- July 9, 2008 (2 p.m. EDT, 11 a.m. PDT). This webcast will cover a number of high-level topics for environmentally conscious organizations to consider including, understanding the risks facing IT, skyrocketing energy costs, global warming, potential for new regulations, developing and implementing "green" strategies in IT, how IT can help the organization, and approaches relevant to IT.
- July 21, 2008 (2 p.m. EDT, 11 a.m. PDT). This webcast will cover a number of high-level topics for environmentally conscious organizations to consider. These include opportunities to improve via capacity management, demand management, data center consolidation, enterprise architecture and atandardization; and virtualization.
- July 24, 2008 (2 p.m. EDT, 11 a.m. PDT) In this Webcast, eSecurity columnist Ken van Wyk will highlight the risks of the hardware/software approach and will discuss the benefits of the software as a service (SaaS) model for security.
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Stormy Weather Hits Amazon's Cloud
Amazon's S3 service ran into some stormy weather on Sunday when technical glitches knocked the company's "cloud" storage offline for several hours. The mishap underscores what could become a growing problem for channel partners who move too rapidly into the increasingly popular world of cloud computing.
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- Arrogance and self-importance need to give way to a 2600 year old idea of what it means to be a leader, writes CIOUpdate columnist Laurie Orlov.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CioUpdate/~4/AoSKaEVPp7Q" height="1" width="1"/>
- Demand shaping can uncover additional sources of savings, writes CIOUpdate guest columnist Michael Fillios of BTM Corp.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CioUpdate/~4/R-npTnpE9sg" height="1" width="1"/>
- No succession plan leaves investors nervous.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CioUpdate/~4/1bJlz3YtC1Y" height="1" width="1"/>
- While the everyday Joe has likely never heard of Sterling Commerce, his bank certainly has.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CioUpdate/~4/lpWZbjDr8Zs" height="1" width="1"/>
- If you outsource just for today you'll miss tomorrow's opportunites, writes CIOUpdate guest columnist Ramesh Dorairaj of MindTree.<img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CioUpdate/~4/0jAvQsBbJ8o" height="1" width="1"/>
Sorting Out Your Storage Options
With all the storage technologies out there, how do you choose which one's right for you?
- Everyone's talking about storage systems designed to meet the exploding data needs of Web 2.0 companies, but what will these systems look like, and what kind of data requires such a system?
- The storage giant connects the dots among recently acquired offerings to ease SMB backup management tasks.
- If you're thinking about purchasing a data de-duplication solution, you need to take a hard look at the issue of data corruption.
Sabotage the Charge in S.F. Net Admin Case
San Francisco charges network administrator with four felony counts as city probes how far the damage goes.
- BEA joins the quarterly roundup of Oracle critical patch updates.
- The technology to secure the DNS system has been around for four years, yet many servers don’t use it.
- Protecting your data and your identity starts with a strong password. Here's what you need to know to make your computer life safer and more secure.
Is Open Source Development Insecure?
A leading application security firm issues research report alleging that open source software developers are missing the security boat.
- Yes, outsourcing is everywhere. Yes, management used to be where techies went to die. For IT workers under pressure from cheap, outsourced competition, management is where they'll need to go to thrive.
- The OSI Reference Model gives you the tools you need to understand how networking works. Here's a guide that'll help you avoid common misunderstandings.
- After weeks of contemplation, a verdict emerges in the Unix trial, though it's unclear how happy Novell will be.
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