Industry


Ads by TechWords

See your link here


All Scott McPherson's Posts
Scott McPherson's picture
Scott McPherson

Tiptoeing Through Minefields

Bad software design renders Seagate Replica a risky buy

The last time I checked, Seagate built and sold hard drives. So why would they market a backup solution that requires an exact duplicate drive instead of an upgrade when disaster strikes?

...Read more

CIDRAP Summit represents last chance to get H1N1-ready

University of Minnesota group hosts world-class conference for business and government pandemic preps.

...Read more

H1N1: Returning this fall, and with an attitude

The H1N1v, or swine flu, pandemic is still spreading in the United States and elsewhere. One look at the Southern Hemisphere should signal you to plan now for problems -- BIG problems -- in the fall.

...Read more

We're in a pandemic, but there's still time to plan.

The WHO will shortly declare swine H1 a true pandemic. Fortunately, the disease is still mild enough to allow for preparation, planning and a LOT of serious thinking.

...Read more

Can the "cloud" help us manage our way through a pandemic?

Cloud computing -- can we move our operations to it during a moderate to severe pandemic? Let's talk about it and come up with ways we can offload some management tasks to the cloud.

...Read more

New IT flu pandemic presentation, checklist available.

These tools are designed to help you and your IT shop plan for an influenza pandemic, and to familiarize yourself with the history of influenza in easy-to-understand terms.

...Read more

IT pandemic presentation upload, IT checklist forthcoming

Upcoming tools will help IT professionals plan and prepare in case the WHO raises the pandemic threat level to 5.

...Read more

Why you should be looking at Mexico NOW.

Mexican swine flu is real, and it is infecting and killing people down south. You need to be ready to move on your pandemic plans if this virus continues to spread.

...Read more

Throw the book at Palin's email hacker

Tennessee student's arrogance should be matched by the length of his prison term. Which means he should rot for five full years.

...Read more

Ike reminds us of Ike

An approaching hurricane fortuitously recalls the famous statement on planning from Eisenhower. We should heed his words.

...Read more

Do Railhead right or don't deploy until it IS right

Federal superbase of suspected terrorist names is months behind and tens of millions over budget. But that's not the only danger that lurks in this latest government debacle.

...Read more

How many of you do background checks on your IT employees?

What is becoming clearer and clearer about the San Francisco network fiasco is that blame aplenty exists.

...Read more

Why you need to care about Indonesia (again)

Recent developments regarding human bird flu deaths put the archipelago nation (and H5N1) back into play.

...Read more

Newsom intervenes; Dolly vindicates blog

San Francisco's mayor deserves kudos for convincing alleged network saboteur to release passwords; and Hurricane Dolly vindicates my blog of a few weeks ago.

...Read more

Situations where waterboarding is appropriate

The recent revalations regarding the City of San Francisco's Fibre WAN municipal network hijack by a disgruntled employee underscore the dangers that exist when people with inordinate authority are not properly supervised.

...Read more