CS Techcast

CS Techcast 128: Do You Know Where Your Cloud Is?

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:40:13 -0700

This week at CSTechcast.com we talk what it takes to support a modern data center holding your cloud services with Anthony Foy of Interxion. Find more at Interxion.com. In the news, Internet Explorer 9 is coming, Oracle is suing Google over Java in the Android, Gartner lowers the forcast for tech spending, and some uptick in recruiting and hiring in the tech sector. Deciding between Mark Hurd’s exploits, Larry Ellison’s defense of Hurd, or Google’s attempt to dominate through regulation is tough in The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at the future un Sun’s Sparc servers in a technology world that continues to push standard platforms, and how to approach multiplexing to tape in your backup environment in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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CS Techcast 127: Controlling Traffic with NetFlow

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:01:13 -0700

CSTechcast.com has the good on NetFlow and how it could help save your network with guest Vess Bakalov, CTO of SevOne. Find more info at SevOne.com. In the news, hackers are going fishing with the power of the cloud, there is a serious shortage of security experts, Dell has to settle with the SEC, and Google tries to redefine rules of responsible disclosure right before BlackHat. Apple’s amazing profit from a quarter with problematic products gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at how SSD is being used in the enterprise, and we have some advice on SQL Server database mirroring with SharePoint systems in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
Imperva Identifies Cloud Based Phishing Kit (InformationWeek)
Cybersecurity Expert Shortage Puts U.S. At Risk (InformationWeek)
Dell to Pay $100M to Settle SEC Accounting Probe (eWeek)
Google Seeks Redefinition Of 'Responsible Disclosure' (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Talks Security Vulnerability Disclosure (eWeek)
Apple the new world leader in software insecurity (ArsTechnica)

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CS Techcast 126: Roadblocks to the Cloud

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:59:21 -0700

CSTechcast.com brings you the show for IT pros. This week, we discuss the roadblocks to the cloud in your organization and some insight into how to address them in A Closer Look. In the news, a new security vulnerability is making its way via USB keys, Oracle releases several security patches, third party bugs are not being addressed by IT security, and DNS root zones get more secure. Steve Jobs antennagate response gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, and we give some SQL advice on database mirroring in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
Microsoft Investigating Windows Security Zero-Day Targeted by Trojan (eWeek)
Critical Oracle Database Security Bugs Patched in Update (eWeek)
Third-Party Software Bugs Pose Big Danger, Secunia Finds (eWeek)
DNS gains added measure of security starting today (ComputerWorld)
Will The Cloud Mean the End of IT As We Know It? (ReadWriteWeb)
Apple to give away free cases to iPhone 4 users (Engadget)

CS Techcast 125: New Challanges Facing Mid Size IT

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:20:31 -0700

This week at CSTechcast.com we talk HP Vice President Jonathan Martin and bring you a focus on managing changing IT for the mid-size business. In the news, Google saves themselves in China for now, malware seeing a new surge, DBA goes to the big house for internal hacking, Microsoft is back again for Patch Tuesday with a fix for Help and Support Center. LeBron James hysteria and Cavs owner’s Comic Sans response earns The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at the newest Blackberry Server, and dealing with 32 bit DSNs on a 64 bit Windows machine in The Weekly Tech Tip.
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Show Links
Google gets nod from China to keep search page (Reuters)
Phishing, Spam Containing Malware Increase (InformationWeek)
Database Admin Gets 12 Months For Hacking Employer (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Preps 4 Security Bulletins for Patch Tuesday (eWeek)
Cavs owner's letter mocked for Comic Sans font (CNN)

CS Techcast 124: Using Open Source in the Cloud

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:24:28 -0700

This week at CSTechcast.com, we talk about how the cloud is moving forward with open-source standards and how cloud computing will look in a few years with Jan Aleman, CEO of Servoy and secretary of EuroCloud compendium. You can find more at Servoy.com. In the news, several major apps aren’t taking advantage of Windows 7 security, Office 2010 get accused of a security flaw but nothing is proven, Cisco Cius aims to compete with the iPad, and Sony issues a recall for hot enough to burn overheating laptops. Best Buy’s reaction to a humorous iPhone video gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at the overselling of IPv6 features that don’t really exist, and tell you how to control your iPhones, Nokias, and Windows Mobile phones when you use Google Apps for your business.

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Also brought to you by Consortio Services, a quality partner that can help you manage your small and medium business technology, SQL Servers, and Windows infrastructure find out more at ConsortioServices.com. Also, be sure to check out Eric Johnson's SSIS vClass and use the code "ej10vip" to receive $10 off.

Show Links
Third-Party Windows Apps Not Using Microsoft Security Features, Researchers Find (eWeek)
Microsoft Office 2010 Security Flaw Reportedly Found (eWeek)
Cisco Crafts Android-Based Enterprise Tablet (InformationWeek)
Sony Recalls Half Million Vaio Laptops (InformationWeek)
Best Buy employee fired for mocking iPhone fans (TG Daily)

CS Techcast 123: Tech Perspectives

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:44:15 -0700

Always head to CSTechcast.com for the show for IT pros. This week we look at technology from the business owner’s perspective. We talk mobile smartphones, what expertise warrants investment, and what will be changing our approach to tech with Mark Vandenberg, President and CEO of Precision Communications Technologies. Find more from Mark at http://mdvandenberg.wordpress.com/. In the news, Windows 7 is driving a tech refresh in business, a new study expects IT job cuts, Oracle sees profits up, and cloud services revenue expected to reach $68 billion. Reflection on Viacom’s well deserved lawsuit loss to YouTube earns The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at those summer project you can take on to sharpen your tech skills, and we tell you how to harden Windows security with Extended Protection in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Also brought to you by Consortio Services, a quality partner that can help you manage your small and medium business technology, SQL Servers, and Windows infrastructure find out more at ConsortioServices.com. Also, be sure to check out Eric Johnson's SSIS vClass and use the code "ej10vip" to receive $10 off.

Show Links

Windows 7 Is Helping Drive Tech Refresh, Says Dell (eWeek)
IT Staffing Cuts in 2010 Mirror 2009, Study Says (eWeek)
Oracle Q4 Profits Up 25% (InformationWeek)
Cloud Services To Top $68 Billion In 2010 (InformationWeek)
Judge sides with Google, YouTube in Viacom's $1B suit (USA Today)
Microsoft Refurbisher Program (Microsoft)

CS Techcast 122: The Mini Mobile Phone Show

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:27:03 -0700

CSTechcast.com is the show or IT pros. This week we do short show and talk mostly mobile. What are your alternatives for your next phone, iPhone 4, Android, or even Nokia. What about the business-level support? Can they replace Blackberry? In the news, IBM is focusing on mobile software, Microsoft talks their upcoming enterprise mobile OS, an unpatched XP exploit is discovered, Service Pack 1 for Windows XP goes beta, and Office 2010 pricing doesn’t include upgrades. AT&T bungles iPad security and iPhone pre-orders for The Worst Tech Move of the Week and we give you help importing Excel data using SQL Server SSIS in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Also brought to you by Consortio Services, a quality partner that can help you manage your small and medium business technology, SQL Servers, and Windows infrastructure find out more at ConsortioServices.com. Also, be sure to check out Eric Johnson's SSIS vClass and use the code "ej10vip" to receive $10 off.

Show Links
IBM Expands Mobile Enterprise Software, Services Offerings (eWeek)
Microsoft Delivers New Windows OS for Enterprise Handheld Devices (eWeek)
Unpatched Windows XP-related hole exploited in attacks (CNet)
Vulnerability in Help Center could allow remote code execution (Microsoft Support)
Microsoft sends out Windows 7 SP1 beta invites (NeoWin)
Office 2010: No Upgrade Pricing, No Transfers, No Way! (Daggle)

CS Techcast 121: IT Law and Order

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:26:21 -0700

CSTechcast.com is the show for IT pros. This week we talk I.T. law, security, and compliance with Benjamin Wright, Attorney and SANS Institute Instructor. Find more from Ben at benjaminwright.us. In the news, Western Digital takes the lead is hard drive shipments, SGI finds petaflops in graphics chips, the Internet is going to get quadruple traffic by 2014, and despite HP’s announcement of 9,000 layoffs, Monster says it sees IT hiring on the rise. AT&T customer service by cease and desist gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at Windows 7 Security, and running Hyper-V Server Core in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
WD Passes Seagate, Now No. 1 in HHD Shipments (eWeek)
SGI Computing Platform Puts Petaflop of Power in a Server Cabinet (eWeek)
Cisco: Internet Traffic to Quadruple by 2014 (eWeek)
Increased IT Hiring on Horizon, Survey Suggests (eWeek)
AT&T warns customer that emailing the CEO will result in a cease and desist letter (Engadget)
Should you install Microsoft Hyper-V on Server Core? (TechTarget)

CS Techcast 120: The Security Threat Landscape

Sun, 30 May 2010 17:12:49 -0700

CSTechcast.com has another show for IT pros. This week we get the low down on the constantly changing threats to your network from malware and help you understand the criminals behind it with Dennis Fisher, editor of Threatpost.com and security evangelist for Kaspersky Labs. Find more at Threatpost.com. In the news, iPhone is setting big in the enterprise, HP overtakes IBM in server market share, Google debuts a tool to migrate Outlook data to Google Apps, Symantec unveils anti-virus for smartphones, and a new Seagate hard drive merges SDD with traditional HDD platters for a big performance gain. Viacom and YouTube execs childish spats come to light in The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at the new features of Microsoft Exchange 2010, and we tell you how to make your T-SQL work smarter in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
HP Overtakes IBM in Server Revenues, Gartner and IDC Say (eWeek)
Google Tool Moves Microsoft Outlook Data to Google Apps (eWeek)
Symantec Norton Everywhere Aims Beyond PCs (InformationWeek)
Seagate gets hybrid SSD/HDD right (StorageMoJo)
"F--- those motherf---ers": YouTube/Viacom suit gets nasty (ArsTechnica)

CS Techcast 119: Archiving in the Cloud

Sun, 23 May 2010 14:49:28 -0700

CSTechcast.com is back with another show for IT pros. This week we delve into archiving e-mail and data in the cloud and how to deal with the privacy aspects with Greg Arnette, Founder and CTO of Sonian. Find more at Sonian.com. In the news, continued signs of life with IT jobs on the rise and positive results for HP and Dell, Symantec buys the identity and authentication business from Verisign, Microsoft takes cloud plat form AppFabric to release candidate status and BizTalk 2010 into Beta, and Google will now let you search encrypted. Google's StreetView cars wardriving on wi-fi networks gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at Office Web Apps, and we show you an easy way to spin a handy boot CD with a the utilities you need in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
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Demand Up for Full-Time Workers, Report Says (eWeek)
Dell: Corporate IT upgrade cycle fuels first quarter (ZDNet)
HP earnings: Solid quarter and better full-year outlook (ZDNet)
Symantec Deal for VeriSign Security Unit Brings Challenges (eWeek)
Microsoft Launches Windows Server AppFabric RC, BizTalk 2010 Beta (eWeek)
Search more securely with encrypted Google web search (Google)
Google faces US, German probes over WiFi data collection (Ars Technica)
Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (UBCD4Win.com)

CS Techcast 118: Making the Cloud Perform

Mon, 10 May 2010 08:48:44 -0700

CSTechcast.com is the source of the show for IT pros. This week we discuss keeping the cloud performing for your applications with Owen Garrett, Chief Innovation Officer at Zeus. Find more at Zeus.com. In the news, more acquisitions by IBM and Vmware in the cloud space, IBM retracts their announcement of a 75% workforce reduction, Intel makes it easy to turn a server into a cheap router, and Microsoft Patch Tuesday is a light one. Markets crashing at the speed of light gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at open source security software alternatives, and getting away cheap with JBOD disk storage on your Exchange servers in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Also brought to you by Consortio Services , a quality partner that can help you manage your small and medium business technology, SQL Servers, and Windows infrastructure find out more at ConsortioServices.com .

Show Links
IBM Advances Cloud Initiatives with Acquisition of Cast Iron Systems (Cast Iron Systems)
VMware Acquires Gemstone in Deal To Fortify New Java Platform with Salesforce.com (ReadWriteCloud)
IBM Denies Plan To Cut 75% Of Workforce (InformationWeek)
Intel Labs Finds a Way to Create Routers Using Clustered Servers (eWeek)
Microsoft Plans 2 Security Bulletins for Patch Tuesday (eWeek)
Computers, Not Human Error, Likely Caused Market Meltdown (CNBC)
Can I really use JBOD storage with Exchange 2010? (Technet Blogs)

CS Techcast 117: Managing Distruptive Technologies

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:49:29 -0700

This week at CSTechcast.com on the show for IT pros, we talk to Phil Simon about the effect disruptive technology has on business and how it can be embraced to build a competitive advantage. Find more at philsimonsystems.com . In the news, Microsoft’s sales strengthen with Windows 7, the new mobile Intel chips are in short supply, a McAfee security software update breaks a bunch of computers, and Microsoft has to pull back a security update. Facebook’s illusion of privacy gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at Microsoft’s RTM-apalooza, and some undocumented SQL Server stored procedure goodness in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Also brought to you by Consortio Services , a quality partner that can help you manage your small and medium business technology, SQL Servers, and Windows infrastructure find out more at ConsortioServices.com .

