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RSS blocksAddressing Compliance Initiatives With Tripwire and the Center for Internet Security (CIS)
White Paper This paper provides the background one need to build an effective compliance program by understanding benchmarks, the basic building blocks of compliance initiatives. In particular, one will learn about the benchmarks... [05 Oct 2009]
A Developer's Guide to the Microsoft .NET Access Control Service: Access Control in the Cloud
White Paper Microsoft .NET Services provides developers with common building blocks and infrastructure services for cloud-based and cloud-aware applications. The goal of this whitepaper is to show developers how to use a... [02 Oct 2009]
Facebook Connect: Wizards and translators aim to connect with more sites
News Establishing a presence on the social web requires fundamental building blocks," a post by Facebook employee Alex Himel explained as it announced the Facebook Connect Wizard. Facebook made two announcements this week... [01 Oct 2009]
ERP delays give CFOs a headache
News Cost over-runs on the largest ERP implementation projects can reach tens of thousands of pounds per month - so what are the classic stumbling blocks that delay the roll out of these gigantic projects. [25 Sep 2009]
Nortel on Nortel: An Anti-Spam Solution That Works
White Paper On any given workday, Nortel IT blocks 97-99% of incoming spam emails, which amounts to between 300,000 to 1.1 million unwanted messages and includes approximately 55,000 messages with malicious attachments. [19 Sep 2009]
Taking the Heat Off Transactions: Dynamic Selection of Pessimistic Concurrency Control
White Paper This paper investigates feedback-directed dynamic selection between different implementations of atomic blocks. The paper initially executes atomic blocks using STM with optimistic concurrency control. [16 Sep 2009]
HP Infrastructure Strategies for Oracle Business Intelligence: Adaptive Infrastructure Building Blocks for Next-Generation BI
White Paper For many organizations, Business Intelligence (BI) can be difficult to manage. Some of the leading challenges include supporting more and larger user communities; managing and analyzing expanding volumes and types of data; consolidating... [02 Sep 2009]
Snow Leopard, Windows 7, Microsoft Word ban and BT broadband
News While Microsoft may not have its latest OS - Windows 7 - out of the blocks just yet, August also saw Quocirca's Clive Longbottom discuss his experiences of using the OS. While August may traditionally be something of a... [01 Sep 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard: Embracing the brave new multicore world
News Programmers mark code chunks to convert them into blocks, then tells the application how to create the queue that governs how those blocks are actually run. Some tools to ease the difficulties, such as... [01 Sep 2009]
Using NetApp SnapMirror Async With Cisco Wide Area Application Services for Data Center Replication
White Paper By copying only changed blocks, SnapMirror optimizes the use of network resources. Data ONTAP data deduplication can further reduce traffic by transmitting only nonredundant blocks in their entirety.... [30 Aug 2009]
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Architecture: The Building Blocks of the Unified Fabric
White Paper Cisco has designed the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches to be the best solution for high bandwidth, low-latency, and access-layer switches for rack deployments. In the context of I/O consolidation, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches is... [15 Aug 2009]
Can Heuristic Technology Help Your Company Fight Viruses?
White Paper Heuristic technology, like MessageLabs' proprietary technology known as SkepticĀ, not only identifies and blocks known threats, but also unknown threats -- stopping threats at the Internet-level, well before they can... [14 Aug 2009]
Deploying Higher Level Building Blocks for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing Datacenters: How Tightly Coupled Data Access Appliances Simplify Scaling, Decrease Business Complexity, and Cut TCO
White Paper Today's Web and cloud computing datacenters have reached a critical juncture as exploding demand for their services has collided with existing architectures and technologies. These datacenters leverage standard low-cost X86 servers,... [05 Aug 2009]
Microsoft puts flesh on Azure's bones with pricing details
News In addition, ASP's .NET Services element - an online developer environment that provides tools to help developers build their applications and blocks of code that can be used and modified to create online services - will... [14 Jul 2009]
Linking ABC/M and the Balanced Scorecard
White Paper They are building blocks of performance management systems. Activity-Based Costing (ABC), Activity-Based Management (ABM) and the Balanced ScoreCard (BSC) are established management methods. ABC and ABM provide cost and... [08 Jul 2009]
