-back viewing experience might be to use digital video projectors in conjunction with an Internet-connected personal (e.g. laptop) computer. Our guest today is Chris Chinnock who is the President of Insight Media. His company is a market research firm specializing in the information display industry. It is increasingly common for executives to carry portable projectors along with them on business trips in order to make presentations to clients and prospects. Typically the presentations are composed of a PowerPoint deck, but the slides sometimes include embedded video. Furthermore, the YouTube culture has permeated the business environment as well, so their presentations might often include a bit of web-surfing and YouTube videos as well. As with nearly everything electronic, projector technology has been regularly advancing. Device size has been shrinking, performance improving, and cost declining. In this interview we explore whether digital projectors might be used in conjunction with laptop computers to provide a lean-back viewing experience for Internet Video in the home environment. We ask whether TV shows and movies at websites like Hulu can be conveniently watched on a large screen at home with a compact and inexpensive projector attached to our laptops. The answer is a qualified “Yes”, but there are tradeoffs in terms of cost and viewing experience. For example, inexpensive projectors with LED or solid state laser light sources wont provide a bright enough image in ambient light. To get a good viewing experience the consumer will have to darken the room. Projectors that can provide a good experience in ambient light cost around $1500 to $2000 and use lamps with limited life.
MS08-078!!!! Craig Schmugar joins Dave and Jim to discuss Microsoft's critical, out-of-band, patch for Internet Explorer.
DB2 is Easy to Learn DBAs and other technology professionals tell us why they use DB2.
Dissecting DB2 with Julian Stuhler President of the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) and Principal Consultant at Triton Julian Stuhler addresses DB2's ease of use, compression capabilities, and his experiences working with IDUG.
Senior DBA Mark Mulligan Talks DB2 Mark Mulligan, senior DBA for a large insurance company, discusses his experiences with DB2 and his thoughs on the International DB2 Users Group.
Discussing DB2 with Bashir Khan from Dow Jones Bashir Khan is the Executive Director of Data Management and Business Intelligence at Dow Jones. He explains why his company chose IBM DB2 and why they continue to use it.
Marketo's Secret Sauce for Demand Generation In this webinar, learn how Marketo is using marketing automation to nurture, score and deliver greater numbers of qualified leads, and how you can too. You'll get practical steps for developing your lead nurturing plan and a behind the scenes look at Marketo's own lead nurturing program.
Driving More Value Through Expense Management Is the uncertain economy and the rising cost of business travel forcing your organization to reevaluate its T&E policies? View this informative webcast and learn how you can automate the T&E expense management process to help reduce spend and transaction costs while increasing control and compliance Join CFO Europe’s Research Editor, Jason Summer and Concur to discover how seamlessly combining travel booking and expense reporting can help your organisation.
Deliver Customer Support Excellence with Instant Chat Hear firsthand how Telus, a large telecommunications provider, can resolve issues faster, streamline communication with end-users and increase technician productivity by taking advantage of the new Instant Chat feature in LogMeIn Rescue.
Elements of the Efficient Enterprise, Part 1: Close-Coupled Cooling Want to guarantee efficient cooling in your data center? Then shorten the distance between heat generation and heat removal. Learn more about Close-Coupled Cooling methods in this informative video today.
Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Microsoft Exchange is the world’s most widely deployed email and collaboration solution. Microsoft continues to improve the product with each new revision, pushing the limits of existing server and storage devices. Microsoft Exchange 2007 is the latest version of the popular email solution. The most critical component of an Exchange deployment is the storage subsystem where the data is held. The scope of this paper is storage sizing and deployment practices for Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1 on the Pillar Data Systems Pillar Axiom in an email environment.
BriefingsDirect Analysts Handicap Large IT Vendors on How Cloud Trend Impacts Them Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 34, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Nov. 21, 2008, our experts focus on the impact that cloud computing will have on the large, established IT vendors. We really are only beginning to understand how the IT services delivery, data management, and economic models of cloud computing will impact the market. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum Research; Brad Shimmin, principal analyst at Current Analysis, and Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and prolific blogger on ZDNet and ebizQ. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner.
Using Semantic UI Framework to create 'Task List' view This screen cast shows how to create 'Task List' view with Semantic UI Framework Semantic UI Framework is a productivity framework that is developed by OnPositive Technologies and is licensed under EPL license. Framework uses xml files to describe UI structure and metadata descriptions (Java annotations or xml files) to describe details of UI and data binding. Framework supports tracking of changes and features rich undo redo support. Also, framework includes tooling support for tag libraries creation and WTP based editor for editing GUI description files. Semantic UI Framework allows you to quickly build interactive, Java-based rich client applications based on SWT/JFace. (More rendering backends are planned later) .
NaviSite succeeds with IBM XIV Storage NaviSite succeeds with IBM XIV Storage NaviSite supports customers with up to 50,000 users with storage and IT outsourcing solutions. See how the IBM XIV Storage Systems helps them with an easy-to-mange solution that saves time, reduces power consumption and delivers high performance.
Controls for Financial Statements Describes the controls that can be used during the creation of financial statements
Managed Virtualization GlassHouse Technologies, a leading independent IT infrastructure consulting and services firm, today announced the launch of a pioneering suite of Managed Services for Virtual Environments. The new services are delivered via an advanced Management Interface that leverages virtualization management software from Tek-Tools Software. This combination results in unparalleled visibility, monitoring and reporting of customers’ virtualized IT environments.
Portfolio Management: Focal Point and RMC Portfolio Management: Focal Point and RMC
Requirements Engineering: DOORS and Rational portfolio Requirements Engineering: DOORS and Rational portfolio
A look at the tech week that was: Obama outlines ambitious tech plan, Sony falls victim to the economic crisis, the mouse turns 40, and more A look at the tech week that was: Obama outlines ambitious tech plan, Sony falls victim to the economic crisis, the mouse turns 40, and more
IBM and Telelogic are taking Enterprise Architecture to the Mainstream IBM and Telelogic are taking Enterprise Architecture to the Mainstream
Rational Software Delivery Platform for Systems Rational Software Delivery Platform for Systems
Telelogic - Model Driven Systems Telelogic - Model Driven Systems
Quint Studer on Getting Results That Last How to build a corporate culture that continuously gets results.
Twitter for Business Webinar Audio I conducted a webinar with Chris Brogan @chrisbrogan on the business uses of twitter. It's a little more interactive than my typical podcast, but I thought you iTunes listeners might enjoy it as well.
SharePoint – mehr als nur Collaboration SharePoint unterlag in den letzten Jahren einem starken Wandel. Mit der Einführung von SharePoint 2007 nahm der „Collaboration Zug“ richtig Fahrt auf. Der Grund hierfür ist, dass SharePoint 2007 im Gegensatz zu SharePoint 2003 viele neue Funktionen und Eigenschaften beinhaltet, die es Unternehmen erstmals ermöglichten, richtiges „information sharing“ auf der Collaboration Plattform Sharepoint zu betreiben. Erfahren Sie in dieser Webseminar-Aufzeichnung mehr über folgende Themen: Was bedeutet „information sharing“ SharePoint als Unternehmens-Applikations-Plattform Entwicklung von Applikationen auf SharePoint SharePoint als zentrales Interface für Applikationen
Java Posse #221 - Devoxx 08 Special Devoxx 2008 Special We recorded this at Devoxx in front of a live audience - it was a hoot although as you will here there were some technical difficulties. Thanks to everyone who came to the recording and making loads of noise. The Java Posse will be back with a regular newscast as soon as we have recovered from the trip.
OMG readies SOA modeling language, Mozilla's security head to resign, Yahoo begins cutting staff, and more OMG readies SOA modeling language, Mozilla's security head to resign, Yahoo begins cutting staff, and more
Sandbox Limitations Having described “Sandboxie” and Virtual Machine sandboxing utilities in the past, Leo and I discuss the limitations of any sort of sandboxing for limiting the negative impacts of malware on a user's privacy and system's security.
Foglight Database Performance Analysis Foglight Database Performance Analysis captures and analyzes database workload to provide powerful insights into database performance for fast, effective tuning and troubleshooting. In this webcast, we introduce Performance Analysis and demonstrate its many features including: StealthCollect IntelliProfile Real-time and historical views Dimensional analysis Comparisons Performance advisories Change tracking Reporting See how Performance Analysis provides advanced workload analysis to improve performance, productivity and agility, while reducing costs. Performance Analysis: the next big thing in database performance management.
What's New in SQL Navigator 6.0? SQL Navigator is now more powerful, more flexible and easier to use. Make Better Code, Faster a reality with SQL Navigator 6.0! This archived Webcast will introduce you to new functionality, including: Unified Editor provides a consistent and streamlined workflow by combining the features of the SQL Editor and the Stored Program Editor Unicode Support allows you to browse and edit data with multi-byte character sets, including Japanese and Korean Enhanced Debugger simplifies the process of debugging stored programs through a new debugging workflow Enhanced Data Grid gives you greater flexibility and speed when working with large datasets (regardless of character set) Updated Workflow enables quick access to some of the most important tools you need like DB Explorer and Code Explorer through the Toolbox sidebar And more
SQLServerPedia.com -- The Definitive SQL Server Knowledge Base Gain access to SQL Server experts and learn more about SQLServerPedia.com by attending this webcast. SQLServerPedia.com is the free reference resource created for SQL Server professionals, by SQL Server professionals. See how you can access video training, as well as sample scripts for backup and recovery, index maintenance and performance tuning. Plus, boost your SQL Server rock star street cred in the SQL Server community by contributing articles yourself.
On-Demand Webcast - Three Ways to Manage IT Processes Instead of Just Surviving Them: The ITSM Implementation Now it’s time to get your solution up and running, and you want to make sure you have the tools you need for a successful implementation. This session walks you through the implementation process, including customizing processes to meet your specific needs, communicating the changes to your organization, integrating the new ITSM solution with other applications, collecting feedback and conducting internal training.
Security Threat Report 2009 Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, gives a snapshot of the findings in the 2009 threat report, revealing that US computers are the biggest contributor to the malware and spam problem and advises listeners on how to keep themselves protected as the volume of internet attacks continue to increase.
Trust & Competitive Advantage - An integrated approach to Governance, Risk and Compliance Learn how a comprehensive governance, risk, and compliance strategy can help your organization rebuild and strengthen stakeholder trust through honesty, accountability, transparency, and consideration of others' business interests. SAP can help.
Cloud Computing Means More Than Cost Savings: New Models Will Transform Business, Say HP and Capgemini Many enterprises and service providers are now grappling with how cloud models and economics will impact them. The specter of a challenging business climate may well hasten the need to seek IT resources that are supported through greater utility approaches to save money, as well as to reach Internet audiences and gain global Web efficiencies. The goal is to take advantage of what cloud models offer, but to do so with low risk and in alignment with enterprise IT dictates and requirements around management, security, governance, and visibility. To better understand the value and opportunity unfolding around cloud computing, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Andy Mulholland, global chief technology officer at Capgemini; Tim Hall, director of services-oriented architecture (SOA) products at HP Software and Solutions, and Russ Daniels, vice president and CTO of cloud services strategy at HP.
Managing Business Rules Graphically based on Eclipse In this talk recorded at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008, Volker introduces how business rules and business services are modeled and managed graphically. You will learn: Business rules basics The overall architecture and features of the business rules management platform Visual Rules How the tool supports the collaboration of business and IT people during the business rule design and maintenance process Which Eclipse technologies were incorporated Who is using this technology to solve which business problems
Team Work with Models: Compare and Merge with EMF Compare Ganymede brings an important pack of modeling technologies - one of those is EMF Compare, which enables team working using any kind of model, easing the high scale usage of Model Driven Development. This webinar will start with a presentation of the 0.8.0 features released with Ganymede and the modeling package: differencing of any kind of model (both standards or specifics), merging those differences and integration with CVS/SVN. Then there will be a demo showing what can be done with the advanced features: model evolution reports, higher level differences and leveraging of the comparison engine for testing purposes. The webinar will conclude with a preview of the 1.0 (Galileo) release demonstrating, among other nice things, the EMF Compare integration with graphical modelers.
RWW Live: Shopping 2.0 In this episode of RWW Live, ReadWriteWeb talks to a group of leaders in the online shopping market. We have executives from Retrevo, ModCloth, Baynote, ThisNext and Cartfly on the call to discuss what’s next in online shopping in this timely holiday podcast.
GTR 150: TreeHugger's Green Gift Guide GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily talks about the history of TreeHugger.com, green holiday tips, and going green to save green with Meghan O'Neill, Editor of the popular websites TreeHugger.com and PlanetGreen.com.
The Future of Data Centers With the October 2008 groundbreaking for the Oracle Utah Compute Facility, Oracle Magazine Senior Managing Editor Caroline Kvitka sat down with Oracle Senior Vice President and CIO Mark Sunday to discuss next-generation data centers, green computing, and the new Utah facility.
Sun takes another swing at cloud computing, Intel says it will make 32 nanometer chips by end of 2009, HP touts enviro-battery that can charge in 30 minutes, and more Sun takes another swing at cloud computing, Intel says it will make 32 nanometer chips by end of 2009, HP touts enviro-battery that can charge in 30 minutes, and more
Episode 22: Guy Wallace Talks about His e-Book, T&D Systems View Guy Wallace, a Certified Performance Technologist and President of EPPIC, Inc. (an Instructional Design and Performance Improvement consulting firm in North Carolina)talks about his e-Book, T&D Systems View.
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How Much is Your Captive Offshore Engineering Center Costing You? You will benefit from this webinar if you are: Currently operating a wholly owned (i.e., Captive) product engineering center offshore, and experiencing ROI challenges with that Captive; Searching for a solution that delivers the economic and time-to-market benefits you expected from your Captive center, and have yet to achieve; Are analyzing the benefits and risks of starting your own Captive center offshore
Siebel 8.1.1 for Communication The latest release of Siebel CRM 8.1.1 includes many new features and enhancements for the Communications industry. In this webcast, you’ll hear from Brenda Harris, Principal Product Strategy Manager for Communications here at Oracle. She’ll explain how Siebel Communications 8.1.1 will help your communications company provide the most differentiated and personalized customer experience proven to increase customer loyalty and profitability levels.
NY Jets consolidate servers with IBM BladeCenter S The New York Jets consolidated servers with an IBM BladeCenter S and virtualized applications with Microsoft Virtual Server using a simple, one-day process. The energy efficient solution provides ample storage while reducing the team’s IT footprint.
Remote Support Offers Enterprises Avenue to Cut Operations Costs While Improving IT Systems Reliability The trend around using remote support software for monitoring, remediation, and maintenance automation is gaining steam in the global IT market. We expect that as companies become even more cost conscious that they will seek to reduce their total cost of IT operations, and that remote support best practices and effective use will become even more prominent. The goal is to free up on-premises IT personnel to focus on what they do best and to offload routine and potentially unproductive chores to organizations that do IT support remotely at high efficiency and low cost. To better understand the options for better remote monitoring, resolving, and automating the ongoing performance of IT systems, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Dionne Morgan, worldwide marketing manager in HP Technology Services, and Claudia Ulrich, communications manager in Delivery Engineering at HP.
Speaking of Security Podcast #132 This week's Speaking of Security podcast features a preview of the latest edition of Vantage, RSA's magazine on information security news and trends and the first segment of a two-part discussion on how the fraudster underground operates much the same as real-world businesses. Uri Rivner, Head of New Technologies at RSA is our guest.
Using Desktop Management to Reduce Your Organization’s Attack Surface This webinar examines the critical steps for reducing attack surfaces. These include comprehensive vulnerability scanning, remediation, and the setting and enforcement of secure configurations for firewalls, anti-virus, browsers, VPNs, and e-mail. You'll learn the best practices for reducing the attack surface of your desktop and laptop systems, ensuring that your corporate systems and information remain secure.