Show Links
100 Million Windows 7 Licenses Sold (InformationWeek)
Shortage of new Intel laptop chips may mean laptop delays (ArsTechnica)
McAfee AV Update Issue Should Make Businesses Consider Controlled Approach (eWeek)
Microsoft Pulls Security Fix (InformationWeek)
How to Delete Facebook Applications (and Why You Should) (ReadWriteWeb)

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CS Techcast 116: The Secrets of Malware

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:10:26 -0700

The show for IT pros is at CSTechcast.com. This week we talk to AVG Chief Research Officer Roger Thompson for a look into some new vulnerabilities and discuss how the game of malware exploits is played. Find more from AVG at avg.com. In the news, Verizon is getting serious with its expanded cloud offerings, SMBs are adopting cloud and ignoring netbooks and hosted services, Cisco changes direction with new network hardware for small and medium business, and Google is pulling up with their quarterly earnings. Microsoft outsourcing their own IT department gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at the latest in blade servers and why you’d want them, and we tell you how to deal with old VPN clients that keep you from upgrading in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
Verizon Cloud Expansion (eWeek)
SMB Ignoring Netbooks, Hosted Services (eWeek)
Cisco Targeting SMB Market (eWeek)
Google Q1 Profits (eWeek)
Microsoft Outsources Internal IT Management to Infosys (eWeek)
How blade servers have evolved (CNet)
Blade server review: Dell, HP, IBM battle for the virtual data center (InfoWorld)

CS Techcast 115: Virtualization Overload

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:38:42 -0700

This is the podcast for IT pros at CSTechcast.com. This week we consider the impact dense virtualization has on the entire infrastructure of our data centers with Mike Kendall, Manager of HP BladeSystem Virtual Connect, Infrastructure Software, and Blades. Find more at hp.com. In the news, Adobe patches coming as well as a new way to update Reader, Oracle’s Java is patched but still has an in the wild vulnerability, Intel debuts the high-end Xeon 7500, and the US Government clicks up its spending on contractors for IT. Apple goes for Adobe’s throat with The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at the upcoming enterprise features of iPhone 4.0, and the possibility of easing troubles with Hyper-V network issues with a simple solution in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
Adobe Critical Security Patch Coming (InformationWeek)
Java Zero-Day Vulnerability Revealed (InformationWeek)
Java Deployment Toolkit Performs Insufficient Validation of Parameters (SecLists.org)
Intel Xeon 7500 Takes Aim at IBM Power, Oracle SPARC (eWeek)
Federal IT Market $111.9 Billion By 2015 (eWeek)
Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1 (Daring Fireball)
Mobile and Wireless: Steve Jobs Unveils New Enterprise Features at Apple iPhone 4.0 Event (eWeek)

Episode 114: Getting Started with the Cloud

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:49:18 -0700

The show for IT Pros is at CSTechcast.com. This week Emil Sayegh, General Manager of The Rackspace Cloud talks to us about how we should get started with the cloud, the various types of cloud services, and how to pick the right use cases. Find more at Rackspace.com. In the news, Mozilla patches the Pwn2Own exploits, botnet research shows Conficker is a captain-less zombie ship, i4i wins in appeal over giant Microsoft on an Office patent dispute, and AMD sees market gains at the expense of Intel. Users who keep exposing us to the dangers of spam get The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at helpdesk tools for small and medium business, and get to the bottom of chocking bandwidth with The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
Mozilla Patches Firefox Bug from Pwn2Own Hacker Contest (eWeek)
Conficker: 'Headless Botnet' Still Infecting Windows Users (eWeek)
Microsoft Loses i4i Appeal (InformationWeek)
AMD Steals Market Share From Intel (InformationWeek)
Idiot users still intentionally opening, clicking on spam (Ars Technica)
Free Flowing Network Monitoring Tools (Enterprise Networks & Servers)

CS Techcast 113: Apps, Middleware, and Clouds… Oh My

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:01:20 -0700

Another great show for IT Pros is available at CSTechcast.com. This week we get into middleware, performance, and scaling applications in the cloud with Nati Shalom, CTO at Gigaspaces. Find more at Gigaspaces.com. In the news, Oracle is in the black after the Sun deal, browsers get hacked a lot and the iPhone isn't spared at Pwn2Own, Symantec confirms many cyber-attacks come from China, and Congressional leaders get behind Google’s stance on Chinese censorship. Facebook pressuring those who would dare alter the news feed gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at the new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, and we give you direction for finding SQL Server index fragmentation in The Weekly Tech Tip.

Oracle Takes Hit on Sun Costs but Records Solid Q3 (eWeek)

Apple iPhone, Firefox, Safari and IE Fall in Hacking Contest (eWeek)

Symantec: China Main Source of Targeted Attacks (eWeek)

Congress Praises Google, Criticizes Microsoft (eWeek)

Facebook Threatens Greasemonkey Script Writer (TechDirt)

Announcing Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (TechNet)

CS Techcast 112: Secure Content Sharing

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:59:52 -0700

The show for IT pros at CSTechcast.com. This week we discuss the concerns with sensitive document sharing on the Internet with Adi Ruppin, VP of marketing for Confidela. Find more information at WatchDox.com. In the news, Citrix and Microsoft pair up to offer more technology sharing and present a deal for VMWare shops to switch, Chrome gets a rash of patches ahead of Pwn2Own, Google is finalizing their move out of China over alleged government hacking, and Siemens is laying off 4,500 while preparing to spin off their IT division. ISPs keeping America stuck in the slow lane get The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at new developments for Windows Phone 7, and learn how to get classic ASP working on IIS 7 in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Google patches 11 vulnerabilities in Chrome days before hacking contest (InfoWorld)

Google eyes departure from China on April 10, report says (ComputerWorld)

Siemens Plans 4,200 Layoffs from IT Division (eWeek)

150,000 take FCC broadband speed test in first week (ArsTechnica)

CS Techcast 111: Building Mobile Applications

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:21:27 -0700

CSTechcast.com is the show for IT pros. This week we find out what’s going on in the world of mobile development with Jonathan Corbett, President and CEO of Four Ten. Find more at FourTenTech.com. In the news, Cisco is making further moves into the data center with their own containers, IE gets a zero day bug, Apple applies plenty of patches to Safari, and a major botnet gets its command and control ISP taken down. The continued excuses for running IE6 gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at Azure Windows Server and Azure SQL Server, and we have some pointers on Hyper-V network protection in The Weekly Tech Tip.
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IE Attacks Circulate as Microsoft Updates Advisory (eWeek)

Microsoft Security Advisory (981374) (Microsoft)

Apple Safari Update Patches 16 Vulnerabilities Ahead of Hacking Contest (eWeek)

Malware-Serving ISP Taken Down, Researchers Say (Dark Reading)

CS Techcast 110: The Unique Challange of Mid-Market IT

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:13:43 -0800

The show for IT pros is always at CSTechcast.com. This week we take a look at the unique challanges for mid-market IT and how the biggest vendors are changing to serve the segment with Chris Rue, Microsoft MVP and owner of Black Warrior Technology. find more at his blog ChrisRue.com. In the news, the storage vendors see hard times because IT is happy with what they have, openSSL has a new vulnerability, Amazon EC2 adds more Windows options, and the DoD comes up with a certification for ethical hacking. The continual march to nuke apps from the Apple App Store without warning gets The Worst tech Move of the Week, we take A Cloder Look at the no SQL movement from a DBA perspective, and we get the checklist for implementing DirectAccess in the Weekly Tech Tip.
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OpenSSL Bug

Amazon EC2 Changes

Calling All Ethical Hackers

CS Techcast 109: ADO .NET 4.0 and You

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:15:59 -0800

Find the show for IT professionals at CSTechcast.com. This week we discuss the features of Microsoft’s ADO .NET 4.0 with our good friend Ben Hoelting, leader of the South Colorado .NET User Group and Senior Developer at Colorado Technology Consultants. Find more from Ben at benhblog.com. In the news, the Kneber botnet is controlling 74,000 computers, The EU gives final approval on the Yahoo-Microsoft search deal, the administration confirms technology jobs are essential to the country, and Cisco and HP partnership vanishes with little warning. A school district allegedly spying on students through webcams at home gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at virtualization certifications, and we talk about third party application troubleshooting on IIS 7 in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
Global Botnet Attack Hits Enterprise, Government PCs (InformationWeek)
Microsoft, Yahoo Deal Will Boost Competition vs. Google, DOJ Says (eWeek)
Obama Supports Keeping Tech Jobs Onshore (eWeek)
Cisco Kicks HP Off Its Certified System Integrators, Partner Lists (eWeek)
School District Says It Only Turned Spy Cameras On 42 Times; FBI Now Investigating (TechDirt)

CS Techcast 108: Free IT Training for the Masses

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:38:34 -0800

The show for IT Pro is here at CSTechcast.com. This week we talk with Steve Jones of SQL Server Central about free options to get training for IT professionals. Find more from Steve at sqlservercentral.com. In the news, Microsoft pulls back one of their patches for fear of blue screens, IBM reups their commitment to the Power7 CPU, database vendor Informatica announces a new cloud effort, and tech job creation is up but it’s still hard in the valley. The Buzz from Google goes silent in The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at securing your Hyper-V virtualized servers, and Exchange 2007 certificate gotchas in The Weekly tech Tip.
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Show Links
MS10-015: Vulnerabilities in Windows kernel could allow elevation of privilege (Microsoft)

IBM Rolls Out Power7 As Rivals Converge (InformationWeek)

Informatica Pushes Database Archiving into the Cloud (eWeek)

IT Employment Up Ever So Slightly (eWeek)

Security best practices for Microsoft Hyper-V (CSTechcast)

Google Unveils Buzz, Taking On Facebook And Twitter (Barron's)

CS Techcast 107: A POD for your Data Center

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:34:00 -0800

The show for IT pros is at CSTechcast.com. This week, we discuss how pods bring new flexibility to the constrained data center with Jean Brandau, POD product manager at HP. Find more information at http://hp.com/go/pod. In the news, Sun’s CEO tweets his resignations as the Oracle merger comes to a close, Microsoft loses another high-profile executive in Mike Nash, Cisco reports positive quarterly numbers, and a rash of patches are set to hit the Microsoft Windows OS but one is noticeably missing. NBC chief Jeff Zucker’s comments on Boxee stealing content gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at how we can improve the helpdesk, and we look at some useful features in Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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CS Techcast 106: Admins in the Real World

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:43:41 -0800

The show for IT pros is at CSTechcast.com. This week we break down the reality of the latest technologies for the Microsoft admin with author and TechMentor co-chair Greg Shields. Find more information on skills you can gain at TechmentorEvents.com. Early bird special good until Feb 3rd. In the news: the Apple iPad finally gets announced, Oracle pledges to hire 2,000 employees after the Sun takeover, the Microsoft Azure cloud goes full steam and starts charging, and Microsoft reported a great quarter driven by Windows 7 but the enterprise is still flat. The herd mentality on the iPad from some surprising media gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at whether Hyper-V deserves a spot in the enterprise, and we tell you how to get Firefox to use Kerberos in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
Apple iPad Tablet Ushers in New Era of Computing (eWeek)
Ellison Pledges to Hire 2,000 New Employees (eWeek)
Microsoft To Launch Pennies-Per-Hour Azure Cloud Service Monday (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Reports Strong Earnings Off Windows 7 Sales (eWeek)

CS Techcast 105: Transfer over the WAN Faster

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:49:26 -0800

The podcast for IT pros is at CSTechcast.com. We find out how to give data transfers a speed boost over the WAN with Mike Ascher of NetEx. Find more at Netex.com. In the news, AMD profits soar mainly due to the money via a judgment against Intel, tape backup is still alive with an advance to 35TB of data in a single tape, IE gets patched out of band, Microsoft SQL Server set for the 2010 release in May, and the EU drop their objections to the Oracle Sun merger. The music industry’s continued witch hunt for outrageous judgments get The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at why the stop using IE6 movement is picking up steam, and an easier way to do your SPN troubleshooting in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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IBM, FujiFilm Set New Tape Capacity Record (eWeek)

Microsoft Releases Critical Internet Explorer Patch (InformationWeek)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch Set For May (InformationWeek)

Oracle Sun Merger Wins EU Approval (InformationWeek)

Judge slashes "monstrous" P2P award by 97% to $54,000 (Arstechica)

Stop Internet Explorer 6 (StopIE6.com)

DelegConfig (Kerberos/Delegation Configuration Reporting Tool) (iis.net)

