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Comment Open source is everywhere - in routers, in switches, in storage arrays, as the base of all commercial virtualisation software. In these places it has been repackaged as a "commercial" system, providing the standards that software developers need.

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

Service Provider Fuels Its Future With Sun Grid Compute Utility

whitepaper Virtual Compute Corporation is a global provider of on-demand high-performance computing resources and IT infrastructure management for commercial and government entities. The company wanted scale infrastructure quickly to meet customer demands for...

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 2008]

eBay Drives Explosive Growth Using Sun Technology and Sun Services

whitepaper To power its massively-scaled resource tiers including both commercial and custom databases, eBay relies on a spectrum of Sun servers, storage and software solutions, which reduce the company's total cost of ownership, optimize application...

Tags: high availability

[06 May 2008]

Scalable NAS for Oracle With HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array File Services

whitepaper Oracle Database and the Oracle E-Business Suite are at the heart of most commercial data centers. These databases and applications have been compartmentalized, creating islands of servers and storage that drive up operational costs and lower server...

Tags: nas

[04 May 2008]

Bank Asya Accelerates ETL Processes by 400%

whitepaper Bank Asya provides a wide range of banking products and services to retail, corporate and commercial customers in Turkey. Bank Asya wanted to integrate multiple databases to create a single customer view and implement a platform-independent tool to...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[04 May 2008]

SAP Transaction Banking: Measurements of IBM System z DB Server Using DB2 V9.1 for z/OS

whitepaper Bank posting and balancing, often called core banking, are crucial to all commercial banks. Historically, it was one of the first parts of a banking operation to be automated with computers. Not only is it crucial to the bank's business, but it...

Tags: mainframes

[04 May 2008]

SAP ERP Helps Tata Motors to Serve Their Customers Better and Faster

whitepaper Tata Motors Limited, India's largest automobile company, is the leader by far in commercial vehicles in each segment, and the second largest in the passenger vehicles market with winning products in the compact, mid-size car and utility vehicle...

Tags: erp

[04 May 2008]

Italian Institute for Foreign Trade Improves Business Processes With Integrated Financial Infrastructure

whitepaper The Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE) is a public sector organization responsible for developing, facilitating, and promoting Italy's international economic and commercial ties - with a special focus on the needs of smaller enterprises and...

Tags: erp

[04 May 2008]

Sito Gruppo Industriale Adopts Software Solution for Managing Fast Growing Global Operations

whitepaper The challenge was to improve ability to manage and update large volumes of commercial and technical documentation for the company's catalogue of approximately 100,000 items and accelerate communication and documentation flows inside and outside...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[04 May 2008]

Architectural Manifesto: Ideas That Work - Tips for Turning Great Ideas Into Successful Applications

whitepaper Some of these ideas have turned into open source projects, some have been issued as commercial projects, and some have been abandoned. With the advent of agile frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, application development has never been easier or more...

Tags: software engineering

[04 May 2008]

Emin Leydier Manages a 50% Increase in Production Without Increasing Administrative Workforce

whitepaper Emin Leydier wanted to install a management system to support the company's strategic development including a new plant and new machinery and improve the integration of financial, commercial, transportation, and procurement management processes.

Tags: infrastructure management

[04 May 2008]

Skanska USA Building Assembles Better Planning and Forecasting With Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

whitepaper Skanska USA Building, a major subsidiary of the multinational residential and commercial construction. Highly dependent on accurate forecasting and current analysis of project timelines and costs, Skanska USA had concerns with delays created by the...

Tags: application servers

[03 May 2008]

Maintaining the Buzz in Media: Better Business Intelligence Helps ITV Keep on Top

whitepaper ITV is the largest commercial TV company in the United Kingdom (U.K.with almost 50 per cent market share and an annual spend of around £1 billion (U.S.billion) on programming. ITV worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner IMGroup to create a...

Tags: data mining - analysis

[03 May 2008]

Microsoft Online Customer Story: 1-800-FLOWERS

whitepaper While a softly lit television commercial may prompt one person to buy flowers, a simple banner ad reading "Mother's Day is May 13th" may prompt another. For more than 30 years, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM Inc.has been providing customers around the world...

Tags: web content management

[03 May 2008]

Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain

Photo The brothers were commissioned to build the machine by the Ministry of Supply to make a small and inexpensive analogue computer for commercial use. The gleaming, primary colours of 1950s sci-fi icon Dan Dare met the vacuum tubes, dials and buttons...

Tags: tech, science, history

[01 May 2008]

Geographic database opens doors to private sector

News A national geographical electronic database is now available for commercial use after all 376 English and Welsh local authorities signed up to supply data. The National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) was initiated in 1999 to centralise all...

Tags: local authorities, database

[30 Apr 2008]

AMD chips into business market

News According to AMD, its first commercial Business Class notebooks will be based on the company's upcoming Puma platform. Our [products] are designed to give commercial customers the assurance that platforms are designed with their business in mind to...

Tags: chips, intel, amd

[29 Apr 2008]

Hacking 'goodies' get industry body

News Yet despite the widespread use of penetration testing, there has historically been a definite lack of agreed commercial standards and practices. The Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (Crest) made its public debut this week at the...

Tags: body, industry, hacking

[25 Apr 2008]

Dynamic Response in Distributed Firewall Systems

whitepaper These devices can play a crucial role in preserving the wellbeing of commercial as well as personal networks. Firewalls are currently the prominent defense against network attacks. However, the correct configuration of firewalls is hardly a trivial...

Tags: firewalls

[24 Apr 2008]

Tech to tackle India's poverty

News The foundation relies on 1,100 employees, 11,000 volunteers and 120 commercial, state and organisational partners. Villagers in India are turning to technology to lift them out of the deprivation that keeps 280 million people in the country below...

Tags: csr, india, outsourcing

[23 Apr 2008]

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