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RSS system designMinority Report: Mac Mini - a real nowhere machine
Comment At the launch event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs described the system as the "most important Mac". The Mac Mini was a great idea and a brave move by a company for whom aesthetic design is a key tenet of products. [26 Nov 2009]
Photos: Take a tour of Microsoft's self-contained datacentre
Photo Azure is Microsoft's operating system for cloud computing, a style of computing in which servers host the bulk of the data and applications that users access from their local PCs, smartphones and other devices. [24 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up If they slack off, the accounts system goes down. I would like to see the system as a whole scrapped. Workers in jobs such as website design, development and technical support exercise... [20 Nov 2009]
Smart Cards and Biometrics in a Privacy-Sensitive Secure Personal Identification System
White Paper A secure personal ID system design will include a complex set of decisions to select and put in place the appropriate policies and procedures, architecture, technology and staff to deliver the desired... [14 Nov 2009]
The Evolution of Security Information & Event Management: (and the Technology That Can Take Us There)
White Paper As the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) market has matured, products within the market have lost the ability to quickly respond to threatening situations, and no longer meet the requirement to be a real-time decision... [13 Nov 2009]
Identity Management Systems, Smart Cards and Privacy
White Paper The requirement - how to identify people unequivocally while also protecting their privacy-shapes every discussion of how to design, build, or implement a new, secure, identity management system.... [12 Nov 2009]
Transit Payment System Security
White Paper The objective in any secure system design must be to implement the appropriate security measures to address the expected risks and threats to the system. Security is a core element of... [12 Nov 2009]
802.11n: The End of Ethernet?
White Paper Over the next few years, refinements in system silicon, radio design, network control, wireless security, and power management will improve 802.11n and its successor products to the point where they will... [12 Nov 2009]
Using Smart Cards for Secure Physical Access
White Paper Through the appropriate use of contact or contact less smart card technology in the overall physical access system design, security professionals can implement the strongest possible security policies... [12 Nov 2009]
The Economics of Information Security: A Survey and Open Questions
White Paper The new field provides valuable insights not just into 'Security' topics such as privacy, bugs, spam, and phishing, but into more general areas such as system dependability (the design of peer-to-peer... [11 Nov 2009]
A Survey of BGP Security Issues and Solutions
White Paper This paper considers the current vulnerabilities of the interdomain routing system and surveys both research and standardization efforts relating to BGP security. Moreover, the design of BGP and the... [11 Nov 2009]
The Benefits of Change Management
White Paper Implementing a change management system can have many benefits, particularly in terms of improving efficiency and reducing outages and downtime. With the unbeatable combination of an adaptive and powerful product and a... [11 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo Since Google launched its Wave collaboration platform this year businesses have been testing how they can make use of the system. The wave is opened by a home loans manager and a business analyst who use Gravity to... [02 Nov 2009]
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: Enterprise Performance and Scalability
White Paper Microsoft Dynamics CRM does all this while helping to keep costs under control by enabling enterprise customers to implement, manage, and maintain their system using readily-available resources. With multiple deployment... [28 Oct 2009]
Olympics tech team gets ready to put London 2012 IT through its paces
News While the core network, security and system architectures the London team will build will be very similar to those for the Beijing Games last year, there will be improvements to the way results are sent around the world. [27 Oct 2009]
