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It's once again travel time. Full disclosure: I was the first to publish an exploit against travel systems. Co-released with iDefense (since acquired by Symantec) this simple denial of service exploit was capable of halting operations at most airlines and airports in the United States.
Business continuity and disaster recovery have long been sore points for IT. Now that server virtualization is widespread and VDI is poised to go mainstream, can we leverage these techs to make true continuity a reality -- or at least, make recovering from disaster faster and less expensive?
Don't break out the party hats just yet, but the business technology professionals we surveyed about their plans for the year ahead are showing some positive signs. Cloud computing as well as customer-facing and sales-support projects will get increased attention and investment as companies and their IT organizations position themselves to kick back into growth mode.
We need to deliver the computing power employees require while moving away from the fat desktop PC with its replacement cycle treadmill. Will the winning approach include netbooks, VDI, applications on smartphones, application streaming or some as yet unknown combination? We can't say. But we do know that IT must develop a smart new direction, and soon
Top Fed Leadership Priorities: Cross-agency collaboration, hiring and retaining top talent, and automating processes are some of the biggest challenges, according to our Technology Leadership In Government Survey. Obama's Budget For Tech: 2011 budget proposal would cut IT spending while steps to cut costs get implemented. Q&A With Defense CIO: Defense Department Deputy CIO David Wennergren talks with J. Nicholas Hoover about what it takes to oversee the largest IT budget and organization anywhere. Q&A With Postal Service CIO: CIO Ross Philo talks with John Foley about innovation and automation at the Postal Service. John Foley: Stop dancing around open government as if it's some sort of skunk works and evaluate it based on hard returns.
