Recent Articles
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Making Music Business Hum
Making good music is seldom a solo effort. And making complex, sophisticated IT solutions hum harmoniously often calls for individuals with a diverse set of skills. In the case of Virgin Entertainment Group, reinventing and integrating the 23-store chain’s business intelligence, POS (point of sale) and data warehousing solutions required a team of experts from…
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A Little Information for Our Files
Partisans of object-oriented programming, often including myself, often say that the only proper programming model is one of data structures with bundles of associated methods wrapped around them. Yes, algorithms are fascinating things, but ultimately any application that’s not just part of someone’s doctoral thesis is going to do something to something else. Mere data-centric…
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Cisco Picks ScanSource to Advance Distribution Strategy
Cisco Systems penned a deal with ScanSource, a Point of Sale and data capture specialty distributor, opening it to thousands of manufacturing and retail VARs, an underserved market for the network vendor. The pick-up, the second distribution deal in as many years for Cisco, opens a second front in a planned three-front distribution strategy to…
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Survey: Tech Sector Brightens Its Outlook
IT workers reported confidence in the job market, job availability and the economy at the end of 2006, according to a report released Jan. 22 by staffing and recruitment firm, Spherion. The survey’s results suggest that a lot of technology professionals will be jumping ship this quarter. Nearly half of IT workers (46 percent) reported…
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The Month of Selfish Publicity Hogging
Security research, like any business, is competitive, and everyone’s looking for some new angle. One of the hottest angles out is the “Month of XXX Bugs” phenomenon, where XXX is whatever product you’re picking on. Normal people are usually perplexed at the idea of so-called "good guys" publicizing bugs in other people’s products, especially security…
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OpenPages Debuts New Compliance Products
Compliance automation software maker OpenPages launched three new products on Jan. 22, touting its ability to help companies manage operational risks and IT governance to meet both external regulations and internal security mandates. The three products launched by OpenPages, based in Waltham, Mass., include a general compliance management package, a set of IT governance tools…
