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Wal-Mart Spearheads Another Best Practice in Supply Chain Execution: Wireless Industrial Vehicle Management

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is the world's largest retailer, with nearly 6,500 stores and wholesale clubs across 13 countries. Of equal importance, Wal-Mart wanted to find out how an industrial vehicle management system could make its distribution facilities safer for its associates. Wal-Mart deployed its first wireless Vehicle Management System VMS...

Tags: Supply Chain, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Distribution Facility, Best Practice, I.D. Systems, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Retail, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-01-14

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WinZip 14.0 (Windows)

WinZip is the world's most popular Zip utility for file compression, encryption, packaging, and data backup. Now supporting Windows 7, WinZip 14 makes it easy to zip and unzip files for quick, efficient, and secure file transfer, email transmission, and data storage. Compress files with WinZip 14 to save space...

Tags: WinZip, Zip, E-mail, Microsoft Windows, Online Communications, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-14

How much can UPS efficiency save you? Eaton has some answers.

I am growing increasingly fascinated by power distribution and regulating equipment. I know, sick admission. Eaton, one of the big uninterruptible power supply UPS and power distribution equipment vendors, is starting to talk up its new Energy Saver System as a tool that data center operators can...

Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Power Supply, Uninterruptible Power Supply, Eaton, NetRiver, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-08

The best VoIP solution is ...

What about hosted?Wondering if you guys would be willing to discuss the most obvious omission... hosted. It's like choosing which car to buy when its cheaper to take a limo.RE: The best VoIP solution is ...Your article was only comprehensive if you consider just the IP-PBX and desktop telephone;...

Tags: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Fax, Zultys, Voice Mail, VoIP Solution, AC power, SIP, VoIP

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Lofty aspirations for power efficiency: Power Loft seeks silver certification for new data center

Colocation data center Power Loft began dreaming about greener data centers several years ago, long before it became vogue to do so. Now, in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard's Critical Facilities Services, the company has designed a 200,000-square-foot facility in Prince William County, Va., that can deliver between 120...

Tags: Facility, Certification, Data Center, Virginia, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Take a lead from Yahoo! Focus less on buying carbon credits and more on reducing your carbon emissions

Internet giant Yahoo!, which obviously relies quite heavily on its data centers for its livelihood, has taken a very bold step: it has said it will stop buying carbon credits to offset the greenhouse gas emissions produced by its data centers. Instead, it will focus on initiatives...

Tags: Data Center, Yahoo! Inc., Carbon, Carbon Emission, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-12

topsE&M Coder for Pocket PC 1.0.0 (Mobile)

Historically, most physicians tend to undercode, whether due to fear of an audit or to lack of time to sufficiently document the care given. A "level 2 E&M" visit is based more on deficiencies in documentation than on the merits of the visit. Use of our software allows rapid, extensive...

Tags: Reimbursement, Patient, Physician, Mobile, Pocket PC, e-MDs, E&M

Software downloads 2009-07-10

topsE&M Coder for Palm OS 3.1 (Mobile)

Historically, most physicians tend to undercode, whether due to fear of an audit or to lack of time to sufficiently document the care given. A "level 2 E&M" visit is based more on deficiencies in documentation than on the merits of the visit. Use of our software allows rapid, extensive...

Tags: Reimbursement, Patient, Physician, Mobile, Palm OS, Palm Inc., e-MDs, E&M

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Some like it cool: HP/EDS fellow shares data center best practices

I spoke last week with Ed Kettler, a fellow for Hewlett-Packard who comes to the company via HP's acquisition of systems integrator EDS. Kettler has been involved with two major data center overhauls that EDS undertook before it became part of HP, including the retrofit of a facility in Wynyard,...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Best Practice, Kettler, Tulsa, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Will Ubuntu remain a minor player

Will Ubuntu remain a minor playerWhat's novel here?Not the fact that you can try Ubuntu.It's the fact that you try any operating system.How is that happening? Most likely Click2Try is another open source hoster running Xen, much as Amazon Web Services, only they are moving ahead with easy 'on...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Only Problem, Ubuntu, minor player

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

IBM win: University will invest in $12.4M green data center

Get this, someone is actually making a capital investment in a new data center! And, a green one at that. We hear today that Syracuse University and New York State plan to use IBM to build a whopping 6,000-square-foot green data center that will use roughly 50...

Tags: Data Center, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Red tape keeps Conficker on medical devices

Red tape keeps Conficker on medical devicesAnd of course we [i]want[/i] the governmentto run healthcare? If they are interfereng with routine patching due to their regulations, then having those regulations interfere with fixing the issues the regulations caused, maybe it is time they stepped aside and let the staff maintaine...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Storage management, Red Tape, Conficker, medical device, data set, regulation

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

Ubuntu 9.04 to be available for download Thursday

  Canonical will make its much anticipated Ubuntu 9.04 upgrade available for download on Thursday. The platform --which includes a desktop, server and netbook edition -- offers faster bootups (as fast as 25 seconds, its developers say), cloud support, OpenOffice 3.0, support for Skype...

Tags: Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition, Linux, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, OpenOffice, Open Source, E-mail Servers, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Office Suites, Enterprise Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-04-22

Psssst. Google's data center efficiency secrets. Pass them on.

First off, I'm going to say that there probably are a limited number of e-businesses in the world that rely on data centers as much as Google does. So, while the best practices that it has to share regarding its data center design and technology policy might not yield the...

Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, PUE, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-15

GPL's cloudy future

GPL's cloudy futureIn the Cloud: ANYBODY can do ITANYBODY. I believe that is the essence of the Cloud revolution.Users old enough remember the IBM PC. It was a revolution. A maneuver around traditional IT which gave rise to a new generation of software and hardware development without...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Configuration Files, GPL, AGPL, Google Inc., information technology

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

News to know: March Madness, Chrome beta, Sony-Google, Android

Larry Dignan: March Madness meets IT: We're guinea pigs Matthew Miller: Follow all the March Madness action on your mobile phone Garett Rogers: Google releases new beta version of Chrome Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Google Chrome 2.0 Beta - Fast. Fast! FAST!!! ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Android, Sun Microsystems Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Beta, Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Open Source

Blog posts 2009-03-20

Netflix could have an open field as rival Blockbuster struggles

Netflix, which has already proven to be recession resistant, could find itself with an open field of growth ahead as its primary bricks-and-mortar competition struggles.  Throughout its history, Netflix has competed with Blockbuster. And its rival has sometimes made Netflix's profit margins shrink. But now the viability...

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Blockbuster Inc., Bankruptcy, Litigation, Personal Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-03

Google ditching network neutrality?

Google ditching network neutrality?{sigh}I long for the day when reporters:1) Don't spew lies and misconceptions intentionally.- or -2) Learn about the technology they write about.Network neutrality isn't about disallowing a company to invest into their infrastructure to make access to their services responsive and available. Network neutrality is about...

Tags: network neutrality, Google Inc., cable company, network, cable, server

Discussion threads 2008-12-14

3PL Provider Achieves Increased Efficiency and Productivity With HighJump Warehouse Advantage

3PL provider, Howard Tenens decided to search for a new flexible WMS as its existing Warehouse Management System WMS couldn't keep pace. The system was cumbersome to maintain and update, and didn't provide the level of traceability the company and its customers required. This left it without a record of...

Tags: HighJump Software Inc., 3PL, Manufacturing

Case studies 2008-11-13

Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand

No matter their political affiliation, most people who have an opinion about what President-elect Barack Obama should do first after he’s sworn into office point to the country’s economic identity crisis as his first order of business. And given how much the latest jobs report rattled the...

Tags: Job, Clean Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-08