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Leading Oil Company Ensures Availability of Critical IT Systems

whitepaper The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) manages a 1,510-kilometre, U.S.billion pipeline that connects oil fields in Kazakhstan with a new sea terminal in Russia. To operate effectively, the company relies on IT systems that monitor 24-hour production...

Tags: high availability

[11 May 2008]

IT-Hosting Services Company Enhances Offerings by Using New Operating System

whitepaper The Garant Park Internet Company (Parking.ru) offers a variety of IT services to business customers in Russia. As a Microsoft Certified Partner, Parking.ru has particular expertise in using Microsoft software to develop and host Web applications...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Oil Company Improves Branch Office Infrastructure With Server Virtualization

whitepaper Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) runs an oil pipeline system that extends between Kazakhstan and Russia's Black Sea coast. CPC is expanding rapidly and needs to upgrade its IT infrastructure to support business growth.

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Russian Oil Group Increases Employee Productivity With Troubleshooting Solution

whitepaper Khantymansiyskneftegazgeologiya is one of the most established geology companies in Russia. It discovered 45 oil fields with 2.6 billion tonnes of oil, and it has more than 1,000 employees. Khantymansiyskneftegazgeologiya employees were...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Microsoft claims can go it alone online

News He pointed to AOL's strong position in email and instant messaging and as a portal in the US, as well as its strong messaging position in Germany and Russia. In the wake of Microsoft's decision to pull its Yahoo!

Tags: aol, google, yahoo, microsoft

[07 May 2008]

Photos: Nasa's top 10 on Earth

Photo Aurora Borealis and lights shine over Finland, Russia, Estonia, and Latvia in 2005. To celebrate Earth Day this week, Nasa released its 10 favourite photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station.

Tags: mountain, volcano, earth, nasa

[24 Apr 2008]

Security threat: One web page infected every five seconds

News The US remains the top contributor of spam, followed by Russia, Turkey, China including Hong Kong and Brazil. Released Wednesday, Sophos said in its Security Threat Report that an average of more than 15,000 web pages were compromised daily between...

Tags: malware, email, web, security

[24 Apr 2008]

Phishers attack social networking generation

News Scroggie said: "Russia was implicated in the widespread distribution of malicious code over the last couple of years. The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963 "phishing hosts", an increase of 167 per cent from the...

Tags: social networking, phishers

[09 Apr 2008]

Yo!Sushi cuts copper in favour of MPLS

News The chain operates in five countries, with 30 locations in the UK and 11 franchises in Ireland, Malaysia, the Middle East and Russia. Fast food chain Yo! Sushi is forecasting a two-year return on investment on an MPLS (multi protocol label...

Tags: bt, mpls, yo!sushi

[07 Apr 2008]

Microsoft's OOXML wins 'standard' stamp

News Opponents included China, India and Russia. Microsoft has won the battle to have a key document format adopted as a global standard, improving its chances of winning government contracts and dealing a blow to supporters of a rival format.

Tags: ooxml, microsoft, iso

[02 Apr 2008]

Successful IT Outsourcing to Russia

whitepaper This white paper highlights the advantages of outsourcing software development to Russia, which offers an abundance of highly qualified IT manpower at a competitive labor cost. To learn more about the benefits of outsourcing software development to...

Tags: outsourcing, outsourcing, software development, labor

[27 Mar 2008]

Open source owes popularity to anti-US vibe?

News Open source is seen as a fundamental good outside the US, with countries like Russia and China moving to a model free from US intellectual property laws, said Whitehurst. Anti-US feelings are boosting the international market for open source...

Tags: open source, us, conference, anti

[27 Mar 2008]

Russia's Baltika Breweries Links Its ERP Databases Using SQL Server 2008 Replication

whitepaper Baltika Breweries, the largest producer of beer in Russia, has about 12,000 employees and 11 breweries. Its popular brands have been the market leader in Russia for more than a decade and are exported to 46 countries.

Tags: application servers

[24 Mar 2008]

Security skills top IT chiefs' wish-lists

News The security gap is even wider in China, India, Poland, Russia and South Africa where the emergence of a strong IT industry is relatively recent, said CompTIA. 'Safety first' is still the motto written in sweat above the door of IT departments...

Tags: security, wireless, skills, rfid

[13 Mar 2008]

eBay warns of Romanian phishing threat

News Along with Romania, China and Russia were also pinpointed as the source of the majority of phishing emails targeting eBay users for personal and account details. Online auction site eBay has hit out at the lack of interest in cybercrime enforcement...

Tags: romania, ebay, security, crime

[10 Mar 2008]

Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys

News Nilekani added: "There is a lot of banking revitalisation happening in Eastern European countries like Poland and Russia because these countries are now modernising and banks are coming in to these countries.

Tags: infosys, banking, nandan nilekani, founder

[03 Mar 2008]

Trican Increases Field Worker Productivity with Mobility XE

whitepaper Alberta-based Trican Well Service has business operations across Canada, the United States, Russia and Kazakhstan. With over 1,500 field technicians working in some of the most remote areas of the world, Trican struggled with mobile computing...

Tags: vpns

[02 Mar 2008]

Killer robots terror warning

News China, Russia and India are also embarking on the development of unmanned aerial combat vehicle - with China believed to be able to match the US robotic programme. Forget the cuddly C3P0 and R2D2 - the robots of the future may well share the...

Tags: terrorism, military, robots, international

[28 Feb 2008]

Why no united front on cyber crime?

Comment But Russia and China are not the only problem. In April 2007 Estonia, the former Soviet Baltic republic was paralysed by an unprecedented online attack from networks in Russia. Earlier this month, silicon.com reported Russia has now passed China to...

Tags: cyber crime, internet, botnets, crime

[27 Feb 2008]

Russia overtakes China as king of malware producers

News Russia has passed China to become the largest generator of spyware and other malicious code, according to a report set to be released tomorrow. Security software maker PC Tools said Russia now accounts for 27.9 per cent of such software, compared...

Tags: malware, russia, china, united states

[21 Feb 2008]

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