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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Wednesday - December 17, 2008
Darwin's principle of "survival of the fittest" is in full effect in the corporate world. Over the years, many companies, especially technology firms, have risen to great heights only to fall to great depths. As Darwin's theory implies, when change swept through their industries, these once great firms couldn't keep pace and eventually disappeared.
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Monday - December 15, 2008
The new president-elect for the U.S. isn't even in office yet and he is already wrapped in scandal. Fortunately we can live with this one as it had to do with whether he carried a Zune or an iPod, but given some were calling this -- and I'm not kidding -- "Zunegate," I thought the event was interesting.
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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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Sunday - December 7, 2008
As enterprises scale up of their use of service oriented architecture (SOA), proper governance is providing an insurance effect. By deploying governance alongside and in sync with SOA development and deployment capabilities, enterprises are growing the use of SOA without stumbling -- allowing companies to "crawl, walk and run" to SOA without losing control.
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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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