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Desktop virtualization
By 2011, there could be more than 660 million virtualized desktops. John Whaley, CTO and Founder of MokaFive, talks about the issues surrounding current ...
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Mobile virtualization
Mike Seashols, Chairman of VirtualLogix, talks about implementing virtualization technologies onto mobile platforms. He says there are many issues that mobile providers have to ...
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Nurturing sales leads
Phil Fernandez, President and CEO of Marketo, says that many companies today are not managing sales leads effectively. He suggests ways to utilize the ...
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Managing Internet growth
The Internet is growing by 1 zettabyte a year, fueled by images, videos, gaming, and peer to peer file sharing. Pieter Poll, CTO of ...
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Online ad strategies
There are more than 300 ad networks that focus on monetizing Web sites, so having a strategy is key. Ren Chin, marketing vice president ...
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What is semantic search?
Semantic search uses the science of meaning in languageinstead of just searching keywords, it checks the context of the words to return more relevant ...
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Next generation of business intelligence
Data warehouses collect gigabytes of data everyday but the information is not always meaningful. Why? Angela Shen-Hsieh, President and CEO of Visual I/O, says ...
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SIP trunking 101
Voice, instant messaging, and video no longer have to be islands of collaboration. Kenneth Kuenzel, founder and CTO of Covergence, shows how SIP trunking ...
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Wireless inside the enterprise
With the rise of PDAs, Blackberries and mobile phones, the demand for wireless service inside large buildings is increasing every day. Leila Nouri, director ...
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Intel® vPro™ technology and cost savings
Randy Nystrom, an IT systems engineer at Intel, shows how vPro saves time and money by diagnosing PC problems remotely. The content for this ...
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Intel® vPro™ technology and manageability
Limited technical support hours and powered down PCs can make it difficult to manage large numbers of PCs. Randy Nystrom, an IT systems engineer ...
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Application streaming
Updating applications can be time-consuming for both users and administrators. Christian Black, an IT systems engineer at Intel, explains why application streaming is a ...
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OS streaming
Christian Black, an IT systems engineer for Intel, spells out the many benefits of hard-drive virtualization, or operating system streaming, including faster boot times ...
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Enterprise 2.0
Vince Casarez, vice president of product management at Oracle, explains how Web 2.0 technologies, such as tags, wikis, and mash-ups, can be applied within ...
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Secure file transfers
John Thielens, vice president of technology at Tumbleweed, talks about the need for managed file transfers that are not only secure, but auditable and ...
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What is LEED?
"Going green" is becoming commonplace in the corporate world. Paul Holland, general partner at Foundation Capital, explains LEED, the metrics used to certify the ...
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Unified communications
With desktops, laptops, PDAs and mobile phones, our communication systems have become fragmented. David Leach, senior public consultant for Siemens Enterprise Networks, explains how ...
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Virtual business
Brent Arslaner, VP of marketing at Unisfair, explains how virtual environments can increase productivity in marketing, sales and human resources departments within a company.
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Automating virtualization
Richard Whitehead, the director of product marketing at Novell, explains how automation can bridge the gap between physical and virtual machines.
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Greening the data center
John O'Brien, CTO of Dataupia, explains how carbon footprints are calculated in the data center and discusses ways to tame these power-hungry machines.
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What is SOA?
Service oriented architecture may be over-hyped, but it does offer lower-cost and easier integration.
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What is a mashup?
Developers are getting creative, taking APIs from multiple Websites and merging them to form new, innovative applications. Frozenbear.com merges Google maps and Singles to let you know where the single people are in your neighborhood. Parkingcarma.com helps you track down parking spaces in the Bay Area. ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind says mashups are the fastest growing ecosystem on the Web and that by 2007, there will be 10 new mashups per day.
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Desktop virtualization
By 2011, there could be more than 660 million virtualized desktops. John Whaley, CTO and Founder of MokaFive, talks about the issues surrounding current infrastructures and says that organizations deploying new systems need to think about four things--management, offline use, cost, and the user experience.
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Users-to-tech support ratio
How many employees should one tech support staff person oversee? CNET's Justine Nguyen explains the golden ratio of users to tech support staff, and what factors contribute to it.
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What is virtualization?
