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- Eight ways to prepare for business disruption
- With the rise in cyberattacks, terrorism, and industrial sabotage—not to mention natural disasters such as tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes—business continuity management has quickly come to the forefront as more and more enterprises are being forced to invoke their disaster recovery plans. If concerns for business survival, damaged reputation, and...
- Tags: Debra Young, business continuity
- Technical articles 2004-04-19
- Monitoring software boosts employee productivity
- If you deploy monitoring software in your company, will it undermine employee morale? Or will it simply deter your staff from wasting countless hours of company time a day surfing the Internet for personal rather than business-related use? According to Doug Fowler, president of SpectorSoft Corporation, it seems that all...
- Tags: software, monitoring, Debra Young, Web, Web site
- Technical articles 2004-04-14
- Careless Web site content can place your company at risk
- When people surf the net, are they finding hidden treasures on your beach? We talked to some IT security experts about the kinds of information companies should and should not post on their Web sites because they can open a Pandora’s Box of opportunities for hijackers, crackers, and industrial espionage...
- Tags: Web, Web site, Debra Young, RedSiren Inc., Nick Brigman
- Technical articles 2004-02-23
- Who's riding your wireless network?
- When Intel introduced the Centrino chip in early 2003, laptop users cheered that they'd no longer be scanning the shelves of Best Buy in search of separate wireless cards for their new mobile computers. In contrast, IT staff cringed with the knowledge that built-in wireless cards in the hands of...
- Tags: network, wireless, Debra Young, wireless network
- Technical articles 2004-02-10
- Lock IT Down: Live by the Boy Scout motto
- At the height of the massive blackout that rolled across the northeast last August, CBS News reported that 80% of New York State lost power. Yet, incredibly, at the onset, not a single customer of Con Edison Communication, the subsidiary of Consolidated Edison Company that provides data and voice transport...
- Tags: Con Ed Communication, Debra Young, emergency management, emergency management team, information technology, team
- Technical articles 2004-01-27
- Database Management: Continuity planning for non-data center assets
- A recent study conducted by Santa Barbara, CA-based Strategic Research Corporation revealed that over 60 percent of enterprise data is being stored outside the data center and up to 75 percent of that data is unprotected. According to the study, this is a risky practice because edge data can be...
- Tags: remote site, Debra Young, backup, database, asset, database management
- Technical articles 2004-01-19
- Decision Support: Put IM archiving on your compliance to-do list
- Is IM on your watch list for compliance? Maybe it should be. In the face of recent scandals, state and federal lawmakers have been drafting a plethora of policies to enforce stricter record keeping practices among publicly held companies and greater accountability from corporate officers. But many analysts predict this...
- Tags: IM, Debra Young, archiving, compliance, decision support
- Technical articles 2004-01-07
- Database Management: Post-relational environment provides intelligent patient care apps
- To avert the possibility of costly medical malpractice lawsuits, healthcare professionals these days are taking extra precautions to ensure patient safety. For many hospitals, it means implementing barcoding on medications, patients, and even nurses as a safety check to ensure patients are being given the right drugs. Boston-based Partners HealthCare...
- Tags: CACHÉ, database, database management, Debra Young, Partners HealthCare System Inc., patient
- Technical articles 2003-12-10
- Healthcare network eliminates Web bottleneck with Collage solution
- It’s hard to imagine that an organization employing over 13,000 people could be nearly invisible to the greater Atlanta community it served. But that was the case for Emory Healthcare, the patient arm of Emory University’s School of Medicine. It was a matter of hiding in plain site. Prior to...
- Tags: Debra Young, Emory Healthcare, health care, Healthcare Network, Merant, Web, Web site
- Technical articles 2003-11-20
- Battling the bean counters--and winning
- Despite what you might believe, corporate bean counters were not put on this earth to shoot down your IT projects. But if you want the CFO to approve your proposal, you have to show how your technology investment is going to help the company move forward.Angelo Tomasello is a former...
