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September 4th, 2010 by Don James

IT Weekly Articles 9/6/10

IT Weekly Article posts are a selection of information technology articles (no company or product reviews) culled each week from 400+ on line industry sources addressing: Data, Backup, DR, BC, Risk; Quality of Service; Availability; Response Time; Productivity; Servers; Storage; Operations, Networks; Security; Compliance; Audits; Costs, Business Solutions, futures, and a myriad of other subjects that help the IT Professional reduce risk; increase productivity; increase revenue and increase profits..

Articles from the week of 8-30-10 to 9-3-10

Backup
Getting Ready for Modernization
How to Modernize Your Backup from ComputerWorld (September2, 2010)

CIO – CTO – CSO
Changing Management Skills
7 Skills Every IT Manager Needs to Survive the 2010s from InfoWorld (August 30, 2010)

Cloud
A Simple Idea Gets Very Complicated
Data Breaches Begin Close to Home from InfoWorld (August 24, 2010)

Pay Attention to Security
Organizing Sensitive Data in the Cloud from CSO Online (August 30, 2010)

Disaster Recovery
Don’t Wait Till It’s Too Late
As Hurricane Earl Looms, Tips for Battening Down IT Operations from InfoWorld (September 4, 2010)

When DR Becomes a Disaster
American Eagle Outfitters Learns a Painful Service Provider Lesson from ComputerWorld (August 30, 2010)

Encryption
Where Best
When to Encrypt at Layer 2 or Layer 3 from Network Computing (August 31, 2010)

Network
Don’t Let Things Sneak On
Finding Exposed Devices on Your Network from Dark Reading (September 1, 2010)

SW Is Really Out of Date
IT Is Woefully Behind Network Updates from Network Computing (September 3, 2010)

New Tools for IPv6
Retooling, Vulnerability Scanning and Penetration Testing for IPv6 from Dark Reading (September 3, 2010)

Operations
Errors to Avoid in a Data Center Move
Moving a Data Center; Avoid These Four Career-Limiting Mistakes from NetworkWorld (August 30, 2010)

Automation is Just a Matter of Time
Yes, You Can Automate IT and No, You Can’t Avoid It from Network Computing (September 3, 2010)

Security
Who’s Watching the Watchers
Best Practices for Watching the Watchers from Enterprise Systems Journal (August 31, 2010)

Keeping the Hens Honest
Data Breaches Begin Close to Home from NetworkWorld (August 31, 2010)

Don’t Let Things Sneak Onto the Network
Finding Exposed Devices on Your Network from Dark Reading (September 1, 2010)

DLP Choices
How to Prevent Data from Leaving Your Network from IT World (August 27, 2010)

USBs Are Ticking Time Bombs
Ironic Malware-Infected USB Security Blunders from ComputerWorld (August 31, 2010)

Storage Management
Know Your Storage Options
The Six Levels of Primary Data Storage from InfoWorld (August 30, 2010)

Technology
Moore’s Law is Still Viable
Nanocrystal Conductors Using Dirt-Cheap Material, Promise Massive 3-D Storage from ComputerWorld (August 31, 2010)

August 29th, 2010 by Don James

IT Weekly Articles 8/30/10

IT Weekly Article posts are a selection of information technology articles (no company or product reviews) culled each week from 400+ on line industry sources addressing: Data, Backup, DR, BC, Risk; Quality of Service; Availability; Response Time; Productivity; Servers; Storage; Operations, Networks; Security; Compliance; Audits; Costs, Business Solutions, futures, and a myriad of other subjects that help the IT Professional reduce risk; increase productivity; increase revenue and increase profits. .

