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The RUNES Middleware for Networked Embedded Systems and Its Application in a Disaster Management Scenario

Due to the inherent nature of their heterogeneity, resource scarcity and dynamism, the provision of middleware for future networked embedded environments is a challenging task. This paper presents a middleware approach that addresses these key challenges; it also discusses its application in a realistic networked embedded environment. This application scenario...

Tags: Sensor, Disaster Management, IEEE, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-07-24

Rahn & Bodmer Ensures High Availability and Disaster Preparedness With Dynamic Data Infrastructure

Rahn & Bodmer Banquiers, Zurich's first private bank, is characterized by its complete independence. For several generations, the company has been under the sole ownership of the Zurich families of Rahn, Bodmer, and Bidermann, from which the five partners come. It needed to ensure high availability and disaster management for...

Tags: Electronic Banking, Oracle Corp., Zurich, High Availability, Disaster Management, Disaster Recovery, Banking, Data Management, Financial Services, Finance

Case studies 2008-05-01

Incident Scene, Event and Disaster Management: More Effective Response With Wireless Broadband and Rugged Devices

Public safety agencies have historically relied primarily on voice communication with some use of data. Today, large repositories of vital data are available at all levels. Public safety organizations are demanding the ability to have this information available at every incident. The Department of Homeland Security has articulated a vision...

Tags: Broadband, Disaster Management, Incident Management, Motorola Inc., Wireless Broadband, Wireless, Safety Organization, Mesh Networking, Broadband Internet, Wireless And Mobility, Networking, Telecommunications

White papers 2008-04-07

Hull City Council Leverages Spatial Assets to Boost Responsiveness and Transform Disaster Management

Hull City Council wanted to maximize use of location-based asset information for users within council departments and the general public and comply with the "Transformational Government - Enabled by Technology" initiative to build services around the needs of citizens while releasing resources for "Frontline" services. The challenge was to accelerate...

Tags: Asset, Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Disaster Management, Asset Management, Disaster Recovery, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Data Management

Case studies 2008-04-01

P2P system for improved disaster management

Mistakes were made during Hurricane Katrine - a lot of mistakes, mostly by government officials. While technology can't take the human error and hubris out of government, perhaps it can help the folks living in the affected region better help themselves. That's the goal of a peer-to-peer post-disaster response system,...

Tags: Disaster recovery

Blog posts 2007-06-18

Enhanced Situational Awareness: Application of DDDAS Concepts to Emergency and Disaster Management

The paper describes a prototype emergency and disaster information system designed and implemented using DDDAS concepts. The system is designed to use real-time cell phone calling data from a geographical region, including calling activity - who calls whom, call duration, services in use, and cell phone location information - to...

Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Disaster Management, University Of Notre Dame, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2007-05-01

A Rapidly Deployable Communications Network Architecture for Disaster Management

It is amply clear from the unfortunate events of September 11, 2001 and the South-Asian tsunami disaster that there exists a strong need for a rapidly deployable communications network that would serve to provide much needed connectivity and communications capabilities to rescue workers and survivors. Disaster sites are often located...

Tags: Network, New Jersey, Disaster Management, Network Architecture, Disaster Site, Disaster Recovery, Performance Management, Team Management, Networking, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management

White papers 2005-03-26

Additional Resources

Thanksgiving reading. Soccer and enterprise apps: the similarities and differences

The other evening I had the pleasure of visiting Old Trafford soccer stadium. It's the home of Manchester United, arguably the most successful soccer team in living memory. Consistently at the top or near the top of the British Premier League and European Champions League in the late 20th and...

Tags: Team, SAP AG, Team Management, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-25

Planning for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Using CA Recovery Management Solutions and VMware vSphere Cloud Operating Systems for High Availability

Today, IT organizations face significant growth of mission-critical business processes and services, fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and the IT infrastructure required to support them, in ways that are economical, flexible, fast and well managed. The other is an increase in...

