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Getting Mission-Critical Systems Back Up - Fast - With Symantec and OFM Computer System: At Farmington Country Club, consistent, exceptional service is key to the club's continued success. Technology - in everything from setting computerized tee times, responding to member requests made by email, or tracking member purchases in a cash-free environment - is essential to providing that service. So, Information Technology Manager, Curtis...; Tags: Symantec Corp., Club, Mission-critical System, E-mail, Servers, Security, Online Communications, Hardware; Case studies 2007-12-13
WebEx Support Center Helps CBORD Keep Mission-Critical Systems Running: Founded in 1975, the CBORD Group, Inc. is an international provider of technology solutions that manage auxiliary operations for a wide variety of industries including colleges and universities and healthcare facilities. In order to serve an international network of clients across a wide range of industries, the CBORD Group, Inc....; Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Remote Support, Mission-critical System, Remote Administration; Case studies 2007-11-01
Questioning backup: There's a wonderfully exemplary National Institute of Health document available on the web entitled File Backup Guidance.doc. Here's the google headline on it: NIH Computer Center Disaster Recovery Plan, Backup and Off-Site Storage Procedures. ... describes backup mistakes and avoidance advice for UNIX machines. ... but...; Tags: backup; Blog posts 2006-08-18
TechNet Webcast: Secure Your Mission Critical Systems With ISA Server 2004 and Antigen for SMTP Gateways (Level 200): The attendee of this webcast will learn how Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration ISA Server 2004 and Sybari Antigen for SMTP Gateways can protect the network perimeter and e-mail infrastructure from external threats. This webcast features a case study of how Avanade secures mission critical systems by using both ISA...; Tags: SMTP, Webcast, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft Corp., Mission-critical System, Microsoft TechNet, E-mail, Security, Online Communications; Webcasts 2005-11-22
Sherwin-Williams Uses Crossfire From AppForge to Create an Enterprise-Class, Mission-Critical System: Facing the challenges of communicating with a sales force deployed across the nation, Sherwin-Williams needed a tool to enable them to enhance their daily business operations using handheld devices. After researching all of the other major offerings on the market, Sherwin-Williams chose Crossfire from AppForge. Using AppForge provided great benefit...; Tags: AppForge, Mission-critical System, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Handhelds, Sales, Hardware; Case studies

South Florida Water Management District Improves Mission-Critical System Performance: South Florida Water Management District SFWMD wanted to provide a scalable, flexible infrastructure to meet existing and future demands. They wanted to increase availability, speed, capacity, performance, and manageability of mission-critical SAP ERP Application environment, while minimizing risk of failure. SFWMD transformed its IT infrastructure by implementing SAP applications on...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, SAP AG, Mission-critical System, Performance Management, Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management; Case studies
Full Application of Business Application Assets and Know-How, for a Smooth Downsizing: Tomita Pharmaceutical, Ltd. herein referred to as Tomita Pharmaceutical undertook setup of a new mission-critical system that can support both Web and mobile environments, while making the most of the business application assets they have used over the years. For the rapid migration of their mission-critical system to the Web,...; Tags: Downsizing, Business Application, Hitachi Ltd., Pharmaceutical Company, Migration, Mission-critical System, Storage, Hardware; Case studies
Using JP1 for Integrated Management of a Large-Scale, Mission-Critical System Completely Automated Operation and Reliability Effectively Ensured: UFJ Bank Limited UFJ Bank uses JP1, Hitachi's integrated system operation management software, to perform the integrated management of approximately 450 servers on which about 60 systems bank branch systems and Internet banking systems run, along with approximately 450 bank branch servers and 20,000 client machines. Integrated management means coordinating...; Tags: Bank, Hitachi Ltd., Mission-critical System, Storage, Financial Services, Hardware; Case studies
Introducing Linux for Next Generation Mission Critical System Flexibility, Scalability and Robustness Are Key: Shiga bank is planning to replace their existing mission critical systems before Jan. 2008. Their Information system, which is one component of their entire system, is configured using a mainframe and UNIX server. Shiga bank is now planning to configure an open platform environment by introducing a Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST Intel...; Tags: Scalability, Fujitsu Ltd., Mission-critical System, Shiga Bank, Linux, Operating Systems, Software; Case studies
A Platform for Consolidation and Growth: Overhauling Mission-Critical Systems to Create a Low-Cost, Flexible Infrastructure: The Skipton Building Society, one of Britain's most respected mutual societies, wanted today's computing solution for tomorrow; a single, scalable, end-to-end operating environment, available across all channels and all systems, capable of offering the Society the cost savings, business agility and business continuity it needed to maintain its market-leading position....; Tags: Unisys Corp., Consolidation, Mission-critical System, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware; Case studies
Switch Your Fax Server with a Hosted Fax Solution: The number of organizations choosing to switch their fax server with a Hosted Fax Solution is on the rise. Companies are realizing that the ongoing costs associated with fax servers are too high. Reliability headaches like lost faxes and busy signals add to the mix. Capacity issues requiring that considerable...; Tags: Server, provisioning, MyFax, mission-critical system, information technology, Fax Server, Fax; White papers

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Girls are as smart as boys, but tests are getting dumber: New research published in the journal Science confirms what all of us teachers have known for a long time: girls are just as smart as boys. I hope none of our tax dollars went into that one. A quick quote from the article before I get into the...; Tags: Test, Teacher, Hyde, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux: Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...; Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-25
21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP: Last October, roughly one year after the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista, I did a comparison of how well Windows Vista was living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP. My data source was the Microsoft Security Bulletin Search page, where I tallied...; Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2008-07-25
How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability: The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...; Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer: Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...; Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Gateway stops selling PCs direct: Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...; Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity: Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop: Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Ready for real Indian medicine?: Ready for real Indian medicine?Reply from C.A. ChienDear Mr. Blankenhorn:Thanks for your note. To clarify: (1) I wanted to document my inventive system-design and inter-connection work on [i]Medical Onshoring[/i]; thus, the USPTO filing; (2) as to the "how," head to --http://tinyurl.com/6c4tj4" .. Covering the professional world (e.g., health care, computing),...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, Medical Onshoring, health care; Discussion threads 2008-07-24