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National Work from Home Day: A blessing or a curse?

News Below, the silicon.com editorial team give their point of view on how the great working from home experiment turned out for them. In honour of National Work from Home Day, the silicon.com team stayed out of the office to find out just how easy it...

Tags: home, work

[16 May 2008]

Beijing 2008 Olympics IT gets ready for the big freeze

News We have the second in June when we will have almost all the venues involved and many more people involved - and other areas like transport management to make it as close to the Olympic Games as you can come from a technical point of view," he said.

Tags: software, games, beijing, olympic

[13 May 2008]

Policy Segmentation for Intelligent Firewall Testing

whitepaper Using reliable yet practical techniques for testing new packet filtering algorithms and firewall design implementations from a functionality point of view becomes necessary to assure the required security.

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Editor's Blog: The race to get the Olympic tech ready

Comment Check out the Naked CIO who this week is giving a controversial view of open source software. Even though it is still months to the games, the IT team is in the process of freezing the software - getting to the point at which no more changes to the...

Tags: infrastructure, server, t5, olympic

[08 May 2008]

The Naked CIO: Is open source dead?

Comment In the end everyone has a view on this debate. Arriving at this point allows for effective planning and the true development of standards and best practice. Many of my colleagues are now reaching similar conclusions.

Tags: applications, open source

[06 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News I'm not suggesting it was the agenda item, although we've had some of those meetings as well, but increasingly [in] CIO conversations… sustainability and wanting to understand what our perspective was - what we're doing from a product development...

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

E.ON powers down to cut carbon and costs

News On conducting a green audit, Middleditch stressed the importance of asking whether the impact of each area can be measured - from a cost and carbon point of view. Although it may sound counter-intuitive, energy giant E.ON has been setting its...

Tags: green, e.on, carbon emissions, travel

[25 Apr 2008]

A Firewall Network System for Worm Defense in Enterprise Networks

whitepaper From a security point of view, the Internet is too open. The central idea of a traditional "firewall" is to constrain service requests from the Internet to a local network. Computers in an enterprise network are classified as either clients or...

Tags: firewalls

[24 Apr 2008]

Acquire a global view of your organization's security state: the importance of security assessments

whitepaper Security solutions from IBM can help find "point-in-time" or ongoing security gaps to protect your data confidentiality, integrity, accessibility and more. No matter the size or what type of business you are engaged in, threats to your information...

[23 Apr 2008]

Why IT must escape the belt-tightening

Comment Perhaps we need a new name for the IT budget, because it's almost impossible to believe so many organisations can have such a dislocated view of the business and IT that they believe stopping spending money on it will somehow help.

Tags: value, recession, budgets

[18 Apr 2008]

IBM Institute for Business Value: Healthcare 2015: Win-win or lose-lose? A portrait and a path to successful transformation

whitepaper Healthcare 2015, IBM's new point-of-view on the healthcare industry, paints a portrait of what healthcare systems could look like in the future. When these issues are combined with new drivers that fundamentally change the healthcare environment...

Tags: healthcare, healthcare system, continue, drivers

[11 Apr 2008]

Remove the obstacles and build the supply chain for the next century

whitepaper But if companies take a long term view, rather than looking for quick fixes, the supply chain can be used to speed time to market and create more value. The supply chain is being stuffed to the breaking point, and the process is slowing down.

Tags: chain, supply chain, supply, profitability

[11 Apr 2008]

Remove the obstacles and build the supply chain for the next century

whitepaper But if companies take a long term view, rather than looking for quick fixes, the supply chain can be used to speed time to market and create more value. The supply chain is being stuffed to the breaking point, and the process is slowing down.

Tags: chain, supply chain, profitability, path

[11 Apr 2008]

Workflow Management: State of the Art vs. State of the Products

whitepaper This paper tries to understand the situation from a technical point of view, focusing on the development and enactment aspects of workflow process. Despite the large number of workflow vendors and research efforts all over the world, despite all...

Tags: groupware - workflow, workflow, pervasive, aspects

[10 Apr 2008]

Software Tool for Time Duration Measurements of Handovers in IPv6 Wireless Networks

whitepaper This paper focuses on the study of the handover of a mobile wireless network node from the practical point of view, emphasizing the time duration properties of the process. Wireless networks had a constant growth in the last period and it is...

Tags: wireless lan, mobility, wireless networks, point

[10 Apr 2008]

How to Present Training with Impact!

whitepaper The more a trainer forces a point of view on a learner, the more it may be resisted. This statement about discovery learning suggests that the trainer or facilitator needs to set a learning environment that permits the learner to discover the...

Tags: online - distance education, learning, training, point

[10 Apr 2008]

Modeling Demystified, Part 1: Creating a System Specification From the User's Point of View

whitepaper In many cases, IT solutions are hard to use because the designer has built the solution based on what the technology or gadget can do, instead of on the needs of the person using it. Rather, software-development methods too often focus on the...

Tags: programming languages

[09 Apr 2008]

Acquire a global view of your organization's security state: the importance of security assessments

whitepaper Security solutions from IBM can help find "point-in-time" or ongoing security gaps to protect your data confidentiality, integrity, accessibility and more. No matter the size or what type of business you are engaged in, threats to your information...

Tags: monitoring systems, protect, threats, evolve

[08 Apr 2008]

Open source to go mainstream, says Gartner

News However, he welcomed the analyst's prediction that open source would disappear from view: "Open source has been promoted since 1998. If it fades from view now - because it is embedded in the mainstream - that is exactly what we wanted.

Tags: gartner, linux, open source

[07 Apr 2008]

Amdocs Case Study: tele.ring

whitepaper tele.ring, the Austrian telecommunications provider owned by Western Wireless International, extended its Amdocs convergent voice-data customer care and billing to support GPRS in 2001.tele.ring wireline, wireless and Internet services are...

Tags: customer support services, point, sale, care

[04 Apr 2008]

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