Articles from the week of 8-23-10 to 8-27-10

CIO – CTO – CSO
Unknown Unknowns
5 Reasons IT Pros Should be Paranoid from InfoWorld (August 16, 2010)

Integrity Sets Your Values
Why Values Matter for CIOs from CIO Insight (August 13, 2010)

Cloud
Private is Not a Slam Dunk
Building a Private Cloud: Get Read for a Bumpy Road from InfoWorld (August 24, 2010)

Storage on the Fly
Cloud Storage Lives Up to the Hype from NetworkWorld (August 23, 2010)

Not Your Daddy’s Security
Start Cramming Now: Cloud Security 101 from InfoWorld (August 17, 2010)

Inefficiency Creep
The Danger of Cloud Silos from InfoWorld (August 17, 2010)

Disk Technology
SSD Performance Improvements
Smarten Up SSD Usage from Computerworld (August 24, 2010)

Networks
Dip Your Toes into IPv6
Businesses Need to Move on IPv6 from NetworkWorld (August 24, 2010)

Consolidated View Becoming Vital
Top 5 Network Management Investments from NetworkWorld (August 23, 2010)

Rabbit Sense
Creating Mobile Apps Won’t Make You Rich
Write a Mobile App, Make a Mint from Government Computer News (August 24, 2010)

Security
Only the Paranoid Survive
Security Chiefs at Home; No Such Thing as Off Duty from ComputerWorld (August 25, 2010)

Lessons Learned Too Late
Six Healthcare Data Breaches That Might Make Security Pros Sick from Dark Reading (August 13, 2010)

Not Your Daddy’s Security
Start Cramming Now: Cloud Security 101 from InfoWorld (August 17, 2010)

Storage Management
What the Future May Entail
Getting Smarter about Storage from Enterprise Systems Journal (August 24, 2010)

When It Hits the Fan
How to Deal With a Storage Capacity Crisis from InfoWorld (August 23, 2010)

Different Ways to Skin DeDupe
The InfoWorld SAN and NAS Virtualization Primer from InfoWorld (August 26, 2010)

Technology
Ready or Not iPad Is On the Way
iPads are About to Pour Into Your Business from InfoWorld (August 24, 2010)

Truth from Fiction
Technology’s Biggest Myths from NetworkWorld (August 23, 2010)

August 21st, 2010 by Don James

IT Weekly Articles 8/23/10

IT Weekly Article posts are a selection of information technology articles (no company or product reviews) culled each week from 400+ on line industry sources addressing: Data, Backup, DR, BC, Risk; Quality of Service; Availability; Response Time; Productivity; Servers; Storage; Operations, Networks; Security; Compliance; Audits; Costs, Business Solutions, futures, and a myriad of other subjects that help the IT Professional reduce risk; increase productivity; increase revenue and increase profits. .

Articles from the week of 8-16-10 to 8-20-10

Business Continuity
Don’t Plan for Stuff that Won’t Happen
Put Some SFP 50 on Your Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan so You Don’t Get Burned from ComputerWorld (August 13, 2010)

Cloud
Sensitive Data May be a Bad Idea
10 Reasons Why It’s a Bad Idea to Store Health Records in the Cloud from eWeek (August 17, 2010)

CIOs Need to Consider the Gotchas
Six Thing CIOs Must Consider Before Moving to the Cloud from silicon.com (August 5, 2010)

Private Clouds Are Complex
Why You’re Not Ready to Create A Private Cloud from InfoWorld (August 11, 2010)

Database
Hitting the Data Breach Panic Button
What to Do When Your Database Gets Breached from Dark Reading (August 9, 2010)

Disaster Recovery
Don’t Plan for Stuff that Won’t Happen
Put Some SFP 50 on Your Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Plan so You Don’t Get Burned from ComputerWorld (August 13, 2010)

Networks
From the Ground Up
Everything You Need to Know About Building Solid, Reliable Networks from NetworkWorld (August 12, 2010)

Rules Keep the Bandwidth form Bogging Down
Keep Your Network Management Rules Current from NetworkWorld (August 11, 2010)

Rabbit Sense
A Solution 50 Years in the Making
Computer Science Breakthrough: The Endo of P=NP from InfoWorld (August 11, 2010)

