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High Availability for the Masses
White Paper Data replication and recovery software can be daunting for the semi-technical person, yet the need to protect the company's critical data is undeniable. Once implemented, maintaining the secondary server with the same updates and service packs as... [18 Jul 2008]
Semi-Oblivious Routing: Lower Bounds
White Paper This paper initiates the study of semi-oblivious routing; a relaxation of oblivious routing which is first introduced by Racke and led to many subsequent improvements and applications. In semi-oblivious routing like oblivious routing, the algorithm... [11 Jul 2008]
Anytime Coding on the Infinite Bandwidth AWGN Channel: A Sequential Semi-Orthogonal Code
White Paper This paper shows that it is possible to do this using a semi-orthogonal variation of pulse position modulation that is sequential in nature - bits can be "Streamed out" without having to buffer up blocks of bits at the transmitter. [11 Jul 2008]
Semi-Matchings for Bipartite Graphs and Load Balancing
White Paper It refers to this problem as the semi-matching problem; it is a relaxation of the known bipartite matching problem. The paper present a way to evaluate the quality of a given semi-matching and show that, under this measure, an optimal semi-matching... [10 Jul 2008]
Flow-Through-Queue Based Power Management for Gigabit Ethernet Controller
White Paper A modeling approach based on Semi-Markov Decision Process (SMDP) and queuing models is employed, which allow one to apply mathematical programming formulations for energy optimization under performance constraints. [08 Jul 2008]
USDA - Office of the CIO: IP Address Tracking System
White Paper Because each agency and/or office tracks and manages its own IT assets semi-independently, attacks are often hard to detect, diagnose, and control before significant damage occurs. The USDA's IT infrastructure is subject to frequent and often... [03 Jul 2008]
Consistency Control for Synchronous and Asynchronous Collaboration Based on Shared Objects and Activities
White Paper The approach is based on the notion of object-centric sharing, where users collaborate in a lightweight manner but aggregate and organize different types of shared artifacts into semi-structured activities with dynamic membership, hierarchical... [02 Jul 2008]
Working Together Inside an Emailbox
White Paper A diversity of shared email practices is learned in 14 schools, museums, and support centers through semi-structured interviews and (where feasible) site visits. This paper looks at a situation in which email is not simply a channel for... [02 Jul 2008]
Patterns of Media Use in an Activity-Centric Collaborative Environment
White Paper Major findings include four patterns of media use: communicating, exchanging mixed objects, coordinating, (e.g.of status reports), and semi-archival filing. This paper describes a new collaboration technology that is based on the support of... [01 Jul 2008]
Latest Symantec Security Report Sheds Light on Data Theft
White Paper The semi-annual report, one of the most anticipated works of research in the global IT community, also finds that increasingly refined attack methods are being supported by growing global networks of cyber criminals. [30 May 2008]
Intelligent Miner Articles and Tutorials: Mine DB2 XML Columns With DB2 Data Warehouse Edition Data Mining - Enhance Your Ability to Analyze Your DB2 9 XML Data
White Paper In this paper one learns how they can create a relational view over semi-structured XML columns to use XML input data for data mining. Data mining methodologies traditionally find rules and patterns in structured input data such as relational... [28 Mar 2008]
Mozilla chief slams Apple's Safari-iTunes move
News Walls said the move by Apple to provide a semi-automated download of Safari as an add-on to a separate upgrade should be assessed with this in mind, as well as the ongoing context of proprietary-based PC computing. [25 Mar 2008]
Nato: Cyber terrorism 'as dangerous as missile attack'
News Anil said attacks were becoming increasingly sophisticated, giving an example of a semi-autonomous Trojan which infiltrated Nato's open network. Suleyman Anil, head of Nato Computer Incident Response Capability Co-ordination Centre, said a... [07 Mar 2008]
Arbor Technology Solves Embedded Design Problems With Off-the-Shelf Technology
White Paper Arbor Technology meets this urgent demand with semi-custom designs that Arbor Technology meets this urgent demand with semi-custom designs that pair an off-the-shelf ETX CPU module with a custom carrier board. [04 Mar 2008]
Pre-Virtualization: Slashing the Cost of Virtualization
White Paper In a semi-automatic step an OS is prepared for virtualization. Despite its current popularity, para-virtualization has an enormous cost. Its diversion from the platform architecture abandons many of the benefits that come with pure virtualization... [29 Feb 2008]