CS Techcast 104: Defining Cloud Storage

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:47:06 -0800

CSTechcast.com is the source for the show for IT pros. This week we delve into the cloud’s storage capabilities and when it makes sense in your It organization with Stephen Foskett, Director of Consulting at Nirvanix. Find more at Nirvanix.com. In the news, a standing vulnerability in SSL finally gets fixed, Microsoft releases an update for Word 2003 to comply with the i4i lawsuit, Intel reports 4th quarter earnings that are through the roof, and Forrester Research declares the recession for the tech sector over. The Chinese government hacking Google for political information gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take on Lotus flipping Panasonic to cloud services over traditional Microsoft offerings as a tipping point for cloud services in the enterprise in Point/Counterpoint, and delegating the ability to manage SPNs without making them domain admin is The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Word 2003 Gets 'Lawsuit Patch' (InformationWeek)

Intel earnings surge 875 percent (CNet)

Forrester Says Tech Recession Is Over (InformationWeek)

The Impact of Google's Bold Stance on China (PC World)

Panasonic outsources email to IBM in record deal (Reuters)

CS Techcast 103: Virtualizing the Private Cloud

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:30:47 -0800

The show for IT Pros is at CSTechcast.com. This week we discuss how virtualization is making way for private clouds with John Gilmartin of VMWare. In the news, H1B visa process is getting challenged by the AFL-CIO, December sees new tech jobs, Adobe security issues continue to mount, and patch Tuesday has only one critical update for old Windows 2000. Technology mishaps in airport security get The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at what may be interesting from CES for IT pros, and some thoughts to getting the year started right with a few reminders in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
Tech Worker Shortage, H-1B System Challenged (eWeek)
Jobs Report: Tech Hiring Grew In December (InformationWeek)
Adobe To Surpass Microsoft As Hacker Target (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Preps Windows Security Fix for Patch Tuesday (eWeek)
Newark Airport's Security Cameras Were Broken (ABC News)

CS Techcast 102: The Private Cloud

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:34:57 -0800

The podcast for IT pros is at CSTechcast.com. This week we talk virtual private clouds and what your strategy should be with Ian Huynh, Vice President of Engineering at HubSpan. Find more at http://hubspan.com. In the news, Microsoft lost the lawsuit related to Word 2007, Blackberry sees another outage, Linux enterprise powerhouse Red Hat reports strong earnings, and malware distributors are building virtual data centers to host malware. The second Blackberry outage in two weeks gains RIM The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at the winners and losers of 2009, and we tell you how to deal with sorting in SSIS in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
Microsoft Word Gets Facelift (InformationWeek)
BlackBerry Users Hit with 2nd Outage in 7 Days (eWeek)
Red Hat's Q3 earnings defy gravity (CNet)
Malware makers colocate servers, grab IPv4 address blocks (ArsTechnica)

CS Techcast 101: Going Virtual with SQL Server

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:14:36 -0800

Welcome to the podcast for IT pros only at CSTechcast.com . This week we talk with Brent Ozar of Quest Software, about the benefits and challenges of using SQL Server in the virtual environment. Find more from Brent at http://www.brentozar.com/ . In the news, the blackberry network got hit by an outage, the FTC files anti-trust papers against Intel, Microsoft finally reaches a deal with the EU to allow other browsers on Windows 7, Microsoft is hit back by a company claiming rights to the name Bing, and MySQL creator Michael Winenius is out to save MySQL from Oracle. Since it’s the holidays and you are all in the giving mood we give you our Holiday Wish List, we take A Closer Look at the new features of SQL Server 2008 R2, and we show you how to stop allowing updates in SQL Server with The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
Massive Outage Hits BlackBerry Service (eweek)
Intel gets lump of antitrust coal in stocking from FTC (arsTechnica)
Microsoft Cuts Browser Deal With EU (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Sued by Design Company over Bing Name (eweek)
MySQL Campaign Heats Up (InformationWeek)

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CS Techcast 100: The Year in Microsoft

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:41:18 -0800

It’s a celebration at CSTechcast.com, the home of the 100th episode of the podcast for IT Pros. This week we catch up with J. Peter Bruzzese to discuss the year in Microsoft enterprise technology and what we have to look forward to in 2010. Find Peter at InfoWorld. In the news, Amazon’s cloud gets hit by a power failure, the Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council is formed, 81,000 H1B visas have already been filled, and IBM Software Chief Steve Mills falls on the side of Oracle in the MySQL battle with the EU. AT&T’s blame the customer for their data woes and earns The Worst Tech Move of the Week, it gets hot under the collar with The IT Pet Peeve, and we cover the new features of dynamic storage in Hyper-V R2 in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
Amazon EC2 Cloud Data Center Loses Power (InformationWeek)
Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft Join Cloud Computing Consortium (eWeek)
Tech Firms Stock Up On Foreign Talent (informationWeek)
Global CIO: IBM Supports Oracle But Microsoft Kisses EU Ring (InformationWeek)
AT&T CEO Wants iPhone Users to Limit Usage (Mashable)
Improved storage handling with Microsoft Hyper-V R2 (TechTarget)

CS Techcast 99: SQL Trends

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:17:17 -0800

CSTechcast.com is the source of the podcast for IT pros. This week we discuss SQL Server and the trends coming for DBAs with Kevin Kline, technical strategy manager for SQL Server Solutions at Quest Software. Find more at Quest.com. In the news, Intel keeps pushing the limits with an experimental 48 core processor, Office 2010 gets a ship date, enterprises have no security plans for their cell phones, and a new survey find CIOs are expecting an uptick in technology hiring. The reports of a Microsoft Black Screen of Death gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take A Closer Look at the super fast 10 Gigabit Ethernet for virtualization, and we give a tip when your e-mail gets bounced back, check your email FQDN server name in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
Intel Shows Off 48-Core Chip (eWeek)
Office 2010 confirmed for June 2010 release (ArsTecnica)
Enterprise Cell Phone Security Is Lacking, Says Report (eWeek)
IT Hiring To Increase Next Quarter (InformationWeek)
'Black Screen of Death' Not Worth the Worry (PCMag)

CS Techcast 98: Saving Projects with Agile Architecture

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:34:33 -0800

Come to CSTechcast.com and get the podcast for IT pros. This week, we tackle those IT projects that go over budget and past due date to see how an Agile approach can save the day with Chad Osgood, CEO of Premier Logic. Find more from Chad at http://premierlogic.com. In the news, another work-force reduction, this time at former dialup king AOL, Microsoft in court over intellectual property rights of some Chinese fonts, IBM give gives instant access to a petabyte of information in the cloud, SSL weakness shown to hack Twitter, and Google takes the first look curtain off of Chrome OS. Microsoft's ho-hum announcements at PDC get The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take a Closer Look at what was announced at the Microsoft Developer's Conference, and we discuss how Hyper-V backs up virtual machines in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
AOL to Lay Off 2,500 Employees (eWeek)
Microsoft Loses Intellectual Property Battle in Chinese Court (eWeek)
IBM Launches Business Analytics Cloud (InformationWeek)
Researcher Hacks Twittter Using SSL Vulnerability (eWeek)
Releasing the Chromium OS open source project (Google)

CS Techcast 97: At the Defrag Conference

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:07:30 -0800

CSTechcast.com is where you get the podcast for IT pros. This week we take a trip up to the next generation tech conference Defrag and speak to Robert Scoble creator of Building43 , Richard Nucci CTO of Boomi , and Defrag conference organizer Eric Norlin about how the social web is affecting business and the IT professional. We also have clips of presentations from Kris Loux CEO of JS-Kit and Jeff Dachis CEO of The Dachis Group . In the news, Intel settles its lawsuits with AMD for a cool $1.25 billion, the European Commission looks to block Oracle's acquisition of Sun over MySQL, a zero day flaw is discovered in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 2000 is going end of life in July, and Windows 7 quickly earns 4% OS market-share. Rupert Murdoch's threat to pull hit Internet sites from Google search gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, and we cover some details of Image Backup for Windows 7 in The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
AMD, Intel Settle Legal Disputes (eWeek)
EC Objects To Oracle's Sun Acquisition (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Investigating Zero-Day Windows 7 Flaw (InformationWeek)
Windows 2000 End-of-Life (Technet Blogs)
Windows 7 Now Owns 4% of PC Market, Says Report (eWeek)
Should We Listen to Murdoch's Google Threat? (The Atlantic)
Learn more about system image backup (Technet Blogs)

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CS Techcast 96: Social Collaboration

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:34:06 -0800

Welcome to the podcast for IT pros, always available at CSTechcast.com . This week, we talk with Hutch Carpenter, Vice President of Product at Spigit, to find out how companies are adopting social networking tools inside enterprises, what the justification is for these tools, and how to be successful after the implementation. Find more info at spigit.com . In the news, AMD sues Intel over alleged payments to OEMs like Dell, Windows 7 comes out of the gate with great sales numbers, a new tool called Hook Safe provides rootkit protection using virtualization, a reported vulnerability in the secure web standard SSL, and Patch Tuesday sees six bulletins. Comcast's requirement that we "respect subscription revenue" gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take "A Closer Look" at server baselining, and a particular type of 401.1 error gets some help in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Suit Puts Spotlight on Dell-Intel Relationship (eWeek)
Windows 7 sales outshine Vista (CNet)
Countering Kernel Rootkits with Lightweight Hook Protection (NCS
New tool seeks to block rootkits by protecting their targets (Ars technica)
Major vulnerability in SSL authentication (Help Net Security)
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2009: six bulletins (Ars technica)
Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our Business Model (TechDirt)
Ten Tips and Tricks for Server Baselines (TechNet Blogs)
Automatic FixIt: You receive error 401.1 when you browse a Web site that uses Integrated
Authentication and is hosted on IIS 5.1 or a later version (TechNet Blogs)

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CS Techcast 95: The Cloud Contribution

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:12:52 -0800

Another episode is ready at CSTechcast.com , where you find the podcast for IT pros. This week we discuss how cloud applications can contribute to your business, how to deal with data protection, and how to extend your firewall into the cloud with Raju Vegesna, evangelist for web app company Zoho. Find more information at zoho.com . In the news, the EU may block Oracle's acquisition of Sun over MySQL, the DoD lets up a little on its USB flash drive ban, localized scripts give new possibilities for domain names, Intel SSD drives suffer from bad firmware again, and malware is seeing more short but massive outbreaks not blocked by anti-virus. The Windows 7 upgrade that blocks a clean installation gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at Windows 7's XP Mode, and the problems with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 gets fleshed out in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
EU Strategist Claims an Oracle-Owned MySQL Cannot Be Competitive (eWeek)
Banned USB Drives May Get Thumbs Up (DefenseNews)
ICANN Moves Ahead with Multilingual Domains (eWeek)
Intel Pulls SSD Firmware Update (InformationWeek)
Virus Writers Perfecting Hit-and-Run Tactics (MCPmag.com)
Windows 7 install trick saves up to $100 (ComputerWorld)

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CS Techcast 94: Addressing the Issues of Social Networks

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:35:16 -0700

CSTechcast.com brings you another podcast for IT pros. This week we get into social networking in business, for business, and about business with well know blogger Louis Gray, managing director of new media for Paladin Advisors Group. Find his insight at the ever popular louisgray.com . This week, the Chinese have apparently been setting up elaborate hacking into US government systems, citizen developers will account for 25% of enterprise applications in 2014, Sun plans to layoff 3,000 employees, Bing gets a small bump in traffic, and Windows 7 finally launches. The blogosphere's obsession with killing Friendfeed gets "ThenWorst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at Windows 7 deployment tools, and Exchange Server virtual memory fragmentation gets some attention in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Evidence Points To China In Cyber Attacks (InformationWeek)
Gartner: ‘Citizen Developers` to Deliver 25% of Apps by 2014 (eWeek)
Beleaguered Sun Forced to Lay Off 3,000 More Employees (eWeek)
Microsoft Bing Continues Growth in September, But So Does Google (eWeek)
Microsoft CEO Ballmer Launches Windows 7 In New York (eWeek)
Friendfeed lives! Co-founder says it’s in “chrysalis stage” (VentureBeat)
Deployment TechCenter (Microsoft)
How to troubleshoot virtual memory fragmentation in Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange 2000 Server (Microsoft)

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CS Techcast 93: Keeping the Best and Brightest

