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Make the Best of a Company Reorganization

whitepaper New technology, new or changing laws that affect business, and actions that competitors take can mean the company must change or lose its competitive edge. At some point, virtually every business goes through a reorganization of some kind.

Tags: hr

[12 May 2008]

Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies: How Top Process Industry Performers Take Radically Different Actions

whitepaper Companies in Process Industries (including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, oil & gas, pulp & paper, and health & beauty aides) have had to cope with rising manufacturing and logistics costs over the past few years.

Tags: back-office

[11 May 2008]

Vulnerability Assessment: The Right Tools to Protect Your Critical Data

whitepaper VA tools are designed to detect and report on security holes within various software applications, allowing organizations to take corrective actions before a devastating attack occurs. Vulnerability Assessment (VA) has become one of the hottest...

Tags: security tools

[11 May 2008]

Performance Testing of the IBM TotalStorage DS8300 in a Microsoft Exchange 2003 Environment

whitepaper This paper discusses background information including initial customer requirements for the Exchange 2003 environment, the IBM sales team's response, and subsequent considerations and actions taken. Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server relies heavily on...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Consorzio Produttori Bionature Automates Processes and Ensures Product Quality

whitepaper The challenge was to ensure regular and prompt animal health checks to supply the market with wholesome, healthy products and enable the association to automatically measure environmental parameters and implement corrective actions to restore...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Grid Failover Scenarios Version 1.1

whitepaper As part of a total systems design, business continuity procedures must be developed to instruct I/T personnel in the actions that need to be taken in the event of a failure. The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series is the latest in the line of...

Tags: tape drives - libraries

[11 May 2008]

Conduct Research Safely on the Web

whitepaper To make sure that one conducts the Web research as safely as possible, one should consider performing some of the actions mentioned in the paper. As a paralegal, one needs to conduct a significant amount of research on the Web.

Tags: web browsers

[11 May 2008]

Embedded Event Manager (EEM) on the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series

whitepaper The policy is, quite simply, a preprogrammed script loaded by the administrator, which defines actions that the switch should invoke based on set events occurring. With Cisco IOS Software Release 12.2(18)SXF4, Cisco IOS Software with Software...

Tags: switching

[11 May 2008]

Kyle Brown: Why You Need WebSphere Extended Deployment

whitepaper An autonomic manager (kind of like a little rules engine) monitors input from sensors, analyzes the input, and uses the information to plan decisions and execute appropriate actions. That's how IBM WebSphere eXtended Deployment (WebSphere XD...

Tags: monitoring systems

[10 May 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Licensed to bill

Comment Should we conclude from those figures that the alleged problem is being wildly exaggerated, or should we suppose that Fast is extraordinarily ineffective in its recovery actions? But does it justify inflicting misery on legitimate software buyers...

Tags: licensing, piracy, software

[07 May 2008]

SAGEPOT: A Tool for Security Assessment and Generation of Policy Templates

whitepaper One way to increase the trust in the existing security is to develop and maintain a set of comprehensive security policies directing the actions for preventing, eliminating or reducing security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities to an...

Tags: security management

[07 May 2008]

Macro Security Levels

whitepaper The following information summarizes how macro (macro: An action or a set of actions one can use to automate tasks. Macros are recorded in the Visual Basic for Applications programming language.virus protection works under each setting on the...

Tags: anti-virus

[06 May 2008]

How To Use the Six Laws of Persuasion during a Negotiation

whitepaper In order to be successful, you must master the persuasion process, which will enable you to deliberately create the attitude change and subsequent actions necessary for persuading others to your way of thinking.

Tags: outsourcing, persuasion, deal, actions

[30 Apr 2008]

Developers claim Vista UAC 'bypass'

News Many see it as a hindrance to performing everyday tasks, as it requests confirmation for many actions where no user confirmation was needed in Vista's predecessor, XP. Software developers from NeoSmart, a not-for-profit technology-development...

Tags: hack, uac, vista

[29 Apr 2008]

Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'

News The company's actions in pursuing standardisation prompted protests outside a plenary ISO session in Oslo earlier this month. Mason said Microsoft's actions to push through the standard showed that the ISO fast-track accreditation process was...

Tags: ooxml, iso, microsoft, vista

[21 Apr 2008]

Why IT must escape the belt-tightening

Comment Yet actions, and the way they are described and reported, suggest this situation persists. They risk cutting the very thing that could get them out of trouble, says Martin Atherton. Negative vibes have a habit of becoming reality.

Tags: value, recession, budgets

[18 Apr 2008]

Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?

Comment His prediction was ominously borne out by the actions of Jérôme Kerviel early this year. Applying an approach that requires you to provide evidence to support your actions places renewed focus on the key milestones to be completed and agreed before...

Tags: fraud, societe generale, rogue trader

[15 Apr 2008]

Microsoft: Vista security feature designed 'to annoy users'

News Kaspersky said: "If the user were to be notified about every one of these actions with a request for confirmation or a request to enter a password, the user will either go crazy or disable the security feature.

Tags: vista, uac, microsoft

[14 Apr 2008]

Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers

News A parliamentary statement read: "[The European Parliament] underlines that on the battle against digital piracy, the solution should not be to criminalise consumers who do not intend to make profit out of their actions.

Tags: eu, isps, file sharing

[14 Apr 2008]

Dow Corning Uses Enterprise Rights Management to Help Protect Intellectual Property

whitepaper The company deployed Active Directory Rights Management Services in Windows Server 2008, which enables users to limit how others can open, modify, print, forward, or take other actions with content. Dow Corning is a global leader in silicon-based...

Tags: application servers, corning, actions, active directory

[14 Apr 2008]

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