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Johns Hopkins University APL Lowers Total Cost of Ownership With Innovative Support: Johns Hopkins University APL wanted to enable APL's core team of eight systems administrators to efficiently support more than 80 developers and 5,000 end-users of Oracle technology - all of whom rely on Oracle-based systems for their research and administrative work. The challenge was to ensure high availability and performance...; Tags: Oracle Corp., TCO, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University APL, Roi/Tco, Performance Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Case studies 2009-03-01
Johns Hopkins University APL Streamlines IT Management and Reduces Provisioning Time by 97%: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory APL wanted to reduce time and effort associated with applying quarterly Critical Patch Updates CPU, which have to be applied within a month of their release and enable the organization to more efficiently provision new servers and software across various tiers - Oracle...; Tags: IT Administration, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Provisioning, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University APL, Linux, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Data Management; Case studies 2009-01-01

Advancing the prosthetic aesthetic: Experimental prosthetic arms in labs across the country will soon pave the way for commercial versions to antiquate the last major upgrade that took place almost a hundred years ago. That was the cable-operated prosthetic hook (for above-the-elbow amputees). Thanks to the Defense Advanced Research Projects...; Tags: Patient, DARPA, Chicago, Chris Jablonski; Blog posts 2009-02-20
'Stereo' views of the Sun: NASA's STEREO mission will be launched in 2006 with the goal of imaging the sun and the solar winds in 3-D. According to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory APL, two identical spacecrafts will be placed in different orbits to provide us with...; Tags: Stereo, orbit; Blog posts 2005-11-11

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