For Security Pros, Building Vendor Relationships Is A Lesson In Diplomacy The blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Recent reports show that IT security spending is up –and as the quarter comes to a close, security salespeople are flooding our inboxes and voicemail with sweet, syrupy messages trying to get a foot in the door.

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Many folks, when they are just starting out in their website monitoring endeavors, are lost when it comes to issues involving general website statistics, logfiles, and tracking.

There is a great deal to consider when setting up a web hosting account for a new site, and sometimes one of the more important items slips to the wayside in the midst of configuring your sites, uploading content, trying to drive traffic and more. Let’s look at some of the issues you’ll want to keep in mind when setting up web hosting security for a new site. Price Isn’t Everything! It can be very tempting to sign on the dotted virtual line for a cheap web hosting account

Widespread discontent persists with ERP projects More than half of companies that implement ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems end up garnering no more than 30 percent of the business benefits they expected, according to a new study released by systems integrator Panorama Consulting Group. Some 72 percent of the 1,600 organizations surveyed said they were “fairly satisfied” with their ERP package. But this can be misleading, according to the study: “Some executives are just happy to complete projects, protect the company from risk and give little thought to whether or not the company is better off with the new software or whether or not they’re getting as much out of the system as possible.” ..

Determining how much storage space and bandwidth you may need for your sites is a question that most beginning site owners fret over.

We’ve been big supporters of BioWare and EA’s approach to churning out lots of DLC for its new releases, but it seems to have hit a serious snag this morning. Due apparently to some scheduled downtime for BioWare’s social site, players have been unable to download DLC from Mass Effect 2’s Cerberus Network (unfortunate, but understandable) and some have been completely unable to play Dragon Age: Origins — kind of a big issue for a single-player game. Near as we can figure with our limited staff testing, the Dragon Age issue might involve whether or not you chose to submit your feedback and character profile data to Bioware.com