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Take stock for tough times
Comment Maximise staff Labour is the largest controllable expense for most retailers, yet many fail to fully understand how long tasks allocated to their staff can actually take. History suggests those retailers that continue to focus on innovation now... [24 Jul 2008]
Toward an Approach for Specification of QoS and Resource Information for Dynamic Resource Management
White Paper RMM addresses this need by providing mechanisms for describing resources and resource usage policies, monitoring resource status and utilization, controlling how resources are allocated to users and processes, and reasoning about effective ways to... [18 Jul 2008]
On Effectiveness of Conditional Admission Control for IP QoS Network Services With REM Scheme
White Paper To a NS a certain amount of network resources, i.e.dedicated link capacity with associated buffer size, is allocated. Future IP QoS (Quality of Service) networks are aiming at differentiating transfer quality of packets belonging to different flows. [17 Jul 2008]
Banks unprepared for EU payments directive
News Half of the banks surveyed said they had completed impact assessments on PSD but 85 per cent said no budget has yet been allocated for compliance costs. The cost of complying with the EU Payments Services Directive (PSD) could amount to €6bn over... [14 Jul 2008]
A Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Scheme for VSAT-Based Networks
White Paper The scheme is devised such that applications within the same priority are allocated bandwidth by using max-min fairness technique. The limited bandwidth available to an organization through an expensive gateway like VSAT (very small aperture... [11 Jul 2008]
Hybrid Bandwidth Scheduling for CAN-Based Networked Control Systems
White Paper The residual bandwidth is allocated to non-real-time data by the pro-posed scale round-robin scheme such that their network loads are balanced. A hybrid bandwidth scheduling scheme is proposed to improve the quality of service and the bandwidth... [11 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone - the business perspective
News And while O2 says it is making provision for businesses - by ringfencing a separate allocation of iPhones from each stock shipment, which will then be available through its business channels and via a proportion of its B2B partners - this stock is... [10 Jul 2008]
Mentoring: Tech charity's recipe for success
Comment Fifty-eight per cent of the start-ups created using the allocated funds are still trading in their third year, a number far above the national average. There are several charities that bring together the tech sector with good causes and, as Tony... [09 Jul 2008]
A New Approach to Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation in Quality of Service Networks: Performance and Bounds
White Paper This paper introduces a new service model that provides per-flow bandwidth guarantees, where users subscribe for a guaranteed rate; moreover, the network periodically individuates unused bandwidth and proposes short-term contracts where extra... [08 Jul 2008]
Distributed Algorithms for Dynamic Bandwidth Provisioning in Communication Networks
White Paper This paper introduces a new service model that provides quantitative per-flow bandwidth guarantees, where users subscribe for a guaranteed rate; moreover, the network periodically individuates unused bandwidth and proposes short-term contracts... [08 Jul 2008]
County of Santa Clara Improves the Quality of Social Services With Simplified IT Management
White Paper With diminishing resources and increased demand for transparency, the County and its agencies must be able to report on their services and outcomes and justify how public money has been allocated. As a result, a series of quarterly performance... [03 Jul 2008]
Fuzzy Intrusion Detection System
White Paper The basic intent of a DoS attack either overwhelms the resources allocated by a networked device to a particular service in order to prevent its use or crashes a target device or system. A framework for Intrusion Detection System (IDS) over TCP/IP... [01 Jul 2008]
Consistent FlashCopy of LVM Mirrored Applications
White Paper The mirrors are usually allocated in physically different storage subsystems, to ensure that the application will continue when one storage subsystem fails. Many applications running on AIX are mirroring their data using the Logical Volumes Manager... [30 Apr 2008]
Dynamic Data Center Power Management: Trends, Issues, and Solutions
White Paper An examination of how power is allocated to computing resources in data centers shows that current methods do not result in optimal use of available data center power and space. This paper examines the challenges of increasing data center power... [26 Apr 2008]
ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill
News The department's expenditure on these services is allocated across a wide range of firms, from small, specialist companies with niche expertise and few employees, to global multinational organisations offering a broad spectrum and substantial... [11 Apr 2008]
