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RSS ftFT-LAN, a Fault Tolerant Local Area Network Architecture for Mobile Mission Critical Systems
White Paper This paper presents a fault-tolerant LAN architecture for Mobile Mission Critical Systems (MMCS's). MMCS's are real-time computing platforms that perform continuously in harsh environments. It is desirable that they continue to perform a subset of... [11 Jul 2008]
Yasmin Jetha
CIO Profile Yasmin Jetha was appointed CIO for the Financial Times (FT) in January 2006, where she is responsible for IT services, as well as procurement and purchasing functions. Her main role is to ensure the FT.com website is available 24/7 and to maintain... [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Cohen
CIO Profile He joined Associated Newspapers in November 2005 from the Financial Times where he was group IT director and a member of their main board, having originally been appointed as the CTO of FT.com in January 2001. [11 Jun 2008]
AstraZeneca simplifies outsourcing rules
News Speaking at the FT Global Outsourcing and Offshoring Conference, Williams said the company has set detailed objectives for IBM but leaves it to the provider to decide how to reach them, focusing on monitoring outcomes rather than processes. [19 May 2008]
Barclays banks on offshore
News Speaking at the FT Global Outsourcing and Offshoring Conference, Stiller said: "As Barclays grows globally we require additional capacity to service our clients at scale even for small volume markets. [15 May 2008]
Increasing Profitability Through Delivery of Managed Services
White Paper Based in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Courtesy Computers is a 21-year old, privately held managed services company serving small to midsize companies throughout the United States. Courtesy Computers started out delivering white box hardware and... [19 Feb 2008]
Virtualisation cuts carbon and servers
Comment Our representative data centre provides 30,000sq ft of floor space and hosts 3,000 servers of varying type, form factor and operating system. That just leaves the problem of calculating power consumption, as Stewart Baines reports. [21 Dec 2007]
Engineering Fault-Tolerant TCP/IP Servers Using FT-TCP
White Paper In a recent paper the author has proposed FT-TCP: an architecture that allows a replicated service to survive crashes without breaking its TCP connections. FT-TCP is attractive in principle because it does not require modifications to the TCP... [05 Dec 2007]
Award win: silicon.com nabs Editorial Team of the Year gong
News Other winners included Channel4oD, FT.com, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Guardian - which walked away with its usual array of gongs. The editorial team that produces silicon.com picked up another major award last night. [04 Oct 2007]
Who's afraid of user-generated content?
News In an interview with the FT, the chief executive of the COI, Alan Bishop, explained: "We always have to keep a very close eye on the context. The government's Central Office of Information (COI) has put a freeze on advertising on user-generated... [06 Aug 2007]
85nm Gate Length Enhancement and Depletion Mode InSb Quantum Well Transistors for Ultra High Speed and Very Low Power Digital Logic Applications
White Paper This paper demonstrates for the first time 85nm gate length enhancement and depletion mode InSb quantum well transistors with unity gain cutoff frequency, fT, of 305 GHz and 256 GHz, respectively, at 0.5V VDS, suitable for high speed, very low... [19 Jul 2007]
In Brief: Apple gets social, YouTube goes mobile, Yahoo! upholds censorship and IT disappoints
News Apple is expected to announce a deal today to sell iTunes music through the Bebo social networking site, according to the FT - its first deal with this type of online community. Bebo users in the UK and Ireland will be able to purchase songs... [13 Jun 2007]
In brief: Apple goes to Hollywood, 'Tubing', Finns freed by Iran
News Apple is close to an agreement with several Hollywood film studios over plans to offer films to rent, reports this morning's FT. The paper cites prices of $2.99 for a 30-day rental in what, to start with, is a US move pencilled in for the autumn... [11 Jun 2007]
Ian Cohen
CIO Profile Before joining Associated Newspapers in 2005 Cohen was group IT director at the Financial Times where he led the consolidation of the group's online publications and the re-launch of FT.com as a subscription service. [06 Jun 2007]
Mobile operators 'not working on Google rival'
News Speaking yesterday at the FT Mobile Media conference, Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM Association, said mobile operators are hoping to use mobile search from existing experts rather than planning to create their own search engine. [17 May 2007]