Episode 146 | The $100,000 Job Search: How the High-End Unemployed Cope, The Ripple Effect of a Potential GM Bankruptcy Episode 146 | The $100,000 Job Search: How the High-End Unemployed Cope, The Ripple Effect of a Potential GM Bankruptcy
Barracuda bids to acquire Sourcefire, Dell posts pictures of 'Mini Inspiron' laptop, Google program that lets advertisers track users raises eyebrows, and more Barracuda bids to acquire Sourcefire, Dell posts pictures of 'Mini Inspiron' laptop, Google program that lets advertisers track users raises eyebrows, and more
Benchmarking shows Vista SP2 is a boon to the OS, Dell and EMC extend storage partnership, Microsoft releases open source content management platform, and more Benchmarking shows Vista SP2 is a boon to the OS, Dell and EMC extend storage partnership, Microsoft releases open source content management platform, and more
Zend and Kargo Present: Using PHP to Build a Mobile Internet Platform If you’ve ever hunted ghosts along with the television show Most Haunted, texted in a New Year’s Eve marriage proposal on the Travel Channel, received a critical pop culture alert, or voted for the one you thought “Wore It Best” in US Weekly then you probably have already used Kargo’s technology. Using its technology platform, Kargo assists brands and content owners in designing, developing and delivering tailored mobile products for the marketplace rapidly and easily. Kargo’s always-on mobile messaging architecture and mobile internet platform was built using PHP 5 and Zend Framework, the leading open-source PHP application framework. Learn how they use PHP to deliver rich mobile messaging and browser experiences across a broad range of handsets and carriers.
Take Control of Network TCO by Automating IPAM Enterprise Strategy Group's Jon Oltsik joins Infoblox VPs Cricket Liu and Rick Kagan to advise listeners how they can reduce network TCO while boosting network availability by automating IP address management. As TCP/IP continues to connect more devices networks are also becoming more complicated, creating the necessity for the automation of core network services like IPAM. The smoking gun for rising stress on the network is a recent Computerworld survey, which found that the cost to manage each IP device goes UP the more devices you add to the network. As enterprises grow their network they can find themselves in a vicious circle of rising costs, increasing downtime, and rising staff stress. This information-packed webinar addresses how enterprises can reduce stress and operational expenses by automating IPAM.
Climate change: Implications for information Technology and Security Climate change requires new strategies for dealing with traditional IT and information security risks.
Chris Rothemich on the new Business Process Management Journal Chris Rothemich, developerWorks editor for Business Process management, SOA and Web services content, introduces the new Business Process Management Journal.
Holly Hayes on model-driven data governance Holly Hayes, Data Studio Program Manager for IBM talks about Model Driven Data Governance. She outlines big concerns companies are facing such as dilution of brand value, loss of revenue, and compliance, and talks about present and future solutions including model-driven data governance.
Gunnar Wagenknecht Discusses CloudFree Wayne Beaton, Evangelist for the Eclipse Foundation, recorded this video with Gunnar Wagenknecht discussing the Eclipse CloudFree e-commerce project at Eclipse Summit Europe 2008.
Semantic Web Gang: Discuss the launch of Glue Last week, we sat down with part of the team from Adaptive Blue and talked about (among other things) their new product Glue. The team has definitely been on the ‘podcast circuit’ as today the next edition of The Semantic Web Gang was published (we syndicate SWG) and also discusses Glue. [Note: Alex Iskold, Adaptive Blue’s CEO, is a regular participant on the Semantic Web Gang, so this isn’t really surprising.] Beyond discussing Glue, Gang members discuss their perspectives on the events, trends and companies that excelled in 2008… and those with work still to do.
Microsoft issues public beta of BizTalk that brings virtualization and failover, Salesforce.com and Google align cloud-based offerings, broadband and PCs are part of Obama's proposed recovery plan, and more Microsoft issues public beta of BizTalk that brings virtualization and failover, Salesforce.com and Google align cloud-based offerings, broadband and PCs are part of Obama's proposed recovery plan, and more
What's New with Microsoft Virtualization, and Cloud Computing Podcast with David Greschler from Microsoft - December 8, 2008 - Episode 66 In episode 66, Douglas Brown interviews David Greschler, Director of Virtualization Strategy at Microsoft. Doug and David discuss what’s new with Microsoft virtualization, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (formally known as Kidaro), along with a bit about the upcoming Microsoft VDI connection broker. David also discusses the Microsoft / Citrix relationship, his views on the current economic climate and how it affects the virtualization world. All in all, in this podcast you will learn all about what's new with Microsoft Virtualization and Microsoft Cloud Computing!
Is the Panic Justified? BusinessWeek's Peter Coy spoke with the best minds on Wall Street and in academia, labor, and corporate America to ask: How bad might the job market get, and how long might it last? Executive Editor John A. Byrne discusses the findings with Peter.
Listener Feedback #56 Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.
Your Music: Always Available Online If you would like to learn about how the Internet Cloud can provide you with an “always-on” connection to your music library along with a sharply reduced cost to add to the collection and try-out new music on demand, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Geoff Ralston who is the CEO of lala.com. His website will let you (1) maintain your music library in the Internet Cloud, (2) add selections to your library at negligible cost, (3) try-out new music on-demand at little cost, and (3) avoid advertising. One of the biggest problems facing the record label industry is the challenge of popularizing new releases. Traditionally they have relied upon broadcast radio, but the radio stations are losing influence as their audience moves to the Internet and portable devices. In response the labels have experimented with a variety of Internet initiatives ranging from Internet Radio to advertising-supported websites like MySpace Music that enable visitors to listen to tunes online for free in exchange for advertising revenues. Lala.com is another initiative that provides the on-demand playback capability of MySpace Music, but avoids advertising. Lala users are permitted to choose 50 selections from the company’s catalog of over 6 million popular tracks and keep them in an online locker maintained in the Internet Cloud. Users may also put their own CD collection in the locker as well. Additional tracks (not among those in your CD collection which are free) may be placed in the locker for merely ten cents each. Users desiring to download tracks onto their portable devices or computers to keep forever are normally charged 89 cents per track. Company management feels that ultimately consumers will be more comfortable in the browser than in any other software program. Furthermore, they believe that ever-increasing connectivity to the Net will lead consumers to a growing reliance upon Cloud Computing. Essentially the Internet will become something like a “hard drive in the sky” that is accessed only a little more slowly than the hard drive of a computer. However, the “hard drive in the sky” is more universally accessible wherever the user is likely to travel.
I DID THAT! Questions of authorship in art and design (Part 2) Graphic design, illustration and moving image are sectors of an inherently 'commission' based industry, which opens up a range of sometimes complex as well as unique issues of intellectual property. How can those working in and across communication, art and design maintain, manage and capitalise on their ideas while holding on to their authorship during creative and business processes? This podcast raises awareness of the main IP issues affecting designers, illustrators and filmmakers entering and working within the creative industries. It will address the common questions of IP, authorship and who retains ownership, with specific attention to creative businesses and projects that have multiple platforms. Disclaimer: Own-it podcasts are for information only and are not a substitute for legal advice or support; all podcasts are related to UK only.
SoSure -- Storage Management and Data Protection “IBM is the only company that can give us a global presence and deliver the software that can power our application along with the hosting. I’ve traveled the world to promote our solution and no matter where I go, IBM signals security, quality and trust.” Daniel C. Elfort, Founder and CEO, SoSure
Star Technology -- Service Availability and Performance Management Mark Whitehead, Manager, Enterprise Management Systems at Star Technology, talks about the benefits that IBM Tivoli Service Management availability and performance management solutions bring to Star and its customers.
Star Technology -- Service Availability and Performance Management Mark Whitehead, Manager, Enterprise Management Systems at Star Technology, talks about the benefits that IBM Tivoli Service Management availability and performance management solutions bring to Star and its customers.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Special Edition Jim discusses the security implications of the December bulletins. MS08-070, MS08-072, and MS08-073 are highlighted.
Customer Experience Webinar 1: Online Conversion Financial Services companies can increase conversion by 5% to 130% with Rich Internet Applications like calculators, product selectors, smart navigation and rich forms. This webinar gives practical examples from companies like ING, Bank of America and ABN AMRO to show how they have increased conversion with RIAs.
I DID THAT! Questions of authorship in art and design (Part 1) Graphic design, illustration and moving image are sectors of an inherently 'commission' based industry, which opens up a range of sometimes complex as well as unique issues of intellectual property. How can those working in and across communication, art and design maintain, manage and capitalise on their ideas while holding on to their authorship during creative and business processes? This podcast raises awareness of the main IP issues affecting designers, illustrators and filmmakers entering and working within the creative industries. It will address the common questions of IP, authorship and who retains ownership, with specific attention to creative businesses and projects that have multiple platforms. Disclaimer: Own-it podcasts are for information only and are not a substitute for legal advice or support; all podcasts are related to UK only.
Customer Engagement 2.0 for Financial Services, On-Demand Watch this webinar to learn about Customer Engagement 2.0: New technologies designed to engage customers and turn interactions into profitable connections. Includes real industry examples from the financial services industry.
Dan Carrison on Management Secrets of the FBI Discover the art of being a courageous and vigilant leader from some of our most fearless agents.
A look back at the week that was: Microhoo returns, Bill Gates appeals to lawmakers, Logitech hits a milestone, and more A look back at the week that was: Microhoo returns, Bill Gates appeals to lawmakers, Logitech hits a milestone, and more
Give Your IBM iSeries an Extreme Makeover with Zend and PHP! The PHP open source web development language, once considered only a hobbyist language, has moved into the mainstream and is being adopted broadly by enterprise customers and the IBM i community. This session discusses the value of PHP in the enterprise and how midrange shops can leverage the power of PHP and IBM Power Systems to help their own enterprises flourish in ways that had not been considered in the past. We will explore how PHP is implemented, where PHP is used and what the support model is from both corporate America and the community. The speaker for this webinar is Mike Pavlak, who has been working with IBM midrange solutions since 1992 and IBM Mainframes before that. Mike has developed applications using RPG, CL and PHP and for the last several years has managed IT development and operations for Tripp Lite. Recently, Mike joined Zend as a Solutions Consultant.
Application Delivery In this one-on-one executive interview, EMA’s Scott Crawford engages in an insightful and in-depth discussion with Wes Wasson of Citrix, a market leader in the application delivery space. They touch on the evolution of today’s enterprise and how this has affected the way technology is used to stay abreast of the competition.
Relationships: How to Keep Your Best People and Best Customers Lasting relationships are built in hard times. Now is the time to keep in close touch with loyal customers and keep your employees together. If you want to recession-proof your business, you can’t afford to ignore the potential profits of shifting your sales focus onto your existing clients. They could increase ongoing business and even bring new sales without incurring the costs of finding new customers. In this session, experts will discuss how to keep your best customers away from price competition, turn less profitable customers into more profitable ones, and retain top talent during tough times.
Desktop Virtualization: Benefits & Best Practices for Solution Implementation Desktop Virtualization enables hosting of individual desktops inside virtual machines running in a central data center on more reliable, fault-tolerant industry-standard servers. Desktops are accessed remotely from a PC/thin client. Operating systems, application installations, etc. are completed in the data center, then deployed to end-users. Find out the best practices for implementing desktop virtualization, as well as the numerous benefits, including lower acquisition costs, lower management costs, ease of management, security, reliability, flexibility and the ability to meet compliance requirements.
Elements of the Efficient Enterprise, Part 5: Thermal Containment Afraid of hot spots? Then use Hot Aisle Containment to knock them out. Returning the warmest possible air to the computer room air conditioners increases the efficiency and capacity of the system. The hot aisle containment system ensures proper air distribution by completely separating supply and return air paths. The hot aisle is sealed off using doors and transparent ceiling tiles that extend the width of the hot aisle.
Strategies for Successfully Deploying High Density Applications As applications such as virtualization, blade servers, quad core processor servers, and server consolidation increase, it becomes critical to fully understand the drivers as well as the key challenges one may encounter during deployment of higher density equipment. This webcast will review these IT trends and subsequently discuss critical issues such as power and cooling challenges in the IT data center physical infrastructure. Learn how to optimize high density deployment strategies as well as a range of resources and solutions to successfully deploy high density applications.
Sun enters RIA realm with JavaFX, Adobe says it will cut 600 jobs, AMD accuses Intel of stalling an antitrust investigation, and more Sun enters RIA realm with JavaFX, Adobe says it will cut 600 jobs, AMD accuses Intel of stalling an antitrust investigation, and more
GTR 149: Fresh and Functional Eco Furniture with Cisco Bros GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily talks with Cisco Pinedo, owner of Cisco Brothers Corporation, a furniture manufacturer in Los Angeles, California, who is producing an entirely clean and healthy line of sustainable furniture in fresh designs.
Listener Feedback #55 Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.
How Safe Is India? In the wake of the Mumbai siege, BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Manjeet Kripalani asses how political violence threatens the Indian miracle
New Approaches To Disaster Recovery: Are You Prepared? There are a number of different disaster recovery (DR) solutions available today, so it is incumbent upon IT storage managers to select an approach which is best suited to their requirements. Issues that need to be considered include the backup window, recovery point objective (RPO), and recovery time objective (RTO). In this webcast, we’ll describe and compare the pros and cons of various approaches to DR, including two common approaches – one based on enterprise backup software combined with a data de-duplicating virtual tape library (VTL) and an approach based on continuous data protection (CDP) technology.
Retain Customers by Improving the Online Experience: Continental Airlines is Doing It. Shouldn’t You? Creating a Website to Ensure Customer and Brand loyalty and Exceed Expectations Join Tealeaf for an informative replay with Ken Penny, Senior Director of Internet Planning and Development at Continental Airlines and learn how Continental has gained a competitive advantage by differentiating on the EXPERIENCE of doing business online—creating a web site that exceeds expectations and ensures customer and brand loyalty. View this webcast to discover: What an online Customer Experience Management solution is and how it can improve your online operations. How to tackle site experience obstacles, which often go unresolved, with ease, freeing IT resources to focus on site enhancements rather than site fixes. How to become more proactive in your approach to improving the online experience by analyzing customer behavior on a regular basis. What it takes to build a customer experience management competency by integrating all online stakeholders—IT, e-business, design and customer service.
Three Ways to Manage IT Processes Instead of Just Surviving Them: Finding the Solution that Fits So now that you know what you need to do, you need a solution to help you get there. There are robust solutions available that won’t break the bank. The replay of this session includes a demonstration of an ITSM solution and shows you how ITSM Solutions can help you get your processes in place
Microsoft applies Model T factory method to datacenters, VMware releases new desktop and app virtualization product, Microsoft injects social networking features to Windows Live services, and more Microsoft applies Model T factory method to datacenters, VMware releases new desktop and app virtualization product, Microsoft injects social networking features to Windows Live services, and more
Customer Engagement 2.0, On-Demand Learn about Customer Engagement 2.0 – How leading Enterprise companies including banks, retail, telecommunication companies, and many more, are using Rich Internet Applications today to engage their customers and turn interactions into profitable connections.
Speaking of Security Podcast #131 Social engineering is the art of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. This week's Speaking of Security podcast features a discussion on this topic with a leading expert on security and terrorism.
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Virtual Sales Success - Leveraging Technology for Effectiveness Training Without Travel Virtual Sales Success - Leveraging Technology for Effectiveness Training Without Travel
Live Demo: Quest Spotlight on Messaging: More with Less Get real-time visibility into your messaging infrastructure with Quest Spotlight on Messaging. View this on-demand demo and see how this new solution provides instant analysis on the health of your e-mail, IM, mobile, VoIP and conferencing systems, enabling proactive problem resolution and reducing downtime. Save your budget and your sanity - Spotlight on Messaging’s multi-platform support for Microsoft® Exchange Server, BlackBerry Enterprise Server and Microsoft Office Communications Server enables you to monitor and report on your entire communications infrastructure – with just one tool. Hard to believe? – register for the demo now and see for yourself.
How The Top 3% of Search Advertisers Dominate Google AdWords Richard Stokes, CEO, AdGooroo, LLC
SMART Technologies E-Business Suite Release 12 Success Get smart about E-Business Suite Release 12 implementation with this customer success story. Hear Mike Battistel, VP Information Systems – SMART Technologies, discuss why they selected E-Business Suite Release 12, the implementation process, what benefits they have gained and lessons learned along the way. SMART Technologies is both the industry pioneer and market-segment leader in easy-to-use interactive whiteboards and other group collaboration tools.
IT shops turn to low-end servers to tighten budgets, Sprint-Nextel and Clearwire create joint WiMax company, analyst firm says chip revenue slump will continue into next year, and more IT shops turn to low-end servers to tighten budgets, Sprint-Nextel and Clearwire create joint WiMax company, analyst firm says chip revenue slump will continue into next year, and more
Zend Studio for Eclipse Beta Overview Yossi Leon, the Product Manager of the Development Tools in Zend Technologies, went over the different features of Zend Studio Neon Beta, the key benefits of the Eclipse based product and the differences between the Zend Studio for Eclipse and the PDT project. Yossi also demonstrated the different capabilities of Zend Studio for Eclipse and its integration with Zend Products.
