Date: 07/31/07     Keywords: no keywords

Here on ZDNet, in the blogs, their comment areas, and in e-mails you have not seen, my fellow blogger George Ou and I have been debating the challenges to securing e-mail.Although many Internet users assume it to be otherwise, most e-mail traversing the Internet and even corporate networks is insecure....

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=690

Date: 07/31/07     Keywords: microsoft

Symantec CEO John Thomspon drinks deeply from the Microsoft well. In fact, three-quarters of his company's $5.2 billion in revenue last year was derived from the Windows platform. But Symantec's relationship with Microsoft is complex and at times contentious. Thompson describes Microsoft as a partner, ally and competitor.On the competitor...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5800

Date: 07/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

Desktop virtualization as a service has gotten a big boost with Desktone Inc.'s announcement today of $17 million in venture capital funds that will allow the company to finance global sales, marketing, and development. Desktone, a Chelmsford, Mass., startup offers what it says is the industry's first unified virtual desktop...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2512

Date: 07/26/07     Keywords: security

Yesterday, I posted a blog about how secure e-mail simply doesn't exist.  It was an extension of another discussion regarding password recovery schemes that result in the transmission of your password (back to you) in clear text over insecure networks.In a post headlined E-Mail security has been around forever, you...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=669

Date: 07/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

Last week, when I interviewed Sun's Peder Ulander (there's text, video, and audio -- take your pick) about the idea of redshift computing (a Sun theory that all the world's servers will eventually give way to just five or so massively scalable systems), he talked about how Sun's formula for...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=667

Date: 07/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer says the iPhone can be a hit for business customers with "a very little bit of help from the corporate IT department."That statement made on Apple's third quarter earnings call was notable on a few counts. First, Apple's iPhone is clearly positioned as a consumer device,...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5763

Date: 07/25/07     Keywords: web

I finally had a chance today to go back and check the comments on my post about how vulnerable the password recovery schemes of many supposedly secure Web sites are. See Are you sure you're the only one with access to that password you recovered? Think again. I asked readers...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=666

Date: 07/25/07     Keywords: web

When a power outage that affects a mere 30,000 to 50,000 customers knocks out some of the more popular sites on the Web you know disaster recovery plans have some holes. On Tuesday afternoon a host of sites such as Craigslist, Red Envelope, Yelp Technorati and ZDNet had trouble delivering...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5739

Date: 07/24/07     Keywords: no keywords

Commentary--The pressure is on CIOs to meet increasingly difficult goals in a shorter time period, says Gartner's Mark Mcdonald.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9589_22-6198530.html

Date: 07/24/07     Keywords: offshore, technology

India's currency is gaining on the U.S. dollar. Workers at Indian outsourcing firms still garner double-digit raises. And demand shows no sign of slowing. Add it up and it spells price increases for companies outsourcing technology work offshore to India. At this point it's unlikely that demand will diminish, but...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5721

Date: 07/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

When I first launched Mashup Camp in the beginning of 2006, virtually all of the mashups that developers brought to the event were consumerish in nature. Most had to do with music, video, or maps and none were hardcore business applications geared at something as mundane as driving sales....

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=661

Date: 07/23/07     Keywords: microsoft

There's probably no better example of how Microsoft seems to be sweeping left while the rest of the computing world sweeps right than today's edition of ZDNet Tech Update Today (the newsletter that we send out daily to those who've subscribed to it).The lead story in that newsletter (which, as...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=658

Date: 07/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

Last week, I posted a video interview, podcast, and blog about Sun's Redshift computing theory-cum-marketing push. Redshift computing is about the sort of scale that servers will one day reach -- so much so that, as Sun's execs put it, there may only be five computers left in the world...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=657

Date: 07/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

While enterprise architects (EAs) and services oriented architecture (SOA) architects are often at loggerheads today, the two will working hand in hand toward the same goals in a matter of a few years."In five years I don't think there will be SOA ... it's all going to fold back into...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2506

Date: 07/23/07     Keywords: software

Hewlett-Packard beefed up its data center software business with a $1.6 billion acquisition of Opsware. Opsware makes automation software that puts many data center operations on autopilot. HP, looking to become a big player in the area, said it is paying $14.25 a share for Opsware, which closed Friday at...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5725

Date: 07/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

Auto Warehousing Co. CIO Dale Frantz says his decision to go from a Windows shop to one powered by Apple is based on time and labor spent maintaining Windows. A week ago, I noted that Auto Warehousing Co. was switching to the Mac platform. The move, first chronicled by Computerworld,...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5722

Date: 07/18/07     Keywords: software

Commentary--Many organizations have adopted BI tools in quantity but a good portion of these licenses remain unused and fall short of expectations, says SeeWhy Software CEO Charles Nicholls.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9589_22-6197373.html

Date: 07/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

More than 60 countries were scored on factors ranging from business environment and R&D efforts. How did the U.S. fare?
Chart: World's top IT economies

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9589_22-6196221.html

Date: 07/11/07     Keywords: software

Analyst says multiple types of software, business controls and processes are key to successful identity and access management.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9589_22-6195997.html

Date: 06/22/07     Keywords: no keywords

A recent U.K. study concludes that the public sector is wasting huge amounts of money on consulting services when experts are already on staff. Will the CIO jury agree with that verdict?

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9589_22-6192749.html