Google takes Street View snaps in Paris; lawsuits may follow
Google has begun scanning the streets of Paris, gathering data for its Street View service, which adds street-level photography to the satellite views offered by Google Maps. The search company will gather a wealth of data from the project but, thanks to France's strict privacy laws, it may also pick up a few lawsuits on the way if it chooses to publish the photos unedited.
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Data protection and disaster recovery are top of mind for any IT manager, and the challenges of complexity and cost remain as obstacles. Dell EqualLogic virtualized iSCSI SANs and VMware Infrastructure 3 enhance the scalability, ease of use, and reliable operation of IT infrastructures to withstand failures and overcome disasters.
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RAID rebuild cloning
You've been asked to install, configure, and deploy a number of servers as quickly and efficiently as possible. While there are a number of options, this tip explains how to use hardware to clone hardware, instead of using software.
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The Problem with Business Software & How Visualization Can Fix It
Much of the $500 billion spent every year on software development is at risk with delays, cost overruns, missing features, cancellations and poor customer experience - all because text-based requirement specifications are difficult to read and easy to misunderstand. iRise® offers a simple and effective solution - a collaborative software platform that enables businesses to quickly visualize and "test market" applications before a single line of code is written. For the first time, business people can understand for themselves what they need, and then communicate that knowledge to others using visual models that replicate the exact look, feel and behavior of the final product, taking the guesswork out of application definition. Using customer scenarios, iRise's white paper presents a compelling business case for investing in visualization.
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Osterman Report: The Advantages of a Hosted Messaging Security Solution
Messaging management is becoming more difficult thanks to the growing malware threat. At the same time, messaging system administrators are under enormous pressure to push their messaging infrastructures to do more than ever, including archiving messaging content for regulatory compliance, archiving to support legal discovery and for overall litigation support, providing services to a growing body of mobile users, and ensuring continuity by making the messaging system more reliable, and managing policies for message encryption. Hosted solutions, such as those offered by Microsoft® Exchange Hosted Services, can elegantly address the growing array of messaging requirements and threats, and can do so without unnecessarily adding to the cost of current messaging management activities and the complexity of the IT environment. Learn more in this new report.
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Does collaboration drive business success? Read the latest findings today!
Collaboration occurs at the intersection of an enterprise's technology and culture. Discover how these two critical factors affect the quality of collaboration in Meetings Around the World: The Impact of Collaboration on Business Performance. You'll learn why enterprises need to work collaboratively - and examine how collaboration impacts business success.
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