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RSS peakContactless payments speeds up coffee drinkers
News The main advantage of contactless payments has been speeding up service by significantly decreasing the time taken per transaction, especially during peak retail hours. Coffee chain Coffee Republic is rolling out contactless payment technology... [23 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics diary: Testing times…
Comment The IT systems are operational and in fact the games management systems, which among other things handle accreditation and staffing schedules, are already working at peak usage. Clocks across the Chinese capital are ticking away what's left of the... [21 Jul 2008]
The £500k hunt for missing HMRC discs
News At the investigation's peak, 47 detectives from the Met's Specialist and Economic Crime Command took part in the hunt. The taxpayer has been landed with a £473,544 bill for the hunt for the missing HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) data discs. [18 Jul 2008]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News Based on the current growth trends online-shopper spend will peak at up to 50 per cent of all consumer spending within five years.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Online shopping is poised to take 20p out of every UK consumer pound by the end of the... [18 Jul 2008]
AC Algorithms in AQUILA QoS IP Network
White Paper Moreover, this method is supported by the declarations about the peak bit rate as well as by the measurements of mean bit rate on aggregate flow level. This paper presents the Admission Control (AC) algorithms that are implemented in the prototype... [18 Jul 2008]
Peak Power Control for a QoS Capable On-Chip Network
White Paper To ensure high performance and power constraint satisfaction, the on-chip network must have a peak power control mechanism. This paper proposes a credit-based peak power control scheme to assure power consumption to be under the given peak power... [17 Jul 2008]
Whitepaper: Forrester on the benefits of IBM's PowerVM
White Paper This white paper will show you how virtualization technologies like POWER Hypervisor and PowerVM can help you minimize application downtime, improve service level agreements, better handle peak workloads and reduce energy and administration costs. [17 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08
Round-Up That's according to a survey of 300 City of London workers in which more than a quarter admitted to sneaking a peak at their work email at least once per day during their summer hols. This week the Round-Up is weaving its words of wisdom while... [11 Jul 2008]
Borland Software Case Study: Mirror Image Internet
White Paper The company wanted to verify the accuracy of the network in balancing server load and scale up load on the network to handle peak volumes. Mirror Image Internet ensures application reliability and availability for its customers around the globe... [11 Jul 2008]
Efficient Use of Memory Bandwidth to Improve Network Processor Throughput
White Paper The problem addressed in this paper is that a typical NP workload may be unable to utilize the peak DRAM bandwidth. This paper considers the efficiency of packet buffers used in packet switches built using Network Processors (NPs). [11 Jul 2008]
Optimal Routing, Link Scheduling and Power Control in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
White Paper First it address the problem of finding an optimal link scheduling and power control policy that minimizes the total average transmission power in the wireless multi-hop network, subject to given constraints regarding the minimum average data rate... [11 Jul 2008]
A Statistical Bandwidth Sharing Perspective on Buffer Sizing
White Paper The required buffer size depends significantly on the peak exogenous rate of multiplexed flows. The issue of buffer sizing is rightly receiving increasing attention with the realization that the bandwidth delay product rule-of-thumb is becoming... [11 Jul 2008]
New Release - Diskeeper 2008 with InvisiTasking: It's Smart. It's Transparent. It Will Take Your PC from Zero to Sixty--Automatically!
White Paper Systems are maintained at peak performance and reliability--automatically! File fragmentation--the splitting of files in tens, hundreds or thousands of pieces--puts the brakes on system performance. It slows access to a crawl and causes delayed... [07 Jul 2008]
Gamania and Dell Team Up to Achieve Online Gaming Excellence
White Paper Gamania wanted a stable server room environment to support peak loads of up to 300,000 online gamers. In addition, the company needed to ensure that its cooling and power infrastructure was sufficient to keep operations going with seamless server... [06 Jul 2008]
Symantec Control Compliance Suite (CCS) 9.0 Sneak Peek
White Paper The presenter of this webcast provides a sneak peak of CCS 9.0 before the announcement at the Vision Client Conference! The attendee will get an overview of Symantec's IT GRC strategy and CCS 9.0, Symantec's new IT Governance, Risk and Compliance... [06 Jul 2008]
