CSTechcast.com gives you the podcast for IT pros. This week we take business performance management, where it applies, and what it takes to get to the data with Gary Cokins, global product marketing manager at SAS. Find more info at from Gary's blog at blogs.sas.com/cokins. In the news Microsoft let's Windows 7 out to select groups, Apple releases 18 security fixes for OS X, DNS BIND 9 is vulnerable to a zero-day attack, Microsoft's Patch Tuesday gives us five rated critical, and a survey shows most organizations have no patch management solution. Cloud services recent outages, broken promises and data loss gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at Web 2.0 apps acceptance in the enterprise, and we give you a quick overview of the Windows 7 Problem Step Recorder in "The Weekly Tech Tip".
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Links to stories and sites discussed in the show:Microsoft Opens Windows 7 RTM for Downloading (eWeek)Apple Mac OS X Update Plugs 18 Security Vulnerabilities (eWeek)Bind9 FTP Site (isc.org)New DNS Vulnerability Has Organizations Scrambling (MCPmag)Microsoft to Fix Windows, Office Bugs in Critical Updates (eWeek)Nearly Half Of Companies Lack A Formal Patch Management Process (Dark Reading)Project Quant: Patch Management Process Survey (SurveyMonkey)Twitter Continues to Battle DDoS Attack (PC World)Microsoft backtracks on free Office Live domains (CNet)
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