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Burlington Coat Factory Lowers Costs, Boosts Reliability by Consolidating Systems on Grid: Since the 1990s, Burlington Coat Factory has made technological innovation a pivotal element of its business strategy for containing costs and boosting efficiency - an approach that has earned it widespread respect and recognition. As an innovator, the company has been quick to embrace beneficial new technologies. In one of...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Burlington Coat Factory, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Databases, Enterprise Software, It service Management, Networking, Software, Data Management; Case studies 2007-04-01
Centralizing UNIX Authentication and User Provisioning With Oracle Internet Directory: Burlington Coat Factory BCF is a major garment retailer, based in the Northeast. BCF uses Linux workstations for conducting their core business with employees and customers. They use Star Office for their word processing needs and Oracle ERP and other applications also run on Linux and some Unix variants. There...; Tags: Word-processing, User Provisioning, Oracle Corp., Internet, Burlington Coat Factory, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, StarOffice, LDAP, Open Source, Software, Office Suites, Directory Services, Enterprise Software; White papers 2005-09-01
Lexmark Proactively Initiates Solutions for Burlington Coat Factory: Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a retailer that had more than 300 locations throughout the U.S. as of June 2002. Burlington Coat Factory was looking for ways to reduce its total cost of printing, improve service, reduce help desk calls and improve business efficiencies throughout the company. They chose...; Tags: Burlington Coat Factory, Printing, Lexmark International Inc., Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting; Case studies
Large U.S. Retailer Runs Its Enterprise on SUSE LINUX to Decrease Administrative Costs and Reduce Hardware Costs Tenfold: Burlington Coat Factory is a national retail chain with 341 stores in 42 states nationwide. They needed to replace its large-scale servers that were obsolete, complex and difficult to manage. Burlington was also dissatisfied with support from its existing Linux distribution provider and began searching for a company committed to...; Tags: Burlington, Novell Inc., TenFold, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Burlington Coat Factory, SuSE Linux, SuSE, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware; Case studies
Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation Centralizes Identity Management, Increases Security: Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a national department store retail chain, offering current, high quality designer merchandise at discounted prices. Burlington Coat Factory wanted to manage identities of all employee desktop users, users of server-based applications, and intranet portal users. The company wanted to strengthen IT security while decreasing...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Burlington Coat Factory, Identity Management, Portals, Authentication/Encryption, LDAP, Web Technology, Help Desk, Strategy, Internet, Security, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Management; Case studies

Novell Case Study: Burlington Coat Factory: Burlington Coat Factory is a national retail chain offering high quality, designer merchandise at up to 60 percent less than other department store prices. The company has been running its enterprise on Linux for several years, replacing the "Green screens" in its retail stores with Web-based applications. But the company...; Tags: Novell Inc., Burlington Coat Factory, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software; Case studies
Server Clustering Is Tailor-Made for Burlington Coat Factory: Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corporation is a U.S. retail chain offering high-quality merchandise at prices up to 60 percent less than competitors. A retailer needs to migrate 40 Oracle-based applications from a proprietary UNIX platform to a lower-cost, highly scalable, available, flexible and manageable IT infrastructure using Intel architecture-based servers...; Tags: PolyServe Inc., Clustering, Burlington Coat Factory, Server Cluster, Intel Architecture, Servers, Hardware; Case studies

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Apple's coming notebook transition: Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...; Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Samsung HL61A750: Rear-projection HDTVs, as a category, are on their way out, and DLP-based sets are the only microdisplay choice available, now that all manufacturers of LCD- and LCoS-based rear-projection displays have basically ceased production. Samsung and Mitsubishi are pretty much the only players left in this category--they're the only two...; Tags: menu system, Samsung HL61A750, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Warm 2, color temperature; Product reviews 2008-07-18