Zend Studio – Leveraging Your System i Investment Your System i/AS400 is the most reliable computer on the planet and houses your company’s most critical data. In this webcast, Ed Kietlinski, Solutions Consultant at Zend, demonstrated the following and much more.
Open Source CRM 101 If you would like to learn the basics of Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) software, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Chris Harrick who is the Senior Director of Product Marketing for Sugar CRM. His company is a leader in the open source CRM marketplace.
Enterprise - Enable Your PHP Applications with Zend Platform 3.0 is Zend's latest release of the world's premier application server for PHP. Led by PHP expert Edward Kietlinski, we showcased how Zend Platform 3.0 improves PHP application performance, manageability, reliability, integration and scalability. This 40 minute demonstration addressed the common business drivers that you expect from enterprise grade PHP applications. Learn how Zend Platform 3.0 helps to make your PHP applications and business enterprise ready.
Talking Online PR with Nancy Marmolejo Increasing your visibility and raising your expert status via social networks is the subject of this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. My guest is Nancy Marmolejo, CEO of Sizzibility who I fittingly ran across on several social networking sites. Online branding, reputation management, content publishing, networking and other social media strategies are quickly becoming required elements in marketing. The ability to find one's way around a Twitter like tool will become course work in corporate and education classrooms in the near future (one can only hope.)
Integrating Global Knowledge Software and the Future of UPK With the acquisition of Global Knowledge Software, SAP and Oracle customers are wondering about the future of Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK). Tune into this conversation with Sonny Singh, Senior Vice President, Product and Industries Business Unit to learn why Oracle purchased Global Knowledge Software, how an SAP solution fits into an Oracle strategy, and what that means for the future of UPK – the end user training and implementation solution for accelerating user adoption, ensuring the success of enterprise applications, and making organizations productive from day one!
Episode 145 | For Retailers, 'Tis the Season to Be Nervous, Sao Paulo Sells Itself Episode 145 | For Retailers, 'Tis the Season to Be Nervous, Sao Paulo Sells Itself
Know What You Don't Know with System Center Operations Manager 2007, Part 2 If the first installment of "Know What You Don't Know with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007" wasn't enough, learn more about Microsoft’s next-generation end-to-end service management solution. You think you know how to proactively monitor your organization’s IT environment? Let Microsoft and Intellinet show you how to spend even less time treading through the complexities of your IT lifecycle, and more time delivering business value by knowing what you don’t know
Java Posse #219 - Roundup 08 - The Versus Episode Agile vs. Traditional methodologies and Properties vs. Immutability in this recording from the Java Posse Roundup 2008.
Live Product Demo: Spotlight on Oracle Xpert This is a recording of a live product demonstration of Spotlight on Oracle Xpert. This demo shows all the functionality of the Spotlight product including Oracle Database diagnostics, Predictive Diagnostics, RAC and O/S Diagnostics and SQL Optimzation.
On-demand Demo: How to Simplify SharePoint Management, Including Permissions Register to view this on-demand demonstration of Quest® Site Administrator for SharePoint to learn how this innovative tool can help you understand and manage your entire SharePoint environment. You’ll see its new permissions management features along with discovery, reporting and policy management capabilities. You’ll also get a chance to see how Quest® Recovery Manager for SharePoint can recover critical content from your SharePoint environment.
Bernie Spang with more on IDUG's XML Challenge Bernie Spang, director of marketing IBM data management software, talks about the XML Challenge sponsored by the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) running now through Feb 1 2009. He talks about the levels of achievement in the contest, the state of XML skill adoption, and more.
Paul Reiners on animating art with the Java 2D API Paul Reiners, a software engineer at IBM and Sun-certified Java programmer is the author of a developerWorks Java technology zone article, Pointillism meets pixelation: Using the Java 2D API to animate art. He talks about it here.
Beyond Load Testing -- Next Generation Performance Diagnostics That Really Work Testing under load is only half the battle. The real goal is to isolate and resolve issues that arise during those tests. In this webcast, you'll find how to integrate real-world testing scenarios with powerful diagnostic capabilities—and take the mystery out of finding and fixing performance bottlenecks.
Microsoft, Yahoo dismiss report of a search deal, British prosecutors investigate BT, Nokia working to link mobile phones to home automation systems, and more Microsoft, Yahoo dismiss report of a search deal, British prosecutors investigate BT, Nokia working to link mobile phones to home automation systems, and more
Interview: HP’s Tim Hall on Heightened Role of Governance in SOA, Cloud and Dynamic Business As enterprises scale up of their use of service oriented architecture (SOA), proper governance is providing an insurance effect. Governance helps ensure that SOA will grow without stumbling -- allowing companies to “crawl, walk, and run” to SOA without losing control. SOA governance heightens the business benefits of services, increases IT efficiency returns, and reduces the risk that complexity could undermine the services lifecycle and hamper the adoption in large organizations. Services governance also sets the stage for leveraging cloud and third-party services while managing the boundary between internal and external services. To unpack the relationship between SOA, governance, cloud and IT management, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner recently interviewed Tim Hall, Director of SOA Products for HP Software and Solutions.
Visual Ajax Builder Webinar - On-Demand Learn how using the Backbase Visual Ajax Builder can speed up development cycles and simplify complex projects. This webinar will include practical examples on how to create an application layout using a comprehensive set of visual components, editing, debugging, analysis, and optimization tools.
GTR 148: Online Shipping Marketplaces for Greener Holidays with uShip GreenTalk host Sean Daily talks with Mickey Millsap of uShip. uShip.com is an online shipping marketplace where members list anything they need shipped, from household goods to vehicles to freight, and receive bids from thousands of feedback-rated service providers.
Legal and Free: TV Shows and Movies on the Net If you would like to learn why popular TV shows and movies are being made available legally on the Internet for free and how we can get them to our televisions, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Will Richmond who is the editor and publisher of VideoNuze, an online publication for broadband video decision-makers. VideoNuze concentrates on the emerging Internet Video industry. Will has prior experience in the CATV industry thereby providing valuable perspective on how the sector reacts to developments. This is important because cable companies are the leading providers of broadband Internet access along with being the dominant networks delivering conventional television programs. As noted in earlier podcasts, a number promising websites are emerging that host, or index, advertising-supported Internet Video of popular TV shows and movies. Examples include Hulu, Fancast, Veoh, TVGuide.com, and AOL Video. They’re great for consumers because they are free to the viewer and completely legal. In our analysis the emergence of such websites could prove to represent the “tipping point” at which consumers push hard enough to find ways to get Internet Video streams to display on their televisions. ABC, NBC, and CBS have all made popular shows available online. There are also hundreds of popular, or once popular, movies from major Hollywood studios available at the websites noted above. As users get increasingly accustomed to sites like Hulu, they find that they like the convenience of on-demand viewing, personalization of selections, viral sharing of program recommendations, community commentary, email notifications of show postings, and the abundance of interesting programming. Intense users are even avoiding CATV or satellite service. For example, Will’s research concludes that most subscribers will cut CATV service before they cut ISP (Internet Service Provider) service. This is particularly relevant given the current economic downturn. However, Will’s research also concludes that the cable networks, like ESPN, and AMC, will be reluctant to provide shows to websites like Hulu. He reasons that they will decline to put at risk the traditional fees they collect from CATV operators.
Part 1 of 2 Dave and Jim discuss a variety of current events. Topics include malware & economics, BCP/DRP, parasitics, MS08-067, and more!
Part 2 of 2 Dave and Jim discuss a variety of current events. Topics include malware & economics, BCP/DRP, parasitics, MS08-067, and more!
The Spam Surge Unzipped Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, discusses the latest spam trends, explaining how social engineering tactics and social media are being used to distribute messages, and advises users how to defend against the rising tide of spam.
Intelligent Branch, a New Value Creation Model Emerges Bruce Mazza, Director of Branch Solutions and Tony Kleckner, Practice Leader for Financial Services from Avaya talk with Nick Lippis about business issues facing branch marketers in the financial sector and solutions that create value.
Is Your Data Center a Candidate for Server & Storage Virtualization? Today’s economic environment means you need to do more, with less, in a shorter amount of time and at a lower cost. Server and storage virtualization makes all this possible. Download this whitepaper to (a) Discover the bottom-line benefits of virtualization, including cost & power savings; (b) Learn the best practices for implementation; (c) End server sprawl & enable a highly-efficient, cost-effective & easily managed data center.
Gartner Survey: SaaS Usage in Worldwide Enterprises Gartner conducted a survey focused on identifying usage patterns and key trends for SaaS within the enterprise. Download this whitepaper to learn the survey results including: (a) SaaS usage trends within market segments, (b) migration activity between deployment models, (c) projected future usage and investment for both on-premises and on-demand, and (d) the state of governance policies within enterprises currently using or planning to use SaaS.
Using Master Data in Business Intelligence Improve planning, building, and deploying a master data management (MDM) environment. Consider an evolutionary – rather than revolutionary – approach to MDM, and examine how to use MDM with business intelligence applications and an underlying data warehousing environment to improve decision making. (BI Research, 2007)
IBM's Sandy Carter - Service-Oriented Architecture Simplified VP Sandy Carter makes a special announcement about a new set of products around business process management and service-oriented architecture.
Ajax FastTrack: from UI Design to Prototype Proven processes and best practices to quick-start a Rich Internet Application (RIA) project: Including user validation testing, UI architecture, UI design, up to a fully working prototype.
Head-to-Head: Citrix and IDC Companies of all sizes are increasingly dependent on applications to run their business in an ever dynamic world. As trends like globalization, mobility and compliance drive unprecedented volatility into the business world, more and more IT executives are looking to application delivery infrastructure as a strategic priority to make them far more agile and responsive to business change. By ensuring that mission-critical applications can be delivered to any user over any network with the best performance, security and cost savings, IT organizations can create an environment that is far more nimble and ready to respond to new requirements from business owners in a far quicker fashion. Instead of infrastructure being a limitation to business change, the right application delivery strategy can turn your IT infrastructure into an asset that actually enables business responsiveness. In this executive head-to-head podcast interview sponsored by Citrix, BTQ conducts an in-depth dialogue with guest analyst Michael Rose of IDC and Wes Wasson of Citrix to discuss the benefits of application delivery and why executives must put this at the top of their list of priorities.
Using Enterprise Ajax to Create Rich Internet Applications, On-Demand Learn about Enterprise Ajax – How Enterprise companies including banks, retail, telecommunication companies, and many more, are using Enterprise Ajax to create Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) or to modernize existing applications.
Estes Mitigates Risk with IBM System Storage When an unexpected flash flood poured four to five feet of water into their data center, Estes Express Lines relied upon IBM FlashCopy, IBM System Storage Global Mirror, and IBM System Storage DS8000™ to provide the solution.
Paul Carroll on Learning from the Worst Business Failures Billion Dollar Lessons from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years.
Juelich Supercomputing Center Juelich Supercomputing Center partners with IBM and Force 10 to build an Energy Efficient supercomputer with the IBM Blue Gene P and Force 10 Networking. Juelich is one of the largest centers for computational science in Europe with over 200 user groups from Universities and research.
Can Obama Keep New Jobs at Home? BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Mike Mandel discuss how fiscal stimulus could wind up creating jobs offshore as money is spent on import
Despite growing demand IT shops keep dumping used PCs, EFF calls Apple out of line, Fedora 10 becomes available, and more Despite growing demand IT shops keep dumping used PCs, EFF calls Apple out of line, Fedora 10 becomes available, and more
Backbase Enterprise Ajax 4, On-Demand Backbase Enterprise Ajax 4 eliminates the complexity of custom Ajax development, and delivers governance, compliance and maintainability for business critical Rich Internet Applications. This Recorded Webinar shows the key features of Enterprise Ajax 4, and explains how to get started.
Doing More For Less In these rocky economic times, every IT organization is being asked to do more with less, while still maintaining the high levels of service required to operate the business. During this webinar we heard WLAN management best practices from 3 leading WLAN IT professionals from Intel, Black & Decker, and Verizon Business on how they planed to “do more with less” over the coming months.
Inside the Open Source Java Development Kit (OpenJDK) David Herron describes some of the technical details of the OpenJDK. Learn how to get started and what tools Linux developers need to start build the OpenJDK.
Vendors debate the state of cloud computing, U.S. FTC asks Supreme Court to intervene in Rambus case, Sirius-XM fixes bug, and more Vendors debate the state of cloud computing, U.S. FTC asks Supreme Court to intervene in Rambus case, Sirius-XM fixes bug, and more
Episode 144 | Extracting Good from Good Works, Heparin's Deadly Side Effects Episode 144 | Extracting Good from Good Works, Heparin's Deadly Side Effects
Using High Fidelity, Online Training to Stay Sharp Virtual training environments can deliver high quality content to security professionals on-demand, anywhere, anytime.
5 Steps to a Successful Green Computing Solution Green Computing enables companies to meet business demands for cost-effective, energy-efficient, flexible, secure & stable solutions while being environmentally responsible. This whitepaper will provide you with the crucial information you need to implement your Green Computing plan.
Enterprises Can Leverage Cloud Benefits and Manage Risks Using Service Governance, Say HP Executives Much has been said about cloud computing in 2008, and still many knowledgeable IT people scratch their heads over what it really means. They want to know, How can enterprises best prepare to take advantage of this shift in IT resources use and acquisition -- but while also avoiding risks and uncertainty? To learn more about how enterprises should begin enjoying the pragmatic benefits of cloud-based delivery of mission-critical applications and data, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner spoke with Rebecca Lawson, Director of Service Management and Cloud Solutions at HP; Scott McClellan, Vice President and Chief Technologist of Scalable Computing and Infrastructure in HP’s Technology Solutions Group, and Norman Lindsey, Chief Architect for Flexible Computing Services at EDS, an HP company.
Speaking of Security Podcast #130 Now that the 2008 US Presidential and Congressional elections are behind us, what can we expect from the new Administration and the 111th Congress on Cyber Security? The Speaking of Security podcast has a report direct from Washington, DC.
Marketing Podcast with Matt Flannery Mark Flannery co-founded Kiva.org with his wife a few years ago and their success has forever altered the way entrepreneurs in the developing world get access to the small amounts of capital that can make a huge impact on their businesses and lives. In doing so they have also opened up an entirely new channel of micro lending to businesses and individuals who would like a way to help the smallest of businesses get going. I think it sort of brings all this talk of economic downturn into better perspective for me.
GTR 147: Green Blogger Series: Natural Fatherhood Blogger Derek Markham GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily talks with Derek Markham, a green blogger specializing in natural parenting and natural foods topics. His work is featured on the green parenting blogs EcoChildsPlay.com, NaturalFather.blogspot.com, and API Speaks at attachmentparenting.org.
Amazon Exec on Outsourcing Fulfillment and Warehousing Most every ecommerce merchant must address the fulfillment of orders and the logistics of storing inventory. Amazon.com does this in a big way, and it now offers its fulfillment and warehousing expertise to all merchants via its "Fulfillment by Amazon" service, which we discuss with Tom Taylor, Vice President of Fulfillment by Amazon. Taylor discusses the benefits of outsourcing these functions, and how Amazon can especially help merchants with international orders. He is joined by Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock.
