Today’s Disaster Recovery Maze

Ah, the good old days. Planning for disaster recovery, if it occurred at all, was one of the easier things an IT manager had to do. Of course, things have become steadily more complicated over the years…

This is absolutely true and of course means that your systems and application design must now include DR provisions up front. The days of getting to DR once the system is up and running are long gone.

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European regulators on the rampage? Maybe not

Without a doubt, the reverberations of a European court’s decision to uphold stiff remedies for Microsoft’s anticompetitive behavior were felt in more than one legal office in Silicon Valley. The top three candidates? Intel, Google and Apple.

Personally, I think Apple needs to get back to focusing on giving the user the best experience possible - isn’t that what they do best? Not these pathetic lock-in restrictions to ensure share-holder revenue. Restrictions are not required if you are simply better than anyone else…
“Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” - Lord Acton, 1887.

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IT is not what it used to be…

I realise I am behind the times on occasion, but Nicholas Carr’s book Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage seems to be even more relevant today that when he first published it in 2004. I highly recommend this book if you wondering where IT is headed - at the very least it will make you think!

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Macs on the network, time to panic?

They’re coming. Gleaming all-in-ones, metallic slimline notebooks and hand-size ‘mini’ machines. For network admins, the Macintosh has always been the purview of advertising agencies, entertainment companies, educators and home computer users. Mac OS X is merely a minor support issue in a Microsoft-dominated organization. Yet as the consumer market begins to meld with the corporate world even more, and employees expect to use their preferred gadget (and operating system) for work and home life, the Mac could make inroads at large corporations.

Um…I think this is inevitable - at least the ways things are currently going. Call me crazy if you must…but obviously I am not the only one.

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Mossberg’s Ubuntu Linux verdict: Nope

“Ubuntu doesn’t measure up to Mac OS X or Windows for average users”, influential WSJ tech reviewer concludes.

I tend to agree with Mossberg here - however, I really don’t think its too far away…eventually they’ll get there!

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Why IT shouldn’t ignore the iPhone

There’s been a lot of talk about why enterprises shouldn’t adopt the iPhone. But Keith Shaw of NetworkWorld.com explains why IT shouldn’t ignore the first generation of Apple’s mobile phone.

Keith Shaw is right on the money here - the iPhone is a potentially revolutionary device for the Enterprise…

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