Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the podcast for IT pros always available at CSTechcast.com. This week we detail what's involved in Content Management Systems with Gerardo Dada, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Vignette. Find more information at vignette.com. In the news, HP debuts their data center in a box called POD, Google Apps unexpected upgrade causes problems for business clients, a new MacBook ditches the Firewire port, and outsourcing business is good in a down economy. The pains with Google Apps gets "The Worst tech Move of the Week", we take "A Closer Look" at the first Google Android phone the T-Mobile G1, and we take a look at some basic image deployment details in "The Weekly Tech Tip".

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Links to stories and sites discussed during the show:
HP Rolls Out Its POD Mobile Data Center at Gartner Expo Slideshow Summary (eWeek)
Google fixes problem with Apps Start page (InfoWorld)
Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire (AppleInsider)
Can outsourcers survive the economic storm? (InfoWorld)

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Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=47

- 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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Another podcast is up and available at CStechcast.com, the podcast for IT professionals. This week we talk about the history and the future of networks with John Day, author of Patterns in Network Architecture. The news brings cloud computing to your data center with a new product from HP, easier Web 2.0 APIs from Google, details on Windows 7 and Ruby on .NET, and a warning on Apple Safari on Windows. Lack of data breach disclosure "The Worst Tech Move of the Week", getting Vista's search to work right in the "Weekly Tech Tip", and we take "A Closer Look" at smartphone security in your network.

Links to stories discussed during the show:
HP Building Out Web 2.0 Infrastructures (eWeek)
Google Delivers New AJAX APIs (eWeek)
Google's Gears Gains Ground (eWeek)
Google Shows Off Android (eWeek)
Microsoft linking Silverlight, Ruby on Rails (InfoWorld)
Windows 7 to have touch-screen interface (InfoWorld)
Court finds Dell guilty of fraud (InfoWorld)
Dell shares jump after solid 1Q results (Business Week)
Microsoft Warns Of Security Vulnerability Arising From Apple's Safari (Information Week)
Microsoft Security Advisory (953818) (Microsoft.com)

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Link to the episode: http://www.cstechcast.com/home.aspx?Episode=27

- Eric Beehler (consortioservices.com/blog)

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