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News It's a different story for Sachdev, as freelancing also enables him to flex IT skills that are not required by his day job. Economic gloom and the rising cost of living in the UK is making IT workers in full time employment take on extra work... [22 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics diary: Testing times…
Comment When you have up to four billion people waiting for information from the systems you are running, everyone must know their job well. Clocks across the Chinese capital are ticking away what's left of the tech team's preparation time. [21 Jul 2008]
Frame Relay Over MPLS (FRoMPLS): Today, Tomorrow and the Future
White Paper The fast and wild days of unbridled optimism in the 1990's have passed, but the job of providing for growing data communication needs remains. It is at this critical moment in time that one find himself/herself increasingly considering the... [18 Jul 2008]
Using Document Locator to Protect Profit, Reduce Risk
White Paper Among these were two issues of immediate concern: how to improve the control and management of job costs to recoup time and materials expenditures, and how to ease the complicated process of locating documents for legal discovery. [18 Jul 2008]
Xerox Helps Recondition Profit at Black & Decker
White Paper Designed to produce high-quality black-and-white documents on demand, in short time frames and/or short runs, the solution included a Xerox DocuTech 6135 Publisher System with DigiPath Production Software for job input management and a signature... [18 Jul 2008]
Virtualizing Storage for VMware Success
White Paper If you've virtualized your servers but not your storage, you've only done half the job. Server virtualization has made day-to-day life a whole lot simpler for systems administrators; however, the benefits have not been shared by storage... [16 Jul 2008]
Law firm gets SaaSy with email security
Case Study Speaking to silicon.com, IT systems manager at Ashurst, Paolo Picone, said: "It became apparent that we were spending more time than perhaps was efficient actually dealing with those issues rather than actually concentrating on the job in hand of... [15 Jul 2008]
Exclusive: Barclays to offshore 1,800 UK tech jobs
News Barclays has also promised there will be no more tech job losses this year outside of the offshoring initiative, Unite says. Barclays is to cut 1,800 IT posts in the UK as part of plans to create centrally managed technology "centres of excellence... [14 Jul 2008]
Podcast: Assuring Voice Quality on IP Telephony Rollouts
White Paper IP Telephony deployment changes dramatically when the job grows from "a few sites" to a full company-wide rollout across many locations. Achieving a high level of QoS for VoIP across the WAN and Internet often runs counter to the interests and... [14 Jul 2008]
My 15 minutes with Bill Gates
Comment Part of the problem was that my job in the mid-1980s was to cover a thing called Unix and a related group of individuals travelling under the rubric of the open software movement. Before becoming a journalist I had had a real job as a computer... [11 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study By the time we got into the New Year it was clear the product was going to do a job for us and we then looked to migrate the entire base of our employees and other stakeholders to that mail platform. Taylor Woodrow has moved its 1,800 staff onto... [10 Jul 2008]
Tight Bounds for Selfish and Greedy Load Balancing
White Paper This paper studies the load balancing problem in the context of a set of clients each wishing to run a job on a server selected among a subset of permissible servers for the particular client. In selfish load balancing, each client is selfish in... [10 Jul 2008]
Load Balancing Across Near-Homogeneous Multi-Resource Servers
White Paper A job submitted to the grid can be executed by any of the servers; however, resource size or balance may be different across servers. One approach to resource management for this grid is to layer a global load distribution system on top of the... [10 Jul 2008]
Convergence Time to Nash Equilibrium in Load Balancing
White Paper This paper studies the number of steps required to reach a pure Nash equilibrium in a load balancing scenario where each job behaves selfishly and attempts to migrate to a machine which will minimize its cost. [10 Jul 2008]
Using Content-Addressable Networks for Load Balancing in Desktop Grids (Extended Version)
White Paper Desktop grids combine Peer-to-Peer and Grid computing techniques to improve the robustness, reliability and scalability of job execution infrastructures. This paper extend the prior work with a new decentralized algorithm for maintaining... [10 Jul 2008]
