long term
RSS long termBletchley Park future under colossal threat
News The letter calls for secure long-term financial backing on a par with other museums such as the Imperial War Museum, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum. The survival of Bletchley Park, the secret home to Britain's codebreakers during... [24 Jul 2008]
Streamlining the Creation, Management, and Delivery of Content
White Paper With a long-term approach to enterprise content management (ECM), SSFS specifically chose the Documentum ECM platform because it could work within their existing framework and accommodate growth and future deployment, without compromising... [23 Jul 2008]
A Case Study on Selecting AIDC Technologies by the U.S. Postal Service
White Paper ICF Consulting recommended a strategy that in the short-term combines barcode for handling units and RFID for containers. The strategy recognizes that the cost- effectiveness of RFID will improve in the long run, and RFID will some day become the... [23 Jul 2008]
A Comparison Between IPsec and Multiprotocol Label Switching Virtual Private Networks
White Paper Emerging services such as e-commerce, application hosting, and multimedia applications will enable service providers to generate new incremental revenue and maintain long-term competitive advantage. The IP-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) is... [18 Jul 2008]
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Ultimately, businesses need to take a long-term view of sustainability. Rather than seeking out short-term stunts that may have PR value but lack substance and longevity, organisations need to understand areas that contribute to the overall picture... [17 Jul 2008]
End-User Performance: Building and Maintaining ROI
White Paper Hirsch advocates for creating a "performance cycle" that establishes user acceptance and understanding up front and maintains and develops user skills in the long term. In this white paper from SAP, author Stephen Hirsch examines issues related to... [17 Jul 2008]
IDC Report -- Increasing Business Performance: Using Virtualization for SAP Applications on IBM System p Servers
White Paper Through first-person interviews, you'll learn how they ensured their technology could meet workload needs in real time and handle long-term IT demands. Can your SAP platform handle the unpredictability of business? [17 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Enemies of the state
Comment It is blind to the long-term effects of an eroding talent pool that is a direct result of offshoring, which is made easy in the UK. Failure to foster innovation and talent is what's really coming home to roost, says the Naked CIO. [14 Jul 2008]
Gov't to ramp up IT outsourcing?
News Secretary of State for Business John Hutton promised a "long-term commitment to open up public service markets" that will make it easier for the private sector to win IT contracts. A government pledge to outsource more IT contracts ignores a... [11 Jul 2008]
Northrop Grumman Connects Pilots From Globally Dispersed U.S. Air Force Bases for Pre-Mission, Interactive Flight Simulation Training
White Paper Seeking long-term cost savings while optimizing mission preparedness, the U.S. When it comes to meeting the communication needs of the Air Force, the term "Mission critical" takes on a whole new meaning. [11 Jul 2008]
ABW - Short-Timescale Passive Bandwidth Monitoring
White Paper This method only allows to check long-term averages of the total used bandwidth without information about short-term dynamics and without knowledge of what applications are consuming most bandwidth. The produced characteristics include information... [11 Jul 2008]
BEA and HP Create Stable, High Performance Customer Self Service Portal for Swiss Life in Belgium
White Paper Swiss Life is a leading provider of life insurance and long-term savings and protection. Swiss Life wanted to create a next-generation ePortal to manage relationships with group insurance clients in Belgium and maximize reliability and resilience. [10 Jul 2008]
Streaming Stored Continuous Media Over Fair-Share Bandwidth
White Paper This paper investigates the impact of the long-term behavior of fair-share bandwidth on transmission schemes for streaming stored Continuous Media (CM). To obtain typical fair-share bandwidth conditions, a series of Internet experiments is... [10 Jul 2008]
Load Balancing in Arbitrary Network Topologies With Stochastic Adversarial Input
White Paper This paper studies the long-term (steady state) performance of a simple, randomized, local load balancing technique under a broad range of input conditions. It assumes a system of n processors connected by an arbitrary network topology. [10 Jul 2008]
The new information agenda: Do you have one?
White Paper It allows CIOs to achieve short-term tactical and long-term strategic changes. The lack of trusted information is a major concern for businesses worldwide. The information agenda is a comprehensive, enterprise-wide plan for creating, delivering... [10 Jul 2008]
