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Security tops managed service investment priorities, 02/21/07
Security is the top investment organizations plan to make this year in managed services, with storage, backup and disaster recovery coming in second place, according to survey results released this month by CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association.
It isn’t smart to rely on SMART, 02/21/07
Google research has shown that built-in disk drive diagnostics only predict about half the drive failures that occur.
Y2K memories breed complacency as daylight-saving time deadline looms, 02/16/07
When Y2K came and went without a major upheaval of the world’s IT infrastructure, it left a legacy of complacency that may come back to haunt IT departments when changes to daylight-saving time take effect on March 11, according to Forrester researchers who have issued a new report titled “Echoes of Y2K in Daylight-Saving Time Changes.”
Are we automated yet?, 02/19/07
For the past five years, Dave Bartlett has been IBM’s chief authority guiding large enterprises on how best to use self-managing technologies and standards.
Tech venture capital industry mourns one of its own, 02/20/07
Todd Brooks, a venture capitalist who invested in companies such as Argon Networks, Avanex, Brocade and Monterey Networks, was found dead Friday at the age of 46 in an apparent suicide.
IT systems partly to blame for JetBlue meltdown, 02/20/07
Several issues with its IT systems contributed to JetBlue Airways’ fiasco after it was forced to cancel more than 1,000 flights after an ice storm last week, a spokesman said Tuesday.
Job security: Is anxiety the only certainty?, 02/20/07
Jamie Giovanetto has made layoffs — preparing for and handling them — an area of expertise.
