Details about our Infrastructure
Assessment offering
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An article on the concepts and
technology of Public-Key
Infrastructure
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A variety of features
highlighting Taos' presence in
the Bay Area's IT landscape
New Clients
We're pleased to welcome these
new clients to the Taos family:
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Applied Weather
Technology
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Canesta
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Dendreon
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Open Road Integrated
Media
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Sungevity
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Tidal Software
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YCIS (Yew Chung
International
School)
Featured Consultant
Gail Burt: Executive IT
Management Consultant
Gail Burt is a dynamic IT
executive who possesses 25 years
of experience in strategic
planning, business process
improvement and designing and
implementing innovative
technical solutions. Gail has a
diverse background in multiple industries including
biotech, high tech, healthcare,
retail and financial services,
and companies that range from
start-ups to Fortune 50
organizations. She has a proven
track record of successfully
building and managing high
performance teams to deploy
large-scale, distributed
enterprise applications,
web-based applications and web
services platforms.
With a new year ahead of us, we’re
excited about all that this year
will present. As you will see in
Ric’s article “A Perfect Storm,” we
believe that various elements are
coming together to yield
unprecedented opportunities for
growth. Speaking of growth, we’re
excited about the recent arrival of
Gail Burt, the latest addition to
our Office of the CIO practice. You
can find out about her impressive
background in the “Featured Taoser”
section. And finally, because it
wouldn’t be a new year for us if we
didn’t also have a new offering,
we’re showcasing our Infrastructure
Assessment solution. Find out the
details in the information sheet
below. Drop us a line and let us
know what you have planned for 2010!
A
perfect storm is a simultaneous
occurrence of smaller storms which, when
taken individually, would have been far
less powerful than the storm resulting
from their chance combination.
For
the Silicon Valley and greater Bay Area,
2010 will be a “perfect storm” year made
up of four simultaneous events. The
effect of this perfect storm will yield
unprecedented opportunities for
organizations and individuals to take
their game to the next level. The
results will vary and they will be
drastic. You have two choices: you can
embrace the changes and reap huge
rewards, or you can ignore them,
becoming obsolete and facing early
retirement. Read
more...
Public-Key
Infrastructure (PKI): Concepts and
Technology
By
Yashpal Matharu, Executive IT
Management Consultant with Taos’
Office of the CIO Practice
Security and the Internet
As all Internet communications are
inherently insecure and subject to
eavesdropping and tampering, the
Internet model poses a number of
security issues. Eavesdropping,
tampering, insecure server, denial
of service, downloadable code,
insecure browser and impersonation
and masquerading are some of the
security risks the Internet Model
poses. With the advent of
e-commerce, more and more
confidential and financial
information is transmitted over
public networks. The e-commence
(B2B, B2C, e-government, e-delivery)
systems require that we can
authenticate, identify, and create
relative trust so that we can
conduct business on the public
network. That is where cryptography
comes into play. Read More...
Taos
Infrastructure Assessment Offering
In
the technology world, we know that
businesses change, growth opportunities
arise, leadership turns over, and that
it’s all too easy for IT teams to become
heavily focused on day-to-day
operational tasks. All of this can lead
to a gap between IT infrastructure and
business goals and ultimately require an
objective evaluation to identify the
current state of an organization’s IT
infrastructure. Taos’ Infrastructure
Assessment service is much more
than just a risk discovery process. Our
deep dive into your infrastructure space
provides you with an analysis of
short-term and long-term risks, and most
uniquely, a prioritized remediation plan
for immediate and future action.
Read more...
Announcements
“Memories of Taos” Contest
Winner:
Congratulations to our contest
winner Karen Frieberg Mimms, a
’93 alumna who won a Livescribe
pen! Her shared memory was: “I
worked for Taos in 1991 - 1993
on contract at Wyse Technologies
and then SGI where I was hired
on as a permanent employee. I
knew Ric long before Taos at
Benetics where we worked
together. I got laid off from
Benetics and Ric helped me learn
this new technology called
networking! Because of his
belief in me and his generous
spirit, I have been very
successful over my career. I
have many stories of Ric "after
hours" at Benetics and Taos! I'm
thrilled that Taos is still
thriving after 20 years - hard
to believe it's been that long -
and I hope it is still around 20
years from now! Congrats!” To
read other shared memories,
check out our Facebook page.
Jeff Lucchesi
Appointed EVP, GM of Managed
Services: Jeff
Lucchesi has been appointed as
the Executive Vice President and
General Manager of our
Boise-based managed services.
Prior to
Taos,
Jeff was the Senior Vice
President of Operations for
Corio, one of the early SaaS
companies created in the late
1990s, from 2000 to 2004. The
company peaked in 2004
supporting over 100 companies
using Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft
and Siebel and was sold to IBM
in early 2005. Jeff’s 25 years
of IT experience also includes
10 years serving as the CIO for
companies such as DHL and BMHC.
Read the full press release
here.
Public-Key
Infrastructure (PKI): Concepts and
Technology