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ConGES Consulting Embeds Security, Scalability, and Performance Into Real-Time Collaboration for Utilities

whitepaper Multi-utility consultancy ConGES develops turnkey mobile solutions that enable field engineers working for regional energy and water providers to capture orders, measure consumption, and monitor assets using PDAs or laptops.

Tags: scalability

[11 May 2008]

Energy-Efficient Performance for the Data Center

whitepaper IT engineers at Intel face the significant challenge of managing the cost and efficiency of the data centers. Servers continue to proliferate, but they are often underutilized, leading to higher capital, maintenance, power, cooling, and software...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

The Entry-Level HP Workstations: Market Segments and Application Areas

whitepaper Engineers, designers and power office users are constantly demanding more from their desktop systems. Increasingly sophisticated applications require more computing performance, larger memory, and a range of professional graphics - all on similar...

Tags: workstations

[11 May 2008]

Network Convergence and the NAT/Firewall Problems

whitepaper Voice over IP technology is fueling the rapid growth on network convergence. Most enterprises today sit behind Firewalls and also use private IP addressing behind NATs (Network Address Translators). These NATs and Firewalls cause significant...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Show and Tell: Combining Pictures and Words to Create Full Project Management Capability

whitepaper The challenge is to effectively bridge the communications gap between the business users who need the solution, the technical engineers and developers who will build it, and the QA, analysts and managers in between.

Tags: methodology

[09 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment He dropped one here: "Having tried to manage open source environments, the degree to which rather eccentric - apologies for the generalisation - open source custodians and Unix engineers customise their environments creates extremely bulky systems...

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

The Naked CIO: Is open source dead?

Comment Having tried to manage open source environments, the degree to which rather eccentric - apologies for the generalisation - open source custodians and Unix engineers customise their environments creates extremely bulky systems and applications that...

Tags: applications, open source

[06 May 2008]

Diverse Firewall Design

whitepaper Firewalls are the mainstay of enterprise security and the most widely adopted technology for protecting private networks. An error in a firewall policy either creates security holes that will allow malicious traffic to sneak into a private network...

Tags: firewalls

[04 May 2008]

A Firewall for Routers: Protect Again Routing Misbehavior

whitepaper This paper presents the novel idea of route normalization by correcting on the fly routing traffic on behalf of a local router to protect the local network from malicious and misconfigured routing updates.

Tags: switching

[03 May 2008]

10 Red Hat Linux Tips and Tricks

whitepaper This white paper, which was compiled by Red Hat Certified Engineers, provides you with a quick and simple reference for navigating Red Hat Linux systems. It offers tips and tricks that can help you improve productivity, enhance efficiency, and...

Tags: systems integration, hat, red hat, red hat linux

[30 Apr 2008]

7 More Red Hat Linux Tips and Tricks

whitepaper Global Knowledge and Red Hat have assembled a second set of Tips and Tricks written by Red Hat Certified Engineers® (RHCEs) to give you an edge on managing these systems. Are you looking for a quick and simple reference guide to help you navigate...

Tags: local area networks (lan), hat, red hat, guide

[30 Apr 2008]

Scottish Water splashes out on tech

News Scottish Water serves around five million people and has approximately 4,000 employees in various locations across Scotland, including a number of engineers and support staff who work remotely. Scottish Water has signed three tech contracts to the...

Tags: transformation, managed services, fujitsu, water

[28 Apr 2008]

Java - 100 per cent open source by end of this year

News The process of clearing encumbrances is complex, and has involved close collaboration between Sun engineers and members of the Free Java community including developers working on GNU Classpath and the IcedTea project.

Tags: linux, java, sun

[28 Apr 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?

Comment Again, businesses have always had field service engineers, sales people and truck drivers who work remotely, but today many of these workers are linked to business processes through mobile devices. Utility companies have the most mobile workers...

Tags: distributed working, networks

[24 Apr 2008]

The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation - Chapter 2

whitepaper The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation will help IT professionals, analysts, and engineers to understand the benefit of a holistic disk defragmentation strategy across the enterprise. Storing data on a disk has become less expensive and...

Tags: disaster recovery, disk, guide, fragmentation

[24 Apr 2008]

The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation - Chapter 1

whitepaper The Shortcut Guide to Managing Disk Fragmentation will help IT professionals, analysts, and engineers to understand the benefit of a holistic disk defragmentation strategy across the enterprise. Storing data on a disk has become less expensive and...

Tags: disaster recovery, automatic, disk, guide

[24 Apr 2008]

Lab Service Helps Banking Solutions Provider Surpass Key Benchmark Results

whitepaper During a three-week session, with the assistance of Microsoft engineers, Corillian achieved benchmark results that set new standards for scalability in online banking services. Corillian provides online banking solutions to major financial...

Tags: customer support services

[24 Apr 2008]

Imposing Order on Program Statements to Assist Anti-Virus Scanners

whitepaper A metamorphic virus applies semantics preserving transformations on itself to create a different variant before propagation. Metamorphic computer viruses thwart current anti-virus technologies that use signatures - a fixed sequence of bytes from a...

Tags: anti-virus

[24 Apr 2008]

Raised Floor Computer Data Center: Effect on Rack Inlet Temperatures of Chilled Air Exiting Both the Hot and Cold Aisles

whitepaper This paper focuses on the effect of the rack inlet temperatures resulting from chilled air exhausting from perforated tiles situated in both the hot and cold aisles of a raised floor data center. Only the above floor(raised floor) flow and...

Tags: data center

[12 Apr 2008]

COSMOS Strong-Motion Virtual Data Center

whitepaper It provides an interactive resource for research and practicing earthquake engineers, earth scientists, and government and emergency response professionals. The COSMOS Strong-Motion Virtual Data Center (VDC) is an unrestricted web-based search...

Tags: search strategies

[11 Apr 2008]

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