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IT Management/Strategy Reviews

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    The best encrypted flash drives

    Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:30 am

    If you're physically transporting data you don't want other people to see, you should be doing it on secure media. And what better than something that hides easily within a pocket? Secure flash drives that are only about the size of a small cigarette lighter feature robust hardware security to make them super secure. You'll pay a premium for the integrated security, but you can't put a price on the peace of mind you get by knowing that your data is locked down.

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    Will cloud computing make traditional vendor relationships obsolete?

    Posted May 23, 2011 - 1:44 am

    Shifting compute processes to the cloud can help companies save money and become more flexible, but what's even more potentially game-changing is the attitude of cloud proponents, who view compute power as just another disposable commodity.

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    Wavelink Avalanche 5 shows promise

    Posted May 23, 2011 - 1:33 am

    One of the largest mobile device managers is Wavelink — but their strength has been in hand-held scanners, WiFi industrial devices, and the mobile non-phone marketplace.

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    BI, value creation key for CIOs: Gartner

    Posted January 31, 2011 - 12:18 pm

    Increasing enterprise growth, reducing costs and attracting new customers are the three areas CIOs are focusing their attention on in 2011, according to the latest research from Gartner.

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    Sorting through email archiving tools

    Posted October 14, 2010 - 9:38 pm

    Between disaster recovery, compliance with legislative requirements and the need to meet e-discovery demands, enterprises should have some level of email archiving in place. In addition, companies may need to archive other files, including Office documents, SharePoint, instant messaging, blogs and other social media.

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    MobileMe May Find Its Niche in Small Business

    Posted June 21, 2010 - 1:53 pm

    MobileMe has always seemed like a hard sell in the consumer market. For $99 a year, Apple's suite of Web-based services delivers......e-mail! A calendar! Online apps and storage! Yep, stuff you can get for free elsewhere.

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    Course Review -- The Art of Exploitation: Bootcamp Edition

    Posted April 21, 2010 - 6:06 am

    I just returned to work following a two-week hacking class. Called "The Art of Exploitation: Bootcamp Edition", this class has pushed me through to the "aha" (I really got it) stage of what hacking really is and how it works. Definitely in the "red team" (attack) camp, this high intensity, short time frame "bootcamp" class went from basics to realistic, seriously complicated hacking within its modest two week time frame.

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    Web design and promotion: 5 must-read guidebooks

    Posted February 13, 2010 - 9:48 pm

    Learn the latest techniques for designing modern Web sites -- and making sure visitors can find them.

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    How to extract your LinkedIn contacts

    Posted October 14, 2009 - 4:38 pm

    A new service from Open Xchange allows you to both import and export your contacts and collaborate on calendars and documents across the Internet, all using open source.

  • Review

    Master of your own domain

    Posted September 11, 2009 - 9:20 am

    Setting up your own Internet domain isn't that hard, and there are a lot of choices, including some that are nearly no cost to host your Web site and email servers.

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    The latest collaboration tools: Microsoft Live Spaces and IBM Lotus Live Engage

    Posted August 26, 2009 - 11:35 am

    Microsoft and Lotus are once again squaring off at each other in the collaboration arena with two services that have very complex names starting with "Live." The idea is to provide Web services that require minimal downloads and enable teams of people to work on various projects. The two offerings have somewhat different feature sets.

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    Trust is the First Step to Shortage Purchasing

    Posted August 19, 2009 - 5:46 pm

    The key to earning trust is to be trustworthy. There isn't some kind of marketing gimmick that will pull the wool over our eyes and bedazzle us into trusting someone without good cause. How can someone demonstrate that they're trustworthy? Transparency, simplicity, reliability, speed and a willingness to fix what is wrong.
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The Cloud: Reinventing Enterprise Collaboration

Collaboration and content sharing are not, of course, new concepts. But cloud computing has changed the nature of collaboration, content sharing, document storage and project management to enable more efficient, faster-acting and cost-effective enterprises. According to a new study by IDG Research, the vast majority of knowledge workers (86%) placed a very high level of importance on collaborating with internal coworkers and external stakeholders, and having access to the most up-to-date corporate information. Read how organizations are realizing massive productivity gains by transitioning their content management solutions to cloud-based models.

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Empowering Your Mobile Worker

Today's most productive employees are mobile, and your company's IT strategy must be ready to support them with 24/7 access to the business information they need across a range of mobile devices.See how corporations are meeting the many needs of their mobile workers with the help of Box.

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Market Landscape Report: Online File Sharing and Collaboration in the Enterprise

The trend toward "consumerization" marches onward in IT; more and more end-users are choosing their own hardware plaforms and software applications in lieu of the IT-sanctioned business tools provided by their companies. These end-users are looking to tackle issues like data sharing, portability, and access from multiple intelligent endpoint devices, creating a conundrum for IT as it needs to balance business enablement, ease of access, and collaborative capacity with the need to maintain control and security of information assets. This need for balance is one of the drivers of the fast growing online file sharing and collaboration segment of the SaaS market. This paper examines the market drivers, inhibitors, and top vendors in this segment, including Box, Citrix Sharefile, Dropbox, Egnyte, Nomadesk, Sugarsync, Syncplicity and YouSendIt.

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Sharing Simplified - Consolidating File-sharing Technologies

Employees need to share content with colleagues within their organization and outside. Yet, ECMs make it hard to share content within a business and impossible between organizations. Read how one company consolidated multiple file sharing technologies to increase productivity and reduce complexity.

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Content Sharing 2.0: The Road Ahead

A growing number of companies are taking advantage of the natural synergies that exist between cloud-based IT services and content access and sharing. Legacy content management and collaboration systems simply weren't designed to meet the evolving requirements of today's IT and business managers, as well as the needs of content users. Box provides cloud-based content storage, access and collaboration services that require virtually no user training and supports file access and delivery on almost all popular PC and mobile devices. Read how Box let companies rapidly implement a cost-effective and secure content storage and sharing system that can easily expand to accommodate any size and number of files.

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