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Strategies for Dealing With IT Complexity 24/12/2007 10:30:47
Every innovation, every business process improvement, comes with an IT complexity tax that must be paid by CIOs in time, money and sweat. Here are strategies to mitigate the increasing complexity of IT as it enables new business.Every innovation, every business process improvement, comes with an IT complexity tax that must be paid by CIOs in time, money and sweat. Here are strategies to mitigate the increasing complexity of IT as it enables new business. - +
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Does your executive search firm know the difference between an MIS manager and a CIO, and if it does, can it explain that difference to its corporate clients?Does your executive search firm know its MIS managers from its elbow? Does it even know the difference between an MIS manager and a CIO, and if it does, can it explain that difference to its corporate clients? - +
Your World. . . Hacked 02/10/2007 10:51:23
As your business becomes more collaborative and global, the risks to your company’s trade secrets rise proportionally. Fortunately, there are new strategies to protect the data that allows you to competeThe call to Bob Bailey, an IT executive with a major US government contractor, came on an otherwise ordinary day in October 2003. "Why are you attacking us?" demanded the caller, an IT leader with a Silicon Valley manufacturer. He wanted to know why Bailey's company had launched a denial-of-service attack against his network
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Mozilla is thinking about dropping Firefox support for Apple's Mac OS 10.3, the three-and-a-half-year-old operating system also known as Panther.
In a thread on the mozilla.dev.planning forum and a proposal posted to Google Docs, Mozilla developers argued whether Firefox 3.0 should run under Panther.
"I'd like to propose that we drop support for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) on the Mozilla trunk," said Josh Aas, Mozilla's resident Mac OS X developer. "I believe doing so will result in a significantly higher quality release of Gecko 1.9 [Firefox 3.0] for the vast majority of users on Mac OS X."
Aas cited finite development and testing resources, as well as the upcoming release of Mac OS 10.5, a.k.a. "Leopard," this October as reasons for backing away from Panther. "Dropping support for Panther would also free up engineering resources," he said. "We are already running short on time to deliver a product that works well on Tiger and Leopard.
"There is already a backlog of tricky Panther-only regressions, bugs and performance issues in areas ranging from widgets to fonts and gfx/Cairo that I suspect will consume at least a few weeks of development time," said Aas.
Others on the thread, however, urged caution. "I'm sympathetic to the economic argument, especially given our scarce Mac hacking resources, but I think we need to be more deliberate about it," said Mike Shaver, Mozilla's technology strategist.
Still others took issue with the whole idea of abandoning the older operating system. "I want to have a kick-ass Firefox 3 that makes Safari quake in its boots, but I also don't want to dismiss the loyal Firefox users that still may be using 10.3," said Marcia Knous, another Mozilla developer.
Mozilla isn't afraid of dropping support for older operating systems. On the Windows side, the company has already announced that Firefox 3.0 will not support Windows 98 and Windows Millennium, both of which were dropped from Microsoft's own support list last summer. And last week, a Mozilla executive said the new browser, expected to ship before the end of the year, probably won't support older distributions of Linux.
Apple typically offers security updates to just two editions of Mac OS X simultaneously; after it launched Mac OS X 10.4 in April 2005, it stopped posting updates for Mac OS X 10.2, alias Jaguar. If that trend hold true, Apple will cease security patches for Panther when it launches Leopard.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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Email Archiving Implementation: Five Costly Mistakes to Avoid
Email Archiving is essential for managing email data, but is potentially expensive to implement. Read on to discover the five key areas where email archiving costs can be contained, including data capture methods and default configuration methods.
