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RSS name theBletchley Park future under colossal threat
News Bletchley Park is famous for the decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machines - depicted in the Hollywood movie of the same name - and also for the world's first codebreaking supercomputer Colossus, which cracked the codes used to... [24 Jul 2008]
Document Locator Helps BMA Improve Collaboration, Manage Project Files
White Paper The company looked at low-end products and the high-end, big-name products in the industry. Also, the nature of the business means that sometimes new team members are brought in midway through a project, or team members are changed. [18 Jul 2008]
WebTools Gives Customers 24/7 Web Access to Critical Maintenance Records and Product Information
White Paper The core of the problem was the company's shared file servers, which allowed them to store and name documents but not adequately index them for easy search and retrieval. Daniel Louque, was looking for ways to improve the company's productivity in... [18 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment Bill Gates is just the most recent example of a big name leaving the world of tech. With the industry notoriously unkind to the over-40s, Simon Moores is thinking of following his lead. I'm living in the twilight zone or at least that's what it... [17 Jul 2008]
BlackBerry PDF flaw puts business networks at risk
News If you can execute with the privileges of BES, it's significant what you could do on an email server or another domain name service. RIM is warning businesses to disable the function that allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until an update can be... [17 Jul 2008]
Seagate unleashes 1.5TB desktop
News Check out 30 years of tech's most famous name here The Barracuda 7200 1.5TB drive is aimed at the desktop market and the half-a-terabyte jump in capacity from 1TB marks "the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century... [15 Jul 2008]
An Exploration in MAS Scalability
White Paper Naming and capability-mediated services, such as Agent Name Services and middle agents, perform a fundamental task in the Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) infrastructures, because they allow agents to find each other and interoperate. [11 Jul 2008]
Design and Scalability of NLS, a Scalable Naming and Location Service
White Paper NLS resolves textual names to the nearest of a set of replicated objects associated with that name, and is designed to scale to the dimensions of a world-wide service. This paper sketches the design, and presents a scalability analysis and... [11 Jul 2008]
Steve Ballmer on a future in the cloud
News Check out 30 years of tech's most famous name here The future lies in the platform in the cloud, according to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer. He said: "The world will insist on 'click to run', not 'click to install' or 'click to configure... [10 Jul 2008]
DNS Based Load Balancing With Fault Tolerance
White Paper Many sites also use DNS (Domain Name System) based load balancing using round-robin DNS. There are several load-balancing systems on the market. Some of the sophisticated techniques are rather expensive, while round-robin DNS does not give the... [10 Jul 2008]
Geographic Load Balancing for Scalable Distributed Web Systems
White Paper A geographically distributed architecture where the Domain Name System (DNS) servers evaluate network proximity and users are served from the closest cluster reduces network impact on response time. Upgrading content site infrastructure from a... [10 Jul 2008]
Cisco Content Services Switch Content Load-Balancing Configuration Guide
White Paper The Enhanced feature set contains the entire Standard feature set and also includes Network Address Translation (NAT) Peering, Domain Name Service (DNS), Demand-Based Content Replication (Dynamic Hot Content Overflow), Content Staging and... [10 Jul 2008]
Performance Analysis of "Content-Aware" Load Balancing Strategy FLEX: Two Case Studies
White Paper Appropriate routing of requests can be achieved by using the DNS infrastructure, since each hosted web site has a unique domain name. FLEX allocates hosted web sites to different machines in the cluster based on the sites' processing and memory... [10 Jul 2008]
Photos: 60 years of NHS tech
Photo The system still exists in name today. The NHS celebrated its 60th birthday on 5 July. BT has been providing technology to the service since 1948 and has released some photographs showcasing its efforts. [09 Jul 2008]
How Does Spyware Get Onto My Computer?
White Paper Spyware is the catchy name for malicious software that hides on the computer and sends information about the PC, or the Web-surfing habits to someone else on the Internet. It can be a program that starts over whenever one restart the computer, Web... [09 Jul 2008]
