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April 2009

April 30, 2009

Investment in User-Group Events Sees No Downturn

User-group events are “apples to oranges” in their difference to vendor-driven trade shows , according to the IOUG’s executive director, Carol McGury, who also manages other tech user groups for age... More >

April 29, 2009

In the Cloud, Process and Budget Questions More Thorny than Tech

  Nicholas Carr, the author of several books on technology, business and culture including 2004’s “ Does IT Matter: Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage ,” sees litt... More >

April 28, 2009

Dwindling Numbers at Trade Show Can’t Do Without Networking, Education

  As the former marketing communications director for a firewall company, Eric Weaver remembers seeing decreasing returns from the budget and effort put into trade shows. As he tells it:   ... More >

April 20, 2009

Business Process Focus and SLAs Key to Cloud Compliance

  Michael Crandell, CEO of Rightscale , once described cloud computing as "the notion of providing easily accessible compute and storage resources on a pay-as-you-go, on-demand basis, from a vi... More >

April 17, 2009

Smart Grids Go to the Head of the Class

  This week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) took a major step toward elevating the status of the Smart Grid, a network concept that marries IT, telecommunications an... More >

April 8, 2009

What's Holding Back Virtual Desktop Infrastructure?

  Enterprises of all stripes have enthusiastically embraced the many flavors of virtualization over the past decade, consolidating server, storage and networking resources in a bid to lower cost... More >

April 6, 2009

Social Networks Finding Their Enterprise Niche

A couple of years ago, Web 2.0-based social networking was very much a consumer-only affair. It was a way for people, kids, mostly, to find out what was hot and what was not. More recently, of course... More >

April 3, 2009

HITECH Act Ramps up HIPAA Compliance Requirements

  Among tax cuts and credits, more bailout fund requirements, and restrictions on executive pay packages, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) also includes a section that e... More >

April 2, 2009

Eight Ways to Grab Your Slice of the Stimulus Pie

  In the midst of the mad rush for cash, Phoenix has assembled a “strike force” to nab its share of the federal stimulus money. The city has put together an executive team to determine which p... More >