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:14:19 -0700

The source of the podcast for IT pros at CSTechcast.com . This week, we take on the challenge of keeping great tech talent in a hostile employment environment with Jack Phillips, CEO of research firm IANS. Find more info at http://ianetsec.com/ . In the news, IDC predicts IT job growth at 3%, adding 5.8 million job by 2013, PC sales are up 2.3% with Acer overtaking Dell at #2, IBM showed strong quarterly with profits up 14%, Google is now 6% of all Internet traffic, and Office 2010 Starter will be pre-installed and ad supported. Danger's Sidekick storage loss of massive outage and loss of data gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at social networking in the enterprise, and we tell you how to get those IIS web apps started fast on "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
IT Jobs Will Expand Globally by Nearly 6 Million in 4 Years (eWeek)
PC Shipments Are Up: Acer a Big Winner (PC World)
IBM Profits Rise 14% in Third Quarter (eWeek)
Google Accounts for 6% of All Internet Traffic (ReadWriteWeb)
Microsoft Offering Ad-Supported Office 2010 'Starter,' Pre-Installed Version (eWeek)
T-Mobile: we probably lost all your Sidekick data (Engadget)
Now Available: The IIS 7.5 Application Warm-Up Module (IIS.net)

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CS Techcast 92: Securing the Cloud

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:28:03 -0700

CSTechcast.com is the source of the podcast for IT pros. This week we talk with Dennis Hurst, Senior Security Engineer, HP Software & Solutions about security in the cloud, how it is affecting adoption at the enterprise level, what types of data should live there, and what standard we can expect from cloud vendors. Find more info from HP at http://www.hp.com/go/stophackers and visit http://cloudsecurityalliance.org/ to take the cloud security survey. In the news, NVidia can't make chipsets for Intel CPUs, tech job loses are confirmed to have risen again, a study shows enterprise overwhelmingly will invest in social networks this year, FBI Director Robert Mueller almost fell victim to a phishing scam, and Microsoft Patch Tuesday sets a record with 13 bulletins covering 34 vulnerabilities. Larry Ellison sticking his head in the sand about cloud computing gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the virtualized networks in virtual machines, and we cover how to deploy BitLocker whole disk encryption on more than your C: drive in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Nvidia Stops Chip Set Development as Intel Dispute Continues (eWeek)
Technology Unemployment Rises in Q3 (eWeek)
Study: 94% of Enterprises Will Invest in Social Media Despite Recession (eWeek)
FBI Director Nearly Hooked in Phishing Scam, Swears Off Online Banking (eWeek)
Microsoft to Plug Windows Security Holes on Patch Tuesday (eWeek)
Larry Ellison Hates Cloud Computing (Enterprise 2.0 Blog)
How to configure BitLocker on additional drives in a MDT 2010 deployment (TechNet Blogs)

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CS Techcast 91: Implementing Salesforce.com and Cloud CRM

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:07:27 -0700

Welcome back to the podcast for IT pros at CStechcast.com . This week David Taber, CEO of SalesLogistix, joins us to discuss the ins and outs of Salesforce.com implementations and how cloud CRM is taking over. Find more info at SalesLogistix.com . In the news, the trend of offshoring stays flat in big business but smaller businesses see offshoring growth, SQL Server is big in emerging markets but MySQL is right behind it, PeopleSoft human resources software gets a new version, payroll company PayChoice gets hacked for personal data, and a federal order prohibits texting during driving by federal employees operating government vehicles. The disappointing Google Wave beta launch gets The Worst Tech Move of the Week, we take "A Closer Look" at Windows 7 features that work only with Windows Server 2008 R2, and we tell you how to implement two different power profiles in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Offshore Outsourcing on Rise for Small and Midsize Companies in 2009 (eWeek)
Survey: Microsoft SQL Server Tops All Databases in Emerging Markets (eWeek)
Oracle Releases New Version of PeopleSoft Enterprise (eWeek)
Large online payroll service hacked (ComputerWorld)
Federal Workers Banned From Texting While Driving (InformationWeek)
Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype (scobleizer.com)
Google Wave Hits Shore. Flash Flood Warning In Effect. (LouisGray.com)

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CS Techcast 90: Application Development in the Cloud

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:04:58 -0700

CSTechcast.com brings you the weekly podcast for IT Pros. Cloud development expert John Barnes of Model Metrics tells us all about the realities of cloud dev, what to expect, how it differs from traditional server platforms, and how to address the mobile platforms. Find more info at modelmetrics.com . In the news, the DoJ is set to review the Yahoo Microsoft deal, Friendfeed releases their real time Tornado web server as open source, Oracle seems to be serious about selling Sun hardware, and Microsoft admits to a zero day exploit in SMB2. Microsoft CEO Ballmer virtual iPhone stomp gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the newly released Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 and what it brings to the deployment table, and then we talk about tips to get upgraded to Windows 7 in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Microsoft, Yahoo Search Deal Under Justice Department Scrutiny (eWeek)
Microsoft Hit Again by i4i in Word Patent-Infringement Case (eWeek)
Facebook Open-Sources FriendFeed Real-Time Web Server (eWeek)
Microsoft Warns of New Windows Bug, Advises Users to Take Precautions (eWeek)
CE-Oh no he didn't! Part LXII: Steve Ballmer publicly ridicules Microsoft employee with iPhone, threatens to smash it (Engadget)
Microsoft Delivers Final Versions of Free Deployment Tools for Windows Vista (Microsoft)

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CS Techcast 89: Security in Your Code

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:04:41 -0700

CSTechcast.com is the podcast for IT Pros. This weeks we discuss secure code, where it's lacking, and what can be done about it with Rob Cheyne, CEO of Safelight Security Advisors. Find more information about Rob at http://www.securityadvisors.com/ . In the news, Microsoft gets hit with vulnerabilities in SQL Server which can steal passwords from memory and a hit on IIS's FTP service that's open for a DDoS attack, Microsoft also gives us the regular Patch Tuesday with six critical updates for the week, Microsoft gets a little good news when the US Court of Appeals allowed them to keep selling Word 2007 despite a patent ruling against MS, and tech job hires are reportedly picking up in the NorthEast and Atlantic regions. Google's GMail outage puts some doubt into the cloud with "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at open source CRM options, and we tell you how to automate your VPN connections in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Microsoft Downplays SQL Server Database Vulnerability (eWeek)
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, October 2008 (Microsoft)
Microsoft warns of IIS FTP vulnerability (ITWire)
Microsoft Readies 5 Critical Windows Updates for Patch Tuesday (eWeek)
Microsoft Can Keep Selling Word, Says Appeals Court (eWeek)
Conservative Technology Hiring Expected in Fourth Quarter of 2009 (eWeek)
Gmail Gfails, Internet Survives Again (InfoWorld)
Deploying VPN Connections by Using Windows Powershell and Group Policy (Microsoft TechNet)

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CS Techcast 88: Uncovering Windows 7

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:26:28 -0700

CSTechcast.com is the podcast for IT pros. This week we go back and forth about Windows 7 with Paul McFedries, author of Microsoft Windows 7 Unleashed , and get into some of the features that don't get discussed as much. Find more info from Paul at mcfedries.com . In the news, Amazon introduces the Virtual Private Cloud, Apple releases OSX Snow Leopard with some nifty business features, Microsoft gets deeper into data warehousing with Project Madison, Cisco access points get Skyjacked with a new vulnerability, and good news from Intel points to an economic recovery for the tech sector. AT&T's broken promises for iPhone MMS gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at managing Hyper-V with Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, and we tell you how to move Windows Firewall settings around in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Amazon Bridges Corporate IT with the Cloud via New Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Service (eWeek)
10 Reasons Snow Leopard Is Ready For Business (PC World)
Apple Snow Leopard Is Not the Mac's Ticket to the Enterprise (eWeek)
Microsoft Debuts Project Madison CTP for Data Warehouses (eWeek)
Database: First Look at Microsoft's SQL Azure Database CTP (eWeek)
Newly Discovered Vulnerability Could Threaten Cisco Wireless LAN (Dark Reading)
IBM Slashed More than 10K Jobs in 2009, Says Group (eWeek)
Intel Raises Third-Quarter Revenue and Gross Margin Expectations (Intel)
Dell's numbers show PC industry staggering back (Washington Post)
Article ID: 974576 (Microsoft TechNet)
Apple, AT&T Sued For Misleading MMS Marketing (InformationWeek)

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CS Techcast 87: How To Find Unified Communications Success

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:47:28 -0700

CStechcast.com is the podcast for IT Pros. This week we bring in Tom Beck from Teo to discuss the unified communication model, how it can make us more productive, and how to avoid the pitfalls of implementation and acceptance. Find more info at Teotech.com . In the news, Internet Explorer takes a surprising win over it's competitors when blocking infected web sites, new Fibre Channel Over Ethernet implementations hit the scene from NetApp and QLogic working together, botnet researchers build a 1 million kernel test farm, Google buys On2 but a lawsuit may block the buy, and Microsoft Word is affected by a patent lawsuit from i4i blocking it's XML formats. FriendFeed makes frienemies of its user base with its bow to Facebook's buyout in "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the software control feature AppLocker in Windows 7, and we tell you what you can do when CPU utilization hits 100% in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
IE 8 Tops Firefox, Google Chrome, Others in Browser Security Smackdown (eWeek)
NetApp, QLogic Combine for FCOE Storage Configuration (eWeek)
Researchers Boot Million Linux Kernels to Help Botnet Research (eWeek)
Google Must Fight Lawsuits to Win On2's Hand in Marriage (eWeek)
Microsoft, Open-Source Community Could Both Avoid Lawsuit Damage (eWeek)
Patent Ruling Against Microsoft Hinges on Meaning of Custom XML (eWeek)
FriendFeed Updates Status: Married to Facebook (New York Times)
Microsoft Windows Enterprise: Windows 7 Features (Microsoft)

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CS Techcast 86: The Key to Performance Management

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:00:00 -0700

CSTechcast.com gives you the podcast for IT pros. This week we take business performance management, where it applies, and what it takes to get to the data with Gary Cokins, global product marketing manager at SAS. Find more info at from Gary's blog at blogs.sas.com/cokins . In the news Microsoft let's Windows 7 out to select groups, Apple releases 18 security fixes for OS X, DNS BIND 9 is vulnerable to a zero-day attack, Microsoft's Patch Tuesday gives us five rated critical, and a survey shows most organizations have no patch management solution. Cloud services recent outages, broken promises and data loss gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at Web 2.0 apps acceptance in the enterprise, and we give you a quick overview of the Windows 7 Problem Step Recorder in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Microsoft Opens Windows 7 RTM for Downloading (eWeek)
Apple Mac OS X Update Plugs 18 Security Vulnerabilities (eWeek)
Bind9 FTP Site (isc.org)
New DNS Vulnerability Has Organizations Scrambling (MCPmag)
Microsoft to Fix Windows, Office Bugs in Critical Updates (eWeek)
Nearly Half Of Companies Lack A Formal Patch Management Process (Dark Reading)
Project Quant: Patch Management Process Survey (SurveyMonkey)
Twitter Continues to Battle DDoS Attack (PC World)
Microsoft backtracks on free Office Live domains (CNet)

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CS Techcast 85: Inside Data Mining

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:00:00 -0700

Welcome to CSTechcast.com , the podcast for IT pros. This week we have an enlightening discussion about data mining, why it's important, and some common pitfalls with industry pro John Elder. Find more info at datamininglab.com . In the news, Microsoft and Yahoo finally come to an understanding, Microsoft announces the location of its first retail stores, hard drive vendors up the ante to a terabyte in notebooks and servers, Google open sources parts of Wave, and a survey shows 40% of midmarket companies have no online presence. Apple flubs one by denying the Google Voice app making "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at Windows 7 and if it will help enterprises warm up to an upgrade, and some pointers on a successful Hyper-V P2V conversion in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Microsoft Bing to Power Yahoo Search in 10-Year Deal Aimed at Google (eWeek)
Microsoft to Open First Retail Stores in Arizona, California (eWeek)
Toshiba 640GB, 1TB Hard Drives Offer Encryption, Data Backup (eWeek)
Samsung Launches 1TB HDD for Servers, Desktop PCs (eWeek)
Google Open Sources Heart and Soul of Google Wave Code (eWeek)
Two Out of Five SMBs Don't Exist Online, Survey Finds (eWeek)
Apple blocks Google Voice app for iPhone (CNet)

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CS Techcast 84: The Essentials of Disaster Recovery

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:00:00 -0700

The podcast for IT pros, CSTechcast.com . This week the focus is on disaster recovery; the planning, the technology, and what you should be doing with Don Norbeck , Technology Officer of Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Product Strategy at SunGuard. Find more information at http://www.availability.sungard.com/ . In the news we discuss Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 going RTM, Yahoo's further discussion about some sort of Microsoft deal, IT is shown to be failing in 25% of small businesses, and a zero-day vulnerabilities found in Adobe's Flash player. The EU's strange requirement of a menu of browsers for Windows 7 gets "The Worst Tech of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at Hyper-V 2.0, and a pointer about Remote Desktop Protocol getting cutoff during a Forefront installation in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Windows 7 Release May Put the Brakes on Apple Enterprise Growth (eWeek)
Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 Released to Manufacturing (eWeek)
Yahoo Board Meets About Microsoft, Fears Google Treatment (eWeek)
IT Failing 1 in 4 Small Businesses, Says Effectiveness Index Survey (eWeek)
Adobe Vulnerability Targeted in Drive-by Attacks (eWeek)
EU says Microsoft to offer browser options (BizJournal)