Security
Knowing Where the Landmines are Located
10 Security Hotspots for CIOs from CIO Insight (August 10, 2010)

Keeping Everything Safe
10 Tips To Secure Your Enterprise from CIO Insight (August 8, 2010)

Stopping Insider Threats
Five Steps to Preventing Insider Data Breaches from IT Business Edge (August 19, 2010)

PCI v2.0
Revisions to Credit Card Security Standard from CSO Online (August 12, 2010)

Forget the Details
Want to Get Security Done? Skip the Details from IT World (August 16, 2010)

Technology
Paying Via Smartphone Gets Test
BofA to Test Retail Payments with Cell Phones from BankTech (August 19, 2010)

August 14th, 2010 by Don James

IT Weekly Articles 8/16/10

IT Weekly Article posts are a selection of information technology articles (no company or product reviews) culled each week from 400+ on line industry sources. These articles address everyday issues involving Data, Backup, DR, BC, Risk; Quality of Service; Availability; Response Time; Productivity; Servers; Storage; Operations, Networks; Security; Compliance; Audits; Costs, Business Solutions, futures, and a myriad of other subjects that help the IT Professional reduce risk; increase productivity; increase revenue and increase profits.

Articles from the week of 8-9-10 to 8-13-10

CIO – CTO – CSO
Change Management for IT Workers from Baseline Magazine (July 30, 2010)

Do You Need Network Security and Privacy Loss Insurance? from NetworkWorld (August 12, 2010)

Cloud
Enterprises’ Love/Hate Cloud Relationship Foretells Unhappy Results from InfoWorld (August 3, 2010)

Thinking of Moving to the Cloud; Send in the Lawyers First from InfoWorld (August 3, 2010)

Why the Cloud is Driving Hardware Growth, Not Slowing It from InfoWorld (August 4, 2010)

Encryption
Photos of The Enigma Machine at the National Cryptologic Museum from silicon.com (August 6, 2010)

Operations
6 Cool Innovations for the Data Center from ComputerWorld (August 2, 2010)

Stupid Data Center Tricks from InfoWorld (August 12, 2010)

Outsourcing
9 Winning Tactics for Efficient Offshoring from CIO Insight (August 2, 2010)

Security
5 Ways Employees Try to Access Restricted Sites from ITWorld (August 11, 2010)

10 Steps CIOs Can Take to Bolster Mobile Security from CIO Insight (August 4, 2010)
IT Pros Use Personal Email, Storage Devices to Move Company Files from Dark Reading (August 3, 2010)

Smartphone Wave Challenges Enterprise Security from NetworkWorld(August 6, 2010)

Social Engineers Successfully Gather Info from Dark Reading (August 5, 2010)

Storage Management –
10 Most Requested Features When Modernizing Data Storage Installations from eWeek (August 8, 2010)

What Makes Storage Primary from Network Computing (August 9, 2010)

Virtualization
The Scary Side of Virtualization from ComputerWorld (August 10, 2010)

August 7th, 2010 by Don James

IT Weekly Articles 8/9/10

IT Weekly Article posts are a selection of information technology articles (no company or product reviews) culled each week from 400+ on line industry sources addressing: Data, Backup, DR, BC, Risk; Quality of Service; Availability; Response Time; Productivity; Servers; Storage; Operations, Networks; Security; Compliance; Audits; Costs and Business Solutions..

Articles from the week of 8-2-10 to 8-6-10

Archiving
Top 5 Ways to Improve E-Mail Archiving from IT Business Edge (July 29, 2010)

Backup
Data Deduplication: Reducing the Storage Bloat from InfoWorld (July 29, 2010)

CIO – CTO – CSO
Negotiating a Contract: How to Waste Less Time and Get Better Deals from IT Business Edge (July 22, 2010)

Not Your Daddy’s Disneyland from CIO Insight (July 22, 2010)

Cloud
Falling Through Clouds from ComputerWorld (August 3, 2010)

