All things must come to an end…

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Unless you are talking about your inbox’s capacity.  You can either pay your email provider for more disk storage or incorporate the cloud into your file management strategy.  Sending emails with giant attachments gets old quick – and expensive if you are paying by the bit. Instead of ducking, put those attachments in the cloud.

Brian Curry from YouSendIt will help you corral your inbox quota using the cloud to get those attachments under control.  Find out more on the SHOW PAGE.  If you have an overloaded inbox, this is the show for you. We’ll also give you two great reasons to go to Vegas in May – Interop and CPM 2010 West.

If you use Gmail, your free producer tip of the week is to take Gmail’s priority inbox to the next step using the ‘Super Nick Email System’. Never look at an email more than twice again.

Bookmarks and Social Networking at Work

Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Now that you are as stuffed as the bird, let’s get back to TechTalk before we are all caught in the holiday rush.

Our show with Tom Gutnick on BROWSER WARS is ready for download.  Along with the streaming show or download, we also updated the LAST WEEK’S SHOW PAGE to include a question from a listener about managing your bookmarks across multiple machines and Tom’s response.

And what’s on the menu for this week you ask?  Tony Bradley is back to tackle the implications of social networking at work.  What are employers worried about? What should employees know.  Our host, Tom D’Auria, and guest, Tony Bradley, will cover that and more on this week’s show.  Find out more about the show and our Week In Review on the THIS WEEK’S SHOW PAGE.

Here are some articles to keep you busy until the show comes on KFNX Sunday, 12/5 at 5pm EST | 4pm CST | 3pm MST | 2pm PST

Related Articles

• Encryptstick: World’s First Private Browser (mwd.com)
• 30 Social Media Sites, Tools, Posts and Articles that I Bookmarked from 2010 (directmarketingobservations.com)
• Gowalla 3 Checks In with Everyone: Can it Catch Foursquare? (dailyfinance.com)
• LastPass Acquires Xmarks, Keeping Free Bookmark-Syncing Plans Available [Bookmarks] (lifehacker.com)
• Social Bookmarking Benefits (myventurepad.com)
• Delibar: Beautiful Bookmark Management on Your iPhone (iphone.appstorm.net)
• Best Social Bookmarking Technique For Your Site (ronmedlin.com)
• Bookmark Sentry Scans Your Chrome Bookmarks for Dead Links and Dupes [Downloads] (lifehacker.com)
• Bookmark Archives That Don’t (pinboard.in)

Back to the Cloud

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The show will air Sunday at 1pm EST.  Due to sports coverage on KFNX, you can catch us even earlier on Sunday.

Here at TechTalk, we not only talk about the cloud – we rely on it.  We use WordPress.com for our website, Google for our imitechtalk.com mail and a plethora of other services that rely on the cloud – Twitter, bit.ly and Flickr come to mind at first thought.  While the majority of this data is data we want you to see, we want to be sure it will be there and safe from other people trying to pass along information as us.  What does all of that rely on? Security.

This week, Tom is joined by Craig Balding who was our very first Cloud Computing guest.  Craig will let us know what is going on with service providers, how security models are evolving and a new project he is developing. Find out more on the SHOW PAGE.  Don’t forget that the show will be on at 1pm EST …also don’t forget that time goes back an hour everywhere except Arizona.

Don’t forget that Friday, November 5 is GrowSmart Biz conference at the Renaissance Washington DC with friends at the Washington Business Journal.  Be sure to tell Shashi Bellamkonda hello if you see him…or just tweet him.

Speaking of conferences, we have two shows coming soon – one from the FLASH conference and one from our time at Interop.  Tom also had the chance to attend CPM 2010 EAST this week AND GovTech in Brooklyn.  We’ll get those on for you soon.

Interop New York 2010 Kick Off

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Interop at the Javits Center in New York City this week.  Lenny Heymann, the show’s General Manager, was on this week’s show with Tom.  Find out about this week’s keynote speakers, sessions not to miss and details on big announcements at this week’s conference.  Tracks for this week’s show include Application Delivery 2.0, Cloud Computing, Data Center, Green IT, Enterprise 2.0, Video Conferencing and more (See All).