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CS Techcast 83: The Technology Issues That Face Small Business

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:00:00 -0700

Welcome to CSTechcast.com , the source of the podcast for IT pros. This week we are talking small business technology and the unique issues they face of limited budgets and expertise with Brett Jaffe, CEO of IT4. Find more info about Brett’s company go to http://it4yourbusiness.com/ . In the news, Cisco hands the pink slip to 700 employees, a new cloud services monitoring tool is released by Paessler, Steve Ballmer questions the viability of the Chrome OS, and Microsoft’s Kevin Turner announces plans to open Microsoft shops right next to Apple stores. The Twitter internal document leak scandal earns Michael Arrington "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at open source network management and monitoring tools, and we give you some SQL Server TempDB configuration magic in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Cisco Lays Off Hundreds Of Workers (InformationWeek)
CloudClimate Website Monitors Cloud Service Performance (eWeek)
Microsoft's Ballmer Dismisses Chrome (InformationWeek)
Microsoft to Open Retail Stores Near Apple Stores (eWeek)
Twitter and TechCrunch Joust Over Stolen Documents (New York Times)

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CS Techcast 82: All About Site Design

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:00:00 -0700

CSTechcast.com is the podcast for IT pros. This week we have Zee Kane, Principal at WeDoCreative and Editor in Chief at The Next Web , who joins us from UK to talk about proper site design and what companies should be thinking about to move their web designs forward. Find more from Zee's web design and marketing company at WeDoCreative.com . In the news, Software as a Service sees reluctant adoption, IBM gets patents for image based data masking, Microsoft registers C# and Common Language Infrastructure specifications under their “Community Promise”, new remote-code execution flaw in the Microsoft Video Active-X control causes concern, and Google Apps and other Google projects gets their beta tag removed. Comcast's unwanted DNS redirection gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the newly announced Google Chrome OS, and we explore firewall settings for Windows 7 in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Enterprise Not in Love with Software as a Service, Gartner Finds (eWeek)
IBM To Patent Data Mask (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Opens Up C# and CLI Specs (eWeek)
Microsoft Security Advisory: Vulnerability in Microsoft Video ActiveX control could allow remote code execution (Microsoft.com)
Microsoft Vulnerability Targeted in New Drive-by Attack (eWeek)
Google Apps Finally Exits Beta (InformationWeek)
Comcast Finally Launches DNS Redirection (DSLReports.com)
Introducing the Google Chrome OS (Google Blog)

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CS Techcast 81: Finding the Holes in Privileged Accounts

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:00:00 -0700

Welcome to another episode of the podcast for IT Pros, only at CStechcast.com . This week we are exploring privileged account management and how to reduce the attack surface of that powerful access with Phil Lieberman, President and CEO of Lieberman Software. Find more information at http://www.liebsoft.com/ . In the news Google Apps continues to add features useful for business environments with a new API for contacts, Cisco and VMWare find better ways to VMotion a VM across data centers, AMD's newest Opteron makes it's debut in new HP servers and workstations, Adobe's employees gets an involuntary week off, and new evidence that IT spending may be on an uptick. Facebook's attempt to get you comfy and open up to the world gets "The Worst Tech move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the challenges of backing up virtualized servers, and we review the gotchas of upgrading Small Business Server in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Google Apps Opens Up Contacts to Socialize the Enterprise (eWeek)
Cisco, VMware Look to Move VMs Between Data Centers (eWeek)
AMD Rolls Out Latest Quad-Core Opteron (eWeek)
Adobe Shutters Operations for a Week to Cut Costs (eWeek)
Global IT Spending To Drop 10.6%: Forrester (InformationWeek)
A Closer Look at Facebook's New Privacy Options (ReadWriteWeb)
The Essentials Series: New Techniques for Creating Better Backups (RealTimePublishers)

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CS Techcast 80: Open Source Infrastructure

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:00:00 -0700

We are back with another episode of the podcast for IT pros at CStechcast.com . This week the topic is open source infrastructure and how it applies in the enterprise with Frank Wiles of Revolution Systems. Find more information on Frank and his company at revsys.com . In the news, Microsoft announces pricing for Windows 7, Intel puts out updated compilers, bad hiring is losing money, and Bing still can't compete with Google. MySpace takes the social out of their business with their treatment of layed-off employees making "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at how you can bridge into the cloud from traditional applications, and get guidance on which Windows Perfmon counters to use when troubleshooting memory problems with "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Microsoft Windows 7 Push Includes Price Cuts, Additional Vista Upgrades (eWeek)
Intel Ships New Compilers (eWeek)
Businesses Losing Money on Bad Hiring Practices, Survey Finds (eWeek)
Microsoft Bing Beats Google But Users Stay Loyal to Google (eWeek)
Adding Insult To Injury: MySpace Botches Layoffs (TechCrunch)

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CS Techcast 79: Finding Community About the Cloud at Building43

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:00:00 -0700

Welcome to the podcast for IT pros at CStechcast.com . This week we are with Robert Scoble, Rob La Gesse, and Rocky Barbanica of Rackspace at the launch of Building43 to discover why business needs to pay attention to The 2010 Web and how IT professionals need to approach the cloud. Find more information at http://building43.com/ . In the news; Microsoft gets set to launch a free anti-virus program, Symbian unveils it's developer site to the public for it's open source phone OS, Juniper Networks shows off a 100GB Ethernet adapter, and many admit in a new survey to abusing privileged accounts to gain access to private information. AT&T's lack of support for the new iPhone 3Gs features and the charges for upgrades to loyal Apple fans gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we riff on the interview and talk about getting started with the cloud for small and medium business in "A Closer Look", and "The Weekly Tech Tip" covers multi-server queries and the Object Explorer in SQL Server 2008.

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Show Links
Microsoft's Free Anti-virus Software 'Morro' Coming Soon (eWeek)
Symbian Foundation Launches Developer Site Beta (eWeek)
Juniper Unveils 100G Ethernet Adapter (eWeek)
IT Staff Increasingly Spying on Colleagues, Report Says (eWeek)
AT&T Tight-Lipped on iPhone 3GS's Lack of MMS and Tethering (PC World)
Apple iPhone Users Cry Foul Over AT&T Upgrade Policy (InformationWeek)
Building43 (Rackspace)

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CS Techcast 78: Bringing VMWare to Your Windows Servers

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:00:00 -0700

CSTechcast.com has the podcast for IT pros. This week we talk with about the future of the Windows Server platform on VMWare and how to get a virtualized infrastructure right with Darren Duke, founder of Simplified Technology Solutions. Find more on Darren and his company at http://simplified-tech.com/ and the blog http://blog.darrenduke.net/ . In the news; Bing sees some success overtaking the number 2 search spot, IBM challenges Microsoft over a website claiming love of Windows from Websphere, HP goes after those loyal to their mainframes, Verizon brings its own computing as a service offering, and Windows 7 gets a release date. Hulu's thought that they can play for pay gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at why small and medium business should consider monitoring and automation, and slow IE8 tabs may not be the fault of the browser; find out how to investigate with "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Microsoft's Bing Overtakes Yahoo for Now, Report Says (eWeek)
IBM Declines Challenge, Asks Microsoft to Kill Anti-IBM Website (eWeek)
websphereloveswindows.com (Microsoft.com)
HP Makes Pitch to IBM Mainframe Users (eWeek)
Verizon Business Unveils 'Computing As A Service' (InformationWeek)
Windows 7 To Ship Oct. 22, Microsoft Confirms (InformationWeek)
Soon, you'll have to pay for Hulu (DailyFinance)

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CS Techcast 77: Open Source When Times are Tough

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:00:00 -0700

The place for the IT professional's podcast, CSTechcast.com . This week, the effect of the economy on open source and how you could help your IT organization by going open. We get the answers and the approach from Ned Lilly, president and CEO of xTuples and an open source ERP guru. Find information on Ned at nedscape.com and his company at xtuple.com . In the news; the US Department of Interior admits a major security breach reporting 18% of computers missing, IBM announces new incentives to stay on old mainframes, Dell takes a big hit in revenues for the quarter, EMC buys up Configursoft, and Microsoft gets a new look and a new name: Bing! Newspapers planning to charge for online content race to the grave in "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", the hard to explain Google Wave gets "A Closer Look", and Terminal Server gets a quick security sweep in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Department of Interior Computers Missing, Report Finds (eWeek)
IBM Entices Sun, HP Customers onto Linux Mainframes (eWeek)
Dell Reports Drop in First-Quarter Revenue (eWeek)
EMC to acquire software maker Configuresoft (ComputerWorld)
http://www.bing.com/
Shhhh. Newspaper Publishers Are Quietly Holding a Very, Very Important Conclave Today. Will You Soon Be Paying for Online Content? (The Atlantic)
Google Wave Preview (Wave.google.com)

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CS Techcast 76: The Future of Health Care IT

Mon, 25 May 2009 02:00:00 -0700

The podcast for IT professionals, and CIOs, is new every week at CSTechcast.com . This week we cover information technology in health care with Ron Lindsay of Emtec about what the future holds as health care enters an era of change. Find more information at http://emtecinc.com/ . In the news, all those still running Office 2000 have hit the end of the line for support, HP announces anther drop in revenue as well as more job cuts, Microsoft begins support of SQL Server clusters on virtual machines, Intel delays the release of it’s newest Itanium process until next year, and Microsoft is set to debut their updated "Kumo" search engine this week. Apple's refusal to admit it has a security problem gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at how business laptops are different, and we tell you how to access virtual hard drive files directly from Windows 7 without starting the virtual machine in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Office 2000 and Office Update Site to Retire (TechNet)
HP To Cut More Than 6,000 Jobs (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Changes Stance on Virtualized SQL Server Failover Clusters (eWeek)
Intel Again Delays 'Tukwila' Itanium Release (eWeek)
Microsoft to Unveil 'Kumo,' a New Search Engine (eWeek)
Apple Leaves Major Java Security Hole Open for Mac Users (eWeek)

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CS Techcast 75: What do you know, CIO?

Mon, 18 May 2009 02:00:00 -0700

Welcome to the podcast for IT pros, available at CStechcast.com . This week, we talk about the realities of managing an IT organization from the top in this battered economy with Christopher Reichert, Executive Chair of the 6th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. Find additional information at mitcio.com . In the news; HP issues a major battery recall, a group of Sun shareholders try to block its sale to Oracle, a Google outage of some services raises questions about the cloud, new research reveals major malware on many web sites, and Microsoft announces support and tools for PHP on the Windows Azure cloud services platform. A best of "Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at new software coming from the Microsoft TechEd conference, and a little help to get a lock down on security for your Sharepoint servers in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
HP Recalling 70,000 Laptop Batteries Due to Fire Concerns (eWeek)
HP Notebook PC Battery Pack Replacement Program (HP)
Sun Shareholders File Suit to Block Sale to Oracle (PC World)
Gmail, Google News 3.5-Hour Outage Blamed on System Error (eWeek)
New script outstrips all other drive-by download risks (The Register)
…And We Have A Winner! (Sophos Labs)
Microsoft Launches PHP Tools for Windows Azure (eWeek)
The 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the Past Decade (Time Magazine)

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CS Techcast 74: The Challenge of Getting Control of IT with ITIL

Wed, 13 May 2009 02:00:00 -0700

Welcome to CStechcast.com , the podcast for IT professionals. ITIL is the standard for IT governance, but challenges of implementation and understanding still remain. We talk to Matthew Schvimmer, the head of products for IT Service Management and Project Portfolio Management at HP, to discuss what ITIL version 3 brings to the table, how it's not a magic bullet, and the work it takes to realize the benefits. For more information, go to hp.com . In the news, Polycom adds to the small business VoIP mix with a new PBX and wireless phones, Sun's StorageTek reports big sales of the high end 17 petabyte capable system, Oracle's Larry Ellison states that they will retail Sun's storage division, and Microsoft offers up Azure cloud computing solutions to government. Microsoft's rename of the very annoying Windows Genuine Advantage to Windows Activation Technologies is just lipstick on the pig of "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the good and the bad of the Windows 7 release candidate, and "The Weekly Tech Tip" is for SQL Server admin with advice on getting that data fitting into your query results inside SQL Server Management Studio.

