http://www.ittoday.info Large collection of highly informative articles on many hot topics from industry thought leaders. en-us Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST item> The goals of Mobile Enterprise Transition need to be in line with the goals of business. Business aims to achieve substantial value for itself, its customer, and its business partners out of its strategic mobile transition. Therefore, these MET goals primarily, and understandably, provide advantages of mobile technologies to business. However, they vary depending on the demographics and mobile maturity of the transitioning organization. In fact, the value from MET to business encompasses a large number of varying factors. A research survey on MET asked participants to offer descriptive comments on the value, as perceived by them, being provided by mobility to business. These mobile technology values to business can be summarized as follows. http://www.ittoday.info/Articles/Mobile_Enterprise.htm rich.ohanley@taylorandfrancis.com Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST A new survey finds almost half of SharePoint users disregard the security within SharePoint, and copy sensitive or confidential documents to insecure hard drives, USB keys or even email it to a third party. http://www.ittoday.info/News/SharePoint_Users.htm rich.ohanley@taylorandfrancis.com Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST In this article, Nancy Settle-Murphy of Guided Insights provides 10 "best practices" norms that can do the most to save time, reduce frustration and boost productivity of virtual teams. Extracted from one of her Bridging the Distance Virtual Leadership workshop series, these examples include specific actions that can support each one. For this piece, she touches on virtual meetings, decision-making, the use of email, shared documents and scheduling, areas for which a lack of explicit norms can cause especially thorny problems for virtual teams. http://www.ittoday.info/Articles/NS-Untangle_Virtual_Team.htm nancy@guidedinsights.com Mon, 17 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST One of the concepts that is gaining popularity is called Lean management or Lean performance. It is based on the principles from Toyota Production System (TPS). These concepts helped take Toyota from a small car company to one of the market leaders in the automotive industry in terms of quality and efficiency. The primary goal is to get rid of waste that occurs in the product process. For most Lean efforts everything is based around muda (waste). Muda translates into any activity that is wasteful, meaning it does not add any value or is unproductive. Seven activities fall into this category. http://www.ittoday.info/Articles/LeanITManagement.htm rich.ohanley@taylorandfrancis.com Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST In this article, Tim Matthews, Symantec director of User Authentication, discussing the uselessness of passwords and what organizations should be doing to keep data how it should be--safe and under the right control at all times. He then explains how strong, or two-factor, authentication is a simple and flexible alternative to the antiquated password. http://www.infosectoday.com/Articles/Strong_Authentication.htm rich.ohanley@taylorandfrancis.com Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST One of the great challenges of network administrators is monitoring of the user experience. It's become something of a buzzword, with management telling the network team to do it, without any actual indication of what they want. Without clear direction, it's nearly impossible to know what metrics will be meaningful, and then how to configure monitoring solutions in order to produce useful data. And yet the overall goal of everything IT does is to make the user is able to access the resources needed to be productive. Users won't care if they have state-of-the-art endpoints if the network itself is slow. That, as Brad Reinboldt of Network Instruments explains, means that monitoring the back end of the user experience is vital for IT. http://www.infosectoday.com/Articles/Monitoring_User_Experience.htm rich.ohanley@taylorandfrancis.com Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST When discussing the information security sector, the word "broken" crops up quite often in magazines, journals, conferences, blogs, and other sources. In his book The Myths of Security, John Viega says about security, "A lot of little things are just fundamentally wrong, and the industry as a whole is broken." So, if it's broken, can it be fixed? This is a Herculean-like task Ian Tibble has assumed. http://www.infosectoday.com/Articles/Security_DeEngineering.pdf rich.ohanley@taylorandfrancis.com Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:30:00 EST Information retrieval (IR) is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, information within documents, and metadata about documents, as well as searching relational databases and the World Wide Web. This book covers the management, types, and technical standards of these increasingly important systems. It discusses all types of information retrieval systems, including those used in medicine, geographic information, and music, as well as retrieval in computer-supported collaborative work, Web mining, social mining, and the Semantic Web. Library and museum IR systems are also covered. Leading contributors in the field address digital asset management, piracy in digital media, records compliance, information storage technologies, and data transmission protocols. http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439891964 rich.ohanley@taylorandfrancis.com Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:30:00 EST