Link:

[Via: Smartdex]

The document contains industry figures for 2006 (a shame to be just getting this now!) and outlines government policy trends and strategies for the industry. It can be downloaded from the Korean Game Industry Total Information Service System website.

An addendum, the volume does appear to be published mid-2007. It has only just been listed on the GITISS website as of 8 September 2008, so perhaps this publishing date refers to the original Korean language version?

Die Hinweise und Vorschläge richten sich in erster Linie an Bildagenturen, auch wenn es Fotografen nicht schadet, sich den Text durchzulesen.

Veeam schrijft het volgende:

More and more organizations are choosing VMware Infrastructure to virtualize their mission‐critical applications (Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server) to create a flexible, easily administered virtual infrastructure.
Virtual machines (VMs) and any applications they contain must be protected against failure. Typically, in the virtual world, this is done by performing an image‐level backup of the whole machine (for instance, using VMware Consolidated Backup). This method results in what is known as a crash‐consistent image. Restoring a crash‐consistent image is essentially equivalent to rebooting a server after a hard reset. For operating systems, this has not been an issue, since they can easily handle this type of activity. For database applications as well as for applications featuring replication, however, such a restore will often result in lost data, data corruption, or application failure.
To illustrate this concept, let’s review the consequences of using different VM disaster recovery methods for one of the most common mission‐critical applications: a Microsoft Active Directory domain controller (DC). Depending on the solution used, the following results will be achieved:

Download de PDF hier: VMwareandVSS-ApplicationBackupandRecovery.pdf

De jongens van XtraVirt  hebben hun guide over VI in a Box bijgewerkt.

In 2007, like others in the global VMware community, Xtravirt developed a common methodology to install and run VMware ESX 3.x on VMware Workstation 6 together with a shared storage solution based upon an iSCSI software target. We called it ‘VI3 in a box’.

This allowed users and professionals in the IT community to create simple and cost effective VI3 infrastructures to test, learn about and demonstrate these environments.

Upon the release of VMware ESX 3.5 we found that this methodology did not continue to hold true. Although still possible to install ESX 3.5, when attempting to start a nested Virtual Machine on the ESX VM, the ESX VM panics, and a stop message appears.

However, with the release of VMware Workstation 6.5, build release 99530, a revised solution now exists.

This white paper documents the process to install and configure ‘VI3.5 in a box’.

Download de guide hier: ESXonWKS65beta99530.pdf

We saw this happen when barcodes were introduced, and years later WAL-MART designed a distribution system for the new-age, the system has since been adopted differently by warehouses, department stores, grocers, all over.  The information system allows for more WAL-MART product to be put on shelves faster than ever before.. by basically telling the store what is being scanned and sold.  This changed the daunting process of writing overhead orders into a breeze when they basically began writing themselves.  While I'm on the topic of walmart check out the new logo they unveiled this week:

Interesting eh? Look like they have a new "Target" demographic, yes that was a pun.

When exactly will the next big distribution system will come along?  As the world turns greener and our culture becomes less-resistant to technology... is it possible that we may work in a paperless world?

Not many industries haven't changed due to new technologies in the past 15 years, obviously the web has had a serious effect on business communication, and e-commerce.

Advertising is no different.  Our landscape now has a fourth dimension...  We were some of the first to gain big capital through the internet and capitalize we did.  It is ever-changing on the web and to stay on top you must stay informed.  

Paul Beelen has released a nice whitepaper write-up through the creative commons entitled: Advertising 2.0.  Its definitely worth checking out for any marketing, advertising, or media buff.  What are you waiting for? Check it out: 
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"Advertising 2.0" (.pdf document)
Written by Paul Beelen

White papers discuss a specific business issue, product, or competitive situation.

In many cases, they summarize information about a topic, for example the results of a survey or study and then suggest a 'proposal for action', with the research data providing the justification for the action.

In the IT industry, white papers and case studies are often produced in tandem, as they are both used as sales collateral. However, white papers are not technical documents.

From one perspective, their purpose is to share technical knowledge and business information with others in the same field.

They are also used as collateral material for presentations at industry conferences, promotional drives, seminars and other such events.