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 30 We use Internet Monitoring tools to predict the winner of the 2008 Presidential Election, the Best New Marketing Product of 2008 Peter Shankman’s incredible HARO Help A Reporter Out Online, Bohemian Financial Rhapsody, Casey the World’s most hated blogger, Jeff from FlyingPig.info, Colette Marshall of WorldWide Brands, ChaCha.com, Call in line 206-888-6606 Webinar Ten Leading Strategies to Promote Your Company, Yourself and Your eBay Store
Sun and Microsoft both boost their IDE's, a judge orders Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to testify in a class-action suit about Vista Capable, Symantec warns of a spike in online attacks, and more Sun and Microsoft both boost their IDE's, a judge orders Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to testify in a class-action suit about Vista Capable, Symantec warns of a spike in online attacks, and more
Features implemented in 1.0 version of Rich Text Editor widget This screen cast demonstrates features that are implemented in the first version of the Rich Text Editor widget. Currently, the only way to get rich text editing capabilities inside an Eclipse RCP application is to use the native browser widget. This is powerful, but not a very flexible solution. The goal of the Rich Text Editor project is to create WYSIWYG Markup editor, which will be based on StyledText widget and will allow basic HTML authoring, as well as support most features from jface text editing infrastructure
Ball State University and SOA Ball State University and SOA
Impol and SOA Impol and SOA
How A Young Film Producer Uses the Internet If you would like to learn how a successful college student produces movies and uses the Internet to organize his workforce, publicize the film release, and distribute the film itself, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Jesse Newman who is a college senior at the University of South Florida. He is also a budding film director who has achieved notoriety on a national basis. For example, of the 750 films submitted in Florida to the national CampusMovieFest competition earlier this year, his was rated number one. The film moved on to become one of the top twenty in the United States. Owing to the film’s success, Jesse was chosen to intern at the Cannes Film Festival. Jesse is a devoted Apple fanboy. He created his professional-looking website using the iWeb software that is included with all Apple computers. Jesse claims that iWeb is so easy to use that nearly anyone can create websites as professional-looking as www.jessenewmanfilms.com. His website and associated media files are hosted by the Apple Mobile Me service for which he pays $100 per year. In addition to being an incipient film director and full time college student, Jesse works 30-hours weeks in sales at the local Apple store where I met him. For now, Jesse is focused on getting ready for his next CampusMovieFest competition. He needs to submit a new film in February. I found it fascinating to learn how Jesse is getting organized. (As a point of disclosure Campus Movie Fest is associated with Apple.) One way was to invite his Facebook to join him in the project. He received over 200 responses for actors, actresses, cinematography and other specialists. None are expecting to get paid, but want to do the work for the experience and public exposure. Jesse also believes that Facebook is a good way to stimulate interest in his films and he has about 700 friends. To enhance distribution of his films, Jesse has his own channel at YouTube.com. Often he even uses the YouTube “embed code” to place his movies on his Mobile Me website thereby avoiding the need to host the media files at Apple.
Fast Close for the Public Company How to issue financial reports to the SEC as fast as possible
Starwood Hotels and SOA Starwood Hotels and SOA
Video for eCommerce: "Increases Conversion, Drives Traffic" The use of video in ecommerce sites is becoming increasingly popular. Merchants are using video to both increase conversion rates and to drive traffic to their sites. And video is affordable to produce, especially when a merchant does it himself. To explain all of this, including syndication and streaming options, Justin Foster, founder of The Video Commerce Consortium, joins Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock.
Jack Mitchell on Why You Should Hug People at Work The Proven Way to Hire, Inspire and Recognize Your Employees and Achieve Remarkable Results.
Using PHP and System i to Improve Vendor Productivity Communicating with your suppliers can be easier, and best of all it can save you time and money. Join NSC, Inc. along with Zend Technologies to learn this exciting new way of improving productivity. Including keynote speakers Tim Nies and Eric Nies who have years of experience in software development and PHP, to show you how to improve your vendor productivity today. This webinar will also be comprised of a compelling real-life account from a manufacturing company demonstrating how this process has changed the way they communicate with their suppliers. A question and answer session will follow the webinar.
A look at the week that was: Yahoo's Yang steps down, Adobe shows off new Flash platform, robots take over California, Intel launches a new processor and new auto tech is on display in New York A look at the week that was: Yahoo's Yang steps down, Adobe shows off new Flash platform, robots take over California, Intel launches a new processor and new auto tech is on display in New York
Java Posse #218 - Newscast for Nov 21st 2008 Java Posse #218 - Newscast for Nov 21st 2008
Shifting IT Attitudes About SaaS Jeff Kaplan, managing partner at THINKstrategies joins me to dive deep into what IT organizations are doing with SaaS. The economic challenges seem to have accelerated use of SaaS by IT groups, maturing SaaS to a point where it is much more palatable to IT.
Yahoo adds to BrowserPlus Web technology, former Oracle exec reportedly signs on with SAP, survey finds that industries are unprepared for cyberattacks, and more Yahoo adds to BrowserPlus Web technology, former Oracle exec reportedly signs on with SAP, survey finds that industries are unprepared for cyberattacks, and more
Sandboxie Leo and I return to take a much closer look at “Sandboxie,” an extremely useful, powerful, and highly recommended Windows security tool we first mentioned two years ago. This time, after interviewing Sandboxie's creator, Ronen Tzur, I explain why I am totally hooked and why Leo is wishing it was available for his Macs.
Listener Feedback #54 Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.
Virtualization Management / Security Podcast: Configuresoft Enterprise Configuration Manager with Chris Farrow - November 20, 2008 - Episode 65 In episode 65, Douglas Brown interviews Chris Farrow from Configuresoft In this podcast Doug and Chris discuss the Configuresoft Enterprise Configuration Manager and how it helps with physical and virtualization management, security, and compliance. Chris and Doug will also discuss Green IT, the free Configuration Checker, along with why someone would choose Configuresoft vs. the competition.
Simplifying Database Administration with Toad® DBA Suite for Oracle Are you more reactive than proactive in Oracle administration? Toad® DBA Suite for Oracle simplifies common administration tasks and ensures code remains at peak performance in production. Attend this online web demonstration and you’ll learn how this integrated tool set also helps you address challenges related to performance diagnostics and tuning. Whether you perform traditional DBA tasks or provide advice on issues such as SQL performance and user access rights, this session will show you how you can become a more productive and proactive DBA.
Tenets of Identity Management In this webcast, Jackson Shaw shares what he has learned in more than 20 years and after talking with literally thousands of customers about identity and access management. Shaw provides 12 valuable "tenets" that should be on the mind of every organization seeking to address the challenges of identity management, particularly in large, complex environments.
The Subprime Wolves Are Back BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne and Chad Terhune say the new game is FHA-backed loans, and it could end up costing taxpayers tons more
IBM to reveal work to make computer processors resemble human brain functions, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says acquisition talks with Yahoo are over, Boston teen pleads guilty to hacking, and more IBM to reveal work to make computer processors resemble human brain functions, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says acquisition talks with Yahoo are over, Boston teen pleads guilty to hacking, and more
IT Service Management and Security – Coming Full Circle: ITSM and Desktop Management Ensuring compliance with industry guidelines and standards is key to a healthy IT environment. Learn how to proactively manage desktops to avoid incidents, instead of just trying to keep up with them. Watch the replay of the third and final web seminar in this series to see how to keep desktops up to date and consistent with your corporate standards.
Valuation Intelligence: Insider Insights into a Company's True Worth Secrets to Making Sound Valuation-Based Decisions
Webcast: Optimizing Oracle RAC Database Environments Register for this On-Demand webcast to learn a new strategy around Optimizing Oracle RAC Database Environments. Oracle’s Real Application Clusters (RAC) is a growing area in relational database technology. However, like any complex new technology, the adoption curve has lagged slightly behind. Quest Oracle expert Guy Harrison conducts a live webcast to discuss some simple fundamentals of the RAC architecture and then explores some common issues in clustered database environments. Learn some new insights and tips to consider in your approach to effectively optimize Oracle RAC databases for best performance. About the Presenter Guy Harrison is a chief architect for database solutions at Quest Software. He is the author of multiple books and published articles and white papers on database development, administration and tuning. He is also a frequent speaker at local, regional and international Oracle conferences.
Episode 72: Core Capabilities Episode 72: Core Capabilities
ISO publishes the Office Open XML spec, Microsoft abandons anti-virus service, Sun adds query analyst tool to MySQL Enterprise, and more ISO publishes the Office Open XML spec, Microsoft abandons anti-virus service, Sun adds query analyst tool to MySQL Enterprise, and more
They're Not Buying It! - Optimizing Your Sales Processes They're Not Buying It! - Optimizing Your Sales Processes
Fiona Lam and John Robertson on creating stand-alone Web services apps IBM software engineers Fiona Lam and John Robertson co-authored of a new tutorial series on creating stand-alone Web services applications with Eclipse and Java SE 6. They talk about the series, focusing on Part 1 which is on the Web service server application.
Rational RFE Community release 3 developerworks' David Salinas gives a quick update on new features in the Rational RFE Community site.
EMC Documentum Web Publisher Page Builder: Next-generation Web Content Management Built with Adobe Flex® technology and employing the latest Web 2.0 components and controls, EMC Documentum Web Publisher Page Builder provides a highly dynamic, interactive WYSIWYG editor for creating websites and contributing content. The result? Non-technical business users can participate in, even take ownership of, web page layout and design—easily creating compelling web experiences and accelerating page design and content updates.
New Trends in Search Engine Marketing - Mike Moran Mike Moran, Author, Search Engine Marketing , Inc. Learn the latest search engine marketing trends to take you to page one of the search engine results pages.
Top Tips for Public Relations Online - David Oates David Oates, Stalwart Communications Promote your business online with these tips from PR expert David Oates.
Identity and Access Management Key to Security Best Practices in Changing Business Landscape In an age of significant layoffs and corporate restructuring, the burgeoning problem of identity and access management for IT operations and data centers has escalated into a critical security issue. Managing who gets access to which resources for how long -- and under what circumstances -- has become a huge and thorny problem. Improper and overextended access to sensitive data and powerful applications can cause massive risk as employees are upset. To learn more about how enterprises should begin coordinated identity and access management strategies, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner spoke with Dan Rueckert, worldwide practice director for security and risk management in HP’s Consulting and Integration group; Archie Reed, distinguished technologist in HP’s security office in the Enterprise Storage and Server Group, and Mark Tice, vice president of identity management at Oracle.
GTR 146: Green Blogger Series: Danielle Brigida of National Wildlife Federation GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily talks with Danielle Brigida, a marketing and social media expert working with the National Wildlife Federation.
Proposed CMIS Standard to Provide Foundation for Next Generation ECM Applications For: Senior IT and Business Managers and Strategists Topic: Business and technology implications surrounding the proposed Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard Contributor: Richard Anstey, Vice President Technology and Product Strategy for ECM Suite at Open Text
Episode 143 | Doubting Dubai, Reassessing Risk Doubting Dubai Reassessing Risk
Know What You Don't Know with Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 Hear first-hand about Microsoft’s next generation release of an end-to-end service management solution, Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007,that will enable you to proactively monitor your organization’s IT environment.
Microsoft makes hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint widely available, Yahoo head Jerry Yang relinquishes CEO post, Sun releases StarOffice 9, and more Microsoft makes hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint widely available, Yahoo head Jerry Yang relinquishes CEO post, Sun releases StarOffice 9, and more
Marketing Podcast with Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki stopped by the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast to discuss his newest book Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition. Reality Check is a compilation of some of Guy's greatest hits, posts and articles, but it is not simply a rehashing. This format brings his down to earth style into much greater overall context. When you read one of Guy's blog posts you get his thoughts at that moment, but a collection of his posts framed in a category, makes for a much more strategic read.
Extending VoIP beyond the dial tone Jimmy Ray Purser catches up with Radianta's Scott Cunningham to discuss his company's voice over IP offerings and how they can help eliminate the number of devices on a desk while still improving communications.
Outsourcing 2.0: What's next With current economic conditions putting pressure on IT staffs, what's next in the IT services outsourcing space? Alex talks with Forrester's Paul Roehrig about the next generation of IT services.
Researchers take a step ahead in quantum computing, Intel launches i7 chips, Adobe updates its Flash platform, and more Researchers take a step ahead in quantum computing, Intel launches i7 chips, Adobe updates its Flash platform, and more
IBM SOA Governance Healthcheck It's vital to check the health of your SOA Services. This video depicts an SOA Service and a Governance "fitness plan:" diagnostic services that can show process and procedural areas that need focus, as well as identify potential technical problems.
IBM SOA Infrastructure Healthcheck It's vital to check the health of your SOA Infrastructure. This video depicts an SOA Implementation and the key SOA Infrastructure Diagnostic and Treatment areas targeted by an SOA Healthcheck.
IBM SOA Applications and Services Healthcheck It's vital to check the health of your SOA Applications and Services. This video depicts an SOA Implementation and the key SOA Application and Services Diagnostic and Treatment areas targeted by an SOA Healthcheck.
IBM SOA Flexible Infrastructure Treatment Plan Having a healthcheck on an SOA Implementation is important. This video depicts an SOA Implementation and a treatment plan to increase Infrastructure Flexibility.
IBM SOA Service Management Treatment Plan Having a healthcheck on an SOA Implementation is important. This video depicts an SOA Implementation and a Service Management treatment plan to improve services visibility and control.
BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights #33: SOA governance Dana Gardner interviews Todd Biske about his new book on SOA governance and engages an analyst panel of technology experts on the implications for technology of the new administration taking office in Washington next year. A must-listen.
IBM Information Infrastructure overview Review business requirements for information availability, security, retention and compliance. Then see how IBM can provide solutions. IBM is in a unique position to help you as the end-to-end provider of an information infrastructure with a broad portfolio of information solutions and global expertise.
"What’s Hot" Information Infrastructure Offerings Podcast IBM announced its largest storage technology launch ever for the company which includes more than 30 new offerings from IBM Systems and Technology Group, Software Group and IBM Global Technology Services. A panel of IBM executives from each business unit give us a cloer look into how they enable clients to meet the new information infrastructure demands.
Information Availability In a world where 100% uptime is the expectation, IBM Information Infrastructure can help develop a strategy for keeping your information available anytime, whatever the demanding pace of business. Learn more about 'Availability' solutions under the IBM Information Infrastructure.
Information Compliance The management and control of retention-managed data to meet regulatory compliance demands can be a significant challenge when taking into account factors such as cost, integration, performance, security, privacy and policy-based retention periods. See how IBM Information Infrastructure solutions can help.
Information Security IBM Information Infrastructure provides the comprehensive security solutions that allow you to mitigate risks to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your IT systems.
IBM System Storage DS5000 Watch how the IBM System Storage DS5000 helps you control unrelenting change by enabling adaptability. Its design maximizes linear scalability so you can stay in step with growth, adding and upgrading -- and paying -- only as you need to. All without downtime.
IBM System Storage TS7650G Maximize disk space. IBM System Storage TS7650G with ProtecTIER tackles the problem by eliminating the abundance of redundant data, creating more disk capacity – up to 25 times more. Stay in step with exponential growth by increasing disk system capacity, without compromising performance or 100% data integrity.
La Fenice Brings Digitized Opera to the World La Fenice has always been a legendary theatre, premiering no less than five of Verdi's operas. See how, with the help of IBM, La Fenice was able to record, digitize and archive the video of all La Fenice’s performances -- bringing opera to a global audience.
IBM meeting the Information Infrastracture challenge How companies and consumers manage, access and store information is a big concern as data continues to grow at an explosive rate. This video outlines the significance of storage in our lives today, how much it really is growing and the value of implementing the right information infrastructure.
IBM and the new Information Infrastructure IBM announced its largest release of new storage services, software and hardware to help you tackle massive data growth. In this podcast, IBM System Storage General Manager, Andy Monshaw takes you through IBM's vision and commitment to enable you to retool for a new era of computing.
Kantana Animation Studios on SOFS Kantana Animation Studios, one of the leading entertainment companies in Thailand, selected an IBM Scale-out File Services solution which has provided their animators with rapid and easy access to shared projects.
TV Shows and Movies on the Internet Legally If you would like to learn how popular television programs and movies are increasingly provided as advertising-supported streams on the Internet, this video is for you. We demonstrate how to use three Websites (fancast.com, veoh.com, and tvguide.com) that index nearly all the legitimate TV shows and movies on the Net. Gradually over this past year popular television programs and movies have been finding homes on the Internet at advertising-supported websites that permits viewers to watch them for free. Typically they are provided as streams, meaning that consumers generally have to watch them at their computers instead of their televisions – at least for now. Nonetheless, the amount of programming is getting to be abundant and may well have crossed a threshold whereby it will stimulate efforts to get Internet video to the television. In this show we demonstrate three websites that aggregate indexes of nearly all of the television programs and movies that are legitimately hosted by, or downloadable from, authorized websites such as hulu.com and the iTunes Music store. The aggregators are (1) fancast.com, (2) veoh.com, and (3) TVguide.com. Fancast is owned by CATV operator Comcast. It may be the best of the three for two reasons. First, it does not contain any user-generated videos. Everything is professionally produced. Second, it permits users to personalize their experience with custom settings.Veoh is also good, but it does contain a significant amount of user-generated content. However, once you learn how to locate what you’re looking for, the user-created videos don’t get in the way. TVGuide.com is the hardest of the three to use because the site is mostly a guide for conventional television. However, once you learn how to access the “Online Videos” tab, it’s less confusing. Even then one problem is that a fair percentage of the indexed shows require you to purchase them from iTunes. It seems clear that the legitimate proliferation of conventional TV programs and movies on the Internet is a major development. For example, it is said that hulu.com is generating as much ad revenue as YouTube even though it only has a small fraction of the traffic as measured in number of items viewed.
