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Heavy Truck Maker Cuts Software Distribution Time and Cost, Enables Secure Vendor Access

whitepaper Freightliner LLC wanted to improve management of thousands of computers spread across 13 facilities to reduce costs and to provide secure network access for outside vendors. It's in the process of doing all that and more with the help of Microsoft...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Major Pharmaceuticals Firm Cuts Software Deployment Time by 73 Percent, Boosts Control

whitepaper Mega Pharma, the international pharmaceuticals giant, has more than 2,000 devices spread across 40 locations - so it needs the most effective way to manage them. That way, according to the company, is Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Service Provider Cuts Costs, Speeds Development, and Simplifies Remote Access

whitepaper With 8,000 employees spread across Germany and 70 other countries, the company sought a way to simplify remote access to IT resources. TUV NORD Group provides inspection and certification services for numerous industries.

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Africa's Biggest Food Retailer Gains Reliability, Full Network Compliance

whitepaper How does one keep desktop computers, kiosks, and servers consistent and up-to-date when thousands of them are spread across approximately 1,200 locations in 17 countries? The Shoprite Group, Africa's leading food retailer, is using Microsoft System...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Service Provider Speeds Access to Resources, Improves Security, and Reduces Costs

whitepaper With thousands of employees spread across Germany and 70 other countries, TUV NORD wanted to simplify remote access to IT resources. In 2007, the company deployed Windows Server 2008 to take advantage of new Terminal Services capabilities.

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

SmartSiren: Virus Detection and Alert for Smartphones

whitepaper In fact, hundreds of smartphone viruses have emerged in the past two years, which can quickly spread through various means such as SMS/MMS, Bluetooth and traditional IP-based applications. Smartphones have recently become increasingly popular...

Tags: anti-virus

[11 May 2008]

Avfs: An On-Access Anti-Virus File System

whitepaper Worse, scanning on close may detect a virus after it had already been written to stable storage, opening a window for the virus to spread before detection. Viruses and other malicious programs are an ever-increasing threat to current computer systems.

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News It is also interesting to note the move from simply using social-engineering techniques to spread malware to actually exploiting vulnerabilities. A number of nascent Storm hosting domains using fast-flux techniques to mask their URLs have been...

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

Job boom: Indian outsourcing braced for eight million more

News Dr Ganesh Natarajan, chairman of Nasscom, said in a statement: "We now see the time as being right to spread this development to a new set of locations, provided the requirements of the industry can be met.

Tags: india, offshoring, outsourcing

[06 May 2008]

Empowering Greater Branch Productivity with Distributed Communications

whitepaper Read this Yankee Group report, which defines this type of organization as a "distributed enterprise" with the value of the company being spread across the entire organization, not just at the headquarters.

Tags: customer support services

[05 May 2008]

The Impact of Network Topology on the Spread of Anti-Virus Countermeasures

whitepaper Are there properties of networks that affect the spread of anti-virus countermeasures? It simulates the spread of countermeasures based on the idea that computer viruses and countermeasures spread through two separate complex networks - the virus...

Tags: network security

[24 Apr 2008]

Major Korean Telco Saving U.S.$90 Million a Year With Unified Operations Support System

whitepaper This ability was impaired, however, because its decentralized Operations Support System (OSS) was spread across six regional operations centers, creating interoperability problems and delays. With some 26 million customers in the competitive Korean...

Tags: application servers

[24 Apr 2008]

The City of Zurich Simplifies IT Management With New Operating System

whitepaper The City of Zurich is optimizing its IT infrastructure by bringing its 15,000 PCs and notebooks spread across 60 service departments in line with one common standard. Previously, the various service departments decided for themselves which...

Tags: infrastructure management

[14 Apr 2008]

The Extraordinary Failure of Anti-Virus Technology

whitepaper Because viruses spread, hackers find it easier to compromise business computers, identity theft is better enabled and computer fraud is easier to perpetrate. Anti-virus technology fails to prevent computers from virus infections.

Tags: anti-hacking

[11 Apr 2008]

SmartSiren: Virus Detection and Alert for Smartphones

whitepaper In fact, hundreds of smartphone viruses have emerged, which can quickly spread through various means such as SMS/MMS, Bluetooth and traditional IP-based applications. Smartphones have recently become increasingly popular because they provide all-in...

Tags: security tools

[11 Apr 2008]

Call to increase online data protection for teens

News The rules that limit websites and marketers from collecting data on children under 13 may spread to teens as old as 18 if a group of child advocates has its way. The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now, and the...

Tags: myspace, facebook

[10 Apr 2008]

Choosing the Right Directory Service and MetaDirectory for Your Environment

whitepaper Whether they realize it or not, most large organizations have multiple directories spread throughout their IT infrastructure, typically embedded in applications and network infrastructure components. Directory services can help enormously to manage...

Tags: directory services, spread, directories, disparate

[10 Apr 2008]

Fighting the Battle Against Zero-Day Virus Threats

whitepaper New, rapidly deploying threats that spread around the world in just minutes mean that simply deploying a signature-based solution is no longer good enough. Attacks from viruses and other malicious code can have serious consequences for your business.

Tags: anti-virus, virus, threats, anti

[10 Apr 2008]

Replica Analysis of Large-System CDMA

whitepaper It is found that the spectral efficiency of randomly spread CDMA subject to Gaussian noise and flat fading in the large-system limit under arbitrary input distributions. This paper presents some new results on large-system CDMA obtained through the...

Tags: tdma - cdma, channel, cdma, decoding

[10 Apr 2008]

Con-Way Drives Productivity Using TIBCO's Integration Software

whitepaper The Con-Way collection process was inefficient and time-consuming because information about each customer's AR status was spread across disparate company databases and applications. Con-Way is an industry-leading provider of commercial freight...

Tags: roi - tco, collection, point, databases

[10 Apr 2008]

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