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As the economy gets shakier each day, workers everywhere are concerned about losing their jobs. Here are 10 steps the corporate techie toiling away in the server room or the help desk can take to help keep his or her job.
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Sequoia Capital is one of the first venture capital firms to issue a strict advisory warning to both startups and established companies in their portfolios to trim expenses, cut ancillary jobs and contractors and tighten budget belts.
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IT organizatoins are looking to reduce costs while increasing productivity, and so are looking to unified communications to meet these goals. New technology and financing options can help companies do just that.
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Even in the volatile U.S. macroeconomy, EMC's prospects remain solid. After all, the volume of personal and business data continues to rocket skyward at 60 percent growth per year with little or no chance of a slowdown; all that information has to be stored somewhere. Despite the serious downturn, as the United States is experiencing now, enterprises are hesistant to cut down on storage budgets for that very reason.
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In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, the general manager of IBM's Information Management Business, Ambuj Goyal, talks about how information on-demand models will lead to a renaissance in business intelligence.
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In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Lumension Security CEO Pat Clawson talks about why business leaders are not well-versed in security issues that could seriously threaten their business, which is a subject he goes into depth on in a new e-book.
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Dell continues to refine its storage product line with a new disk-only backup/recovery system aimed at midmarket users. Setup and management of the "turnkey" system is automated so that any person who can use drop-down menus and a wizard can operate it, Dell's top storage executive says.
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In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Attivio CTO Sid Probstein talks about the importance of harnessing search technology within the context of a business intelligence application.
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Business and development projects are often plagued by ill-defined requirements, inefficient change policies, and difficulties in stakeholder coordination. A comprehensive project-chartering plan, though, assures that requirements, change controls, metrics, risk tolerance, and ownership are all set well before work begins. This can save significant amounts of time and money down the road by clearing up confusion and heading off disasters before they happen.
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CA has acquired identity management vendor IDFocus to add to its provisioning capabilities and its ability to enforce segregation of duties. CA competes against a number of large vendors in the identity management space, including Oracle, IBM, Sun Microsystems and Novell.
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Verizon had accused Cox of infringing six patents related to Internet telephony. Verizon settled a similar suit against digital phone service provider Vonage last year for $117.5 million.
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Because they are providing exactly the right services at exactly the right time, enterprises in certain subsectors of IT are beginning to get busy helping clean up the Wall Street/Main Street financial debacle. Companies in e-discovery, archiving, enterprise search, risk management and secure file transfers are among those "lucky" ones.
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While lean principles and practices have been widely adopted in manufacturing over the years, their use in IT has just recently gained popularity. Lean IT is a revised way of thinking whose ultimate goal is the elimination of wasted IT resources, thereby increasing business efficiency and profits. Knowledge Center contributor Sunny Gupta explains the six steps organizations should follow to obtain Lean IT operations.
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Risk control procedures are not enough to mitigate fraud on Wall Street. The current financial meltdown provides evidence that many banks and financial institutions have failed to change systems and people in order to mitigate fraud and to comply with regulations and standards. Biometric authentication is a reliable solution for preventing security breaches. Knowledge Center contributors Paul Foote and Reena Hora explain why the financial industry needs to supplement its internal controls compliance with biometric authentication.
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The Google-Yahoo deal announced in June to share advertising was widely seen as an effort to help fend off Microsoft's efforts to acquire Yahoo, by bringing Yahoo an additional $800 million in annual revenues.
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