From a business viewpoint, a white paper can generate publicity, especially when a company is starting out and trying to get media attention.

If a company is working on an innovative area or solutions for a specialized audience, white papers can be very effective in demonstrating the company's achievements.

Major sections in a standard White Paper :

• Executive Summary
• Business Challenge
• Solution Description
• Benefits
• Technical Specifications
• Target Market
• Case Studies
• Summary

If you'd like a copy, simply send me an EMAIL including your name, title and company and I'll send you get a copy. Just as a heads up, I'll probably email you about a week later just to get some feedback on the document and to see where you are in terms of your Social Media Strategy. Ultimately, I'd like to post an overview of "The State of Social Media Recruiting" on this blog (without mentioning names or companies) because I'm finding that everyone wants to play in this space, but no one really knows enough about it to justify spending money on a strategy.

So request your copy today and take the first step toward putting your Social Media Recruitment Strategy in place! Click Here To Receive Your Copy

To that end, THINKStrategies has published independent analysis on behalf of Bungee Labs to highlight the business benefits of PaaS. THINKStrategies is a strategic consulting services company formed to addresss the business challenges facing IT managers, solutions providers, and investors today as the technology industry shifts toward a services orientation. Jeff Kaplan, THINKStrategies founder, has over 20 years experience originating and pioneering such concepts as Software-as-a-Service, Out-Tasking and Managed Services. THINKstrategies has also founded the Software-as-a-Service Showplace, an easy-to-use, online directory and resource center of over 2500 SaaS solutions from over 600 companies worldwide. The showplace also includes information and insights regarding industry best practices.

From the executive summary:

A combination of macro-trends has initiated a fundamental shift in the software industry from on-premise to on-demand solutions. The shift to Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) for business-essential applications is best observed in CRM applications.

Rapidly changing business requirements are forcing companies of all sizes to adopt new ways of operating in order to better serve their customers, support their employees, connect with partners and compete in an increasingly global and eCommerce marketplace.

This interest in on-demand solutions is also being fueled by growing frustration with the costs, complexities and cumbersome nature of traditional, on-premise, legacy applications. Escalating macro-economic pressures due to deepening recession and intensifying competitive pressures are making it imperative that companies get more return from their enterprise application investments in order to win and retain customers.

These forces are driving the growth of a new generation of on-demand, web-based, SaaS solutions. In addition to CRM, other business-essential applications including ERP, HR management and web hosting are moving from costly and complex infrastructure hosted by the business to multi-tenant solutions delivered entirely as a service.

These same forces are also compelling a growing number of software developers, IT departments and business units to seek a parallel solution for software development with similar economic and operational benefits. Key requirements include a powerful, yet easy-to-use set of web-based software development tools built-in scalability and reliability, extensibility to bring together multiple data sources and business processes, and increased return on existing and future investments.

To meet these rising market requirements, a new generation of easy-to-use, cost-effective SaaS-delivered software development and delivery solutions are emerging. Each aims to enable businesses to build and manage powerful Web-based software applications to meet their corporate objectives outside or across the existing SaaS application silos of CRM and ERP.

Delivering on this SaaS concept, Bungee Labs has integrated these end-to-end requirements in its Bungee Connect Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), which combines hosted development and deployment to provide on-demand support for the complete application lifecycle.

THINKstrategies has found that an increasing proportion of organizations of all sizes are looking for on-demand PaaS alternatives to traditional, on-premise software development toolkits and application hosting. These organizations hope to accelerate their application development processes, generate applications that better meet the needs of the end-users and give them secure access to essential corporate information.

Organizations are now seeking to leverage web-based, on-demand platforms that can deliver better applications while more quickly and cost-effectively meeting their business needs. They are also interested in selecting the right development and delivery platform which can scale to support their future requirements.

This white paper will examine these trends and show how the Bungee Connect PaaS approach can help software developers, IT organizations and business units accelerate their application development and deployment processes, enhance their capabilities, reduce their time to market and enable them to achieve their corporate objectives.

