Using the ITIL® Framework for Windows Vista Deployments The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes have become a significant guideline for organizations today. More and more, organizations are applying this best practice framework to their current IT processes to help ensure the most success for the business. An enterprise-wide Windows Vista deployment is one of these critical IT process that most organizations must soon face. Whether deploying now or later, it’s time to start thinking about how your organization will make the move in order to ensure a successful transition for the business. To help make the most of your deployment process, CA provides a solution and methodology that specifically follows the ITIL process framework.
Penetration Testing Ninjitsu Part I with Ed Skoudis of SANS Please join Core Security and Ed Skoudis, SANS instructor and founder of Intelguardians, to learn about Windows command line penetration testing techniques and more in this not-to-be-missed webcast. We’ll begin by looking at some of the motivations for proactively identifying and exploiting security flaws before the bad guys do – and then take a deep dive into useful tips that you can use in your own testing initiatives. Specifically, you’ll learn techniques for leveraging the Windows command shell on a compromised machine to scan and test other systems on the network.
Penetration Testing Ninjitsu Part II: Crouching Netcat, Hidden Vulnerabilities During this webcast, Ed Skoudis will continue his look at the art and science of using penetration testing to gain visibility into your organization’s security posture. We’ll begin by presenting useful tips for assembling the infrastructure required for effective pen testing. The webcast will then shift to a discussion of Netcat, a useful tool in many security testers’ kits - but one that can raise issues around installing software on target file systems. Ed will therefore present techniques for performing the functions of Netcat - such as moving files, scanning ports and creating backdoors - without using Netcat.
Integrated Security & Threat Management: From Advanced Intelligence to Endpoint Protection In this podcast, you will learn about the major differences between vendors’ endpoint security products and find out what is driving the integration of multiple layers of security into endpoint products. You’ll come away with increased technical knowledge and a good command of this emerging space. In addition to getting introduced to eEye’s Blink endpoint protection product and the company’s centralized management console, REM, and what differentiates eEye’s approach to endpoint security. The podcast ends with a discussion about the need for endpoint security to map to an overall security strategy that provides one uniform security view
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Bottom Line Benefits of IT Asset Management If you've implemented the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) and IT Service Management in your organization, you've probably taken a look at IT Asset Management (ITAM) programs to ease your ITIL burden. ITAM can track and optimize hardware and software assets, helping to ensure you get the most use of what you've already got in place - while minimizing asset cost and risk. If IT Service Management is in your future, ITAM is a great place to start. Many of the processes required by ITAM and the data produced from an ITAM program (and captured in the ITAM Repository) are the same ones required for ITSM and the CMDB. ITAM can provide real business benefits in an ITIL program the form of cost savings and reduced compliance risk.
Retina® Network Security Scanner & REM Management Console One of the biggest challenges IT professionals face is keeping data protected and networks secure from intrusions. Knowing where and how your systems are vulnerable is only half the battle. Retina allows you quickly, easily and non-intrusively see the state of your networked devices through the eyes of an attacker. Join this live, web-based demonstration to see eEye's Retina® Network Security Scanner in action. Seamlessly integrated with REM™ Security Management Console, Retina provides comprehensive vulnerability management, from discovery and assessment to remediation and reporting.
Exclusive Insights from Security Solutions Leaders The annual RSA Conference is a showplace for the who's who of security solutions vendors. The event showroom is lined with scores of the industry's leading vendors such as eEye Digital Security. Bank Info Security sat down with eEye to learn more about their line of integrated security and threat management products.
Gas prices got you down? Work from home A majority of 539 workers polled by staffing specialist Robert Half International said they will carpool or telecommute to lessen the impact of gasoline prices on their wallets. This week's newsmaker Katherine Spencer Lee, executive director of Robert Half Technology, which specializes in IT and technical staffing, says network managers can expediate the telecommuting plans for companies -- and even schedule work-from-home days for IT staff.
Enterprise 2.0 and Unified Communications Benefits and Risks Unified communications are already delivering productivity benefits to organizations who are sharing knowledge, communicating, and collaborating more effectively than ever before. Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, and other leading vendors are creating new “enterprise 2.0”, anytime-anywhere collaboration with unified communications suites that include email, instant messaging, group chat, voice over IP, online conferencing and video, mobile messaging, and even server based faxing. Leveraging IP networks and presence, the UC explosion will have a profound effect on how we work together and keep in touch. At the same time, IT organizations will be called upon to provide carrier-class reliability for all applications while protecting against security risks, data leakage, inappropriate use, and compliance liabilities.
Vistage’s Great ROI with Tiered Data Protection Join Jeff Graham, Sr. Product Manager at Overland Storage, as he presents an informational webinar on Vistage International’s Return on Investment. His guest will be Carlo Saggese, Vice President of Application Development. They will outline Vistage’s successful Tiered Data Protection (TDP) strategy and the great ROI.
SECURITY NOW! Interview with Marc Maiffret On episode #91 of SECURITY NOW!, Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte talk with eEye's co-founder Marc Maiffret. "eEye has perhaps done more forensic and vulnerability testing research to increase the remote security of Windows than any other group, including Microsoft. They continue to find and report an amazing number of Windows security vulnerabilities.
Intrusion Detection In-Depth Drawing on his popular SANS course, “Intrusion Detection In-Depth,” Mike Poor will provide practical tips for getting the most out of your intrusion detection and prevention investments through security testing. You’ll learn how to … *test your defenses upon deployment and configure them to your specific environment *ensure that your security infrastructure remains consistently effective as new threats emerge *use security testing to help justify purchases of new security solutions
5 Tips to Turn Your Website into a Marketing Machine Learn how you can transform your website into a marketing machine that attracts qualified prospects and converts a higher percentage of them into paying customers. This Internet marketing webinar discusses 5 tips you can implement today to leverage the Internet and reach your customers more effectively: *On-page SEO (search engine optimization) *Off-page SEO *Blogging & leveraging the blogosphere *Optimizing web forms *Marketing analytics
You're Not Alone: The Top Reasons Customers Abandon Dynamics GP Hear host Sean Rollings, Senior Director of Product Marketing at NetSuite, and a panel of former Dynamics GP customers to learn why hundreds of Great Plains users have switched to NetSuite.
The Great Debate: Standalone CRM vs. Integrated Business Management Hear NetSuite SVP of Marketing Jay O'Connor and a panel of NetSuite customers explore this great CRM debate, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of point solutions versus integrated suites, and share criteria to identify the best technology and CRM strategy for your company.
Improving Application and Network Performance with Cisco IOS® IP Service Level Agreements (SLAs) With voice, video, and other latency-sensitive applications traversing today’s enterprise networks, users are relying more and more on high performance network services. Network professionals need effective ways to monitor and optimize network services and Cisco’s IP SLA is a valuable technology for: *Measuring network performance *Assessing the health of the IP service network *Monitoring edge-to-edge availability in MPLS networks *Troubleshooting network problems.
Learn How to Get A Grip on VoIP Are you struggling with VoIP performance on your network? More than any other type of application, VoIP quality of experience demands optimal network performance. During this FREE event, a panel of VoIP experts will discuss the most pressing VoIP monitoring and performance issues across the network. View today to learn: How VoIP is different from other applications on the network. How IT professionals can measure users’ VoIP quality of experience. Why it is as important to measure call setup as it is to measure call quality. How adding bandwidth does not solve all VoIP performance issues. What network metrics impact VoIP call quality.
Virtual Realities: Securing Your Virtualized Environment Hear from two leading experts about securing virtualized environments - Gartner Distinguished Analyst and Research Fellow Neil MacDonald and Dwayne Melancon, Vice President of Corporate and Business Development at Tripwire.
Insights from an Auditor: Ensuring a Successful PCI Audit Uncover the nuts and bolts of PCI audits, and what your company can do to attain and maintain cost-effective compliance.
Achieving Automated FISMA Compliance Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) expert Mike Nelson shows you how to cost-effectively achieve and maintain a more secure information systems environment by applying the provisions of FISMA and the standards from NIST to your security strategy.
How IT Operations are Affected by Governance, Risk, And Compliance Mandates CIOs will spend more than $30 billion in 2008 on corporate governance, risk and compliance mandates in order to prevent issues that can become very public and expensive. CIOs will rely on their IT organizations to take a more holistic, strategic approach to operations, security and compliance. Because staffing remains lean, it is more important than ever for IT organizations to find the right balance of policies, processes and tools that help meet the goals of these initiatives.
How to Use Network Behavior Analysis to Improve End-user Application Performance Is unplanned network downtime still your main key performance indicator? View this FREE webcast to learn how to move to a performance-based approach to network management. 360º visibility into network performance is a vital component for sustained and optimized application delivery. Best-in-class IT organizations have realized that flow-based monitoring and reporting have become essential for network performance management and they are now adding network behavior analysis and anomaly detection to grow even more proactive. Learn more today.
Tiered Data Protection 101 Interested in extending the concept of storage tiering into backup and disaster recovery? Join Bob Farkaly, Vice President of Worldwide Sales as he introduces and educates you on the finer points of a Tiered Data Protection Strategy.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 101 Today, B2B buyers start their purchasing process in the search engines. In order to remain competitive, your company needs to be found by the people already searching for your products or services. This webinar will cover the basics of search engine optimization – what is it and why is it important – to demystify SEO and empower marketing professionals to either take on SEO themselves or give them the knowledge to hire an effective – not a scam – SEO consultant.
