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Sprint Gives Android a Hero's Welcome September 04, 2009 
Android is finally getting a little more wardrobe variety. It's also moving out into new U.S. carriers. Sprint is the latest wireless company to jump in with the Android crowd; it'll start selling the HTC Hero this October. The Hero looks to be a pretty capable handset. It's loaded with Google apps, of course, plus a pretty big camera, a touchscreen, video features, WiFi and expandable memory.
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When the Lawyers Come Knocking: Info Management and E-Discovery August 31, 2009 
Today, the discussion is on gaining control over information sprawl at enterprises. We'll take a look at the short-term and potentially massive savings from thwarting legal discovery fulfillment problems in advance by controlling information. And we'll examine how management life cycle approaches can bring long-term payoffs through better analytics and regulatory compliance.
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Clash of the Consoles Gets Down and Dirty August 28, 2009 
Congratulations, patient cheapskates: You've won the waiting game. Now you can get a well-equipped video game system for a somewhat reasonable price. The two most-advanced consoles on the market have dropped in price over the last few days, just in time for all of that back-to-school homework to get ignored.
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Security Showdown: Cloud Computing vs. On-Premise IT August 24, 2009 
Much of the cloud security debate revolves around perceptions. It's about seeing the glass as half-full. Perhaps it's only a matter of proper practices and means to overcome fear, caution and reluctance to embrace successful cloud computing. Or is the glass half empty -- that in order to ramp up to cloud computing use and practices, a number of potentially onerous and perilous security pitfalls will prove too difficult?
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A Last Call for Snarkers Anonymous? August 21, 2009 
The old saying used to be, "If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all." Then the Internet came along, and the saying changed to, "If you can't say anything nice, then invent a fake user name and go to town." The Web has allowed us to get away with saying some pretty awful things to each other without having to say them to each others' faces -- or even put our own names on them.
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The Enterprise Architects of the New Era August 17, 2009 
The role of enterprise architecture is in flux, especially as we consider the heightening interest in cloud computing and in the fluid sourcing options for IT applications, data services and infrastructure, not to mention business processes that fall outside of IT entirely.
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Can Microsoft Keep Its Word? August 14, 2009 
A Toronto company aptly named "i4i" is getting its revenge on Microsoft by kicking it square in the monkeymaker. i4i has sued Redmond, claiming that Microsoft Word infringes on its patents. Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas -- where else? -- has given Microsoft two months to halt sales of the offending software.
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Managing the Enterprise Data Deluge August 10, 2009 
How can enterprises better manage the explosion of information around them? Businesses of all stripes need better means of access, governance, and data lifecycle best practices, given the vast ocean of new information coming from many different directions. By getting a better handle on information explosion, analysts and users gain clarity in understanding what is really going on within the businesses.
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Security, Sanity and Social Networking in the Ranks August 07, 2009 
U.S. military service members who want to keep up with friends and family back home have often turned to social networking Web sites to stay in touch. But the Department of Defense hasn't quite made up its mind whether these kinds of sites are friends or enemies. It definitely loves social networking when it comes to recruiting -- you can follow or friend any and all branches if you're thinking about joining up.
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The SMB Case for Sending Security Skyward August 03, 2009 
How can we automate and improve the way PC security is delivered as a service? The use of cloud-based anti-virus and security protection services is on the rise, and small to medium-size businesses can find great value in the software-as-a-service approach to manage PC support. Let's also examine how the use of Internet-delivered security provides a strong business opportunity for resellers and channel providers.
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Virtualization Reimagined July 27, 2009 
Let's look at a series of three important considerations when moving to enterprise virtualization adoption. First, we'll investigate the ability to manage and control how interconnections impact virtualization. Interconnections play a large role in allowing physical servers to support multiple virtual servers, which themselves need multiple network connections.
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Controlling Costs Through Virtualization, Consolidation and Modernization July 20, 2009 
Today, we discuss combining some major efforts in IT administration and deployment in order to both cut costs in the near term and also to put in place greater efficiencies, agility, enterprise business benefits, and long-term cost benefits. We're going to be talking about how consolidation, modernization, and virtualization play self-supporting roles for enterprises.
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Rifling Through Twitter's Underwear Drawer July 17, 2009
Getting your personal email hacked is generally a personal problem. There might be some minor career implications if it happens while you're running for vice president of the United States, but it tends to be more embarrassing than costly. But when you use the same password for personal email that you use for accessing work-related documents, then things might start to spin a little out of control.
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It's Time for IT to Look Inward July 13, 2009 
The global economic downturn has accelerated the need to reduce total IT cost through identification and elimination of wasteful operations and practices. At the same time, IT departments need to better define and implement streamlined processes for operations and also for proving how new projects begin and unfold.
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Getting IT to Speak Business-ese: Q&A With HP VP Andy Isherwood July 06, 2009 
Clearly a part of doing more for less, which has been, unfortunately, a theme that most people are grappling with these days, has involved the need to run IT more like a business to get more insight into what's going on from a business requirements and financial expectations perspective.
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Top 5 Reasons for Building Governance Into the Cloud June 29, 2009 
Our topic this week centers on governance as a requirement and an enabler for cloud computing. We're going to talk not just about IT governance, or service-oriented architecture governance. It's really more about extended enterprise processes, resource consumption, and resource-allocation governance.
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