Download your copy of the white paper here: Capitalizing on Platform-as-a-Service to Achieve Your Business Objectives

"HOW COMPANIES DEVELOP OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR INNOVATION"

http://www.innovationtools.com/PDF/innovation_update_2005.pdf

VMware® VirtualCenter uses a database to store metadata on the state of a VMware Infrastructure
environment. Performance statistics and their associated stored procedure operations constitute the largest
and the most resource‐intensive component of the VirtualCenter database. Hence the performance of your
VirtualCenter database depends upon the frequency at which you collect performance statistics and the level
of detail of the statistics you store. VirtualCenter 2.5 features a number of enhancements that are aimed at
greatly improving the performance and scalability of the performance statistics operations in the
VirtualCenter database. The purpose of this study is to present the performance results of tests we conducted
to validate these performance enhancements and to provide best practices information for configuring a
VirtualCenter database. The study also provides information for sizing the server you use to host the
VirtualCenter database based on these performance results. Although the new features in VirtualCenter 2.5
benefit users with any of the supported databases, the examples and performance data presented in this study
are specific to Microsoft SQL Server and the paper assumes that you have a working knowledge of SQL Server.

This study covers the following topics:

"VirtualCenter 2.5 Database Overview” on page 2

"Performance Statistics Collection in VirtualCenter” on page 2

"Performance Statistics Database Operations and Their Effects on Performance” on page 3

"Performance Enhancement in VirtualCenter 2.5” on page 3

“Performance Tests” on page 4

“Performance Results” on page 5

“Sizing the VirtualCenter Database Server” on page 7

“Performance Best Practices” on page 8

“References” on page 9

“Appendix A: Configuring Performance Statistics Levels and Rollups with VirtualCenter” on page 10

“Appendix B: Configuring Memory Size for SQL Server” on page 11

“Appendix C: Monitoring

Je kunt de whitepaper hier downloaden: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vc_database_performance.pdf

Podcasting is part of the new social media that is sweeping the online marketing landscape. It's all about communicating with a new audience using a new media and engaging them on their turf. Blogs, podcasts, video and social networking sites are becoming the new way to talk to prospects and customers...download the PDF file for this FREE white paper.

 [download the PDF file here]

Just to list a few:

• Reporting Wizard that allows you to create and run custom reports in minutes; in fact, no report development experience is required. This includes offline and scheduled reporting.
• Easier-than-ever Workflow Wizard to streamline your business processes without custom programming.
• New Data Import Wizard to easily map and drop your new leads, contacts and other records into CRM.
• Internet Facing Deployment for accessing your CRM data securely, without the need for a VPN connection.
• Design, upload and share Mail-Merge Templates across your organization.
• Integration with Microsoft Office Communication Server to see who is online and communicate with them.
• Tighter integration with Microsoft Office software like Word and Excel, where you can import data dynamically from CRM and refresh as needed.
• Advanced Entity Relationship Modeling that allows you to tailor CRM to work the way you do.

If any of these features sound exciting to you, then feel free to download the full white paper below or go directly to the Microsoft Partner download site.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 - Top 60 New Features (PDF, 1.7 MB)

Review the table of contents after clicking the link below.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: Top 60 New Features
Table of Contents