Compliance
Rite Aid Agrees to pay $1 Million to Settle HIPPA Privacy Case from Data Breaches (July 30, 2010)

E-Mail
Top 5 Ways to Improve E-Mail Archiving from IT Business Edge (July 29, 2010)

iSCSI
How to Set Up a Smooth Running iSCSI SAN from InfoWorld (August 2, 2010)

Networks
NAC Decisions You Need to Make Now from ComputerWorld (July 27, 2010)

Operations
Improve Data Center Uptime from Processor (July 30, 2010)

Rabbit Sense
7 IT Rules Worth Breaking from ComputerWorld (August 2, 2010)

10 Tips for Hiring from Within from Baseline Magazine (July29, 2010)

SAN
How to Set Up a Smooth Running iSCSI SAN from InfoWorld (August 2, 2010)

Security
Data Breaches Often Caused by Configuration Errors from ComputerWorld (July 29, 2010)

Determine Your Performance Requirements from Search Midmarket Security (July 26, 2010)

Don’t Believe the SAS 70 Hype from Enterprise Systems Journal (August 3, 2010)

How to Steal Corporate Secrets in 20 Minutes, Just Ask from NetworkWorld (July 30, 2010)

Organized Crime Behind 85% of All Data Breaches from V3 co uk (July 28, 2010)

Storage Management
Bulk of Drive Capacity is Still Underutilized from ComputerWorld (July 28, 2010)

Cost Effective Approach for Petabyte Storage Systems from NetworkWorld (August 2, 2010)

July 31st, 2010 by Don James

IT Weekly Articles 8/2/10

IT Weekly Article posts are a selection of information technology articles (no company or product reviews) culled each week from 400+ on line industry sources addressing: Data, Backup, DR, BC, Risk; Quality of Service; Availability; Response Time; Productivity; Servers; Storage; Operations, Networks; Security; Compliance; Audits; Costs and Business Solutions..

Articles from the week of 7-26-10 to 7-30-10

Archiving
Build Archiving Systems to Meet Compliance Demands from InfoWorld (July 22, 2010)

Backup
Data Backup Types are Explained from Search Data Backup (July 19, 2010)

CIO – CTO – CSO
Why IT Projects Fail from IT Business Edge(July 21, 2010)

Cloud
Gartner Inks Cloud Computing Bill of Rights from Channel Web (July 22, 2010)

Negotiating Cloud Computing Contracts from Network Computing(July 21, 2010)

Compliance
Build Archiving Systems to Meet Compliance Demands from InfoWorld (July 22, 2010)

Disk Technology
SSD in Existing Arrays from IT Knowledge Exchange (July 18, 2010)

Encryption
Get Ready for the Impact of 2014-Bit RSA Keys from Network Computing(July 221, 2010)

Scientist Reveal Location Based Cryptography from Information Week (July 27, 2010)

Networks
MIT Design could Speed Up the Internet from NetworkWorld (July 26, 2010)

SAN
Keep SAN Infrastructure at 100% Uptime or Else from Search Server Virtualization (July 22, 2010)

Security
54% of Travelers Take Corporate Data on Holiday from Network World (July 20, 2010)

Avoiding Accidental Data Leaks in Small Businesses from Dark Reading (July 21, 2010)

Cyber Spies Are Already in Your Systems from InfoWorld (July 26, 2010)

How To Cut Security Costs without a Lot of Pain from Dark Reading (July 23, 2010)

Server
Acquiring, Implementing and Configuring a New Server Solution from Search CIO Midmarket (July 22, 2010)

Determining the True Value of a Server Operating System from Search Data Center (July 14, 2010)

Fault-Tolerant Hardware Explosion for Virtual Servers Hasn’t Arrived from Search Server Virtualization (July 20, 2010)

Matching Server Requirements with Business Needs from Search CIO Midmarket (July 15, 2010)

Virtualization
Keep SAN Infrastructure at 100% Uptime or Else from Search Server Virtualization (July 22, 2010)

July 23rd, 2010 by Don James

IT Weekly Articles 7/26/10

IT Weekly Article posts are a selection of information technology articles (no company or product reviews) culled each week from 400+ on line industry sources addressing: Data, Backup, DR, BC, Risk; Quality of Service; Availability; Response Time; Productivity; Servers; Storage; Operations, Networks; Security; Compliance; Audits; Costs and Business Solutions..

