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When Should You Hire Remote DBAs? There are good reasons to hire any of a range of remote database-administration specialists or companies, but not all of them apply to every company. HP Enters Data De-Dupe Market With Combo Backup System HP plans to announce it is introducing a disk-based backup system with data deduplication built in, to increase disk utilization by as much as half. eBay to Let Outsiders Code its Systems eBay has announced plans to open at least some of the coding for its online marketplace to third parties. Merchandising Workbench Supplies Drop-in e-Commerce Functions Suite designed to add merchandising functions for e-commerce sites, with special branding, promotions and sales functions. Managers Hold Back Adoption of Enterprise 2.0 Middle managers don't see their role in Enterprise 2.0-enabled IT projects and businesses. Moderation Tools Aim for More Control Over Wikis Expanding profiles, management tools to make corporate Wikis more manageable using TeamPages, profiles and publication policies. CA Goes for Management of Identity, Info Lifecycles CA offers tools designed to beef up compliance, reporting and identity management across multiple servers. BI Tool Maker Angles for Google's Attention Panorama is moving its traditional business intelligence functions into the cloud, tightly integrated with Google apps, but insists it wants to remain independent. SAAS Release Promises Dynamic, Interactive Web Apps Internet application-tool developer Frevvo's SAAS edition is designed to allow quick reconfiguration of interactive applications using business forms. Free Microsoft Office Competitors Flock to Market It's not just Zoho and Google that are offering free, online competitors to Office anymore. IBM Promises Tools to Migrate from SharePoint to Quickr Lotus Notes division works on strategy to steal customers from Microsoft by making it easy to switch SharePoint users to IBM's Lotus Quickr content-managment application. Keeping Bad Data From Wrecking Data Migrations Data migrations are never completely straightforward, but there are ways to keep even bad-data problems from interrupting the evolution to more advanced systems. Palo Alto Builds Firewall Security Into Apps Gives applications greater control over Internet access and blocking of rogue or unwanted traffic. How to Cope With Growing E-Mail Security Challenge Spam with viruses, clueless users, vulnerable data files all make IT and programmers' lives more difficult. Experts offer their best advice on how to manage. Oracle Pushes Roles as Flexible Approach to Security Role-based access control designed to accommodate Web services needs more flexibility, ability to define users by function, not just ID. AOL Tool Lets Small Web Publishers Control Ads PubAccess is designed to let publishers put limits on specific advertisers, specific ads, or barriers to types of ads they prefer not to accept. Yahoo Enhances Multi-site Ad Management Platform New ad platform, the key to Yahoo's current strategy, is designed to make it easier for advertisers to buy and disploay ads on Yahoo-affiliated sites. Gates Calls Internet Best Hope for Government Transparency Detailed posting by Scandinavian officials is the model for total government transparency on the Web, Gates says. Compliance is Easier Than You Think Sticking to the fundamentals can keep you out of trouble; the trick is knowing what the fundamentals are. Technical Debt, Rigid Apps Could Sink Your Company Agile application development makes sense for more reasons than just ginning up software quickly. |
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