Stories by: Tam Harbert

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E-discovery in the cloud? Not so easy 07 March, 2012 03:08:00

Your company is embroiled in a lawsuit, and your general counsel has come to IT for help in conducting e-discovery on a batch of data. You easily gather some of the information from storage in your data center, but some of it is sitting in the cloud. Easy enough, you think, to get that data as well.
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New job for mainframes: Hosting private clouds 19 July, 2011 02:51:00

Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he's likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a much-hyped new name for what mainframes have done for years, he'll say.
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New job for mainframes: Cloud platform 31 March, 2011 05:53:00

Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he's likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a new name -- and a lot of hype -- for what mainframes have done for years, he'll say.
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Desktop virtualization: Confusion over software licensing 08 February, 2011 05:09:00

When Dataprise Inc., an IT services company, helped a customer with a desktop virtualization project last year, it found itself dealing with desktop virtualization's dirty little secret: No one -- including vendors -- seems to know how to license the software.
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Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad 19 January, 2011 03:33:00

It's a CIO's worst nightmare: You get a call from the Business Software Alliance (BSA), saying that some of the Microsoft software your company uses might be pirated.
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How to foster teamwork among techies 21 December, 2010 04:57:00

Collaboration is all the rage among corporate executives these days, which means IT is busy providing systems that turn that vague concept into a real business benefit. But what happens when it comes time for techies themselves to collaborate?
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Collaboration, IT-style: How to do it right 22 September, 2010 05:13:00

Collaboration is all the rage among corporate executives these days, which means IT is kept busy providing systems, tools and procedures that turn the vague concept into a real business benefit.
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Employee monitoring: When IT is asked to spy 17 June, 2010 05:28:00

It's 9:00 in the morning, or 3:00 in the afternoon, or even 10:00 at night. Do you know what your users are up to?
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SSD storage fixes data center bottlenecks for a price 09 February, 2010 04:30:00

As a new decade opens, more and more data centre operators find themselves struggling with an enterprise bottleneck not of their own making.
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What role should IT play in reining in energy costs? 06 February, 2009 08:58:00

IT buys the technology; facilities buys the energy. That's the way it's always been in corporate America. But that may be changing.