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Conficker grounds police checks
According to this article,
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have been struck down by an
instance of the Conficker virus. The effect has been immediate,
with systems taken off line preventing GMP officers undertaking
checks on the police...
Bloor Security Blog | By: Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 8th February '10
What's wrong with "security"
Everybody's security-focused these days. So, what's wrong with
Security? Well, possibly the word security itself and the
silo'd thinking it encourages. And also, I'm afraid, sometimes
the people in the security profession, who often appear...
The Norfolk Punt | By: David Norfolk, Bloor Research | 3rd February '10
What is Total Cost of Ownership, and Why Should You Care?
Technology insiders tend to throw around technical terms and
business jargon, assuming people outside the industry understand
what it all means. By its nature, technology vocabulary is often
confusing and complicated, and insiders often add...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 2nd February '10
Calpont finally comes to market
It’s been a long time coming but Calpont has
finally come to market with InfiniDB. Actually, it launched the
open source Community Edition of the product last year but now it
is introducing the commercial Enterprise Edition. There...
Bloor IM Blog | By: Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 2nd February '10
Does IBM Lotus Really Want to Get Small? My Take on Brent Leary's Podcast
I still havent had time to write about Lotusphere 2010, but in the meantime, you may want to listen to the conversation I had with small business guru and friend Brent Leary. Last week, Brent interviewed me about my take on this years Lotus event,...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 29th January '10
Omnifone and HP Partner to Distribute MusicStation Desktop
Earlier this week Omnifone and HP announced a partnership to distribute the MusicStation Desktop music service on 16 HP PC models in 10 European countries. The service will provide unlimited access to millions of tracks from Universal Music Group,...
Sageza Says | By: Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc. | 28th January '10
Standing Out in a Sea of Green IT: IBM's Scalable Modular Data Centers for Midsize Companies
As a follow up to my post What Is Green IT and Why Should You Care?, I had the opportunity to talk with Steve Sams, VP for IBM's Global Site and Facilities Services, along with several other members of IBM's green team. As part of its Smarter Planet...
Laurie McCabe | By: Laurie McCabe, Hurwitz & Associates | 27th January '10
Data Protection Act 1998
I suspect many businesses and probably most members of the general public are unawarethat the fees for notification under the Data Protection Act 1998 were changed witheffect from 1st October 2009. The change was made through The Data Protection...
Alastair Revell | By: Alastair Revell, Revell Research Systems | 27th January '10
Asking the right questions about information governance
I am looking forward to attending The Smart Governance Forum (23rd meeting of the IBM Data Governance Council) in California on February 1–3, where I will be a panelist for a session on Smart Governance Analytics. As my panel group started to...
Marcia Kaufman | By: Marcia Kaufman, Hurwitz & Associates | 26th January '10
Singularity go SaaS with LiveAgility
Singularity announced the release of LiveAgility, their SaaS BPMS
offering, on January 21st 2010. Like all SaaS offerings this
means users can cost the purchase of software on an OPEX rather
CAPEX basis.
Based on what Singularity...
RFID Scanlines | By: Simon Holloway, Bloor Research | 26th January '10
User Experience Monitoring as Governance?
I've just been talking to Compuware at its new offices in
Maidenhead. There are a couple or three things I like about
Compuware's product offerings, quite apart from the technology
(and it is one of the few vendors which can extend holistic...
The Norfolk Punt | By: David Norfolk, Bloor Research | 25th January '10
Counting the cost
As my colleague, Peter Cooke,
wrote a couple of weeks ago, few businesses in the UK were
prepared for the recent wintry conditions and snow, and small
businesses in particular found themselves out in the cold. For
those of us living on...
Bloor Security Blog | By: Fran Howarth, Bloor Research | 24th January '10
Common passwords 123456 and qwerty finally exposed
A report by database security firm Imperva has highlighted the
most common consumer passwords. The study was based on an
analysis of 32 million passwords exposed in the recent
Rockyou.com breach.
The report can be downloaded
here - no...
Bloor Security Blog | By: Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 22nd January '10
Oracle Sun deal approved by European Commission
Oracle Corporation has just received regulatory approval from the
European Commission for its acquisition of Sun Microsystems. This
decision gives the go-ahead for the deal that has been waiting
for an outcome since last September. Oracle...
Bloor Security Blog | By: Peter Cooke, Bloor Research | 22nd January '10
Running IT as a business: don't be daft
In the past couple of days I've read a couple of articles (IT cant be a service provider and a partner too and Run IT as a business—why thats a train wreck waiting to happen) that riff on the same theme: that the exhortation to run IT as a...
MWD Advisors | By: Neil Ward-Dutton, MWD Advisors | 21st January '10
More on the Exeter University Virus
Just a quick update to my earlier blog regarding the problems currently being faced by the University of Exeter. It seems the virus is exploiting known flaws in the Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Server 2008 platforms.Zack Whittacker, who blogs for...
Alastair Revell | By: Alastair Revell, Revell Research Systems | 20th January '10
Exeter University Shutdown!
It seems that the University of Exeter is currently in the middle of a major virus outbreak, which has led to their IT team shutting down the entire campus network, including their telephone system in an attempt to contain the problem.The attack...
Alastair Revell | By: Alastair Revell, Revell Research Systems | 20th January '10
RFID tags to be used in flight!!!
MAINtag SAS and Tego, Inc announced on January 12th 2010, that
the companies' jointly-developed FLYtag products will be used in
a pioneering effort to tag thousands of aircraft parts across the
Airbus A350 XWB fleet.
MAINtag were...
RFID Scanlines | By: Simon Holloway, Bloor Research | 20th January '10
Lotusphere 2010 - consolidation, and setting the future scene
At Lotusphere this year, there was little in the way of rip-roaring, rousing announcements that could knock the socks off someone who was sitting there wondering what Lotus would do for their business. For the techies making up the vast majority of...
Quocirca | By: Clive Longbottom, Quocirca | 19th January '10
Cracking a 768-bit RSA key
As computing power has increased, the available horsepower to
brute force crack RSA algorithms has grown as well. The most
recent announcement, in December 2009, was that a group of
mathematicians, computer scientists and cryptographers...
Bloor Security Blog | By: Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 19th January '10
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