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HTML News The 2002, California Senate Bill1386 added a new, public dimension to
regulatory compliance. In the event of a data breach such as a lost laptop
computer containing sensitive information, the bill requires organizations to
notify all parties whose personal information has been exposed. Following CaliforniaÂ’s lead, 36
additional states have enacted similar data breach laws. It has been estimated
that it costs a company $197 per missing record when a breach occurs. States that do not have such laws are:
Outsourcing Impacts IT Professionals - Janco Associates has just completed an analysis of over 75 companies within the US that have outsourced their IT functions to see what the impact was on the IT Job Market. The major finding was that just under 20% of the IT professionals remained with the company in some capacity and in some cases at a lower salary. Impact on IT Professionals The actual percentages were 71.63% - Laid off; 8,65% - Quit within 90 days of the outsourcing; and 19.72% - Remained with the company at least 90 days after outsourcing.
Outsourcing by Industry Outsourcing is occurring at various levels by industry.
Mozilla Names Best Ad-Ons - Mozilla Labs awarded three grand prizes in the "Best New Add-on" category to Pencil, a diagramming and graphics interface tool; Tagmarks, which adds additional tagging icons to Firefox 3.0's location bar; and HandyTag, an extension that provides relevant keywords for associating with bookmarked sites. In the "Best Updated Add-on" category, Mozilla also pegged three winners, including Read it Later, a bookmarking substitute; TagSifter, which lets users browse bookmarks by their tags; and Bookmark Previews, an extension that adds album and thumbnail views of bookmarked sites.
Secure Messaging - eMail Encryption - Is a Requirement - Secure messaging (email encryption) technologies keep sensitive information private, prevent anyone from tampering with the contents of messages and authenticate the identity of both the message's sender and recipient. And all organizations, regardless of their size, require encryption to be both user- and IT-friendly.
Data Center Location Can Cause Disater Plan to Fail - Location of a data center is important and there are many factors to consider. Not only do you have to worry about power sources, telco switching centers, proximity to highways and to characteristics of the land. A government data center in Tennessee was built on an unstable landfill, next to a railroad and a river and downstream from a large dam that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said has a risk of failing.
The data center is unstable because it was built on a landfill. The foundation has been cracking and part of the facility is sinking. The IT staff avoids adding more weight in some sections to help stabilize the building. The data center also has some single points of failure, including one power source, which is unacceptable. - more infoDisaster Planning Needs To Consider Excessive Success of Business Operations -
For example, while too much success may not sound like a threat to the business, it can become one if the business is not prepared to handle a surge in customer demand. For example, when VictoriaÂ’s Secret televised a fashion show during the 1997 American football Super Bowl, the company was unable to scale to meet the ensuing demand for access to its Web site, resulting in significant performance degradation and customer dissatisfaction.
The best response to the threat of disaster is to combine several disparate risk-management strategies into a single, integrated resilience strategy that will allow your organization to adapt and respond rapidly to opportunities, regulations and risks - in order to maintain security-rich business operations, be a more trusted partner and enable growth. The Janco Disaster Recovery Plan & Business Continuity Template is just such a solution. - more info Types of Server Consolidation Are Defined - ·
Physical
Consolidation - Physical consolidation involves migrating and/or
combining workloads from multiple physical servers onto larger or newer physical
hardware configurations such as blade servers. Blade server technology aids
physical consolidations by allowing organizations to make the most of data
center floor and rack space. Factors driving physical consolidation may
include: 1.
The
retirement of legacy or end-of-lease
hardware. 2.
Data
center relocations – i.e. moves to regions where power and cooling costs are
significantly lower or where local government offers new business
incentives. 3.
Post-merger or acquisition IT
consolidations. Physical consolidation requires the movement of workloads between hardware platforms via physical-to-physical workload migration. Consider a multiplatform workload migration solution that supports different hardware configurations and server technologies to accommodate future changes in server infrastructure.
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Virtual
Consolidation - Virtual consolidation involves migrating workloads from
physical servers to virtual hosts running virtualization infrastructures
hardware and software. Virtualization allows more efficient sharing of physical
resources to deliver higher CPU utilization rates. It also reduces the total
number of servers needed to run the business, as multiple workloads can be
combined and hosted on a single virtual machine host. Server consolidation
through virtualization requires the movement of physical workloads to virtual
platforms via physical-to-virtual (P2V) workload migration. This task may be
performed over a local network (LAN) or across greater distances using a WAN. In
cases where bandwidth or lack of connectivity between sites is an issue, staged
workload migrations may be required in which workloads are captured to image
archives, redeployed on the virtual hosts at the remote site and then
synchronized to capture any changes that occurred during the
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