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Ticked Off at Tick the Box Mentality 04/02/2008 13:01:15
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? - +
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. - +
Doing Your Sums on . . . Build, Buy or Rent 05/11/2007 13:32:30
You’re trying to build a world-class IT team, but everyone’s going after the same talent pool. What mix works best? Should you grow your own, draft your players or barter your way to the line-up you want to field?CIOs should never forget that while new technologies have a maturity cycle, the maturity cycle for human beings in IT is even longer - +
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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With a wealth of experience spanning back to his involvement on the .NET advisory council and more recently with the Windows Communication Foundation (formally known as Indigo) strategic design review, it's with little surprise that IDesign founder, Juval Lowy, is considered one of the world's top experts in all things .NET.
As a Microsoft Software Legend and Microsoft's Regional Director for Silicon Valley, Lowy is now taking his vast knowledge around the world in a series of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Master Classes to share his expertise on building secure, reliable and interoperable service-oriented applications.
Before he arrives in Australia to host his WCF Master Class as part of Readify's next Industrial Strength Series, Lowy took some time out to share his thoughts on the changing landscape of software development and its future with Mitchell Bingemann.
What can attendees expect to get out of your WCF Master classes?
My objective is not just to make the students WCF experts, but also take them to the next level as software engineers, to enable educated decisions on aligning roadmaps with WCF and to assess benefits and advantages. I share best practices, pitfalls, tips and design guidelines, as well as my original techniques and breakthroughs.
What advantages does WCF offer over other frameworks?
WCF is Microsoft's implementation of a set of industry standards defining service interactions. WCF unifies the previous generations of Microsoft's technologies, offering the interoperability of ASP.NET web services, the extensibility of remoting and the productivity and power of Enterprise Services. There is just a ton of off-the-shelf plumbing to use, something nothing else offers over standards.
What makes WCF a good platform for developing service-oriented applications?
It is designed from the ground up for that. You cannot tack it on things like raw .NET or Windows SOA - they are just unaware of it. WCF enforces many of the SOA tenets, and enables the rest. It is deliberately different from classic .NET - there is no type sharing, it is all based on message exchange, and it supports most of the industry WS standards that facilitates services interoperability. Not only that, there is a ton of built-in plumbing that do all the hard work for you.
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Prioritizing Services with IT Service Management (ITSM)
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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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