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Cyber Security & Continuing Education

MIDLAND - Continuing education (CPEs) can be the key to keep you up-to-date on emerging IT security threats. However, if you don't take the time to posture your IT defense and offense (not to mention earn the credits you need), you could expose your company to attack and lose your certification. To read the rest

By |2011-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9th, 2011|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Less Than 100 Tickets Left For GrrCON Hacking Conference Sept. 16

GRAND RAPIDS ? Less than 100 tickets are still available for the first GrrCON information security and hacking conference on Sept. 16. He expects all 500 tickets to be sold shortly. Security professionals who attend will get 12 continuing education credits. There?s also a New Horizons Computer Training Center Ethical Hacker Training Discount. Tickets cost

By |2011-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9th, 2011|Archive, Events/Announcements|

Personal Property Tax Replacement Needs Constitutional Guarantee

LANSING - If Governor Rick Snyder and the Legislature are going to repeal the personal property tax, then the replacement revenue should be constitutionally guaranteed, a wide array of groups representing local governments and schools said Thursday. The tax on business equipment, which raises $1.2 billion, largely goes directly to municipalities and counties with some

By |2011-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9th, 2011|Archive, Politics/Government|

Michigan No Fault Auto Coverage Could Reduce Personal Injury Minimum

LANSING - The chair of the Michigan Senate Insurance Committee, who is taking a lead role in reforming the state's auto no-fault insurance system, said Thursday he is preparing a new version of legislation that would set the minimum coverage for personal injury protection at $250,000. Sen. Joe Hune (R-Hamburg) told Gongwer News Service the

By |2011-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9th, 2011|Archive, Politics/Government|

CJPS Healthcare Inks $100 Million Contract To Supply Remote Patient Monitors

AUBURN HILLS - CJPS Healthcare Supplies & Equipment Thursday announced a new agreement to provide 33,000 units of its remote patient monitor VitalPoint to groups of visiting physicians in the United States. The contract is valued at more than $100 million. VitalPoint is a standalone 4.5-pound device that can monitor blood pressure, blood oxygen saturation,

By |2011-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9th, 2011|Archive, Life Sciences/Biotech|

Regional Invasive Species Compact Under Review

LANSING - A regional compact regulating how invasive species are handled in the Great Lakes is the goal of legislation under initial review Thursday by the Senate Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Committee. Similar to the Great Lakes Water Compact, which governs water withdrawal out of the basin and lakes, SB 508 , SB 509 and

By |2011-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9th, 2011|Archive, Clean, green, hybrid|

Snyder’s Health Message To Focus On Obesity, Infant Mortality

LANSING - Governor Rick Snyder's special message on health and wellness will seek to mobilize corporate and health care industry-led efforts to fund public service campaigns to reduce obesity and infant mortality, sources have told Gongwer News Service. Snyder is expected to unveil the special message Wednesday, and the message is said to still be

By |2011-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9th, 2011|Archive, Events/Announcements|

The Five Why’s of Cloud

GRANDVILLE - In my "cloudy" travels from Cannonical, to Opscode, to DTO Solutions, I often ask a seemingly simple question to the companies I meet - "Why do you want to use the cloud?" - and I get an array of amazingly unsatisfying answers. To read the rest of the story, click on Gongwer.Com a>>

By |2011-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9th, 2011|Archive, Cloud Computing|

PaaS Is Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Lines Up Deployment Partners

GRANDVILLE - This is next in the series of post where I am highlighting the importance of PaaS in the future of cloud services. VMware's CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage) has completely altered the PaaS landscape with a first multi-cloud, multi-language open source platform. While the platform has clearly won the hearts of both pundits and

By |2011-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9th, 2011|Archive, Cloud Computing|

Cloud Is Not The End – It’s The Means

GRANDVILLE - Cloud computing, at its core, is an operational transformation - mostly focused on infrastructure. If you're an enterprise IT shop, you're right to think that such a change will (ultimately) simplify your world. But simplification, faster time-to-provision, and on-demand capacity aren't the end points of IT transformation. They are the new tools that

By |2011-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9th, 2011|Archive, Cloud Computing|