Don E. Sears

A leading technology analyst firm says that many social sciences roles will be needed to work with corporations in helping to better understand the Web behavior of customers, online communities, personal brands and the spectrum of social networking communication. In a recent report “Social Science Meets Technology in Next-Generation Jobs,” Gartner Vice President Kathy Harris […]

Talk about IT management gone awry. The Department of Veteran Affairs’ technology department is on the hot seat.Between 2007 and 2008, pay grades were ignored, nepotism was rampant and excessive bonuses were given to the tune of $24 million, while the department struggled with budget deficits, found the Office of the Inspector General in an […]

In “Kramer Vs. Kramer,” the Oscar-winning Best Movie in the late 1970s that highlighted divorce in America, we watch Dustin Hoffman’s character desperately search for a job over coffee while going through the paper in a diner and circling jobs he’s interested in with a pen. Hoffman’s Kramer was let go from his most recent […]

In an attempt to help root out fraud and other criminal activity, the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services agency is making surprise visits to companies with H-1B visa holders on the books.After reports came out that there has been evidence shown of fraudulent use of temporary workers, bad documentation abusing the system and many visa […]

In this economy, IT departments are being asked to do more technology management with less manpower while still keeping things running smoothly 24/7/365. When a database process gets caught up, flutters and freezes, many businesses stand to lose customers’ loyalty and their greenbacks. The last thing your CIO wants is a call from the CEO […]

The majority of enterprise customers have database administrators in-house and can’t really run IT without some form of them internally. So conceded U.S.-based remote database providers Database Specialists, dbaDirect and Bluewolf, which eWEEK recently talked with to get a better sense of what data management outsourcing for the enterprise is like, and the challenges of […]

12 Tips for Making Remote Database Administration Easier by Don Sears No Title Make sure to review service levels as well as price. Service levels can vary widely by provider. No Title Assess your environment. Determine segments best suited for 24/7 support. Lower traffic, more stable segments may not require 24/7 support. No Title Make […]

A dangerous buffer-overflow flaw in Trend Micro anti-virus software products was reported by Trend Micro and confirmed by security researchers at iDefense Labs. Researchers at Secunia have also posted an advisory on this vulnerability and have deemed this to be highly critical. This flaw can be exploited in both Windows and Linux systems, and could […]

The business intelligence market is an extremely crowded space. Companies such as Oracle, Hyperion Solutions, SAS Institute, SAP, Microsoft, Actuate, InformationBuilders and Cognos have some form of BI application, either sitting on top of its own database technology or as a stand-alone product. For very large enterprises, these BI platforms may be a part of […]

Bears, Colts and Super Bowl football fans everywhere beware. Users browsing the Internet, perhaps innocently looking up a seating chart at Dolphin Stadium in Miami, could be in a lot more trouble than they would have ever expected. Malicious code was discovered on the Web site for Dolphin Stadium, the location of this years Super […]

Microsoft this week rolled out expected enhancements to its Software Assurance annuity-licensing program. Microsoft announced the planned changes to the SA program in September 2005. The changes include new planning, deployment, migration and legacy services designed for volume licensees. Two of the new benefits—new Windows releases—are exclusive to Software Assurance customers and aimed at midsize […]

Microsoft released on March 15 the first CTP (Community Technology Preview) of Service Pack 1 for its widely used SQL Server database. SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 will feature data-mirroring technology, functionality that Microsoft cut at the last minute from SQL Server 2005 due to customer quality concerns. The SP also includes SQL Server […]