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Beijing MTR Enhances Budget Control, Streamlines Accounting Processes

whitepaper In February 2005, three private sector entities entered into a public-private partnership with the Beijing Municipal Government to create the Beijing MTR Corporation. The scale of the project and number of parties involved required Beijing MTR to...

Tags: asset management

[11 May 2008]

Citrix Solutions for Complying With PCI-DSS: Ensuring Protection of Web Applications and Privacy of Cardholder Information

whitepaper The standard comprises a set of directives for entities that handle credit cards, with the goal of reducing fraud. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a global standard governed by the major credit card companies.

Tags: security standards

[10 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]

Automated Rule-Based Diagnosis Through a Distributed Monitor System

whitepaper The Monitor only observes the message exchanges between the Protocol Entities (PEs) remotely and does not access internal protocol state. In today's world where distributed systems form many of the critical infrastructures, dependability outages...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 Apr 2008]

Dynamic Firewalls and Service Deployment Models for Grid Environments

whitepaper The second approach aims at minimizing the interactions between Grid applications and firewalls, through the definition of a firewall-friendly, homogeneous and consistent deployment of Grid middleware across all entities participating in a Virtual...

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

Physical Registration: Configuring Electronic Directories Using Handheld Devices

whitepaper Users identify physical objects using sensor-equipped, wirelessly networked handheld devices to build directories of virtual "entities" associated with those objects. The entities can be web resources accessible over a network, like printers...

Tags: portable computers, objects, physical, pervasive

[10 Apr 2008]

Testing SIP Call Flows Using XML Protocol Templates

whitepaper A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Call Flow is a casual sequence of messages that is exchanged between interacting SIP entities. This paper presents a novel test system for SIP based on the notion of XML Protocol Templates, of SIP call flows.

Tags: industry standard protocols, messages, protocol, sip

[10 Apr 2008]

HIPAA Compliance and Identity & Access Management

whitepaper Covered Entities were expected to comply with the Privacy Rule by April 14th, 2003. The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 has mandated the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to publish a set of rules.

Tags: law and government, health, federal, published

[10 Apr 2008]

A Network Connectivity Power-Saving Mechanism for Mobile Devices in DLNA Home Networks

whitepaper The proposed mechanism introduces a level of indirection that abstracts the low-level low-power support of different wireless bearers and exposes a uniform interface to higher-layer entities, such as applications and Universal - Plugand-Play (UPnP...

Tags: cellular equipment

[28 Mar 2008]

MSDN Webcast: Using LINQ With Relational Data (Level 100)

whitepaper The attendee of this webcast will learn about the flavors of LINQ that are designed to access relational data including LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Datasets, and LINQ to Entities. One of the most common forms of data used in applications today continues...

Tags: programming languages, relational, microsoft sql server, relational data

[27 Mar 2008]

Live Webcast: Virtual Service Oriented Grids: Transforming the Enterprise

whitepaper With grid computing, three entities - data, storage, and processing - can be allocated independently and metered precisely to support most business goals. One of the most powerful features of computing grids is the capability of being able to...

Tags: scalability, architect, corporation, grid computing

[25 Mar 2008]

Understanding Web Services

whitepaper either within an organization (via the intranet) or between two entities (via the internet) ? This white paper explains the definition, impact and the future of Web services. Web Services is not something one gets automatically by using a browser...

Tags: help desk

[24 Mar 2008]

Banks under attack: Phishing on the rise

News US banking brands are the most targeted, with 59 per cent of attacked entities being in that country. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for Antivirus B is for Botnets

Tags: rsa, banks, phishing, banking

[18 Mar 2008]

Retail leaders will open up in tough times

Retail leaders will open up in tough times

Comment Any retailers that think they can treat their internet services and stores as separate entities, with different pricing models, are ignoring some important facts of modern retailing life. The danger is that a downturn will bite into IT spending...

Tags: recession, john lewis partnership, carphone warehouse, supplier

[13 Mar 2008]

Applying Mainframe Experience to the Distributed Environment

whitepaper Mainframes and distributed systems, previously looked at as separate entities, are now rapidly coming together into a single, distributed IT environment. As a result, people from two previously separate and very different cultures - mainframe and...

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 Mar 2008]

Seamless Customer Contact

whitepaper As the only entities with the legal power to prescribe medications, physicians are key to pharmaceutical sales. For pharmaceutical companies, physicians represent an important sales channel. Consequently, companies in this industry must work to...

Tags: sales - marketing, physicians, channel, creating

[08 Mar 2008]

Global IT Services Provider Gains Comprehensive Merger and Acquisition Integration Expertise

whitepaper The challenge was to develop an integration strategy to accelerate returns from acquired entities and create sustainable, repeatable integration processes. Wipro Ltd.wanted to acquire external companies in new markets and geographies.

Tags: infrastructure management

[04 Mar 2008]

Getting Real About Virtual Platform Management - Virtual Platform Management: CA's Solution to Manage Complex Infrastructures

whitepaper Unlike physically bounded infrastructures, the logical entities in virtualized and clustered environments are not visually apparent. CA's vision is to unify and simplify the management of enterprise-wide IT.

Tags: infrastructure management

[29 Feb 2008]

Towards Autonomic Grid Data Management With Virtualized Distributed File Systems

whitepaper Autonomic functions are integrated into the services to provide self-managing control over the different entities of Grid-wide file system sessions, in accordance with high-level objectives, and operate together to automatically achieve the...

Tags: infrastructure management

[29 Feb 2008]

MSDN Webcast: Information Bridge Framework (Part 3 of 4): Metadata (Level 200)

whitepaper The attendee will learn how IBF metadata allows defining service operations, business entities, and user interface elements. This webcast on building Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework (IBF) solutions shows how to understand and...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[27 Feb 2008]

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