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- Data Resources Consolidated in a Unisys ES7000 Environment
- The largest health service provider in Israel, Clalit serves 3.7 million citizens through its more than 2,000 facilities across the country. The company wanted to consolidate networked IT resources and provide a virtual, high-performance environment for processing-intensive business intelligence applications. With 2,000 servers and more than 25,000 workstations supported by...
- Tags: Unisys Corp., Environment, Unisys ES7000, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Networking, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management
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- Finding Efficiency Through Consolidation
- The Central Administration Office for Exceptional Care (CAK-BZ) in The Hague was one of the first organizations to take the step of consolidating a multitude of operating systems within the IT environment into one Unisys ES7000 enterprise server. The objective was to create more flexibility and to simplify the complex...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, Unisys Corp., Consolidation, Unisys ES7000, Microsoft Windows 2000, Servers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware
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- Smead Deploys PeopleSoft Applications Streamlining IT With Unisys ES7000 and Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Faced with several major IT issues including the proliferation of standalone, complex, and expensive servers; a significant architectural upgrade to PeopleSoft 8; and the need to consolidate and enable their IT environment with the flexibility, scalability, and reliability needed for future business intelligence, data warehousing, and integration initiatives; Smead turned...
- Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, Unisys Corp., Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Unisys ES7000, Smead, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Hardware
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- HP to cut nearly 25,000 jobs as part of EDS integration
- HP to cut nearly 25,000 jobs as part of EDS integrationbest move so farThis is how we are going to keep America competitive and eliminate the pork that goes to useless employees rather than the stockholders.You missed the restocking part ...About half of the positions will be re-filled, just not...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Recruitment & Selection, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., computer, job
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- NEC tees up six-core Intel Dunnington server
- NEC on Tuesday will announce one of the first servers built from the ground up to take advantage of Intel's six-core Dunnington chip. NEC, which is looking to make a splash in the U.S. market, is focusing its efforts on a new server line designed for Intel's...
- Tags: NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Duo, Servers, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...
- Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- HP bidding for EDS; Deal would ramp up services
- Updated: Hewlett-Packard is in talks to acquire Electronic Data Systems in a move that would reshape the technology services and outsourcing market. In a statement Monday, HP and EDS confirmed the talks, first reported by the Wall Street Journal: HP said: HP today...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Outsourcing, Data Centers, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Unixfication II
- Can the Linux community get over its "not invented here" ideology which has often hindered its ability to adopt technological improvements from outside sources? I keep saying to myself, I hope so. But recent events have shown me that we have a long way to go until we become a...
- Tags: GPL, Virtualization, Kernel, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Sun Solaris, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- IT politics killed White House email project
- Data archiving in the White House is a serious business mandated by the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which was passed following the Watergate scandal. The Act requires the White House to maintain an historical archive of its activities, policies, and decisions. Despite...
- Tags: Information Technology, White House, Act, E-mail, Online Communications, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- The Open Source Commandments
- Next Sunday, the Passover again falls upon us. For those of us Jews that celebrate the holiday, it is most associated with a ceremonial meal spent with family, where we recite the story passed down to us over hundreds of generations from Maxwell House haggadahs chronicling the exodus from Egypt...
- Tags: Industry, Microsoft Corp., Pharaoh Rameses, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Packaging Company Reduces Cost and Complexity by Switching From Novell
- As one of the leading manufacturers of innovative packaging for liquid food products, Elopak has operations all over the world. In the past, most of its locations managed their own networks with their own IT staffs. Most of its 40 offices ran file and print and directory services on Novell...
- Tags: Food, Novell Inc., Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Food & Beverage, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Manufacturing, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Procuraduria Federal del Consumidor (Profeco) Centralizes Financial Data, Improves Budget Control
- Procuraduria Federal del Consumidor Office of the Federal Prosceutor for the Consumer, known as Profeco has 56 offices and sub-offices, 60 service units, a call center, and 700 users throughout the country. Procuraduria Federal del Consumidor wanted to integrate financial information systems to unify operations among Profeco's offices and sub-offices...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Financial, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- OOXML+vs.+ODF%3A+What%27s+happening+this+week
- OOXML+vs.+ODF%3A+What%27s+happening+this+weekYour headline says much. ODF vs OOXMLAnd as usual the "press" Mary Jo would like others to see it that way when in fact it is not. Folks, its just another standard that offers users CHOICE in what they use. Nothing more, nothing less.The only reason the...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), No_Ax, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., OOXML, Mary Jo
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- Let the green tech lobbying begin, CEO-style
- This is one of those posts that I've been meaning to put together for a couple of weeks, but I wasn't frankly quite sure of what I thought about the information until just now. But the second time I read the pitch through, I decided I was suitably impressed. ...
- Tags: Green Technology, Chairman, Technology, Strategy, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Software as a Service Provider Lets Shoppers Furnish Homes in an Online 3D World
- Edgenet, and its Big Hammer Data Division, helps retailers and manufacturers serve customers by hosting a Global Data Synchronization Network GDSN and Marketing data pools of basic product attributes, providing a common classification for products. As the company prepared to launch its Edgenet Vision product that enables users to create...
- Tags: 3D, Software-as-a-service, Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Karachi Stock Exchange Achieves Zero Downtime With Clustered Database Solution
- Founded in 1947, the Karachi Stock Exchange KSE is Pakistan's largest and oldest stock exchange. Karachi Stock Exchange KSE wanted to implement a robust database platform to run business-critical applications, ensure 24/7 systems availability for online trading and capture and store large amounts of confidential trade data. The challenge was...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Downtime, Stock Exchange, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: Performance and Scalability - User Scalability for the Enterprise
- Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is designed to help enterprise organizations attain a 360-degree view of customers, achieve reliable user adoption, adapt quickly to business change, and accelerate project delivery and returns-all on a platform that provides enterprise levels of scalability and performance. This white paper focuses on user scalability. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Performance, Scalability, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Sun, MySQL and the return of integrated solutions
- I just read the announcement that Sun has acquired MySQL for $1 Billion. Rather than just citing the facts and wishing that I was one of the founders of MySQL so that I could purchase that dream home in Florida, I'd like to consider what's really going on rather than...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Sun refuses to give up on software acquisitions, buys MySQL for $1 billion
- We knew that Sun has been lusting after a real software business in addition to Solaris. We knew that Sun "shares" -- that it digs open source, including Solaris and Java. And we knew that Sun had a love-hate relationship with Oracle and a hate-hate relationship with IBM and Microsoft....
- Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Problem, IBM Corp., Open Source, Databases, Linux, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Operating Systems, Hardware, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-01-16
- Ten more ways SOA made a difference in 2007
- From planes to trains to phones to hotels, SOA played a key role in advancing many businesses in 2007. I culled several more working examples of where SOA made a difference over the past year from my SOA in Action Website over at ebizQ, which tracks SOA success stories. More...
- Tags: Airline, British Telecommunications, SOA, EasyFIDS, Marriott, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
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