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Show Links
Polycom Debuts Wireless Office in a Box (eWeek)
Sun Drives 'Amber Road' to Record Sales (eWeek)
Oracle Won't Divest Sun's Hardware Business (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Offers Cloud-Based Public Data Hosting With Azure (InformationWeek)
Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Scans Your System for Win7 Compatibility (LifeHacker)
Competitors Grouse Over IE8 Default Setting in Windows 7 (PC World)
Windows 7 To Boost SSD Performance (TechNet Blogs)
Microsoft, Intel goof up Windows 7's "XP Mode" (ArsTechnica)
Microsoft outlines Windows 7 anti-piracy measures (PC Authority)

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CS Techcast 73: A Virtuilized Infrastructure without Tools

Mon, 04 May 2009 02:00:00 -0700

CSTechcast.com , the source of the podcast for IT pros. This week we discuss the utter lack of visibility into virtualized infrastructure with Charles Thompson, product manager for Network Instruments, who discusses a new survey that shows 75% of organizations lack tools to monitor their virtual environments. Find The State of the Network Global Study at http://www.networkinstruments.com/ . In the news, Twitter gets hacked again giving us pause when envisioning private business use in a professional model, Seagate announces Replica to easily backup computers, Sun releases the latest update to Solaris the week after the Oracle takeover of Sun was announced, Windows 7 gets it’s Release Candidate released, and Office 2007 Service Pack 2 adds ODF edit and PDF save support. Minnesota's hops into the slippery slope with its requirement of ISP’s to filter gambling web sites to earn "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the Kindle as a replacement for your tech library, and a quick way to get a desktop moved with all of user’s documents and settings is "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Twitter Confirms Hacker Gained Access (eWeek)
New Seagate Desktop Drive Plugs in, Backs Up (eWeek)
Sun Updates Solaris 10 with Focus on Virtualization, Security (eWeek)
Microsoft Windows 7 Release Candidate Arrives for Some – Most Must Wait (eWeek)
Microsoft Releases Office 2007 SP2 (InformationWeek)
Minnesota asks ISPs to block gambling sites (USA Today)

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CS Techcast 72: How To Find SharePoint Implementation Success

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:00:00 -0700

Welcome to CStechcast.com , the podcast for IT pros. This week Erica Toelle, Sharepoint project implementation expert, gives us the scoop on Sharepoint project success. Find her insight at ericatoelle.com . In the news; the Sun-Oracle merger brings complications and an uncertain future for several Sun side solutions, uneven financial results mark the quarter for tech companies, Linux distro Ubuntu sees a major new release, and the RSA conference gets word of a major new botnet in force. IBM's attitude towards the Sun deal turns into a loss earning "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at sys admin tools for your iPhone, and Sharepoint admins get some help in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Oracle to buy Sun in $7.4 billion deal (CNet)
Ubuntu 9.04, the Jaunty Jackalope, Sports Modest Software Improvements But Big Plans (eWeek)
EMC: 'We expect IT spending to improve' (CNet)
VMware's quarter: Services up, licenses down (CNet)
AMD reports loss, cautious on PC sales (CNet)
Security Vulnerabilities on Tap at RSA (eWeek)
IBM Talks Teeter as Sun Board Splits (Wall Street Journal)
Sun-Oracle FAQ: Did IBM make a big mistake? (ZDNet)

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CS Techcast 71: Virtual Conferences: Everything but the Handshake

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:00:00 -0700

CSTechcast.com , the home of the podcast for IT professionals released every week. This week we talk to Stephen Wynkoop, founder and editor of SSWUG.org , about virtualized conferences and how it can get your tech skills sharp. Find more info at www.vconferenceonline.com/upcoming.asp . In the news, more mess for Microsoft from the DOJ, Sun gets Nehalemized with new Intel Xeon processors and a network switch addition much like Cisco's new server solution, IBM aims to have 28-nanometer chip manufacturing next year, Intel dips its profits but sees a bottom, and Verizon Business Security reports security breaches of 285 million records last year and the problem is still most common from servers and applications. Twitter's spotlight on Entertainment Tonight gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the new Exchange 2010 beta, and we give you some tools for your malware tool belt in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Feds Want Eyes On Microsoft For Another 18 Months (InformationWeek)
Sun Strikes Back At Cisco (InformationWeek)
IBM Alliance Looks To Top Intel With 28-Nm Chips (InformationWeek)
Intel Faces Roadblocks Despite Hope In PC Sales (InformationWeek)
More Data Breached In 2008 Than In Previous Four Years Combined (InformationWeek)
Oprah's on Twitter, Twitter's on Oprah, and Everyone's So Excited! (Gawker)

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CS Techcast 70: Why Going Green Makes You Green

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:00:00 -0700

CSTechcast.com is your source to get the podcast for IT professionals. This week we talk to Toby J. Velte, author of Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line , about the hard facts you can use to get buy-in to green your data centers. Find more info at Velte.com . In the news, the Confiker worm continues it's appetite for destruction by charging you for fake anti-virus software, Microsoft says Happy Easter with a basket-full of new patches, Google gives up some detail on data center efficiencies they have developed, spies are apparently successfully hacking US infrastructure interests, and Sun wins a big contract from the US Health and Human Services to build open source apps for health care. The media's reporting of recent technology trends gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at our experience implementing open source solutions, and we give you some group policy goodness with Windows 7's AppLocker which you can use to control programs in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Updated Conficker Ropes Victims into Rogue Anti-virus Scam (eWeek)
Microsoft warns of monster patch day next week (ComputerWorld)
Google Data Center Secrets Now Showing On YouTube (InformationWeek)
Google container data center tour (YouTube)
Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies (The Wall Street Journal)
Before Grid Hack Reports, NERC Advises Industry on Cyber Assets (eWeek)
Feds Tap Sun For Healthcare IT Despite Uncertain Future (InformationWeek)

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CS Techcast 69: Collaborating with SaaS

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:00:00 -0700

Welcome to the podcast for IT pros, available at CStechcast.com . This week we talk to Avinoam Nowogrodski, co-founder and CEO of Clarizen, about collaboration using SaaS applications and what benefit the SaaS platform serves a business over traditional internal applications. Find more information at clarizen.com . In the news, the Conficker worm comes in with a whimper on April 1st but is still considered a threat, all major server manufacturers get online with the latest Intel Nehalem-based Xeon processors, Intel keeps taking share away from AMD, IBM is getting closer to swallowing Sun, and Microsoft debuts Windows Server 2008 Foundation for small business. Mac fans who can't leave that Microsoft price commercial alone make "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at spear phishing, and a little application called PRTG Network Monitor helps you monitor and report on network devices, workstations, and servers in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Is Conficker Finally History? (PC World)
Fresh Crop Of Intel Nehalem Servers On Way (InformationWeek)
Intel's Share Of Chip Market Rises, AMD's Falls (InformationWeek)
IBM-Sun Deal 'In Final Stages' (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Offers Server For Tiny Businesses (InformationWeek)
Microsoft's "I'm just not cool enough to be a Mac person" ad tries to kick Apple where it hurts (ZDNet)
Give me a break. Microsoft isn’t cheaper than Apple. Dell might be, but Microsoft isn’t! (Macgasm.net)
PRTG Network Monitor (Paessler.com)

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CS Techcast 68: Server Side Solutions

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:00:00 -0700

CStechcast.com brings you another podcast for IT pros. This week we talk about innovations in the server space and what to consider for the modern data center and cash strapped businesses with HP Vice-President of Industry Standard Servers, Paul Gottsegan. Find more info at hp.com . In the news, Conficker is ticking down to April 1st, HP releases an analysis tool for Adobe Flash code to look for security holes, Sun releases it's latest Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 3, and Red Hat beats Wall Street expectation giving good news to the tech economy and open source. Complexity on network equipment updates to protect against security holes gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the need for standards in the cloud, and we show you some tricks to get Linux setup in Hyper-V in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Conficker Worm Worries Exaggerated (InformationWeek)
Questions and Answers: Conficker and April 1st (F-Secure)
Malware probes find a China angle (CNet)
Sun Brings Storage Management To Desktop Virtualization (InformationWeek)
Red Hat Profit Beats Forecasts, Shares Rise (InformationWeek)
Linux on Hyper-V (TechNet)

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CS Techcast 67: Measuring and Monitoring Real-time Transactions

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:00:00 -0700

Once again, CSTechcast.com brings you another podcast for IT pros. This week we talk to Marc Borbas, Vice President at INETCO, about how the approach to measuring and monitoring real-time applications that often leave your sphere of control. Find more information at INETCO.com . In the news, Internet Explorer 8 is officially release and gets a cool reception, IBM is looking to swoop in on Sun with a takeover bid, the FTC looking into privacy concerns around Google cloud applications like Apps and GMail, EMC pushing bigger and faster solid state drive technology into the data center, and Microsoft aims to make it easier to find bugs in your code with Crash Analyzer. Quick hacks at a contest of the top 3 browser's security gets "The Worst tech Move of the Week", small and mid-size business security options gets "A Closer Look", and new features of DHCP server in Windows Server 2008 R2 and a new tool are covered in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Explorer 8: Bugs, Crashes, Glitches, Oh My! (InformationWeek)
IBM-Sun Rivalry May Finally Reach An Accord (InformationWeek)
Feds To Shut Down Google Apps? (InformationWeek)
EMC Offers Larger-Capacity Flash Drives For Symmetrix Systems (InformationWeek)
Microsoft to Unveil Open-Source Security Analyzer for Application Developers (eWeek)
DHCP Server Events Tool (TechNet Blogs)
A grim day for browser security at hacker contest (The Register)

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CS Techcast 66: PaaS Your Applications to the Cloud

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:00:00 -0700

Welcome to another podcast for IT pros always available at cstechcast.com . This week we talk about Platform as a Service and get the scoop on cloud computing trends for business with the CEO of LongJump, Pankaj Malviya. Find more information at longjump.com . In the news, Amazon launches their Reserved Instances service for EC2, open source is steadily gaining in IT shops, Linux gets a boast in use in server rooms and may be the future on the desktops of businesses, AT&T boosts capital spending and hiring, and the Confiker worm continues it's attack with a new variant and threat of massive DDoS attacks. Twitter's strange approach to it's own influence gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at new features and fixed bugs coming for the Windows 7 release candidate, and a story to keep you on the a logical troubleshooting path is "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Amazon Offers You Your Own Little Place In The Clouds (InformationWeek)
Linux Gaining Strength In Downturn (InformationWeek)
AT&T sets '09 budget cuts, to add some jobs (Reuters)
Latest Conficker worm gets nastier (CNet)
Microsoft Details New Changes to Windows 7 (PCMag)
Calacanis Offers $250K For Twitter Paid Inclusion (MediaPost)
Calacanis Discussion on Friendfeed (Friendfeed)

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CS Techcast 65: The Challenge of Application Testing

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:00:00 -0700

Announcing another podcast for IT pros, straight from CSTechcast.com . This week we talk about what approach you should take to application testing and the tools to help you get there with HP Senior Director of Products Mark Sarbiewski. Find complete information at hp.com . In the news, IE8 will get a sort of on-off switch in Windows 7, new critical updates for Microsoft Patch Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is forced to defend Windows Mobile at the CIO Summit, virtualization and cloud service continue to gain acceptance in business, and the general economy continues to dive but IT consulting jobs are trending up. Tech companies sitting on cash instead of investing for the future get "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at alternative tech training, and understand network teaming in Hyper-V with "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Windows 7 Will Have IE 8 On-Off Switch (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Patch Day Won't Fix Excel Vulnerability (InformationWeek)
Microsoft CEO Gets Earful About iPhones In IT (InformationWeek)
Survey: Virtualization Takes Off, Cloud Computing on the Rise (eWeek)
Employment Situation Summary (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Technology firms sitting on mountains of cash (MarketWatch)

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CS Techcast 64: The Vulnerable Network

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:00:00 -0800

CSTechcast.com brings you the podcast for IT Pros; a "Top 10" according to CIO Insight. This week we talk hacking and vulnerabilities with Joel Scambray, CISSP, co-founder and CEO of Consciere, and co-author of Hacking Exposed. Find more info from Joel at http://webhackingexposed.com. This week, Microsoft stays steady on custom support pricing, HP earnings result in job cuts, Sun likes its encryption open source, IBM wants in on the broadband stimulus money, and Microsoft gets cozy with Red Hat with an interoperability pact. Facebook's ToS meltdown gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at some utility cloud options, and DHCP migration to Server 2008 is "The Weekly Tech Tip.

