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February 2012
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Cloud Security |
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The Big Distraction |
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Keyboard Shortcuts |
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Business
Continuity Tip
Hurdles
In a recent poll Agility Recovery asked their followers, what is the biggest hurdle you must overcome for disaster recovery planning? And as the results below show, gaining support from upper management remains one of the largest obstacles faced by business professionals today.
While disaster recovery planning is often perceived internally as a complex and daunting task, this doesn't have to be the case. Watch Agility's archived webinar on securing management support for business continuity and learn the important steps you can take to break through the clutter. |
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Cloud security: Risks vs. reality
used with permission by IBM ForwardView
 The mobility of smart phones, netbooks, tablet PCs and other portable devices has fundamentally changed the when, where and how of our computing lives. And with cloud services, the source for data and applications used by these devices can be anywhere, too. The flexibility of cloud to scale bandwidth up or down at will, and its affordability as a pay-as-you-go service, have resulted in an interconnected, intelligent approach to smarter computing.
The benefits of cloud computing are well-recognized. In fact, cloud computing ranks among the most popular new IT initiatives, with 66 percent of midsize companies implementing cloud strategies, according to IBM's study, "Inside the Midmarket: A 2011 Perspective." Yet the excitement about leveraging cloud's economies of scale to lower total IT costs and improve agility is often tempered by concern that this external delivery of services could compromise security.
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The Big Distraction: Not Enough Time
by Marlene Chism, www.stopworkplacedrama.com
 When you see someone making a mountain out of a mole-hill, one thing you should know for sure: It’s not about the mole-hill. Even when the mole-hill really is a mountain, it’s usually not about the mountain either.
The mole-hill is just a distraction. . .an excuse that prevents you from looking at your choices and being responsible for them. It’s easier to complain about the mole-hill than it is to go around it, or pick up a shovel to dig away some of the dirt.
In my two-day seminars, what I find is that if I work with a group of people and on day two there hasn’t been a breakthrough or a big a-ha, there is a distraction in play.
One of the biggest distractions for most of us is the “I’m too busy and don’t have enough time” distraction. The problem with this particular distraction is that it really “feels” like you are too busy. You can prove it with the stacks of unfinished work, the unanswered e-mails and your inability to focus, and your experience of this busy-ness is that you have no choice in the matter.
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| The Most Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
 Not all of us are typing pros. If you’ve ever found yourself typing the same thing over and over again or feeling like there’s got to be a faster way to save or print, it’s time for keyboard shortcuts! Here are some of the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts (also known as hotkeys) that work in many programs.
Cut, Copy, and Paste
If you need to repeat something a million times—don’t type it out! Just select the text you want to copy, and hit Ctrl+C. If you want to cut it and move it somewhere else, hit Ctrl+X. To paste your selection, hit Ctrl+V.
These shortcuts are especially helpful if you typically right click on selected text to copy or cut it and then right click again to paste. You may use a program that doesn’t support the right-click option menu, but you can use shortcuts instead.
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