BUSINESS BENEFITS SUMMARY .............................................................................................. 3
ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY
1. Internet-Facing Deployment ....................................................................................................4
2. Smart Search .................................................................................................................................4
3. Load Status Bar .............................................................................................................................4
4. Most Recently Used Entities List .............................................................................................4
5. Tracking Breadcrumb ..................................................................................................................5
6. Web Mail Merge ...........................................................................................................................5
7. Activity Synchronization ............................................................................................................5
8. E-Mail Smart Matching ..............................................................................................................5
9. E-Mail Promotion to Lead or Case ........................................................................................6
10. Presence Visibility ........................................................................................................................6
11. Campaign Automation ..............................................................................................................6
12. Resource Center ...........................................................................................................................6
STREAMLINE BUSINESS PROCESSES
13. Windows Workflow Foundation .............................................................................................7
14. Workflow Wizard ..........................................................................................................................7
15. Workflow Accessibility ................................................................................................................7
16. Expanded Workflow Actions ....................................................................................................7
17. Dynamic Data Access for Workflow Design .......................................................................8
18. Multi-Stage Workflows ..............................................................................................................8
19. Choice of Design Environments .............................................................................................8
20. Advanced Workflow Expressions and Triggers .................................................................8
REPORT WITH EASE
21. Scheduled Reporting ..................................................................................................................9
22. Reporting Wizard .........................................................................................................................9
23. Offline Reporting .........................................................................................................................9
24. Integrated Reporting Access Model .....................................................................................9
25. Advanced Find ...........................................................................................................................10
26. Dynamic Data Connections in Microsoft Office Excel ................................................. 10
27. Activity Reporting .....................................................................................................................10
MANAGE DATA INTELLIGENTLY
28. Data Import Wizard .................................................................................................................11
29. Duplicate Detection .................................................................................................................11
30. Reusable Data Import Maps .................................................................................................11
31. Data Import Validation ...........................................................................................................11
ALIGN BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY
32. Advanced Entity Relationship Modeling .......................................................................... 12
33. Smart Navigation ......................................................................................................................12
34. Device Client Access License .................................................................................................12
35. Read-Only Client Access License .........................................................................................12
SUPPORT GLOBAL BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
36. Multi-Tenancy .............................................................................................................................13
37. Multi-Language .........................................................................................................................13
38. Multi-Currency ...........................................................................................................................13
39. Multiple E-Mail Platform Support ......................................................................................13
EFFECTIVELY MANAGE CRM
40. System Job Monitor .................................................................................................................14
41. Monitoring and Diagnostics .................................................................................................14
42. Office Client Diagnostic Tools and Reports ..................................................................... 14
43. Client Tracing and Troubleshooting File ........................................................................... 14
IMPROVE MANAGEMENT EFFICIENCY
44. Migration of Customizations ................................................................................................15
45. Organization Import Wizard .................................................................................................15
46. Extended Portable Application Model .............................................................................. 15
47. Bulk User Add .............................................................................................................................15
DELIVER ON AVAILABILITY, PERFORMANCE, AND SCALABILITY REQUIREMENTS
48. Microsoft SQL Server Mirroring ...........................................................................................16
49. Enhanced Performance ...........................................................................................................16
50. Clustering and Load Balancing ............................................................................................16
51. Component Scalability ............................................................................................................16
QUICKLY DEVELOP, INNOVATE, AND DEPLOY
52. Metadata Application Programming Interface .............................................................. 17
53. Offline Customizations ............................................................................................................17
54. Event Framework Plug-Ins .....................................................................................................17
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
55. Citrix Support .............................................................................................................................18
56. Automatic Client Updates ......................................................................................................18
57. Path-based URLs........................................................................................................................18
58. Pop-Up Blocker Detection .....................................................................................................18
59. New Accessibility Features .....................................................................................................18
60. Advanced Quote Printing ......................................................................................................18
PRODUCT INFORMATION .......................................................................................................19
FEATURES AND BENEFITS SUMMARY .................................................................................20

There are a many things to consider when making the move to 802.11n including:

• Power Consumption and WLAN architecture
• The increased traffic through your core network arising from high-throughput

By downloading the new 15 page whitepaper 'Practical Considerations for Deploying 802.11n' you can find out more about these and other issues.

Click here to download.

There are numerous ways to apply a configuration or security setting onto a group of servers within a Presentation Server environment. Because policies are so unique, diverse and customizable, there is no single, correct method toward policy design. However, this document will give the key areas to consider when deciding on the appropriate approach to implementing a setting using a policy. This design consideration will look at the following types of policies and the common practices associated with them:

• Citrix Presentation Server policies: These policies are defined within the management console on Presentation Server and only apply to connections using the Citrix ICA protocol but not the Microsoft RDP protocol. Presentation Server policies also allow for the configuration of Presentation Server-specific options like Session Printers and Progressive Display. The power of these policies is that they have the ability to be filtered based on users, location and even the method for launching the published applications. Many of these filters are only available within Presentation Server.

• Active Director y policies: These policies are configured within Active Directory. They are applied to organizational units (folders), domains, sites, etc. within the Active Directory structure. A single Active Director y policy can consist of a computer policy and a user policy. A computer policy consists of settings that affect the physical computer and impact all users logging onto the computer while a user policy affects the user and is applied on all system s the user logs on to. Local server policies and custom policies are type s of Active Director y policies and are described as:

• Local Server Policies and Settings: Local Server policies are similar to Active Directory policies, except they are managed on a server-by-server basis and configured locally on that specific server, where Active Directory policies are managed centrally and can impact hundreds or thousands of users or computers with a single application of a policy.

