Sam Morris, product marketing manager for Attachmate Corporation has produced a good overview of the problem of exchanging data - safely - "over the Internet and across a variety of platforms including Windows, UNIX, Linux and the IBM mainframe." It's a hot area, with vendors frequently increasing their capacity limits.
This is the price one pays for being able to conduct business anytime, anywhere in the world. On the upside, as Morris says, "the traditional cubicle culture rapidly fading."
One wonders what Dilbert will use for material once that happens.
File transfer is usually employed to exchange file-based information between different IT systems and over the Internet. As Morris notes, an ineffective and outdated file transfer solution could compromise an organization's proprietary data, not to mention "sensitive files such as legal documents or financial transactions." Some are looking into various mobile-to-cloud options.
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Temperature monitoring might be one of those things you find yourself not thinking too much about.
Until a disaster happens. Then you think about it. And wonder, probably, why you didn't take simple precautions.
Environment monitoring in computer rooms, data centers and other facilities is a good way to practice disaster prevention for professional managers. "The reason is that a typical IT infrastructure supports the entire organization," say officials of AVTECH.
Think about it: Without continued operation of IT resources, which would wipe out your access to information, databases, e-mail or the Internet, how productive of a day would you have at work?
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A recent article in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram points up the fine line telemarketers sometimes tread.
It tells the story of Carter Foster, an associate pastor in Colleyville, Texas, who purchased $1,500 worth of subscriptions from Heartland Inc., an Iowa-based telemarketing company that sells magazines by phone, who protested he couldn't remember purchasing them.
The reporter listened to tapes of the transactions between Foster and the telemarketers six times, writing "the salesman speaks so fast to the 67-year-old Foster that even after listening to the tape six times, I still can't understand what he's saying. He rattles off the magazines' names so fast, I can't tell what they are."
The salesman ends by saying, "The easiest way to remember our company name is, 'We're Heartland and we love you,' OK?"
"OK," Foster, who takes medication for Parkinson's disease, replies, according to the reporter.
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TMCnet recently conducted a podcast interview with Eric Hyman, director of product management for XO Communications, about XO's new SIP communications product.
Equally important, he spoke about some opportunities and challenges in the market overall.
Hyman outlined the benefits provided by XO via its VoIP offerings. "In 2000, XO deployed their first set of softswitches," he noted, adding that XO was carrying VoIP traffic as early as November of 2000. He said XO services can reduce companies' total cost of ownership, and "can demonstrate the savings" customers achieve, Hyman added, "by subscribing to the services."
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When AT&T announced last year that TNCI, a telecommunications provider, signed a multi-year wholesale contract with AT&T for a suite of communications services, TNCI officials said it would enable them to provide an expanded portfolio of voice and data services to its customers.
TNCI, which sells a range of products through its nationwide independent agent channel to small and medium businesses, said under the agreement AT&T would specifically provide: AT&T Network Connection, AT&T Voice Over Internet Protocol Connect Service and AT&T Private Network Transport service to TNCI.
Company officials saw the deal as part of their offering customers "focused opportunities for success."
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