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Zephyr 2.0, the need of the hour

Zephyr, the Gennext test management system was revolutionary in the sense that most of its features were exclusively found in Zephyr alone like customized desktops, live and automated dashboard, instant collaboration, live tracking, and so on. Zephyr thus completely changed the IT scene as it brought bold new concepts in the testing arena. Now from its makers comes another … [Read More...]

Place Your Outlook Calendar on Your Desktop

Outlook on the Desktop is a neat little utility that embeds a fully functional transparent Outlook calendar on your desktop. You can easily view your appointments on your desktop and since it is a functional Outlook calendar, you can interact with it. You can also have multiple Microsoft Outlook panes pinned to your desktop such as Contacts, Inbox, Notes and … [Read More...]

ManageSoft Joins the Microsoft System Center Alliance Program

ManageSoft, the leading provider of software asset management and license compliance solutions, announced today that it is now a member of the Microsoft System Center Alliance Program. ManageSoft’s Enterprise Compliance Manager™ (ECM) software includes out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) … [Read More...]

HP Unveils New Mission Critical Services with Flexibility for Changing Economic Climate

HP today expanded its Mission Critical Services with flexibly priced and packaged offerings that enable customers to reduce the risk and cost of infrastructure downtime. To help organizations keep their infrastructures up and running, HP Proactive Select offers customers an innovative way to access a variety of assessment, availability, performance, planning and training … [Read More...]

Virtualization Saves Microsoft Customers Nearly a Half-Million Dollars Per Year

Some business customers around the world have saved on average $470,000 (U.S.) per year through IT projects using Microsoft virtualization software. Microsoft’s business customers have been able to use virtualization to help reduce operations and capital expenses via reduced electrical power consumption and cooling within data centers, reduced hardware acquisition costs, … [Read More...]

ITIL’s Time Has Come: Adoption Expected To Surge

Pink Elephant’s 13th Annual International IT Service Management Conference and Exhibition is showing a promising registration trend despite economic conditions that have impacted several high profile IT events worldwide. These developments follow news reports that the demand for process efficiency and ITIL knowledge will surge this year: Six Sigma, ITIL, other business … [Read More...]

Beware of Valentines Day Waledac Trojan Laced Emails

This Valentines Day you could be left with wonderful memories and a hard to remove Trojan on your computer. Many anti-virus vendors are issuing warnings about a new malware distribution scheme that targets those celebrating Valentine’s Day. It is the Win32/Waledac worm in a new form being distributed via spammed web pages that prompts users to select a cute Valentine’s … [Read More...]

Take Control of IT Infrastructure with TOGAF 9

The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, today announced the general availability of TOGAF™ version 9. Developed and endorsed by the members of The Open Group's Architecture Forum, TOGAF version 9 represents an industry consensus framework and method for Enterprise … [Read More...]

ISACA Releases the Risk IT Framework Draft

ISACA, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association has just released an exposure draft of of their initiative “Enterprise Risk: Identify, Govern and Manage IT Risk, The Risk IT Framework”. Covering 94 pages the document frames IT risk as a business risk and goes into extensive detail on a framework for dealing with it. Packed full of charts, tables and control … [Read More...]

2009 Super Bowl Commercials

Tonight is the night. The 2009 Super Bowl will be played and millions of people will watch it to see the commercials, well and the game too. I ran across what claim to be some commercials that will be running tonight and will put up some of the better ones. Some you could say apply to IT, but hey it is the Super Bowl so I can go outside the niche just a little. Also included … [Read More...]

5 Free or Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Office Software

For IT departments without a big budget or ones looking to save money, there are a lot of web-based or free desktop alternatives to expensive commercial software such as Microsoft Office. Many of these are as good as or in some cases better than the more expensive software. These are primarily desktop based software, but there are a lot more online alternatives to Microsoft … [Read More...]