Blogging for Business Blogs are no longer just online personal journals - they are now key business tools. Blogs allow you to engage in a conversation with your customers while improving your website's search engine rank. Don't know where to start? This webinar will cover the basics of blog marketing, including key tactics for business blogging and engaging in the blogosphere to grow your business.
Enabling Affordable Disaster Recovery Join Director of Product Management, Peri Grover, as she presents this webcast on one of the four perspectives of TDP: Enabling Affordable Disaster Recovery. She will explain the needs and considerations for a comprehensive Disaster Recovery Plan and how to affordably create a plan, including: what is DR, what would happen in the event of a disaster, things to consider and the enabling technologies of an effective and affordable DR plan.
Improve Recovery Speed Senior Product Manager, Kevin Wise, presents this webcast on one of the four perspectives of TDP - "Improving Recovery Speed". He reviews the finer points of improving your recovery speed, including: minimizing the cost of downtime, providing measurable and achievable service level agreements, and maximizing your organization's bottom line.
10 Steps to Simplify Data Retention Director of Applications Engineering, Dan Davies, presents this webcast on one of the four perspectives of TDP: Simplifying Data Retention. Davies gives you a comprehensive 10-step instructional on simplifying data retention. Learn how to deal with the variables, laws, rules and opinions related to what data should be kept and what should be trashed.
Social Media Marketing Learn how to harness the power of the social mediasphere - facebook, digg, del.icio.us, reddit, and many others - to get found by more potential customers, develop meaningful relationships with others in your industry, and position yourself as an expert in your field.
Managed File Transfer: From Tactical to Strategic In today's competitive environment, using homegrown scripts to manage your secure file transfers can cause a serious bottleneck. *A one size fits all FTP system is unsecured and lacks support for multiple file types. *Manual set up can discourage transferring large files and the growth of partners. *Generating compliance and audit reports is a time-consuming manual process. This practical webcast will teach you how a Managed File Transfer solution can help companies of any size transfer files with the security, management and auditability that is required in today's a fast-paced business environment.
Improving Your B2B Operations Through Visibility Learn three ways to save time and money through supply chain visibility. Production supply chain visibility solutions provide risk mitigation, the ability to improve your trading relationships and reduce supply chain interruptions. Learn how you can: *Reduce your support overhead and reduce time by having users self-service *Become more proactive by providing detailed visibility to partner transactions to your business users *Save time by automating exception handling and reducing interruptions to EDI transactions.
Modernizing Your Business Community Investments The telltale signs of under-investing in partner programs are easily seen in many organizations, as slow partner on-boarding times and painful process changes lead to flattening growth and rising compliance issues. This webcast will highlight recent research on how organizations are modernizing B2B processes, and how groups can implement lightweight, service-oriented systems to improve the visibility, speed and operations across supplier programs
Tips for Better Managing Network Infrastructure through SNMP-based Performance Metrics With rapid, new technology adoption and constant change in IT, we often lose focus on some of the products we purchased years ago. We may not really understand these incumbent products’ true cost, or give much thought to better alternatives because they are like a pair of comfortable shoes. This situation is frequently found with legacy SNMP polling and network device management products that have neglected by their parent vendors, yet come with exorbitant maintenance contracts. NetQoS takes a different approach by actively investing in device management and understanding key integration across a comprehensive network performance management portfolio designed for application delivery. Join NetQoS experts to learn how to identify products that have lost their value and find out about how you can improve application delivery and lower your costs through relevant, integrated SNMP-based device performance management.
Six IM Control Measures Every Business Needs Instant messaging is evolving into a key component of advanced platforms that enable streamlined enterprise communication via the Web. There are now an estimated 370 million corporate users of instant messaging worldwide, and the number continues to grow at a significant rate. Instant messaging can improve operational efficiencies and increase productivity but it can also put the company at risk-without secure IM, corporations cannot control what enters or leaves the company via IM. This webcast examines what types of threats and security risks companies face when instant messaging is used within a firm without proper management and control measures in place. This webcast also outlines the steps and security measures that companies should take to minimize risks and maximize the benefits available from deploying IM and real-time communications successfully.
Learn the Importance of IM Compliance Programs and Archiving Solutions This webcast examines the need for companies to view compliance efforts as more than just a means to avoid fines, but rather as part of an overall strategy for managing a range of risks posed to the firm by uncontrolled electronic communications such as instant messaging. True and effective compliance requires a three-pronged approach involving both physical controls and administrative measures. The three prongs to compliance are: Develop effective policies and procedures that address the specific requirements mandated by the compliance regulations Enforce the policies and procedures Deploy technology that automates the process of monitoring.
IM Risk Management: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (1) The new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which took effect on December 1, 2006, outline requirements for companies to find and produce relevant materials, documents and electronic communications related to court proceedings in Federal cases. The impact on companies that use communications technology such as instant messaging will be significant, and it is important for organizations to understand the key elements of the new rules and to institute appropriate measures to control their risks and minimize the problems that can arise if involved in a Federal case. Implementing effective controls for complying with the range of regulations that exist will help firms achieve business value far beyond the intangible benefit of the peace of mind gained from satisfactory compliance. Organizations should look to derive meaningful benefits such as more streamlined operations, increased efficiency of IT systems and enhanced communications across the company.
Optimizing B2B Email Marketing for Lead Generation Watch MarketingSherpa and Marketo as they discuss Optimizing B2B Email Marketing for Lead Generation. This webinar covers: *Improving the odds of your emails being noticed and read, and your offers converted *Allocating and justifying your budget for email marketing *Developing creative that will improve your click through and conversion rates *Increasing sales-ready leads with segmentation, automated nurturing and follow-up activities.
Introducing Marketo Lead Management Marketo was invited to present at Under The Radar in Mountain View, CA on Thursday, March 20, 2008. Watch President and CEO Phil Fernandez' presentation, Introducing Marketo Lead Management.
Six Minutes With ... Mike Dever, co-founder of YouChoose It’s a necessary evil in the start-up world – raising money. Whether bootstrapping with one’s own cash or seeking more traditional venture capital, at some point every entrepreneur has to figure out how to finance their business. And staying focused and prioritized is critical along the way. In this episode, Mike Dever, Co-Founder and CEO of DEMO 2008 company YouChoose, explains how they manage this balance
IBM's call to arm: IT industrialization The time has come to evolve IT operations from a state of manual chaos to a streamlined automated environment, according to Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of IBM Software Group. Mills spoke this week to more than 4,000 IBM software users to detail a state of IT operations Big Blue says is long overdue. Listen to why IBM says the time has come for IT to streamline process, reduce wasted resources and put in place automation technology that will enable high-tech operations to run as smoothly as a manufacturing assembly line.
Getting ready for Firefox 3.0 Excitement over new browser releases is rare, but the pending Firefox 3.0 release is generating some buzz in the tech circles for its improved performance, "Awesome Bar" and easy-on-the-eyes viewing. We talk with PC World's Ed Albro about his experiences with beta versions of Firefox 3.0 and what to expect when the final version is released in the coming month.
Six Minutes With ... Kristofer Mansson, CEO of Silobreaker With Web content growing exponentially, a need has been created for better search options. In this episode, Kristofer Mansson, CEO of DEMO 08 company Silobreaker, discusses giving users more options to find better results
FCC mulls free wireless Internet acution rule; HP beefs up app-security software FCC mulls free wireless Internet acution rule; HP beefs up app-security software
Getting ready for Firefox 3.0 Excitement over new browser releases is rare, but the pending Firefox 3.0 release is generating some buzz in the tech circles for its improved performance, "Awesome Bar" and easy-on-the-eyes viewing. We talk with PC World's Ed Albro about his experiences with beta versions of Firefox 3.0 and what to expect when the final version is released in the coming month.
Ozzie downplays Yahoo; Cisco appliance tracks wireless data Ozzie hints at Microsoft's search future, downplays Yahoo; Cisco unveils services approach to enterprise mobility.
Answerthink Maximizes Efficiencies of Projects and People with Oracle Applications Hear Alan Primeaux, Managing Director at Answerthink, Inc., explain how they implemented both Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Enterprise. Answerthink is an enterprise applications consulting firm with approximately $180M revenue and 800 employees. They implement Oracle applications and run their business on them. As a publicly traded company, Answerthink has benefited from the financial controls featured in Oracle applications. Also, as a consultancy, Answerthink runs their project and people-oriented business more efficiently with Oracle's Project Management and HCM applications.
Gloomy future for ISPs; 3Com taps Nortel exec to run supply chain Dire warnings of the coming "Exaflood"; 3Com has named a former Nortel executive to head its supply chain management operations.
Interop Special Edition #1 - Fluke Networks, Display Link, GigaFin & PhoneFactor Join Ron Nutter for conversations directly from the floor of Interop 2008 in Las Vegas. In this edition, you will hear conversations with Ron and vendor representatives from Fluke Network, DisplayLink, GigaFin and PhoneFactor about products they are showing at Interop that you should look at.
Social network scrutiny; Solar powered Apple devices The European Network and Information Security Agency called today for new legislation to police such social networking sites as Facebook and MySpace; Employees at Apple have filed a patent for integrating solar cells into portable devices.
Customer Case Study Webinar: How Vindicia went from Zero to Lead Management Hero in One Day Join Vindicia and Marketo as we discuss how, by implementing Marketo, Vindicia was able to deliver immediate value by getting up and running in less than a day, integrate seamlessly with Salesforce.com and improve the quality of marketing efforts without incurring additional costs for training or for hiring experts.