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Show Links
Microsoft Holds the Line on Custom Support Pricing (Redmond Channel Partner Online)
HP earnings dip nearly 10%, will cut salaries (CNet)
Sun Releases First Protocol for Encryption Key Interoperability (eWeek)
IBM Eyes Stimulus Funds for Broadband Project (eWeek)
Red Hat, Microsoft Sign Virtualization Interoperability Pact (eWeek)

CS Techcast 64: The Vulnerable Network

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:00:00 -0800

CS Techcast 63: What It Takes to Get VoIP Right

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:00:00 -0800

CSTechcast.com brings you the podcast for IT Pros; a "Top 10" according to CIO Insight . This week we talk with Jim Thor, network engineer for Wild Packets , about VoIP in the enterprise and how to identify the pitfalls and get a successful system in place. Find more on their solutions at WildPackets.com . In the news, IT sees a slight uptick in jobs, Ruby is becoming the programming language of choice for techies in emerging markets, not all is well at the Sun acquired MySQL with David Axmark and Michael Widenius resigning, IBM will be providing core IBM software such as DB2 and WebSphere from Amazon's Web Services cloud platform, and Microsoft puts a $250,000 bounty on the head of the Conficker Worm's author. A Canadian court's ruling that ISP logs are fair game for authorities gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at hiring a consultant versus hiring an employee, and we help you protect against the Conficker Worm in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Some IT Jobs Defy Employment Downturn (InformationWeek)
Ruby Shines in Emerging Markets (eWeek)
MySQL Exits May Open Sun Customers To Other Databases (InformationWeek)
IBM To Deliver Software Via Amazon's Cloud (InformationWeek)
Microsoft Offers $250,000 Bounty For Worm Authors (InformationWeek)
Canadian judge: No warrant needed to see ISP logs (Ars Technica)
Virus alert about the Win32/Conficker.B worm (Microsoft.com)

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CS Techcast 62: Going Green Through De-Duplication

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:00:00 -0800

CSTechcast.com, where you can find the podcast for IT professionals. This week we have Chris Poelker, VP of Enterprise Solutions at FalconStor and author of “ Storage Area Networks for Dummies ", to talk about data de-duplication as a solution for greening your data center. Find more on the topic at his blog http://blog.falconstor.com/ChrisPoelker/ . In the news, the downturn in the global economy has NEC possibly pulling out of PC market in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, Lenovo replaces their CEO after a bad quarter, Oracle is still making acquisitions with it's purchase of mValent, VMWare adds a free open-source virtualization client, and MS Patch Tuesday comes to us with 2 critical and 2 important updates. Human error in IT by those who don't really care gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", worst practices in insecure code get the wrath of "The IT Pet Peeve", and find out how to get your Windows 2008 Servers network load balancing working outside of a domain in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
NEC Says May Withdraw From PC Business In Europe (InformationWeek)
Lenovo CEO Resignation Tied to Company Performance (eWeek)
Oracle Acquires Leader in Application Configuration Management (eWeek)
VMware Announces First Open Source Virtual Desktop Client, Enabling Partners to Optimize Devices for VMware View and Provide Low-Cost Desktop Solutions (VMWare)
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for February 2009 (Microsoft TechNet)

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CS Techcast 61: Virtualizing The Desktop

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:00:00 -0800

The podcast for IT pros at CSTechcast.com . This week we discuss the benefits of moving your desktops off the desk and into the data center with Mike Fodor, VP at Pano Logic. Find more information on their desktop virtualization solutions at panologic.com . In the news, Toshiba and NEC are merging chip operations, high-speed broadband goes to Washington, government employment program E-Verify gets postponed, and a fired employee is indicted for planting a logic bomb in Fannie Mae computers. School officials pouty about criticism from students on the Internet gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the top 5 areas to consider when introducing new technology, and we try to help out when Windows 2008 DNS can't resolve some top level domains in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Show Links
Top Japanese Chip Makers Studying Merger (InformationWeek)
Congress Wants Neutrality On Publicly Funded Broadband (InformationWeek)
Feds Delay E-Verify Deadline to May 21 (eWeek)
Fannie Mae Contractor Indicted For Logic Bomb (InformationWeek)
Court: No right to shout "douchebag" in a crowded blog (ArsTechnica)
Cannot resolve names in certain top level domains like .co.uk. (TechNet Blogs)

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CS Techcast 60: The Google Spam Report

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:00:00 -0800

CSTechcast.com brings you the podcast for IT pros. This week we talk with Adam Swidler of Google's Enterprise Division about their new report on the state of spam. Find the report at googleenterprise.blogspot.com and more information on the products at www.google.com/a/security. In the news, Intel drops chip prices up to 40%, Qualcomm buys AMD's mobile chip division, top web site spread malware, Seagate post a fix for a hard drive problem that just causes more problems, and despite the economy tech paychecks take a tick up. The White House's state of tech shines a light on out of date government systems in "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we discuss the need for high-ranking official to carries devices like a Blackberry in "Point/CounterPoint", and we give you an old school tip on email troubleshooting in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

CS Techcast 59: Common Security Threats

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:00:00 -0800

CSTechcast has yet another information filled podcast for IT pros. This week we consult Alex Scoble, a CISSP certified security consultant and risk analyst, about the common security threats to your network and what you can do about it. Find Alex's blog at itmanager.blogs.com. In the news Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence from Apple CEO duties, 1TB Seagate drives are seeing an abnormal level of failures, The "Downadup" virus infected about 6.5 million PCs in 4 days, the inauguration may prove challenging to Internet bandwidth, and United Airlines offers up Wi-Fi on some planes with some limitations, of course. The lack of hard nose reporting from the traditional media on Steve Jobs over the past few weeks has garnered "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the common problem of weak passwords, and multi-monitor support comes to Remote Desktop Connections in Windows 7 and we show you how to get at it in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

CS Techcast 58: Tech for SMB in the Real World

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:00:00 -0800

CSTechcast.com brings you the weekly podcast for IT pros. This week we talk about the challenges of delivering as an IT pro to the small and mid-sized business with Art Hollingsworth and Mike Scott of the Two Guys Tech podcast. Find them at Twoguystech.com. In the news: MacWorld excitement comes not from Apple hardware but from third party software, Palm tries to makes a comeback with the Pre smartphone, HP reports six hour battery life for their new netbook, and Windows 7 beta is brought to the public with much fanfare. The bungled digital TV transition gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we talk about the common security breaches made by employees in "A Closer Look", and we get you going dual-booting Windows 7 in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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CS Techcast 57: SQL Server Community Service

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:00:00 -0800

CSTechcast.com brings you the weekly podcast for IT pros. This week we talk about technology communities and SQL Server in particular with Andy Warren, President of End to End Training. Find him blogging at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/andy_warren. In the news, we cover the coming USB 3.0 devices, Microsoft tries to patent pay as you go computing, Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager gets an update with service pack 1, SSL certificates gets compromised by a bunch of PS3s game consoles, and Windows experiences the largest usage drop in 4 years. The cable box method of pay as you go computing gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the most in demand skills for the new year, and when you migrate an Outlook user make sure they get their nicknames in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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CS Techcast 56: The Myths and Realities of Encryption

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:00:00 -0800

3, 2, 1, CSTechcast.com for IT pro podcasts in the new year! This week we discuss encryption solutions, why it matters and separate the press hype and reality with John Callas, CTO of PGP Inc. Find their solutions at PGP.com. In the news we discuss the effect the economy is having on data centers, Microsoft working on a fix for a SQL vulnerability since April, notebook sales steadily outstripping desktops, and Citrix is giving you a way to get Windows on your iPhone, sort of. Michael Arrington trying to police how Robert Scoble uses the Internet gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take the bandwagon on a left turn and give you the top 5 tech predictions for 2010, and we give you a couple points of note when using Windows authentication for your websites in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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CS Techcast 55: Database Trends

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:00:00 -0800

CSTechcast.com welcomes you to another episode of the podcast for IT pros. Today we talk the trends in the database space with Billy Bosworth, SQL Server VP & GM of Quest Software. Find their solutions at Quest.com. In the news Cisco announces a full rack solution for the data center including a complete set of servers, Toshiba announces their 512GB flash-based SSD drive for notebooks, the SEC requires ZBRL on financial documents as soon as mid next year, Sun’s open source VirtualBox VM solution gets popular, and IE7 gets a shiny new out-of-band patch for the holiday. The hoopla over breaking embargos by the need-to-be-first blogger set gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at netbooks for the corporate folks, and we give some advice when you encounter the Cannot Open User Default Database SQL Server error in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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CS Techcast 54: The Open Source Option

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:00:00 -0800

The weather outside is frightful, so if you’ve no place to go, download the latest podcast from CSTechcast.com. This week we talk the open source option and why it makes sense for you operations with Curt Finch, CEO of JournyX and author of All Your Money Won't Another Minute Buy: Valuing Time as a Business Resource. In the news, IE8 is winning the war to have the least bugs, new patches for critical vulnerabilities released after Patch Tuesday, the .tel domain aims to make it easy to share contact information, Sun retires Network.com and launches a new cloud initiative, and version 5.1 of MySQL is released debuting several new features. Sony and Facebook get dissed for their collection of private data in "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", people who put desktop in service as servers get the wrath of "The IT Pet Peeve", and a little tip to help get your Hyper-V machines shut down cleanly in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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CS Techcast 53: Branding Yourself Online

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:00:00 -0800

CSTechcast.com brings you good cheer in another podcast for IT pros. This week we talk about your online brand and why it's important with the co-founder and editor of SQLServerCentral.com Steve Jones. In the news, IBM unveils the Open Collaboration Client open source desktop system, Microsoft and RSA get cozy with security integration, Amazon announces a free tier of access to SimpleDB, Windows 7 beta gets an official date, and patch Tuesday plays the Grinch with six critical updates to keep you up late. The irrational logic that keep people hanging onto Windows XP, making some a tidy profit, gets "The Worst Tech of of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at what to do with the firesale deals caused by the bad economy on enterprise tech equipment, and "The Weekly Tech Tip" is a simple quick fix to SQL Server database orphaned users.

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CS Techcast 52: Controlling VM Sprawl

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:00:00 -0800

A full year of shows at CSTechcast.com, and here's another for the IT pro. This week the topic is VM sprawl and how to control it with guest David Lynch, VP of Marketing at Embotics. In the news, the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India bring up the question of stability for IT companies in the region, spammers get their mojo back despite the shutdown of spam hoster McColo, a seemingly ignored Microsoft patch is seeing exploits in the wild, new Lenovo laptops can foil thieves with a text message, and IBM announces consulting services in for cloud computing. The Blu-ray consortium's seeming ignorance of it's real competition gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the upcoming service pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, and find out how to extend your play time beyond 60 days with the evaluation copy of Windows Server 2008 in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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CS Techcast 51: How to be Layoff Proof

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0800

CSTechcast.com is the source for our weekly podcast for tech pros. This week we discuss ways to keep your job in a bad economy with Bruce Culbert, CEO of iSymmetry and myCRMcareer.com. In the news Microsoft takes Exchange and SharePoint to the cloud, CA aims to help manage cloud services, OOXML gets finalized but the controversy remains, USB devices threaten network security, and Internet Explorer 8 gets a ship date, or at least a ship quarter. Seagate's being incommunicado about hard drive problems while pushing themselves on the chattiest services in social networking gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at remote desktop tools, and we bring you tips on handling the bandwidth issues of WSUS in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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CS Techcast 50: Getting Voice and Data Together

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0800

Download the podcast for IT pros at CSTechcast.com. This week Barry Phillips, Vice President and Group Manager at Citrix, talks about the continued convergence of voice and data and what that means for IT. In the news Citrix gets serious on the iPhone with Xen, Office makes a push onto the web with support for Mac and Linux, AMD tries to mount a comeback with it's quad-core Shanghai processors, Sun and others get layoff fever, and spammer centric ISP's get taken down. AVG's crippling false positive gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we talk about the next four years of technology and government in "A Closer Look", and we provide some Group Policy troubleshooting pointers in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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CS Techcast 49: Finding BI Data in a Haystack

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:00:00 -0800

STechcast.com has the latest podcast for IT professionals. This week Tableau CEO Christian Chabot talks to us about techniques for exploring new and unfamiliar data using business intelligence tools. Find out more about Tableau at tableausoftware.com. In the news, Microsoft's PDC show saw the unveiling of Windows 7 and Azure cloud services, Sony recalls another 100,000 laptop batteries, Linux is getting popular as a utility OS when you don't want to wait for Windows to boot, Informatica and Salesforce.com team to sync data between internal apps and SaaS software, and the Google-Yahoo deal sees scrutiny from the US Department of Justice. Shortchanging a tech policy debate by a certain presidential candidate's policy wonk gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at Windows 7, and we tell you how to find a successful DFS sync in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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CS Techcast 48: Who Writes This Stuff

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:00:00 -0700

Welcome to another episode of the podcast for IT professionals always available at CSTechcast.com. This week we talk what it takes to be a tech book author, the publishing game, and what it's like to go independent with Julie Yack, editor of the new book CRM as a Rapid Development Platform. Find more info at thecrmbook.com and use discount code "cstechcast" for 10% off the purchase price of the book. The news bring an out of cycle Microsoft patch for Windows, Intel announces next-gen cooling for laptops, Amazon's EC2 goes production for virtualization in the cloud, new service packs announced for Vista and Office, and HP brings the thin-client back, again. Tech companies getting scarred and laying off top talent instead of using them to innovate gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we argue employers using social networking to hire and fire in "Point/Counterpoint", and "The Weekly Tech Tip" shows you how to track down your domain on email blacklists.

