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RAIN 6/16 Weekly Update: Technology (17)



CIO June 2002
Strategic Planning Don'ts (and do's)
http://www.cio.com/archive/060102/donts.html

http://www.cio.com/archive/060102/donts_sidebar_1.html


CIO June 2002
'What If' Planning
http://www.cio.com/archive/060102/re_sidebar_1.html


Washington Technology 6/3/02
Information assurance: Integrators gear up for the next big thing
By Joab Jackson
When information assurance experts at SRA International Inc., Fairfax, Va., want to show their government clients the full range of possible security risks they face, they sometimes dispatch someone to an agency office to sneak in the front door and try to
steal a computer. Or, with the permission of the agency heads, the visitor might try to find an empty conference room with an open jack to the company’s network.
http://206.144.247.77/news/17_5/cover/18337-1.html


CIO 6/4/02
Fight Dirty Data
by Alison Bass
Fight Dirty Data
I came face to face with my own dirty data last week and it got me thinking: If
an erroneous entry on a credit report was almost enough to put the kibosh on
a personal refinancing deal,  then consider the extent to which flawed information
about customers could screw up a company’s CRM initiative.
http://comment.cio.com/crm/060402.html


Washington Post 6/9/02
Making Spam Go Splat
Sick of Unsolicited E-Mail, Businesses Are Fighting Back
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15849-2002Jun8.html


Washington Techway 6/10/02
Software and The Hill's way with words
http://techway.washtech.com/news/3_12/forefront/16238-1.html


New York Times 6/10/02
Making Web Accessible to All
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/technology/10NECO.html


New York Times 6/11/02
A New System for Storing Data: Think Punch Cards, but Tiny
By KENNETH CHANG
I.B.M. scientists say they have created a data-storage technology that can store the equivalent of 200 CD-ROM's on a surface the size of a postage stamp.
Writing in the current issue of the journal IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, researchers at I.B.M.'s laboratories in Zurich report that they have achieved a storage density of one trillion bits of data per square inch, about 25 times as great as current hard disks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/science/physical/11DATA.html



Technology Review 6/11/02
The Thousand-Leg Race
By Alan Leo June 11, 2002
The battlefield is small but the stakes are big, as computer giants chase a revolutionary nanostorage technology.
More than a century after its invention, the venerable punch card is fueling a quiet contest between the world’s largest computer makers. IBM and Hewlett Packard are racing to develop a nanoscale version based on atomic force microscopy, with the potential for vast data storage at low cost. Both companies say the technology, called probe storage, has moved beyond laboratory curiosity. Today, IBM researchers announced that they have packed bits together at a density of one trillion per square inch, more than 20 times denser than today’s disk drives.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_leo061102.asp


Philadelphia Inquirer 6/12/02
Your identity reduced to a 3-inch strip of ink
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/3451571.htm


The Age 6/12/02
Dark side of the Net
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/06/12/1022982864714.html


BBC News 6/12/02
IBM's hot tip for data storage
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2040000/2040197.stm


New York Times 6/12/02
Helping Businesses Evaluate Their Internet Presence
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/business/media/12ADCO.html


GlobalContinuity.com 6/13/02
Certainty in an uncertain world - how to prevent poor
performance and downtime of Internet-based systems
http://www.globalcontinuity.com/Article.asp?id=2...ilNews&SessionID=20026141056&PageSeq=20026141056


Government Technology 6/13/02
Record-Breaking Dilemma
Electronic information is easier to manage than paper, right? Tell that to records managers and archivists.
By Tod Newcombe
The Land Records Division in Fairfax County, Va., has achieved something quite remarkable. It has shrunk the amount of incoming paper records, thanks to a new computer system that allows the division to accept real estate filings electronically.
Already, the office that houses land records is in the enviable position of having too much room on its premises. Gone are the rows of shelves with bound books containing real estate documents dating back for decades. The office no longer needs them.
http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.phtml?id=3030000000010445


San Diego Times-Union 6/15/02
Virtual shredding being used by companies like Peregrine Systems
Poof! System makes e-mail self-destruct
By Kim Peterson
Imagine sending a letter that was opened and photocopied repeatedly while en
route to the recipient.
That wouldn't happen with regular mail, but copies of e-mail are often stored on computer servers while in transit. E-mail also can linger on your computer's hard drive long after you've deleted the message from the screen.
Companies are getting around this with an idea straight out of "Mission: Impossible": self-destructing messages.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20020615-9999_1b15shred.html



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va