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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. - +
Doing Your Sums on . . . Build, Buy or Rent 05/11/2007 13:32:30
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When an organization brings together talented people in a creative, collaborative environment it fosters a culture of high performance, which in turn leads to superior business resultsLike high-achieving individuals, some organizations seem to have the Midas touch. Virtually every initiative they touch earns them gold and even those that fail never seem to cost them much of anything at all - +
Order Takers to Innovators 02/10/2007 15:20:08
How four CIOs energized their staffs to take risks with new technology and generate fresh value for their businessesWhen David Behen became IT director for Washtenaw County, Michigan, the department was little more than an order-taker. And not a very good one. It was kind of like the waiter who makes you wait, then brings the entree with the mains and brings you a bottle of Grange when you asked for a carafe of the house red
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Adobe Systems has announced the public beta of Adobe Flex 2.0 product line and Adobe Flash Player 8.5, an application development solution designed to deliver rich Internet applications.
Developers everywhere now will be able to build next generation Web experiences that help organizations engage users more effectively, increase productivity, and deliver better business results, the company says.
"Over the last 10 years we have used many technologies to build rich Internet applications for our clients, including DHTML-based and Ajax techniques, but we always found ourselves having to sacrifice either developer productivity or the richness of the user experience," says Dave Wolf, vice-president at Cynergy Systems.
"With Flex 2.0 and Flash Player 8.5, we can finally deliver the kinds of rich applications our clients demand without compromise. That is Web 2.0!"
The Flex 2.0 product line aims to provide developers with an extensible application framework, intuitive programming model, standards-based data integration, and an Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) for application development and UI design.
With an extensive component library, advanced data integration, and support for standard back-end server infrastructures, Flex 2.0 is designed to enable developers to build virtually any type of rich Internet application, from simple interactive sites, to rich data dashboards and portals, to data-intensive enterprise applications.
"Adobe is committed to delivering the tools and servers that application developers need to deliver engaging rich Internet applications, from interactive product configurators to mission-critical business applications," says David Mendels, senior vice-president, Enterprise and Developer Business Unit at Adobe.
"The response to the public alpha release of the Flex 2.0 product line has been tremendous, and we cannot wait to see what developers will do with the new capabilities found in this release."
The following components are said to be part of the Flex beta program:
-- Flash Player 8.5 -- a high-performance client runtime for engaging Web experiences;
-- Flex Framework 2.0 -- the core programming model and component library for Flex;
-- Flex Builder 2.0 -- an Eclipse-based IDE for developing Internet applications with the Flex Framework;
-- Flex Enterprise Services 2.0 -- essential data services and an open adapter architecture for delivering data-intensive rich Internet applications and deeply integrating with enterprise service-oriented infrastructure;
-- Flex Charting Components 2.0 -- extensible components for advanced data visualization.
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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.