- Tags: Angelo Tomasello, bean-counter, Debra Young, information technology, IT Project, risk, Tom Pisello
- Technical articles 2003-11-17
- Poultry producer solves major server overload problem inexpensively
- Why didn't the chicken cross the road? Because it didn’t have an invoice saying it could go anywhere. For some, it's just another variation on an old joke. But if you’re in the poultry business handling a highly perishable commodity, missing invoices are no laughing matter. And when you’re a...
- Tags: Debra Young, Foster Farms, Joseph Mann, server
- Technical articles 2003-09-15
- Streaming video becoming driver for Web site traffic
- The case for adding streaming video to your company Web site is a powerful one. Today, over 50 million Americans use a broadband connection and, as a result, demand a complete Web experience. Specifically, Web site visitors want multimedia. If your company Web site doesn't offer multimedia, users will probably...
- Tags: Klein, streaming video, video, Debra Young, Web, Web site
- Technical articles 2003-07-14
- Merrill Lynch beefs up security with VeriSign's global eyes and ears
- As most companies that have recently experienced a security breach will tell you, the Internet is a double-edged sword. It’s enabled businesses to penetrate new markets, support customers around the world and around the clock, and collaborate with colleagues across locations and time zones. It’s also left companies vulnerable to...
- Tags: Debra Young, Internet, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., network, security, VeriSign Inc.
- Technical articles 2003-07-02
- IVR helps virtual shopping mall with seasonal hiring frenzy
- When QVC, the world’s leading virtual retailer, ramps up for the holiday season, it supplements its call centers with up to 2,000 temporary employees to handle the enormous influx of phone orders. Telecasting 24 hours a day, seven days a week to 85 million households in the United States, the...
- Tags: QVC, Debra Young, call-center, hiring, IVR
- Technical articles 2003-06-23
- Leave on a good note by making the most of your exit interview
- Three years ago, when Howard Boles opted to leave Kronos for a more lucrative position at Lucent Technologies, an HR person spent about 15 minutes with the exiting senior software engineer tying up loose ends. “It didn’t take very long,” recalled Boles. “She just asked me a couple of questions...
- Tags: Debra Young, exit interview, Howard Boles, Lucent Technologies Inc.
- Technical articles 2003-06-16
- Don't let staff leave without an exit interview
- While it isn’t something most tech leaders look forward to, an exit interview with a departing staff member can be incredibly valuable for managers and companies striving to keep good talent and improve their work culture. Yet, like anything else, if it’s not done right—if you don’t prepare ahead of...
- Tags: Debra Young, exit interview
- Technical articles 2003-06-06
- Be prepared to practice to make it on the public speaking circuit
- If you’ve attended conferences and tech seminars and thought, "Hey, I could do that," after hearing an IT expert pontificate on a new technology or trend, there are a few things you should know before embarking on a public speaking career.First, public speaking is hard work that requires a specific...
- Tags: Debra Young, Maureen Brooks
- Technical articles 2003-06-02
- Win over older staff members by taking on the facilitator role
- When a young IT manager steps in to run the show, seasoned staffers often have a hard time hiding their resentment that they’ve been passed over for a promotion, or that they’re being managed by someone who has less experience or expertise.“I think people in general feel uncomfortable working for...
- Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Enterprise software, Debra Young
- Technical articles 2003-05-29
- Earn the respect of older staff by managing effectively
- Directing a team of seasoned IT pros requires strong interpersonal and leadership skills. And, if you happen to be much younger than your staff, the management road can be especially tricky to traverse. Because of this potential career hurdle, you must take the right approach from the start.As career and...
- Tags: Debra Young, Russell, staff member, young boss, younger boss
- Technical articles 2003-05-23
- Med-Media software speeds triage at disaster sites
- Since 9/11, emergency medical services teams across the country have been looking at ways to improve field operations during catastrophic emergencies. “Getting equipment through a debris pile could take minutes, or sometimes hours, depending on where the victim is trapped,” said Mike Kurtz, the medical team coordinator for the Pennsylvania...
- Tags: Debra Young, Med-Media, Mike Kurtz, PA USAR, software, team
- Technical articles 2003-05-19
