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Beware of Performance Management Pitfalls: Smart companies avoid basic mistakes in implementation

whitepaper This paper focuses on the latter two, but people and process are critically important in shaping decisions about what information is needed and the technology for managing it. Performance management is the strategy and sets of methodologies and...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[25 Apr 2008]

BBC hits back at ISPs over iPlayer usage

News Content providers could also indicate which ISPs allow their content to be accessed most effectively, to limit the squeezing or shaping of content. BBC tech chief, Ashley Highfield, has hit back at ISPs who want online organisations to pay extra...

Tags: content, highfield, bbc, iplayer

[04 Apr 2008]

Heathrow Terminal 5 opens its doors

News See how the high-tech airport development is shaping up. After taking five years to build at a cost of £4.3bn, Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport is finally open for business and is set to become one of the most technologically advanced airport...

Tags: baa, heathrow, ba, travel

[27 Mar 2008]

MiFID compliance warning

MiFID compliance warning

News He agreed that firms have complied as cheaply as possible and added they are now waiting to find out what IT budgets will be available, how trading alternatives are shaping up and how strong customer demand is for using these.

Tags: mifid, banks, compliance, europe

[13 Mar 2008]

Key Trends Shaping the Future of Email: Proactive Steps to Defend Your Email Network

whitepaper Email and other messaging technologies are evolving fast--and bringing new threats. Now, learn how you can head them off. This timely whitepaper reports on the shrinking "signal-to-noise" ratio in messaging.

Tags: anti-virus, messaging, threats, download

[06 Mar 2008]

Uncovering the Hidden Costs of Spam in the Enterprise: Email Traffic Shaping Joins the Fight Against Spam

whitepaper This white paper looks at the resurging problem of spam and what organizations are doing to augment existing antispam solutions with additional cost-effective layers of protection. It then presents the benefits realized by organizations that have...

Tags: network security

[29 Feb 2008]

Netra X4200 M2 Server: Architecture

whitepaper Growing demand for scalable and available services coupled with modern economic realities are re-shaping the design of the telecommunications infrastructure. This white paper describes the architectural features and benefits of the Netra X4200 M2...

Tags: high availability

[14 Feb 2008]

Is online TV throttling broadband networks?

News Despite its comments, Tiscali says it would not target iPlayer content for traffic shaping - possibly as it can't distinguish iPlayer content from other BBC traffic - but the issue is something the company is concerned about.

Tags: bbc, iplayer, tiscali, bandwidth

[28 Jan 2008]

What is the future for Lotus?

Comment But can a move into corporate social networking and web 2.0 really pay off, asks Mark Kobayashi-Hillary.marks the 15th year of Lotusphere, the annual gathering of Lotus users, enthusiasts and executives keen on shaping the software's direction...

Tags: lotus, web 2.0, microsoft, sharing

[24 Jan 2008]

How to write a killer CV

Comment As a member of the IT leadership team, you are one of the few leading the strategy and shaping the company; think 'we' not 'they'. A sharp CV really does count, says Cathy Holley of headhunters Boyden UK Global Executive Search - and certain facts...

Tags: careers, job-hunting, cvs, skills

[17 Jan 2008]

Shaping TCP Traffic in Heterogeneous Networks

whitepaper This approach decouples error recovery from contention estimation and focuses on how these two mechanisms can feed the decision process and implement the protocol strategy by shaping traffic, accordingly.

Tags: tcp - ip

[14 Jan 2008]

Phillips Plastics' Focus on Innovation and Time-to-Market Enable Rapid Development of Sleek, Patented Chemical Splash Goggles

whitepaper With this as a start, and some baseline data such as lens thickness criteria determined by an optics expert, the design work on the goggles began with the shaping of the surfaces using NX's freeform modeling capability.

Tags: groupware - workflow

[14 Jan 2008]

Five mobile trends to watch in 2008

News How is 2008 shaping up in the mobile and wireless world and which mobile and wireless technologies are you going to be hearing more about in the next 12 months? silicon.com picks the five key areas to watch…

Tags: mobile, 2008, iphone, mobile wireless

[09 Jan 2008]

Creating the Demand-Driven Workforce

whitepaper The factory-based push economy of the 20th century that made the U.S.a world powerhouse has given way to a retailer-focused pull economy where customer demand is the dominant force in shaping supply chain operations.

Tags: sales force automation

[07 Jan 2008]

Modeling the Internet Congestion Control Using a Smith Controller With Input Shaping

whitepaper Different variants of TCP congestion control algorithms, such as classic TCP Reno or the recent Westwood TCP, can be modeled in a unified framework by proper input shaping of the P+SP controller structure.

Tags: tcp - ip

[20 Dec 2007]

TCP Retransmission Monitoring and Configuration Tuning on AI3 Satellite Link

whitepaper It is difficult to realize them as the operation of it is shared by all the partners with heterogeneous traffic demands and policies, as the network includes many Traffic Engineering (TE) facilities for traffic shaping or priority queuing in...

Tags: monitoring systems

[19 Dec 2007]

Debate ID cards 'or scrap them'

News A report from Demos said meaningful engagement with the public about how the technology should work must be foremost in shaping what the cards do, if ID card scheme is to go ahead. There needs to be serious debate about the government's...

Tags: privacy, id cards, scheme, debate

[07 Dec 2007]

Client-Centered Energy and Delay Analysis for TCP Downloads

whitepaper The basic idea behind this technique is that the client increases the amount of time that can be spent in sleep mode by shaping the traffic. In mobile devices, the Wireless Network Interface Card (WNIC) consumes a significant portion of overall...

Tags: tcp - ip

[05 Dec 2007]

Energy-Aware Traffic Shaping for Wireless Real-Time Applications

whitepaper Sleep modes of wireless network cards are used to switch these cards into low-power state when idle, but large time-out periods and frequent wake-ups can reduce the utility of this approach. Modern processors offer the ability to switch CPU...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, energy, wireless network, cards

[23 Aug 2007]

PAPR Reduction in OFDM Systems Using Constellation Shaping

whitepaper Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a multicarrier transmission technique, which is widely adopted in different communication applications. OFDM prevents Inter Symbol Interference (ISI) by inserting a guard interval and mitigates...

Tags: modems, frequency, technique, transmission

[24 Jul 2007]

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