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<item><title>The Skinny on I.T. Asset Disposal</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:53:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[How to find the right vendor to dispose of your old equipment in a safe&amp; and legal&amp; manner.   -  Learn how to remove your company's hardware. View the slide show. 

What Is It?
Getting rid of personal computers, servers, and other obsolete or
unneeded devices in a secure and environmentally sound manner.
Concerns about information-technology asset disposal are
being driven partly by incre...]]></description>
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<item><title>Ruby on Rails: What It Can Do for You</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ruby on Rails, an open-source framework, offers a standardized approach to Web development.   -  What is Ruby on Rails?
Ruby on Rails, released in 2004, is an increasingly popular open-source framework for Web applications. It aims to be a &quot;full-stack&quot; framework, meaning that it tries to address all aspects of the Web development process. In contrast, open-source developers working in Java oft...]]></description>
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<item><title>Primer: Enterprise Wiki</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Only one in ten businesses reportedly has a strategy for managing content-sharing Web sites. What you can learn from them.   -  What is it? 
A wiki is a Web site where content is contributed, edited and organized by its users, who can quickly create pages and links between them. Users typically have broad powers to publish content without prior approval, and to edit each other's postings. A revision history is maintained so...]]></description>
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<item><title>Primer: Project Management Certification</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[How can someone obtain certification as a project manager, and does it really matter?   -  What is it?
The most widely recognized project management certification, the Project Management Professional (PMP) credential, recognizes an individual for a combination of formal study and practical project management experience.
Typically, PMP certification equates to a college degree, three yea...]]></description>
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<item><title>Primer: Remote Deposit Capture</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Companies can scan checks and transmit an encypted deposit file to their bank for clearing.  
   -  What is it? 
On a basic level, it is simply a way for corporations to take the checks they receive from clients, customers and business partners and send those checks electronically to their bank without having to physically take the checks to a branch.
From a bank's perspective, it is much more. ...]]></description>
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<item><title>Primer: Thin Provisioning</title>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Why some companies are slimming down storage costs.
   -  What is it?
Thin provisioning is a relatively new way of assigning the physical disk capacity of a network storage system to logical volumes and specific applications. The goal is more efficient and cost-effective use of storage.
Why consider it?
Conventional storage management methods can result...]]></description>
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<item><title>Primer: Open Source Databases</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Open source database management systems provide the same basic functions as commercial databases from companies such as Oracle, but under a licensing model that provides for free downloads and sharing of source code.   -  What Are They?
Open source database management systems provide the same basic functions as commercial databases from companies such as Oracle, but under a licensing model that provides for free downloads and sharing of source code. Exact capabilities and compliance with standards such as the relati...]]></description>
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<item><title>Primer: E-Discovery</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:17:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[What is e-discovery and why should you care?   -  What is it?
E-discovery refers to finding and producing documents stored in electronic form in response to litigation or regulatory requirements. Civil litigants, regulators and criminal prosecutors now commonly ask for copies of selected e-mail communications or make broad requests for all electro...]]></description>
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<item><title>Primer: End-Point Device Security</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[End-point security protects against threats such as personal computers. A look at some strategies.   -  What Is It? End-point security protects against threats to the network &quot;end points&quot; controlled by users, mostly their personal computers. One big change to corporate security: Large amounts of data can be quickly and easily copied onto a keychain storage device, an iPod, or other inexpensive consume...]]></description>
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<item><title>Primer: Application Acceleration</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[How application acceleration systems reduce latency and cut bandwidth.   -  What is it? A system that speeds up the performance of centralized applications for remote employees, customers or partners who access those applications over a network.
Why do applications need to be accelerated? Companies are increasingly consolidating applications and servers at a central locati...]]></description>
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<item><title>Primer: I.T. Infrastructure Library</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[How the Information Technology Infrastructure Library's guidelines help business.   -  What is it? The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a framework of best practices and management guidelines for I.T. under development since the late 1980s, when it began as a project of a group within the British government. The series of books outlines core ITIL principles, suc...]]></description>
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<item><title>Primer: Grid Computing</title>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2006 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Grid computing harnesses the power of many computers for a common task.   -  

Is grid computing right for your company? Click here to take the quiz.



What is it? An approach to pooling the computational resources of many computers  typically, low-cost ones built from commodity components  to accomplish tasks that otherwise would require a more powerful computer or s...]]></description>
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<item><title>Primer: Service-Oriented Architecture</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Think service-oriented architecture and Web services are the same? Think again.   -   What is it? Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an approach to software or systems architecture built around services  computing components that can be flexibly reused and recombined.

In an SOA, software components advertise themselves on the corporate network as offering a service that other...]]></description>
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<item><title>Primer: OpenDocument vs. Office Open XML</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Two document formats for word processing files are vying to become the &quot;open standard.&quot;   -  What are they? There are two candidates vying to become the &quot;open standard&quot; document formats for word processing files, spreadsheets and presentations: the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards' (OASIS) OpenDocument formats and Microsoft's Office Open XML Formats.
Why...]]></description>
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<item><title>OpenDocument vs. Office Open XML</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:32:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The differences between OpenDocument and Microsoft's Office Open XML formats have more to do with vendor positioning than with technology.   -  What are they? There are two candidates vying to become the &quot;open standard&quot; document formats for word processing files, spreadsheets and presentations: the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards' (OASIS) OpenDocument formats and Microsoft's Office Open XML Formats. 

...]]></description>
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