Posts Tagged ‘IT’
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Every company defines and enforces policies concerning the acceptable use of information and information systems. Failure to do so can leave a company vulnerable to the financial, legal and reputational risks associated with such unacceptable uses as copyright infringement, sexual harassment, spam and malicious hacking.
Policing such policies, however, is not easy. Your systems and network administrators have plenty of work to do besides keeping tabs on how your employees are using your company’s computing infrastructure. They don’t have a whole lot of time to devote to keeping pornography, illegally obtained downloads and other contraband off of your file servers and out of your email system.
Vivisimo’s Information Optimization (IO) solutions, however, are really useful for such policy enforcement efforts.
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Tags: Acceptable Usage Policy Enforcement, compliance, data governance, data security, data visibility, information discovery, information risk, IT, Velocity
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Awesome — only word to describe Vivisimo’s Federal Day 2010. So many great insights expressed, I would be remiss to not share. Yes, I’ll admit the Nationals Park Conference Center venue and Nationals vs. Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game, featuring Stephen Strasburg’s major league debut, did not hurt!
Dr. Bob Mikelskas, recently retired CIO of MITRE Corp., started the day with an excellent presentation on “Information Advantage for the Enterprise CIO.” Dr. Mikelskas’ key point was that most of the layers of the IT “stack” such as storage, routers, operating systems, databases, ERP, etc., are mature enough to offer easy choices and low risk for the CIO. Two components that remain challenging, however, are cyber security and information access. Focusing on information access, Dr. Mikelskas laid down a challenge to the industry to meet the needs of knowledge workers while maintaining security and incorporating legacy systems and content.
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Tags: CIO, Defense Intelligence Agency, Dr. Bob Mikelskas, federal, Information Optimization Assessment, IT, Kevin Calderwood, legacy systems, National Library of Medicine, ROI, security, Velocity Platform
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
Like it or not, the whole world is gravitating towards Facebook. It’s not just your long-lost college roommates and people obsessed with Farmville. The Washington Post now has the Facebook brand on its homepage, and market leaders like Coca-Cola are relying on Facebook to deliver key messages to customer communities.
In fact, I’m willing to predict that the effective use of Facebook is going to surpass search engine optimization as the primary concern of content publishers across the web.
Here’s why:
Facebook has achieved a critical mass when it comes to our online identities and relationships. People don’t want to maintain multiple sets of online “friends” for every content source on the web. So, by acting as the Internet’s primary tool for giving “friends” permission to know who we are, Facebook is grafting a layer of standardized personal identification on the web—something we’ve always known we needed, but didn’t realize would come about in such an organic way.
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Tags: commenting, Facebook, Information Optimization, information strategy, Internet content, Internet publishing, IO, IT, online, social tools
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Venice rose to power and great wealth in the Middle Ages not because of its own natural resources or productive capacity—but because it uniquely provided access to the silk, grain, and spices of other lands.
Many of America’s greatest family fortunes can likewise be traced to the railroads that accessed the collective agricultural and industrial productivity of a growing nation—rather than to the farms and factories themselves.
Google serves as a contemporary example of this same principle. Google didn’t generate wealth by producing information, goods, or services. It did so by providing access to those things.
These examples and others highlight a fundamental principle of commerce. Often, the best way to create the most wealth isn’t to produce a limited number of things of value. It’s to provide access to a great number of things of value.
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Tags: access, economic value, Google, Information Optimization, information technology, information wealth, IO, IT, ROI, value access, value creation
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The Facebook-ing of Web Content
Monday, May 17th, 2010Like it or not, the whole world is gravitating towards Facebook. It’s not just your long-lost college roommates and people obsessed with Farmville. The Washington Post now has the Facebook brand on its homepage, and market leaders like Coca-Cola are relying on Facebook to deliver key messages to customer communities.
In fact, I’m willing to predict that the effective use of Facebook is going to surpass search engine optimization as the primary concern of content publishers across the web.
Here’s why:
Facebook has achieved a critical mass when it comes to our online identities and relationships. People don’t want to maintain multiple sets of online “friends” for every content source on the web. So, by acting as the Internet’s primary tool for giving “friends” permission to know who we are, Facebook is grafting a layer of standardized personal identification on the web—something we’ve always known we needed, but didn’t realize would come about in such an organic way.
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Tags: commenting, Facebook, Information Optimization, information strategy, Internet content, Internet publishing, IO, IT, online, social tools
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