modelling
Predictive Modelling for Meaningful Security SLAs
White Paper A meaningful Service Level Agreement (SLA) is defined as a contractual agreement between a service provider and customer that is valuable, measurable, predictable, understandable, and affordable. In a previous paper the author discusses... [12 Nov 2009]
Performance Modelling for SLA-Compliant But Cost-Effective IT-Service Provisioning
White Paper Modern enterprises make use of distributed service-based IT infrastructures to handle their day-to-day business. To remain competitive, basic IT-services have to be performed of high-quality but cost-effective. [12 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo Now the pair have mapped out how the bank will award mortgages they need to start modelling how insurance can be sold on these mortgage deals. What Gravity enables the business to do is to start... [02 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Uneconomics
Comment Until we get more brainpower into modelling the overall economic system, and out of maximising the short-term trading patterns of individual groups, we should expect another big crisis relatively soon. [29 Oct 2009]
IT chiefs ignoring datacentre energy use
News Datacentre and IT chiefs aren't paying enough attention to measuring, monitoring and modelling energy use in datacentres - and unless they do, they will not be able to cut their energy costs and meet compliance... [25 Sep 2009]
IBM splashes $1.2bn for business analytics company SPSS
News Coupled with the launch of IBM's preconfigured analytics system, the company is signalling that it is serious about making predictive modelling part of everyday corporate processes. IBM is paying $1.2bn in cash for SPSS,... [29 Jul 2009]
Driving Strategic Planning With Predictive Modelling
White Paper Uncertainty makes strategic planning complex. Removing, or even mitigating, uncertainty can create unlimited business value. However, most companies lack the strategic planning infrastructure to rise above the unknown. [19 May 2009]
Businesses hunting for gold with data mining
News At predictive analytics company SPSS' annual European conference in Prague this week customers discussed how they have used data mining and modelling to improve their businesses. In the future, the team plans to link the... [15 May 2009]
Data predictions made easier in the cloud
News Predictive analytics is essentially using data capture, mining and modelling to work out likely events and the effects of actions taken by a company. Predictive analytics software maker SPSS believes the huge growth in... [14 May 2009]
Uni takes supercomputing to the cloud
News It powers complex simulations of everything from fuel combustion within engines to modelling pharmaceutical molecules for new drugs. Supercomputing for the masses is on the horizon as universities prepare to turn high... [11 May 2009]
Photos: Vicious viruses find a home in art
Photo These 3D models are then manipulated with modelling software to best capture the unique patterns and aesthetics of the code visualisations. The RSA Conference being held in San Francisco last week brought together... [27 Apr 2009]
Modelling and Simulation of Wireless Sensor and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Paper Mobile ad hoc Networks do not have any fixed infrastructure and consist of wireless mobile nodes that perform various data communication tasks. Wireless Sensor Networks are a special type of ad hoc Networks which are highly distributed... [23 Apr 2009]
Modelling Internet Workloads for IEEE 802.16
White Paper The IEEE 802.16-2004 standard contains the Wireless MAN (WMAN) air interface specification. WMAN has become a major part of the emerging broadband wireless access technology particularly since it accounts for differentiated Traffic... [22 Apr 2009]
Modelling of Ethernet Traffic on Multiple Timescales
White Paper Ethernet is one of the most common link layer technologies, used in local area networks, wireless networks and wide area networks. There is however a lack of traffic models for Ethernet that is usable in performance analysis. [02 Apr 2009]
Modelling of MPLS Over WDM Anycast and Unicast Flow Allocation Problem
White Paper This paper presents model of joint unicast and anycast flows optimization in multilayer networks. The paper assumes that in the upper layer the MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) technique is used to transport unicast and anycast demands. [01 Apr 2009]