open system
11 Criteria for Selecting the Best ERP System Replacement
White Paper It's no light matter to replace your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. By definition, the ERP system is your information backbone and reaches into all areas of your business and value-chain. At this stage in the evolution of enterprise... [23 Jul 2008]
BBC to take better care of web budget
News The Trust asked the BBC Executive to propose a new system of financial management to address the shortcomings which led to the overspend. BBC iPlayer: Latest coverage BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone... [22 Jul 2008]
Is the UK an open source laggard?
News Firstly, we have a feature-rich Content Management System that we're using on an increasing number of our web sites and this success is encouraging us to look for other open source solutions. CIOs are split on the controversial issue of adopting... [21 Jul 2008]
Multi-Layer, Mission-Aware QoS Management Techniques for IP Applications in a Joint Battlespace Infosphere
White Paper It describes an MBNM prototype system for an Air Force Cooperative Attack mission with swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles. The prototype implementation uses BBN's Quality Objects (QuO) software framework to develop a UAV Imagery Application that... [18 Jul 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News Ratproxy is an audit system written internally and introduced last week by Michal Zalewski, a respected security researcher hired by Google almost a year ago to help lock down the company's own websites. [14 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News Google is not the first to open source its internal data interchange system: Protocol Buffers is very similar to the Thrift framework, developed by Facebook and now an open-source project in the Apache Software Foundation Incubator. [11 Jul 2008]
3 jumps on board Symbian Foundation
News The Foundation is a Nokia-led consortium that was recently established to grow and open-source Symbian over the next two years, while incorporating Symbian-derived platforms such as Series 60 and UIQ into the main operating system. [11 Jul 2008]
Exploiting Internet Route Sharing for Large Scale Available Bandwidth Estimation
White Paper However, how to efficiently obtain available bandwidth information for the N2 paths in a large N-node system remains an open problem. This paper introduces BRoute - a scalable available bandwidth estimation system that is based on a route sharing... [11 Jul 2008]
Traffic Engineering With Traditional IP Routing Protocols
White Paper This paper describe an approach to intradomain traffic engineering that works within the existing deployed base of Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs), such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Intermediate System-Intermediate System (IS-IS). [11 Jul 2008]
Why Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Should Be Used in IP-Based Networks
White Paper One method of enhancing IP-based networks is to combine elements of the Open System Interconnection Model (OSI), specifically between the Link Layer (Layer 2) and the Network Layer (layer 3). The demand for multimedia applications along with rapid... [11 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study We required as a business to implement a new mail system. Around 1,000 staff undertook training through Google Sites before the system went live. Previously, the company was using HP's Open Mail which offered little flexibility especially for... [10 Jul 2008]
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs): Perspective
White Paper But such open networks expose the organizations to intrusions - attempts to compromise, the confidentiality, integrity, or availability, or to bypass the security mechanisms of a computer system or network. [10 Jul 2008]
Load Balancing for Network Based Multi-Threaded Applications
White Paper The presented system is realized as an open library which can be easily used to implement new load-balancing algorithms. This paper presents present Lbs, a load-management-system for network based concurrent computing. [10 Jul 2008]
N2N: A Layer Two Peer-to-Peer VPN
White Paper From the user's perspective, the Internet is not an open transport system, but rather a telephony-like communication medium for content consumption. The Internet was originally designed as a flat data network delivering a multitude of protocols and... [10 Jul 2008]
PEGASUS: Competitive Load Balancing Using Inetd
White Paper Then it describes the system architecture and the basic axioms that it is designed. This paper provides an overview of the current frameworks and popular implementations both open source and commercial. [10 Jul 2008]
