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davidstrom
Member since: August 2009
Bio: I am a freelance writer, publication manager, and professional speaker on networking and communications topics. Written two books and countless magazine articles, with topics ranging all over networking, Internet applications and including practical tools and ways to be more productive. You can read more of my work over on strominator.com and webinformant.tv, both Web sites that I maintain.
Areas of Interest: Cloud Computing, Mobile & Wireless, Networking, Virtualization
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Want to create an environment to nurture budding tech entrepreneurs? Here's a look at what St. Louis has put in place to support innovative tech ideas.
4 weeks 4 days ago
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For enterprises trying to get a handle on password management, the good news is that there are products that can help implement stronger password policies for end users logging into corporate and personal Web-based services, as well as for employees who share a local server login.
4 weeks 6 days ago
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Here are the significant issues that can distinguish one password manager product from another. You'll probably make a similar list of requirements as you do your own research for password managers.
4 weeks 6 days ago
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Check Point comes out on top; Kerio, WatchGuard, Elitecore and Sophos score high in review of unified threat management (UTM) devices.
16 weeks 6 hours ago
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Location technology is underused but becoming more popular in the enterprise. Here are several ways you can deploy it to save you time and your company's money.
17 weeks 4 days ago
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You may not have heard about Dr. Deborah Estrin, a computer science professor and open source advocate, but she is on a mission to bring open source quite literally to the cellular level. But before we explain why, we need to put her work in the current context. [chunklet]
19 weeks 3 days ago
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We all know that relying on a simple user ID and password combination is fraught with peril. One alternative is to use one of the single sign-on solutions we reviewed last year, but there are less expensive options that could also be easier to install.
20 weeks 5 hours ago
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It isn't often that you can get access to a thousand-node network to test your latest Hadoop app, but thanks to the efforts of EMC's Greenplum unit and some additional computing vendors, you can. More amazingly, it is free of charge.
25 weeks 3 days ago
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If you're serious about how your Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn efforts are paying off, a social media management tool could help. Plenty of options are out there, but a high-end tool could cost you around $25K a year. Here are eight things to consider before you buy.
27 weeks 5 hours ago
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Expion wins our test of eight enterprise-grade social media monitoring tools
28 weeks 6 hours ago
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Businesses and government agencies are using data science crowdsourced sites, such as Kaggle, to solve real problems.
28 weeks 3 days ago
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We are awash in passwords, and as the number of Web services increases, things are only going to get worse. Trying to manage all these individual passwords is a major problem for enterprise security. Many end users cope by re-using their passwords, which exposes all sorts of security holes.
42 weeks 4 hours ago
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48 weeks 17 hours ago
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As more people telecommute, having a reliable way to connect via desktop video conferencing takes on greater importance. And for employees working in the office, Web-based meetings are a less expensive and less time consuming alternative to business travel.
50 weeks 6 hours ago
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If you are tired of scanning then faxing documents back and forth to get them signed, there is a better way: using electronic signatures attached digitally to your documents.
1 year 9 weeks ago
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