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- Policy
- The rules and regulations set by the organization. Policy determines the type of internal and external information resources employees can access, the kinds of programs they may install on...
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- Reducing Data Centre Costs and Simultaneously Implementing Environmental Policy
- What are UK companies doing about energy efficiency? In Q1 this year, analyst IDL to profiled decision makers with responsibility for environmental policy and Data Centre operations to better understand how the need for a more energy-efficient enterprise is affecting UK organisations and their IT infrastructures.
- Tags: Policy, U.K., IBM Corp.
- White papers 2008-06-13
- Open source as industrial policy
- The industrial policy of open source is letting our trading partners stand on their own feet against the U.S., even compete effectively against the U.S. in other markets. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Policy, Ideology, Government, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- A short, pointed list of 'wonderful policies'
- In putting together a list of what I consider to be relatively clueful site policies, terms, and guidelines, I just stumbled on BoingBoing's List of Wonderful Policies. And it is. by Denise Howell
- Tags: Policy, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Effective Web policies: ensuring staff productivity and legal compliance
- Employees increasingly expect to use the Internet at work for their own personal use in return for longer hours, working from home and interrupting vacations. This has a number of security, productivity, bandwidth and legal ramifications that require organizations to create and implement a Web usage policy that is backed...
- Tags: Web, Compliance, Sophos Plc., Policy, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- White papers 2008-04-01
- TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Simplify Management With Policy-Based Management (Level 200)
- The focus of this webcast is on the Policy-Based Management PBM and its use to define policies that apply to servers, databases, and other objects in Contoso's data environment. This webcast is solely focused on PBM and covers the scope, definition, and deployment of policies.
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Webcast, Microsoft SQL Server, Policy, Microsoft TechNet
- Webcasts 2008-03-19
- ePolicy (exe)
- The ePolicy application displays policies to users and allows them to accept or decline these policies. The user's choice is recorded in a database along with their details. You can then perform subsequent actions based upon their decision. The ePolicy Application consists of two programs:* ePolicy Browser (ePolicy.exe) which presents...
- Tags: Policy, VirtualObjectives, ePolicy Application, Desktops, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-02-22
- TechNet Webcast: Using the New Policy-Based Management Framework in SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduces a new policy-based framework for database administrators, which can significantly improve administrative productivity and reliability. Database administrators declare their administrative intent through policies that are then applied by the system. This approach reduces the potential for administrative error and enables the framework to monitor or...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Webcast, Microsoft SQL Server, Policy, Microsoft TechNet, Databases, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-02-21
- Policy & Procedure Manager (exe)
- Professional Policy and Procedure Manual software is designed to organize and create, review, and view policy and procedure documents. There is a great demand for an electronic policy manual that suits the efficiency, competency, and regulatory needs of any business. The Policy and Procedure Manager addresses all those needs. Version...
- Tags: Policy, PolicyTech, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-02-20
- 16GB iPhone upgrade for existing customers a convoluted mess - for now
- One of the Boy Geinus Report's most credible sources and they have quite a few has information that Apple and AT&T will not force purchasers of the new 16GB iPhone to sign a new contract. The policy is not so simple, though. Until...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Policy, AT&T Corp., Agreement, BGR, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- UK defense ministry loses 600,000 IDs on laptop
- Another screw-up for British government security practices. From Ars Technica: A laptop that was stolen from the car of a military recruitment officer contained information about approximately 600,000 people, most of whom were prospective recruits. The database stored on the laptop was not encrypted—a significant...
- Tags: Policy, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Banking, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Financial Services, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- Cellphones an in-flight hazard? "Probably not," says pilot, but...
- For that less-than-conclusive conclusion, we should credit Patrick Smith. A technology enthusiast as well as a working airline pilot, Patrick writes the weekly Ask The Pilot column on Salon.com. "The answer is potentially yes, but probably not," Patrick writes in his most recent column,...
- Tags: Phone, Policy, Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- IBM's SPARCLE Policy Management Tool Is Helping Organizations Create, Implement and Monitor Policies That Protect Personal Identifiable Information
- Following a recent wave of identity theft, spamware and online fraud, consumers are demanding that businesses safeguard their personal information from exploitation by cybercriminals and government officials have responded with stringent legislation mandating effective privacy policies. To help businesses manage and enforce their privacy policies, IBM Research has developed the...
- Tags: Policy Management, Monitor, Policy, Tool, IBM Corp., Identity Theft, Litigation, Security, Business Operations
- Case studies 2008-01-01
- Analytic Modeling of Load Balancing Policies for Tasks With Heavy-Tailed Distributions
- This paper presents an analytic methodology for the exact analysis of load balancing policies in distributed multi-server system conditioned on the fact that the duration of arriving tasks is best described by a heavy tail distribution. This paper emphasizes that this methodology allows for the exact quantification of the effect...
- Tags: Task, Load Balancing, Policy, Modeling, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
- TweakEasy Professional (exe)
- You should know that a computer is running according to some parameters imposed by the developer for our own safety. These parameters are called policies and can be found for both computer and user configuration. You can think of them as a set of rules guiding and protecting whatever settings...
- Tags: Policy, Computer, Productivity
- Software downloads 2007-12-06
- Simplifying Network Administration Using Policy Based Management
- The management of network infrastructure in an enterprise is a complex and daunting affair. In an era of increasing technical complexity, it is becoming difficult to find trained personnel that can manage the new features that are introduced into the various servers, routers and switches. Policy based network management provides...
- Tags: Network, Policy, Networking, Network Administration
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Apple, hackenomics, and the waning anonymity (and obsolescense) of cash
- The noose is slowly tightening. A hundred years ago -- heck, even ten years ago -- for the most part, we didn't have to sacrifice our privacy just to participate in some transaction. Lots of merchants tried some still do to shake us down for our personal information...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Credit Card, Policy, Apple Inc., Noose, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- Policy Deployment
- Policies - We all have them in our homes, in our communities and our societies. From early childhood, we have all come to understand why rules and standards are necessary.Why then, do so many companies struggle to maintain policy references and effectively deliver these essential policies to those who must...
- Tags: Peapod, Policy, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2007-10-02
- FireCracker: A Framework for Inferring Firewall Policies Using Smart Probing
- A firewall policy that is correct and complete is crucial to the safety of a computer network. An adversary will benefit a lot from knowing the policy or its semantics. This paper proposes a framework that could be used to blindly discover a firewall policy remotely as a black box...
- Tags: Policy, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2007-09-05
- IT Professional's Guide to Policies and Procedures, Third Edition
- TechRepublic's popular CD-ROM IT Professional's Guide to Policies and Procedures, Third Ed is now available as part of your TechRepublic Pro membership! Put this expanded edition in your IT library and have 64 templates to help you create customized policies, guidelines, tools, and forms that are...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Policy, IT Professional
- Download resources 2007-05-02
- Congressman: Ed software study shows administration bias
- A commentary in Business Week by U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, a Democrat from Wisconsin, states that the nations schools are failing to prepare children to compete in the global economy. Kind was responding to a recent study which found that using software in schools has little or no effect...
- Tags: Policy, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
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