Welcome to another episode of the podcast for IT Pros, only at CStechcast.com. This week we are exploring privileged account management and how to reduce the attack surface of that powerful access with Phil Lieberman, President and CEO of Lieberman Software. Find more information at http://www.liebsoft.com. In the news Google Apps continues to add features useful for business environments with a new API for contacts, Cisco and VMWare find better ways to VMotion a VM across data centers, AMD's newest Opteron makes it's debut in new HP servers and workstations, Adobe's employees gets an involuntary week off, and new evidence that IT spending may be on an uptick. Facebook's attempt to get you comfy and open up to the world gets "The Worst Tech move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the challenges of backing up virtualized servers, and we review the gotchas of upgrading Small Business Server in "The Weekly Tech Tip".
This week's episode is sponsored by: Consortio Services, a quality partner that can help you manage your IT.
Links to stories and sites discussed in the show:
Google Apps Opens Up Contacts to Socialize the Enterprise (eWeek)Cisco, VMware Look to Move VMs Between Data Centers (eWeek)AMD Rolls Out Latest Quad-Core Opteron (eWeek)Adobe Shutters Operations for a Week to Cut Costs (eWeek)Global IT Spending To Drop 10.6%: Forrester (InformationWeek)A Closer Look at Facebook's New Privacy Options (ReadWriteWeb)The Essentials Series: New Techniques for Creating Better Backups (RealTimePublishers)
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