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- Virtualization Helped the City of New Orleans Begin Recovery After Katrina
- After the storm, the city of New Orleans recognized an opportunity to expand its original IT upgrade plans. Because the majority of city agencies lost all computing capabilities, it was a chance for the IT department to create an innovative centralized infrastructure that could support the city and remain cost-effective....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., City, Virtualization, Recovery, New Orleans, Backups, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Free Wi-Fi Aids New Orleans Recovery
- Wi-fi technology is helping aid workers and residents of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans get the city back on its feet. IT administrators in New Orleans set up the nation's first free wireless Internet network that is solely owned and operated by a major U.S. city. The move was first aimed at...
- Tags: Recovery, New Orleans, Jupitermedia Corp., Wi-Fi Technology, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-05-03
- Photos: Potential source of drinking water
- A plastic tube and a fluorescent light could turn out to be two crucial components for getting drinking water back in New Orleans.
- Tags: New Orleans
- Image galleries 2005-09-02
- Photos: Potential source of drinking water
- A plastic tube and a fluorescent light could turn out to be two crucial components for getting drinking water back in New Orleans.
- Tags: New Orleans
- Image galleries 2005-09-02
- Photos: Anarchy in New Orleans
- Pictures from DirectNIC's headquarters show building engulfed in flames, though people hold onto hope as water is delivered.
- Tags: photograph, flame, New Orleans
- Image galleries 2005-09-02
- Photos: Anarchy in New Orleans
- Pictures from DirectNIC's headquarters show building engulfed in flames, though people hold onto hope as water is delivered.
- Tags: photograph, flame, New Orleans
- Image galleries 2005-09-02
- Photos: New Orleans, before and after
- Satellite imagery shows the extent of the flooding in the city caused by Hurricane Katrina.
- Tags: imagery, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, satellite
- Image galleries 2005-09-01
- Photos: New Orleans, before and after
- Satellite imagery shows the extent of the flooding in the city caused by Hurricane Katrina.
- Tags: imagery, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, satellite
- Image galleries 2005-09-01
- Images: Deadly Katrina hits Gulf Coast
- The hurricane hit land in Louisiana but changed direction to miss New Orleans--but spread devastation into Mississippi instead.
- Tags: Mississippi, Gulf Coast, Louisiana, New Orleans
- Image galleries 2005-08-29
- Images: Deadly Katrina hits Gulf Coast
- The hurricane hit land in Louisiana but changed direction to miss New Orleans--but spread devastation into Mississippi instead.
- Tags: Mississippi, Gulf Coast, Louisiana, New Orleans
- Image galleries 2005-08-29
- Saving Lives With Tropos MetroMesh City of New Orleans, Louisiana
- A storied 287-year-old city at the mouth of the Mississippi river, New Orleans is a major port, convention site and tourist destination, prized for its architecture, music and cuisine. New Orleans decided to undertake a video surveillance project, financing it from capital funds generated by cost savings augmented by donations...
- Tags: Tropos Networks, New Orleans, Mesh Networking, Corporate Communications, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Marketing
- Case studies
- New Orleans Selects Tropos Networks to Provide Metro-Scale Wi-Fi Network for Surveillance Camera Project
- The City of New Orleans, Louisiana, has selected Tropos Networks as its supplier for metro-scale Wi-Fi equipment for use in the city's surveillance camera project. New Orleans will use Tropos equipment to build a city-wide wireless video surveillance network. The surveillance system will use the Neighborhood WatchCam, developed by Active...
- Tags: Tropos Networks, New Orleans, Camera, Louisiana, Wi-Fi, Wireless
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- MobileMe's Rolling 1 Percent Outage
- So pretty much every day these days, about 1% of MobileMe Mail users can't access their email. Today, my access was down -- and somehow I don't expect I'm alone. This, even though there's no acknowledgement of a problem -- on Sept. 3 any way -- on Apple's Support Page for...
- Tags: Inconvenience, Outage, MobileMe, E-mail, Mortgages, Manufacturing, Online Communications, Finance, Capital Structures, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-03
- The LA earthquake
- The LA earthquakeThe quake was downright puny5.4 is hardly even noteworthy. I couldn't believe all of the news coverage it garnered. Must have been a slow news day.RE: The LA earthquakenah. not just a slow news day. but it is an earthquake and in LA. if that hit east of...
- Tags: Katrina, earthquake
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...
- Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- At ease, Americans, your government is resting easy on global warming
- At ease, Americans, your government is resting easy on global warmingMaybeGeorgie was confused and thought he was in China, . . the "from" was probably his nod to them, . . . though aren't they just second place? Oh well, pollution control is within each persons' grasp to impact...
- Tags: global warming, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Photos: Engineering New Orleans, post-Katrina
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is putting a great deal of money and effort into new hurricane protection systems that it hopes can reduce the risk of catastrophic flooding in the future. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Strategy, Management, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-07-03
- Part 2: Green tech and corporate ethics
- Just following up my post from yesterday about a new consulting service from IBM designed to examine the ethical weight of green technology practices. There's another white paper on the Web site for business process management software vendor Metastorm about the impact that surprise rethinking the way...
- Tags: Business Process, Metastorm, Green Technology, Ethics, Operational Planning, Business Ethics, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Jazz MP3 Songs (gadget)
- Introducing the Amazon Jazz MP3 Song Gadget. The MP3 Song gadget lets you play music samples in Acid Jazz, Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Bebop, Brazilian Jazz, Compilations, Cool Jazz, General, Jazz Fusion, Latin Jazz, Live Recordings, Modern Postbebop, New Orleans Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo, Swing Jazz, Traditional...
- Tags: Song, MP3, Sidebar Gadgets, Digital Music, Digital Media, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-05-29
- The Folks at NTR say it's a small, but crucial, step from software to landscape
- I spoke with two execs at NTR recently, and they were talking software, of course. But they were really talking about the planet, energy conservation and taking some action. Now. Not waiting. Not expecting a magic fix. NTR, based in Barcelona, is a...
- Tags: Software, NTR Global, Tree, Harsch, Tools & Techniques, Telecommuting, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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