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Protecting Data With a Scalable, Flexible, and High-Performance Solution From Symantec

Following the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland in 2001, HBOS, the merged entity of Halifax and Bank of Scotland, has 22 million customers and assets of more than £440 billion. Following a landmark decision few years ago to deploy Veritas NetBackup software from Symantec, HBOS has now standardized...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Protection, HBOS Plc., High-performance, Disaster Recovery, Security, Data Management

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Talent development

Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...

Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-07-25

U90 Ladder (exe)

U90 Ladder is the software tool used to create applications for the M90 PLC. After you plan the control task, use U90 Ladder to write, debug, and download the PLC control and HMI applications into the M90. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Application, Unitronics, U90 Ladder, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-06-30

HSBC sites vulnerable to XSS flaws, could aid phishing attacks

What would the perfect phishing attack from a social engineering perspective? The one that compared to using typosquatted domains impersonating the bank's web application directory structure is in fact using the bank's legitimate domain names as redirectors due to XSS flaws within. It's even more interesting to measure the average...

Tags: Bank, Vulnerability, XSS, Flaw, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Financial Services, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-06-29

UK most popular online banking sites in January 2008

Banking Service Audience, 000 Visits per user Total Internet: Total Audience 33,254 71.0 Royal Bank of Scotland RBS Group 2,906 5.9 NatWest Bank 2,021 5.9 Royal Bank of Scotland 952 5.5 Lloyds TSB 2,832 6.8 Halifax Bank of...

Tags: Bank, Royal Bank Of Scotland, Online Banking, Banking, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-06-29

VisiLogic (exe)

VisiLogic is the software tool you use to create control projects for Vision controllers. After you plan the control task, use VisiLogic to write, debug, and download the PLC control and HMI applications into the controller. The PLC application is your control, or automation application. You write the PLC application...

Tags: Application, Controller, Unitronics, VisiLogic, PLC Application

Software downloads 2008-06-20

Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destruction

Hacking SCADA for terrorism and destructionSCADA vulnerabilityAs an Engineer who has spent the past 20 years working on SCADA systems for water and wastewater plants, I have some comments on this article. And yes we are a user of CitectSCADA First, where I work, we NEVER connect our...

Tags: Enterprise software, NETWORKING, hacking, terrorism, SCADA, network

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

Yahoo board of director resigns; Shareholder meeting delayed

Yahoo said Thursday that Edward Kozel resigned from its board of directors. The company will reduce the size of its board from 10 directors to nine and delayed its shareholder meeting from July 3 to "around the end of July 2008." Investor Carl Icahn has proposed an...

Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Mr., Director, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lost

Earthlink finally pulls out of Wireless Philly, but all is not lostStuff and nonsense>From day one, the purpose of Philly’s network is to increase digital inclusion and economic development. The measure of their success should be how lives and businesses are being helped in disadvantaged communities.The city to stick to...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless Philly, wireless, EarthLink Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-05-14

Open source tries again with health care

Open source tries again with health careMisys StrategyDana -- Be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater with throw-away comments like open source became a tactic; not a strategy...confirmed when Misys later did a deal to buy half of Allscripts...Because of the potential disruptive nature of open...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, open source, health care, Misys

Discussion threads 2008-04-17

Keells Super Uses Motorola for Real-Time Inventory of Goods

Keells Super is one of the largest super market chains in Sri Lanka. It is a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings PLC, a Sri Lankan blue chip conglomerate. In a single Keells Super store, there are between 12,000 - 15,000 individual items for sale. The IT team wanted to improve...

Tags: Mobile, Stock, Motorola Inc., Keells Super, Investment, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Finance, Marketing

Case studies 2008-04-09

Endeavors Technologies Application Jukebox: An interesting spin on application virtualization

Endeavors Technologies just launched its Application Jukebox, an application virtualization and delivery product. It appears to me that this product takes the concepts of application encapsulation and application streaming to a new level. Here's how Endeavors describes their technology Endeavors Technologies, the...

Tags: Application, Jukebox, Application Virtualization, Application Jukebox, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-04-04

Expand Networks Implements WAN Optimization and WAFS for Server Consolidation

A division of Kingspan Group Plc, Kingspan Environmental produces a range of products for the safe storage of oil, rainwater recovery, recycling of waste, and solutions for the treatment of off-mains sewage. With so many remote locations across Europe, Kingspan Environmental embarked upon a server consolidation strategy to simplify its...

Tags: Optimization, Expand Networks Inc., Server Consolidation, WANs, Servers, Network Technology, Networking, Hardware

Case studies 2008-04-01

Expand Optimizes MPLS Network and Provides Foundation for Server Based Computing Project at Hill McGlynn

Hill McGlynn is one of the UK's leading construction recruitment specialists supply permanent and freelance construction personnel throughout the UK and overseas. Operating in an MPLS environment for WAN connectivity between its headquarters and 14 remote locations in the UK, Hill McGlynn initiated a server based computing project running Microsoft...

Tags: Performance, MPLS, Server, Expand Networks Inc., U.K., Computing, Terminal Services, Network Technology, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2008-04-01

Expand Networks Optimizes WAN Performance and Prioritizes Applications at VT Group

VT Group plc with origins in the late 19th Century is an international government support services company with its roots in shipbuilding. After a series of acquisitions, VT Group had outgrown its existing network infrastructure and needed to immediately resolve WAN performance issues at branch offices where it had implemented...

Tags: Expand Networks Inc., WANs, It Services, Network Technology, Networking

Case studies 2008-04-01

Misys-Allscripts deal is all about SaaS

Misys-Allscripts deal is all about SaaSMisys SaaSDana -- First, the components that have been open sourced by Misys, also known as the Braid Project on Sourceforge, are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license not the EPL. Second, although Misys offers a hosted EMR product called MyWay (2007 CCHIT Certified) which...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), OPEN SOURCE, Misys, Misys SaaS, CCHIT-certified EMR, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2008-03-18

Fastest-growing UK sites in January 2008

Property December 2007 January 2008 Growth, % Total Internet 32,981 33,254 1% First Choice Holidays PLC 1,612 3,874 140% Arcandor AG 1,877 4,396 134% TUI Group 2,065 4,577 122% British Airways 1,963 3,564 82% Moneysupermarket.com...

Tags: Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-01

Mobile ad market

Wall Street Journal collected various predictions on mobile ad market. Revenue from advertising on mobile devices approached $1 bln in 2007, according to Gartner. Group M, an advertising forecaster owned by WPP, estimates that $479 bln will be spent on advertising world-wide in 2008. By 2011, Informa Group PLC in...

Tags: Advertisement, Mobile, AM

Blog posts 2008-02-19

My_Home_Bot (zip)

Its Parallel Port Interfacing Software. Connect to LPT your PLC or check by Multi-MeterPin 2-9 Data Register of Parallel Port are Used to Switch on/off the Relay on a Controller/PLC Hope You Like by an Adventure, Making Your Room Automated. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Release, Version, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-02-08

List hands out props for kinder, greener capitalism

My husband ran out to play with his motorcycle so I can indulge my blog-reading interests for a little while. I'm poking around for fun green insight written by others because I'm frankly feeling too lazy to convert my pile of notes into some blog entries. Saving that for Sunday...

Tags: Technology Company, Green Technology, Blog, Prop, Blogging, Internet, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-01-26