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White Paper Currently, most enterprise and manufactory IT datacenters experience severe problems managing the large N tier, networked environments that these mission critical systems run on. Mission critical manufactory and enterprise IT infrastructure and on... [04 Aug 2008]
A Review of QoS Architectures
White Paper Over the past several years there has been a considerable amount of research within the field of Quality of Service (QoS) support for distributed multimedia systems. To date, most of the work has occurred within the context of individual... [04 Aug 2008]
Microsoft Business Solutions Webcast: Top 10 Features You Have Been Looking for in a Manufacturing Application - Level 100
White Paper Most ERP systems are very feature-rich these days. But, not all are alike. If ever wondered what key features others in the industry are using to successfully manage their business, this is the webcast to see. [04 Aug 2008]
Introducing Scalability in Network Measurement: Toward 10 Gbps With Commodity Hardware
White Paper Unfortunately, most network measurement systems are engineered to process data in a set of sequential tasks; thus, completely ignoring any form of parallelism provided by the hardware. The capacity of today's network links, along with the... [04 Aug 2008]
Blowing up hard drives, stinky broadband and super cars
Photo Photo credit: BAE Systems silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London, to the Thames Water depot near Stratford, for a rare trip down London's Victorian sewer network for a look at a much more high-tech network it is now hosting - Geo's... [01 Aug 2008]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News Businesses are better off using their own systems than putting all their eggs in a basket that's not competently managed. A van carrying about 3,000 blank ePassports and visas was hijacked on route to RAF Northolt, near London. [29 Jul 2008]
Credit crunch prompts open source adoption
News The OSA found 79 per cent of participants said their customers were concerned about interoperability between open-source and proprietary systems, with another 56 per cent worried about interoperability between different open-source systems. [29 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics diary: Testing times…
Comment The IT systems are operational and in fact the games management systems, which among other things handle accreditation and staffing schedules, are already working at peak usage. But in addition to supporting these systems, we now have our last two... [21 Jul 2008]
PAYE system not ready for rollout
News One of the key findings of the Poynter Review into HMRC data handling was duplication of information in the HMRC's 650-plus systems increased the risk of data loss. Earlier this year a report found HMRC computer systems had incorrectly taxed up to... [21 Jul 2008]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo The centre immediately flag up attacks on its customers' systems, alerting the company to methods such as port scanning, or attempts to get through the firewall and intrusion detection system. The centre also has a regularly updated list of the IP... [21 Jul 2008]
First iPhone 2.0 antivirus software released
News Antivirus vendors have predicted the arrival of the iPhone, with its stripped down version of Mac OS X, would lead to an increase in malware for all Mac OS X systems. The company said the latest version of its Virus Barrier X5 10.5.3 antivirus... [21 Jul 2008]
A Near Optimal Scheduler for Switch-Memory-Switch Routers
White Paper Routers are ubiquitous in modern computing, appearing in wide-area networks, multiprocessor servers, and data storage systems. Modern routers achieve high performance by solving computationally intensive tasks using custom hardware. [18 Jul 2008]
10 Gbps NRZ-DPSK Modulation in SOA-Based Optical Packet Switching Networks
White Paper In such systems, the physical layer scalability is primarily limited by the ASE noise accumulation from the SOAs. Optical Packet Switched (OPS) networks are a promising means of delivering high bandwidth data communication with the fine granularity... [18 Jul 2008]
A Modular Gigabit Ethernet Backbone for NEPTUNE and Other Ocean Observatories
White Paper Ethernet is the most popular technology used for Local Area Networks (LANs). Recently, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) technology has successfully competed with SONET and other legacy alternatives such as ATM and Frame Relay for Metropolitan Area Network... [18 Jul 2008]
Soham report IT systems still not in place
News Key computer systems demanded to protect the public in the wake of the Soham murders have not been delivered. Meanwhile the electronic transfer of court results to the Police National Computer will not start working until August 2008 and systems to... [17 Jul 2008]
