Tuesday, January 17, 2012

How a Baptist pastor in Florida became the go-to IT guy

Mac attack | Survey: Tell us how you're handling the BYOD trend

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How a Baptist pastor in Florida became the go-to IT guy
As a Baptist pastor, Terrill Gilley says his work calls for him to help worshippers and provide support to the senior pastor at his Florida church located in a rural area outside Orlando. And oh, he's also the network administrator for the church and the school it established. Read More


WHITE PAPER: VCE/VMware

The Evolution of Virtualized Desktops
The virtual client computing (VCC) market has grown rapidly, despite the economic downturn over the past few years. The centralized virtual desktop (CVD, aka virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI) segment has led the way in facilitating this growth. IDC expects to see significant production deployments of centralized virtualized desktops. Learn More

WHITE PAPER: Aruba Networks

Gartner recommends up to 300% more Wi-Fi to support iPads!
Tablets, like the iPad, are becoming more prevalent in the enterprise. Execs, doctors, teachers, and sales people are demanding more access to corp. apps and resources over their mobile devices. According to Gartner, the limited networking capabilities of the iPad will force IT departments to increase Wi-Fi capacity by 300%. Learn More

Mac attack
Over the years, Apple has earned a less-than-stellar reputation among purchasers of enterprise desktops. Macs were seen as overpriced to begin with. And Apple didn't offer huge discounts for bulk purchases, like the PC makers. Plus, Macs didn't come with the ecosystem of integrated productivity and management apps that are taken for granted in the Windows world. Read More

Survey: Tell us how you're handling the BYOD trend
Do you allow personal devices to access the corporate network, and if so, under what circumstances? Are you worried about security breaches and the possible loss of enterprise data via employee-owned devices? Please take our confidential survey and let us know. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Raritan

What to Look for in Smart Card Readers
Deploy servers with PKI authentication without sacrificing convenience or security. Learn how modern KVM switches with smart card capabilities go beyond simply integrating card readers as an additional peripheral at the KVM workstation, but rather make necessary KVM feature adjustments to enable seamless use of the reader. Learn More

First Lady sends First Tweet
First Lady Michelle Obama joined the Twitter community this morning and the community in turn is embracing her at a breakneck clip: about 350 followers per minute, by my watch; 76,573 total. Read More

How to retool your IT skills for the cloud
Keith Fafel entered the world of cloud computing during the summer of 2010, while he was working as a product manager with Rackspace, the San Antonio, Texas-based provider of hosted IT infrastructure services. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Protecting Your Online Channels and Web Applications
This whitepaper gives a broad overview of the ways in which Akamai can help organizations bolster the security of their Web-based assets, with capabilities ranging across the application, network, and DNS layers, as well as solutions focused on Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation and business continuity. Learn more

BYOD movement is forcing IT to adapt
IT departments in the age of mobile computing must adapt to newly empowered users who select not only their own devices but their applications as well. This adapation -- as difficult as it may seem -- has a strong benefit: Enabling a modern workforce, said Maribel Lopez, president of Lopez Research. Read More

Oracle to issue 78 patches, including 27 for MySQL
Oracle is set on Tuesday to release 78 security fixes for vulnerabilities in its database, middleware and applications, according to a preview announcement posted to the company's website. Read More

A new audit standard validates IT-specific controls for cloud service providers
Risk mitigation is one thing when you own all the resources, but when you start moving data and applications into the cloud, it's doubly important to understand what the service provider is doing to protect your assets. Now there is a new audit standard and certification for reporting on controls for data centers and service providers in the cloud. Read More

Lawsuit claims Symantec sells scareware-like products
Symantec has been accused in a lawsuit of California's unfair competition laws and fraudulent inducement by using scareware-like tactics to trick users into buying licenses for its PC utility-type products. Read More



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