Emergence of Echo Boomers in Enterprises Yankee Group’s Zeus Kerravala and Citrix’s Gordon Payne examine the consumerization of enterprises as echo boomers enter the workforce and are now actually the ones bringing technology into organizations.
Securing SaaS by Extending the Enterprise Jonti McLaren, President & Founder of Symplified, speaks live at the SIIA On Demand Conference.
BriefingsDirect Analysts Review New SOA Governance Book, Propose Scope for U.S. Tech Czar Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights Edition, Vol. 33, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Nov. 7, 2008, our experts examine services-oriented-architecture (SOA) governance, how to do it right, its scope, its future, and impact. We'll be talking with Todd Biske, author of the new Packet Publishing book, SOA Governance. The panel also focuses on the IT policies that an Obama administration should pursue, as well as ruminate about what a cabinet-level IT director appointee might accomplish. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum Research, and Biske, an enterprise architect at Monsanto. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner
Tucson Electric Power’s state-of-the-art data center Tucson Electric Power, a subsidiary of UniSource Energy, needed a new data center to better serve their base of over 600,000 customers. IBM's design, engineering and constructing expertise created a new data center that not only supports the business, but that is also energy efficient.
Smart Collections in Challenging Economic Times: Leveraging the Right Tools and the Right Metrics to Maximizing Collections While Minimizing Delinquencies Learn how the latest contact center technologies such as performance optimization can be utilized to streamline collections processes and improve the overall quality of every collections interaction - maximizing your collections and minimizing your delinquencies. Hear how leveraging metrics that track outbound talk time, contacts handled, promise-to-pay kept percentages and best-time-to-call can be used to inform a host of decisions ranging from the types of training agents receive to how payment plans are structured - with the ultimate goal of improving the agent's ability to reach the customer and resolve collection issues successfully.
Think Different: Find New Ways to Grow Your Business Warren Buffett famously said, “Be greedy when others are fearful.” If your competitors are retracting and retrenching, come up with ways you can fill the void. When a Southern California Mercedes dealership saw luxury car sales plummet amid the economic slowdown, they thought outside their normal business processes and came up with a “three-day trade” program and outsold the competition. In this session, experts will share top lessons learned from past economic cycles, plus creative ideas and tactics that you can use in your business to capitalize on this rare opportunity to grow.
Think your network is protected? Think again Sophos's free tool enabling computer users to check if machines were a security risk has revealed some startling results. Sophos's John Shaw, director of endpoint security, discusses the state of security in the market, including that half the computers scanned were missing security patches or running out-of-date protection software.
Driving data center efficiency through service, software, and process Given today’s economic environment, CIOs and IT leaders are being asked to increase computing power, increase efficiency, and address rising power and cooling capacity concerns, all while balancing physical space constraints within your data center. Sounds easy, right? Until you take the first step – planning. Making your first move towards becoming a more efficient data center is increasingly complex, fortunately APC has the scalable, modular tools and services to help you plan, build and operate the next generation data center.
Reaping the Benefits of Next Generation Dashboards Traditional BI solutions face many obstacles and limitations. However, the need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow. As a result, BI has continued to evolve - creating a next generation of BI. This white paper explores how organizations are demanding more integrated and flexible business intelligence solutions that facilitate more timely and informed decisions, as well as how next generation of dashboards solve these challenges.
rPath’s Billy Marshall on How Enterprises Can Follow a Practical Path to Virtualized Applications Many enterprises are factoring how to bring more applications into a virtual development and deployment environment to save on operating costs and to take advantage of service oriented architectures and cloud computing models. Managing virtualized applications is an essential ingredient in making cloud-computing approaches as productive as possible while avoiding risk and complexity. To learn more about how enterprises should begin moving to application-level virtualization, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner spoke with Billy Marshall, founder and chief strategy officer of rPath.
Quantum of Solace: Good, Real Good James Bond fans should be thrilled with the latest installment international spy series featuring Daniel Craig as the estimable 007. There's action on land, sea and air in this one, though the number of gadgets is surprisingly low.
Microsoft revamps Live Search API, thousands make suggestions for Obama CTO, Microsoft offers 0 percent financing for Dynamics ERP and CRM, and more Microsoft revamps Live Search API, thousands make suggestions for Obama CTO, Microsoft offers 0 percent financing for Dynamics ERP and CRM, and more
GTR 145: Carbon Offset Solutions with Green Mountain Energy Company GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily talks about clean energy products, corporate sustainability initiatives, and cost-effective carbon offset solutions with Gillan Taddune, Chief Environmental Officer of BeGreen/Green Mountain Energy Company.
Iowa Health System Iowa Health System benefits from a scalable enterprise class GMAS solution to store and manage their sensitive patient data.
The Importance of Storage Resource Management If you haven’t looked at a Storage Resource Management (SRM) product recently, now may be the time. A good SRM product can help maximize your enterprise storage investments and solve some of your worst problems. This video identifies how SRM products have come a long way in the last three years.
IBM TotalStorage® Productivity Center Demo Intro Watch this three-minute overview of the most advanced features and capabilities of IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center. Break way from using spreadsheets to manage your storage environment. Reduce complexity, automate tasks and more.
Christian Science Monitor Editor on Future of News Delivery The Christian Science Monitor, a 100 year-old Pulitzer-prize-winning newspaper, recently announced plans to drop its daily printed paper in favor of a mainly web-based publishing model. Other newspapers will almost certainly follow suit over the next few years. To discuss The Monitor's decision and the future of news delivery, John Yemma, the editor of The Monitor, joins Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock.
Jack Miller on How to Recession-Proof Your Business What should companies do to prepare themselves to weather an economic downturn?
IBM ServeRAID MR10is Vault Encryption Technology The IBM ServeRAID-MR10is Vault controller addresses small and medium business data security requirements by combining advanced internal RAID functionality with controller based XTS-AES 256 IEEE 1619 standard disk encryption for your System x® server.
Real-Time Linux® and Java™ Real-Time Linux® and Java™ looks at the basics of real-time computing, and how Linux and Java have greatly lowered the costs for enterprises that use or want to start using real-time computing.
Java Posse #217 - Newscast for Nov 14th 2008 Java Posse #217 - Newscast for Nov 14th 2008
Strategic Electric Efficiency Opportunities Listen to William Zeitler, IBM Senior Vice President & Group Executive as he presents Strategic Electric Efficiency Opportunities at the recent EEI Annual Convention.
Preview the IBM virtual green data center. Get a sneak peek of what it’s like to take a trip to a green data center demonstration in Second Life.
AMD launches quad-core Shanghai chip, Intel cuts revenue forecast, IDC lowers IT spending projections for 2009, and more AMD launches quad-core Shanghai chip, Intel cuts revenue forecast, IDC lowers IT spending projections for 2009, and more
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Community call-in on SOA and BPM with Active Endpoints and WSO2 This podcast episode is a recording of a talkshoe.com call-in conference held on November 12, 2008 with Paul Fremantle of WSO2 plus Michael Rowley and Luc Clement of Active Endpoints. I was honored to moderate the conversation. Our idea was to invite the Java development community to join our panelists for a technical discussion of SOA and BPM. I think when you listen to this recording, you’ll agree that we had an interesting and thought-provoking discussion. Topics ranged from the question of how we should respond in technology to the economic crisis to a discussion of the different architectural styles represented by SOAP/HTTP and REST. For those of you who aren’t familiar with talkshoe.com, it’s a service that allows people to conference via phone, web, chat and VoIP — all at once. And, it automatically records the conference so it can be podcast, as we are doing here. The participation of people in the call, mostly via chat, made the conversation much more spirited. We plan on doing more of these. Please watch the blog for annoucements of upcoming calls, or you can subscribe to announcements on our talkshoe.com page.
The TKIP Hack Leo and I begin with a refresher on WEP, the original technology of WiFi encryption. With that fresh background, we then tackle the detailed explanation of every aspect of the recently revealed very clever hack against the TKIP security protocol. TKIP is the older and less secure of the two security protocols offered within the WPA and WPA2 WiFi Alliance certification standards.
The Best B-Schools BusinessWeek's John A. Byrne, Alison Damast, and Geoff Gloeckler talk about how the financial downturn is affecting B-schools and how the "Millennials" are changing them.
Simplify Innovation for Manufacturing Applications with EGL Watch this 4 minute video highlighting the business and IT value of EGL to simplify the development and innovation of manufacturing applications. EGL can enable and accelerate adoption of new Web and SOA technologies by abstracting the business functionality from the underlying technology implementations. EGL is a key technology to lower risk and cost in adopting new technologies such as Web 2.0 and SOA.
Simplify Innovation for Banking Applications with EGL Watch this 4 minute video highlighting the business and IT value of EGL to simplify the development and innovation of banking applications. EGL simplifies cross-platform integration with comprehensive support for middleware technologies and databases on z, i and distributed platforms. EGL is a key technology to speed up integrations and reduce complexities associated with integrating technologies running on various platforms and runtimes.
Simplify Innovation for Insurance Applications with EGL Watch this 4 minute video highlighting the business and IT value of EGL to simplify the development and innovation of insurance applications. EGL reduces development time and cost by enabling existing developers who have domain knowledge to deliver new business solutions quickly without retraining as well as provides an on-ramp for developers with modern skills to become productive in developing applications for existing enterprise platforms. EGL is a key technology to deploy current “business-knowledge” skills as well as new development skills and expertise to create new business.
Three Ways to Manage IT Processes Instead of Just Surviving Them: Process Assessment 101 No matter where you are on your ITSM journey it is important to get an objective perspective of what your processes look like in live operations. Do you have an accurate snapshot of your current process maturity, gaps and corporate culture? It all starts with process assessment and putting the right processes in place. Watch the replay of the first session of our web seminar series, and we’ll help you understand how to answer the important questions before embarking on implementing or upgrading your ITSM solution.
Information Agenda Keynote Address -- Asia Pacific Cognos Forum 2008 Dr. Ambuj Goyal discusses how the Information Agenda accelerates your ability to share and deliver trusted information across all applications and processes. The information agenda integrates strategy, information governance and enterprise information infrastructure with a comprehensive implementation roadmap.
IDC Research Shows Enterprise SOA Adoption Deepens Based on Certain Critical Practices Fresh research from IDC on service oriented architecture (SOA) adoption patterns shows what users of SOA identify as essential success factors. The perceptions are critical as more companies cross from experimentation to more holistic SOA use and its required governance. A recent webinar captures the IDC findings and shows how HP is working to help companies adopt SOA successfully. That webinar is captured here as a podcast. Join BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner as he moderates a presentation by Sandy Rogers, program director for SOA, Web services, and integration research at IDC, along with Kelly Emo, SOA product marketing manager for HP Software.
Managing Globally Using the MBTI® Instrument: 6 Ways to More Effectively Communicate Across Cultures Globalization and changing workforce demographics within the U.S. require that you learn to deal effectively with multinational, cross-cultural and ethnically diverse colleagues and employees.
New regulations likely to add to IT's workload, Microsoft issues two patches to fix Web bugs, SAP hires former Oracle exec, and more New regulations likely to add to IT's workload, Microsoft issues two patches to fix Web bugs, SAP hires former Oracle exec, and more
An Interview with T-Impact CEO Keith Stagner In this podcast episode, I talk with Active Endpoints’ UK partner and T-Impact CEO Keith Stagner about T-Impact’s approach to helping clients achieve rapid ROI via improved applications with SOA-based BPM applications. I hope you enjoy hearing about how SOA is being used in the UK, what UK customers are looking for in their BPM applications and why T-Impact is succeeding even in these tough economic times. (And, oh yes, there’s a commercial for ActiveVOS in the podcast. But a) I can be forgiven for doing one since that’s my job and b) it’s in the context of Keith’s discussion of how T-Impact uses ActiveVOS to meet his organization’s strict objectives for client ROI in their SOA projects.) As always, we’d love to know what you think. Comments here or email to me are more than welcome.
Episode 71: Bloom's Taxonomy Episode 71: Bloom's Taxonomy
Trust Larry Jenkins IBM Information Server helps you integrate and deliver trusted information to the people, applications and processes that need it. Take it from Larry Jenkins. You can trust him, you’ll see.
Improving Manageability With Virtualization and IBM's System x Servers
How to Incorporate Video Into Your Web Marketing - Brandon Tague Brandon Tague, Director of Strategic Planning for Applied Creative.
Top 15 Ways to Boost Sales This Holiday Season RSS Ray shares his thoughts.
Introduction to Password Recovery Console and Web Reporting Webinar This 25 minute webinar presents a hands-on look at Password Recovery Console and Web Reporting. See how these free web-based add-ons to User Manager Pro can expand your Windows enterprise systems management and reporting capabilities and help you control even the most complex Windows-based enterprise.
Speaking of Security Podcast #128 This week's Speaking of Security podcast features an on-the-scene report from the Gartner Identity and Access Management Summit, one of the key shows on the security event calendar. The Summit was held last week in Orlando, Florida.
GTR 144: Project Management for Green Initiatives with AEC Software GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily talks with Dennis Bilowus and Bill Keech of AEC Software, a Sterling, VA based software company that develops and publishes project-focused and business productivity solutions for Windows and Mac.
User Environment Management Podcast with Simon Townsend from AppSense - November 11, 2008 - Episode 64 In episode 64, Douglas Brown interviews Simon Townsend from AppSense. In this podcast Doug and Simon discuss the release of the AppSense Management Suite Version 8.0 for Citrix, Microsoft Terminal Services, Desktop Virtualization, and traditional physical workstation environments. You will also learn how the AppSense Suite can tie all your end-users desktop and applications together in to one consistent user experience for both the end-user and the administrator who manages it.
Episode 142 | Harley-Davidson's Wildest Child, Corporate Layoffs: The Worst is Yet to Come Episode 142 | Harley-Davidson's Wildest Child, Corporate Layoffs: The Worst is Yet to Come
Intergrating Sercurity Incident Response and e-Discovery Responding to an e-discovery request involves many of the same steps and roles as responding to a security incident.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Special Edition Jim and Dave discuss the security implications of the November bulletins. MS08-068 and MS08-069 are highlighted.
Irshad Raihan on the XML Challenge IBM's Irshad Raihan talks about the XML Challenge sponsored by the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) running now through Feb 1 2009. He desribes the contest, levels of participation, prizes, and talks about IDUG.
Alex Rodriguez on RESTful web services Alex Rodriguez, a software engineer at IBM focused on Java 2 EE development and RESTful web services,talks about his feature article this week, RESTful Web Services: The Basics. He talks about what REST is, the need that it fills, and recommends additional learning resources.
Get Your Applications Working Harder AND Better In this new on-demand video, Carol Fawcett, Vice President of Information Services at Quest Software, has the advice you need to get the most from your application and database environment. Carol discusses important topics such as: How to get high performance levels from your applications, and how your database makes it happen. How application performance and availability directly relates to the importance of IT database development and management roles. How finding issues in development – rather than production – saves time and money. What to look for in database and application tools and their vendors to give you the edge.
Solving IT Energy Use Issues Requires Holistic Approach to Efficiency Planning and Management The critical and global problem of energy management for IT operations and data centers has emerged as both a cost and capacity issue. The goal is to find innovative means to conservation so that existing facilities don't need to be expanded or replaced. In order to promote a low-risk matching of energy supply and cost with the lowest IT energy demand possible, the entire and contextual IT landscape needs to be considered. That means an enterprise-by-enterprise examination of the "many sins" of energy mis-management. To learn more about how enterprises should begin an energy-conservation mission, BriefingsDIrect's Dana Gardner spoke with Ian Jagger, Worldwide Data Center Services marketing manager in Hewlett-Packard's (HP) Technology Solutions Group, and Andrew Fisher, manager of technology strategy in the Industry Standard Services group at HP
Constant Contact CEO Gail Goodman: Marketing in a Down Economy Gail Goodman is CEO of Constant Contact, a leading self-service email marketing company with over 220,000 customers worldwide. She joins Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock to discuss email marketing in a slow economy, the challenges of running a (fast growing) public company and how merchants can best use email marketing.
