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Shipping Firm Centralizes IT With Data Center Network and WAN

whitepaper The Panalpina Group wanted to shift IT spending from systems maintenance to delivery of innovation and avoid US$500,000 in capital cost for Toronto data center upgrade. Every day, over 14,000 employees at The Panalpina Group, in 500 offices around...

Tags: switching

[11 May 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity

Comment First drafted on flight BA633 from Athens to London and finished on BA093 to Toronto a week later. But then Toronto staff became the first to find my nail scissors, which were promptly confiscated. Before 9/11, I regularly travelled the planet with...

Tags: travel, airports, security

[29 Apr 2008]

Web Development Company Accelerates Site Delivery by Up to 300 Percent

whitepaper For the Toronto-based Web development firm's clients - artists such as the Cranberries Eagle Eye Cherry, Ziggy Marley, and Blue Rodeo that want to strengthen ties among their fans - site reliability is critical.

Tags: x86-standard servers, sites, availability, hosting

[10 Apr 2008]

Microsoft and Nortel Give Customers a Head Start in Communications Convergence

whitepaper Responding to this need, Toronto-based Nortel, a leading telecommunications equipment manufacturer, and Microsoft established the Innovative Communications Alliance to help customers move from stand-alone communications methods to unified...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[03 Apr 2008]

Large Linux Hoster Incorporates Windows Technologies, Quadruples Subscription Rate

whitepaper Based in Toronto, Canada, the privately held company employs nearly 60 people. Netfirms supports more than 1.2 million Web sites for customers from all over the globe. Netfirms had built its hosting services on Linux, and offered no services based...

Tags: application servers

[02 Apr 2008]

Inverness Capital Connects With Efficiency: A Wireless Case Study

whitepaper When Inverness Capital moved into a new Toronto office suite, they thought they would be able to plug into the existing CAT-5 cabling and outlets to set up their network. When they arrived, they discovered the previous tenant had made a "Midnight...

Tags: infrastructure management

[04 Mar 2008]

Block-Level Virtualization: How Far Can We Go?

whitepaper This paper presents the vision on building large-scale storage systems from commodity components in a data center. For reasons of efficiency and flexibility, the paper advocates maintaining sophisticated data management functions behind a block...

Tags: storage management

[29 Feb 2008]

Consulting Firm Achieves Deployment Success With Simplified Implementation Program

whitepaper Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Dynexa is a consulting firm based in Toronto, Canada, that specializes in implementations and customizations of Microsoft Dynamics. With projects varying greatly in size and scope, Dynexa sought a comprehensive...

Tags: methodology

[08 Feb 2008]

Nortel Network Case Study: Township of Chapleau

whitepaper Marie and 800 km northwest of Toronto, amid numerous pristine lakes and near the Northeastern Ontario Boreal Forest. The Canadian township of Chapleau, Ontario, lies 310 km north of Sault Ste. Chapleau wanted to promote the area's natural resources...

Tags: broadband

[14 Jan 2008]

Collaboration and Multimedia Authoring on Mobile Devices

whitepaper This paper introduces adaptation-aware editing and progressive update propagation, two novel mechanisms that enable authoring multimedia content and collaborative work on mobile devices. Adaptation-aware editing enables editing content that was...

Tags: authoring systems

[08 Jan 2008]

On-demand printing with HP Color LaserJet 9500 printer score big in service and savings for Toronto Blue Jays

whitepaper Faced with issues plaguing the outsourcing of season ticket printing and fulfillment, the IT team for the Toronto Blue Jays implemented an on-demand, in-house printing solution. With software developed by the Blue Jays IT staff and HP Color...

Tags: roi - tco, printing, ticket, money

[12 Dec 2007]

Microsoft still tinkering with Surface

News The company has taken its Surface prototypes on the road a lot in the past six months, showing them to thousands of people in places such as Boston, New York, Paris, Toronto and Zurich. Although Microsoft is still getting plenty of "oohs" and "aahs...

Tags: touchscreen, surface, microsoft, cnet news

[09 Nov 2007]

Will Apple's iPhone drive citywide wi-fi?

News For example, he noted the iPhone can connect at faster speeds over the wi-fi network in cities such Toronto much faster than other handsets can connect using a major carrier's 3G cellular network. Apple's iPhone and other wi-fi enabled handsets...

Tags: citywide, wi-fi, iphone

[24 Oct 2007]

Driving Innovation and Business Success at Onlane Inc.

whitepaper Formed in 1999 and based in Toronto, it has successfully carved out a niche for itself in the North American business-to-business used vehicle industry as a leading provider of internet-based services and technology solutions that facilitate smart...

Tags: erp, accounting, vehicle, north american

[28 Sep 2007]

Company Doubles Growth, Lowers Customer Costs by Switching From Novell to Microsoft

whitepaper LegendCorp of Toronto, Ontario, started out in 1989 as a networking and services company selling primarily Novell products. Since becoming a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, LegendCorp has grown exponentially, thanks to strategic help, dedicated...

Tags: application servers, novell, account, certified

[28 Sep 2007]

Microsoft Case Study: Toronto District School Board

whitepaper The Toronto District School Board wanted a standardized desktop environment in order to increase service levels and decrease support costs. Additionally, the analysis indicates that when the Toronto District School Board upgrades its PCs to Windows...

Tags: infrastructure management, windows vista, vista, pc

[05 Sep 2007]

Reliable Packet Transmissions in Multipath Routed Wireless Networks

whitepaper This paper studies the problem of using path diversification to provide low Probability of Packet Loss (PPL) in wireless networks. Path diversification uses erasure codes and multiple paths in the network to transmit packets.

Tags: load balancing, packet, path, paths

[31 Aug 2007]

A Location-Aided Power-Aware Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

whitepaper In multi-hop wireless ad-hoc networks, designing energy-efficient routing protocols is critical since nodes are power-constrained. However, it is also an inherently hard problem due to two important factors: First, the nodes may be mobile...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, nodes, routing, location

[23 Aug 2007]

Group Mobility and Partition Prediction in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks

whitepaper In wireless ad-hoc networks, network partitioning occurs when the mobile nodes move with diverse patterns and cause the network to separate into completely disconnected portions. Network partitioning is a widescale topology change that can cause...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, nodes, mobility, partitioning

[23 Aug 2007]

Reliable Packet Transmissions in Multipath Routed Wireless Networks

whitepaper This paper studies the problem of using path diversification to provide low Probability of Packet Loss (PPL) in wireless networks. Path diversification uses erasure codes and multiple paths in the network to transmit packets.

Tags: path, packet, paths, diversification

[10 Aug 2007]

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