The podcast for IT pros, CSTechcast.com. This week the focus is on disaster recovery; the planning, the technology, and what you should be doing with  Don Norbeck, Technology Officer of Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Product Strategy at SunGuard. Find more information at www.availability.sungard.com. In the news we discuss Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 going RTM, Yahoo's further discussion about some sort of Microsoft deal, IT is shown to be failing in 25% of small businesses, and a zero-day vulnerabilities found in Adobe's Flash player. The EU's strange requirement of a menu of browsers for Windows 7 gets "The Worst Tech of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at Hyper-V 2.0, and a pointer about Remote Desktop Protocol getting cutoff during a Forefront installation in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

This week's episode is sponsored by: Consortio Services, a quality partner that can help you manage your small and medium business technology.

Links to stories and sites discussed in the show:
Windows 7 Release May Put the Brakes on Apple Enterprise Growth (eWeek)
Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 Released to Manufacturing (eWeek)
Yahoo Board Meets About Microsoft, Fears Google Treatment (eWeek)
IT Failing 1 in 4 Small Businesses, Says Effectiveness Index Survey (eWeek)
Adobe Vulnerability Targeted in Drive-by Attacks (eWeek)
EU says Microsoft to offer browser options (BizJournal)

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Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=84
- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)
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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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Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=81
- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)
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Welcome to another CSTechcast.com podcast for IT professionals. This week we interview Adam Shostack, author of The New School of Information Security about the essentials IT organizations need to establish to really do security right. In the news, PDF security holes are under increasing attack, Cisco is busy applying patches to its IOS software, solid state drives from Toshiba hit 256GB for netbooks, and Microsoft announces RTM status for Essential Business Server aimed at the mid-sized market and Windows HPC Server for the super high-end. A lack of great new business apps for smart phones and an overabundance of one-trick ponies gets "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at areas of unnecessary tech spending, and blocking access to USB drives from Windows is "The Weekly Tech Tip".

Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:
Adobe PDF Reader Vulnerable, U.S. CERT Warns (InformationWeek)
Cisco releases bundle of router security patches (InfoWorld)
Toshiba Unveils 256 GB Drives For 'Netbooks' (InformationWeek)
Windows Essential Business Server (Microsoft)
Microsoft Takes Its Newest High-Performance Computing Platform to the Street (Microsoft)
Enterprise 2.0 Vendors need to get more serious about mobile (The Fast Forward Blog)

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Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=44

- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)

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