Wednesday - December 17, 2008
Right after the collapse of the dot-com bubble, I bought a used Netra T1. I got it for a song on eBay from a hosting provider that was going under, and for the price, how could I pass it up? Sure, it was unnecessary -- but it was so cheap! I had to have it. At the time that I bought it, I wasn't entirely sure what I was going to do with it. But boy, was I excited. Predictably, when it did arrive, it quickly turned into an expensive paperweight. That's not to say that I didn't toy around with it for a while; but over time, it got less and less use.
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Tuesday - December 9, 2008
With each passing year, hackers come up with new ideas, or variations of past ideas, to combine technology and social engineering to deceive users and attack networks for their financial benefit. The mid-2000s saw the proliferation of botnet attacks used for spam, targeted attacks and worse, while 2007 and 2008 have seen the rise of SQL injection attacks and other Web site exploits.
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Sunday - December 7, 2008
After the tech bubble burst, E*Trade's technology chief, Lee Thompson, needed to find a way to do more with less. In 2001 and 2002, the online stock trading company shrank its tech budget by one-third. "We had to go through and figure out every penny that we were spending and make alternatives to reduce those costs," says Thompson, vice-president and chief technologist of E*Trade.
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Thursday - November 20, 2008
At its annual Dreamforce event, Salesforce.com and several of its partners -- Facebook, Google and Amazon -- made announcements intended to encourage more businesses to pursue Web-as-a-platform using their Force.com business process platform. Taking away significant amounts of hype, there were three themes for the conference.
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Tuesday - November 18, 2008
Folks in IT tend to ask a lot of questions. We're a curious breed by nature. In fact, we have to be. Change comes about so quickly in our industry, technology moves so fast, and our businesses adapt so fluidly that we have to ask questions just to keep up. Some might even say that a healthy curiosity is the hallmark of a successful IT professional -- and I wouldn't disagree.
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Monday - November 17, 2008
In the past, network management mainly consisted of monitoring whether routers and switches were up or down -- as long as the power light was on, it was available, and the network administrator could proclaim, "It's not the network." With pervasive wireless connectivity and handheld devices capable of accessing the Internet from nearly anywhere, networks have become more advanced.
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Thursday - November 6, 2008
As the economy continues to decline, retailers are fighting a fierce battle for a share of the consumer's wallet. Every customer counts, but the loyal customers are particularly valuable, especially when your competitor is just a click away. The Web gives consumers access to far more options than were available in pre-Internet days.
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Monday - November 3, 2008
The old-school approach to order fulfillment doesn't fly for many Internet retailers. Warehousing, packing, shipping and return-order processing are labor-intensive and time-consuming. This has led to a growing trend among online sellers -- the use of Web technologies to automate order fulfillment. I'm talking about e-commerce fulfillment providers.
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Saturday - November 1, 2008
There's little room for error if your company decides to make the transition from a provider of on-premise solutions to a service provider via cloud computing. If you don't take the time to develop reliable services that match the reliability of your on-premise offerings, your credibility will suffer.
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Thursday - October 30, 2008
As the proliferation of online social media forums has forever changed the way customers gain information and feedback concerning a particular company's products or services, sales representatives are challenged to sell to a prospect base that potentially knows as much, if not more, about the competitive landscape than the reps themselves.
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Friday - October 24, 2008
Andy Bechtolsheim, a revered technologist who cofounded Sun Microsystems and has been instrumental in designing the company's servers, is stepping down from his day-to-day role to help build a new networking startup. Sun, which makes servers and software widely used in corporate computing centers, said Bechtolsheim's transition to part-time work status was effective immediately.
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