Thursday, March 05, 2009

Portable applications: Network panacea or pest?

Application portability can solve common problems in the corporate network, but can also create security concerns
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Portable applications: Network panacea or pest?

Steve Taylor By Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler
A class of application portability is emerging that aims to solve a lot of common problems in the corporate network and, not surprisingly, will create yet another level of concern about corporate network security. This capability is enabled by software that is installed on a portable storage device, such as a USB flash drive or an SD memory card, which acts like a "regular" application when running on any computer. Read full story

Steve Taylor is president of Distributed Networking Associates and publisher/editor-in-chief of Webtorials. Jim Metzler is vice president of Ashton, Metzler & Associates.

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