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MCA Error Recovery: HP-UX Feature for Recovering From Machine Check Aborts

whitepaper Some of these problems are caused by transient events such as an alpha particle strike on memory, cache, or a processor data structure. HP Integrity servers provide superior reliability and availability.

Tags: processors

[16 May 2008]

Arizona's SIREN Speeds Information Flow, Helps to Avert Potential Epidemics

whitepaper It is a word that can strike as much fear in a population as yelling "Fire" in a crowded movie theater. Epidemic. Whether the disease is SARS, the Bird Flu, or the West Nile Virus, the key to addressing a medical emergency - as well as to quell a...

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Yahoo! reports positive profits - Microsoft unconcerned

News to strike a deal or face a hostile takeover battle and a lower offer. Yahoo! posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit yesterday but failed to deliver the outstanding results its shareholders hoped might force Microsoft to raise its takeover bid.

Tags: profit, microsoft, yahoo

[23 Apr 2008]

Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers

News The other, which passed with a much thinner majority, specifically called for the Commission to "rethink the issue of intellectual property in order to assure solutions that are equitable for both big and small actors and strike a balance between...

Tags: eu, isps, file sharing

[14 Apr 2008]

Business Continuity: Managing Through Workforce Disruption

whitepaper Whether a workforce disruption takes the form of a bird flu pandemic, winter storm or transit strike, your business needs to keep running even when your employees can't make it to the office. A successful business continuity strategy includes a way...

Tags: disaster recovery

[14 Apr 2008]

Integrating Sales with Service in Financial Services Customer Care Centers

whitepaper In order to optimize the value of customer care centers, financial firms must strike a balance between three core objectives: reducing costs, increasing revenue and retaining customers. Learn how an integrated approach can help financial service...

Tags: firms, revenue, balance, core

[11 Apr 2008]

Internet big boys engage in war over Yahoo!

News The game of musical chairs among the internet titans follows two years of on-again, off-again talks to strike industry-reshaping mergers among different configurations of the same players. Yahoo! which was widely believed to be running out of...

Tags: news corp, google, yahoo

[10 Apr 2008]

Zombies: The Digital Undead

whitepaper These zombies strike fear into the hearts of IT personnel responsible for maintenance of corporate networks, and particularly those charged with protecting and ensuring the availability of vital corporate e-mail systems.

Tags: intrusion detection systems, spam, mail, corporate networks

[10 Apr 2008]

Business and IT Requirements for Continuous Data Protection: Protecting Information Assets With Enterprise Rewinder

whitepaper The questions that must be asked are: when disaster does strike, how difficult will it be to recover and how long will it take? Effective use of scarce IT resources demands targeted, high-leverage solutions that mitigate real, identified risks.

Tags: data recovery - security, characteristics, outlines, leverage

[10 Apr 2008]

Personal Privacy for Computer Users ...

whitepaper In this short paper, ordinary, non-technical users can get a sense of the fundamental issues that face all of us as we try to strike a balance between efficient commerce and our concerns about personal privacy.

Tags: security management, privacy, balance, collection

[10 Apr 2008]

Yahoo! CEO: Business 'grey areas' are international obstacle

News has undertaken, including helping raise money for the American Red Cross in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's disastrous strike on New Orleans in 2005. Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang, whose company helped identify a Chinese dissident who was later...

Tags: china, yang, yahoo

[04 Apr 2008]

Social networks to stamp out sex offenders

News In a statement, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said: "We are working together with police, industry and charities to create a hostile environment for sex offenders on the internet and are determined to make it as hard as possible for predators to...

Tags: criminals, protection, children, guidelines

[04 Apr 2008]

Photos: Eye in the sky to spot 'friendly fire'

Photo It will improve commanders' ability to plan and strike effectively and help prevent 'friendly fire' incidents. UK troops on the ground are to get an eye in the sky that will help save lives by reducing 'friendly fire' and the number of air attacks.

Tags: defence, army, mod

[03 Apr 2008]

Do proposed guidelines for online ads cut the mustard?

News Our principles strike the appropriate balance between protecting consumers' security and allowing industry to provide the free services and content they desire. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has proposed new privacy guidelines related to...

Tags: ads, ftc, iab, trade

[25 Feb 2008]

Online sales help N Brown buck retail decline

News In a statement, N Brown said: "Our success of our overall strategy to focus on niche customers and products is evidenced by our continued sales growth, which has been achieved despite the postal strike in October 2007, and the impact of other...

Tags: online retail, n brown, catalogue, retail

[14 Jan 2008]

Business execs snub Facebook

Business execs snub Facebook

News He said: "It doesn't strike me as being a business tool. Social networking website Facebook is being snubbed by professional executives because of the increasing number of "silly applications" and lack of business use.

Tags: facebook, cio jury, plaxo, linkedin

[11 Jan 2008]

What price compliance?

Comment Companies are wilting under the weight of increasingly onerous government and industry-specific regulations. But does compliance just add cost? Quocirca's Fran Howarth argues that rules and laws can provide companies with a business advantage if...

Tags: compliance, management, sarbanes-oxley, regulation

[07 Jan 2008]

An Extension of the TCP Steady-State Throughput Equation for Parallel TCP Flows

whitepaper While there is now a wealth of other models available, many of which are better in some aspect, none of them seems to strike the same balance between precision and ease of use that makes the equation by Padhye et al.the useful tool that it is.

Tags: tcp - ip

[26 Dec 2007]

YeAH-TCP: Yet Another Highspeed TCP

whitepaper Based on the gained insight, the paper defines Yet Another High-speed TCP, as a heuristic attempt to strike a balance among different opposite requirements. Several new TCP congestion control algorithms have been proposed to improve TCP performance...

Tags: tcp - ip

[19 Dec 2007]

The Business Continuity Conundrum - More Data at Risk, Less Time for Protection and Recovery

whitepaper As recent weather events prove, disaster can strike at anytime. Learn how Gartner views the importance of data protection and business continuity in the latest issue of Business Insights, a complimentary industry publication from Connected...

Tags: back-up, business insights, risk, views

[12 Dec 2007]

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