Microsoft tells of forthcoming enhancements to Visual Studio, hackers launch a campaign to strike thousands of Web sites, data thieves threaten to release medical records, and more Microsoft tells of forthcoming enhancements to Visual Studio, hackers launch a campaign to strike thousands of Web sites, data thieves threaten to release medical records, and more
Company 2.0 If you would like to learn how to attract disparate talent from the Internet in order to form companies that can tackle revenue-producing projects as a temporary “syndicate”, or as a continuing business, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Brent Britton who is an attorney with Squire, Sanders, & Dempsey. Earlier he was associated with the MIT Media Lab where he worked as a software engineer. I met Brent at the Third Annual Sarasota Design Summit where he made a presentation on “Company 2.0”. The Summit was sponsored by the Ringling College of Art & Design. Increasingly it appears that Digital Media companies are getting proposal requests from clients on projects where they (the media providers) may have only 70% - 80% of the required skills. Thus, they must find sub-contractors to do the balance of the work. However, owing to the rapid pace of technological innovation in Digital Media, it can often be difficult to find sub-contractors with the required skills. Brent’s “Company 2.0” concept is an evolutionary bi-product of Web 2.0. It envisions an Internet marketplace where prime contractors can form alliances with subcontractors, possessing the skills missing by the primes, to undertake complex client proposals. The primes could form a syndicate with subcontractors on a project-by-project basis, or they might combine to form a continuing company to seek similar proposals in the future. Since Brent is a lawyer he is pursuing a couple of Company 2.0 ideas in the legal field. One, called Lextrovert, would provide continuing education credits for lawyers at lower cost. By way of background, lawyers are required to continue their education periodically in order to stay up-to-date with the law. Typically they do so by attending conferences and listening to lectures, or by getting DVDs of the lectures. The lectures are typically provided by other lawyers.
Platform for i5/OS - What i5 shops need to know As the Director of IT at Trippelite I never considered researching Platform for i5/OS. Knowing what I NOW do Platform would have increased the productivity of my developers, shortened the time to production of PHP apps, and eased the transition to PHP from RPG. In this presentation I will guide you through the functionality that most leverages the i5 shop’s investments in people and hardware.
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 29 Episode 29 Andy Sernovitz Author and Word of Mouth Marketing Expert Word of Mouth Book, Live Question and Answer sessions from SIPA and the Advertising Federation, SEO Digger, Zappos.com, Dynamic Keyword Insertion, Web Optimized Press Releases, Franchise expert Joel Labava, Scott Pooler from All Business Auctions comments on Twibler.com, Jeff Herskowitz from New York City Balloons, Micro Blogging and following CNN.com and Woot.com, the problem with Flash websites, Wynne Hotel launch strategy, Twitter, Post It Notes, Content Management Systems Droople and Joomla, Best strategies for creating an online column, eNewsletter optimization strategies, Like knows Like, Hockey, Links from Live Q&A: Scott Stevenson, Bob Coleman, Coleman Publishing, Richard Spisak Imagineering Productions, Tracey Henkes First Bank and Trust Indiantown, Romina Colombo BBJones Communications, Las Vegas Recording Artist and Performer Michael Paige with Song of the Week “Dance” Call in line 206-888-6606
User Provisioning: Managing and Securing the Identity Chaos Provisioning is a growing challenge for IT organizations. Dynamic and growing user populations, internal and external to the enterprise, are increasingly requiring access to multiple applications and systems. This Podcast will address the following questions: What is Provisioning? Why is automated User Provisioning increasingly popular with IT; and What are the critical components that go into a comprehensive user provisioning solution?
Episode 76: Special Episode on the Patterns Journal In this special Episode we briefly discuss the upcoming Patterns Journal with the two editors, Ralph Johnson and James Noble.
Bringing operational maturity to business critical PHP applications Learn about enhancing the operational maturity of PHP applications. The Webinar addresses the following challenges with ensuring predictability through the application delivery lifecycle: Maintaining quality through shrinking release cycles Managing and scaling business-critical Open Source applications to deliver on SLAs Increasing the rate of successful deployments from development into production environments Enabling developers to focus on developing functionality as opposed to solving production issues Securing applications to protect enterprise and customer data Defining standards for Open Source applications across the enterprise
Java Posse #216 - Roundup 08 - Don't Repeat Yourself Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte, CO. This discussion covers topics like re-use vs. re-write, abandoned software projects, static and dynamic languages, project vibrancy, bugs and defects and lots more.
This week, Google drops Yahoo in ad deal, Windows 7 appears on file sharing sites, vacuum tubes make a come back, and more This week, Google drops Yahoo in ad deal, Windows 7 appears on file sharing sites, vacuum tubes make a come back, and more
Satisfying clients in real time shouldn't be that hard Exceptional customer service is critical for business success today. Online self-service with IBM WebSphere Portal can make all the difference.
Michael Lee Stallard on How to Fire Up Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity Want to find out how to create an environment that consistently fires up your team?
Implementing ITIL Requires Log Management and Analytics to Help IT Operations Gain Efficiency and Accountability Implementing best practices from the the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is becoming popular in IT departments. As managers improve IT operations with an eye to process efficiency, operational accountability, and systems behaviors, they need visibility into systems and networks. The use of systems log management and analytics in the context of full IT infrastructures produces the audit and performance data trail that helps implement and refine such frameworks as ITIL. To learn more about how systems log tools and analysis are aiding organizations as they adopt ITIL, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner spoke with Sean McClean, principal at consultancy KatalystNow, and Sudha Iyer, director of product management at LogLogic
Yahoo CEO sends word to Microsoft's Steve Ballmer that Microsoft should buy Yahoo, Cisco CEO John Chambers says economic downturn looks gloomy, Intel to launch Nehalem on November 17, and more Yahoo CEO sends word to Microsoft's Steve Ballmer that Microsoft should buy Yahoo, Cisco CEO John Chambers says economic downturn looks gloomy, Intel to launch Nehalem on November 17, and more
Virtualization Compliance and Security Solution Podcast with Dwayne Melancon from Tripwire - November 6, 2008 - Episode 63 In episode 63, Douglas Brown interviews Dwayne Melancon, VP of Corporate and Business Development for Tripwire, Inc. In this podcast Doug and Dwayne discuss Tripwire's compliance and security solution for VMware virtualization environments called Tripwire Enterprise 7.5V. Dwayne and Doug will also discuss how Tripwire's solutions works, what it takes to deploy / maintain, and they will discuss the free Tripwire ConfigCheck for VMware ESX utility.
Listener Feedback #53 Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.
The Changes Business Wants BusinessWeek Executive Editor John A. Byrne and Washington Bureau Chief Jane Sasseen talk about what the different business sectors say they need from the Obama Administration
Knowing Your Festival Rights (Part 2) Are the issues of ownership impacting on the development of your festival? If you're worried about protecting your event concept and production ideas then this panel discussion/networking event run in partnership with CIDA will explode some of the myths surrounding festival design and management and help put your mind at ease. Leading experts will discuss some of the often contentious issues of intellectual property that may affect the festivals sector. This is an event that is aimed festival and event organisers or organisations who can share experience and be put into the picture regarding some of the best ways to copyright a concept, monitor brand usage and get the right contracts in place. Disclaimer: Own-it podcasts are for information only and are not a substitute for legal advice or support; all podcasts are related to UK only.
Fired Up Leadership: How to Make Your Team Thrive Employee disengagement is a widespread malady in today’s organizations, causing the loss of billions of dollars, hours of dissatisfaction and work lives lacking true value.
Protection in Numbers against Web Malware One webpage is infected every five seconds with malware, which is an increase of three times since 2007. These websites are targeted to become the unwitting hosts for invisible malware downloads that can affect hundreds of users. Listen to this podcast and learn more about protecting your company from malware, including: Integrating data loss prevention (DLP) tools into the network infrastructure and tips for increasing remote user security; current trends in web-based attacks and how your company can successfully mitigate these threats; addressing vulnerabilities with web application and content controls.
Microsoft launches BizSpark to boost Windows Azure, President-elect Barack Obama's take on tech, FCC approves broadband devices to operate in spectrum white spaces, and more Microsoft launches BizSpark to boost Windows Azure, President-elect Barack Obama's take on tech, FCC approves broadband devices to operate in spectrum white spaces, and more
Episode 70: Lateral Thinking Episode 70: Lateral Thinking
Episode 21: 2008 Interview with Steve Pena, Senior Implementation Consultant at SyberWorks Steve Pena, Senior Implementation Consultant for SyberWorks discusses his article, “10 Tips on LMS Implementation.”
Were Not Channel Aligned! - Enterprise Level Partnering Were Not Channel Aligned! - Enterprise Level Partnering
The Evolution of NAC Carole Theirault interviews Scott Lewis, NAC product specialist at Sophos, about the new generation of network access control offerings and how they can address and enable IT best practices and ensure network governance.
Speaking of Security Podcast #127 It's election day in the US, and today's Speaking of Security Podcast focuses on the notorious breach of Sarah Palin's email account on Yahoo. Satchit Dokras, a Director in RSA's EMC Product Security Office, talks about Palin's exposed email and how all of us can better protect our online accounts.
The Matrix: The IT Professional’s Cut Learn how to reduce IT staff hours spent deploying, upgrading, supporting and terminating line-of-business applications and operating systems. Using Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization technology - included in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack - your organization can deploy applications that never require installation or regression testing, yet are always available to users.
mobileStorm CEO On Text-Marketing To Cell Phone Users Ninety per cent of cell phone users in the U.S. can receive text messages. Marketing to these cell phone users via text messages could be an opportunity for ecommerce merchants. mobileStorm is a text-message-marketing company and its CEO, Jared Reitzen, visited with Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock on how text-message (also known as short message service, or "SMS") marketing works.
SOA adoption hits road bump, Microsoft and LG team up on mobile devices, IT manager gets 1-year prison sentence, and more SOA adoption hits road bump, Microsoft and LG team up on mobile devices, IT manager gets 1-year prison sentence, and more
America's Best Companies America's Best Companies is a small business organization dedicated to providing the tools, resources, guidance and information small business owners need to start their business, stay in business, and grow their business while maintaining a competitive edge in the marketplace.
Nathan Harrington on workstation power use and smart activity monitoring Nathan Harrington, IBM programmer and regular developerWorks contributor talks about his developerWorks highlighted article this week on reducing your PC's power consumption through smart activity monitoring. He talks about general approaches relevant for all modern OSs, but offers a specific example on the Linux platform.
Wiegand and Abrams on the Open Services for Life Cycle Collaboration Initiative John Wiegand, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Rational Chief Software Architect , and Steve Abrams from the Rational CTO Team and Lead architect for the OSLC talk about the Open Services for Life Cycle Collaboration Initiative. Hear about the latest with the Jazz platform, the challenges of integration, and the basics and benefits of the open services approach.
Art & Design for Computer and Internet Media If you would like to learn about how young adults can prepare themselves for a career in computerized art, design, and animation, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Lance Burchett who is the Vice President for Advancement at the Ringling College of Art and Design. I met Lance at the 3rd Sarasota International Design Summit in Sarasota, Florida last month. The Summit is sponsored by the Ringling College. As media becomes increasingly computer-and-Internet-centric, there is a growing need for those skilled in fine arts to adopt the technology. They may well be the kinds of people who will develop the interface and media paradigms of the future. A good place to get an idea of what they are thinking is at the Sarasota International Design Summit. While admittedly the Summit covers a lot of terrestrial concepts, such as how to design an office (which I found rather boring), there is an increasing focus on the future of interactivity and design, as they relate to Websites, video games and other electronic media. The Ringling College of Art & Design appears to be a place where young adults can be trained to adapt native artistic and design aptitudes into skills that are applicable to computer and electronic media environments. It offers four-year curriculums in Broadcast Design/Motion Graphics, Computer Animation, Digital Film, Game Art & Design, Graphic & Interactive Communications, and Photography and Digital Imaging, among others.
Java Posse #215 - Quick News/Feedback for Nov 3rd 2008 Java Posse #215 - Quick News/Feedback for Nov 3rd 2008
Component Content Management in Action XML and structured content, by themselves, don't solve business problems. Their true value lies in what's possible once content is structured. The right standards frameworks (such as DITA and S1000D), processes, and technologies can advance XML-based business solutions that enable companies to realize value. Component content management (CCM) is proving to be fundamental in scenarios for success. This webinar is online panel discussion of "threes": three companies in three industries using CCM for three different high-value content applications from three perspectives: customer, technology supplier, and industry analyst. You'll hear about business drivers behind CCM, how CCM is deployed, benefits, and lessons learned. Featured speakers are Mark Tiegs, Team Lead, Documentation Systems and Support, Research in Motion; Karen Moser, Manager, Documentation and Localization Services, Research in Motion; Kevin Duffy, XyEnterprise President and CEO; and Bill Trippe from Gilbane.
Salesforce.com unwraps Force.com Sites to host customers' apps in the cloud, laptop makers recall more batteries, Google and Yahoo lean closer to abandoning controversial search agreement, and more Salesforce.com unwraps Force.com Sites to host customers' apps in the cloud, laptop makers recall more batteries, Google and Yahoo lean closer to abandoning controversial search agreement, and more
Royal Caribbean and SOA Royal Caribbean and SOA
INPS and SOA INPS and SOA
Unigroup and SOA Unigroup and SOA
Transalta and SOA Learn how Transalta, Canada's largest de-regulated utility, extended their SAP environment with WebSphere Portal and service oriented architecture (SOA).
Budgeting Controls Possible controls to install for your budgeting system
David Karp - CEO, Tumblr In today’s episode of Read/WriteTalk I sit down with David Karp the CEO and founder of Tumblr. Tumblr is a platform that makes it easy to express yourself on the web. In some ways, it is very similar to Twitter and other services like it. However, Tumblr is off to a great start and is growing very rapidly. Today they are announcing a number of new features. We touch briefly on these features, but also discuss David’s vision for Tumblr and how he feels he is different than two competitors (Twitter and FriendFeed).
Platform for i5/OS - What i5 shops need to know As the Director of IT at Trippelite I never considered researching Platform for i5/OS. Knowing what I NOW do Platform would have increased the productivity of my developers, shortened the time to production of PHP apps, and eased the transition to PHP from RPG. In this presentation I will guide you through the functionality that most leverages the i5 shop’s investments in people and hardware.
AudioParasitics Presents : McAfee Avert Labs' Top 10 Security Threats for 2008 Special Episode
Is 'security through virtualization' a myth? We tackle the subject with special guests Rafal Wojtczuk and Rahul Kashyap. Part 2 of 2
Risky Business: POS Security and the Reality of Sustaining PCI Compliance Learn how to control the lifecycle changes within your retail infrastructure and to create a sustainable PCI compliance model that doesn’t have to be disruptive and harmful to your business. You’ll hear about the POS and payment application security realities and management weaknesses; how to utilize the benefits of run-time control technology to provide security and robust lifecycle change control for distributed retail systems, including how to provide application security beyond PA-DSS certification; how Retalix provides innovative solutions reducing the burden of PCI compliance and creating a true partnership of success with customers.
Achieve Sales Forecasting Confidence: Learn How from Sharp Few activities are as important to the success of a company as sales forecasting. Yet most companies admit they lack confidence in their current forecasting capabilities, leading to investigation of and investment in better solutions. Hear how Sharp made these strategic investments and increased confidence in its sales forecasting. In this interactive session, you will learn how Sharp: Increased the frequency and quality of sales forecasts from sales reps, rep firms and channel partners; Increased management visibility into changing forecast information; Increased responsiveness to competitive pressures in key accounts and maintained margins.
Lean and Green: A Simpler More Cost-Effective Datacenter Globalization and knowledge-based economies are forcing companies to embrace new business models and rapidly emerging technologies to stay competitive. Yet the day-to-day pressure to run the business more cost effectively while supporting business growth and innovation is very real. These changes demand that IT improve cost and service delivery, manage escalating complexity and better secure the enterprise. View this webcast to learn how the new enterprise datacenter can improve the integration of people, process and technology in your business to help you improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Beyond the Basics: How to Stay Lean and Leverage More Everyone knows the basics: cut costs and overhead, from phone bills to travel. But have you looked at the “overhead” associated with servicing your debt loads? Did you know that the recently approved economic stimulus package provides you a break for accelerating depreciation on equipment purchased and used in 2008? In this session, business experts will examine ways to lower operating costs without hurting your business, and discuss options for increasing financial leverage, such as the economic stimulus package and alternative sources of credits.
Retail Store 2.0, Communications and IT Address Retailers Business Concerns Nick Lippis talks with Bruce Mazza, Director of Branch Solutions and Leslie Levy, Senior Manager of Retail Solutions at Avaya about value creation in retail and multi-level environments through intelligent store architecture.
