People become scared to make any decision, take any actions, and conformity becomes all-pervasive. In many departments people seem to be actively encouraged to leave their personalities, and sense of self, at home in the morning.
Pervasive computing is here and it's going to enter most aspects of your life, according to IBM. There were 325 million pervasive computing devices in existence in 2002, and this will increase to one billion by 2005, claims the software giant.
This leads us to believe that there is a requirement for a solid exercise to confirm these findings and also identify their likely causes, in a form that can be used with departments across government.
Andrew Lloyd, VP security management at CA, agreed it is of paramount importance that governments ensure federation is not akin to open season on identities - and he said it should be implemented to ensure only relevant data is viewable by...
Ownership and management of printers, copiers and scanners is usually fragmented across business departments, workgroups and locations. One of the main reasons for this is that printers have not always been the responsibility of the IT function...
Pervasive Software has decided to exit the business of providing support for the PostgreSQL open source database, one of the first failures in the current rush to open source business models. In a letter to the PostgreSQL community of developers...