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Cancer Researchers Unbowed By Distributed Computing Block
News Antivirus vendor Sophos last week announced updated application control software that enables IT managers to block distributed applications such as the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute's SETI@home project, and the...
[October 30, 2006, 15:41]
Security Problems Not Raining On Remote Working's Parade
News More than half (55 percent) of the 500 business managers who took part in the poll said mobile and remote working is making it increasingly difficult to control what staff are uploading onto laptops and mobile devices.
[July 5, 2005, 16:00]
With Simplicity Comes Complacency
News Agents run on the equipment being managed, and managers are the control and monitoring software that manages the equipment. SNMP relies on three software components: agents, managers and management information blocks (MIBs).
[February 21, 2002, 16:02]
Phone Phishing Attack Hits US
News IT managers have been warned to alert their staff to the attack, which uses social engineering techniques to try to trick users to the phishing site, according to security vendor Websense. IT managers were advised to educate staff on the growing...
[June 23, 2006, 17:05]
Baltimore Packages Up PKI
News It also allows administrators to delegate administration to business line managers, so a human resources manager can control the security privileges of the 20 or so people who report to them. PKI has been the domain of large corporates, and...
[October 22, 2002, 15:27]
Maxapt QuickEye
Downloads It helps company managers to track their employees' work efficiency. You take control of how much time your employees are spending on actually working, and how much time they are wasting on secondary tasks.
[January 25, 2008, 22:46]
CNF - Reducing Cost And Improving Manageability And Security Of 2,000+ PCs
White Papers IT managers at CNF needed to find a way to manage and control the company’s rapidly growing desktop environment. Moreover, no one knew what software was on those systems, whether the software was properly licensed, whether it was current, and...
[November 25, 2003, 19:16]
Analysis Of On-Board Spacecraft Software Development
White Papers Frequently these managers find it difficult to get valid numbers to help make informed decisions on the procurement of software. Many procurement managers have little or no background in software. In contrast with many other types of software...
[April 20, 2004, 0:00]
State And Local Government Agencies: IT Consolidation
White Papers Today’s IT managers in state and local government agencies must constantly balance the need to add new services and improve existing procedures with the need to control their budgets. The reliance on multiple software packages, as well as multiple...
[January 13, 2005, 2:00]
What's Good For Security Is Good For Operations: Why Configuration Assessment Followed By Change Auditing Is Key To Operational Stability
White Papers Network administrators and IT managers know that the ramifications of one small change to a company's critical servers or network devices--such as routers, switches, and firewalls--depend on whether the change is desired or not.
[October 14, 2008, 0:00]
Achieving 99.999 Percent Uptime On Windows
White Papers This paper describes two key approaches for IT managers to maintain the availability of their Windows infrastructure and provides an overview of the Marathon Assured Availability solution. All key functions within the enterprise today - inventory...
[January 5, 2005, 23:00]
VMware Automates Virtual-machine Management
News As well as control over virtual machines the software helps managers to measure their operation and enables them to charge back to appropriate business units. VMware has launched its Lifecycle Manager product aimed at IT managers looking for help...
[April 2, 2008, 16:32]
Gartner To CIOs: 'You're In Business, Not IT'
News To remain relevant, IT managers need to wake up and admit they work in business, not IT, Gartner's leading analysts said in the keynote address at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney. IT managers should prioritise the time spent on each application...
[November 22, 2007, 9:18]
Email Failure 'worse Than Divorce'
News For many information technology managers, a weeklong failure of the corporate email system under their control would be more traumatic than a divorce, according to a study released on Monday. According to the study, 4 percent of IT managers said...
[July 29, 2003, 8:31]
Platforms Work Better In The Open
Leader It follows in the footsteps of decades of mainframe and mini practice, and if properly implemented and used lets IT managers retain control and fault-finding capabilities in the direst situations. Speed, graphics and flexibility are all part of the...
[September 11, 2006, 16:15]
Workers Chose Web Over Coffee
News While 95 percent of IT managers say their antivirus software is able to prevent viruses from attacking their company's network, two-thirds of these managers reported that a Web-based virus such as MyDoom or Nimda has infected their network.
[April 29, 2004, 15:35]
Microsoft Announces Security Partnerships
News As part of the initiative, Microsoft plans to develop application programming interfaces, or APIs, that will allow its partners to develop specific applications so that their devices and software can be linked directly to the Microsoft remote...
[July 14, 2004, 14:50]
Gartner: Open Source Will Quietly Take Over
News In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner; even though IT managers may be unaware of it, and prefer to talk about fashions such as software as a service. IT managers who simply want to cut costs will...
[April 4, 2008, 14:53]
Fear Users, Says IDC Security Chief
News Analyst firm IDC has warned IT managers that education of end users in not enough to mitigate potential user threats. User education could include IT managers forwarding media reports of security breaches at other organisations, said Domage, who...
[September 25, 2007, 13:41]
Network Service Platform Promises Secure Teleworking
News Many IT managers are alarmed at the security risks in this approach, but they increase the pressure to offer something under tighter control. With users demanding to work remotely, and governments supporting the principle, IT managers are under...
[September 3, 2002, 9:33]