Articles from the week of 7-19-10 to 7-23-10

Archiving
Build Archiving Systems to Meet Compliance Demands from ComputerWorld (July 22, 2010)

CIO – CTO – CSO
10 Communication Mistakes CIOs Still Make from NetworkWorld (July 14, 2010)

IT Explained in 9 Simple Words from ComputerWorld (July 12, 2010)

Cloud
Keeping Data Close to Home from Enterprise Systems Journal (July 20, 2010)

Securing Multi-Tenancy and Cloud Computing from Enterprise Systems Journal (July 20, 2010)

Compliance
Build Archiving Systems to Meet Compliance Demands from ComputerWorld (July 22, 2010)

Lurking Legal Gotchas and How to Avoid Them from InfoWorld (July 19, 2010)

Virtualization, Cloud PCI Compliance Tips for Your Enterprise from eWeek (July 21, 2010)

Disaster Recovery
Free DR Template for Conducting a physical Assessment of you DR Facilities from Search Disaster Recovery (June 21, 2010)

Encryption
Is Ubiquitous Encryption Technology on the Horizon from NetworkWorld (July 19, 2010)

Networks
Stress-Testing Your Network from CSO Online (July 19, 2010)

Operations
Do You Know Where Your Capacity Is from Search Server Virtualization (July 15, 2010)

Power Anywhere Think Bus Track and Busway Power Distribution from Search Data Center (June 28, 2010)

Virtualization is No Cure-all for Data Center Energy Crunch from NetworkWorld (July 16, 2010)

Outsourcing
Secret to Successful Outsourcing: Be Open About Your Ambitions from Silicon (July 16, 2010)

Security
Keeping Data Close to Home from Enterprise Systems Journal (July 20, 2010)

Securing Multi-Tenancy and Cloud Computing from Enterprise Systems Journal (July 20, 2010)

Security Secrets the Bad Guys Don’t Want You to Know from NetworkWorld (July 19, 2010)

Virtualization
Capacity Planning in a Virtual Environment from Enterprise Systems Journal (July 13, 2010)

Step-by-Step Guide for Virtual Server Deployment from Search Server Virtualization (July 19, 2010)

Virtualization, Cloud PCI Compliance Tips for Your Enterprise from eWeek (July 21, 2010)

Virtualization is No Cure-all for Data Center Energy Crunch from NetworkWorld (July 16, 2010)

July 17th, 2010 by Don James

IT Weekly Articles 7/19/10

IT Weekly Article posts are a selection of information technology articles (no company or product reviews) culled each week from 400+ on line industry sources addressing: Data, Backup, DR, BC, Risk; Quality of Service; Availability; Response Time; Productivity; Servers; Storage; Operations, Networks; Security; Compliance; Audits; Costs and Business Solutions.

July 10th, 2010 by Don James

IT Weekly Articles 7/12/10

IT Weekly Article posts are a selection of information technology articles (no company or product reviews) culled each week from 400+ on line industry sources. These articles address everyday issues involving data protection, servers, storage, networks, financials, compliance, futures, and a myriad of other subjects that help the IT Professional reduce risk; increase productivity; increase revenue and increase profits.

June 26th, 2010 by Don James

IT Weekly Articles 6/28/10

IT Weekly Article posts are a selection of information technology articles (no company or product reviews) culled each week from 400+ on line industry sources. These articles address everyday issues involving data protection, servers, storage, networks, financials, compliance, futures, and a myriad of other subjects that help the IT Professional reduce risk; increase productivity; increase revenue and increase profits.