Aligning business with IT; Lessons from the BlackBerry outage

Voices of Networking This newsletter is sponsored by Symantec Security Information Management Solutions: Beyond Threat Management Learn the latest Security Information Management best practices from IT research firm Forrester Research and Symantec. Watch now and also discover how solutions are evolving, as well as how to get more out of SIM - much more than incident response and threat management. Voices of Networking, 05/07/07 By Jeff Caruso Johnson:  Aligning business with IT, 05/03/07 How many times have you heard that IT needs to be aligned with business? If there was a mantra of the past decade, surely this was it. And who can argue with the concept that IT and business need to be in alignment to ensure that IT investments pay off in the form of tangible business benefits? Net Buzz:  Do we really need a security industry?, 05/03/07 Security expert/pundit/provocateur Bruce Schneier, always entertaining, had one of those “He’s right but so what?” columns on Wired.com last week. Bradner:  Lessons from the BlackBerry outage, 04/30/07 About a year ago Research in Motion, the folks who bring you the BlackBerry e-mail-on-the-go device, paid more than $612 million to keep from being shut down by an injunction after being found guilty of patent infringement. A few months before the settlement, the U.S. Justice Department had filed a legal brief in the case asking for a delay in any shutdown to give the government time to develop a database of state and federal BlackBerry users (as many as 300,000 at the time) so that they could be exempted from disruption. Network World VoIP and Convergence Buyer's Guide Find the right products for your enterprise - fast. Our extensive database of detailed product information will quickly help you pinpoint the hardware or software you need to build out a converged voice and data network. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best decision for your enterprise. Click her to go to the Buyer's Guide now. Dr. Internet:  Learning functional programming, 05/03/07 I’m interested in learning functional programming and would like to know where I might find low-cost programming tools to experiment with. Cool Tools:  Apple TV is a winner, 05/03/07 Apple's version of a streaming media device, although Apple TV sounds simpler and sexier. Editorial:  Mobile tech can map human activity, 05/03/07 At a recent IT symposium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one area of study discussed was digitally augmented urban environments. Rothke:  The color of information security, 05/01/07 If information security were a color, it most definitely would be gray. Like life in general, information security is rarely black and white. Backspin:  Hypersociality and texting, 05/03/07 I understand that most service providers are the same. You can see it is in the provider’s interest not to supply features they don’t have to, and when it might impact hypersociality (which they make a ton of money out of) why should they? Gearhead:  Projecting Flash, 05/02/07 If you download the Windows version of the USS Nimitz Mission Clock, you'll notice that the frame we have for the application is not your standard Windows frame. To achieve this we used a product called SWiSH Studio2 from SWiSHzone.com. Nolle:  Beyond the Internet, 05/01/07 I don’t know when it started, but it became visible a couple of years ago — ironically, at about the same time that the ’Net neutrality debate started to gain ground. Now it may be the thing that makes that much-more-publicized concept moot.

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