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Encryption Can Get Board's Attention
Nov 22, 2009
Posted by Chris Murphy
There are lots of good reasons for IT leaders to pay attention to even the finest details of encryption policies. One of the more practical is that encryption's a board-level concept. As in, the board of directors will feel no hesitation in second guessing decisions not to encrypt data that ends up exposed.Which makes the findings in this week's cover story on encryption all the more surprising.

Google Chrome OS Coming. Got A Netbook Strategy?
Nov 19, 2009
Posted by Chris Murphy
The clock’s running. Google expects Web-optimized netbooks running its OS to be on sale before the end of 2010. That gives you about a year to figure out how you want to handle employee use of this next generation of devices. No sense waiting.

Veterans Day And Our Military
Nov 11, 2009
Posted by Bob Evans
Today on Veterans Day, we would all do well to remember, thank, and pray for the courageous and selfless men and women of the United States military who put themselves in harm's way so the rest of us don't have to.

Oracle Says EU Doesn't Get Open Source
Nov 11, 2009
Posted by Serdar Yegulalp
What is it that the EU doesn't understand about how open source works? That seems to be a good part of the substance of Oracle's objections to, well, the EU's objections to Oracle acquiring Sun. Never mind that many governments in the EU mandate the use of open source in their own work, and have a slightly better than passing acquaintance with it.

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