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The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment I look at the information we obtain on our customers - people who have already engaged in some sort of transaction with us. Our lives would clearly be much better if more information were held. Over the past few years we've had some feverish debate... [21 Jul 2008]
Network Assessment Helps Colorado Hospital Sort Out Application Issue, Plan for Expansion
White Paper Like many healthcare organizations in the U.S. Longmont United Hospital relies on sophisticated software applications to facilitate key workflows for its medical care. The Hospital wanted to address ongoing application issue and optimize network to... [18 Jul 2008]
WorldView Case Study: Texas Plywood and Lumber Company, Inc.
White Paper The company's constant need to manually sort, route, pay, file, retrieve, and then re-file company paperwork, along with additional costs such as reams of paper and lost physical office space, soon began to cost Texas Plywood revenue. [18 Jul 2008]
Storebrand Improves Agility by Integrating Business Processes With IBM Solution
White Paper The solution to this was sort by implementing a service oriented architecture based on IBM DB2 and IBM WebSphere solutions, including IBM DB2 9 data server. Storebrand Group is Norway's oldest and one of its biggest financial services companies... [14 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News The tool, which has been in use for several years at Google, handles the process in which the company encodes almost any sort of structured information that needs to be passed across the network or stored on a disk, Google open-source programs... [11 Jul 2008]
Relation Between Willingness to Pay and Guaranteed Minimum Bandwidth in Multiple-Priority Service
White Paper Various issues need to be addressed when providing differentiated services, such as what sort of quality should be guaranteed, and what kind of pricing should be made for the service. Off late, the necessity of quality guaranteed services is... [11 Jul 2008]
Adaptive and Scalable Load Balancing Scheme for Sort-Last Parallel Volume Rendering on GPU Clusters
White Paper Sort-last parallel rendering using a cluster of GPUs has been widely used as an efficient method for visualizing large-scale volume datasets. The performance of this method is constrained by load balancing when data parallelism is included. [10 Jul 2008]
Load Balancing on Cluster-Based Multi Projector Display Systems
White Paper Sort-first or image space parallel rendering has been the subject of a significant amount of research. Nevertheless, sort-first has noticeable advantages over other approaches: it has moderate and predictable communication overhead, and it has no... [10 Jul 2008]
Adaptive Distributed Rewall Using Intrusion Detection
White Paper Conventional firewalls rely on a strict outside/inside topology where the gateway(s) enforce some sort of traffic filtering. Some claims that with the evolving connectivity of the Internet, the traditional firewall has been obsolete. [10 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Service level disagreements
Comment But if possible also try to include other indicators, such as customer survey responses or some sort of satisfaction indicator as a benchmark. Service level agreements are great at perpetuating mediocrity and blocking excellence. [07 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone to storm enterprise world, says O2
News Dowd added: "That sort of feedback in addition to the feedback that Apple got - from about 30 per cent of the Fortune top 500 customers - is all very positive. Apple's 3G iPhone is poised to take the UK business world by storm, according to O2... [04 Jul 2008]
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment The sub-prime crisis is exactly the sort of sustained profit shock built into the stress-test requirements. But there's a better way to ease the situation, argues Steve Boyle. CIO50 2008: Top 10 The UK's leading CIOs revealed… [03 Jul 2008]
Perspectives on Grid Computing
White Paper Today it is virtually impossible to discuss high performance or scientific computing of any sort without reference to grid technologies. Grid computing has emerged as a dominant, pervasive metaphor in the past decade. [03 Jul 2008]
From CIO to consultant: Project manager or salesman?
Comment For many of the smaller changes or delays I simply said things like "That should be OK" or "We'll sort it out when we build it". Suddenly, all those little things we'd agreed to sort out later loomed very large indeed. [02 Jul 2008]
¿Dónde está el iPhone 3G?
Comment What sort of feedback has the company had from enterprise customers on the new business tariff? That's why the chance to see one in Spain proved irresistible for Natasha Lomas. Last week I was invited on a two-day Telefónica press trip, with an... [01 Jul 2008]
