Most organizations leave their mission critical systems vulnerable to security threats and performance degradation. Recent studies show that organizational constraints are at the core of this issue. These constraints range from organizational policies, budgets and staff availability and even competency.

26 percent of organizations apply critical security and performance patches as they are released, 20 percent will eventually apply 6 to 9 months later while another 20 percent have no requirement at all to apply them. That leaves many companies data unprotected.

There are several ways to combat these constraints. One way is gain support from your organization. This can come in the form of support from executives, security / audit team and other critical policy makers. By establishing new and or updating existing security policies, and as a critical component, patching, these guidelines and timeliness of patching removes some of these constraints. A second way to protect and improve data integrity is to use technology. By keeping current on latest software, technology can help you reduce time and budget constraints of getting current applications and databases tested and allow your team to proactively assess the impact to your enterprise.

Centroid believes in 2 degrees of continuous change instead of wide arcs of re-activeness. These small degrees of change allows for continuous improvement across the organization. Whether it be through technology or process slight proactive adjustments make the enterprise perform at a higher degree then you can ever accomplish by large scale reactive measures.

Centroid is in the business of Future Proofing Oracle environments. In fact, Centroid is the leader in Future Proofing your Business and Technology and no one does it better. No one.

Recently “The Business Week” June 15, 2009 ran an article titled ‘Taking AIM at outsourcers on US Soil’ If passed, the bill would bar companies with more than 50 employees in the U.S. from landing any additional work visas if more than half their US workforce is made up of H-1B or L-1 visa holders.  It definately appears there will be some controversy up on the hill.  If acted upon it would put a stop to the addition of H-1B resources coming to the US.  Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are the two authoring the bill.  It would be good to hear your opinion on the subject…..I have mine!