BriefingsDirect Analysts Take Microsoft's Pulse: Will the Software Giant Peak in Next Few Years? Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Insights Edition, Vol. 32, a periodic discussion and dissection of software, services, SOA and compute cloud-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts. In this episode, recorded Oct. 24, 2008, our experts examine the state of Microsoft at the onset of the annual Professional Developers Conference. Two narratives emerge from the roundtable discussion, that Microsoft is behind on many new IT trends and is tied to past business models, and opposing is the view that Microsoft will ride business intelligence, data services, and cloud computing to become bigger and more pervasive than ever. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Tony Baer, senior analyst at Ovum Research; Dave Linthicum, independent SOA consultant at Linthicum Group; Brad Shimmin, principal analyst at Current Analysis; Mike Meehan, a senior analyst at Current Analysis, and Joe McKendrick, independent analyst and prolific blogger. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by BriefingDirect's Dana Gardner
IBM Business Partners talk about Lotus Sametime IBM Partners Cisco, Siemens, Nortel; Avaya and 3COM discuss the value that they are finding in Sametime Telephony.
Leonard Berry and Kent Seltman on Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic It's not just about healthcare.
BriefingsDirect Analyst Insights #32 Once again, we are pleased to make available in our feed the latest BriefingsDirect Analyst Insight podcast featuring Dana Gardner and a panel of industry luminaries discussing SOA and cloud computing, this time including Jim Kobielus, Dave Lincthicum, our pal Tony Baer (who was among the very first people to pay attention to ActiveVOS early this year), Western Mass’s own Brad Shimmin (who’s also kept an eye on us, for which we’re grateful), Mike Meehan and this episode’s “I laughed out loud” winner Joe McKendrick. You gotta listen to this episode in which the panel — in the best pundit style — dissects Microsoft’s Azure. About 20 minutes into the podcast McKenrick calls Microsoft the “Joe the plumber” of the IT world and the discussion elevates from there. (-: Unlike these esteemed pundits — whose observations are fascinating — we don’t especially care about Microsoft’s cloud initiatives because everyone knows that Azure is as unnatural as dumping silver iodide in cloud to make it rain. Plus, it’s gonna be proprietary and costly. Sure, they’ll make billions off it from the MCabal, but the rest of the world will create SOA in the cloud using standards. Whatever…Dana’s podcasts with the pundits sure are good listening. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
Java Posse #214 - Newscast for Oct 31st 2008 Part 1 - we talked so long about the main news items we decided to do the quick news and listener feedback as a follow up podcast later in the week.
First look at Windows 7, flat panel displays get paper thin, new netbooks from Toshiba and Dell hit the shelves, and more First look at Windows 7, flat panel displays get paper thin, new netbooks from Toshiba and Dell hit the shelves, and more
Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Delivering World-Class Service A challenge for any large enterprise is to maximize the advantages of being big while minimizing the disadvantages—such as bureaucracy, inflexibility, impersonal service, and lack of coordination in serving customers.
Pain of the Week: How Healthy is my SQL Server Enterprise? It seems like the answer should be simple. But in reality, this is one of the most painful questions to which you must respond. Because if you have more than a couple servers, you could easily spend a full day gathering information due to the massive number of metrics you need to examine. Guess what? You don’t have to dig into data to check the system health for all your SQL Servers. Join Denny Cherry as he presents a solution for you to gain visibility across your entire environment and check its health at any given time.
ClickJacking Leo and I discuss yet another challenge to surfing safely in the web world: Known as “ClickJacking,” or more formally as “UI Redressing,” this class of newly popular threats tricks web users into performing web-based actions they don't intend by leading them to believe they are doing something else entirely.
America Needs an Economic Strategy BW's John A. Byrne and Harvard Business School Professor Michael E. Porter discuss Porter's prescription for improving the long-term economic health of the U.S.
The Petabytes are Coming: Will Your Content Repository Scale? With data growth rates in the 50% - 100% range for most enterprises today and IT budgets declining, it's clear that legacy approaches to managing storage capacity growth need to be rethought. The fact that, for most enterprises, the performance requirements of 70% to 90% of the data currently sitting on expensive primary storage can be met much more cost-effectively with an active archival storage platform provides an opportunity to drastically cut the average blended $/GB most organizations are paying to house all their storage (primary and secondary). The customer problem is how to cost-effectively manage explosive data growth over time horizons on the order of decades while at the same time meeting the demands of new regulatory requirements, such as e-discovery. This session will present new archiving strategies and solutions that answer the needs of 21st century businesses. It will look at why yesterday's technologies, such as tape or tiered storage devices, fail to address both long term archiving requirements and cost efficiencies required by today's enterprises. Presenters will include case studies to demonstrate the real business benefits and cost savings enterprise can achieve by adopting a 21st century data archiving strategy.
Startup pushes private storage clouds, malware uses Google Web sites to wiggle around Facebook, Juniper kicks off initiative to measure network devices' power efficiency, and more Startup pushes private storage clouds, malware uses Google Web sites to wiggle around Facebook, Juniper kicks off initiative to measure network devices' power efficiency, and more
Getting Started with MTJ This screen cast will guide you through the process of using the Mobile Tools for Java (MTJ) to develop Java ME applications. You will learn how to configure Eclipse and also how to create, run and debug MIDlets using MTJ.
Dependency Injection Concepts and Techniques Krzysztof Cwalina explains the importance of Dependency Injection, how to use it, and why its important. Learn tips and techniques for supplying an external dependency to a software component.
Building and Maintaining Frameworks .NET Team Program Manager Krzysztof Cwalina discusses his work building frameworks and offers valuable insights for developers building framework libraries.
Microsoft's Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Krzysztof Cwalina presents on designing reusable frameworks and his work with the Application Framework Core Team.
Be Prepared: Developing a Roadmap for SharePoint Data Recovery within SQL Server More business data than ever resides in SharePoint. To ensure business continuity, you must be able to recover lost SharePoint data quickly and easily. Become a SharePoint recovery master by viewing this on-demand webcast. You will discover how SQL Server’s role as a repository for SharePoint data and configuration makes it an important tool for efficient SharePoint backup and data recovery. During this one-hour session, you will see: How SQL and SharePoint are similar from a management perspective How your SharePoint and SQL environments are related The limitations of native recovery tools What to expect during a SharePoint recovery
Intellicare and the value of IBM Lotus Sametime Hear Jeff Forbes, CIO of IntelliCare talk about the value of Sametime and Unified Communications and Collaboration.
Top 6 Reasons To Choose IBM Collaboration Sometimes it pays to learn more! It really does! Just a bit curious??? Watch this video to catch a sneak peek on how to connect, collaborate, and innovate with IBM.
Video Wars: Transforming Home Video Entertainment - Part 2 Wayne Ogozaly continues his discussion of how digital video and IP technologies are enabling new video services and advanced streaming technologies in Part 2.
Social Networking: Using the Latest Tools to Support Learning and Talent Management Where Social Networking Fits into Corporate Learning and Development In many ways, we define who we are based upon our interactions with other people and by the network of people with whom we interact. From LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace to Twitter, Digg, and many others … there’s an explosion in both the number and notoriety of Web tools designed to support and enhance our ability to form social connections. The energy surrounding these sites is palpable, but do these tools have any use within your organization? We see these new technologies as having tremendous positive implications for Enterprise Learning and Talent Management. In this Webcast, we explore some of these tools, discuss successful corporate case studies, and offer advice helping you develop a strategy for planning and implementing similar projects in your organization. This discussion is followed by an interactive session where we address specific questions asked by members of the audience.
Windows 7 is just Vista with a fresh paint job, SAP considers selling its application hosting division, Google injects Google Apps with enterprise features, and more Windows 7 is just Vista with a fresh paint job, SAP considers selling its application hosting division, Google injects Google Apps with enterprise features, and more
Episode 69: Value Proposition Episode 69: Value Proposition
Managing Complex IBM WebSphere MQ Applications View to find out how to manage your MQ messaging middleware in a proactive manner—resolving incidents before they can make a negative impact on your company. Having top-performing applications is essential for keeping end users and customers satisfied. Without adequate visibility into how WebSphere MQ is affecting your applications, you may be managing your application architecture with more effort and investment than necessary. Ask yourself: Do you struggle to manage applications and service performance holistically across an MQ messaging infrastructure? Do you have trouble adapting your tools to rapid changes in your WebSphere MQ application architecture? Do you lack visibility into how the performance of MQ messaging or IT infrastructure components are affecting application service delivery? Do you need better tools to manage MQ application performance for your Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) or Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) initiatives?
"Oslo" -- Microsoft's Modeling Platform Paul Vick provides an overview of "Oslo" -- the tool, the language, and the relational repository. Learn what it is, how it works, and why it matters.
Getting Started with "M Grammar" Giovanni Della-Libera describes M Grammar. Learn how and where to get the bits, and everything you need to know to get started.
Visual Basic 10: New Features Paul Vick and Lisa Feigenbaum discuss the features in the latest release of Visual Basic 10 announced at PDC 2008.
Future Directions of Visual Basic Paul Vick discusses the future of the Visual Basic programming language with Lisa Feigenbaum. Learn about some of the trends sculpting the future of VB.
The "Oslo" Modeling Language: "M Grammar" with Paul Vick Language Architect, Paul Vick, discusses "M Grammar," the "Oslo" modeling language in detail. Gain a 360-degree view of how "M" helps people create and use textual domain-specific languages and data models.
Inside "M" with the "Oslo" Team David Langworthy and Jeff Pinkston introduce the what, why, and favorite features of "M," the new textual modeling language for .NET Developers.
Getting Started with "M," the "Oslo" Modeling Language David Langworthy and Jeff Pinkston discuss practical steps for getting started with "M".
"Oslo" Modeling SDK, "M Grammar" -- What is it? Giovanni Della-Libera discusses his PDC session on "M Grammar" with Michael Weinhardt. Learn about what M Grammar is and its key features. Based on the "Oslo: Building Textual DSLs" session with Chris Anderson.
"Oslo" Modeling Language Specification, Codename "M" David Langworthy and Jeff Pinkston discuss the "Oslo" Modeling Language, codename "M."
Design and Lineage of the "Oslo" Modeling Language, Codename "M" Jeff Pinkston and David Langworthy discuss the "M" modeling language- cornerstone of the "Oslo" platform. Learn about the lineage of the language and how it fits into the language space.
Free Offer For Live Chat Service-Chad Ritchie AND Intro to Social Media - Dave Evans Learn how to get 90 days free live chat service from Chad Ritchie of Velaro. And Receive an introduction to social media from expert Dave Evans, CEO, Digital-Voodoo.
Social Media Marketing in an Hour a Day - Dave Evans Learn what matters in social media marketing with Dave Evans, author of the book, "Social Media Marketing in an Hour a Day". Archive segments under blogging, podcasting, social media marketing, social network marketing.
GTR 143: The Urban Homesteading Path to Freedom with Jules Dervaes Host Sean Daily talks with Jules Dervaes of Path to Freedom. Path to Freedom  is a family-operated urban homestead established in 2001 in Pasadena, California by Jules Dervaes. The family also runs a successful business providing fresh produce to local restaurants.
Deploy While You Sleep Are you losing money, time and sleep with manual, semi-automated, or light-touch desktop deployments? Stop! Optimize your desktop deployments with a Zero Touch Desktop Deployment Solution. This solution is built using Microsoft technologies creating a seamless, end-to-end methodology to help you automate the mundane.
Migrating SharePoint 2003 to 2007 Many organizations made an early commitment to SharePoint and rely on SharePoint 2003. Now SharePoint 2007 provides a valuable upgrade with many advanced features that earlier versions lack. To take advantage of these features, it makes sense to move data from SharePoint 2003 -- but a native upgrade is challenging (and limits the 2007 features you can use).
Minimizing Tape in Enterprises of all Sizes Everyone wants their backup storage and data movement to be simple, safe, automated and online. It should use your existing infrastructure and standard systems, software and networks. In other words, it should be like every other part of your IT plan. Unfortunately, if you're still tape-based backup, you probably don't have this today. This Webcast, featuring renowned backup expert W. Curtis Preston and Hugo Patterson, chief architect for Data Domain, highlights other technologies that can improve your backup and data protection initiatives and allow you to cut down on your reliance of tape. Tape-based backup is manual, unreliable and offline. Although tape is still being used for backup/restore, DR and archiving, the technology is here now to take vast steps forward in how you plan for tapeless operational recovery. View this Webcast, featuring esteemed backup expert W. Curtis Preston and chief architect at Data Domain, Hugo Patterson, to learn about these types of technologies and how businesses of all sizes are minimizing their reliance on tape.
GTR 143: The Urban Homesteading Path to Freedom with Jules Dervaes Host Sean Daily talks with Jules Dervaes of Path to Freedom. Path to Freedom  is a family-operated urban homestead established in 2001 in Pasadena, California by Jules Dervaes. The family also runs a successful business providing fresh produce to local restaurants.
Groovy & Grails: A New Platform? Scott Davis discusses Groovy and Grails and their relationship with Java.
Installing Groovy and Grails Scott Davis presents a 3-step process for installing Groovy and Grails.
China Market Entry – Opportunities and Strategies for Success: Presented by GlobalLogic & Alliance Development Group (ADG) China Market Entry – Opportunities and Strategies for Success: Presented by GlobalLogic & Alliance Development Group (ADG)
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Concrete Steps for Implementing an Information Security Program A sustainable security program is based on business-aligned strategy, policy, awareness, implementation, monitoring, and remediation.
Now that WiMax is available, here's what you need to know about it. Also, a .Net developer's initial reaction to Microsoft's Windows Azure Now that WiMax is available, here's what you need to know about it. Also, a .Net developer's initial reaction to Microsoft's Windows Azure
PROGNOSIS support for Nortel at VoiceCon 2008 Recorded at VoiceCon Orlando 2008, this podcast is a discussion of the addition of Nortel support to the PROGNOSIS product line as well as a look at the impact this will have on the market. The release of PROGNOSIS IP Telephony Manager 9.5 incorporating support for Nortel gives PROGNOSIS the only complete telephony management solution for the top 3 IP telephony vendors. It allows organizations tasked with monitoring VoIP deployments from multiple vendors to view the performance of their entire system in a single, unified view. Service providers can either segment performance data by customer or drill down on an individual customer's details. Dunne also discusses the deep insight and business level reporting that PROGNOSIS offers as well as the real time troubleshooting that enterprises need to ensure that service levels and KPIs are being met. An increasing number of organizations are beginning to realize the value of VoIP as a strategic investment and Dunne explains the ways in which PROGNOSIS allows customers to maximize their return on this investment.
BPM for Insurance Traditional monolithic technology has held the insurance industry's business processes in shackles for far too long. Find out how BPM can free up time and money and make your company much more competitive at this Webinar.
Kicking off your VoIP and IP Telephony Project Following on from the Introduction to Deploying VoIP in the Enterprise, this 17-minute podcast is designed to complement and extend the 8-chapter eBook, The Definitive Guide to Successful Deployment of VoIP and IP Telephony. Providing extra tips and highlights from the eBook, industry expert Jim Cavanagh examines the business drivers for migrating to VoIP such as enabling new services or reducing costs, and examines the planning and assessment phases of the IP telephony lifecycle. Cavanagh covers these topics in a clear, concise format for both technical and non-technical professionals alike, going beyond the theoretical to provide guidance gained from some of the world’s largest enterprise deployments.
Nathan Good on seven good object-oriented habits in PHP Nathan Good, a freelance software developer from the twin cities area of Minnesota, talks aout his developerWorks feature article, "Build seven good object-oriented habits in PHP."
C# 4.0 with Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, and Eric Lippert - Part 1 of 2 Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen and Eric Lippert discuss the new features of C# 4.0. -Exclusive access to the PDC 2008 presentation take-aways.
C# 4.0 with Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, and Eric Lippert - Part 2 of 2 Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen and Eric Lippert discuss continue their discussion of new C# 4.0 features presented at PDC 2008.
Identity Governance Becomes Must-Do Item on Personnel Management and Security Checklist Security and risk aversion around personnel, applications, and IT systems access have never been more urgent. Properly managed identity information and access rules for the users of applications and systems has evolved quickly to include gaining insight into use and abuse patterns. The goal is to work more toward identity governance, a step above simply giving access and privileges, and of getting pro-active in managing access across multiple dimensions in a business. To learn more about the newest solutions around identity governance, BriefingsDirect's Dana Gardner speaks with Mark McClain, CEO and founder of SailPoint Technologies, and Jackie Gilbert, vice president of marketing and founder at SailPoint.