Blink® Professional Edition IT professionals face the challenge of balancing the need for secure systems and data protection with user functionality and system lethargy caused by bloatware. Each time a new class of threat - such as a worm, phishing attacks, remote exploits or spyware - has emerged, IT professionals respond by loading up machines and draining system resources with each new agent, built to address a specific, narrow type of threat. This approach leaves IT managers with little control over preventing attacks and controlling the risk behaviors on their endpoint devices. Blink® Professional is the first all-in-one security agent designed to protect each device with a single, small footprint. Stopping every major critical attack including zero-days, Blink is a revolutionary endpoint security solution combining multiple layers of protection into a single product solution.
Global Supply Chain Trends Small and midsize enterprises face increasingly more business pressures as supply chains become more complex due to globalization, longer lead times, cultural disparities and product proliferation. Listen as Bill Harrison, President of Demand Management, discusses the ramifications of today’s complex supply chain for small and midsize enterprises.
Indiana Jones delivers The Network Downtime Duo take in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Has it really been 20 years? You'd never know it watching this entertaining installment from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
IBM pushes IT automation; "Morphing" websites Big Blue says the time has come to automate operations, go green and cut costs with IBM management software; Self-customizing e-commerce sites can expect higher sales, they say.
Indiana Jones delivers The Network Downtime Duo take in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Has it really been 20 years? You'd never know it watching this entertaining installment from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
IBM's call to arm: IT industrialization The time has come to evolve IT operations from a state of manual chaos to a streamlined automated environment, according to Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of IBM Software Group. Mills spoke this week to more than 4,000 IBM software users to detail a state of IT operations Big Blue says is long overdue. Listen to why IBM says the time has come for IT to streamline process, reduce wasted resources and put in place automation technology that will enable high-tech operations to run as smoothly as a manufacturing assembly line.
AT&T readies 3G network; Feds say TVA power grid has serious risks AT&T will deliver downlink speeds of 1.4Mbps to 350 U.S. market; The network controlling the country's largest public electric company could be taken down by cyber-hackers because it fails to take basic best-practice security measures.
Customer Privacy, Malware & Government Regulation New breeds of malware – spyware, adware, Trojans, and viruses – are rapidly infecting networks and exposing businesses and their customers to unprecedented security risks. The government is now mandating that corporations effectively protect the privacy of individuals and ensure the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information. Protect Your Corporate Information and Assets! Get 16 tips to help you protect your corporate network from malware threats.
Why is IT ignoring innovation? Alex Cullen talks with Forrester's Bobby Cameron about the reasons why business leaders are still driving innovations at companies, rather than CIOs and IT. Learn how IT can get back on track on the innovation front, including ways on getting your people, processes and technologies to change from just "keeping the engine running" to becoming a vital innovation leader
Managed services market growth; SonicWall introduces new UTM device Cisco-commissioned study projects strong growth in North American market; NSA 2400 brings 50Mps unified threat management to branch offices.
Why is IT ignoring innovation? Alex Cullen talks with Forrester's Bobby Cameron about the reasons why business leaders are still driving innovations at companies, rather than CIOs and IT. Learn how IT can get back on track on the innovation front, including ways on getting your people, processes and technologies to change from just "keeping the engine running" to becoming a vital innovation leader
Data analytics start-up lands MySpace; Sprint customer satisfaction keeps dropping MySpace is analyzing massive amounts of data generated from its Web site using software developed by a start-up; Sprint’s customer satisfaction rating plummeted by more than 8% in the first quarter of 2008, according to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index, published today.
BlackBerry server to face stern tests; Cisco alums ready firewall killer BES 5.0 BlackBerry server upgrade will face stern tests; Cisco alums at Rohati Systems are readying a firewall killer.
BitTorrent blocking; SQL injection attack Max Planck Institute reports high percentages of hosts blocked even during non-peak hours; Hackers change SQL commands to evade security.
Enterasys' new IPS; Is LTE the mobile broadband future? Enterasys unveils multigigabit version of distributed IPS; Is LTE the next must-have mobile broadband technology?
Hacker writes Cisco rootkit; Microsoft launches online telescope A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco's routers, a development that has placed increasing scrutiny on the routers that carry the majority of the Internet's traffic; Microsoft Tuesday opened the view finder on its free WorldWide Telescope research project allowing Web users to peer into the deep recesses of space through a treasure trove of images.
Microsoft posts preview versions of server bundles; $150 million funding for BlackBerry start-ups Microsoft Tuesday released a preview version of its Essential Business Server bundle aimed at small and midsize businesses and said a preview of its revamped Small Business Server 2008 would come in the next few weeks; Research in Motion has launched a $150 million investment fund to spur development of mobile applications and services for its BlackBerry brand.
Ken Russell on making applets FAST As lead architect of the next-generation Java Plug-in, Ken Russell is passionate and convincing on the topic of client-side Java development and the return of the applet. In this interview with Andrew Glover, Ken offers an engineer's perspective on the historic problems of applets. He then explains how the new Java Plug-in has been re-written to run on a separate process from the Web browser, enabling applets to start fast, consume the memory they need, and run without stopping or freezing the browser.
HP to buy EDS; VMware tackles management, disaster recovery Hewlett-Packard said this morning that it has signed a deal to acquire IT outsourcer Electronic Data Systems for $13.9 billion, or $25.00 per share; VMware is releasing two bundles of management and automation products designed to streamline disaster recovery and curb virtual server sprawl.
Ken Russell on making applets FAST As lead architect of the next-generation Java Plug-in, Ken Russell is passionate and convincing on the topic of client-side Java development and the return of the applet. In this interview with Andrew Glover, Ken offers an engineer's perspective on the historic problems of applets. He then explains how the new Java Plug-in has been re-written to run on a separate process from the Web browser, enabling applets to start fast, consume the memory they need, and run without stopping or freezing the browser.
Wireless mesh standard gets boost; New BlackBerry debuts Wireless mesh standard gets boost from OLPC, open source; RIM debuts BlackBerry Bold.
Crackin' the Kraken bot Two researchers from Tipping Point's Digital Vaccine Labs successfully infiltrated one of the world's largest botnets -- known as Kraken -- by reverse engineering the encryption routines and figuring out the communication structure between the botnet owner and the hijacked computers. Cody Pierce, our newsmaker of the week, was one of those researchers.
Microsoft sniffing around Facebook? Google's Paris street photos may spark lawsuits In the wake of collapsed talks with Yahoo, Microsoft reportedly is sniffing around social-networking site Facebook as a possible acquisition target; Google has begun scanning the streets of Paris, gathering data for its Street View service, which adds street-level photography to the satellite views offered by Google Maps.
Crackin' the Kraken bot Two researchers from Tipping Point's Digital Vaccine Labs successfully infiltrated one of the world's largest botnets -- known as Kraken -- by reverse engineering the encryption routines and figuring out the communication structure between the botnet owner and the hijacked computers. Cody Pierce, our newsmaker of the week, was one of those researchers.
Rethinking the Global Supply Chain This IndustryWeek-hosted on-demand webinar examines the critical errors companies make as they attempt to meet the needs of their customers and partners in an increasingly global supply chain. Through a panel discussion with supply chain professionals, learn best-in-class strategies on how to manage complex supply chains without deploying overly complex and expensive supply chain management systems. By viewing this webinar, you will learn: *Common pitfalls manufacturers face as they attempt to meet the needs of their customers and partners in an increasingly global supply chain *First-hand results from supply chain professionals who have achieved planning results with simple yet robust tools *Analysis of a supply chain management vendor that meets the needs of manufacturers without burdening them with complexity and high total cost of ownership
Sprint, Clearwire in WiMAX venture; Indian workers don't want U.S. jobs Sprint and Clearwire announced that they are combining their WiMAX businesses to create a new $14.5 billion mobile broadband company; A recent survey of Indian high-tech graduates revealed that the vast majority would rather remain in India.
IBM PC Lifecycle Management Make the most of you PC investments. Look beyond the price tag to ease administrative and cost burdens.
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.
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.
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.
OpenSolaris available for download; Top 10 network venture deals from Q1 Sun and OpenSolaris.org on Monday released the first publicly available version of the OpenSolaris operating system since work on the project began in 2005; Venture capital investment in network companies hit another low during the first quarter, with the total number of investments dropping to its lowest point since the third quarter of 2004.
Qwest taps Verizon as wireless carrier; Apple wins big in Consumer Reports survey Qwest Communications announced yesterday that it has signed a five-year deal with Verizon Wireless to market and sell Verizon’s wireless services and handsets beginning this summer; Consumer Reports’ latest tech-support survey of its subscribers shows that Apple has the best help-desk support for both laptop and desktop systems.
Application Security Lessons from the Field with Core Security Consulting Services During this webcast, Alberto Soliño, Director of Core Security Consulting Services, shares lessons learned during his team’s extensive field work in application security testing. Using case studies from actual Core SCS engagements, Soliño highlights often-missed application security holes. Through the case studies, you’ll learn how minor mistakes can expose previously hidden vulnerabilities – and quickly snowball into major data breaches. In addition to gaining tips that you can use immediately, you'll see how Core Security Consulting Services can help you replicate complex IT threats to better secure your data and applications.
Router/server consolidation: Dave Roberts Modern hardware is more than capable of handling routing and other networking tasks along with VoIP, file and print, and other server workloads. Can you get your branch offices down to one box each? Plus, music from MC Frontalot.
