IT Knowledge Exchange Community Update for 02/19/09

Here is what’s happening in our community lately:

• Knowledge Points Amazon giveaway
• Want an IT Knowledge Exchange t-shirt?
• Featured blogger of the week
• Featured questions
• Featured blog posts
• New community blogs
• Messages from the TechTarget network

Knowledge Points Amazon Giveaway

Is there an Amazon gift card in your future? Only your Knowledge Points will tell. Visit the blog post for more information.

Want an IT Knowledge Exchange T-Shirt?

IT Knowledge Exchange is currently running a promotion to welcome new members — ask and answer one question each, and you will be eligible to receive an IT Knowledge Exchange t-shirt. Simply e-mail me at  jenny at itknowledgeexchange.com once you have asked a question and answered a question, and tell me your address and preferred t-shirt size. You will receive a t-shirt as thanks within 2-3 weeks. Anyone is eligible, so get into the community and start spreading the knowledge!

IT Blogger of the Week

This week’s featured IT blogger is Jim Hietala of Compliance Focus. Compliance Research Group is a consulting and research organization whose aim is to help users and vendors deal with IT governance, risk and compliance issues, processes and programs more effectively. Their sister site, Compliance Focus, is an online resource site providing information, commentary and blogs in these same areas. Whether you’re looking for some additional risk management resources, or wanting to learn more about automated compliance checking, Compliance Focus is a great place to start.

You can visit the blog here: http://www.compliancefocus.com/

Featured Questions

Over the past week, we’ve seen some great questions come through IT Knowledge Exchange, but some questions are still waiting for an answer. Click on one of our selected questions below, and spread the knowledge!

• Have you moved to online backup for your corporation, and if so, are you still using tape backup?

• Cisco ASA WebVPN - Clientless SSL user sessions keep dropping

• RPGLE Stored Procedure to Reporting Services

• Hyper-V guest server move from one host to another issue

• Microsoft Access 2007 - Code for connecting two related forms, bringing up same record?

• Quantifying work in test automation

• Load balancing of unequal ethernet bandwidth

• Hyper-V Manager console showing no virtual machines

• Avaya 4610SW VoIP quality issue - connecting to Cisco gear

• SharePoint archive files

Featured Blog Posts

Browse the sampling of selected blog posts below or go here to view all.

• Red Hat and Microsoft enter virtualization support agreement | Open Source Software and Linux

• A small silver lining? | IT Career JumpStart

• Scareware - Using fear & deception to dupe consumers | Security Corner

• PCI DSS and SAS 70 Audits - Audit Efficiencies? Maybe… just maybe | Regulatory Compliance, Governance and Security

• XP downgrade suit: Legitimate beef or frivolous complaint? | Vista Enterprise Desktop

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New Community Blogs

Buzz’s Blog: On Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web | Roger “Buzz” King

Buzz’s blog concerns the wave of emerging technology for highly responsive, database-centric, multimedia apps. They are major components of the impressive software base for the Web 3.0 and Semantic Web efforts. These will dictate the skill requirements of future software professionals.

Messages from the TechTarget Network

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As always, we want your feedback.
Send it to me at jenny@itknowledgeexchange.com

Thanks,

Community Manager