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Mastering Microsoft Project Server 2007

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, designed for project managers, participants will gain the knowledge and ability to leverage the capabilities of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, a robust Enterprise Project Management EPM software application, in the context of the job role to improve job performance. What You'll Learn:...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Project, Project Manager, Microsoft Corp., Workflow, Resource Capacity, Activity Plan, Process Improvement, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Groupware, Quality, Business Operations, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software

Training 2008-11-01

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No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of them

And, as servers move to the cloud, fewer and fewer will be Windows servers.When you deploy thousands, you can pay millions in licensing for Windows, and, then Windows is less stable and less secure.RE: No more servers? Rackspace says IT workers are tired of themI wonder how well those outsourced...

Tags: Servers, server, information technology, Rackspace

Discussion threads 2009-11-10

Are you a mobile broadband hog? Should that be your problem?

Well, if I am a light user, I DO NOT want to pay for the hogs that drive upcosts for the carriers. I want a dirt cheap plan, that will immediately throttle me if I start hogging, or, possibly give me the option to pay more if I want to...

Tags: Smart phones, Wireless and Mobility, Network technology, Apple iPhone, mobile broadband, AT&T Corp., broadband, mobile, UNLIMITED

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips

Great platform for next-gen OS developmentThis sounds like it would be a great platform for somebody to develop the next generation OS we so badly need as a replacement for all of the existing 20th century OSes we're currently using.Still primitive - OS has a long way to goI use...

Tags: Operating systems, Keyboards, multi-core processor, Intel Corp., chip, operating system, keyboard, ARM

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Petrobras Well Drilling Services Unit Improves Project Management Efficiency

Petrobras wanted to manage nearly 40 projects simultaneously, while avoiding financial and human resource waste and accelerate project response time and increase precision of short-, mid-, and long-term demand simulations in order to increase the capacity of simultaneous oil well construction, without increasing costs. The challenge was to reduce material...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Petrobras, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Case studies 2009-09-01

Capacity Analyzer Standard Edition 4.1 (Windows)

VKernel's patent-pending Capacity Analyzer technology will enable you to achieve maximum performance with the right amount of resources. Capacity Analyzer is the only ESX monitoring software that actually predicts problems days before they occur so you have time to fix them. Designed for enterprise scalability, Capacity Analyzer proactively monitors shared...

Tags: Vkernel Corp., Microsoft Windows, Standard Corp., Capacity Analyzer, Virtualization, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-21

VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network

To be agile and cost effective, data centers should allow dynamic resource allocation across large server pools. In particular, the data center network should enable any server to be assigned to any service. To meet these goals, the paper presentsVL2, a practical network architecture that scales to support huge data...

Tags: Data Center, Network, Server, Data Centers, Storage, Networking, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-08-21

Winsami 6.0 (Windows)

Winsami is a business resource management product and includes the following features. Manufacturing: Engineering, bills of material, scheduling, capacity, workflow management, quality control, cost management, manufacturing process, manufacturing projects, manufacturing flow . Supply chain management: Order to cash, inventory, order entry, purchasing, product configurator, supply chain planning, supplier scheduling, inspection...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Winsami, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-08-10

Virtual Machine Software Blinders

Is it me, or is it true that suppliers and organizations have become infatuated with the concept that virtualization is solely and only equal to the use of virtual machine software to create virtual servers or virtual desktops/clients/users? It seems that almost every time I speak with...

Tags: Virtual Machine, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Will Google's Chrome OS look rusty by late 2010?

Will Google's Chrome OS look rusty by late 2010?This is a thin client for webappsAs I read the press release, this is just a thin client for webapps. It looks like the only things that will run will run in a browser. They might be able to pull it off...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, operating system, Google Inc., Google Chrome OS, netbook, Google Chrome, Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

MIMO: From Theory to Reality

Driven by the even growing demand of higher data rate with the scarce spectrum resource, the theoretical breakthrough has been made and demonstrated significant increase on channel capacity spectral efficiency over MIMO systems. The theoretical MIMO spectral efficiency is verified by MIMO channel measurements and trial systems. Two MIMO mechanisms...

Tags: Theory, MIMO, CodioLink, MIMO Technique

White papers 2009-07-01

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseCap & Trade is corrupted from the get-goWithin a dozen years we'll revisit the whole concept and maybe do it right.Or...Try to work the unworkable until the die-off kicks in.RE: Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseI'm sure the White House support...

Tags: Waxman-Markey, U.S. House, carbon dioxide, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

RNA Networks launches RNAcache

RNA Networks is launching RNAcache, a product that lives along the border of processing virtualization, network virtualization and storage virtualization by offering the capability to use server memory on many systems as a shared network resource. RNA Networks is one a number of suppliers that are melding high performance computing,...

Tags: RNA, Data Center, Virtualization, RNA Networks, RNACACHE RNA Network, Biotechnology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-23

IBM's CloudBurst is a credible step forward

About six months ago, I accused IBM of “cloud-washing� its solutions and services when it launched its Project Blue Cloud marketing campaign. Its aim with this effort was to lure customer conversations about cloud computing in its direction so it could learn what enterprises wanted from this new technology. IBM...

Tags: IBM Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Portals, Storage Management, Blade Servers, Servers, Hardware, Internet, Storage, James Staten

Blog posts 2009-06-16

What is a "trusted cloud?"

I recently had an opportunity to speak with executives of Hosted Solutions about their newest offering, the Stratus Trusted Cloud. Although I'm not sure that this offering is going to change how IT decision makers think about the concept of cloud computing in general, it is a step. ...

Tags: Stratus Technologies, Information Technology, Hosted Solutions, Stratus Trusted Cloud, Strategy, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-08

Building a vision for Government 2.0

Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...

Tags: Web, Citizen, Web 2.0, Vision, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Oracle buys Virtual Iron

I just got word that Oracle has continued its spending spree by acquiriring Virtual Iron. After Oracle's acquistion of Sun (see Oracle to Buy Sun - View from the Virtual World), it is clear that Oracle is building a soup to nuts virtualization story. Here's what Oracle has to...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Virtual Iron, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-05-13

Novell PlateSpin Recon 3.6

Novell recently launched a new version of PlateSpin Recon, version 3.6.  I've been watching both Novell and PlateSpin, the company Novell acquired a while ago (see Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor? and Additional thoughts on Novell acquisition of PlateSpin) for a long time.  It is pretty...

Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., PlateSpin Recon 3.6, PlateSpin Recon, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Multi Project Planner 3.1 (Windows)

Multi-Project-Planner addresses the problem of planning and scheduling multiple concurrent projects competing for scarce resources. The core of Multi-Project-Planner is a global plan containing two schedules: the first is the activity schedule, representing the schedules for all work teams participating in the activities and upon which the activities are booked...

Tags: Project, Microsoft Windows, Activity, Adaptive Planning Tools, Multi-Project-Planner, Team Management, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management

Software downloads 2009-05-07

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Performance Testing White Paper

The direct goal for Performance Testing is generally to determine how fast a system performs under a particular workload. However, Performance Testing can also be aimed to verify other attributes of the system, like scalability, reliability under stress, and resource usage patterns. Finally, Performance Testing results are often used as...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Office, Server, Microsoft Corp., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2009-05-01