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- Building the Churchill Downs Network: Churchill Downs Runs on the Cisco Network
- Churchill Downs relies on Cisco to keep its network services running according to its cost-effective business plan.
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Churchill Downs
- Webcasts 2006-04-21
- WWII as MMORPG
- Got this from reddit: Roosevelt: hey sup T0J0: y0 Stalin: hi Churchill: hi Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks! paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks ...
- Tags: Depression, Team Management, Management, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-09-05
- Quote of the Day -- 05/11/2005
- "Continuous effort -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential."-- Winston Churchill by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Intelligence, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2005-05-18
- Senate Democrats will [i]”. . . . .never give in. . . . .
- [i].....never, never, never give in.”[/i]This says it all, in my opinion. Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry [i]Traitor[/i] Reid paraphrased Winston Churchill in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate. However, whereas Churchill uttered those sentiments to emphasize the British determination to achieve victory over their enemy, Senator Reid...
- Tags: maxwell edison, Reid, U.S. Senate
- Discussion threads 2007-05-25
- DOWNLOAD: Outsourcing: Sorting out the hype, reality, risks and benefits
- URLAfter you listen to this audiocast of the Churchill Club's panel discussion on outsourcing, post your thoughts and reactions.
- Tags: benefit, Download, it management, Jason Hiner, management, outsourcing, Sorting
- Discussion threads 2005-07-11
- Webcomic: Why I use Windows XP
- User Friendly manages to equate the philosophical cynicism of Winston Churchill with the market forces of Adam Smith to explain the awkward appeal of Windows XP. Hi-larious! by Jay Garmon
- Tags: User Friendly, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- IT leader Jay Rollins: IT needs to quit 'chucking things over the wall'
- Jay Rollins is the former Vice President of IT for Churchill Downs. Learn how Jay got into IT, the career path he took to CIO, the most important lesson he has to share with other IT leaders, and what he's doing now. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: information technology, leader, wall, jay rollins, podcasts, strategy, internet, management, jason hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Outsourcing: Sorting out the hype, reality, risks and benefits
- Here is an audiocast of the Churchill Club's panel on outsourcing, featuring four industry experts. On June 28th, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion, "Outsourcing: Sorting Out The Hype, Reality, Risks And Benefits." Mark Boslet, a writer for Dow Jones, was the moderator. The panelists included: Randy Altschuler,...
- Tags: Benefit, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Download resources 2005-07-09
- Not your ordinary job: IT at the track
- Career got you down? Do you love IT but think there has tobe more to your work life than fighting spam and spyware? Just to give you a peekinto what else is out there in your chosen profession, from time to time TechRepublicwill feature interviews with IT folks who work...
- Tags: Churchill Downs, CRM, information technology, Jay Rollins, job, Toni Bowers
- Technical articles 2005-06-20
- The CFO Act and Federal Financial Management: The End of the Beginning
- Winston Churchill was not referring to the status of financial management when he uttered this phrase in 1942. His words, however, provide a fitting characterization of the status of financial management in the federal government today. There has been clear progress, and the current fifteen year anniversary of the Chief...
- Tags: Financial, CFO, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance
- White papers 2005-05-01
- TJSC Group Ltd. Forges Dual-WAN Network Precision Synergy With PePLink Balance 200 & 300
- TJSC Group Ltd. is a well-established UK-based holding company promoting innovative mobile scanning equipment and exclusive Winston Churchill relics online. After instating a series of unreliable dual-WAN routers in the past, TJSC was in pursuit of a candid new product that would also cater to their remote VoIP and SIP...
- Tags: Network, PePLink, Internet, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Networking, Emerging Technologies
- Case studies 2007-10-09
- My picks for Kentucky Derby 133
- Since the TechRepublic editorial department and the product development teams are located in Louisville, Kentucky, everyone around here is lining up their picks for the Kentucky Derby. Im not a betting man, but I love watching thoroughbreds run. They are truly breathtaking athletes. So here are my picks for this...
- Tags: Off-topic, Off Topic, Louisville, Kentucky Derby 133
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- A winning bet: An executive combines horse racing with IT
- The marriage of thoroughbred racing and technology is big business. TechRepublic talked to the vice president of IT at the world's most legendary racetrack, Churchill Downs.It’s called “the most exciting two minutes in sports.” The Kentucky Derby is the first jewel in the Triple Crown of thoroughbred racing. It’s an...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, Pat Vickers, Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs Inc., Churchill Downs, racetrack
- Technical articles 2000-05-17
- Not all technical all the time
- Some of you may have put two and two together, but it may have slipped right past some others; living in Louisville, KY means living with the thrill and anticipation of the most exciting two minutes in sports, almost year round. The Kentucky Derby is Saturday and there is much...
- Tags: Kentucky Derby
- Blog posts 2006-05-04
- Shyness hurting your career? Here's some help
- If youre an introverted person, IT is not a bad field to be in. But sometimes if, for example, youd like to move into management, you might wish you were more comfortable with social interaction. You can always bone up on your technology skills, but is it possible to overcome...
- Tags: Personal Development, Communication, Co-workers, Career Development, Career
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- The wonders of technology
- As a born,bred, and raised Louisvillian, it is quite naturalthat I have an affinity for and a familiarity with horse racing. Having anhistorical racetrack and the world's greatest horse race run in your town eachyear does have an impact on your psyche. I can be found in the paddock or...
- Tags: horse
- Blog posts 2006-05-22
- Friday Yuk
- Friday YukSorry Oz it is already 10am here so I needed to start this thing off rightWhy Men Lie One day, while a woodcutter was cutting a branch of a tree above a river, his ax fell into the river. When he cried out, the Lord...
- Tags: ax, Lord, Lord asked.The, off-topic, tp205, woodcutter
- Discussion threads 2004-10-01
- Should IT pros be required to speak and write literately?
- Should IT pros be required to speak and write literately?Are your written and spoken communications regularly misunderstood? Do people frequently ask you to repeat and/or rephrase yourself?Today, reading a couple of posts at the Tech Republic Discussion Center, I was confounded by the sheer volume of illiteracy. Do...
- Tags: communication, information technology, IT Pros, off-topic, Should IT pro, Should IT-pro, South, verbal, written, xalorous
- Discussion threads 2005-10-28
- Geek Trivia: A date with destiny
- Test your command ofuseless knowledge by subscribing to TechRepublic's Geek Trivia e-newsletter. Automaticallysign up today!Sept. 8 represents both a boon and a bane to those preciousfew of us who make some portion of our living writing trivia columns andcalendars, simply because Sept. 8 is a date on which a whole...
- Tags: football
- Technical articles 2004-09-07
- Microsoft eyes larger acquisitions
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Microsoft Corp., acquisition, Connors
- Technical articles 2004-09-23
