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Claranet Case Study: Gallagher Basset

Gallagher Bassett is one of the largest claims and risk management companies in the UK, with 150 staff handling over 50,000 claims per annum. The company needed a fast, integrated network that would dramatically reduce the time and effort spent managing the infrastructure. Gallagher Bassett deployed Claranet for its solution...

Tags: Network, Claim, Infrastructure, Claranet, Gallagher Bassett, IPSec, Networking, VPNs, Financial Planning, Network Technology, Network Security, Security, Financial Services, Strategy, Finance, Management

Case studies 2007-10-09

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WikiLeaks Not Shut Down

WikiLeaks has not been shut down. It's more available than ever. I had not intended on commenting about this story. I have seen it and seen it, ever since the Web was spun. Local government tries to suppress something, data gets routed offshore. Chinese...

Tags: Censorship, Judge, News, WikiLeaks, Web Site Development, Government, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Second Life plus Twitter for enterprise?

At the end of last week, I attended a Second Life event organised by Metaversed. 'Second Life? That's so 2006,' I hear the Facebook crowd squak. It may be old hat to some but enterprise players like Sun, Xerox, SAP and Amazon think enough of it that they, along with...

Tags: Second Life, Twitter, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-08-12

New Operating System Saves Consulting Firm Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars

Guinness Gallagher is a New Zealand based boutique consulting firm providing strategic business advice to global governments and international corporations. Faced with the challenges of keeping extremely sensitive client information safe and secure, being able to transport that information to remote global locations, and significant communication difficulties, Guinness Gallagher looked...

Tags: Team, Consulting Company, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Consulting, Technology, Guinness Gallagher, Team Management, Government, Business Structures, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Security, Management, Finance, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites

Case studies 2007-06-01

OR trying again to pass electronics recycling law

Contrary to Oregons image of being a progressive green state, the Oregon has yet to pass an electronics recycling law, reports the Oregonian. The first state to pass a bottle recycling bill, Oregon has twice tried and failed to come up with an electronics recycling plan. Now a third...

Tags: Government technology, State &, Local Govt

Blog posts 2007-02-07

In Kathleen Harris' district, a recount and probably a revote

Katherine Harris and voting irregularities just go together like PB & J. Six years after Harris, Floridas secretary of state in 2000 and currently a US Representative, certified George W. Bush as president, the vote for who will succeed her in the House is completely screwed up.This time, electronic voting...

Tags: Government technology, Elections, ballot

Blog posts 2006-11-14

Technology at center of new film school

A small university not too far from the glitz of Hollywood is challenging UCLA as a top film school, as it unveils its new state-of- the-art film facilities, reports the Los Angeles Times. This fall, students at Chapman University will begin taking classes in the Marion Knott Studios,...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, film school

Blog posts 2006-08-30

ICANN gets its contract renewed

The Commerce Dept.'s exclusive contract with ICANN to oversee key technical questions for the Internet will be renewed as a sole-source contract, the Washington Post reports. "We continue to believe ICANN is uniquely qualified to perform the services," said Ranjit de Silva, a spokesman for the department's National...

Tags: ICANN

Blog posts 2006-05-22

Qlusters prepares to attack the systems management establishment

Earlier this year Qlusters crossed the chasm from proprietary to open source software. The small company, backed by blue-chip VCs, took nearly three years of proprietary code development for its sophisticated systems management software and open sourced it under a modified attribution only Mozilla Public License. Now, armed with a...

Tags: Qlusters, open source

Blog posts 2006-04-18

FTC investigating 'Grand Theft' ads

FTC investigating 'Grand Theft' adsFTC investigating 'Grand Theft' adsOh boy. Would they just let it go already. There was no harm to begin with, this is just a bunch of politicians being pricks. Mountain out of an ant hill. Do you think they ever played Leisure...

Tags: Games, game, Grand Theft, FTC, advertisement

Discussion threads 2005-07-27

Who should manage the DNS?

Every open source project, and most closed source projects, depend on the Internet and its Domain Name Service DNS servers.Management of the most important servers, those for .com, and .net, are currently contracted-out by ICANN to Verisign. Until this week it was assumed that ICANN would in time become...

Tags: Internet, serverS

Blog posts 2005-07-01

Why IT policy won't change under Powell replacement

I've been researching the public statements of several candidates foroutgoing FCC Commissioner Michael Powell's seat. As a result, I'm highly confident that no telecommunications policy changes will take effect if any of the people likely to be nominated are confirmed.Before I get into the specifics, let's do a candidate roll...

Tags: VoIP

Blog posts 2005-01-21

Brokerage Embraces Electronic Document Management for Better Customer Service

Without a standardized document management system, Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services AJGRMS - a division of Illinois-based Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. - relied on paper and disparate systems when it came to storing quotes, policies, and other documents. This reliance increased the time required to access important documents...

Tags: Customer Service, Document, Microsoft Corp., Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Records Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

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