Resources for IT Managers
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008 Gartner outlines the most contentious nine issues IT will face during the next two years. “Growing global economic instability is putting increasing pressure on IT departments to support crucial business goals,” said Ken McGee, vice president and Gartner Fellow. “At a time when there is little in the way of [...]
Gartner highlighted the top ten technologies that will be strategic for most organizations at the Gartner 2008 ITxpo. Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, [...]
Microsoft Corp. today kicked off its second annual Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Conference 2008 by announcing groundbreaking new technologies that will enable enterprises to bring the power of BI to information workers organization wide. The company introduced new managed self-service analysis capabilities code-named “Project Gemini,” and self-service reporting upcoming in the next release of Microsoft [...]
A group of five enterprise software companies announced the creation of the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA) to facilitate the acceptance of the Mac in environments managed with Microsoft Windows. The EDA will be hosting a series of events, including seminars and Webcasts, and will provide white papers, product information and other resources on the EDA [...]
Microsoft is preparing a security update for the June 10, 2008 patch Tuesday with seven bulletins, including three rated “critical” for issues affecting Internet Explorer, DirectX and Bluetooth. In addition to the three critical fixes, there are three important and one moderate. Critical Fixes 1. Bluetooth Bulletin – Remote Code Execution 2. Internet Explorer Bulletin – Remote [...]
How can you become the master of the IT universe? Play Intel’s IT Manager 2.0 game. In the game you put your IT skills to the test. Solve problems, balance budgets and train your staff in your quest for an improved company. The Flash driven game is a cute little [...]
In a recent address at the Digital Lifestyle Consortium, Microsoft founder Bill Gates gave his view of the future. “I see Windows, a major new version of Windows every two to three years.” Now we can look forward to OS changes every 2-3 years? For an IT department this would be a nightmare. For Microsoft [...]
Microsoft announced that they will post four security updates on May 13, 2008. Three of them are critical and the fourth is moderate. The three critical updates patch remote code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Publisher. The forth moderate update patches a denial of service vulnerability in Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft [...]
Lab Rats TV hosted by Sean Carruthers and Andy Walker offer a source of free technology related videos. They cover a wide variety of topics, but seem to be aimed at hardware and software technology. Both instructional and sometimes entertaining, they offer some good how-to related videos. Here are some examples of interest to IT [...]
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