• Custom Active Directory Policy Templates: Custom ADM templates, like the Citrix icaclient.adm template, are Active Directory or Local Server policies used to make configuration settings. They can be custom registry settings or simply standard policies re-organized as two examples. The concept of custom templates is supported, but depending on the author of the custom template, supportability by either Citrix or Microsoft might not be available. Organizations will have to verify the supportability of custom ADM templates. Also, any custom template used might already have settings configured, potentially causing issues with the environment. It is highly recommended to test custom policies in a test environment before implementing in production.

The following five areas are the basis f or the design decisions for an enterprise deployment of Presentation Server. These types of policies will be impacted by the following design areas:

• Policy Type

• Policy Integration

• Policy Filters Policy Prioritization

• Policy Precedence

Download hier de pdf: How_Policies_Impact_Presentation_Server_Environments_JS.pdf

Bron: http://www.dabcc.com/downloadfile.aspx?id=531

In my opinion the system to write emails/messages to potential hosts was working well at the beginning but now is a little outdated. Of course all accomodation exchange communities started this way but I think that now this is a huge phenomena and we could re-analyze it and maybe setup some new system.

Let me summarize in few lines what is the main structure of these accomodation communities:

There is the database of members profiles, the search function (with different parameters and map option too), the forum, the message system. Most of the times these communities are used to ask for accomodation, meeting, spending time together. The first contact usually starts from the guest.

Some different generic cases

1. know before meet - The guest and the host are in touch before, they know the each other by email/chat/phone enough and then they meet it's chosen by people who need to trust more their hosts/guests and th
2. 'looking for hospitality and meeting friendly people while roaming - the guest is having a tour in different cities and needs accomodation in all these cities, the hosts are mostly evaluated as free hospitality but happen some unexpected good encounters and friendship as well
3. meetings - some special meetings with many members, like HC camps (about this who is CouchSurfing member as well can checkout the CS function "meet" that is almost perfect, I think)

The current system of message exchange, profiles with photo, MSN, ICQ, etc. is good for the first case. There is not so much to do about that, I think. Photos, comments, profile... (even if I found much more descriptive the CS profile, with many photos, more text, .... friends link...)

For such cases would be helpful to add one "virtual agreement or meeting/hosting", that, once selected by both members, would send an email to both of them with the reminder and the actual personal and ID data of themselves and it will be stored in the database. The host would be able to see the upcoming guest he confirmed to and the guest the hosts he confirmed to as well. Any change on dates should be confirmed by the other member. I think that this would help also people to keep track of the agenda of upcoming guests and hosts.

I mean, at the beginning the contact is just general, then one member send to the other one special request for meeting or hosting or guesting, not just a normal message, when the second accept it, automatically will be sent one email with the full personal data of both. This, IMHO would be a very good safety feature, so you can give your address, phone number, etc just to people you are supposed to meet and these data would be the official data stored in HC servers. No need to write name, suname, passport number on any message. Just store in HC database and give immediately to people you are supposed to meet, to host or to be hosted by, in the same moment when you receive their data as well. (Ebay has something similar)

This thing IMHO should be connected with comments as well. If you had such virtual agreement this can lead to 3 situations:

1. both members let it pending (meeting delayed, or future or in progress)
2. one member cancel that (canceled or missed meeting) and the other confirm it
3. one member write the comment and the other (before seeing the other's comment) write his comment as well. Just when both are written down, those comments will appear on member's profile.

This would prevent for example people who never met to write comments.

I would think about these status or each meeting/hosting:

1. offered
2. confirmed
3. in progress
4. done, pending comment
5. commented
6. canceled before meeting

Ah, of course IMHO the meeting/hosting should be seen just by the two involved members. (like HC "My list" and CS "Note" functions)

But let me talk a little also on the second and third cases.

I meet often people that are having a Europe trip just on HC/CS hosts. (It's so cool, HC changed the world!) Even one or two days in each place.

