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Toward Better Understanding of Service Level Agreement (SLA) Expectations, for Improved Conformance Among Stakeholders in a Distributed, Dynamic, Composite Software Solution

Software development has evolved towards increased reuse of pre-existing components and delivery of functional capabilities through Service-Oriented Architectures SOA. The situation drives service owners to rely on multiple autonomous partners in the service delivery, requiring design of contractual agreements termed Service Level Agreements SLAs, which are established to provide business...

Tags: SLA, Software Solution, SOA, University Of Oregon, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Service Level Management, Web Services, Tools & Techniques, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, It service Management, Management

White papers 2008-07-01

U of Oregon first to defy RIAA

As reported on Read/Write Web, the University of Oregon is the first college in the United States to actually refuse to hand over names of file sharers to the RIAA. Their argument has two components: The Oregon Attorney General, working with the University, has filed a...

Tags: RIAA, University Of Oregon, Benefits, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-11-05

Selecting WAN Capable Replication Technologies for Disaster Recovery Planning in Mid-Sized Organizations: A Guide for IS Managers

Large scale disasters highlight the need to protect and quickly restore mission critical data. A conceptual analysis of articles published from 1999 to 2006 forms the basis for a decision support tool, designed for IS Managers of medium sized enterprises, who need to understand asynchronous WAN replication options. The tool,...

Tags: Disaster Recovery Planning, Decision Support, IS Manager, University Of Oregon, Data Mining, WANs, Tools & Techniques, Disaster Recovery, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Networking, Management

White papers 2006-03-01

Additional Resources

Wordpress picks up college newspapers with CoPress

CoPress, the brainchild of former University of Oregon editor Daniel Bachhuber, aims to build a vertical of college papers within the CMS market, with managed hosting and training. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Wordpress, Web Hosting, Managed Hosting, It Services, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Internet, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Machine learning coupled with 'rich interaction' may make computers a partner, not a product

Researchers at Oregon State University are hoping to improve artificial intelligence with a project the uses "rich interaction" to teach machines when they make mistakes. Their work would allow for ordinary users who spot a computer's errors to be able to step in and explain directly to...

Tags: Computer, Productivity, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-08-20

On SocGen and spreadsheets: the similarities

On SocGen and spreadsheets: the similaritiesSpreadsheet risk conference in the city of KervielThe European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group EuSpRIG is holding its 2009 conference "The Role of Spreadsheets in Organisational Excellence" on the 2nd ? 3rd July 2009 at the Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Cachan, Paris, France. The keynote speakers...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, spreadsheet, SocGen, keynote speaker

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Reductive to service Puppet open source configman tools

Key founders of Puppet have incorporated and received $2 million in venture capital funding to advance the open source configuration management software project. Reductive Labs,  which has evolved from the same named consulting firm founded in 2003, will provide training, service and support for Puppet, the next...

Tags: Open Source, Configuration Management, Tool, Reductive, Puppet 0.25, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-06-24

Poop power, the old dream revisited

Poop power, the old dream revisitedMother Earth NewsThey could save some research and read that mid-70's favorite of the hippies counter culture - The Mother Earth News.TMEN also published an article about a hydraulic regenerative energy system for a VW beetle that got 107 mpg ... University of Oregon did...

Tags: Mother Earth News, Poop

Discussion threads 2009-04-06

iGeneration 2008 in review

I started on this blog, a nervous and precarious young man, and remain somewhat a young man. To be honest, I'm surprised I've been here this long, let alone seconded onto another blog. Still, it's been an interesting year and I'll run through some of them in a minute. So...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Post, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Blogging, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-12-18

Another setback for university P2P

Last week, a federal judge dismissed the University of Oregon's arguments that the RIAA's attempts to obtain information on student file sharers was unduly burdensome. According to Ars Technica, the judge also ruled that the school did not receive protection under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, since none of...

Tags: P2P, University, RIAA, Litigation, Peer To Peer (P2P), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Business Operations, Internet, Security, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-01

T-Mobile Sidekick

It's so hard to keep a good secret these days. Just ask T-Mobile. Word of its new Sidekick model, codenamed Gekko, got out months ago and was all but confirmed when the ruthless blogosphere got hold of some internal T-Mobile documents about the upcoming model. Well, today, the wraps were...

Tags: SideKick, T-Mobile, shell, T-Mobile Sidekick

Product reviews 2008-07-30

High-tech trifecta dabbles in solar technology

What is it with high-tech giants and solar energy research and development? Apparently, as it turns out, many of the same manufacturing and design ideas that people have been applying to computer systems and microprocessor technology matter in the world of solar. Intel is the third huge...

Tags: Solar Energy, Transistor, Photovoltaics, Microprocessor, Technology, IBM Corp., Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-16

Brain waves used for faster image sorting

Computers are fast for many tasks, but humans are faster for identifying objects or people in images. But is it possible to combine the speed of a computer with the sensitivity of the human brain? According to a IEEE Spectrum Online article, 'A Brainy Approach to Image Sorting,' several teams...

Tags: Team, Analyst, DARPA, Image, Computer, Productivity, Team Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-04

Better products or just better marketing?

Oregon State University is reporting a significant increase in Mac usage among its faculty, according to MacNN. While the article focuses on OSU, there seems to be a growing trend to look someplace other than Vista when purchasing new computers. Water-cooler conversations with other faculty at my high...

Tags: Marketing, Apple Macintosh, Oregon State University, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., PC Ad, Desktops, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-02-27

RIAA gets student names, can't do much with them

The Recording Industry Association of America RIAA was provided with a list of student names flagged as file sharers at Oklahoma State University when a judge threatened to hold the school in contempt. However, according to Ars Technica, because some of the students are represented by an attorney, RIAA...

Tags: RIAA, Litigation, Digital Media, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Google: Rewriting the book on data centers

Om Malik had an interesting post about Google's super-sized datacenters. He posited that Google’s massive infrastructure, customized for its processes, represents a the big barrier to entry for its rivals, and it will continue to give the company an edge as long as it keeps spending the billions on its...

Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-05

Helium leads to geothermal energy resources

When we think about alternative sources of energy, we often forget the potential of geothermal energy resources. In fact, it has been estimated that accessible geothermal energy in the U.S. represents 90 quadrillion kilowatt-hours or 3,000 times the country's total annual energy consumption. So far, it has been difficult and...

Tags: Earth, Researcher, Fluid, Energy, Arizona State University, Energy Resource, Web Site Development, Productivity, Web Technology, Internet, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-02

Oregon AG office to RIAA: 10 things we want to know about how you find file-sharing students

If you think the Recording Institute Association of America is going too far in its prosecution (or should that be persecution?) of college students who file-share from time to time, you'll love the news that Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers is adding meat to the University...

Tags: RIAA, File-sharing, Myers, Lindor, Peer To Peer (P2P), Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-11-30

U of Oregon fights RIAA subpoenas

The fight against the RIAA seems to be lining up some serious firepower. The University of Oregon and the state's attorney general are asking a federal judge to quash a subpoena issued by the recording industry seeking the names of 17 unidentified UO students, says Ars Technica. The RIAA's...

Tags: School, Recording Industry, RIAA, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-02

Today's Debate: How deep should electronic health records be?

Today's Debate: How deep should electronic health records be?If any proof were neededthat this is the next big land rush, with enormous amounts of money at stake, this is it. Aside from sports [1], the only reason ASU ever does [b]anything[/b] is if the Administration sees boatloads of money...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Michael Crow, ASU, electronic health record, e-health

Discussion threads 2007-10-01