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Podcast: Google Apps Premier, Vista security, salesforce.com mystery customer and more...: This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the well documented introduction of Google Apps Premier Edition, the $50 per user per year set of apps that includes phone support, additional storage, and a new set of administration and business integration capabilities. We also dive into Vista and... more
IT Service Management enters new productivity era with pending arrival of ITIL v3: Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard.Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) -- how IT is delivered inside an enterprise as a service -- and a related area, the quickly evolving Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), form complementary trends that are helping to mature IT as a customer-focused, quality-of-service... more
To upgrade or not to upgrade: A digital family talks about its plans for Vista: Meet the in-laws, henceforth referred to as Oma and Opa (those are the customary references to grandparents in the Netherlands where my wife was born). Oma and Opa are not your everyday ordinary users of technology. Although they are in their golden years, they are still very much a digital... more
SOA analysts examine TIBCO's SOA tools, ESBs as platform, webMethods Fabric 7, HP's foray into BI: Read a full transcript of the podcast.Welcome to the latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition Vol. 9, a weekly discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)-related news and events, with a panel of IT analysts.In this episode, our experts examine TIBCO's latest SOA tools news, the role of ESBs as... more
Podcast: Windows Mobile 6, virtualization, SOA for the masses and more...: This week on the Dan & David Show, David checks out Microsoft's Windows Mobile version 6 platform. We also discuss how competition in the virtualization space in heating up (always good for buyers), what Microsoft means by Vista "Ready" and Vista "Capable," and how SOA methods (mashups, assemblers, widgets, etc.)... more
Symantec CIO David Thompson talks ERP, security: Enterprise resource planning implementations are never easy. In fact, it's the equivalent of corporate open heart surgery. And often there's a financial hit if things don't go well. Symantec recently discussed a few hiccups in its ERP deployment that hurt the company's quarter. The... more
Podcast: RSA, the Jobs letter, Intel's vPro and more...: This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the goings on at the RSA 2007 Conference, Apple CEO Steve Jobs' "Thoughts on Music" open letter to the world and to the record industry, Intel's vPro brand (which minimally includes a Core 2 Duo microprocessor, the Q965 chipset and... more
Intel's vPro brand debuts in HP's dc7700 desktop, manages the system even when off: It's been about 10 months since Intel took a nasty dive on Wall Street at the same time the company started talking about a new brand it was calling vPro. Back then, I did a podcast interview of Intel’s Digital Office Platform Group general manager Gregory Bryant (audio and full... more
Novel music search project creates method for intrinsic, not semantic, classifications: Read the full transcript.Musical tastes are not easy to classify with just a few tags. What gets one person's foot tapping and their heart thumping is not going to win over their cousin necessarily. Moods also swing or swoon to a fickle beat, and the music you may want to... more
Podcast: Vista unleashed, Michael Dell, Demo 07 and more...: This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the launch of Vista, Michael Dell's return to Dell in the CEO job and the Demo 07 conference. David also talks about the parade of new Vista-ready PCs and notebooks. This podcast can be delivered directly to your desktop or... more
Businesses gain powerful new tools with emergence of semantic search: Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Zoom Information, Inc.Internet search has been around for years, while seeking out new business partners is as old as business itself. Can finding the right relationships through the burgeoning "Business Web" effectively exploit and leverage the increasingly powerful technologies such as semantic... more
SOA Insights analysts examine iPhone for enterprises, Wall Street's take on SOA for profit: Read a full transcript of the podcast.This week's BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 8, tackles two meaty issues: Whether SOA as a trend will make more money for IT vendors and systems integrators, and which ones.Our panel of IT analysts also debate the role of the forthcoming Apple iPhone --... more
The Vista anti-climax, Sun + Intel, XenSource vs. VMware and more...: This week on the Dan & David Show, ZDNet Executive Editor Larry Dignan joins us to discuss Microsoft's earning, its attempts to make gains in the search arena and the impact of unleashing Vista on the world January 30. We also analyze the Sun-Intel-AMD triangle and how XenSource is stacking... more