But maybe it wasn't exactly planned like this. Because this way makes a huge overloads of emails. And mails have to be checked (at least into HC). And sometimes this lead to mails being reveived when the guest already left the city (as to me happened in some cases in my last travel to Prague).

I usually see that after a while and expecially in travels with many cities the guest doesn't have so much time for choosing the host (expecially if he is in rush in a Internet point or at the previous host's place) and he doesn't know if they will answer or not so typically he just read quickly some profiles, copy&paste a presentation email, maybe do some little changes and delay the real choice of the host among the ones who will answer positivelly. Isn't often like this?

Because even if you find someone who is much more interesting for you (maybe some common interests) you don't know if he will be free for that period or not. So you have to wait the second contact. And to find the most interesting people usually it's so time consuming, expecially in cities with many members.

I mean, for these kind of guests, the perfect way would be to receive accomodation offers from all members of the city and then choose among them, I am not saying that any host is the same, but the first criteria for them is the availability to meet.

Also in some cities/areas people build some mailgroups to share guests among members of the same cities.

I dunno how works in HC "Want more guest" group and looking for profiles who state a planning travel to your city. I never tried, was always busy with so many emails and guests.

But the paradox is that sometimes you are free, you have lots of spare time, you could be eager to host people but no guest is writing you for that dates.

So... what I would do in this case is: Let guests apply for accomodation (or just meeting friendly members) to the whole city or area (province, region, multiple city, ...) (not to each single member) and have a list of upcoming guests for each city (province, region, area), with arrival and departure date and this let hosts offer their availability. When the guest found his host (of if he changed his plan) he should delete the generic accomodation request on the city and IMHO not to be shown whom he agreed to be hosted / to meet to. Then everything can go as case 1, but IMHO this pre-step would save a lot of time to guests to write tons of copy&paste emails, to hosts to answer to all of them and to volounteers to check it! Ah, of course a member can chose on his preferences to receive daily by email a "digest" of upcoming accomodation/meeting request in his city/province/region.

(I know that this it was planned in HC by Veit to be done on the city page on the upcoming guest but it is so simple system and I think it's not working because there is not the "digest" by email.)

The selection of the area of interest by the guest could be done very well with the geographical tool (map) or with the classical interface with continent/country/region/province/city.

Let me say an example. happened to me, when I was in Prague the last time. Even if I had accomodation at friend's place I liked to meet HC members. So I wrote some messages, mostly "copy & paste" style, except some special members whose profile intrigued me a little more, whom I wrote a special message. Some of those messages got there even after my visit was ended. Whatever.. At the end I ended up meeting just one member for a beer.

With my idea things would work this way, instead. I would spend less time, I would just write one "upcoming guest", from date X to date Y, I already have accomodation, I'd like to meet friendly member, I am this and that, I like this... etc. Those members in Prague who whould like to meet or host people whould have selected the "receive digest of upcoming members" so they would receive my "upcoming guest" as with all other ads. Some of them would be intrigued and they will take a look on my profile and my comments and my forum posts etc. If they are interested they will write me a message thru the site (and that message should arrive promptly, without checking for spam).

I think the same would apply to people looking for accomodation, except that they could delete the "upcoming guest" when they already found a host place to stay ot they can leave it there while looking for a better host. No? Isn't it much more better? Isn't it more effective for both guests and hosts?

Also meetings in my opinion are very very important. In CS there is this lovely function that I think it's so cool and effective. Mostly members can write down a meeting with a place, title, directions, photo, summary, description and details, dates and times, confirmation status etc etc.

Maybe I would improve a little the way how meetings are posted to members, maybe each member should set a km range of meetings he would like to maybe attend and I would let people set freely the current place where they are, this to allow to be involved in meetings that are going to happen in that place even if they are just travelling there.

To summarize all my idea in few words, I would base more the system on the places (upcoming guests/visitors, upcoming meetings, etc) and less to direct emails to each member.

IMHO would be so nice for each member to have a main list (like "my ebay page") with upcoming guests who are planned to come at his place, upcoming hosts that are waiting for him, upcoming meetings which he is supposed to attend to and an other list of possibilities, with the upcoming guests/visitors and meetings in his city/area.