Rhode Island's novel approach to addressing budget gaps: We hear that the state of Rhode Island has signed a five-year deal with demand response technology company EnerNOC to manage electricity demand across city, town and government-related buildings. The idea is that government agencies will be encouraged to reduce their consumption during peak demand periods. Those...; Tags: Rhode Island, Taxes, Free Trade, Government, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-07-15
Report: Tesla Motors delivering roadsters in California: Remember the 100% electric 2008 Tesla Roadster? You know, 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds? A 13,000 rpm redline? And, of course, 220 miles per charge, thus costing about two cents per mile? According to a letter from the...; Tags: Production, California, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-07-14
Apple releases patches for dangerous QuickTime flaws in Apple TV 2.1 product: Apple releases patches for dangerous QuickTime flaws in Apple TV 2.1 productDoes anyone use AppleTV?[i]Some of you might be saying, why do I care, I don’t use Apple TV.[/i]AppleTV sales have been abysmal.does this really matter in the case of appleTV?an appleTV is not like a computer or even like...; Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Web browsers, Apple TV, patch management, appleTV, Apple Inc., Apple QuickTime, Apple Safari; Discussion threads 2008-07-11
On the road to Midori: RedHawk, MinSafe and Sapphire: On the road to Midori: RedHawk, MinSafe and SapphireFinally...So finally, Microsoft is embedding the .net framework into windows.. of course I totally agree, I mean I wanted that (http://www.amreldib.com/2007/12/windows-7-what-it-rumored-to-have-and.html) to happen.The managed code concept will really put the OS in charge of running all the applications and their security and...; Tags: .NET, Middleware, Microsoft Corp., RedHawk, Midori, SAPPHIRE, MinSafe, backward compatibility; Discussion threads 2008-07-09
Deskless Workers, Useless Services: Microsoft Online Misses the Mark: I spend a lot of time tracking the deskless souls who inhabit the workworld, the factory workers, nurses and others who spend more time on their feet and less time on their butts than the rest of us. So I was all ears as Stephen Elop, Microsoft's latest Business Division...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Worker, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2008-07-08
Daily Debrief: California gets Tesla car factory: On Monday, Tesla Motors announced it would build its electric sedan manufacturing plant in Northern California. In the Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi talks with CNET Car Tech Senior Editor Wayne Cunningham about why this decision is a win for the company and the state.; Tags: Manufacturing, News, kara tsuboi, wayne cunningham, tesla roadster, gavin newsom, arnold schwarzenegger, bay area, san francisco, electric car, green, global warming; Videos 2008-07-01
Pssst! ... wanna save up to 40 percent on a robotic massage chair?: Okay, I know I'm going to get flamed for furthering ethnic stereotypes, but I have to admit, us Jews love a good bargain. So I'm going to risk getting my butt chewed because I feel compelled to play yiddische consumer advocate. As some of you may know,...; Tags: Chair, Sharper Image Corp., Robots, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-01
Why computers fail: Why computers failA good UPS...will decrease failure rates tremendously. I use Belkin AVR UPS's and the only systems I've had go down in the last year were ones installed by my predecessor without UPS's. There is no doubt in my mind that bad power is a PC's worst enemy....; Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, chip, failure rate, hardware, software, United Parcel Service of America Inc., redundancy, computer; Discussion threads 2008-07-01
Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World: The high tech gear needed to turn out precision solar panels. Courtesy Oerlikon. Oerliklon is a venerable corporation among the Alps, publicly-traded on the Zurich stock exchange for a long time. They manufacture precision machine tools, textile equipment, other traditional industrial products. But they're...; Tags: Photovoltaics, Oerliklon, Chris O'Brien, Oerlikon, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-06-30
Photos: Where Gibson guitars are custom-made: In Nashville, News.com's Daniel Terdiman gets a rare look inside the factory that crafts unique guitars for rockers--and Microsoft employees. by CNET News.com; Tags: Nashville, Photograph, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-06-30
Gateway FX7026: Continuing in their line of desktop computers with quad-core processors, the Gateway FX7026 offers a loaded computer that can go head-to-head with other high end gaming and media heavy machines. The $1,099 price tag is more than fair for the amount of high performance features and comparable to a similar...; Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Consumer electronics, Gateway FX7026, Gateway Inc.; Product reviews 2008-06-25