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City University London Builds High-Performance, Low-Cost, Scalable Infrastructure With One-Stop Support

The City University London wanted to build an infrastructure capable of scaling to provide 24/7 access for thousands of simultaneous users to CitySpace, City's online learning solution and most business-critical application. The challenge was to improve user response times and significantly reduce risk of downtime while lowering technology cost of...

Tags: Oracle Corp., City University, Online Learning, High-performance, City University London, E-learning, Training And Certification, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2007-10-01

Java Method Modeling Using Application Response Measurement (ARM)

What should not be surprising, especially to anyone who has attempted to build a JAVA model, is that collecting method level data is difficult. The goal of this paper is to describe how to create Java method models with performance data obtained from Application Response Measurement ARM instrumented code. The...

Tags: City University, Modeling, Research & Development, Programming Languages, Java, Business Operations, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2006-04-11

Efficient Implementation for Videoconferencing in 3G Wireless Networks

This paper introduces the prototype of design and implementation of a VideoConferencing VC system and protocol for 3G networks based on the 3G-324M protocol stack. Efficient multimedia processing and intelligent MCUs Multipoint Control Unit for efficient token transfer among a group of terminals are presented. The prototype system has shown...

Tags: City University, Video Conferencing, Hong Kong, 3G, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking

White papers 2005-07-15

Policy and Procedures: Help Desk Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Technology support services are provided through the Information Technology Services ITS Help Desk unit. This support unit is committed to delivering quality customer service and technical solutions in support of campus wide technology. To ensure the best possible support, the Help Desk provides NJCU Faculty and Staff with this Service...

Tags: City University, Information Technology, New Jersey, Technology Support Service, Help Desk, Call Centers, Strategy, Service Level Management, It Operations, Management, It service Management

White papers 2004-05-01

HP Makes It a Happy New Year for London's City University

The start of a new academic year should be an exciting event but for City University, London, it could be stressful and frustrating. The teaching process was often brought to a halt when increasing demand caused failures in the university's PC environment for students. To rectify the problems, the university's...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., City University, Environment, Servers, Hardware

Case studies

City University Improves Accessibility to Accurate Business Data With Integrated System

City University is one of the Northwest's largest private, not-for-profit universities with more than 40,000 graduates worldwide. The university wanted to replace legacy, siloed IT systems with integrated solution to improve accessibility to timely, accurate business data and eliminate technical redundancy to reduce overall total cost of ownership. The challenge...

Tags: Human Resources, Oracle Corp., City University, Financial Management, Financial Planning, Finance

Case studies

Additional Resources

Can a car be fuel efficient and fun?

Oh, ZDNet is a car site now?Harry, write something about IT.RE: Can a car be fuel efficient and fun?Yes, get a 1998 Maxima GLE and 37 mpg on trips at 70 mph.RE: Can a car be fuel efficient and fun?There was a typo in my earlier message. Yes, get...

Tags: car, Yes Get, Maxima

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Pitch of the day: Analytics PR spiel annoys Phillies fan

First of allThe Phillies will eat the Dodgers starting pitching for lunch, and any person or computer that can't see that doesn't deserve to be talking about baseball. Also it is worth noting that a computer cannot predict the heart, desire, and most of all patience of a real champion...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, public relations, Phillies, Yankees, World Series, baseball, computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

News to know: Dell; Xerox, Android, NewEgg, Win7, Windows Mobile,

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Dell Latitude Z 16" thin-and-light revealed; Lamborghini angles hide boardroom muscle Gallery: Hands on with the Dell...

Tags: Xerox Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Storage, Andrew Nusca, Newegg.com, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Dell Latitude, EC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Anonymity exposed, part deux: Google, ISPs ordered to expose academic dissidents

Freedom of anonimityWell done to the judge, everyone has the freedom of speech, where freedom of anonimity doesn't exist in any constitution.If people are going to make damaging remarks, make personal attacks on people and harm others and calim it as freedom of speech, then they should do so publicly....

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail, SECURITY, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Egyptian Government Builds World-Class Tourism Portal With Help From Experts

When the Egyptian government wanted to build a tourism portal for the City of Luxor, the site of ancient Thebes, it turned to Microsoft Services for expert assistance. Microsoft Services coordinated a diverse project team, including cultural experts from the University of Cairo and local IT partners, to create a...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Portals, Web Technology, Government, Internet

Case studies 2009-09-01

Generation Y: 'Email is unfashionable and outdated'

when they go to work ...They will more than likely have to use email. It would be interesting to see how the Gen Y kids that have made it to the work place are coping. They Won't Have Jobs For LongHave you seen some of the crap these kids post...

Tags: e-mail, EMAIL IS, Generation Y, Internet, Twitter Inc., social networking

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

News to know: Bing; Windows; HP; RIM; ZuiTUbe; CD sales; Wimax

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google Ed Bott: XP, Vista, or Windows 7: Which OS is...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., CD, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, E-mail, WiMAX, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Online Communications, Wireless And Mobility

Blog posts 2009-08-19

University uses WiMAX to become dedicated student ISP's

Northern Michigan University NMU has taken a bold step in converting their standard wireless infrastrure to WiMAX, a wireless Internet technology which makes ordinary Wi-Fi look like chalk on slate in comparison. WiMax in a nutshell uses airwave bandwidth beyond that of ordinary wireless networks and covers vast areas....

Tags: Network, Broadband, University Corp., Wireless, Northern Michigan University, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Electric vehicle grants

The feds are giving money to over four dozens industrial and research operations connected with the development of electric cars in the U.S. The total grants are nearly $2.5 billion. This is not like we have a major national commitment to electric cars. The $2.5 billion is...

Tags: Car, Electric Car, Grant, Battery, Electric Vehicle, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Scientists create 'transparent aluminum,' call it a new state of matter

Oxford scientists claim to have created a transparent form of aluminum by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. The substance is nearly transparent to extreme ultraviolet radiation and is the latest addition to a growing list of exotic states of matter. Crossing...

Tags: Laser, University Of Oxford, Aluminum, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Kindle draws fire at Arizona State

According to a brief article in USA Today, students in the honors history of human culture and thought course at Arizona State University will be receiving Kindle ebook readers with the 30 required books for the course pre-loaded. The 30 required books for Humphrey's year-long course usually...

Tags: Student, Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-27

'Invisibility cloak' could protect buildings against earthquakes

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have shown that it's possible to develop an 'invisibility cloak' to protect buildings from surface waves that are generated during earthquakes. These types of seismic waves travel across the earth's surface causing much of the destruction which follows earthquakes, unlike body waves which travel...

Tags: Wave, Cloak, Team Management, Strategy, Security, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-07-20

On SocGen and spreadsheets: the similarities

On SocGen and spreadsheets: the similaritiesSpreadsheet risk conference in the city of KervielThe European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group EuSpRIG is holding its 2009 conference "The Role of Spreadsheets in Organisational Excellence" on the 2nd ? 3rd July 2009 at the Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Cachan, Paris, France. The keynote speakers...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, spreadsheet, SocGen, keynote speaker

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Would your students hand over their passwords to Bozeman?

The first question most people probably asked when this story broke last week was "Where the hell is Bozeman?" As it turns out, I was born in Bozeman, Montana. I didn't stay there long since my dad finished up his graduate work at Montana State University and moved us...

Tags: Job, Password, Bozeman, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-20