Verizon to buy Alltel for $28B; Starbucks free Wi-Fi off to rough start Apparently tired of being the second-largest U.S. wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless is rumored to be working on a deal with Alltel that would vault it way past AT&T and would net it millions of new wireless subscribers; Starbucks began offering coffee drinkers a way to get free Wi-Fi access at its shops on Tuesday, but some customers had a hard time cashing in.
Interop emphasizes savings; Rackspace launches cloud storage Interop spins virtualization, SOA and software-as-a-service as a way to save; Rackspace launches cloud storage service to compete with Amazon.
Router/server consolidation: Dave Roberts Modern hardware is more than capable of handling routing and other networking tasks along with VoIP, file and print, and other server workloads. Can you get your branch offices down to one box each? Plus, music from MC Frontalot.
Adobe unveils Acrobat.com and Acrobat 9, Extreme claims patent win over Enterasys Adobe yesterday introduced Acrobat.com and unveiled Acrobat 9, the first version of Acrobat to be integrated with the vendor’s Flash multimedia technology; Extreme Networks has announced it has won a year-old patent-infringement case against competitor Enterasys Networks.
Six Minutes With ... Perry Wu, CEO of BitGravity When talking about scaling a business, most people are talking about the operations itself – growing product lines, expanding sales, building out partnerships. But there’s another aspect that’s critical – scaling the company culture. In this episode, Perry Wu, CEO of DEMO 08 company BitGravity talks about how prioritization, being David to Goliath, and listening to customers helps that equation.
Botnet attacks military systems; Google/IBM cloud initiative Security researchers have discovered a complex spamming scheme that hijacks users' PCs in order to attempt to send junk mail via university and military systems; Google and IBM are testing a cloud computing infrastructure that could become an important avenue for them to deliver software and services to consumer and business users.
Speaking of Security Podcast #102 Paul Joyal interview's RSA's Paul Davilman on What is Sarbanes-Oxley & How is it Applicable to IT Security?
Summer blockbuster movie preview Denise and Jason preview the big summer movie season that features the likes of Iron Man, Indiana Jones, the Incredible Hulk and more. Plus the duo give you their sleeper picks that could surprise at the Box Office.
Scott Davis on GIS beyond Google Maps When Scott Davis isn't editing AboutGroovy.com you'll find him on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, where he is known as both the Groovy guy and the Google Maps guy. Here he talks with Andrew Glover about what Google Maps has done to make geomatics, or geographic information systems, more accessible to your average Web developer. He also discusses in-depth the options available for Java developers who require a more sophisticated, less closed-stack GIS solution than Google Maps provides. This is an informal primer from a leading authority on using geospatial data, Web services, and open source APIs in Java Web development.
Scott Davis on GIS beyond Google Maps When Scott Davis isn't editing AboutGroovy.com you'll find him on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour, where he is known as both the Groovy guy and the Google Maps guy. Here he talks with Andrew Glover about what Google Maps has done to make geomatics, or geographic information systems, more accessible to your average Web developer. He also discusses in-depth the options available for Java developers who require a more sophisticated, less closed-stack GIS solution than Google Maps provides. This is an informal primer from a leading authority on using geospatial data, Web services, and open source APIs in Java Web development.
Summer blockbuster movie preview Denise and Jason preview the big summer movie season that features the likes of Iron Man, Indiana Jones, the Incredible Hulk and more. Plus the duo give you their sleeper picks that could surprise at the Box Office.
Video Spotlight on Mobile Security
IBM pushes IT automation; "Morphing" websites Big Blue says the time has come to automate operations, go green and cut costs with IBM management software; Self-customizing e-commerce sites can expect higher sales, they say.
Rational Change & Release Management IBM is Jazzed about our change and release management solutions and how we can help customers transform the way they develop software. Hear some very exciting news around Rational’s Change and Release Management solutions as IBM Rational continues to drive innovative solutions that help customers transform the way they develop and deliver software.
Microsoft to extend its System Center software; Economic downturn will increase offshoring Microsoft to extend its System Center software to handle cross platform management duties; Most likely destination for offshored IT jobs is still India.
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.
Rational Talks to You about Effective Software Delivery Looking at the market in 2008, we see an even stronger focus on leveraging IT to create efficiencies and drive greater business value. Today’s software systems are growing complex. At the same time we find ourselves becoming more dependent on software to run our businesses and to run our lives. Hear from Daniel Sabbah, General Manager of Rational Software on how IBM is consistently helping its customers innovate and transform their businesses, remain focused on helping them address their most urgent business challenges.
Rational Talks to You about Effective Software Delivery Looking at the market in 2008, we see an even stronger focus on leveraging IT to create efficiencies and drive greater business value. Today’s software systems are growing complex. At the same time we find ourselves becoming more dependent on software to run our businesses and to run our lives. Hear from Daniel Sabbah, General Manager of Rational Software on how IBM is consistently helping its customers innovate and transform their businesses, remain focused on helping them address their most urgent business challenges.
InformationWeek's David Berlind talks unconferencing Tech journalist David Berlind stopped for a few minutes to chat with me at IMPACT 2008. We talked about the SOA Camp he was facilitating in conjunction with IMPACT and about the refreshing experience of unconferencing where the trappings of a traditional conference are set aside for a more interactive, peer-to-peer experience.
Sandy Carter's big six takeaways from IMPACT '08 Sandy Carter, IBM VP for SOA and WebSphere, joins me for a quick seven minute wrap-up on the big announcements made earlier this month at IMPACT 2008. She talks about IBM SOA leadership growth, industry viewpoint, capabilities and new offerings around business process management, new WebSphere sMash and the IBM Mashup Center, the IBM Smart SOA social network, and related services. This IMPACT press releases listing has more detail and a cool video. Check out tomorrow's (April 30) webcast featuring IBM executives and customers laying out a roadmap for aligning business and IT for maximum impact.
Gordon Gee's Guidelines for a Successful Presidency Ohio State University's president, E. Gordon Gee, is one of the nation's most veteran university chiefs. He describes how to weather challenges as a president, including how to deal with hostility from Capitol Hill.
Bell Labs spin-off; NAC group expands its scope nSolutions, a company that was spun out of Bell Labs Research in 2001, today is launching its line of Network Ontology and Virtualization Appliance or NOVA devices at Interop Las Vegas; The Trusted Computing Group yesterday announced at Interop Las Vegas a protocol that coordinates network security devices so they can respond to threatening behavior by devices that are connected already.
Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization IBM solution architect, Andreas Groth, discusses Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 new virtualization technology on IBM System x and BladeCenter servers.
Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization IBM solution architect, Andreas Groth, discusses Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 new virtualization technology on IBM System x and BladeCenter servers.
Six Minutes With ... Scott Ryan, CEO of Asankya Being a small fish in a crowded pond has its advantages especially if you’re dialed in to the latest technology. DEMO 2008 alum Asankya has deep roots to academia through its ties to Georgia Tech. In this episode company CEO Scott Ryan talks about how this access to advance technologies and thinkers offers them perspective – not to mention access to fresh talent
Preparing for Interop Ron Nutter answers listener questions and previews this week's Interop tradeshow in Las Vegas.
No slowdown for U.S. tech industry; Cisco to acquire femtocell company? Can the U.S. tech industry continue to defy the overall economic downturn? Plus, an investment firm speculates that Cisco is looking to acquire a femtocell company.
HP Creates Security Reference Model to Better Manage Enterprise Information Risk We live in an age where there is so much exposure to networks and the World Wide Web that when something goes wrong, and the data gets out -- it gets out in a big way. Security breaches are becoming routine in the media, and those are the ones we hear about. So how do large, complex companies and governments protect themselves? How do they manage new and fast-changing compliance regulations? Surprisingly, the answer has more to do with management methodology than security technology. In this sponsored podcast discussion learn from HP security expert Tari Schreider how a comprehensive new security management approach, called Information Security Service Management (ISSM) and its reference model, offers companies a framework with which to finally come to grips with risk and needed compliance.
In Sales Time is Money! How many times have you been at the end of a quarter and had a deal slip? We have! We tell our sales manager “we didn’t lose the deal we just ran out of TIME”. If we just improve our time management skills just a little, the impact to our bottom line earnings will be incredible. Do the math! Take your annual income (salary bonus and commissions) and divide it by 2000. 2000 is the average hours in a year adjusted for vacations weekends and holidays etc. If you make $75,000 per year then your hourly rate is approximately $37.50. Okay now that you have established your hourly worth, what if you could just improve your sales time management by say one hour a week? You would earn an additional $1,950 a year! That’s almost a three percent increase in income! Cha-Ching Cha-Ching! This week Mike and Joe talk about effective time management skills as it relates to sales professionals.
Security Bites Podcast: PCI DSS hits Web 2.0 Robert Vamosi talks with Danny Allan, director of security research at Watchfire, an IBM company.
BriefingsDirect Insights Analysts Examine WOA-SOA Continuum With Keen Eye on Cloud Computing Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect Insights Edition, Vol. 28, 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 April 24, 2008, our experts examine the welling interest and discussion around Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) and Services Oriented Architecture, and how the two relate. The group also evaluates the Microsoft Live Mesh announcement, as well as Google App Engine and the ongoing Microsoft-Yahoo acquisition saga. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus, senior analyst at Forrester Research; Joe McKendrick, an independent analyst and ZDNet blogger; Tony Baer, principal at OnStrategies and blogger; Brad Shimmin, principal analyst at Current Analysis, and Phil Wainewright, independent analyst, director at Procullux Ventures and ZDNet SaaS blogger. Our discussion is hosted and moderated by Dana Gardner.
