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Some Storage Considerations

March 27, 2010

    DAS  NAS  SAN  iSCSI Type of connection • SCSI • FC-AL • …. • Fast Ethernet • Fibre Channel • Fibre Channel • Internet Remote connection • Typically no • Yes • Possible • Yes Type of I/O • Block  • File  • Block  • Block Performance...

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Identity Management Solution Components

March 27, 2010

Different administration tools and operative components which support the identity management were developed completely independent to each other. Therefore the originated systems offer a high functional overlapping. You are not able to arrange them to a complete identity management infrastructure without any troubles. The most important solution components for...

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Leaders create companies based on these fundamentals

March 25, 2010

  Decentralization: Unless there’s a compelling market-oriented reason for a decision to be made at the top, it’s delegated to the lowest level where the best information resides.    Marketing Mechanisms: The market is the most efficient process for allocating resources. Therefore, central planning and powerful budget offices are...

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Constructive Conflict Management

March 25, 2010

Include all: 1.  Develop supportive environment 2.  Agree on goal/agenda/time limits 3.  Approach conflict as a mutual problem 4.  Acknowledge and reach understanding of the other ideas 5.  State your ideas after the other person has stated ideas 6.  Think of options 7.  Reach agreement    Conflict Resolution Options:...

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Ingredients for Productive Team Meetings

March 25, 2010

There are simple steps which can increase the productivity level of team meetings. Check off the appropriate items as you prepare for your next meeting. During team formation 1. Ensure that all members have a joint understanding ___ Make sure each person understands the mission ___ Define the problem...

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Goal Setting Info

March 25, 2010

Healthy organizations have goals at all levels. Both organizations and individuals need to manage their affairs against goals Explicit Measurable Obtainable Hard, specific goals, if accepted by the individual, will lead to increased team performance. Teams Teams outperform individuals acting alone or in larger organizational groupings, especially when performance...

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Challenges of IT Infrastructure

March 24, 2010

The development of the internet has been seen as the most significant advance in IT for many years. In essence, what it does is to allow any computer with a communication channel to offer its contents to anyone else and to get material back from any other connected computer...

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Business goals for the future

March 24, 2010

Corporate America needs to develop a clear understanding of what it will take to become profitable and build on or Extend market share. Developing tactical strategies to attain these goals should be based on short-term and strategic long-term goals.   Reduce and Control Operating Costs The single most important tactical...

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Bull or Bear in IT

March 24, 2010

                 Bull Market                                  Bear Market Big spending wins eyeballs. Smart spending wins customers. Customer acquisition is a priority. Smart spending wins customers. Company merge to look big. Customer retention is a priority. We’ll be the next Yahoo. Companies merge order to survive. Free offers lure new customers. We’re not the...

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Technology Sustainment

March 18, 2010

In sustainment, the system is in use and evolves through periodic and event-driven maintenance and upgrades. For software-intensive systems, Sustainment presents critical challenges to maintaining the security posture. Maintenance in the operational environment is essential to provide for system restoral in the case of failure and for rapid resolution...

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Sample Access & Authentication Scope

March 16, 2010

A high-level outline was developed with input from the each discipline.  The outline centers on the ability to identify data classifications and the assignment of access controls. The documents that will be generated are: 1.  Summary document in outline form 2.  Authentication and Access Control Strategy 3.  Network Access...

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Sample Consulting Insurance Requirements

March 14, 2010

Always seek proper legal advise for your organization. These pages provide an explanation and example of corporate’s minimum insurance requirements. During the term of an agreement and without cost to corporate, suppliers are required to maintain and ensure that their subcontractors maintain the following insurance coverage with reputable insurance...

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Sample Course Development Guidelines

March 14, 2010

Considerations for each class: · Create agenda – sessions and approximate timings · Create detailed course outline · Consider prerequisite reading and assignments that would help folks prepare for the class · Identify any prerequisite hardware,& software (including downloads) · Plan course exercises and activities · Plan testing strategy · Course logistics Track Strategy courses...

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Healthcare Industry Segmentation

March 14, 2010

Healthcare Payers National Health Insurance Plans Federal Government (CMS – Medicare) State Government (DHHS – Medicaid) Healthcare Providers Hospitals Long-Term Care Facilities Physician Medical Practices Specialty Care Providers (Outpatient, Oncology, etc) Affiliated Organizations Clearinghouses, Third Party Administrators, etc. Key Business Drivers The revenue source of a hospital is driven...

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Which User Files on your Windows 200x Workstation Should Be Backed Up?

March 13, 2010

Introduction: All PC users are provided with a hard drive in order to store their local data. To assure that important information is not lost in the event disk drive disaster, each person must establish a strategy to back up their own data. “Back up” is the process used...

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Startup Apps and Windows 2000-based Services

March 13, 2010

Excellent reference – Searchable, comprehensive list of the programs you may find that run when you switch on your PC: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php#THE_PROGRAMS – Full-list ZIP Windows 2000 startup services   Service Full Name Default Alerter  Alerter  Automatic  AppMgmt  Application Management  Manual  ClipSrv  ClipBook  Manual  EventSystem  COM+ Event System  Manual  Browser ...

