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- Chemical Company Simplifies Management and Saves Time With New Server Solution
- Dead Sea Works, an Israeli chemical company, began deploying Windows Server 2008 Enterprise in late 2007 to take advantage of its advanced security features. Even in the early stages of deployment, the company found Windows Server 2008 highly secure and so easy to deploy and manage that it expects to...
- Tags: Chemical Company, Server Management, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Engineering, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Reducing Application Downtime at Leading Chemical Company in Belarus
- One of the largest chemical manufacturers in Eastern Europe needed to tighten its disaster recovery strategy. Working closely with BelSoft, one of the leading IT services companies in the region, OAO Grodno Azot deployed Veritas Cluster Server from Symantec as part of a large-scale, enterprise-wide disaster recovery strategy aimed at...
- Tags: Chemical Company, Symantec Corp., Downtime, Engineering, Disaster Recovery, Security, Data Management
- Case studies 2006-11-17
- Cisco Systems Case Study: Lyondell Chemical Company
- Lyondell Chemical Company, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is the third-largest independent, publicly traded chemical company in North America. Lyondell eventually wanted to combine its voice and data network onto a single IP network, and planned its data network architecture with the goal of supporting voice traffic in the future. The...
- Tags: Chemical Company, Data Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Engineering, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies 2005-11-09
- Cisco Case Study: Lyondell Chemical Company
- Lyondell Chemical Company, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is the third-largest independent, publicly traded chemical company in North America. Lyondell wanted to combine its voice and data network onto a single IP network, and planned its data network architecture with the goal of supporting voice traffic in the future. Lyondell Chemical...
- Tags: Chemical Company, Data Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Engineering
- Case studies
- ProCalV5 & Eastman Chemical Company: A Real Success Story
- Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN, is one of the largest chemical manufacturers in the United States. Following an exhaustive search lasting over a year, Eastman Chemical selected Prime Technologies' paperless, compliant calibration management software, "ProCalV5" to replace their old obsolete system. ProCalV5 is designed in close consultation with calibration professionals...
- Tags: Chemical Company, Prime Technologies, ProCalV5 & Eastman, Engineering
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- Specialty Chemicals Company Streamlines Product Development With Web-Based Solution
- Specialty chemicals company Rohm and Haas develops such technically advanced products as coatings, sealants, adhesives, and performance chemicals. Rohm and Haas's Architectural and Functional Coatings business unit uses the proven Stage-Gate process to help manage its product research and development, but with up to 75 projects in its portfolio at...
- Tags: Chemical Company, Web, Microsoft Corp., Engineering, Product Development, Performance Management, Research & Development, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- Tim Bray on surviving the tough times
- Image via WikipediaTim Bray, director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems gave what I believe to be the most practical advice I've heard so far for those in startups looking forward. Speaking at FOWA, Tim's blunt view is that we are headed for tough times but that should not blind...
- Tags: Personal Technology, Tim Bray, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Google ignores some reported security problems?
- Aviv Raff posted a public disclosure of a minor security risk that could be a major problem if used in conjunction with another type of problem. It's true that his discovery isn't really one that by itself should keep you up at night, but it's one that I'm surprised...
- Tags: Google Inc., Security, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Hot rumor: Apple developing LCD HDTV with built-in networking, Apple TV?
- Just in case you wanted a new Apple rumor that didn't involve updated MacBooks and building laptops out of aluminum bricks, here's an inevitable-seeming one from tech guru Jason Calacanis, who tells our sister site CNET UK that Apple is planning an LCD-based HDTV that would sport built-in networking and...
- Tags: Network, built-In, HDTV, Apple Inc., Apple TV, LCD, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- IBM signs up new client for sustainability consulting
- A financial investment firm from Boston, Jantz Morgan, is turning to IBM's green consulting services arm (aka IBM's business strategy consulting practice) to help it integrate the idea of sustainability into its corporate operations. The focus will go beyond the company's impact on the environment; it will...
- Tags: Sustainability, Consulting Service, Consulting, IBM Corp., Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites
- Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the video announcement: ...the longevity of the company is obviously of significant importance - and thus we must reduce costs...
- Tags: Recession, Video, Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions
- I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the context of this post. I had just admitted, somewhat shamefacedly, to my ongoing addiction to printing out my notes, presentations...
- Tags: Green Technology, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services
- Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...
- Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft Big Brains: Gary Flake
- Today I am launching a new series, "Microsoft Big Brains." Over the course of the coming weeks, I'll be profiling Microsoft's Technical Fellows -- the 22 or so individuals who are helping to fill Chairman Bill Gates' shoes at the company, in terms of setting Redmond's future product/strategy agenda. The...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Search, Strategy, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC
- Security company Symantec has released a tool that helps to make Vista's UAC User Account Control feature clearer and less of a pain to use. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Norton Co., Microsoft Corp., Tool, UAC, Productivity, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Symantec shows Microsoft how to do UAC
- Security company Symantec has released a tool that helps to make Vista's UAC User Account Control feature clearer and less of a pain to use. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, uac, vista, norton, microsoft, security
- Image galleries 2008-10-10
- Overachiever: Sun surpasses greenhouse gas reduction goals
- Bully for Sun Microsystems. The company's U.S. operations have actually already overshot the 20 percent reduction goal originally set for 2012 under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program. Yes, that's right folks, a tech company has done something earlier than expected! The company reports this...
- Tags: Emission, Sun Microsystems Inc., Greenhouse Gas, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'
- Microsoft is continuing to slowly trickle out details about its Oslo modeling strategy. The latest info with company has gone public are the names of the three Oslo components it will release in Community Technology Preview CTP form at the Professional Developers Conference PDC, by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Models, Research & Development, Microsoft Development Tools, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
- The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the company's senior director for virtualization product management, Zane Adam. ...
- Tags: Hypervisor, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk, virtualization, Microsoft, VMWare
- News items 2008-10-10
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