New SQL injection attacks lead to iFrame flaws; spammers prove CAPTCHAs no longer useful A flood of SQL injection attacks on Microsoft IIS servers are leaving Web pages with malicious iFrames in them; Spammers are creating accounts on Google's Blogger for spam purporse, proving CAPTCHA technology is no longer effective in stopping bogus registrations.
Don't get 'Green Scammed' Newsmaker of the Week James Staten, principal analyst at Forrester Research, cautions IT executives not to believe all the green hype and offers tips on how to avoid falling victim to 'green-washed' technologies.
Six Minutes With ... Pat Sullivan, CEO of Flypaper Sometimes being well funded isn’t necessarily a good thing. Running a business lean and mean, forces the need for focus and clear prioritization. And it helps if the team is one that’s worked together before. In this episode, Flypaper CEO Pat Sullivan shares some perspective
Six Minutes With ... Pat Sullivan, CEO of Flypaper Sometimes being well funded isn’t necessarily a good thing. Running a business lean and mean, forces the need for focus and clear prioritization. And it helps if the team is one that’s worked together before. In this episode, Flypaper CEO Pat Sullivan shares some perspective
Microsoft could walk from Yahoo deal; IBM's Web 2.0 servers Microsoft gave its first hint that it may abandon its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, as it approaches the deadline for a threatened proxy battle to oust Yahoo's board; IBM has designed a new type of rack-mount server specifically for companies running heavily trafficked "Web 2.0" sites such as Facebook and MySpace, the company announced Wednesday.
Putting web developers to work on devices: Benoit Schillings The new release of Trolltech's Qt toolkit incorporates the KHTML-derived Webkit browser functionality seen in Apple's Safari browser. The new Qt makes it possible to create a single interface that combines conventional UI widgets with a Webkit-based view onto a DHTML page, and to divide development tasks between C++ coding and the HTML and scripting work that a web developer can do.
88 Minutes: Weak plot, but entertaining Denise and Jason take in 88 Minutes, where a womanizing criminal psychologist (Al Pacino) is stalked by a unknown assailant. Is it someone in his inner circle? Will he figure it out before he dies? You know the ending, but our pair enjoyed the film.
Putting web developers to work on devices: Benoit Schillings The new release of Trolltech's Qt toolkit incorporates the KHTML-derived Webkit browser functionality seen in Apple's Safari browser. The new Qt makes it possible to create a single interface that combines conventional UI widgets with a Webkit-based view onto a DHTML page, and to divide development tasks between C++ coding and the HTML and scripting work that a web developer can do.
88 Minutes: Weak plot, but entertaining Denise and Jason take in 88 Minutes, where a womanizing criminal psychologist (Al Pacino) is stalked by a unknown assailant. Is it someone in his inner circle? Will he figure it out before he dies? You know the ending, but our pair enjoyed the film.
Adventures in Extreme Outsourcing Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, has saved money and improved quality by outsourcing nearly all of its central IT services. Could your institution do the same? Peter Schelleman, the university's chief information officer, shared his thoughts with Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant, and Scott Carlson,
Extending configuration management into the virtual world As more applications and systems become virtualized, managing the configuration of said systems becomes a greater challenge for IT administrators. Sateesh Narahari from Configuresoft explains what the steps and pre-requisites are for ramping up configuration management in your virtual environment and how it can be used to ensure security across all guests on a host.
Microsoft targets low-cost PC market; LendingTree discloses insider data breach Microsoft sees the ultra-low cost PC market as a significant opportunity and plans to pursue it with vigor; Web-based lending exchange LendingTree yesterday disclosed that it believes several former employees illicitly helped a handful of mortgage lenders gain access to customer data.
WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Flash demo highlighting how WebSphere Virtual Enterprise lowers operational and energy costs for your enterprise applications and SOA environment while increasing flexibility and agility to ensure business process integrity, improve service and application performance, and better manage application health.
Speaking of Security Podcast #101 In a recent RSA Web Seminar, Juniper Networks' Smitha Murthy and RSA's John Masotta discussed the benefits of an SSL VPN and how best to secure its access with strong authentication. Hear a snippet in this week's podcast or check out the entire replay of the event.
Student Loan Companies Seeking Federal Help Carl C. Dalstrom, president and chief executive of USA Funds, the nation's largest guarantee agency, describes why companies involved in federally subsidized student lending need even more government assistance before they can continue making loans for this coming academic year.
"Corporate Facebook" unveiled; researchers tout functional encryption British company Trampoline Systems has released a new program it hopes will become the Facebook for the enterprise; Researchers are touting an innovative cryptography method they've developed called "functional encryption."
Security Bites Podcast: Dude, where's my perimeter? This week, CNET's Robert Vamosi talks with Dan Geer, vice president and chief scientist for Verdasys.
IMPACT 2008 -WebSphere sMash a hit with ZSL Here's a second engaging discussion on WebSphere sMash and a beta development partner's experience. Rob Nicholson, Senior Technical Staff member with the IBM Java Technology Center, and Naveen Noel, Senior Solutions Architect for ZSL joined me for a windy 23 minutes by one of the pools at the Las Vegas MGM Grand. They talk about WebSphere sMash, it's impact on ZSL's application development, and next steps in the evolution of sMash.
Rational VP Scott Hebner previews RSDC 2008 Scott Hebner, Rational VP of Marketing and Strategy, gives a quick preview of this year's Rational Software Development Conference, coming June 1-5 in Orlando, Florida. Big keynotes, guest speaker William Shatner, comedian Mitch Fatel, and Grammy-winning rock band The Wallflowers top off a full lineup of more than 300 technical sessions, hands-on technical workshops, complimentary IBM certification classes, technology demonstrations and a multitude of networking opportunities.
RFID goes beyond the supply chain SkyeTek is looking to move RFID technology beyond the supply chain and into a "intelligent networking." And by doing so, you might be finding RFID chips in some pretty strange places. Rob Balgley CEO of SkyeTek, explains what it'll mean for your company and why privacy advocated shouldn't worry.
More layoffs for AT&T; Wireless gear to shine at Interop Telecom giant AT&T plans to lay off 1.5 percent of its employees, primarily in management, in an effort to streamline its operations, the company announced Friday; Wireless LAN vendors are unveiling at Interop Las Vegas next week a slew of draft 2 IEEE 802.11n access points, controllers and management features aimed at spurring enterprise adoption of the technology.
Automation helps grow financial services business For a small financial services company that handles backend processing for larger companies, IT plays a key role in growing the company. Bob Szydlowski, chief technology officer at ALPS Funds Services, explains how automation of hundreds of processes keeps employees focused on the high value part of their jobs.
Automation helps grow financial services business For a small financial services company that handles backend processing for larger companies, IT plays a key role in growing the company. Bob Szydlowski, chief technology officer at ALPS Funds Services, explains how automation of hundreds of processes keeps employees focused on the high value part of their jobs.
IM Risk Management: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (2) The new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which took effect on December 1, 2006, outline requirements for companies to find and produce relevant materials, documents and electronic communications related to court proceedings in Federal cases. The impact on companies that use communications technology such as instant messaging will be significant, and it is important for organizations to understand the key elements of the new rules and to institute appropriate measures to control their risks and minimize the problems that can arise if involved in a Federal case. Implementing effective controls for complying with the range of regulations that exist will help firms achieve business value far beyond the intangible benefit of the peace of mind gained from satisfactory compliance. Organizations should look to derive meaningful benefits such as more streamlined operations, increased efficiency of IT systems and enhanced communications across the company.
Sales Territory Management and Planning Did you ever get the feeling right after you closed a deal that you could have made the deal bigger? And how many times have you run into the bully from procurement when its time to negotiate? In episode three of a three part series on negotiating Joe and Mike discuss how to avoid leaving money on the table and how to deal with procurement bullies.
The Future of Cisco IOS® NetFlow and Network Traffic Analysis Without visibility into network traffic, network engineers find it difficult to diagnose the source of problems, leading to finger-pointing, delays, and unnecessary bandwidth upgrades. The combination of Cisco IOS NetFlow and NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer—the industry standard for NetFlow-based traffic analysis—can help you improve network performance and NetFlow monitoring efforts with the ability to: *Gain better visibility into traffic on your WAN and isolate the root cause of problems on the network *Forecast future application growth and infrastructure needs *Perform cost accounting based on bandwidth and application usage
While You Were Sleeping: Did Your IT System Fail? Join Tom Lesica, former CIO of Avaya, Pepsi-Cola and J. Crew, to find out how an enforceable change control policy can help eliminate the unauthorized, unplanned and failed changes that can cause your IT system to crash - and help you avoid getting that emergency phone call in the wee hours.
Brands and marketing plans that live in wikis with author Denise Shiffman Before I head off to a great conference on social media at the NewComm Forum, author of The Age of Engage Denise Shiffman spent time with me on the Marketing Edge podcast. We get into the double edge sword of ROI for marketers, what sold a bunch of web banners, click through ads and email campaigns 5 years ago is now coming back to hinder social media adoption. Why? because relationships take time and are hard to predict. Shiffman suggests the social media measurement metric should be lift around campaigns and to implement small, focused projects with a clear objective. A discussion of that campaign its achivements and failures should be shared across a company to get buy-in and help the learning process. Shiffman has also set up Marketing Reinvented wiki as a marketing plan for a real restaurant opening in California this summer called Amanada’s Restaurant. It’s a down to earth, health food restaurant. Shiffman invites anyone to register for that wiki and comment about marketing a restaurant.
