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RSS fire serviceFB Rice & Co Safeguards Patent Data With Improved Business Continuity Capabilities
White Paper To enhance its business continuity capabilities, FB Rice needed to reduce the risks to its infrastructure - whether it was from a hardware failure, an email virus or a catastrophic natural event, such as a fire or flood. [05 Jul 2008]
Sun Fire Blade Platform Architecture
White Paper This white paper describes the Sun Fire Blade Platform in its entirety, including the Intelligent Shelf with its power supplies and switch and service processor, blade servers and specialty blades, and Sun's new network-attached storage system... [03 Jul 2008]
Tools for Change: A Five-Step Framework to Align IT With Business Goals
White Paper Organizations that drive their data protection efforts from reactive, fire fighting mode into proactive planning and capacity utilization efforts can focus on delivering quality service at the lowest possible cost. [03 Jul 2008]
SUN COE Success Story: Delaware Biotechnology Institute - University of Delaware
White Paper The Delaware Biotechnology Institute implemented a Sun Infrastructure Solution for Grid Computing that utilizes Sun Grid Engine Enterprise Edition and Sun Control Station software to manage a 128 dual-node grid comprised of Sun Fire V60x servers. [03 Jul 2008]
Flexible Wire and Cable Management in Renovated Buildings: Poke-Thru Devices Maintain Slab Fire Rating
White Paper Today’s advanced poke-thru devices offer significant flexibility without sacrificing safety since they maintain the fire rating of the slab. Access to wiring and cabling is provided by low profile service activations in the floor. [03 Jul 2008]
Recipe for Reliability: NEBS Testing and CompactPCI-based Equipment Design
White Paper The Network Equipment Building System, commonly known as NEBS, exists to ensure that computers and other equipment deployed in telephone company central offices support uninterrupted service under extreme environmental conditions, including... [03 Jul 2008]
Mission-Critical, Carrier-Class Communications for UK Fire Service
White Paper The Central Scotland Fire and Rescue Services headquarters is in constant contact with the other fire stations in its coverage area. In addition to needing a higher-capacity network, the Fire and Rescue Services wanted a solution that was easy to... [02 Jul 2008]
Public Safety Agency Increases Crime Lab Investigators Service Effectiveness and Responsiveness
White Paper The Washington State Patrol is a public safety agency with oversight of traditional law enforcement, fire response, toxicology, and criminal investigations across the state. The agency needed to improve service effectiveness of state crime labs and... [02 Jul 2008]
ViewWise Supports Audit Trail for Manufacturing Companies
White Paper Some think Document Management software will save them if the need should arise for disaster recovery such as a fire or flood. Many simply see Document Management as the solution to improved customer service. [29 May 2008]
Admit to security breaches, companies told
News Certs, dubbed 'digital fire brigades', help countries combat distributed denial of service attacks and spam generated by hijacked botnet computers. The EU's online security body is calling for laws to force companies to reveal when their computer... [27 May 2008]
Geographic database opens doors to private sector
News The NLPG has been used by public sector organisations - such as the police, fire service and county council - for the past four years but is now available for private sector groups to subscribe to. A national geographical electronic database is now... [30 Apr 2008]
Warning: Web will run out of space by 2010
News The BBC has come under fire from service providers, such as Tiscali, which claim that its iPlayer online-TV service is becoming a major drain on network bandwidth. Network operators and service providers argue that the internet is already unequal... [21 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays
Comment It is now largely complete and, of course, bristles with technology: a new heating system, fire and burglar alarm, radio and TV, broadband and LAN, hubs, switches and wi-fi. Written while flying from London to Greece on BA632 and dispatched from a... [16 Apr 2008]
Supporting a Customer Base That Doubled Overnight
White Paper E.ON UK migrated to Sun Fire servers and used Sun Ready Availability Assessment services along with onsite services to accelerate process improvement and skill acquisition. The company wanted to support twice as many customers quickly to identify... [16 Apr 2008]
NHS Tayside Consolidates Data Center With Help From Sun
White Paper Sun and business partner Access Computing helped NHS Tayside consolidate and upgrade its data storage and server infrastructure using Sun StorEdge storage hardware and Sun Fire servers. Tayside receives service under its SunSpectrum Platinum... [16 Apr 2008]
