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Dear silicon.com... Rural v City fat pipe row and ID cards
Comment Typical Ofcom - completely out of touch with the technology they are supposed to be monitoring. These cards, card-readers and the computer systems have built-in facilities for tracking, surveillance and sanctions. [29 May 2008]
Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?
Comment It follows that effective and efficient exception monitoring then becomes a critical necessity but, all too often, is an after-thought in systems design. But a ruthless overhaul of poor banking systems is crucial to putting rogue traders out of... [15 Apr 2008]
Systems management hits impasse
Comment The health of these components will always need monitoring but modern businesses require a more coherent view. Systems management is at a dead end. What this means is that those responsible for systems management strategy need to step back and ask... [13 Feb 2008]
Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century
Comment We can imagine improved quality of current services, commodity bandwidth for existing wireless devices, universal communicators for families, cross-country RFID, medical device monitoring and more. O is for Operating systems [17 Dec 2007]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment Systems management tools will often include the necessary monitoring functions to let IT managers view many different facets of a computing infrastructure, from the lower levels of the computing stack, where IP traffic is routed around, all the... [10 Dec 2007]
On-demand software can help banks avoid fines
Comment However, 2007 has brought a change and an increase in the number of vendors marketing hosted AML solutions to the wider market for compliance information services, know your customer (KYC) and transaction monitoring - especially in the US. [01 Nov 2007]
Why don't we talk anymore?
Comment Ludovic Relandeau, vice president UK operations, Mega International, which specialises in business process monitoring tools, says: "Many companies do not realise that around 80 per cent of their agility and potential operational improvement lies... [06 Mar 2007]
The killer app for M2M
Comment M2M is used to harness the power of networks in simple machine-to-machine monitoring tasks, without any human interface. The potential of M2M is to equip our offices with tiny and almost undetectable devices which quietly go about their business... [22 Feb 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Budgets made simple
Comment Yet analyst figures estimate that 50 to 60 per cent of organisations still depend on spreadsheets for creating, monitoring and reforecasting performance against budgets. This does not appear to have changed over 20-plus years of evolving financial... [06 Oct 2006]
Brampton Factor: Man and machine
Comment Again, the existence of sophisticated monitoring systems may well have made the problem worse rather than better. The monitoring and valve control were then defunct until someone made the awkward road journey to visit the site. [15 Aug 2006]
Analysis: Does ID management invade workers' privacy?
Comment But before deploying ID management systems, which often include staff monitoring, employers should always consult with their legal advisors on whether they have taken adequate steps to ensure privacy while also fulfilling their duties to protect... [10 May 2006]
Leader: Give Skype a break
Leader Unless you're monitoring network traffic, you might not even know your computer has become a supernode. As pointed out by a few readers - including Butler Group analyst Richard Edwards - businesses should be less concerned about Skype... [11 Nov 2005]
The future is open source
Comment Statistics from web monitoring company Netcraft show that 70 per cent of web servers on the internet use the open source Apache compared to a share of roughly 25 per cent for Microsoft's Internet Information Server. [21 Jul 2005]
Criminal IT: There's no cure-all for information security
Comment What they all require is continuous monitoring and management of the situation. While there are many ways to establish security of IT systems, none can be bought as a commoditised product, says Neil Barrett. [22 Jun 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Big Brother watching you?
Comment Currently being targeted at the military and civil engineering projects, where in-situ wired networks or formalised wireless networks can have problems, motes may be the means of providing ad-hoc specialised monitoring systems. [22 Apr 2005]
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