Thursday - April 16, 2009
At a time when identity theft is a common concern, protecting the personal information of anyone visiting your Web site is something that every business should be thinking about. While legislation may vary from state to state in terms of how much you're required to do to protect your customers' personal information, putting measures in place -- and letting your customers know you have done so -- is good for business, pure and simple. "Customers rate privacy and security very highly according to our research," said Carolyn Hodge, vice president of marketing for TRUSTe.
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Wednesday - April 15, 2009
Whether server, storage or virtual, migrations have never been easy. The difficulty has always been the downtime required to move physical or virtual workloads from one platform to another. Virtualization technology from VMware VMotion to Microsoft Hyper-V live migration has significantly helped because they can move live workloads between virtual infrastructures, greatly reducing the impact to production systems.
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Tuesday - April 14, 2009
The purpose of a strategic plan is to guide an organization intelligently into the future -- but what happened to the last strategic plan you put together? It likely sits in a binder collecting dust on your office shelf, without ever fulfilling its intended purpose. With so much time, money and resources needed to create them, why it is that so many strategic plans never truly see the light of day?
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Tuesday - April 14, 2009
It's official: Mobile is moving into the mainstream. With the ever-growing proliferation of devices offering full Internet browsing access, more and more consumers are interacting -- and purchasing -- on the Web via their device of choice. Adding to this trend, there are now more than 40 million active monthly users of the mobile Internet in the U.S. alone, according to Nielsen Mobile.
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Tuesday - April 14, 2009
Before we can delve into making a scalable application, it's worth spending some time to define just what scalability is and isn't. Contrary to what many novice developers think, scalability is not primarily about performance. Performance is virtually unrelated to the aggregate scalability of an application.
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Wednesday - April 8, 2009
The wide area network is central to the IT strategy of any multilocation business. Employees expect the WAN to be available when they need it, much like any other utility in the business. WANs have historically been built on "best effort" circuit or packet-switched IP networks. This strategy is effective when the WAN is required for email and file-sharing.
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Tuesday - April 7, 2009
In the beginning, Tim Berners-Lee created HTTP and the Web. And the Web was without commerce, and void. And darkness was upon the face of retailers. And the spirit of commerce, Jeff Bezos, moved upon the face of the Web. And Bezos said, "Let there be electronic shopping carts, and one-click buying." And there were sales. And the computer gods saw the sales, and saw that it was good.
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Monday - April 6, 2009
You'd think that having his flagship product torpedoed twice by Apple would turn Dan Wood a little sour toward the folks at One Infinite Loop, but that's not the case at all. "I haven't found any other environment that's anywhere nearly as rewarding as the Mac," the cofounder of Alameda, Calif.-based Karelia Software told MacNewsWorld.
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Thursday - April 2, 2009
It's all well and good to have a business site that encourages online purchasing and open dialog. However, with every interaction comes the associated risks and requirements in terms of payment processing and security. So, it's important to do your homework when it comes to securing your Web site.
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Wednesday - April 1, 2009
Software giant Microsoft announced Wednesday that it will offer a stripped-down version of its server software, targeting small businesses with fewer than 15 employees. Windows Server 2008 Foundation, priced at $1,000, provides small business customers with the ability to run business applications, house databases and host Web sites.
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