Tags: Recovery Management Corp., Operating System, CA XOSoft, High Availability, VMware Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management

White papers 2009-11-17

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with CA Recovery Management and VMware Infrastructure

The expansion of IT systems to support the growth of mission-critical business processes and services is fueling two parallel trends. One is the increase in the deployment of new applications and the provision of access to them and their information in ways that are economical, flexible, fast and well managed....

Tags: Recovery Management Corp., CA XOSoft, VMware Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, It Services, Data Management

White papers 2009-11-17

Life insurance may prove difficult to get if you contract H1N1

Insurance company business model:Only sell insurance to those who will not need it and hence not collect.For life insurance, they at least have a case, because it should not be possible to take out a $1M policy the day before you die of cancer.Health CARE however is supposed to be...

Tags: Financial Planning, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Personal finance, payroll solutions, H1N1 flu, insurance, life insurance, health insurance, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Windows Virtualization - Crossing the Data Protection Divide With NetBackup

As more companies move to virtualization to control spiraling IT costs, virtual machines are taking on more mission-critical workloads as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, and Active Directory. Protecting such application, data, and storage-intensive environments takes on a whole new set of complexities, and typically requires a whole new set of...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Protection, Environment, Divide, Storage Management, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software

Webcasts 2009-11-06

Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0

Managing Change is the Biggest Challenge for Enterprise 2.0 & Social MediaGreat post Paul- and agreed that congrats are in order. What is often missed in deploying new technologies or old standards is the degree to which it changes how people do their job, what their daily life looks like-...

Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Leadership, Enterprise software, Dion, Managing Change, Enterprise 2.0, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...

Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

News to know: Intel; Microsoft; Cisco; Google Voice; Postini; Nokia

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: Intel: Solid third quarter; Sees brighter prospects ahead Sam Diaz: Analysts interested in Intel's 2010, not just...

Tags: Google Inc., Postini Corp., Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., Voice, Camcorder, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, 3G, Data Centers, Wiki, Operating Systems, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Microsoft needs to come clean over Sidekick/Danger disaster

LOL! And some said you were covering this up.http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12554-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=70257&messageID=1348275&tag=content;col1RE: Microsoft needs to come clean over Sidekick/Danger disasterMy money goes to TMobile, not Microsoft. This should fall 100% on the shoulders of TMobile!RE: Microsoft needs to come clean over Sidekick/Danger disasterWell who-ever is respossible for this stupid act(upgrade without backups? wtf...)...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Storage, Microsoft Corp., Sidekick/Danger disaster, Sidekick/Danger, Microsoft Needs, Hitachi Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

News to know: Oracle; Sidekick; Win7 party; Google; Yahoo Hack day

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. Jason Hiner: Ellison rips IBM, shows off Sun-Oracle benchmarks, offers $10M prize Scott McNealy names Sun's top 10 tech...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Ryan Naraine, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Federal Government, Internet, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Government, Management

Blog posts 2009-10-12

The T-Mobile-Microsoft Sidekick data disaster: Poor IT management going mainstream

Always have local copies of your dataThe above is why it is a bad idea to put your fate in someone else's hands when you have a choice. By default, keep your data processing and data stores local, and then use cloud services when they suit you. All these kiddies...

Tags: Federal government, Advertising & Promotion, Recruitment & Selection, agency, FDA, job

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

The T-Mobile-Microsoft Sidekick data disaster: Poor IT management going mainstream

If you're a T-Mobile Sidekick user who put data, contacts and other items in the cloud we have some bad news for you: Your data is gone...probably forever. With cloud computing increasingly reaching the masses the average consumer will soon be enmeshed in the world of poor IT management. Welcome...

Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, T-Mobile, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-11

How Kanye West influences enterprise social business strategy

Entertainment personality Kanye West's outburst over the weekend at the MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has implications for the enterprise business world. Jive Software, whose 'SBS' Social Business Software 'frees people to engage in open, natural business conversations and workflows that typically are...

Tags: Marketing, Collaboration, Analytics, Twitter Inc., Social Media, Entertainment, Business Strategy, MTV, Radian6, Jive Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-14