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RSS fire serviceMaximizing Data Center Uptime With Business Continuity Planning
White Paper There is a higher probability that most data centers will be affected by a virus, hardware failure, power failure or upgrade gone wrong than by a disastrous weather-related event like wind, fire or rain. [13 Nov 2009]
Achieving SaaS Security With Connected Online PC Backup
White Paper and is data safe from fire, floods, and human error? Enterprises considering online backup Storage as a Service (SaaS) face these security concerns: could an unauthorized individual gain access to... [11 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The National Police Improvement Agency has signed the £39m contract with Airwave, the company that provides the mobile radio network used by every UK police force and currently being rolled out to every ambulance trust and... [03 Nov 2009]
Four steps to smarter outsourcing
Comment A 'fire and forget' approach to security - simply dumping all the obligations onto the provider - is short-sighted and probably unenforceable. As the 'owner' of the system (even if you don't build or operate it... [02 Sep 2009]
Migrating From Solaris 9 Enterprise on Sun Fire V440 With Bind 8.3.3 to Solaris 10 Enterprise on Dell PowerEdge R900 With Bind 9.3.5-P1
White Paper In some of its testing, the PowerEdge R900 delivered a 45.5 percent increase over the performance of the Sun Fire V440. The Dell PowerEdge R900 is an excellent server for upgrading critical Domain Name... [07 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.07.09
Round-Up Based on a survey of silicon.com readers, the first application they fire up when they get to the office is email. In fact this week David Cameron went as far as to suggest that people who use the... [31 Jul 2009]
MySQL 5.1 Database Deployment Over CIFS on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
White Paper This example uses a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System and a Sun Fire server running Microsoft Windows 2003 Server. MySQL can automatically attach the storage system-based volume with the data files of the MySQL... [31 Jul 2009]
Photos: The firefighting robots taking to London's streets
Photo According to QinetiQ, standard Fire & Rescue Service procedure is to impose an initial hazard zone of 200m for up to 24 hours if acetylene gas cylinders have been involved in fire. Under... [29 Jul 2009]
PayPal makeover sparks developer charm offensive
News PayPal has also had a fire lit underneath it since Amazon rolled out its own online payments service around this time last year. The new service will be available to 300 PayPal partners... [24 Jul 2009]
Mobile WiMax won't win race to become 4G king
News One of those trials involved setting up a mock car accident at the Maidstone training ground for the fire service. The reason we picked that trial is because, today, it's something the... [23 Jul 2009]
'Airwave does do data - unlike what some of the media say'
Comment O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone may loom large on most people's mobile radar but for the emergency services the name that matters is Airwave: every UK police force uses Airwave's Tetra network for their radio communications and, in the... [11 Jun 2009]
BlackBerry Enterprise Server: Now we are 5.0
News Among the organisations that have already made the switch to BES 5.0 are retailer Metro Group and Tayside Fire and Rescue. Among the IT admin tools to make it into BES 5.0 is BlackBerry Administration... [05 May 2009]
Alarm Contractor Heats Up Business With Professional Fire Exit Diagrams, Facility Maps
White Paper Manning needed a quick and easy way to document the wiring of fire & security systems, as well as clearly-marked fire alarm zone maps and exit route maps that clients could share with local... [15 Apr 2009]
Safety System Provider Switches From Visio to SmartDraw for Easier, More Flexible Process Visualization Tools, Saving Big in Just 30 Days
White Paper National Fire Protection, which manufactures and supplies fire sprinkler products and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, needed process charts but was not satisfied with Visio's charting capabilities. [15 Apr 2009]
ViewWise Supports Audit Trail for Manufacturing Companies
White Paper Some think Document Management software will save them if the need should arise for disaster recovery such as a fire or flood. Many simply see Document Management as the solution to improved customer... [18 Mar 2009]
