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RSS commercial offSoftware Smackdown: SaaS vs. Traditional Software Applications
White Paper In this five-minute, audio-enhanced presentation Lyn Robison, Burton Group Analyst in Application and Platform Strategies Service, walks you through three different software form factors; Software as a Service (SaaS), Commercial off-the-shelf... [18 Jul 2008]
Gov't to ramp up IT outsourcing?
News But the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) claims the private sector commitment ignores a catalogue of troubled partnerships in the past. Hutton said in a statement: "It is clear that private and third sector organisations play a valuable... [11 Jul 2008]
Using Destination-Set Prediction to Improve the Latency/Bandwidth Tradeoff in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
White Paper This paper explores the destination-set predictor design space, focusing on a collection of important commercial workloads. Recently proposed hybrid protocols trade-off latency and bandwidth by directly sending requests to a predicted destination set. [11 Jul 2008]
Frequency Bandwidth Optimization of Left-Handed Metamaterial
White Paper In this paper a commercial three-dimensional electromagnetic simulation code is used to explore the effects of geometry parameter variations on the frequency bandwidth of an LHM at microwave frequencies. [11 Jul 2008]
Virtual Private Networks: An Overview With Performance Evaluation
White Paper Virtual private networks have gained immense popularity among commercial and defense organizations because of their capability to provide secure connectivity at lower costs. Several commercial and open source VPN products are now available that can... [10 Jul 2008]
Accelerating the Discovery of a Smallpox Cure
White Paper The expectations are that, by combining a high-throughput screening application with the substantial power provided by grid computing, the project will shave years off the time required to develop a commercial drug. [03 Jul 2008]
Using Program Behavior Proles for Intrusion Detection
White Paper More often than not, Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) intrusion detection tools use "Fingerprints" of known intrusions to detect their presence in these audit trails. Intrusion detection and response has traditionally been performed at the network... [01 Jul 2008]
Improving Enterprise Application Security and Best Practice
White Paper This paper describes how to design a solution to provide secure collaboration and personalization through identity management - across not only a few important enterprise systems, but also other Commercial-Off - The-Shelf (COTS) products or custom... [30 Jun 2008]
How many people will it take to fill Gates' shoes?
Comment Flake is responsible for "setting the technology vision and future direction of the MSN portal, web search, desktop search and commercial search efforts," according to Microsoft. He is a long-time, on-again/off-again Softie, who first joined the... [24 Jun 2008]
Legal Eye: Blogging cowboys ride the Wild Web
Comment Its award-winning technology, media and commercial practice employs 70 partners specialising in IT, telecomms, media, sport and IP law. Perhaps many users would realise that slagging off their employer online might be something to avoid but there... [05 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Migrant techies and BBC web budget busters…
Comment I used to work at BBC Worldwide (BBC's commercial arm) and I always said to anyone who would listen that the BBCi website should have been under BBC Worldwide's control and be a commercial proposition, rather than being paid for by the licence-payer. [05 Jun 2008]
Software Assurance: An Overview of Current Industry Best Practices
White Paper These organizations widely and increasingly use commercial off-the-shelf software ("COTS") to automate processes with information technology. As such, users have become increasingly concerned about the integrity, security and reliability of... [31 May 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo The National Gallery in London has been using imaging technology from HP in its research on world famous art and more recently to boost the commercial side of the business. This picture shows how stellar winds from the Orion galaxy bounce off a... [30 May 2008]
Carphone Warehouse's 'bumpy road' to outsourcing success
Case Study Malcolm Robinson, head of Commercial Group Information Services at Carphone Warehouse, said the company got off to a bumpy start with outsourcing. More on outsourcing… Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals Shell signs $4bn IT... [28 May 2008]
AstraZeneca simplifies outsourcing rules
News The contract extends to server hosting and storage for scientific, commercial and supply operations. More on outsourcing… Gov't stung by 'rip-off' outsourcing deals Shell signs $4bn IT outsourcing contract Cloud computing... [19 May 2008]
