Tsunami
RSS TsunamiDisaster Defeats High-Tech Recovery Effort
White Paper When December's Indian Ocean tsunami gave Strong Angel a chance to stretch its wings, however, the tsunami came out the winner. Major natural disasters are always a surprise in that no one is sure when... [03 Jul 2008]
Lossy Bulk Synchronous Parallel Processing Model for Very Large Scale Grids
White Paper Many new bulk data transfer schemes using UDP for data transmission such as RBUDP, Tsunami, and SABUL have been introduced and shown to have better performance compared to TCP. The performance of a parallel algorithm in... [04 Mar 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Sunday
Comment With the inevitable tsunami of marketing, companies are clearly pushing the boat out to get their message across. It's February and there's a red circle burning a hole in my calendar. No, nothing to do with Valentine's... [10 Feb 2008]
Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of the SABUL Congestion Control Algorithm
White Paper Several new protocols such as RBUDP, User-Level UDP, Tsunami, and SABUL, have been proposed as alternatives to TCP for high speed data transfer. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of SABUL congestion... [06 Dec 2007]
RFID tags to "revolutionise" UN relief ops?
News Embedding electronic tags in containers of food and supplies - and even in workers' identification documents - will "revolutionise" the way the United Nations doles out relief in the aftermath of the next tsunami, civil... [11 Oct 2007]
A Rapidly Deployable Communications Network Architecture for Disaster Management
White Paper It is amply clear from the unfortunate events of September 11, 2001 and the South-Asian tsunami disaster that there exists a strong need for a rapidly deployable communications network that would serve to provide much... [31 Aug 2007]
Storage Networking: An Essential Guide to Storage as a Key Component of Business Continuation
White Paper Things are more complicated now, especially after September 11th, the natural disasters of 2005 (the Indonesian tsunami and Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma), or even severe storms such as those that hit Greensburg,... [23 Aug 2007]
A Rapidly Deployable Communications Network Architecture for Disaster Management
White Paper It is amply clear from the unfortunate events of September 11, 2001 and the South-Asian tsunami disaster that there exists a strong need for a rapidly deployable communications network that would serve to provide much... [10 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.03.07
Round-Up Surfing in on a tsunami of popular demand, it's the caption competition - back and bigger than ever before. It's been a week of irony upon irony. And the Round-Up isn't talking irony in the Alanis Morissette... [09 Mar 2007]
UK embassies to get £11.5m web platform
News The FCO is also aiming to increase the number of visitors to its website, improve usability, minimise security risks and ensure it can cope with spikes in demand, such as the Asian tsunami in 2004 when site traffic... [19 Feb 2007]
The Strategic Role of ITIL in the Oblicore Ecosystem
White Paper This white paper initially explains what is ITIL, charts its history and current trends, and then expands on how the books in the library form the basis of managing the outsourcing tsunami that has become a fact of life... [23 Jan 2007]
Portal Solution Accelerates Global Relief Agency's Response to Asian Tsunami
White Paper CRS responded quickly to the devastating South Asian tsunami of 2004, but the disaster's unprecedented scale required new tools for managing the relief effort. The Tsunami Relief Portal, developed with... [13 Oct 2006]
Software industry 'close to implosion'
News This is the tsunami hitting right now. Ray Lane, the former president and COO of Oracle, has warned vast numbers of software companies are likely to become extinct as dominant players monopolise their markets - and... [09 Oct 2006]
From the Field...: 10 Lessons Learned From the Asian Disaster of 2004
White Paper The Asian tsunami disaster of 2004 was a reminder of the incredible and sometimes destructive power of nature, as well as a wake-up call for countries and organizations to ensure they are prepared to deal with... [09 Aug 2006]
ITU satellite phone deal for disaster relief
News Events such as the Asian tsunami at the end of 2004, the Kashmir earthquake and even Hurricane Katrina have shown how terrestrial communications links are hit hard in the first hours - around the time such services are... [11 Jul 2006]