For the entire show on Digital Forensics and more teasing about the Verizon iPhone, go to the SHOW PAGE.

INTEROP LINKS

• Interop NY Website
• @Interop_Events on Twitter
• What are people saying about #Interop on Twitter?
• Press Releases from Interop

Glass Houses – Seeing Inside Your Data

 

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We have a great live show on deck this week!  Phillip Rodokanakis joins Tom to scare the heck out of you just in time for Halloween.  We are talking Digital Forensics this week.  What kind of data can be recovered? Encrypted hard drives, deleted browsing history along with the piles and piles of information your smart phone and iPad is racking up on you.  To find out more, check out the SHOW PAGE.

So, people in glass houses should be careful what they do on a computer, but they should also have conferences.  And there is no better glass house than New York City’s Javits Center – the home of Interop New York 2010.   Along with coverage from the floor and sessions next week, we are also excited to have the show’s general manager Lenny Heymann call in to kick the conference off live on TechTalk!  Lenny will give an overview of the event and details about keynote speakers, sessions and some of the many exhibitors at this year’s event.

Along with the Interop Kick Off, our Week in Review has unicorn meat from the Wall Street Journal about a Verizon-ready iPhone, how your NYC subway ride is about to get more annoying and we’ll tell you all about a former water storage tank that was turned into a data center if we have the time. For the link to listen and the spot where the podcast will drop, head over to this week’s SHOW PAGE.

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• Simena will introduce 16 line 40G/10G/1G fiber network taps at Interop NY 2010 (eon.businesswire.com)
• Interop Preview: Virtualization, Cloud Top Tech Strategies Agenda (informationweek.com)
• Akorri to Address Key Requirements for Private Cloud Management at Fall Interop 2010 (marketwire.com)
• The 4 C’s Of Interop NYC: Cloud Computing, Consolidation, Consumerization, And CIOs (informationweek.com)
• Interop in Advance: Certeon Virtualizes WAN Optimization And Secure Tunnels (informationweek.com)
• Lessons I Learned When My Laptop Was Stolen [Laptops] (lifehacker.com)
• Logicube Now Shipping Total Forensic Solution (eon.businesswire.com)
• EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger [Roundups] (gizmodo.com)

What it takes to keep NYC IT running

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New York City‘s Information Technology infrastructure is a big business.  The Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) Commissioner Carole Post joins Tom this week to talk NYC IT.  For more information on the show, check out the SHOW PAGE. What is the agency’s direction? How are they staying social? As a big user of energy, what steps are being taken to increase computing power and reduce the overall footprint?

That and more, this Sunday at 3pm MST | 6pm EDT.

Our Week In Review starts in the City with details about Mayor Bloomberg‘s announcement of the partnership between CUNY and IBM; we let you in on who wants to tap your texts; and help you get your online identity back if your Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo!, Facebook or Twitter account is hacked.

Related Articles

• Green Plan To Stop NYC Rainwater Runoff (newyork.cbslocal.com)
• CUNY-IBM To Open Unique School In NYC (huffingtonpost.com)
• NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s Education Reforms Stumble (npr.org)

Another Face in the Cloud

from Flickr user Lomo-Cam

This week Michael Clark from Microsoft joins Tom to cover using the cloud as a business accelerator.  Head over to the [SHOW PAGE] to find out the details.

We’ve covered cloud computing for a while now.  As the technologies underlying the cloud and the related services have matured, so too has our coverage.  We first focused on ‘what is the cloud’.  And while that definition can still be a moving target depending who you ask, there is no doubt the cloud is no longer a buzzword.  Cloud computing not only delivers applications like email, it is evolving platforms that change the way you internet and changing the way IT services are delivered from small businesses to the largest enterprises (Guess who manages McDonald’s email? Autodesk, Nokia? California Emergency Management Agency?).   This pay as you go computing is also lowering barriers to enter applications into various markets.

Even if you are not sure if the cloud is right for you, it is the right time to look into the cloud.

