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The Naked CIO: Enemies of the state
Comment This staggering statistic suggests that we are already dependent on foreign innovations to support our IT needs. Failure to foster innovation and talent is what's really coming home to roost, says the Naked CIO. [14 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Service level disagreements
Comment These indicators will prevent the agreement being just about some obscure statistic that does not tie in to the ability to improve service. Service level agreements are great at perpetuating mediocrity and blocking excellence. [07 Jul 2008]
Managed Service Offers Hassle-Free Malware Protection
White Paper It's an alarming statistic you can't afford to ignore. Did you know that on average, newly deployed or otherwise unprotected PCs are compromised by malware within just 30 minutes of connecting to the Internet? [19 Jun 2008]
Why IT must escape the belt-tightening
Comment IT vendors deserve to bear the brunt of a downturn in the tech industry if that statistic is anywhere near reflective of real life. They risk cutting the very thing that could get them out of trouble, says Martin Atherton. [18 Apr 2008]
Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: West Nile Virus: An Illustration of the Early Warning Capability of the Scan Statistic
White Paper The most likely cluster area was determined using the scan statistic and its statistical significance was evaluated using Monte Carlo hypothesis testing. West Nile virus is a serious mosquito-borne disease. [10 Apr 2008]
Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Network Analysis of Biological Integrity in Freshwater Streams
White Paper This study employs the network version of the upper level set scan statistic to characterize biological impairment along the rivers and streams of Pennsylvania and to identify subnetworks that are badly impaired. [10 Apr 2008]
Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Drinking Water Quality and Water Utility Vulnerability
White Paper The ULS scan statistic will provide a real-time surveillance system for evaluating water quality across the distribution system. New York City has installed 892 drinking water sampling stations. About 47,000 water samples are analyzed annually. [10 Apr 2008]
Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Tasking of Self-Organizing Surveillance Mobile Sensor Networks
White Paper The upper level set scan statistic is used to guide the search by estimating the location of hotspots based on the data previously taken by the surveillance network. Many critical applications of surveillance sensor networks involve finding hotspots. [10 Apr 2008]
Geographic Surveillance and HotspotDetection for Homeland Security: Disaster Management: Oil Spill Detection, Monitoring, and Prioritization
White Paper The scan statistic hotspot delineation and poset prioritization tools will be used in combination with oil spill detection algorithm to provide for early warning and spatial-temporal monitoring of marine oil spills and their consequences. [10 Apr 2008]
Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Surveillance Network and Early Warning
White Paper The crisis index is used for hotspot detection by scan statistic methods. Emerging hotspots for disease or biological agents are identified by modeling events at local hospitals. A time-dependent crisis index is determined for each hospital in a... [10 Apr 2008]
U.S. Census Bureau Reaps Awards From MySQL-Based Web Sites
White Paper Census Bureau also creates and manages web sites that serve as highly-accessible resources for anyone looking for just about any kind of national or local statistic. The United States Census Bureau conducts a massive Census of the 105 million U.S... [10 Apr 2008]
The Key to Successful Quality Customer Information
White Paper A frightening statistic according to The Data Warehousing Institute 2002 study shows that "Poor-quality customer data costs U.S.businesses a whopping $611 billion a year", with customer data becoming obsolete at a rate of 2% per month. [28 Feb 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday
Comment The audience stopped listening after his opening gambit: the statistic to end all statistics - the subscriber base of China Mobile, as of the end of 2007, was 370 million. If that wasn't impressive enough more than five million hands-to-hold... [13 Feb 2008]
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Over Unspecified Bit Rate and Early Packet Discard Policy
White Paper In fact, as a statistic shows, more than 85% of networks are running TCP/IP. Currently, the Internet is developing at an extremely fast speed. Among the factors that make this happen, the protocol suite the Internet uses - TCP/IP, which stands for... [14 Jan 2008]
Webcast: Four Essentials for Making Remote Access More Productive for Your Users
White Paper This statistic highlights a wide range of issues—not all of which are technical—that must be carefully considered when designing your company's remote access solution. Recent studies have shown that approximately 70 percent of CTOs say that their... [12 Dec 2007]
