Stories about: Kemet

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Managing Vista security requires IT effort 26 February, 2008 10:53

Jeff Dimock, vice president of Microsoft solutions at the IT consultancy Dimension Data Americas, expects IT organizations will like Windows Vista's tighter security. That's true even though it requires a change in both user behavior (to acknowledge the User Account Control, or UAC warnings when installing potentially harmful applications), and an update in applications (to run in user mode rather than administrator mode). "It's a lot more robust security model, but it does come at a price," he says.
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Vista tools ease deployment and management 26 February, 2008 10:44

For IT, perhaps the biggest advantage to deploying Windows Vista is its capability to create a unified installation image that selectively loads the needed drivers and applications onto users' computers -- saving IT from having to manage lots of install images as with Windows XP or to rely on the PC-model-specific OEM installations whose "bloatware" then needs to be removed from each system. Microsoft provides the Windows Automated Installation Kit as a free download to give IT that unified-image capability, so IT can use a single Vista installation image for all PCs, with drivers and applications loaded as needed for each user.
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Picking the right time to deploy Vista 26 February, 2008 10:42

Windows Vista is known for its much higher resource requirements than Windows XP, such as needing a minimum of 2GB of RAM, a fast processor, and a recent video card. That's why most analysts suggest that a Vista deployment be paired with a hardware refresh.
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Vista deployment secrets 08 February, 2008 07:20

Vista adoption in business has been slow (and at this writing more than 75,000 people have signed InfoWorld's petition asking Microsoft to keep Windows XP available indefinitely). Nonetheless, thousands of businesses worldwide have already adopted Vista.
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Why people hate Vista 06 February, 2008 08:26

You rarely hear about a new OS causing people to panic. But IT consultant Scott Pam says that's exactly what his small-business clients are doing when they install Windows Vista on new PCs and run smack into compatibility or usability roadblocks.
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LOTUSPHERE - Is 'Next Gen' no-frills e-mail a good idea? 29 January, 2003 08:02

If it's cheap enough to deploy and easy enough to use and manage, IBM is betting that there's a market for a new no-frills e-mail product for workers who don't need all the high-end features of Lotus Notes.
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Ericsson Sells Euro Component Distribution Unit 12 September, 2000 12:01

Ericsson Microelectronics AB, a unit of Swedish telecommunications equipment vendor L.M. Ericsson Telephone, announced Tuesday that it is selling off its European component distribution business to U.K.-based Eurodis Electron PLC in a cash deal valued at $US43 million.