Profile of Lorna Garey

Content Director, InformationWeek Reports Member Since: 11/15/2013
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Holiday Gift Guide 2015: What Techies Want

12/5/2014
Need to show your appreciation for the techies in your life? Back away from the knockoff Bluetooth speakers and consider these can't-miss gift ideas.
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FCC Should Stop Coddling Broadcasters

11/3/2014
Spectrum is a finite and valuable resource that must be reallocated to serve the public good and keep up with technology. We can't wait until 2016 to start this process.
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6 DevOps Salary Negotiation Tips

9/24/2014
DevOps pros, take note. Interop speaker Dustin Whittle explains how to position yourself as indispensable.
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IT Needs A Dose Of Its Own Medicine

8/25/2014
You're all over collecting and mining information to help the business get lean and mean. Why not shine that light inward?
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Don't Look Now, But The Developers Are Winning

6/19/2014
Join CA's Andi Mann, JumpCloud's Rajat Bhargava, and InformationWeek editors as we discuss the future of DevOps and your career.
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DevOps Creates A New Digital Divide

3/25/2014
What's that? Your product is the code and the code is the product and automation is your middle name? How nice. You're the digital 1%.
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Women In IT: The Next Generation

3/7/2014
A walk-through at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab reveals lessons on how to solve IT's image problem.
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Which Desktop OS Are You? IT Pro Personality Quiz

2/14/2014
You don't have time for cute little Facebook quizzes. But in your grizzled IT career, an OS or two has rubbed off on you: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, or Chrome OS?
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Why Alternate Payment Schemes Get No Love

2/14/2014
Vendors promoting EMV, OTP, NVF, and other alphabetic credit card replacements completely miss the point.
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Google's Enterprise Cloud Problem

10/4/2013
Our new survey delivers a good news/bad news scenario: Apps and Gmail are compared favorably one-to-one with Office and Exchange/Outlook. But a cloud stigma still sticks to Google in the enterprise.
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5 Things CFOs Hate About IT

7/23/2013
Technologists love to grouse about how "the bean counters" stand in the way of awesomeness. But guess what? That street goes both ways.
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New England Patriots' Winning Technology Plan

1/17/2013
IT pros from Boston's professional teams -- the Patriots, Celtics, Bruins and Red Sox -- met at Gillette Stadium to talk tech, the future of live sports, and how to deliver real-time, high-definition video to a crowd of 70,000.
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Get Rid Of Old Desktops And Do Some Good

12/3/2010
If you've wanted to donate outdated end-user devices but were thwarted by security, software licensing, or other concerns, the new Serious Good program by IT asset recovery company Redemtech might be for you. The program's ambitious: Provide a refurbished computer for every Habitat for Humanity partner family in the U.S. who wants one, a target that will require about 80,000 donated computers. But since U.S. businesses replace about 40 million PCs per
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Storage Outlook: Cloudy, No Swimming

6/15/2010
Earlier this month I sat down with Deepak Mohan, senior VP of Symantec's Information Management Group, and Anil Chakravarthy, senior VP of Symantec's Storage and Availability Management Group, to discuss the growth of digital information and topics that InformationWeek Analytics will be covering in the second half of the year.
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The HiPPO In The Room

5/20/2010
I attended the MIT Sloan Symposium yesterday, which largely focused on the democratization and decentralization of IT. "You're no longer in control," says Frank Moss, former Tivoli CEO and now head of MIT's media lab. "Get over it."
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Cybercrime As An Economic Threat

2/3/2010
Speaking on Good Morning America this morning during a report on the terror threat, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke pegged cyberthreats as just as, if not more, serious than the next iteration of the underwear bomber. "Every day major corporations in the country lose their intellectual property, their corporate secrets, without even knowing it, to successful Chinese hacks" says Clarke. "This is the real big threat, because it takes away our economic advantage."
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Security: Exception to the Rule?

1/13/2010
In his most recent column, Art Wittmann explained that we're not going to see a "year of the cloud" because cloud is an evolutionary process, and evolution takes time. In general, that's true, but there's one area where the pace tends to be quicker—security. Attackers aren't sitting back waiting for new techs to gain maturity. They're throwing everything they have at our networks, hoping
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Is Virtualization The Key To Continuity?

10/15/2009
Business continuity and disaster recovery have long been sore points for enterprise IT. Can virtualization change all that and make true continuity a reality ... or at least, make recovering from disaster a faster and more thorough operation? That's the premise of our latest InformationWeek Analytics poll.
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FTC To Bloggers: Gut Check Time

10/6/2009
The FTC's new rules on what constitutes an endorsement should be required reading for anyone who renders an opinion on products or services, and for those of us who give these bloggers a venue.
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Unified Communications, Take 1

9/13/2009
The best thing about my job is hanging out with smart people. I had that opportunity last Friday when I attended the filming of a series of videos on unified communications.
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The Encryption Gap

7/23/2009
Things that make us say "hmmm" include these stats: The percentage of respondents to our 2009 Strategic Security Survey rating encrytion as effective in reducing risk dropped from 57% in 2008 to 48% in 2009. Use of disk, file and backup media encryption ALL fell year over year by at least five percentage points. Backup encryption usage is down 10 points.
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Help Shape Our Win7 Coverage

7/20/2009
Seems like every pundit has a take on the upcoming Windows 7 OS. But instead of squawking at you, InformationWeek Analytics wants to listen. And clearly, you want to talk: Our Win7 reader survey got more than 800 responses in just a few days.
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Will 11n Ever Supplant Ethernet To The Desktop?

5/21/2009
That's just one of the questions InformationWeek Analytics is looking to answer with our first-ever "Wireless Nation" report. Security and compliance are also high on our coverage list.
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Yes, We're Talking Mainframes

4/23/2009
Sure, much of our audience is thinking "Seriously dude? You're bumming me out. I've been working for a few hours and I almost have my iPhone virtualized. I'm gonna have, like, three iPhones running on one phone." But if you're one of the select few who sees the real future of virtualization, have I got a survey for you.
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Plug Those Leaks

3/20/2009
There's a spirited discussion going on among our technology editors over data loss prevention (DLP) technologies. Is DLP the new NAC? Sure, it's expensive, but could this keep data from walking out on thumb drives? Could we finally put a lid on the insider threat?
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Can We Bridge The Security Divide?

3/14/2009
This week I spent some time at the Boston Source Conference, attending Christopher Hoff's balanced discussion of cloud computing security and Jeremiah Grossman's take on making money the black hat way, among other sessions. Great quality content, well worth the time, and I'll never look at online banking the same way. This "a little knowledge equals a lot of fear" syndrome isn't new for me -- for years, I've edited secur
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Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste

2/25/2009
At InformationWeek Analytics, we work with senior technology pros involved in government IT at many levels, from local (Jonathan Feldman, author of our latest governance report) to federal (Michael Biddick, who wrote our report on advanced virtualization management).
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Is NAC Hot, Or Not?

2/23/2009
This is InformationWeek Analytics' fourth year tracking the state of NAC adoption. It's been fascinating to see firsthand the arc of a technology, from media darling to sitting on the sidelines, watching as new starlets like cloud computing grab all the glory. Something like Etta James watching Beyonce belt out "At Last," but without the smack talk.
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