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Sample End-to-End Performance Goals

March 13, 2010

End-To-End Performance                 Performance Goals System and Application Windows SAP GUI  End-to-end Performance ([Client] will consider these as goals and monitor the actual results): Macintosh JAVA GUI 90% of identified representative transactions complete:   <  3 seconds Windows HTML GUI 90% of identified representative transactions complete:   <  6 seconds  

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Assets

March 13, 2010

An asset is anything that has some value to an organization. Asset Identification • It is necessary to determine the assets that need protection, their value, and level of protection required • Two Types: » Tangible » Intangible Tangible Assets • Tangible assets are physical • Examples: » Personnel » Offices, workspaces, warehouses, etc. » Inventory, stores,...

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Help Desk System Assessment

March 13, 2010

Overall Objective [Vendor] Consultant will conduct a working session with all relevant personnel to review Customers goals and processes as they relate to their current Help Desk installation in order to provide specific system and process recommendations. [Vendor] Consultant will spend one day at client site and a second...

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How to Stop and Restart the Ace Service on the RSA Service

March 13, 2010

Analysis:             On the RSA Server do:                         ps – ef | greg ace  (lower-case)  – check to see if the ace process is running if not su –             su – ace   “provide password” To start from scratch (note the order):         /var/ace/prog/aceserver stop        1st (stops the ACE...

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Sample Help Desk Consolidation Project

March 12, 2010

The help desk consolidation project will start with an assessment of the existing Help Desk structure, and include the collection of the current staffing model, organization chart, the flow and management of incidents and reporting, review of the tiered support model, review of the volume and types of incidents,...

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Master Project Plan Check List

March 11, 2010

Project Code Project/Application Name Project Acronym Project Coordinator QCC Date Received Date Completed Document Section Description First Review Second Review Third Review Mandatory Checks Does the cover page identify the Application with its Name and Project Code? Have the appropriate Authorities approved this deliverable (via signature or appropriate email...

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Keep project team meetings on task

March 11, 2010

How many times has this happened to you? You attend a meeting where members of a project team have enthusiastically volunteered to complete a variety of assignments. Then, a week later at a follow-up meeting, very few team members completed their assignments while others could not even remember the...

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Regulation Impact by IT Technology Domains

March 11, 2010

Sarbanes Oxley Act HIPAA Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act SEC 17a-4 and NASD and NASD Financial compliance, business process measurement applications X Enterprise resource planning X Business intelligence and data warehousing X Content/document  management and search X X X X Data/application integration X Business process automation X X Records management and email...

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Sample Visio – MIL-STD-100 and DOD-STD-1000

March 11, 2010

Free Visio Document download MIL-STD100_Sample.vsd The MIL-STD-100 and DOD-STD-1000 standards suck, they are vague and generally interpretive and un-atainable. Below are some recommendations for at least good guidelines. Items necessary for good network documentation Identification of servers, workstations, printers, routers, switches, etc. IP addresses NetBIOS/Host names MAC addresses Description...

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Software Security and SDLC Considerations

March 8, 2010

Technical security architecture Application security architecture Application security architecture document Architecture control board Data model Data security architecture document Data security architecture Platform security architecture Platform security architecture document Enterprise architecture governance Security in the system development lifecycle Security requirements of information systems Security requirements analysis and specification Define...

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Information system Catalog service management Considerations

March 8, 2010

Configuration and asset management Release Management Development Integration  Service Desk / Help Desk    Capacity management Create and maintain a capacity plan Operational procedures and responsibilities Documented operating procedures Change control procedures Technical review of applications after operating system changes Restrictions on changes to software packages Change management Information...

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Autocad 2006/7 File Path Settings

March 8, 2010

Suggested Autocad Settings for reliable and optimal performance. Support File Search Path C:Document and SettingsAdministratorapplication DataAutodeskAutodesk Land Desktop 2006/7R16.2enusupport C:Program FilesAutodesk Land Desktop 2006/7support C:Program FilesAutodesk Land Desktop 2006/7fonts C:Program FilesAutodesk Land Desktop 2006/7help C:Program FilesAutodesk Land Desktop 2006/7express C:Program FilesAutodesk Land Desktop 2006/7supportcolor C:Program FilesAutodesk Land Desktop 2006/7land...

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Identifying Identity Management Needs

March 8, 2010

Author unknown  Is your network a collection of different systems and applications? Are there multiple directories and data systems? Are there users and other data objects stored in multiple places? How is the environment managed? How are new accounts created for users each time a new application is added?...

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Solaris Role-Based Access Controls

March 7, 2010

UNIX administrators have wanted more fine-grained access control to administrative features almost since the first administrator accidentally destroyed his first system. As of Solaris 8, Sun has delivered a solution to that problem. But is the solution for you? The Current State The UNIX concept of a “superuser” who...

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Manually Configuring Privileges

March 7, 2010

The manual process for provisioning poses a huge challenge for today’s businesses. Believe it or not, most companies still use manual processes to provision access rights to users. Step 1  First, when an employee is hired, a new user profile is created and stored in an HR database. Step...

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