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        <title><![CDATA[VoIP]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I didn't know VoIP was dead in the water...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:29:26 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Your clients have good reason for their hesitation to just &quot;Trust&quot; it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Your clients are not alone in their hesitation with openly embracing the cloud.  Despite the tech industry???s best efforts including the efforts by their journalistic partners (so much for journalists being unbiased and simply reporting the news and info straight up)  the truth is that a majority of users are NOT as open to the cloud as the tech and media would have us believe.  There are definitely some entities ready to jump into the cloud including some very large and powerful corporations but most of them have some level of interest in the cloud succeeding so they are taking the leap to the cloud to try and sell the cloud idea on others.  The cloud is a revamped term for remote computing and before that, dumb terminals.  The difference being the connection is via the internet and not some fixed line/cable as older technologies required.  Its true the cloud makes it easier to connect when everything is working as it should.  The problem is reliability and as your clients have said, trust.  &quot;Trust, but Verify&quot;.  A wise statement if any.  With the cloud you as a business are at the mercy of the cloud provider that you can get to and use whatever the cloud is hosting.  What happens when government gets involved and sends in Homeland Security to do mass sweeps on all client data in a service providers cloud?  If you hosted your own data and the government came knocking you would be far less likely to just give in since its your company that may be at stake.  The Cloud providers must look at it from their own perspective and its far more likely they would give in then put up a fight.  With the passing of THE PATRIOT ACT and as of a few days ago the NDAA, the Federal Government has a lot of unconstitutional powers it gave itself and its security agencies like Homeland Security are just aching to exercise those powers.  Don't think it can happen? The news is full of FBI/NSA goofs with website shutdowns where the feds issued mass shutdowns of websites that were guilty of nothing but were closed because the provider that hosted their site was found to have at least one site that did engage in illegal activities.  Its guilt by association and you can bet this will be magnified in the cloud. BOTTOM LINE: The entities most embracing the cloud (and trying to sell the rest of us on it) are those with a vested interest in the clouds success; usually a financial interest.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:22:06 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Project Management - General not Niche]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[With all the specialization focus here, what is missing is the biggest growing need, Project Management. All new strategies require change. Change requires change management and that is a combination of business analysis (not technical but informed by technical) defining projects that project managers need to implement. By definition, good change agents are generalists and communicators who know how to involve people, delegate tasks, educate users and ensure results (along with a broad technical knowledge). PM's should be an expertise on this list.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[danielmatalon]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:03:13 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Programming]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IT is very important things in our life , specially in this very extensive world of technology . Programming is the key of all technologies in earth. meladerm cream]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jay031209]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:12:53 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Trust ?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[??To the cloud? No thanks! I am an IT aficionado (took some IT studies too, enough for my programming needs) and work as translator. The problem with ??to the cloud?? is that clients are very concerned about privacy issues and I believe it will take a long time until they will trust their documents to  the cloud. And they are very right ... In Spain we have a say:  estar en las nubes, but it has another meaning as to be in the cloud... ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:04:08 -0700</pubDate>
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