SOA Quality with IBM Rational Learn more on how IBM Rational can help you deliver not only a SMART SOA but an enterprise architecture of enduring quality that will be agile, cost-effective, and can adapt dynamically to all your future business needs.
The Killer App: Executive Dashboard Does your organization have data fragmented across applications? Learn how to consolidate data and view reports from a single source in real-time. NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson gives a demonstration of the industry-leading dashboard for small and mid-size companies. Joining Zach is Jerry Driggs, CEO of Little Earth, a veteran dashboard user profiled in the recent BusinessWeek story on dashboards.
Stop the Flood of Security Breaches and Fraud with Compliance Management and Change Control Solutions Find out what being PCI compliant means and how being compliant can help protect customer financial data and the reputation of your company.
Security Bites Podcast: What's on your network? This week Robert Vamosi talks with Chris King, director of marketing for Palo Alto Networks.
IM Risk Management: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (3) The new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which took effect on December 1, 2006, outline requirements for companies to find and produce relevant materials, documents and electronic communications related to court proceedings in Federal cases. The impact on companies that use communications technology such as instant messaging will be significant, and it is important for organizations to understand the key elements of the new rules and to institute appropriate measures to control their risks and minimize the problems that can arise if involved in a Federal case. Implementing effective controls for complying with the range of regulations that exist will help firms achieve business value far beyond the intangible benefit of the peace of mind gained from satisfactory compliance. Organizations should look to derive meaningful benefits such as more streamlined operations, increased efficiency of IT systems and enhanced communications across the company.
Steve Gibson of GRC.COM on using Spinrite In this edition of Tools of the Trade we talk with Steve Gibson on using Sprinrite to recover failing/failed hard drives. Plus, Mail Call where listeners questions are answered.
The New Imperative: Automating Web Application Security Hear directly from Mike Weider Director of Security Products at IBM Rationa on Application Security and how IBM is helping organizations build security into their development processes.
How International Outreach Helps Undergraduates David W. Leebron, president of Rice University, describes why his institution is focusing on "the foreign experience" and why he'll appear next month at a U.S. Department of State summit about globalization
End Users Behaving Badly Jason and Keith talk about ISPs meddling in traffic, whether Google "played" the 700MHz auction, and why end users continue to do bad things with company computers.
Microsoft / Yahoo heading for a shotgun wedding? Jason and Keith discuss the Yahoo stockholder revolt, why girls aren't interested in IT, and mourn the end of the Philly Wi-Fi network.
Hackers posed for anti-CNN attack; blogs detail zero-day flaw in Microsoft Works Chinese hackers appear to be readying for an attack on the West scheduled for April 19 and Chinese blogs are detailing a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's Works productivity suite.
Babbage dream becomes reality Doran Swade, guest curator at the Computer History Museum and director of the Babbage Project, wins this week's Newsmaker of the Week title because he played a large part in transforming Charles Babbage's Difference Engine from a good 19th-century idea on paper to a 5-ton mechanical wonder soon to be on display in California.
Six Minutes With ... Alistair Mitchell, CEO of Huddle Figuring out what problem you're solving is the first step for any start-up. That said, it's not always about having a specific product in mind, but rather having a specific issue that needs solving. And once you figure out what it is, the secret is to solve it better than anyone else. In this episode with Huddle Co-Founder and CEO Alistair Mitchell, we talk about just that
Security Bites Podcast: Hacking gets political CNET's Robert Vamosi talks with Josh Corman, principal security strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems, about political hacking.
OpenSuse Community Leader Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier Joins the Open Audio Crew Dave and Erin get a chance to sit down and meet Zonker, Novell’s new openSUSE community leader, during BrainShare 2008.
Accenture's View on Web 2.0 and its impact on business Publisher at CIO magazine, Bob Melk, talks to Accenture's Blair Jones about the emergence of Web 2.0 as a consumer-driven trend fueling new ways of using the Internet and how businesses should use this trend strategically to achieve high performance.
Better security for your applications Application security is more than erecting a firewall around your corporate applications. Sanjay Mehta, vice president of sales and marketing at Breach Security, talks about how application security is different from your typical hacker countermeasures.
The next generation of IT media: Julie Bort Most real-world IT professionals have to deal both with Linux and Microsoft Windows, but the IT Media has been divided right down the middle, with some titles seeing the Linux light and others, well, maybe a little behind. Network World's "Microsoft Subnet" is the first of a new generation of media sites that's helping to bring interoperability and open source to Microsoft professionals. We talk with editor Julie Bort about where Microsoft professionals are looking for ideas, and the prospects for Linux desktops at their companies.
The next generation of IT media: Julie Bort Most real-world IT professionals have to deal both with Linux and Microsoft Windows, but the IT Media has been divided right down the middle, with some titles seeing the Linux light and others, well, maybe a little behind. Network World's "Microsoft Subnet" is the first of a new generation of media sites that's helping to bring interoperability and open source to Microsoft professionals. We talk with editor Julie Bort about where Microsoft professionals are looking for ideas, and the prospects for Linux desktops at their companies.
From Cost to Profit: The New Role of ERP Join NetSuite and Aberdeen Group's Vice President of Manufacturing and ERP research Cindy Jutras to learn the best practices in rewriting the ERP playbook for business success - and changing the ERP perception from a burdensome cost to a source of profit!
Learn About Advanced Network Optimization Techniques Advance your network forensics and optimization skills with multi-tier transaction analysis and response-time monitoring. Transactions involve multiple packets across many systems. Isolating issues can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Find out what thousands of certified NetAnalysts know about troubleshooting multi-tier environments.
Social network scrutiny; Solar powered Apple devices The European Network and Information Security Agency called today for new legislation to police such social networking sites as Facebook and MySpace; Employees at Apple have filed a patent for integrating solar cells into portable devices.
Speaking of Security Podcast #100 The Challenges of Identity Assurance with Marc Gaffan In Speaking of Security's blockbuster 100th security podcast we talk to Marc Gaffan, Director Product Marketing, about Identity Assurance and its importance to enterprise-level security and compliance
How to promote your blog content We have a new name and a new place for our podcasts, we explain why and how we changed our name to Media Blather. Subscribe to the new feed in iTunes or on Feedburner. This week, Paul and David talk about how to promote your blogs and other Web content. You have to be more grassroots and deliberate about it, and use a variety of techniques such as mailing lists, keywords, inbound links, and just paying attention to the details of your content. The days of Flash-y pages are over: the way to Google’s search algorithms lies with simple and well-designed textual pages. Google has become our universal home page, and understanding how they will index your site is important in driving traffic to your site.
Managing the "Digital Big Bang" CommVault President and CEO Bob Hammer talks about the Digital Big Bang - the explosion of data that needs to be stored and accessed by corporations large and small - and what options there are for managing massive amounts of information.
R-Heroes Sneak Preview Trailer 2 It's time to join the League of Extraordinary Software Developers at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008, June 1-5, at the Walt DisneyWorld Swan and Dolphin Hotel. Yes, Rational User, look to the skies! The R-Signal is sweeping across the clouds with the challenge: R-U Ready to Save the Day?
J.B. Hunt: Driving process transformation with ECM J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (J.B. Hunt) faced challenges across its content-centric processes, from customer billing to carrier management. See how IBM Enterprise Content Management solutions helped drive business transformation at J.B. Hunt - resulting in cost reductions, improved efficiency, and increased revenue.
Best Practices in CRM for Software Companies Join NetSuite's CFO Jim McGeever and CEO Brad Jones of Retail Management Solutions to learn about the best practices in customer relationship management business processes. Retail Management Solutions is the industry leader in point of sale technology for retail pharmacies and is a customer of NetSuite.
Five Steps to Reducing Your Backup Window Senior Product Manager, Jeff Graham, presents this webcast on one of the four perspectives of TDP: Reducing Backup Windows. Learn the 5 Steps to Reducing Backup Windows, including: how to assess business goals and service level agreements, establish benchmarks, optimize backup performance, and project storage growth to create a Tiered Data Protection (TDP) strategy.
Cisco Greener Data Centres – Episode One: Putting green issues on the CIO agenda A conversation between Cisco and Capgemini on the drive for more power efficiency in data centres
Cisco Greener Data Centres – Episode Two: How to transform a data centre In the second of a series of conversations about power efficiency in the data centre Cisco and BT talk about what can be done in existing data centres
Cisco Greener Data Centres – Episode Three: Creating and building a new data centre In part three of a series on greener data centres Cisco and BT discuss what they'd include in a new, green data centre
Cisco Greener Data Centres – Episode Four: What can smaller enterprises do to become and remain green Part four of Cisco's conversations on power efficiency in the data centre talks to Professor Enrique Dans from the Institutio de Empressa in Spain.
Cisco Greener Data Centres – Episode Five: Virtualisation and the green debate The fifth and final conversation in Cisco's series on greener data centres talks to Profesor Enrique Dans of the Institutio de Empressa about the importance of virtualisation.
PMO 2.0 Concepts for Creating a Program Management Office in Your Organization Discover best practices and real-world examples of challenges to overcome to create a successful PMO within almost any enterprise.