10 Golden Rules Internet Marketing Podcast Episode 28 Geoff Ramsey from eMarketer, the top two trends on the internet and the wave of the future, The Top Ten Internet Marketing Trade Shows, TGR Podcast Intern Loukas Koufodontes MarketingRopes.com, online video, Google Chrome, Hulu.com, Blendtec, social networking and communication, Brett Hurt BizzareVoice and online reviews and ratings, Six Pixels of Separation, the new Facebook, The rule of 3’s, I Can’t Believe it’s Not Butter butter opera featuring Dr. Dill Pickle, Seth Godin “Digital Wants to be Free”, Shopping Cart Questions, Geek Dinner with Sheryl Cattell BlueGreen Corporation, Pam Stein Clientize, Shari McConahay Halloween Costumes, Alex Harris Alex Designs, Nicole Governile, Great calls from Brad Anderson creator of Twibler, FriendFeed, Corbin Links, Dan Keradano Surf Pet, Black Lab Ecstasy, Call our K7 line 206-888-6606
An Internet Version of Kelly Services (Temporary Help) If you would like to learn about a company that hopes to transform the temporary office help industry the way that Expedia transformed the travel agency business, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Phillip Thune who is the CEO of HireMeNow.com. His website is a temporary help agency for office workers. It is a cyberspace version of Kelly Services or Manpower, Inc. There are two basic advantages to using HireMeNow.com instead of terrestrial temporary worker agencies. First, since HireMeNow.com is on the Internet the company has much lower physical overhead costs and they pass the savings along to the customer. Second, employers are permitted to inspect the resumes, applications, and backgrounds of a great many candidates online before deciding which ones they want to interview. The online inspection also can include a short video prepared by the candidate to explain their qualifications and interests. Such video resumes give the employers something of a “feel” for the candidate’s personality and ability to express themselves. While HireMeNow.com may have the potential to transform the temporary office help industry like Expedia changed the travel agency business, their biggest challenge is building a critical mass of candidates and employers in numerous common geographic areas. For example, an employer in St. Louis does not care who is available in Boston. If you are an employer looking for a way to cut your costs in hiring temporary workers, you might be especially interested in the interview because HireMeNow is offering a special bonus to our audience.
IBM to bolster Information on Demand strategy, RFID security algorithm released as open sources, Yahoo plans to release platform for Web developers, and more IBM to bolster Information on Demand strategy, RFID security algorithm released as open sources, Yahoo plans to release platform for Web developers, and more
An Inspection of Modern Malware: How You Can Reduce the Attack Surface Enterprises are combating huge volumes of email and there is one new web page being infected every 5 seconds. There are also literally thousands of pieces of malware built with the intention to compromise your network - not to mention the threat potential posed from the devices employees use in the modern workplace. As an IT expert, what can you do about it? Join global threat expert Graham Cluley from Sophos to get a look at the inner workings of today's threats in this webcast.
Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 Unleashed Matt Winkler presents concepts from Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 Unleashed, the essential resource for software developers and architects working with WCF. Learn best practices or programming with WCF.
Visual Studio 2010, Part 2 of 2 - Tooling Support for Concurrency and Parallelism Stephen Toub discusses tooling support for concurrency and parallelism in VS 2010, and other announcements made at PDC with Hazim Shafi.
Visual Studio 2010, Part 1 of 2 - Support for Parallelism Stephen Toub, Joe Duffy, and Hazim Shafi discuss Visual Studio Support for Parallelism -- the subject of their concurrency sessions at PDC.
Inside the WCF REST Starter Kit CodePlex Ron Jacobs discusses WCF REST and the WCF REST Starter Kit.
Identity Sessions at PDC 2008 - A Sneak Peek Vittorio Bertocci and Caleb Baker review their forthcoming identitiy sessions at PDC. Get a preview from Microsoft's Federated Identity Team.
No PIAs: The Problems with Primary Interop Assemblies (PIA) - Part 1 of 4 Misha Shneerson discusses the problems with Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs) with Amanda Silver-- the subject of her PDC 2008 presentation.
No PIAs: Versioning Object Models - Part 4 of 4 Misha Shneerson and Amanda Silver discuss Versioning Object Models with Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs).
No PIAs: Type Equivalence - Part 3 of 4 Misha Shneerson and Amanda Silver discuss Type Equivalence with Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs).
Concurrent Programming on Windows Joe Duffy discusses "Concurrent Programming on Windows," with Stephen Toub. This is the only book you’ll need in order to learn best practices and common patterns for programming with concurrency on Windows and .NET.
No PIAs: Under The Hood - Part 2 of 4 Misha Shneerson and Amanda Silver continue their discussion of Primary Interop Assemblies (PIAs).
5250 Bridge and Zend Platform Jon Paris, co-founder of Partner400 and RPG Expert, will discuss Zend’s 5250 Bridge. He will provide a brief 5250 Bridge technical overview and touch on how to use the 5250 Bridge API's in PHP script. Additionally, Jon will illustrate, step by step, how to start a 5250 session, interact with the 5250 data stream, and display an HTML view of a sample RPG program bundled with the product. Learn how to: Get input/output fields info Assign a value to an input field Send a function key action Run multiple applications from a PHP program Create and display an HTML for a 5250 screen display Add an image to an HTML page.
Palm unwraps Linux-based ultramobile PC as smartphone companion, Google buys Panoramio, releases Gears for offline access to Web apps, Motorola cuts 4,000 workers, and more Palm unwraps Linux-based ultramobile PC as smartphone companion, Google buys Panoramio, releases Gears for offline access to Web apps, Motorola cuts 4,000 workers, and more
Prerecorded Webcast: Better Than Green Screen: How You Can Use Next Generation Web Technologies To Become an iSeries IT Hero We hear all the time about the need to modernize our iSeries applications and move from greenscreen to Web-based user interfaces. But is there a business case for this approach? And how will it affect your career? During this Webcast, you will learn: How next generation Web applications can bring real value to your organization by creating a more interesting and productive environment for users. How Web applications make information more useful and readily available than green screen applications. How you can easily become an iSeries IT hero by executing these ideas quickly and efficiently, using the latest Web programming techniques, with a short learning curve. This Webcast is hosted by Duncan Kenzie, President and CTO of BCD's Technical Support group, the development and support group for WebSmart, the popular Web application development solution for iSeries-System i servers. Duncan has 29 years of experience on the midrange systems platform in creating programmer productivity tools for both green-screen and native web environments. He is a published author of numerous technical articles on programming on the midrange platform and the web, and a frequent public speaker. This unique Webcast was offered as part of the RPG and Beyond Web conference.
IBM Rational Quality Manager Overivew demo IBM Rational Quality Manager Overivew demo
Tim Sanders on How to Save the World From Your Office A “responsibility revolution” is shaking up corporate America.
Turn Your PC in to a Thin Client Podcast with Nick Rudnik and Mike Cardinal from ThinLaunch Software - October 24, 2008 - Episode 62 In episode 62, Douglas Brown interviews Nick Rudnik, Director of Software Development and Mike Cardinal, the General Manager at ThinLaunch Software. In this podcast Doug, Nick and Mike will discuss ThinLaunch's Thin Desktop solution and how it fits in to a server-based computing / desktop virtualization world. Nick, Mike and Doug will also discuss how ThinLaunch's solutions works, what it takes to deploy / maintain, and how ThinLaunch's Thin Desktop solves problems faced when deploying desktop virtualization (VDI) and/or server-based computing solutions (Citrix, Terminal Services).
NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson On Hosted Software Solutions NetSuite is a pioneer is providing hosted software solutions to small and mid-sized businesses. NetSuite's ecommerce platform is used by thousands of businesses worldwide, and, as a testament to its success, the company's common stock is now publicly traded. We asked Zach Nelson, NetSuite's CEO, about software-as-a-service, NetSuite and the future of ecommerce. Mr. Nelson joins Practical eCommerce's Kerry Murdock.
A look at the week that was: T-Mobile's G1 Google phone goes on sale, Intel discloses mobile platform plans, robots and an invisibility cloak from Tokyo, and Apple iPhone sales hit 10 million A look at the week that was: T-Mobile's G1 Google phone goes on sale, Intel discloses mobile platform plans, robots and an invisibility cloak from Tokyo, and Apple iPhone sales hit 10 million
10 Years of Framework Design Guidelines Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina provide a sneak-peek of their PDC presentation on Framework Design Guidelines. Learn key lessons from 10 years of Framework Design.
Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina discuss the 2e of "Framework Design Guidelines," the definitive resource for .NET developers and architects designing class library frameworks--updated for the new language features of the .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5.
The C# Programming Language, 3rd Edition Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen and Scott Wiltamuth discuss ""The C# Programming Language,"" Third Edition--the authoritative and annotated technical reference for C# 3.0.
VSTS 2010 - What's New - PDC Sneak Peek Sam Guckenheimer, Chief Customer Advocate for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, discusses the vision of VSTS 2010.
GTR 142: Building Custom Green Homes with Ferrier Custom Homes GTR 142: Building Custom Green Homes with Ferrier Custom Homes
IT Service Management and Security - Coming Full Circle: Remote Control IT Are you supporting remote employees or employees in multiple locations? Are you able to monitor systems, respond to incidents and initiate changes to desktops through remote access? Watch the replay of the second web seminar in our series to see how integrated IT Service Management and Security Management can actually work FOR you to effect change within your environment.
Quest NetPro Product Rationalization Quest Software and NetPro product management teams have developed a combined product roadmap to help our customers better migrate, manage and secure Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint and SQL Server environments. Listen to the on-demand webcast to hear details on affected products, which products will be discontinued, which products will be continued and what immediate actions Quest customers should take.
Listener Feedback #52 Leo and I discuss the week's major security events and discuss questions and comments from listeners of previous episodes. We tie up loose ends, explore a wide range of topics that are too small to fill their own episode, clarify any confusion from previous installments, and present real world 'application notes' for any of the security technologies and issues we have previously discussed.
Data Protection Strategies for SMBs Small and medium-sized (SMB) companies are experiencing the same explosion of data growth as the big guys and are usually more limited in IT resources. They are also especially vulnerable, as over 58% of users ESG Research surveyed said they can only tolerate 4 hours or less of downtime before experiencing a significant revenue loss or other adverse business impact. Data protection strategies are determined based on the needs of the organization--compliance and recovery requirements, budget and backup window constraints, types and criticality of data, and tolerance for complexity in data protection systems, to name a few. This Webinar will focus on the unique needs of SMB organizations and the different approaches and technologies SMBs should consider in their data protection strategy.
Java Posse #213 - Newscast for Oct 23rd 2008 Newscast for Oct 23rd 2008
Structured Content for Innovation: Organize Today to Exploit Tomorrow's Promises Structured content has the potential to fundamentally change how organizations leverage information. While some organizations think of XML and component-based authoring primarily in the context of ‘tech docs’, the reality is that this approach has much broader applicability. Structured content has the potential to transform unstructured information from monolithic and isolated to a free-flowing knowledge currency that can forever change how information is shared and utilized for innovation, problem solving and decision making. This webinar explores the frontiers for structured content, including the importance of semantics and how natural language processing will help to bring structured content to the masses. Learn how to organize your thinking and teams today to exploit the future promises for business transformation.
Why BPMN and BPEL were (unfortunately) separated at birth and what it means for SOA developers In this fascinating podcast, Michael Rowley, director of strategy and technology at Active Endpoints discusses the history of how the Business Process Modeling Language (BPMN) and the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) were unfortunately “separated” at birth. He also describes why BPMN and BPEL belong together and what the current efforts in the standards organizations working on BPMN and BPEL are doing to re-unite these two critical standards for SOA-based development. The good news is that SOA developers are the ultimate winners of the inevitable reconciliation of BPMN and BPEL, but as Rowley describes, the reconciliation isn’t intended — and indeed shouldn’t be — a perfect union. Rowley concludes by describing what ActiveVOS 6.0 delivers today for SOA developers who want to work with BPMN and BPEL in a single, integrated, deployable product. We hope you enjoy this podcast, and, as always, welcome your comments on this podcast.
Risk & Reward BW's John A. Byrne and Lauren Young discuss a game plan to survive the financial storm, including tips for managing, investing, borrowing, buying, and working.
Server Virtualization and Its Impact on Storage Virtual servers are red hot, but a virtualized environment has a lot of implications for end users' storage strategies. In this webcast, the Taneja Group research and consulting firm will examine all of these issues, pinpointing the challenges and highlighting solutions that will enable users to get the most out of their virtual server environments -- including solid data protection and SAN strategies.
Pulse 2008 Highlights Registration is open for Pulse 2009, where we will demonstrate how IBM Service Management is managing the world's infrastructure. Check out this Pulse 2008 video which highlights how IBM defined and set the course for IBM Service Management.
Microsoft rushes out emergency Windows patch, early voters complain about machines switching their votes, Google Android has quiet launch, and more Microsoft rushes out emergency Windows patch, early voters complain about machines switching their votes, Google Android has quiet launch, and more
IBM IT Transformation - Virtualization Update Highlights progress to virtualize about 25 percent of IBM distributed infrastructure on to System z Linux based on moving real workload and achieving real benefits. Includes relevant System z and Linux context.
Coaching Your MVPs: Lessons for Leaders from Coaches of Champions Encouraging Leaders to Stop Playing It Safe and Take Action In the past, the business coaching has tended to focus on providing support for underachievers, giving little focus to people who are already performing at high levels. Today, there is an increasing emphasis on using coaching to drive achievers to even higher levels of performance. However, a "one size fits all" approach is a sure path to failure when coaching them. This Webcast explores the character of high-achieving individuals and their coaching needs and examines coaching best practices. In addition, you’ll discover key qualities of "real leaders" and gain advice for encouraging top performers to step up to the plate and stop playing it safe.
Universal Robina Corp (URC) and SOA Learn how URC uses SOA to integrate supply chain applications. URC uses WebSphere mobile solutions and WebSphere Adapters to help make the sales executive team self-sufficient.
NEDBANK and SOA Nicholas Parry, Group Software Services Executive with NEDBANK, describes how SOA and WebSphere bring benefits to their organization.
Ensuring Clean Intellectual Property While being extremely easy to obtain, Open Source Software comes with its own set of IP issues. Buyers and vendors need to be aware of the different types of open source licenses and how different open source communities deal with IP issues. This session will first discuss the different styles of open source licenses and their implications on use within an enterprise or a vendor. It will also discuss the best practices used by the Eclipse Foundation, a leading open source community, to ensure the Eclipse open source projects address many of the IP issues. Attendees of this session will gain a better appreciation for how to deal with the risk and benefits of open source IP.
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How not to get ripped off: Enforcing and Protecting Your Intellectual Property (Part 2) This podcast will offer a basic guide to the law, covering the steps any creative professional should take in order to stop somebody else stealing or otherwise using your work without your permission (including copyright, patenting, trade marks, licensing and design rights). Disclaimer: Own-it podcasts are for information only and are not a substitute for legal advice or support; all podcasts are related to UK only.
IBM works on next-generation Web collaboration, first Android cell phone goes on sale, AMD to release Fusion chips next year, and more IBM works on next-generation Web collaboration, first Android cell phone goes on sale, AMD to release Fusion chips next year, and more
Video Wars: Transforming Home Video Entertainment - Part 1 Wayne Ogozaly discusses the transformation of the video entertainment industry and how the combination of digital video and IP technologies are enabling new video services and advanced streaming technologies.
How to Market to US Hispanics Part I - Christina Morales Christina Morales, Managing Director, Rojo Marketing discusses the fact that the Hispanic population is the fastest growing segment of the US population. Learn how to effectively tap into this lucrative market with this information packed segment.
How to Market to US Hispanics Part II - Christina Morales Christina Morales, Managing Director, Rojo Marketing continues her discussion of the fact that the Hispanic population is the fastest growing segment of the US population. Learn how to effectively tap into this lucrative market with this information packed segment.
GTR 141: Green Blogger Series: Jill Fehrenbacher of Inhabitat and Inhabitots GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily talks with green blogger, publisher and supermom Jill Fehrenbacher, founder of green design blog Inhabitat.com and its new eco-parenting sister site Inhabitots.com.
Virtualization and KACE Hear Marty Kacin, CTO and co-founder of KACE, share with Virtual Strategy Magazine his insights into virtualization and systems management, what KACE is doing in the virtualization arena with its recent acquisition of Computers in Motion, and his views on what the future holds for virtualization.
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