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Loyalty Programme Enables Content Management and Improves Business Productivity With Integrated Server Platform

For over a decade, millions of New Zealanders have enjoyed the benefits of Fly Buys, the country's largest and most comprehensive consumer loyalty programme. Responsibility for Fly Buys' smooth operation lies with Loyalty New Zealand, a Wellington-based company that manages every element of the programme. High membership growth and increased...

Tags: Business Productivity, Server Platform, Microsoft Corp., Web Technology, Strategic Planning, Content Management, Strategy, Servers, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2008-02-10

Use of Solaris for Domino servers

As I travel around to user groups and Notes/Domino 7 launch events, I often ask the attendees at these events different profile questions about Notes deployments. I ask about versions in use, I ask about use of instant mesaging, and I ask about server platforms. One...

Tags: server platform, server, Sun Solaris

Blog posts 2005-10-28

Finnish Road Enterprise Improves Performance While Reducing Costs by Consolidating Multiple Microsoft SQL Server Databases Onto HP Integrity Server Platforms

Building and maintaining an entire nation's roadways is no insignificant task. Tieliikelaitos, the Finnish Road Enterprise, is responsible for most of the public road contracts across Finland, providing planning, construction, maintenance, and repair services. Finnish Road Enterprise faced the challenge of reducing IT costs and complexity, responding faster to business...

Tags: HP Integrity, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Microsoft SQL Server, Server Platform, Microsoft Corp., Road Enterprise, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Strategy, Servers, Databases, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Case studies

Leading Eastern European Bank Introduces New Services More Rapidly and Cuts Management Costs by 20 Percent by Consolidating to the Sun Fire 12K Server Platform

SEB Vilniaus Bankas is the only bank in the country that belongs to Euroclear, an international securities clearing and settlement system. When evaluating potential server platforms for the redundant, centralized data center centers, SEB Vilniaus Bankas considered both the Sun Fire 12K server and a server from Fujitsu, which provided...

Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server Platform, Sun Fire, Eastern European Bank, SEB Vilniaus Bankas, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies

Additional Resources

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Disks (SSDs) and Linux

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Disks SSDs and LinuxOh, It's just Loverock at it again? Pay no attention Jason.ntGeek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Disks SSDs and LinuxHow sad is that? You need a tweaking guide just to get a disk drive to...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, solid state disk, disk, Linux, Geek Sheet

Discussion threads 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, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched

Gaping holes in RealPlayer patchedReal is feeling threatened by AppleReal doesn't want to lose its title of "Least Secure Media Platform Ever Released" to QuickTime. How anyone can allow either of these programs on their computer is beyond me. You are practically [b]begging[/b] to get pwned.People still use that piece...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Apple QuickTime

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTabletI WANT ONE!!Dang, I'd buy it in a heart beat. I already have an iPod Touch love it and getting ready to buy an iPhone.RE: Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTabletMay sound very nice, but unfortunately, like all Apple things, it will probably...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple Inc., tablet, Mystery Solved, iTablet

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing

Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missingI couldn't make this stuff up if I triedSeriously, I'm not that creative.[url=http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=48138&messageID=898138] Apple fan explains why Apple isn't responsible for PWN2OWN vulnerability [/url][i]A Perl exploit isn't an Apple bug, anymore than the Flash exploit on the Vista machine was a Microsoft...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Domain names, Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, DNS, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook

On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...

Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing

On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)

Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...

Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook Connect

At this week's F8 08 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains how changes in the social-networking company's platform will benefit developers, as well as users.

Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Benefits, Human Resources

Videos 2008-07-25

A Friday Active Directory puzzler

A Friday Active Directory puzzlerSuggestions...Have you installed the required hotfixes and patches in the 2000 environment? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331161similar problemupgraded a larger AD domain from 2000 to 2003 by adding a 2003 server.Depending on the error, it could be a lot of things.I got a similar error.it came down to using the...

Tags: Friday Active Directory puzzler, Friday Active Directory, puzzler

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

iPhone 2.0 jailbreaker for iPhone 2g/3g is available

The iPhone DevTeam blog has released the development sources for their tool xpwn version 0.3.  This tool is the firmware 2.0 version of the team's "cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility".  The team claims it has been tested on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2g and the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Productivity, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

A Friday Active Directory puzzler

We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...

Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

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

Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops

Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptopsjust thinknow instead of being stuck in a little puddle they can go out there and swim in the ocean of windows applications like the rest of us - a zillion kids just smiledlinuxhelp.net:~# apt-get install mozilla-firefoxReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneThe following...

Tags: Operating systems, Vista-64, Microsoft Windows XP, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., OLPC Laptop, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity

Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarityBingo! ntnt"insanely profitable"Yes, IBM retained those parts of its business in which it was possible to obtain a huge markup and not worry as much about performance compared to alternatives.Microsoft already has part of that approach, as witness the markup on software. ...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

10 essential gadgets for students

10 essential gadgets for studentsImpressive...A laptop with the same specs as a laptop! Wow!Only 2 are "essential"Out of the list of 10 only #1 is "essential" for students. If in college #10 is also needed, but the other 8 are nothing but luxuries and two are just plain useless....

Tags: Scanners, Digital music, ONLY 2, essential gadget, Digital Pen, phone, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-07-25