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When Disaster Strikes
A natural or man-made disaster can strike anywhere, anytime, with ruthless and devastating results—that’s the awful essence of a disaster. Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks loom large in the collective memory for the magnitude of their destruction, but smaller-scale, localized disasters happen all the time: a fire in a building, human error…
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OpenSUSE 10.2 RC1 Arrives
“That was fast!” said one acquaintance on learning that the first OpenSUSE 10.2 release candidate put in its appearance on Thanksgiving afternoon not three weeks after Beta 2 arrived. The release is currently available for downloading via both ftp and BitTorrent. “OpenSUSE 10.2 RC1 comes in different medias,” according to Andreas Jaeger, Novell/SUSE’s project manager…
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Salesforce.com, Oracle Turn Up Heat in Business App Battle
There is a battle brewing in the business applications market, and it’s boiling down to two sides: on-premises versus on-demand software. With Salesforce.com, the poster child for on-demand software, racking up a half-billion dollars in revenues for its fiscal 2007 third quarter, it’s clear the on-demand sector is gaining ground. To better delineate its integration…
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ViewSonic Launches 3 New Widescreen LCDs
ViewSonic announced Nov. 22 that it has launched a new line of widescreen LCD monitors that will feature a response time of five milliseconds and improved screen performance for gaming, video and business applications. The Walnut, Calif., company unveiled the VX2235wm, the VX2035wm and the VX1935wm, with 22-, 20- and 19-inch widescreen LCDs, respectively. ViewSonic…
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Solidcore Enforces Change Policies
Solidcore Systems on Nov. 27 will come out with a unique twist on the change management automation theme for data centers when it introduces the ability to enforce change policies. That capability, delivered through a new module in Solidcore’s S3 Change Control software, integrates with BMC Remedy Action Request System to block any changes not…
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E-Commerce More Secure than Brick and Mortars
Despite consumer—and even some IT executive—beliefs that e-commerce poses a much greater security risk than store-based point-of-sale systems, a new Gartner report concludes that the opposite is true. Gartner is reporting that by 2008 most attacks will be on physical POS (point-of-sale) systems and that by 2009 only one out of three such systems will…