Related Articles

• Mapping the Competitive Landscape of Cloud Computing, presented by Fletcher/CSI at the Cloud Communications Summit, Los Angeles (prweb.com)
• “Hybrid Cloud Model will Help the Channel Grow as IT Evolves” Says Influential Entrepreneur (prweb.com)
• Gartner Survey Reveals How the Cloud Is Changing IT Budgets (readwriteweb.com)
• Cloud needs solid standards to build trust (computing.co.uk)
• Crossing the Chasm: Turning Cloud Opportunity into Reality for Partners (blogs.technet.com)
• Understanding The Clouded Cloud (devx.com)
• The Cloud is Dead – Long Live the Cloud! (cloudave.com)

Video in Business – Where it is and where it is going

Alejandro Hernandez. Used under Creative Commons License

This week, Sean McMann will be on the show to talk about video in business and where it is going. Visit the SHOW PAGE to find out more and bookmark the page so you can download the edited show early next week.  Along with tidbits on how to use it to your advantage, Sean will provide some of the options out there to make video a reality.

We’ll start with Tom covering holes in the energy grid you can drive a USB stick through, the iPhone security flaw that allows you to break the spell of your Apple and AT&T overlords, guess who wants to handle you medical records and much more in our Week in Review.  If our first story on the gaping holes in the energy grid’s security don’t get you worried, here is how the weakest link in the DoD opened the barn door for hackers.  That being said, the government has realized that we are far behind the expected upcoming demand for cyberwarriors, so they opened a summer camp.

Welcome to the new site!

Myoglobin from the Argonne National Laboratory via Flickr

After a couple of years having disparate sites, we have put all our content eggs in one basket.  Using WordPress, we have consolidated our orignal site’s content, imported all of our blog posts and ready to move forward on the new platform.

Along with each new show having its own page (click on ‘Shows’ link), we will be able to bring you more news, guest bloggers and web only content – both the early release and the get no where else kind.  You can also sign up to get posts emailed, visit 1100 KFNX’s site and see our most recent tweets along with following us on Twitter.  Let us know if there is anything else we need – a voicemail to leave messages, maybe?

Here are the five tech stories we are reading this morning:

– Mr Know-It-All from Wired [JUMP]
– Outlook’s Facebook Integration from BBC [JUMP]
– Bridge on a Boat from Gizmodo [JUMP]
– Donation Scams from NYT [JUMP]
– Another Russian Spy …from TechCrunch [JUMP]

Our site of the week is – Pandora.com is a music site that builds custom streaming channels based on your interests.  Using Artists and Songs, you tell Pandora what you like, and it plays songs based on those suggestions.  Each song it offers up can be given a thumbs up or down; bookmarked (song and/or artist); offer a very interesting explanation to ‘why was this song selected’; and more.  Making multiple stations for different moods along with stations crafted by Pandora can provide the mood for any task or no task at all.  If you like music and don’t Pandora, you are welcome.  If you already Pandora, you know what I mean.

If you have any suggestions, questions or comments about the website, send them to web at imitechtalk dot com.

Check back in a couple of days for more info on this Sunday’s show.

Cloud Coverage 2009

http://www.garageband.com/mp3/Cloud_Coverage_2009__1_03_2010.mp3?%7Cpe1%7CWdjZPXLrvP2rYVe0YGBkDg Welcome to the first IMI TechTalk with Tom D’Auria for 2010. Producer, Eric Johnson fills in for Tom who will be back next week.

We start this year with a topic that really gained ground and started to take form in 2009 – Cloud Computing. We look back at two shows – our Aug 9 show with Amy Wohl and our July 12 show with Shelly Palmer. Two great guests and two great shows to start off another great year.

Be sure to visit imitechtalk.com to listen or download these shows or any of our others from 2009 – including more on Cloud Computing.

We are glad to have you back and look forward to having you again next week. Don’t forget to go to imitechtalk.com for info on these shows and much more. Thanks for stopping by.

There will not be a Week in Review post on Monday, but we will resume our regular schedule next week with a show update on Thursday. Happy 2010!