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Do you know what IT costs?A report from research group Vanson Bourne have identified that 1/3rd of businesses do not know how much their IT actually costs. It found that 53% lacked accurate cost data and 48% were unable to allocate cost by service. Of those that thought they knew the cost, 35% admitted some problems with the accuracy, only 7% thought they had the costs fully under control. The difficult problem is when shared services: web, storage, network, etc. needs to be allocated. The issue to be addressed is the way IT is bought and how it is consumed and the associated business value.Google goes to places no other search engines go.Enterprises can now use the OneBox for Enterprise to surf their back-office systems and display them in the standard Google interface. The OneBox suite includes solutions from Cognos, Oracle, Cisco, Salesforce and SAS. The search business has become the new battle-ground in the increasingly important information management environment.
Vista PCs will be more expensive
To take full advantage of the Vista operating system the hardware specification will make PCs up to $600 more expensive. The hardware recommendation from Microsoft is: Dual-core or Pentium-class processor, 1GB dual-channel system memory and Premium graphics card (ATI, Nvidia). This brings the PC into the high-end workstation community so IT organisations will have to reconsider the cascading model to best manage their assets. Never mind the complexity its the length that really makes the differenceSecurity policies normally demand complex constructs to be strong. To be complex you need use as many character types as possible: high and low case, numeric and special characters. To be really secure a password really needs to be long - not complex - although complexity can help. An eight character complex password is not as strong as a nine character non-complex password and a password like "thisisasecret" is really very strong. You can get more information from (microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm1005.pspx). Remember that nothing adds more strength to a password than adding more characters. Snippets
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