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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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Everyone agrees that having a strategic plan for IT is a good thing but most CIOs approach the process with fear and loathing. In fact, the majority of CIOs (and the enterprises they work for) are faking it when it comes to strategic planning. Isn't it time we all got real?Oh, it must be nice to be the CIO of a FedEx or a GE or a Credit Suisse. Places where IT and the business are so tightly aligned you can barely tell the two apart. Where corporate leaders understand that IT is a strategic asset and support it as such - +
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So you think you can sing? If so, check out the latest contest from the group that created the SysAdmin of the Year award.
Now in its second year, the award encourages companies to vote for one of their own IT staff members to receive the honor. It was inspired by System Administrator Appreciation Day, an annual day of recognition for all the technical work that typically goes unnoticed. This year's SysAdmin of the Year contest challenges IT pros to display yet another of their talents: their song-writing and singing skills.
The Web site asks visitors: "Is your sysadmin a rock star?" And it seems some people believe they might be. For instance, lyrics posted on the song contest's Web site and credited to Eric "Maverick" Garner put the daily duties of a systems administrator to music. Here is a sample: "I download all the patches and fixes/ and countless system updates/ I push 'em out to all the servers/ so nobody escalates."
The chorus goes even further and sings the praises of the system administrator: "SysAdmin Rockstar, I'm your IT go-to guy/ SysAdmin Rockstar, I'll make it work, do or die."
Sponsored by IT search management vendor Splunk, the contest challenges potential candidates to "record your own vocal track and enhancements to the SysAdmin Rockstar song"; the company will award the creator of the best version a US$500 Amazon.com gift certificate; three runners-up each will get a US$100 Amazon.com gift certificate.
Judges include Jeff Bates, co-founder of Slashdot, Nagios creator Ethan Galstad and last year's SysAdmin of the Year Michael Beck, among others. Criteria for judging includes song originality, quality and degree of "sysadminism" -- or sense of humor regarding IT, according to Splunk officials.
The deadline for e-mailed song submissions in MP3 format is October 12.
This year's SysAdmin of the Year contest launched on the most recent annual appreciation day, which has been held on the last Friday in July since 2000. It wraps up with awards doled out at the Large Installation Systems Administrator (LISA) Conference in Dallas this November.
Prizes for SysAdmin of the Year include a Gibson Explorer guitar -- keeping with the rock star theme -- an Apple MacBook Pro, a trip to the LISA Conference and an enterprise license for Splunk IT management search software.
Other sponsors of the SysAdmin of the Year contest are SourceForge.net, Digg, NaSPA, LOPSA and Usenix's SAGE.
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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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SOA and Agility
Organizations need agility to maintain strategic advantages in businesses operating on faster and faster time-scales. The difference between gaining and losing market share may very well depend on the ability of organizations to deploy updated or new applications before their competitors. Read on to discover how SOA-based application development can meet the promise of reduced application development and maintenance costs through service reuse.