Gauntlet targets management of the process behind quality application development: Read a full transcript of the podcast. Sponsor: Borland Software, Inc.Application development is maturing to embrace a more holistic approach to application lifecycle processes, one that emphasizes policy-based approaches -- managing process and people -- and not just the technology. Such a coordinated approach also fosters feedback efficiencies, where testing... more
Look ma, no light! Nanotech is behind ultra-sensitivity of Planet82's "Nano-Cam" sensor: If you're like me, then maybe you've been hearing a lot about nanotechnology but haven't yet seen the benefits of it in any of the products coming to market. Well, here at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, that changed for me when I got a look at what... more
Is Boost Mobile fraudulently disguising telemarketing calls as service interruption notices? Could be: So, what did you do over your holidays? Mine? Well, amongst other things, I fielded a barrage of telemarketing calls that I wasn't all too happy about. Telemarketers are notoriously known for calling during dinner time. But they must see the holidays as one big long dinner time, assuming that... more
RFID: Coming to your products and passports real soon: Like it or not, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies will one day be a part of our everyday lives. From the products we buy off the shelves at the local grocer to the cars we drive to the passports we carry, RFID technology is slowly but surely penetrating many aspects... more
Is 2007 the year to get Wyse about thin computing? Maybe: Of course. What else would you expect John Kish (pictured left), the CEO of the company that claims itself to be the global leader in thin computing, to say? At Wyse, every year is probably the year of thin computing. How could they be anything else? But here we are... more
Enemy at the water cooler: I just read Brian Contos’ new book “Enemy at the water cooler”. It is a compilation of his war stories from the field regarding security. It is a must read for anyone who worries about the fact that they have extended almost complete trust... more
Trojans represent over 60% of all malware: I just got done recording a podcast with Richard Wang, Director of Threat Research for Sophos. He and I are going to be presenting at a breakfast seminar in Boston next week on the topic of cyber crime and why you should worry about it. (See below). Come join... more
Controls pay for themselves: I had a fascinating conversation Friday with Gene Kim, CTO of Tripwire and lead researcher of the IT Process Institute “IT Controls Benchmark Survey”. Gene has been working on this survey for years and the report is finally available. The purpose was to demonstrate the impact of implementing COBIT... more
RFID passports and VeriChip security podcast: I had the opportunity to interview Kevin Mahaffey who is the Director of Development for Flexilis Inc. Kevin and his team of researchers presented a video at Black Hat 2006 illustrating improperly shielded RFID (Radio Frequency Identifier) passports that can potentially be used to trigger a bomb.It turns out that... more
Great debate podcast : NAC v SNF: Here it is: the great debate over NAC, Network Admission Control, captured in a podcast. I take on two vendors and another industry analyst to tear into NAC and reveal the weak under belly of a technology that in it’s practical applications is just access control. It’s more... more
The Tao of security blogs: Richard Bejtlich heads up the consulting and training firm TaoSecurity. He also maintains the TaoSecurity blog at taosecurity.blogspot.com. I interviewed him for the latest Meet The Bloggers ThreatCast because he is the first that I have talked to yet that, in a sense, leveraged his blogging into a... more
Meet Martin McKeay: Anyone who has Googled "security + blog" will have noticed Martin McKeay's blog site at www.mckeay.net. I am not sure how he got to the exalted number two position but it probably has something to do with being one of the first to set up a security blog. In case... more
Microsoft Live Labs shows off Photosynth: Microsoft Live Labs has this truly awesome demonstration of Photosynth, an image processing software that stitches images together in to a 3D world. They also have a 150 MB High Definition version of the video for download. There is a huge potential that this technology will reach out across the... more
Net neutrality debate in New York - Podcast: In an event hosted by the New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) on Monday 6/26/2006, Bruce Bernstein the President of NYSIA moderated a public debate on Net neutrality between James L. Gattuso, Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage FoundationTim Karr, Campaign Director, Free PressGeorge Ou, Technical Director, TechRepublicMy colleague and fellow ZDNet blogger Donna Bogatin... more