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CS Techcast 47: Getting the Scoop on Content Management Systems

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:00:00 -0700

Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the podcast for IT pros always available at CSTechcast.com. This week we detail what's involved in Content Management Systems with Gerardo Dada, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Vignette. Find more information at vignette.com. In the news, HP debuts their data center in a box called POD, Google Apps unexpected upgrade causes problems for business clients, a new MacBook ditches the Firewire port, and outsourcing business is good in a down economy. The pains with Google Apps gets "The Worst tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the first Google Android phone the T-Mobile G1, and we take a look at some basic image deployment details in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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CS Techcast 46: Putting A Limit on Web Video

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:00:00 -0700

A new full-length podcast for IT pros is ready for consumption at CSTechcast.com. This week we talk about the bandwidth hog that is web-based video and how network admins can control it with E-telemetry's CTO Alan Schunemann. Find more information about his company at etelemetry.com. The news brings a mess of Microsoft patches, also word that UAC is being refashioned in Windows 7, AMD spinning off The Foundry Company for chip manufacturing, Oracle acquiring Primavera, and IBM furthers its cloud computing ambitions with Bluehouse. Telecom companies trying to stop widespread municipal Internet get "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we talk physical to virtual migration tools in "A Closer Look", and when you get a HAL mismatch migrating server to a virtual world we give you some relief in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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CS Techcast 45: Webcasting Your Business

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:00:00 -0700

The newest episode is available at CSTechcast.com, a full podcast for IT professionals. This week, CEO of Brighttalk.com Paul Heald talks about how webcasts are helping business reach other businesses and the technology behind it. In the news Microsoft is set to release the cloud computing OS Red Dog, the Windows XP downgrade gets six more months of life, web sites get their credentials ripped off, AMD swings at Intel with the Shanghai server CPUs, and Steve Jobs IS alive even after a rumored health crisis. Credit card companies lack of concern for bad wireless security gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the fork in the road upgrading to Windows Vista or Windows 7, and the new Hyper-V Server's HVCONFIG is detailed in "The Weekly Tech Tip". This episode of CS Techcast is sponsored by: vConferenceOnline. Use the discount code CSTECH at vConferenceOnline.com for a 10% discount on a virtual conference. Don't miss the SSWUG Ultimate Virtual Conference coming up soon.

CS Techcast 44: Get Back to Security Essentials

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:00:00 -0700

{Mevio-eef03eef6e3087783e3ad12ce492ccd3} Welcome to another CSTechcast.com podcast for IT professionals. This week we interview Adam Shostack, author of The New School of Information Security about the essentials IT organizations need to establish to really do security right. In the news, PDF security holes are under increasing attack, Cisco is busy applying patches to its IOS software, solid state drives from Toshiba hit 256GB for netbooks, and Microsoft announces RTM status for Essential Business Server aimed at the mid-sized market and Windows HPC Server for the super high-end. A lack of great new business apps for smart phones and an overabundance of one-trick ponies gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at areas of unnecessary tech spending, and blocking access to USB drives from Windows is "The Weekly Tech Tip".

CS Techcast 43: Being Social With Your Customers

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:00:00 -0700

Check out another podcast for IT pros at CSTechcast.com. This week John Kembel, CEO of HiveLive, gets us familiar with the ins and outs of getting a business to engage with customers through new social networks. Find more information on them at HiveLive.com. The news brings us a read on IT jobs during an uncertain economy, the hacking of Sarah Palin's e-mail, Apple finally addressing the DNS vulnerability, VMWare Virtual Center coming to the iPhone, and announcements from VMWorld on how to extend virtualization beyond the operating system. Investment bank's lack of real information in a world of technology gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", those who undervalue their IT staff get ripped six ways from Sunday in "The IT Pet Peeve", and "The Weekly Tech Tip" reviews the snapshot feature in Hyper-V.

CS Techcast 42: Getting Social in the Enterprise

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:00:00 -0700

Another fine podcast for IT professionals found here at CSTechcast.com. This week we talk enterprise 2.0 with Ross Mayfield, social networking extraordinaire and Chairman, President, and co-founder of Socialtext. Find Ross' blog at ross.typepad.com and SocialText's offerings at Socialtext.com. In the news, possible privacy issues with the IE8 beta phoning home, Dell's pushing into the VM space with new blade servers and storage, the DOJ is questioning the Google-Yahoo ad deal, HP's building an OS of their own, and the LHC gets hacked. Apple's new BSOD causing iTunes 8 gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at Yammer and the benefits and drawbacks of micro-blogging in the enterprise, and "The Weekly Tech Tip" talks about Core Config, a new utility for Windows Server 2008 Server Core configuration.

CS Techcast 41: Secure Your Mobility

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:00:00 -0700

A new interview, tech news, and insight from the podcast for IT pros at CSTechcast.com. This week we talk about smartphone and mobile device security with Dan Dearing, Vice President of marketing at Trust Digital. Find out more about Trust Digital at trustdigital.com. In the news, we discuss a kaleidoscope of a patch from Microsoft, social networking for G Men, Dell shutting down factories of their once high-flying made-to-order operations, a six-core server chip from Intel, and a recall of overheating Sony Vaio laptops. Comcast's FCC countersuit gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", Chrome, Firefox, and IE8 start up the browser wars once again when we take "A Closer Look", and "The Weekly Tech Tip" delves into the NETSH command.

CS Techcast 40: How To Be A Consultant (Repost)

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:00:00 -0700

A new podcast for IT pros at CSTechcast.com is ready for you to download. Anil Desai, respected author, Microsoft MVP, and consultant, talks about the journey of being an independent technology consultant and the lessons learned. Find more on his web site anildesai.net. In the news, we talk the IT disaster recovery efforts in effect prompted by Hurricane Gustav, what jobs are more at risk to being outsourced, Google Apps are not getting much adoption in the enterprise, we discuss the new Cellular Seizure Investigation Stick, and the latest beta of Internet Explorer 8. Comcast's bit cap gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", hit the buzzer for our less than 5 minute game show "Know Your Tech", and check out SharePoint wiki permissions in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

CS Techcast 39: The Changing Landscape of Digital Privacy

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:00:00 -0700

CSTechcast.com has a great show available for subscription and download this week. We interview Ken Ledeen, author of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, about the current status of privacy in the digital domain and how you can steer your IT organization around these new privacy pitfalls. The news brings stats of Vista service pack 1 adoption, a new massive Microsoft data center, a lawsuit for Apple and their 3G iPhone, DNS continues to be exposed, and Apache Tomcat faces a new security vulnerability. ISP who haven't patched their DNS servers get "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we argue the confusion around SSL certificates in "Point/Counterpoint", and Active Directory logon problems give fodder for "The Weekly Tech Tip".

CS Techcast 38: IPv6 - Strategies For The New Network

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:00:00 -0700

CSTechcast.com brings you another episode of the podcast for IT professionals. Today, we talk about the future of IPv6 for business with Fred Wettling, author of Global IPv6 Strategies from Cisco Press. In the news, solid state drives are looking to replace spinning disks for enterprise applications, AMD is introducing new processors, a court ruling on model trains impacts free software, Windows 7 starts to get real, and iPhone gets Gartner's nod for use in business. VMWare's servers have fallen and they can't get up in "The Worst tech Move of the Week", greening servers gets "A Closer Look", and a quick FTP server setup is "The Weekly Tech Tip".

CS Techcast 37: Take Me Phishing

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:00:00 -0700

Let's do it again, another IT pro podcast posted at CSTechcast.com. This week we talk phishing threats and how to keep your users safe with Rohyt Belani, CEO of Intrepidus Group. See their new technology online at phishme.com. The news brings twelve new Microsoft updates for patch Tuesday, but Microsoft also tries harder with three new security programs, security concerns around the march towards virtualization, cloud entries from AT&T, others bring forth virtualization for small business, and economic woes hit IT jobs hard. Apple's iPhone kill switch gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the forthcoming Microsoft Essential Business Server 2008, and a strange hibernation feature in Windows Server 2008 brings us "The Weekly Tech Tip".

CS Techcast 36: SQL Server Predictions

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:00:00 -0700

Welcome to the podcast for IT pros at CSTechcast.com. This week we look at the coming trends for the SQL Server database platform with our friend Paul Nielsen, author of SQL Server 2005 Bible. Find Paul and his books at sqlserverbible.com. In the news; Apple's DNS patch fails to randomize ports plus other DNS patches show new flaws, IBM commits to the cloud with a heavy investment in data centers, Microsoft is set to deliver Small Business Server 2008 for mom and pops and Essential Business Server 2008 for the mid-market this year, the Storm worm pops back onto the radar with an FBI spoof, and Sun debuts JavaFX to compete with Adobe. Plus, Apple's culture of secrecy gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", and we put mobile security in our crosshairs for "A Closer Look".

CS Techcast 35: Working Those Deployment Tools

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:00:00 -0700

CSTechcast.com, your weekly source for tech, trends, news, and reviews for IT pros presents the latest episode of our podcast. Rhonda Layfield joins the fray to update us on the extensive deployment tools available for the Microsoft Windows platform. Find Rhonda contributing to the web site Minasi.com. Tech news brings everyone early exposure to the DNS flaw, VMWare decides to give away the ESXi hypervisor, Drizzle aims to slim down MySQL, the Brocade-Foundry marriage merges Fibre-SAN switching with 10G Ethernet expertise, and Terry Childs finally gives up the goods. Quick selling VC's are investing in "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at virtualization sprawl, and we look at SharePoint disaster recovery in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

CS Techcast 34: Get Connected with Office Communication Server

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:00:00 -0700

Hello again from CSTechcast.com, the latest in our weekly podcast series for IT professionals is online. This week we discuss the unifying potential of Office Communication Server with Ron Barrett, author of How to Cheat at Administering Office Communications Server 2007 . Find Ron at networkworld.com/community/barrett. The news brings us Intel launching the Centrino 2 laptop chipset with vPro features for enterprise management, an insider admin locked out the San Francisco network with a password change, a major spike in malware due mainly to SQL injection attacks, new terabyte tape backup capacity, and some users get locked out of validating their Office installations. Big media going after moms gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", IT managers strike a nerve in "The IT Pet Peeve", and "The Weekly Tech Tip" gets you straight when accessing JET with 64-bit SSIS.

CS Techcast 33: To The Edge and Back of Cisco Wide Area Application Services

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:00:00 -0700

No need to wait in line for our newest podcast; all the week's tech news and insight for IT Pros is here at CSTechcast.com. We explore the latest in delivering applications to remote and global networks with Zach Seils, author of Deploying Cisco Wide Area Application Services. This week, Microsoft lobs another offer at Yahoo, DNS gets patched across all vendors, NVidia slowly reveals more about their overheating laptop chips, cloud apps have downtime woes, SQL Server will be out in August, and a new Microsoft push for software plus services. Overreacting tech bloggers make "The Worst tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the new Microsoft Certified Master program, and "The Weekly Tech Tip" covers WSUS troubleshooting.

CS Techcast 32: All About IT Compliance

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:00:00 -0700

Come and get it, CSTechcast.com has the latest podcast for IT professionals posted for download. This week we get an IT compliance education with Don Jones. Find Don's vast expertise at his website concentratedtech.com. The news brings enhanced search for Adobe Flash on the web, no critical Microsoft patches this Tuesday, the VLC Player has buffer overflow security problem, Google gives away Rat Proxy to check for security on your websites, the Coreflood Trojan is waiting for an admin to logon, NVidia has heat problems with laptop chips, and Microsoft gets serious with a new yearly subscription model for Office. Twitter downtime gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at cloud computing security, and "The Weekly Tech Tip" is all about SQL auditing.

CS Techcast 31: Social Networking 101

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:00:00 -0700

The latest CSTechcast.com podcast is up. This week we discuss social networking and how we take it into business and gain personally with Patrice-Anne Rutledge, author of The Truth About Profiting from Social Networking . Be social and visit patricerutledge.com. In the news; Microsoft stops selling Windows XP, but keeps a loophole for business and extends support, Hyper-V goes RTM, Cisco updates its edge network solution with VMWare support, new tools are released to deal with recent SQL injection attacks, database market share shows Oracle in the clear lead, and IT spending is not reducing security threats. Suing web sites over negative comments gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Look Back" at Bill Gates' time at Microsoft, and we give SQL Server admins plenty of detail to avoid worst practices in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

CS Techcast 30: Go Go Vista Gadget

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:00:00 -0700

Get informed and entertained, the CSTechcast.com podcast is up and online. Today we see why the little Vista Gadget can be so useful with Rajesh Lal, author of Creating Vista Gadgets. You can find him and his gadgets at innovatewithgadgets.com. The news brings the latest release of Oracle Retail version 13, deduplication features added to HP SANs, security issues with Mac, Firefox 3, and the Microsoft Bluetooth patch, but a fix for Safari on Windows, an update for Google Trends, and we are all apparently guilty of using our admin power for the evils of spying. The Associated Press puts the screws to bloggers for "The Worst Tech Move of the Week" and we take "A Closer Look" at social networking inside the company.