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Processor Article, “Time To Re-evaluate SaaS Solutions? Assess Your Software Needs Before Taking The Plunge”

A “Tech & Trends” feature from the August 13, 2010 issue: Recently David Cearley, vice president and fellow at Gartner gave a presentation discussing SOA and application development and integration, and he said something that on its face seemed almost sacrilegious in this age of outsourcing applications and cloud computing services. According to Cearley, SaaS [...]

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Processor Article, “Cable Organization & Management: Though Easily Overlooked, Cables Are Integral To A Well-Organized Data Center”

A “Cover Focus” feature from the August 13, 2010 issue: Cables in the data center lend themselves to a variety of fairly unflattering analogies. “The stuff piles up like books on a coffee table,” says Rudy Rangel, sales manager at IT equipment vendor Rackmount Solutions (www.rackmountsolutions.net). “It takes discipline to organize them, but it’s easier [...]

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Processor Article, “A Burst Of Capacity: Cloudbursting Gives SMEs Extra Computing Power When It’s Needed Most”

A “Tech In-Depth” article from the August 13, 2010 issue: Provisioning resources has always been a challenge for most data centers. Spikes in traffic can range from something basic, such as a retail site that knows it will face more online traffic around the holiday buying season, to something more sudden and extreme, such as [...]

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Processor Article, “Intelligent Web Filtering: FutureSoft’s DynaComm i:filter Efficiently & Effectively Monitors Online Activity”

A “Featured Product” article from the July 30, 2010 issue: Houston, Texas,-based networking and security solutions provider FutureSoft understood the importance of filtering network traffic back when SME IT departments had their hands full with the Anna Kournikova virus back in 2001. The company’s DynaComm i:filter product has been so successful in monitoring online activity [...]

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Law.com Case Study, “Dechert Trades Help Desk for Keno Kozie”

Posted on the Legal Technology Section of Law.com, on June 22, 2010, this legal IT case study shows how Dechert LLP outsourced its help desk needs to Keno Kozie saving the firm money and improving its productivity overall. Before deciding on Keno Kozie, [Dechert CIO Mike] Shannon and a few Dechert colleagues went to Chicago [...]

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