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IBM adds to 'information on demand' drive with Princeton Softech acquisition

IBM is beefing up its "information on demand" initiative with the announcement today of its intention to acquire Princeton Softech, Inc.Princeton's Optim cross-platform data management software will provide a big boost in meeting the needs of data governance, as well as controlling costs from an increase in data volumes. This...

Tags: Acquisition, Data, Princeton Softech, Data Management, IBM Corp., Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-08-03

Princeton Softech Optim Integration With the Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance

Electronic information is the norm, and storing and maintaining that data in a way that makes it easy to retrieve is critical to the overall functioning of the enterprise. In addition, the cost of keeping high quality, easily accessed archives of information can be prohibitive. The problem is exponentially increased...

Tags: NAS, Sun Microsystems Inc., Problem, StorageTek, Information, Princeton Softech, Integration, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Government, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Management

White papers 2006-09-12

HP and Princeton Softech White Paper: Improving Business Value Across the Enterprise

Everyday, corporations rely on enterprise applications to drive operations, make informed decisions, and achieve business goals. In a competitive environment, with business moving at high speed, corporations need the agility to respond fluidly to changing conditions. Managing application data and optimizing performance throughout the enterprise are both essential and critical....

Tags: Enterprise Data Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Princeton Softech

White papers 2006-04-01

Princeton Softech Seizes New Market Opportunities With VMware Lab Manager

Princeton Softech wanted to extend its industry-leading enterprise data management solution to support hundreds of ERP and CRM application configurations without breaking the bank on testing hardware and manpower. This was solved by implementing VMware virtual infrastructure which helped Princeton Softech constrain its testing hardware costs, while VMware Lab Manager...

Tags: Enterprise Data Management, VMware Inc., Hardware, Princeton Softech

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Turning US News college rankings into 7-dimensional analytic geometry

No really, I'm not kidding. Two researchers from UC Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon thought that the methods employed by US News and World Report to rank the nation's top universities was just a bit too arbitrary. As Science News reports in a great article to share with high...

Tags: Vector, Corporate Governance, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Five unfortunate ways the financial crisis affects your daily grind

By now, you're probably up to your eyeballs in unsettling economic crisis news. The stock markets, tanked. Mondays $700 billion Hail Mary of a bailout plan, dead on arrival though since resuscitated. Real estate value, sunk. Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke warned last week that the difficulty households and businesses were...

Tags: Job, Financial, Economist, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Real Estate, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Observations: what's moving the SOA market these days

I just had the chance to catch up with MomentumSI's Jeff Schneider while he was up in the Princeton, NJ, area. MomentumSI does a lot of consulting and integration work for SOA projects in organizations across the country, so Jeff's practice is a good bellwether for what's on the minds...

Tags: SOA, Jeff Schneider, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-06-08

The search engine conundrum

I was looking through the Channel 8 Students Union earlier on and noticed an important point concerning search engines. It's widely known that search engines are the most viewed websites on the Internet because they are the starting point to look for something. We may even know the direct link...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Student, Live Search, Search, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?

As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...

Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-15

eVoting systems come under fire

As reported by Robert McMillan and Elizabeth Montalbano at IDG News Service, Sequoia voting systems web site has been hacked and subsequently taken down. Sequoia and its voting system is not new to the news, as it was recently investigated by the Attorney General of New Jersey...

Tags: Sequoia Software, New Jersey, Sequoia Voting Systems, E-voting, Intellectual Property, Government, Research & Development, Business Operations, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-03-20

You can block Craigslist, but don't touch YouTube!

You can block Craigslist, but don't touch YouTube!there's alsoTeachertube, the youtube equivalent. Currently, i'm blocking youtube, not because of the objectionable content but because we're on a lowly T1. We're getting a fiber connection installed this summer and i'll gladly remove that restriction...RE: You can block Craigslist, but...

Tags: Worst Case, YouTube!, Craigslist, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-03-18

Cryogenically frozen RAM bypasses all disk encryption methods

Computer encryption technologies have all relied on one key assumption that RAM Random Access Memory is volatile and that all content is lost when power is lost. That key assumption is now being fundamentally challenged with a $7 can of compressed air and it's enough to give every security...

Tags: Software, Disk, RAM, USB, Computer, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Tech idiocy in the White House

Not only has the White House lost 5 million emails - or not, they aren't sure - vital White House emails have for years been run through an insecure 12-man ISP in Chattanooga Tennessee. Why? Because our laws around Presidential records preservation are at odds with other laws against partisan...

Tags: Internet, White House, IT Team, E-mail, Online Communications, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Teaching the smart kids (or at least the motivated kids)

Teaching the smart kids or at least the motivated kidsPerhaps some children left behind?I have always had the opinion that the "NCLB" held back extraodinary students.I'm all for making sure that all kids have at least a basic education, but doing so at the expense of the above average children...

Tags: motivated kid, older student

Discussion threads 2008-01-29

New Jersey to mandate electronic health records

New Jersey will become the first state to mandate a move toward electronic health records under a bill now before Gov. Jon Corzine. A. 4044 establishes a 19-member commission to oversee the transition from paper. The commission's job will be to promote the use of national...

Tags: Commission, New Jersey, Electronic Health Record, Plan, Standards, Governor, E-health, Quality, Sales Force Management, Healthcare, Business Operations, Sales, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-08

Graphene-based transistors on the way?

The idea of replacing silicon with carbon to make computer chips is not new. However, using graphene -- a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice -- wasn't feasible because it is not possible today to make wafers as big as ones made from silicon. But two...

Tags: Technique, Researcher, Stamp, Transistor, Semiconductors, Productivity, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-19

Turning HP printers into hip flower pots

OK, this seems like totally the wrong time of year for this post, given that my husband and I just stashed all our gardening equipment for the winter. But, if you're the kind of person who thinks about landscaping all year around regardless of your home climate, you might want...

Tags: Printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., Plastics, TerraCycle, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-11-23

Best Black Friday 2007 blockbuster deals

Best Black Friday 2007 blockbuster dealsWal Mart?If I remember the ads correctly, Wal Mart has a 42" 1080P LCD TV from Polaroid for $768 USD.They also have some decent Dell laptops.RE: Best Black Friday 2007 blockbuster dealsThis is an awesome post! Thanks, i needed something like this to help...

Tags: 1080p, Black Friday 2007, Black Friday, Black Friday 2007 blockbuster deal, blockbuster deal

Discussion threads 2007-11-21

BI leader Cognos gets scooped up by IBM

The thought on the street was that Cognos had to get bought soon, given the business intelligence BI consolidation land-grab of late -- punctuated by Oracle's acquisition of Hyperion and SAP's buy of Business Objects. So now Big Blue steps up to the plate, and for $5...

Tags: Cognos Inc., Leader, EMC Corp., IBM Corp., Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Business Structures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Finance, Investment, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-11-12

Toward greener jet fuels

Researchers at Princeton University are currently working on two projects to reduce jet travel's role in global warming. The first one, a major project funded by the U.S. Air Force with $7.5 million, is focused on developing computational models that accurately simulate the burning of jet fuel, a complex process...

Tags: Princeton University, Petroleum, Aerospace, Alternative Fuel, Aerospace & Defense, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-10-21