Taxes and Twitter a great combination for H&R Block Early adopter companies are making inroads in using social media to achieve tangible business goals. The H&R Block income tax services brand is quickly building on its brick-and-mortar foundation by effectively using social media tools, including Facebook and Twitter. Amy Worley is the director of digital marketing for the venerable tax service corporation, and with a supportive senior management team, she’s giving H&R Block a nimble, personable face for online users.
Six Minutes With ... Dave Peak, CEO of LiquidTalk Today's marketplace almost requires that companies build their businesses in the open. But for some start-up companies, maintaining a sense of mystery about their business is an essential part of their strategy. In this episode, LiquidTalk CEO Dave Peak explains, in a fashion, one view of this
Conversation is part of all marketing, whether you know it or not Marketers can no longer hide in an ivory tower from the conversations that are taking place among consumers, investors, customers and all of the publics in which companies operate, according to author Joseph Jaffe, our guest on this episode of the Marketing Edge. Jaffe is in Minnesota to speak at the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association meeting at the Fine Line tonight, Monday, April 14. This is part of the Conversations About the Future of Advertising series hosted by Tim Brunelle.
The big sin of security compliance Chad Lorenc, a former information security officer at ENT Federal Credit Union, says the big sin of compliance is not about being 100%, rather it is not knowing your risks and documenting them.
The big sin of security compliance Chad Lorenc, a former information security officer at ENT Federal Credit Union, says the big sin of compliance is not about being 100%, rather it is not knowing your risks and documenting them.
Evaluating WAN Optimization Options and Quantifying the Results When deployed appropriately, WAN optimization can provide a less-expensive alternative to adding bandwidth while improving performance. Learn about your options when it comes to improving network and application performance and get the inside scoop on Cisco’s Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) approach. Attend this Webinar brought to you by NetQoS and Cisco, and learn about WAN optimization techniques, Cisco’s WAAS offering and how to quantify the performance improvements provided by WAN optimization and application acceleration products. You’ll learn: *Tips for evaluating WAN optimization approaches *How WAAS can help you improve network and application performance *About challenges associated with measuring the results of WAN optimization *How to avoid common pitfalls of WAN optimization
Fix One, Fix Both: A Strategic Approach to Manage Compliance and Assure Security In this webcast, learn how configuration audit and control can help organizations eliminate unauthorized change, making life easier for IT organizations when it comes to ongoing compliance management and security assurance
Sales is from Mars, Marketing is from Venus, Vol II - Lead Scoring As part of our ongoing series about sales and marketing alignment, Paul Dunay of the Buzz Marketing for Technology podcast and Jon Miller recently chatted about why B2B marketers should care about lead scoring and how they can get started qualifying and prioritizing leads.
Sales Professional action plan for a new territory A changing of the guard. For salespeople, the begiining of a new year often means change – change in territory, change in accounts, etc. Taking over someone else’s territory and finding opportunities in previously unsuccessful prospects can be tricky but also very rewarding. In this episode Mike and Joe discuss how to go about finding and working opportunities in previously worked but currently inactive accounts.
Professional Sales Negotiating Strategies Did you ever get the feeling right after you closed a deal that you could have made the deal bigger? And how many times have you run into the bully from procurement when its time to negotiate? In episode three of a three part series on negotiating Joe and Mike discuss how to avoid leaving money on the table and how to deal with procurement bullies.
How Far Do We Go With iPod As "Defacto" Standard? Marketing Online Live #64 In this episode of Marketing Online Live, Alex Mandossian and Paul Colligan chat about the iPod as "defacto" standard for Podcast reception and what it means in the marketplace (and strategy wise, for anyone wanting to play seriously in this space). Should we even try any other product anymore? Did Apple "win" the game forever?
Is social networking right for corporate marketing? Two tests will you help decide spoke on a panel last week at the Bulldog Reporter Media Relations Summit in San Francisco. This trip was a great exchange of ideas with many early adopters and PR and marketing practitioners. This podcast we’ll highlight two ah ha moments with two leaders in social media, Gina Bianchini, CEO and co-founder of Ning, and Robert Scoble world renown blogger and managing director of Fast Company TV. During a keynote session at the conference with Robert Scoble, I realized how new social media is for the majority of communication professionals. He asked how many people are familiar with Twitter and about 20 percent of the room of 600 (that might be generous) raised their hand. Then, on the fly he connected to the web, and took the audience on a journey of relationship building and technology that demonstrated how time and distance simply no longer matter in how individuals communicate.
Tech vendors are like high school Jason and Keith talk about the Microsoft/Yahoo breakup, Sprint and Clearwire getting cozy (but Sprint possibly dumping Nextel), and Google whining about Verizon. Plus, the return of Movie Madness!
Death of the Bolt on Web store Hear NetSuite Sr. Director Sean Rollings and Troy Lawson, COO of online retailer and NetSuite customer Best Kiteboarding discuss how integrating your Web store with your back office increases productivity and operational accuracy, how an integrated Web store improves the customer experience and helps you sell more, why hosted software is more affordable and simpler to manage than traditional software, and how NetSuite lets you run your entire ecommerce business more efficiently with one system.
SOX Compliance: Reducing Risk and Cost with Tripwire Learn how Tripwire Solutions can help you automate the compliance process to meet Sarbanes-Oxley regulations year after year.
Employees love stale cake Keith and Jason talk about the latest scary security news from RSA, the batch of acquisition news, and why employees love free gadgets and free food.
How mobile threats affect the enterprise, carriers At the recent CTIA Wireless Show in Las Vegas, mobile device security was a hot topic. Keith Shaw chats with Simeon Coney (left), vice president of strategy at AdaptiveMobile, and Larry Lang (right), Vice President and General Manager of the Services and Mobility business unit at Cisco, about the latest mobile threats, how carriers are doing in terms of providing mobile security services, and what enterprises should do to protect their mobile workers
Six Minutes With ... Kevin Merritt, CEO of Blist You hear startups talking about being resource constrained, but there's one school of thought that this is actually a good thing because it forces focus. Less money means you have to choose even more carefully about what you do. In this episode Kevin Merritt, Founder and CEO of Blist, explains his take on this
Buying and Using Marketing Automation Systems Howard Sewell, President and founder of Connect Direct, discusses Buying and Using Marketing Automation Systems, including: *What business challenges and problems cause companies to look at marketing automation systems? *What are some of the near term and longer term ROI benefits companies should expect from marketing automation? *When looking for a marketing automation solution, what are some of the key features and capabilities that someone should have on their list? *What other factors should our listeners consider when looking at marketing automation?
IMPACT 2008 - Larry Bowden on Lotus Mashups Larry Bowden, IBM VP for Portals and Mashups, talks to developerWorks Scott Laningham about Lotus Mashups, Lotus Connections, and related developer opportunities.
How service-oriented architecture transformed the bottom line for Delaware Electric Cooperative In his keynote speech at the WebSphere IMPACT SOA technical conference in Las Vegas, Gary Cripps of Delaware Electric Cooperative talks about the huge transforming effect of SOA on his company's bottom line.
IMPACT 2008 - Jerry Cuomo and SugarCRM's Jacob Taylor We got SugarCRM's co-founder and CTO Jacob Taylor and WebSphere CTO Jerry Cuomo to sit down for an intriguing exchange on WebSphere sMash, the SugarCRM application built on sMash using PHP, and the realities and promises of this approach to development.
IMPACT 2008 - IBM customers' roundtable on SOA Day three of the IMPACT 2008 technical conference featured a customer roundtable on the impact of SOA in their businesses. IBM's Katie Kean hosts executives from Norwich Union, Pep Boys, Nortell, and Spotlight Pty.
"SAP for the Rest of Us": With NetSuite, Every Business Can Have the Power of the Big Boys Learn why businesses are calling NetSuite "SAP for the Rest of Us." Zach Nelson, CEO, of NetSuite, Inc. and a panel of NetSuite customers experienced with big ERP discuss the business benefits of on-demand solutions over traditional, big-ticket, on-premise applications such as MySAP.
Changing the World One Podcast at a Time When Paul was writing his book, he met two mothers who personified the term “new influencer.” Paige Heninger (left) and Gretchen Vogelzang launched Mommycast in early 2005, never expecting it to be more than an intimate chat between them and a few friends. Nearly 300 shows later, Mommycast still has that first-time intimacy, but its global audience now numbers in the millions. The show has big-ticket sponsors, a host of awards and its own channel of family-oriented podcasts. But success doesn’t appear to have spoiled Paige and Gretchen, who still think of each program as just another phone call. Marketers don’t see it that way. They clamor for a chance to get a coveted mention on the program. In this interview, Paige and Gretchen tell how Mommycast got started, the secrets of staying focused and how they handle inquiries from marketers.
Is Anyone Listening? Have you ever been in a meeting or a discussion and wondered if the other person was really listening? Many people take their listening skills for granted. We often assume we're listening and that others know they are being heard. But the reality is that we as leaders struggle with tasks and roles that directly relate to listening. Even with the best intentions, you may be sending signals that you aren't listening at all.
Desperately Seeking Innovation Today's companies want employees with critical and creative thinking skills, a willingness to adapt, and the capacity to innovate. But the reality is that much of daily work life is routine and geared toward clearing to-do lists. There often isn't time or flexibility for much creativity. However, by applying a few simple strategies, you may find that you're able to get your people excited and more innovative in the workplace.
