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OLPC's Sugar gets sweeter with Windows

News Microsoft was not part of the project started by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte to develop an inexpensive laptop computer for school children in developing countries.

Tags: microsoft, windows, olpc

[16 May 2008]

Selecting the Best Tools for Your Software System Design: Improve Your Project Life Cycle

whitepaper Many of these decisions may be based on one's personal experience and knowledge, but system design and architecture tools often play a bigger role in this process. If one is an IT architect, one is involved in almost all phases of the software...

Tags: software engineering

[16 May 2008]

Security Implications of the Virtualized Datacenter

whitepaper CPU manufacturers are rapidly working on implementing hardware-based hypervisors, such as AMD's Pacifica project. It is now almost common-place for corporate IT divisions to replace en masse the single-purpose 1U machine hosting one operating...

Tags: security management

[16 May 2008]

Ask the Experts - Evaluating, Selecting and Implementing an Archiving Solution

whitepaper With the recognition over the past few years that email has become as mission critical as any other IT system, companies around the world are considering archiving solution to address resource management, retention management and e-discovery...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[16 May 2008]

Leading Oil Company Ensures Availability of Critical IT Systems

whitepaper To ensure constant availability of these critical systems, CPC has upgraded its IT infrastructure based on the latest Microsoft technologies, including the Windows Server 2003 enterprise operating system.

Tags: high availability

[16 May 2008]

Tibet Tianlu Achieves End-to-End Control of Financial and Human Resources Operations

whitepaper The Oracle system enabled Tibet Tianlu to improve financial management, cut month-end closing time, reduce payroll processing time by 60%, cut project evaluation and approval time by 40%, and increase inventory turnover by 25%.

Tags: erp

[15 May 2008]

Developing Resilient Architectures: Identify, Analyze, and Design for Change - Using Change Cases to Document and Streamline the Design Process

whitepaper The architecture for the IT systems one design should be resilient and capable of dealing with change - both during the project and afterward. One review types of changes one should consider for the IT system architecture.

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

ParkwayHealth Singapore Reduces Total Cost of Ownership by 40%

whitepaper ParkwayHealth required a central IT system to manage financials, materials purchasing, and human resources across the three hospitals. In early 2007, the organization began a project to implement a number of Oracle E-Business Suite modules at its...

Tags: erp

[15 May 2008]

Manage the Unmanageable: The Importance of Governance in the Project Life Cycle

whitepaper Why is it that when one sets out to develop a product - be it an operating system, a device driver, an internal application, or even just a Web page - one can't seem to get programmers to deliver on time, on budget, and with the level of quality...

Tags: software engineering

[15 May 2008]

Beijing 2008 Olympics IT gets ready for the big freeze

News The team members behind the IT systems are preparing to move from their individual project roles to the operational phase, and part of that is bringing software development to a close. It's quite a different mindset for people to go from project to...

Tags: software, games, beijing, olympic

[13 May 2008]

Galileo phones home

News Galileo is a joint project between the EU and European Space Agency (ESA) to provide a comprehensive European sat-nav system, which will eventually replace the US military GPS network. Galileo project manager, Javier Benedicto, said the successful...

Tags: gps, signal, europe, sat nav

[09 May 2008]

The tech behind the Beijing 2008 Olympics

News On the IT side this is supported by 10,000 PCs, 1,000 servers, 5,000 results systems terminals and 4,000 printers, all looked after by 4,000 IT staff including volunteers, in a project which began in 2003.

Tags: infrastructure, servers, olympic

[08 May 2008]

Whitbread serves up £1m saving on card payments

News Hospitality group Whitbread has deployed an end-to-end card payment system that is expected to save it £1m per year in payments processing costs. Whitbread information systems project manager, Steven Deakin, said in a statement: "Deployment of the...

Tags: pos, chip and pin, pci

[07 May 2008]

Europe, India net gets cast under the sea

News Verizon Business, the number-two US phone company's unit in charge of corporate clients, said it joined a consortium of 16 companies to build a 9,000-mile optical cable system linking the three regions.

Tags: internet, cable, verizon

[07 May 2008]

Glasgow NHS keeps tabs on equipment with RFID

News NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has implemented a wireless networking project in the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) that involves tracking medical equipment with RFID tags.silicon.com Public Sector The initial driver of this part of the project is to...

Tags: wifi, rfid, nhs

[28 Apr 2008]

Police e-crime unit set for green light

News The UK's proposed central e-crime police unit is close to securing the necessary government funding to make it a reality, according to one of the architects of the project. He said there needs to be deeper co-ordination within industry to deal with...

Tags: funding, government, police, e-crime

[25 Apr 2008]

Virtuozzo Containers for Windows Capacity and Scaling

whitepaper This white paper provides IT managers with the tools to plan and implement a Parallels Virtuozzo virtualization project, including how to evaluate and optimize the performance of virtualized severs. One of the keys to a successful virtualization...

Tags: high availability, virtualization, virtualized, swsoft virtuozzo

[24 Apr 2008]

How File Fragmentation Occurs on Windows XP / Windows Server 2003

whitepaper A while ago there was a little research project to find out exactly how fragmentation occurs on Windows XP. On an active volume, with a dynamic operating system and dynamic utilities, the disk volume free space situation is constantly changing.

Tags: back-up, xp, files, windows xp

[24 Apr 2008]

Market-Leading Publisher Set to Increase Project Efficiency and Reduce Travel Costs With Collaboration Solution

whitepaper When Elsevier, a division of Reed Elsevier, needed to increase efficiency in IT development and reduce operating and travel costs, it turned to the Microsoft Office System to help deliver projects more efficiently and cost effectively.

Tags: customer support services

[23 Apr 2008]

Open source: 'World's largest software company'

News Open source is often brought in to cover a project's basic requirements; creating a "baseline". The study states: "In many cases, especially in infrastructure software, the baseline is a fully developed and working system.

Tags: software, ibm, open source

[22 Apr 2008]

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