systems for most in cheat sheets
Cheat Sheet: CRM
Cheat Sheet The information generated by CRM systems can be used by people in sales, customer support and marketing to allow for quicker and appropriate decisions to be made. You could say that but CRM - despite being a tech industry buzzword bandied about... [08 Jan 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Encryption
Cheat Sheet Most computer encryption systems belong in one of two categories - symmetric-key encryption or public-key encryption. But the main reason for businesses to use it is encryption is traditionally seen as the most secure way to transport data. [28 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: MiFID
Cheat Sheet Lots of the companies that currently trade off-book just don't have the systems to record and store this information and prove that they are providing best execution. Algorithmic trading will be increasingly used as well, as automated systems can... [05 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
Cheat Sheet This concept has been scaled up and various pieces of software have been developed so - for example - a physical server can hold a number of virtual servers, which may be running different operating systems. [04 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Blade servers and PCs
Cheat Sheet Both kinds of blades make IT systems easier to manage as the hardware is located in one place and problems can be easily isolated and solved. At a recent blade launch event, IDC analyst Jin-Chui Kim said the main problem he could see with blades is... [24 Jan 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Security appliances
Cheat Sheet Of course, a fully managed service - essentially using systems in somebody else's location - takes that a step further but there are those who maintain they want to keep security within their own four walls and literally be able to touch it and... [20 Feb 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Federated identity
Cheat Sheet That is a snapshot of how federated identity can work, though the systems will inevitably evolve. In the most basic 'in a nutshell' terms, it is an agreed standard for sharing identity with multiple parties with multiple privileges. [20 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Social engineering
Cheat Sheet I'm thinking community projects - building irrigation systems perhaps? In recent times we have seen emails which purport to be from Microsoft or users' own IT departments asking them to remove files from their systems or download 'patches' which... [15 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Smart phone operating systems
Cheat Sheet Most of the attention for the long term focuses on Symbian and Microsoft. The same goes for GSM versus CDMA versus anything else - smart phones will be sold for different network types. Some smart phones will work on 3G networks - in some ways... [02 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Push-to-talk
Cheat Sheet Going back some years there have been other PTT systems, in certain industries, using fixed lines. This is partly about a sell to end users - and let me come back to that in a second - but PoC is also about a business model for operators. [09 Sep 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Sarbanes-Oxley
Cheat Sheet The most common area of focus is the archiving of all communications and the creation of transparent and auditable systems for recording transactions, dealings and any kind of business correspondence. [10 Jun 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Biometrics
Cheat Sheet Nowadays advanced systems will have 'liveness' tests - which means they will detect whether the finger is genuine living tissue (as long as somebody tells the muggers - who may still try it on anyway) - so basically a fingerprint isn't much use... [20 Apr 2004]
Cheat sheet: RFID
Cheat Sheet Wal-Mart and the US Department of Defense recently issued a mandate to all their suppliers demanding that they have RFID systems in place by 1 January 2005. The tags cost upwards of 15p a pop and most retailers won't touch them with a bargepole... [16 Apr 2004]
Cheat Sheet: The A-Z of 802.11
Cheat Sheet When finalised in late 2003, it will probably run on existing systems through a firmware upgrade, if perhaps not at full capability. There were two variants, frequency hopping and direct sequence, but for political rather than technical reasons.a [04 Apr 2003]
Cheat Sheet: Web services
Cheat Sheet SOAP is just a way of using XML to make different programs and operating systems communicate with each other. And for business users, web services technology will be used to enable some of the B2B exchanges which have so far struggled to live up to... [31 Jan 2002]
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