Data centers are commonly filled with large numbers of servers that require a tremendous amount of time and money to maintain. Dan Chu of VMware shows how virtualization can optimize fewer servers to run at higher performance levels.
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Energy-efficient transistors
Rob Willoner, a technology analyst at Intel, explains how smaller and more energy-efficient transistors are resulting in faster and more powerful CPUs.
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Desktop vs. workstation: Introduction
Sponsored: Dave Buckley, product line manager of workstations at HP, explains the differences between desktops and workstations, and how these differences influence purchasing decisions. The content for this video was sponsored and provided by HP.
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SEO 101
How do you get your Web pages to rank high on search results? CNET's Laura Lippay offers some guidelines for Search Engine Optimization, including how to structure your site, where to position content on your page, and how to increase traffic.
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A load of C.R.A.P.
ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind suggests that CRAP or Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection, is a catchier phrase than DRM - Digital Rights Management. Why does he think this technology is crap? Once you've bought music or other content to play on one device, it won't play on any other device because of the proprietary layer of CRAP.
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First steps to SOA
What does it really mean to introduce SOA into an organization? Ross Mason, CTO and co-founder of MuleSource, explains how an enterprise service bus allows different applications to communicate with each other.
Compliance & data security
Sponsored: To comply with federal regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, enterprises need to make sure their financial data is reliable, and thus secure. Paul Needham, Oracle's director of product management for database security, says organizations should focus on five key areas to improve data security.
The content for this video was sponsored and provided by Oracle.
Hi, my name is Paul Needham. I'm Director of Product Management for Database Security of Oracle Corporation. Today I'm going to talk to you about how regulations - such as Sarbanes-Oxley, which are compliance regulations - are driving the need for stronger data security. Today we're going to talk about five areas. They are very, very important for you as you strive to achieve strong data security within your enterprise.
The first is inbound data security. Inbound data security is very important for two reasons: One is network encryption. Network encryption is very important because data can be easily read on the network as it travels between the client and the back end database. So you want the information protected, so it cannot be read.
The second is strong authentication. Strong authentication is very important because you want to make sure that those who actually request access to your data have to provide strong credentials before they can do that.
The second area is what I call storage. We've all heard about tapes gone missing, or laptops being stolen, for example, and all that sensitive information, such as social security numbers, being lost. And so there's two areas in storage encryption that are important: The first is disk encryption - making sure that the data on the disk is actually encrypted.
The second area is backup tapes. Backup tapes, of course, hold a wealth of information. They're basically what you use to restore your system in case it goes down. Well, those backup tapes actually hold sensitive information - such as social security numbers, bank PINs, and credit card numbers - and you want to make sure that that information is encrypted on those tapes.
The third area is what I call access control, and access control is important because you want to make sure that folks such as your DBA don't have access to the sensitive information within the database. And that's what I call "separation of duty" - making sure the DBA can actually keep the database running, but doesn't have access to sensitive application data, such as a social security number and credit card.
A second area under access control, which I think is important, is basically controlling who, when, where, and how your database is accessed. For example, should data only be accessed within the confines of the building where the database is located, versus from the Internet? So those are two very important areas.
Let's move on, now, to the fourth area. The fourth area, I call monitoring, and when I talk about monitoring, what I mean is auditing. Auditing is becoming increasingly important to security, because basically, it lets you record who did what, when and where. And so you may trust everyone, but you want to verify that what they've done is within their job responsibility, and that's what auditing allows you to do. Almost all components have very, very strong auditing capabilities today, so most people are turning those on to actually audit users.
The fifth area is what I call policy. By policy, what I mean is configuration scanning, and by configuration scanning, what I mean is making sure that all the pieces we've talked about so far stay in place. So, inbound data security. The network encryption. Making sure it stays turned on. The strong authentication. Making sure it stays turned on. Storage. Making sure that your encryption actually stays turned on for sensitive information. Access control. Making sure that your separation of duty security stays in place. And, of course, auditing. The policy basically monitors your audit settings to make sure your audit settings stay correct.
So, in summary, your data security policy is what makes sure you stay compliant, so your policy is really what's critical here, and making sure that that stays enforced, so you will be compliant with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley.
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