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The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment In practical terms this is currently translates into what is core and what is not for Hamon and her team and managing the "tin and wires" is clearly not core, she says, and Rok has just put out an initial request for proposals for outsourcing data...

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

HP seals $13.9bn deal for EDS

News The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2008 and will more than double HP's services revenue, which amounted to $16.6bn in fiscal year 2007. The two companies collective services businesses, as of the end of each company's 2007 fiscal...

Tags: saas, hp, eds

[13 May 2008]

Google lays out mobile future

News Google is aiming to make an impact in the mobile sector by focusing on web-based applications, super-fast search and location based services (LBS). Google Mobile group product manager, Hugo Barra, added a great user interface - like Apple's iPhone...

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

Aviva signs £300m comms deal

News The insurance company, which was formed from Norwich Union and GNU (itself the union of Commercial Union and General Accident) in 2002, will be using C&W for 72 separate services including telephony, data and IPVPN and MPLS wide area networking to...

Tags: voip, c&w, aviva

[13 May 2008]

HP close to buying EDS for $12bn

News Hewlett-Packard is in talks to buy Electronic Data Systems, HP has confirmed. Thanks to IBM's Global Services arm, Big Blue can offer back-end hardware such as servers along with long term service contracts.

Tags: hurd, compaq, eds, hp

[13 May 2008]

Directory Publisher Provides Access to White and Yellow Pages on the Desktop

whitepaper SEAT PAGINE GIALLE selected the Microsoft .NET Framework to build a system that enables users to search White Pages and Yellow Pages directly from the desktop, without using the Web browser and with the opportunity to integrate returned data into...

Tags: customer support services

[13 May 2008]

Data Streaming, Workflow and Firewall-Friendly Grid Services With Styx

whitepaper This paper presents the Styx Grid Service (SGS), a remote service type that allows data to be streamed directly between service instances. Through the use of persistent connections, clients can monitor progress, status and other service data...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Adding Business Value with Wide-Area Data Services (WDS)

whitepaper This IDC paper explains how Riverbed, whose product line--the Steelhead family of appliances--optimizes TCP/IP traffic, addresses these issues with a single wide-area data services (WDS) solution, so that users can enjoy LAN-like access to...

Tags: lan - wan standards

[11 May 2008]

Enterprise Data Center Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Design Guide

whitepaper The Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) portfolio of technologies and products give enterprise branches LAN-like access to centrally-hosted applications, servers, storage, and multimedia with LAN-like performance.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Data Center: Load Balancing Data Center Services SRND

whitepaper Application optimization is one of the key solution areas within the Data Center Networking Architecture. The objective of application optimization is to ensure high performance and high availability for applications running in the enterprise data...

Tags: load balancing

[11 May 2008]

ESG Lab Field Audit: Riverbed Wide-area Data Services - Complimenting Existing LAN and WAN Infrastructure from Cisco

whitepaper Many companies have successfully implemented Riverbed WDS solutions within their Cisco networks. This ESG Lab Field Audit documents the success that these Riverbed customers have experienced with a focus on configurations and installation experiences.

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[11 May 2008]

Global Data Vaulting Delivers Disaster Recovery Services for as Little as 3 USD a Day With IBM Tivoli Software

whitepaper This enabled delivery of enterprise-level business continuity services to small and medium-sized businesses for as little as 3 USD a day; reduced client recovery times from days to under 30 minutes; improved governance.

Tags: disaster recovery

[11 May 2008]

Implementing Custom Databinding and Custom Function Selectors in IBM WebSphere Adapters

whitepaper Data bindings transform the data produced by Enterprise Information Service (EIS) services into data consumed by Service Component Architecture (SCA) components and vice versa. There is a functional gap due to the lack of generic data...

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

Live Data Center Migration across WANs: A Robust Cooperative Context Aware Approach

whitepaper It specifically seeks to achieve high availability of data center services in the face of both planned and unanticipated outages of data center facilities. A significant concern for Internet-based service providers is the continued operation and...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Financial Institution Chooses Virtualization to Cut Costs, Improve Business Continuity

whitepaper Based in Zagreb, Raiffeisenbank Austria (RBA) strives to offer the widest range of financial products and services in Croatia. Challenged by recent expansion, the Bank's IT department wanted to reduce costs and better support the business with...

Tags: infrastructure management, virtualization, automated, host

[11 May 2008]

What's New in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services

whitepaper Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has gone through a complete redesign and rewrite from Data Transformation Services (DTS) in SQL Server 2000. This paper provides a practical guide to exploring the new features of the SQL Server...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Accelerating Secure Business Applications

whitepaper Read this Riverbed Feature Brief for details involving SSL encryption, SSL's impact on WAN optimization, and new wide-area data services techniques that result in dramatic performance gains of SSL-encrypted applications.

Tags: wide area networks (wan)

[11 May 2008]

Protection for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches Against Denial-of-Service Attacks

whitepaper They can disrupt mission-critical services, prevent data transfer between devices, and decrease overall productivity. Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks continue to be a serious threat to enterprise and service provider networks.

Tags: switching

[11 May 2008]

Protecting EMRs, Data Privacy and Hospital Interconnections

whitepaper Rapidly expanding interconnections are a fact of life as healthcare providers expand access to EMRs and other data by physicians, nurses, transcription services, and radiology interpretation services, and staff members connect via laptops and...

Tags: security management

[11 May 2008]

Accelerate Disaster Recovery

whitepaper View this Webcast, featuring Harold Byun from Riverbed Technology, to learn how advancements in wide-area data services (WDS) can reduce RPOs and RTOs even more. There is no room for downtime, and lost data is a competitive liability.

Tags: lan - wan standards

[11 May 2008]

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