Neon Enterprise Software Blog

May 2008 - Posts

• Q+A: Tell Me Everything About Databases, Please

  As regular readers of my blogs know, every now and then I take the opportunity to answer e-mail questions via blogging. I can't always answer e-mail questions directly, but I try to whenever time permits. Which brings me to today's Q+A... The Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:51 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: misc, IT, database, Q+A

• Follow Me on Twitter

  After listening to John Dvorak (on Cranky Geeks ) talk about Twitter I decided to give it a go. What is Twitter, you ask? Well, according to Wikipedia, Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send "updates" Read More... Posted Monday, May 19, 2008 4:56 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: db2, misc, Twitter, conferences

• Auditing Successful at IRS!

  Computerworld reports today (May 15, 2008) that five federal workers at an Internal Revenue Service office in California have been charged with computer fraud for illegally accessing the confidential records of taxpayers . Now this is the type of news Read More... Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 1:55 PM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: data security, database auditing

• Long-Term Digital Information Retention and Preservation

  Organizations are generating and keeping more data now than at any previous time in history. This is the case for many reasons. First of all, the amount of data in general is growing. According to industry analysts, the amount of enterprise data stored Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:50 PM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: database archive, regulatory compliance

• What is the Cost of a Data Breach?

  We keep hearing about data being breached, stolen, and nefariously accessed - but what is the cost of such a data breach? Can we calculate, to any degree of accuracy, what it costs an organization when they lose data? Although data breaches are constantly Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:46 AM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: data security, database auditing