Microsof and AOL on Monday joined forces with the United Kingdom’s new Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Center. The alliance could see photographs of convicted pedophiles posted on the Internet .
The organization will bring together law enforcement officers, specialists from children’s charities and industry to focus on high-risk, high-impact offenders.
Specifically, the CEOP Center will deliver a dedicated 24/7 online resource for reporting instances of online child sex abuse and systems to track sex offenders and to disseminate intelligence globally, resulting in victim identification and the direction of those victims toward sources of support.
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April 24th, 2006
VMwar and a group of hardware , software and service providers on Monday announced the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Alliance to build joint virtual desktop products together. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, NEC, and Sun Microsystems are among the more than 20 companies that make up the new alliance.
Virtualization is a technique for deploying technologies. It allows multiple virtual operating systems to run on a single physical machine while maintaining distinct hardware profiles. In effect, the host operating system executes several guest operating systems.
Desktops are the most underutilized and most difficult to manage IT asset in the enterprise. Today’s business and technology climate has created a new set of desktop management problems such as ensuring data security and privacy within outsourcing and offshoring arrangements and with remote workers as well as ensuring desktop standardization, security and compliance.
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April 24th, 2006
