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Amateur Social Engineers

In a previous blog , I addressed the need for Security Awareness Training to recognize and avert social engineering attacks. A recent event in the U.S. demonstrates a blatant and amateur attempt at social engineering. This case involves an independent...

Published 02-09-2010 5:27 AM by ed.reynolds@hp.com

Filed under: Governance , Security , Social networking, Privacy, Compliance, Social engineering

Nano tech entering daily life – spray on glass

Sometimes when I talk to people about nanotech, their eyes roll back and they respond with something like "that's nice, but when will I see something useful that I can use". I came across this article on "spray-on glass" that is...

Published 02-06-2010 2:38 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Nanotech

A UK based February 26 Future Internet meeting

HP Labs' Nick Wainwright has been appointed Chair of the UK Future Internet Strategy Group , which will consider next-generation technologies, applications and services. They are going to hold a meeting on February 26 th in London - and it's free...

Published 02-05-2010 6:25 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Government , Technology adoption, HP labs

The Changing Focus of the CIO in 2010

Information Week, Global CIO recently hosted a webinar on Global CIO Agenda 2010: Welcome to the CIO Revolution ( slides available here ). The discussion focused on two dimensions of change for 2010: (1) a shift from maintenance and cost cutting to development...

Published 02-03-2010 3:14 PM by Fred Cummins

Filed under: Enterprise Architecture , Business transformation , CIO, Standards, Trends, Modeling, Architecture, Business-IT Alignment, CIO role

HP’s role behind the animation of Avatar

Just noticed an entry from the HP Small & Medium Business team that talks about how the HP servers helped with the rendering of Avatar . Many people don't realize that HP has furnished rendering farms to numerous movies like the Shrek series that...

Published 02-02-2010 10:16 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies

Security Awareness Training – Here’s Why

In the past year or so, your employer, like mine, may have REQUIRED you to attend some form of security awareness training. This training is often delivered through some form of web-based self study, often an interactive video with case studies and interactive...

Published 02-02-2010 10:27 AM by ed.reynolds@hp.com

Filed under: Security , Risk assessment, Privacy, Compliance, Social engineering

Cloud vs. international law

I came across this blog entry: Can the Cloud Catalyze Change in International Data Laws? It discussed how International laws can severely limit the flow of data across borders -- based on the type of data. Although this doesn't prevent the use of...

Published 02-01-2010 2:12 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Governance , Trends, Utility computing, Technology adoption, data virtualization, Intellectual Property

Architecture: A New Beginning?

In reading Charlie's blog on the computing perspectives for 2010 , a thought comes to mind regarding architecture. As we all know, architecture is a foundational component of any well-designed IT infrastructure solution. With the increased miniaturization...

Published 02-01-2010 8:55 AM by rene.aerdts@hp.com

Filed under: Consumerization , Infrastructure , Technology adoption, Architecture

Touch screen and real objects unite

The New Scientist website has an article describing technology from Microsoft research to merge the virtual with the real. The online article includes a short video that shows how the device captured and interacts with real objects . It reminded me of...

Published 01-30-2010 8:03 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Infrastructure , User Interface, Augmented reality

HP leader in super computer sites…

The longer I work for HP the more things I find out that surprise me. This site claims that HP has the largest share of super computer sites amount vendors. It's not shocking, since HP has done work in high performance computing for a long time, across...

Published 01-29-2010 11:57 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Infrastructure

BPM is the Beginning of the End of ERP

In a recent article, Jack Vaughan quoted Jan Baan as saying, "The successor of ERP is BPM....ERP is becoming the model of complexity. It has become too complicated." Baan is CEO of Cordys and former head of Baan Corporation, an ERP vendor. BPM...

Published 01-29-2010 8:01 AM by Fred Cummins

Filed under: Agility, Enterprise Architecture , Business process modeling , Business transformation , Standards, SOA , Trends, Value chain , Grid computing, Modeling, BPM, SOA value chain, case management, Business-IT Alignment, ERP

Smart Data Centres Can Learn from Fast Cars and Laptops

The new Tesla electric car can achieve 0 to 100km/h (60 mph) in 3.7s and has a range of around 400km (250 miles). When powered by sustainable energy it becomes an exceedingly efficient machine compared to our present hydro-carbon based motor vehicles...

Published 01-28-2010 12:05 PM by Alex Cameron

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Energy , Green IT, Data Center Optimization, Smart Grids

Paranoia is a Good Thing

“Deep content inspection”, “word spotting”, “data in motion”, and “data at rest”; are all specialized security phrases that have been used by international intelligence agencies for years. Today corporate...

Published 01-28-2010 2:38 AM by TOM HILL

Filed under: Intellectual Property

New HP Enterprise Services security offerings

One of the areas that I believe will be going through significant change in 2010 is security. Nearly every organization is going to need help dealing with the transformations required to keep up. I just saw that the Enterprise services organization has...

Published 01-25-2010 4:41 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Standards, Security , Technology adoption, Risk assessment

Survey says - One-Third of IT Employers Plan to Increase Hiring in 2010

CareerBuilder conducted their annual hiring forecast and the perspective is that IT organizations are optimistic about their future and plan to begin to invest in the growth in 2010. Their forecast reveals that nearly one-third (32%) of IT employers plan...

Published 01-21-2010 4:10 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business transformation , Trends, Flexibility, Organizational relationships, CIO role

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