And I think that with these improvements (nothing to change, just to add) all the system would be less guest-centred but equally comfortable for hosts and guests, and for people that just would like to meet.

Nadat op 3 februari de versie 1 release was uitgekomen zag ik en samen met mij nog een aantal mensen dat er nog een paar kleine foutjes in stonden. Deze heeft Forbes inmiddels gefixed.

• Correction to partition types (thanks to Arne Fokkema)
• Addition of SQL express with VC 2.5 (thanks to Peter Vroomen)
• Added check license site
• added PROD_VC_EXPRESS
• Random tidying

 

Download de laatste versie hier: vmreferencecard

1. Optimierung von Einstiegssteiten

2. Stärkung der Lead-Generierung 

3. Erweiterung des Portal-Marketings

4. Optimierung der Suchmaschinen-Werbung

5. Einsatz von Cross-Online-Marketing

Ich bin ebenfalls überzeugt, dass sowohl die Stärkung der Lead-Generierung z.B. durch Whitepapers und Podcasts als auch die Erweiterung des Portal-Marketings noch weiter an Bedeutung gewinnen. Wie Jens Stolze zutreffend beschreibt, müssen die Fachmedien neue Geschäftsfelder entwickeln. Deswegen müssen viele Branchenportale überarbeitet oder gänzlich neu konzipiert werden. Einige Medienunternehmen haben bereits den ersten Schritt getan.

Die anderen drei genannten Punkte halte ich für keine Trends im eigentliche Sinne, sondern zähle sie bereits zu den wichtigen Basics.

Link zur Studie: B2B Online-Marketing Trends 2008

Quelle: B2B Online-Marketing Blog

White Paper

Executive Summary

Mobile operators need to recognize their newfound role as internet service providers
(ISPs). No longer do they just provide cellular voice services; now they also provide highspeed Internet Protocol-based (IP) data services. So as to offer a wider array of services
and content to their data subscribers, mobile operators are opening up their formerly
closed networks to numerous other mobile operators, data networks and the public
Internet.

As a result, mobile operator’s 3G networks are not only exposed to all the virtual
pathogens already in circulation, but also to mobile-specific viruses and Trojans, as well as
to direct attacks such as Denial of Service (DoS) on their networks from hackers and/or
criminal organizations. These types of attacks employ methods which wired ISPs have
been dealing with for a much longer period of time. There are also variations on these
attacks which exploit weaknesses in the architecture and some of the protocols used in
2.5G/3G cellular data networks.

To protect their networks and customers, then, mobile operators need to:

. Take an architecture approach to implementing security solutions in their network;
point solutions are not sufficient

. Deploy a variety of products in their networks, such as firewalls, intrusion
detection and prevention (IDP) and virtual private networks (VPNs)

. Make client-side anti-virus and firewall software readily available to their
subscribers who use data devices (e.g., feature phones with data capabilities,
smartphones, notebook computers)

. Be vigilant and adopt appropriate security policies that reflect the threats in the
2.5/3G world. This has additional ramifications given the widespread use of WiFi
and the general evolution toward networks based on the IP Multimedia
Subsystem (IMS) standard

. Be aware that their networks are only as secure as the weakest link. Mobile
operators need to work with each other, the ISP community and other telecom
providers to ensure that even the minimum amount of security is quite strong.

. Vigorously protect signaling as the migration of signaling traffic over IP creates
new risks. Mobile operators carry much more signaling traffic than their wired
counterparts and signaling is mission critical traffic.

This whitepaper will explore the following topics:

. Why 2.5/3G wireless networks are now vulnerable and at what points they are
vulnerable

. The types of attacks that can be perpetrated against those networks

. The types of products that can be deployed to help guard 3G networks

. The business implications of a network outage and a revenue impact model to
demonstrate the seriousness of such an outage

. Future threats to mobile operators, specifically regarding IMS which is being
deployed by fixed and mobile carriers around the world.

Finally, this paper also suggests some steps mobile operators can take to minimize the
risk to their networks and their customers.

More on : http://www.igr-inc.com/html/downloads/free_white_papers/3G_MobileSecurity_Jan07.pdf

source : igr-inc.com