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RSS natureModular Systems: The Evolution of Reliability
Nature proved early on that in complex systems, modular designs are the ones that survive and thrive. As data centers continue to evolve and borrow from nature's blueprints, IT reliability analysis must also evolve to support new strategies for... [30 Nov 2007]
On Exploiting Spatial and Temporal Correlation in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper Furthermore, the nature of the physical phenomenon constitutes the temporal correlation between each consecutive observation of a sensor node. These spatial and temporal correlations along with the collaborative nature of the WSN bring significant... [03 Jul 2008]
Message Tracking in SOAP-based Web Services
White Paper As web services become more prevalent, the nature of electronic transactions on the Internet changes from simple browser-to-business clicks to an orchestrated flow of messages between cross-enterprise services. [24 Feb 2004]
Butler on: Integrated business intelligence
Comment Business intelligence (BI) solutions have all too often disappointed - compartmentalised and piecemeal in nature - which is why Butler Group founder Martin Butler is advocating integrated BI (IBI). One of the greatest challenges in getting all of... [16 Apr 2003]
Macromedia Case Study: Invisible Ideas
White Paper Located in Boston, the Nature and Inquiry artists group includes five men and women that embrace scientific principles as the foundation of their work. When the opportunity arose to participate in Boston's Cyberarts Festival 2003, the Nature and... [16 May 2004]
"TCP/IP Over Satellite: Optimization Vs. Acceleration"
White Paper Due to the nature of TCP transmissions, any performance increases achieved by the various acceleration methods are offset by serious compromises in data security. Fundamental incompatibilities arise when one attempts to operate conventional VPN... [19 Dec 2007]
CTP: an Optimistic Commit Protocol for Conversational Transactions
White Paper E-services are composite in nature. As these e-services are being deployed by different enterprises, they are cross-domain and federated in nature. The composition can be static or dynamic. To conduct a business task, an e-service undertakes a... [24 Feb 2004]
Syndicating and Personalizing Content Using RSS
White Paper This paper describes, Urchin, an open-source software framework developed by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) that provides just such functionality. RSS is a simple XML format for syndicating headlines and content across the web. [03 Jul 2008]
Digital Dharma of Audio A/D Converters
White Paper Among the many definitions for the wonderful word "dharma" is the essential function or nature of a thing. That is what this note is about: the essential function or nature of audio analog-to-digital (A/D) converters. [24 Feb 2004]
Statistical Multiplexing in Data-Aware Transport Networks
White Paper Due to the very bursty nature of users' data traffic, the aggregated traffic will be also bursty in metro networks as well as in the core. If mean data rates alone are considered in network design, the bursty nature of the traffic leads to under... [11 Oct 2005]
Modular Systems: The Evolution of Reliability
White Paper Nature proved early on that in complex systems, modular designs are the ones that survive and thrive. As data centers continue to evolve and borrow from nature's blueprints, IT reliability analysis must also evolve to support new strategies for... [29 Nov 2007]
Modular Systems: The Evolution of Reliability
White Paper Nature proved early on that in complex systems, modular designs are the ones that survive and thrive. As data centers continue to evolve and borrow from nature's blueprints, IT reliability analysis must also evolve to support new strategies for... [29 Nov 2007]
Mining Chat-Room Conversations for Social and Semantic Interactions
White Paper The ephemeral nature of human communication via networks today poses interesting and challenging problems for information technologists. In essence, dynamic techniques of analysis are needed if textual data of this nature is to be effectively mined. [13 Jan 2005]
Faster, Safer DB2 Data Migration: Using VERITAS Portable Data Containers to Move DB2 Data Between UNIX and Linux Faster and Less Disruptively
White Paper By their nature, databases are application-independent. Thus, both because of their prevalence in enterprises, the importance of the data in them, and their multi-application nature, databases are prime candidates for migration between unlike... [26 May 2007]
CEO Dashboard Management: Why Creating Visual Reports You Can't Hide From Will Help Your Sales Performance
White Paper The nature of the CEO is to capture the market, and the nature of the market - or more to the point - the customer - is to resist capture through objections and ever increasing demands for faster, better and cheaper. [01 May 2007]
