The importance of user-friendly technology

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	The importance of user-friendly technology It's been a mantra that pops up in this newsletter periodically, and has for many years. Just a couple of weeks ago I phrased it as, "We have the technology, but the bureaucracy still gets in the way." Another way I'm fond of stating it is "the technology is easy, it's the people that's hard." But my old friend Chris Zannetos (he's CEO of Courion) has another opinion. I respect Chris' views, and they deserve to be presented to you. Here's what he told me. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems Inc. The Full Story on WAAS Cost Saving Benefits Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) can deliver a very favorable ROI within 11 months says Forrester Consulting in this informative report. WAAS lets you effectively choose how to deploy applications, store data and provision infrastructure services between branch and data center locations. Learn More In this Issue Hacker conference to address emerging Web threats Steganography discovery could help data thieves, but also improve radar, sonograms Frustrations with cloud computing mount NASA: What's next? Interop Planning Guide: Cloudy forecast Batten Down the Hatches for Microsoft and Adobe Patches Facebook ignores paedophile reports, says police New healthcare IT compliance service protects electronic medical records WHITE PAPER: NetApp Top 5 Hyper-V Best Practices Read this whitepaper to get advice on everything from making sure you configure enough network connections, especially in iSCSI, to specifying the specific initiator groups and the correct LUN type when provisioning the NetApp LUN for use with Hyper-V. Learn More! Hacker conference to address emerging Web threats The Black Hat security conference will kick off next week in Barcelona, with training sessions and briefings from some of the most talented security researchers in the industry. Read More Steganography discovery could help data thieves, but also improve radar, sonograms There's a potential new form of steganography -- the sending of messages in ways that leave no hint the messages even exists -- that could lead to corporate data loss via CDs. Read More WHITE PAPER: Qwest Connecting to Better Customer Service Less than a third of surveyed IT executives believe their companies are "highly effective" at adapting to changing customer needs and priorities. Businesses that build a robust voice and data network infrastructure can achieve a high level of responsiveness, and transform customer information and feedback into actionable results. Click here. Frustrations with cloud computing mount Cloud computing is seeing a shift in focus among its users from what it offers to what it lacks. What it offers is clear, such as the ability to rapidly scale and provision, but what it is missing seems to be growing by the day. Read More NASA: What's next? More focus on  satellite exploration, climate change studies of Earth and developing new heavy lift rocket technology are but a few of the programs outlined by NASA chief Charles Bolden as this week he looked to spell out specifics about where Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Systems Minimize Datacenter Costs with Server Offload This technical guide helps you learn how to reduce your server costs up to 60%. You'll gain valuable information on how Citrix NetScaler helps reduce datacetner costs with server and infrastructure offload. Read More! Interop Planning Guide: Cloudy forecast The 2010 Interop Planning Guide Read More Batten Down the Hatches for Microsoft and Adobe Patches Next Tuesday is both Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for April, and Adobe's quarterly patch release. Combined, there are a total of 27 vulnerabilities being patched in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, and the Acrobat Reader application. It will be a busy day for IT administrators and information security professionals to analyze and prioritize the deluge of updates. Read More Facebook ignores paedophile reports, says police More than 200 complaints regarding suspected paedophiles and incidents of cyberbullying on Facebook have been to the police in the last three months. Read More New healthcare IT compliance service protects electronic medical records The healthcare industry has the highest mobile intensity of all industries. According to Forrester Research, 89 percent of healthcare businesses are highly mobile. Unfortunately, Forrester also reports that 31 percent of these businesses had an instance of data loss in 2009. As a result, 63 percent rank "understanding the risks and vulnerabilities" as the top challenge when it comes to mobile devices. Now there is a new cloud-based IT compliance service that aims to mitigate the risks and reduce the vulnerabilities that are specific to healthcare businesses. Get a free trial of the service and see if it's right for your business. Read More
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