Oracle Universal Online Archive Hear Wayne Boerger, Senior Product Manager for Content Management, talk about Oracle Universal Online Archive and how it provides a scalable, flexible and cost-effective platform for archiving all types of enterprise information. Learn why data center managers, email administrators, and compliance officers are all looking at Oracle's new solution for meeting their information archiving challenges.
Professors and Technology: Helpless or Hopeless? Professors complain that they can't get technology to work the way they want it to. Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant, and Scott Carlson, a Chronicle reporter, talk about the "learned helplessness" that pervades technology use on campus
Gerber Memorial Health Services When physicians and staff needed a highly secure, intuitive system to access patient records and improve patient care, IBM and BlueWare, Inc. delivered.
Gerber Memorial Health Services When physicians and staff needed a highly secure, intuitive system to access patient records and improve patient care, IBM and BlueWare, Inc. delivered.
Gerber Memorial Health Services When physicians and staff needed a highly secure, intuitive system to access patient records and improve patient care, IBM and BlueWare, Inc. delivered.
Configuration Audit and Control: 10 Critical Factors to CCM Success Find out how Configuration Audit and Control provides a single, valuable, independent source for enforcing and reporting on change policy across an IT organization.
Sales is from Mars, Marketing is from Venus The relationship between Sales and Marketing at B2B companies is too often precarious and subject to change day by day.
Harley-Davidson's Jim Haney on SOA In this 11-minute keynote, Harley-Davidson CIO Jim Haney talks about what his company has done with SOA to enhance the consumer experience.
How the FCC's 700mhz auction could open the door for mobile malware Threats to mobile devices today mostly take the form of a lost or stolen device containing sensitive information. But the recent 700mhz spectrum auction, which requires open access in some blocks, could pave the way for more malware on your smartphone. Jeff Ailiber and Tom Bowers of Kaspersky Lab talk about the potential threat and what can be done to protect your mobile device.
The Business of Being Green in Financial Services Bob Hoey, Worldwide VP of Hardware Sales for IBM, cuts through the hype associated with "Going Green". He discusses green practices and their return on investment and identifies opportunities to improve operational efficiency and reduce energy consumption.
Seth Godin’s Meatball Sundae Seth Godin’s Meatball Sundae, a great Joke-of-the-Week from Larry Port at www.RocketMatter.com , Live Question and Answer Session from eBay Event in Orlando, Podcast Training with the Chamber of Commerce’s Kate Volman, Getting Rick Rolled, Internet Hype Alert, Time Management tips for Bloggers, What are Widgets, 5 Steps to Building your Blog Subscriptions, Live Song-of-the-Week featuring Deep Purple’s Woman From Tokyo.
Is the Internet Stifling Innovation? Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of Internet governance and regulation at Oxford University, argues in a new book that people's growing intolerance for viruses, spam, and other computer maladies will end up crippling technological advancement
Securing health insurance administration with WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances With the easy-to-use WebSphere DataPower XML Security Gateway XS40, SVC is now able to manage and secure incoming transactions between Austrian health administration systems and local and international social security entities, from one entry point and within a short timeframe. The appliance also offers a highly secure, standardized and robust way to increase the privacy of sensitive data. Furthermore, the device helps SVC maintain the highest level of security without frequently updating software-based security products.
Six Minutes With Yossi Dan, CEO of KonoLive You can launch a start-up pretty much anywhere these days, but there are some advantages to being close to, if not within, the regions where most technology ventures are based. One such advantage can be finding the right staff just because there can be a larger number of people from which to choose. In this episode, KonoLive’s Co-Founder and CEO, Yossi Dan, gives some perspective from an Israeli-based company
Mastering On-Line Multi-Channel Sales: Rules for eCommerce Success Join host Sean Rollings, NetSuite's VP of Product and Industry Marketing as he and Baruch Goldwasser, eCommerce guru from NetSuite, discuss the essential strategies and best practices for successful multi-channel ecommerce. Are you juggling all your sales — through your web store, Ebay, and shopping comparison engines such as Shopping.com, Yahoo! Shopping, Google Base, Shopzilla, NextTag and others? Can you guarantee that your inventory is correct across these channels — to ensure the customer can actually get what he's ordered? Failure to avoid stock-outs or provide products promptly can cripple sales and jeopardize customer satisfaction.
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.
XML-Empowered Documents Extend SOA’s Connection to People and Processes Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) should dramatically improve the relationship between people, processes, and IT. Yet the potential for SOA remains clouded due to a gulf between worker knowledge and the new services automation benefits, which remain focused on structured data and existing applications. New advances in documents-based technology, management, and dynamic content enrichment offer a promising lifeline to help solve SOA’s tenuous relationship to people and task-oriented knowledge. Listen as the relationship between SOA and dynamic documents is explored in this sponsored podcast. Dana Gardner interviews Jake Sorofman, senior vice president of marketing and business development, for JustSystems North America.
Preparing for the Pope The Very Rev. David M. O'Connell, president of the Catholic University of America, describes how his institution is getting ready to welcome Pope Benedict XVI, who has planned a visit this month.
Attivio shoots for the Holy Grail of enterprise search Attivio, an enterprise search start-up loaded with veterans from FAST Search & Transfer (now Microsoft), are building a search platform that can pull in virtually any piece of information to create a one-stop shop for corporate users hunting for data. Andrew McKay, senior vice president of products at Attivio, talks about the company, its product line and the search market in general.
Top 3 concerns in mobility: Security For Rodney Hardin, director of IT for the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA), his group's mobility rollout is getting extra attention on the security front since the risk of data loss is greater. For Hardin, security is his top three concerns when planning and implementing a new mobile rollout.
Accelerating Software Innovation for IBM i on Power Systems Watch this 7 minute video to learn how IBM's new Enterprise Modernization solutions and resources can help customers modernize and accelerate software innovation for IBM i on Power Systems – while ensuring their decades long application investments are protected and continue to grow.
Top 3 concerns in mobility: Security For Rodney Hardin, director of IT for the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA), his group's mobility rollout is getting extra attention on the security front since the risk of data loss is greater. For Hardin, security is his top three concerns when planning and implementing a new mobile rollout.
All Access Nelson Cicchitto, Chairman and CEO at Avatier, and Scott Crawford, Research Director with Enterprise Management Associates, discuss the drivers of the identity and access management market.
'Platform as Service' Enables Cloud-Based Software Development and Deployment Lifecycle On demand applications and cloud computing often mean different things to different people. For developers, software as a service (SaaS) is quickly evolving not only as a means to deliver applications -- but as the means to develop them, too. Taking the notion of "development as a service" to its full potential is the logic behind Platform as a Service (PaaS). To help understand the power of PaaS, we speak in this sponsored podcast to one of the early PaaS pioneers and providers, Bungee Labs. Learn how software development is entering a new era in this discussion with Phil Wainewright, independent analyst and ZDNet SaaS blogger, as well as Alex Barnett, the vice president of community at Bungee Labs. Moderation from Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Negotiating Strategies for Sales Professionals Part 2 The best chess players are the ones who think several moves ahead and consider every possible countermove their opponent can make. The same is true for professional negotiators! The better you plan for an upcoming negotiation the better your chances of getting the deal and making more money. In episode two of this three part series on strategic negotiating Joe and Mike discuss why it’s important to plan for every negotiation session and how Professional Sales people utilize a deliberate negotiating Strategy..
Using Digital, Web 2.0 Tactics To Boost B2B Marketing Results In this podcast with Laura Ramos, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, discusses how Web 2.0 tactics like rich media, blogging, RSS, and social networks help B2B marketers meet their top challenges.
Anniversary Party It’s our birthday! And in recognition of this, our 52nd weekly podcast (okay, so we missed one or two weeks) we convene a roundtable discussion of the new world of business communications. The stars aligned perfectly: David was in Boston on a speaking tour and some of our best friends and colleagues from our years in media were up for a free meal and discussion. Our friends at Lois Paul & Partners kindly provided the venue (as well as two of our speakers) and our seven participants turned out to encompass a mix of media, marketing and financial disciplines. The debate got quite spirited at points, with Bob Scheier and Steve Hall famously facing off over the ethics of fact checking. Venture capitalist Bill Frezza had the quote of the evening: “We are in the post-integrity age of journalism.” And Lois Paul and Ted Weismann of LPP recounted with resignation the frustration of convincing clients that it’s about more than just the Wall Street Journal these days. This podcast runs 56:42, with several minutes of bonus material and the end. This week we launch “Dana’s Pick of the Podcast,” a new weekly feature in which Producer Dana Gillin spotlights the program’s best quote at the end of each episode. For those of you who have always wondered about our theme music, we offer the full version of Meet You In The Heavens by Rebel Soul Band. Enjoy.
Oracle Software Security Assurance Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer at Oracle, talks with William Hardie, VP Database Product Marketing, about Oracle’s leadership in security. Find out about the various security programs that have allowed Oracle over the years to deliver significant database security innovations, as well as provide customers with an unparalleled security posture.
Sorting out the iPhone clones at CTIA Keith and Jason talk about the birth of iPhone clone at CTIA, whether we would buy stuff with our cell phones, and other Vegas goings on here at the show.
Mobile spam on the rise The increased usage of mobile devices for messaging also means an increase in the use of mobile spam and other security threats. In this podcast recorded at the CTIA Wireless Show in Las Vegas, Keith Shaw talks with Jamie de