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The City of zurich Simplifies IT Management With New Operating System: The City of Zurich is optimizing its IT infrastructure by bringing its 15,000 PCs and notebooks spread across 60 service departments in line with one common standard. Previously, the various service departments decided for themselves which operating system and applications to install. As part of the city's new IT strategy,...; Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Zurich, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Service Department, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Management; Case studies 2008-02-01
The City of zurich Simplifies Management by Standardizing on New Operating System: The City of Zurich is optimizing its IT infrastructure by bringing its 15,000 PCs and notebooks spread across 60 service departments in line with one common standard. Previously, the various service departments decided for themselves which operating system and applications to install. As part of the city's new IT strategy,...; Tags: Information Technology, Zurich, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Service Department, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management; Case studies 2008-02-01
Daily Picture Of zurich (widget): Daily Picture Of Zurich displays a new picture of Zurich every day, or even more often. The pictures are taken on the countryside of Zurich and the city of Zurich. For all that don't know where Zurich is, its in the north of Switzerland. This version is the first release...; Tags: Zurich; Software downloads 2007-07-10
Transnavicom Satellite Map of zurich (exe): Demo-version of Satellite Map of Zurich is an example of how a person living in a megapolis today can use space technologies. A Quick Bird satellite shot is used as the cartographic basis. Face the reality. Your dreams are coming true with satellite maps from Transnavi.com. In the demo-version you...; Tags: Zurich, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking; Software downloads 2007-03-02
Photos: Inside IBM's zurich research lab: Now turning 50, the lab has produced Nobel Prize-winning technical breakthroughs, including the scanning tunneling microscope.; Tags: Zurich, IBM Corp.; Image galleries 2006-07-20

Photos: Inside IBM's zurich research lab: Now turning 50, the lab has produced Nobel Prize-winning technical breakthroughs, including the scanning tunneling microscope.; Tags: Zurich, IBM Corp.; Image galleries 2006-05-23
Photos: Inside IBM's zurich research lab: Now turning 50, the lab has produced Nobel Prize-winning technical breakthroughs, including the scanning tunneling microscope.; Tags: Zurich, IBM Corp.; Image galleries 2006-05-23
zurich Life's IT Department Generates Eye-Opening Data for Fact-Based Tactical and Strategic Decisions: Zurich life insurance and financial services faced the challenge to move from reactive to proactive management, to deploy a solution rapidly with a small staff and no interruption of service, to provide holistic service to customers, to generate fact-based data for tactical and strategic decisions and to make IT a...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Zurich, HP OpenView, Utility Computing, It Management, It service Management; Case studies
Lanier Cuts Costs, Streamlines Workflow for 15-Year Customer zurich North America: Zurich North America is a leading property-casualty insurance provider in the United States and Canada, and a Lanier customer since 1987. For more than 15 years, Zurich has turned to Lanier to keep a wide range of document costs under control, find new ways to reduce total cost of ownership...; Tags: Ricoh Corp., Zurich, Workflow, Zurich North America, Fleet Management, Process Improvement, Roi/Tco, Quality, Business Operations, Finance, Managerial Accounting; Case studies
zurich in North American Anticipates U.S.$25 Million Gain With SQL Server 2005 Solution: Zurich North America Commercial ("Zurich"), a commercial property-casualty insurance provider serving companies in Canada and the United States, is part of Zurich Financial Services, based in Zurich, Switzerland. Zurich includes 600 risk engineers who inspect sites and recommend changes to help minimize their customers' risk of loss. The risk engineers...; Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Zurich, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies

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Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition -- from Sun: At the opening day of JavaOne on May 6, Sun officials began laying out their vision for a future cloud-computing platform, code-named Hydrazine, that Sun plans to field against competitive offerings from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others. Robert Brewin, Sun Chief Technology Officer and Distinguished Engineer, described...; Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hydrazine, Productivity, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-07
Red Dog: Yet another unannounced Microsoft cloud service: In the Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie regime of "announce no service before it's done," there have been precious few cloud-computing announcements from Microsoft. That doesn't mean Microsoft is sitting on its software laurels, just waiting for the clouds to pass, however. There are a bunch of...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Web Services, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-04-09
3-D collaborative body art in Scotland: A collaborative technology developed several years ago at ETH Zurich in Switzerland is now being used in a theater in Scotland. The Living Canvas technology allows performers on stage to interact with recorded visuals projected on them. As said the lead developer, who teamed with a theater director for this...; Tags: 3D, ETH Zurich, Performance, Technology, Living Canvas Technology, Performance Management, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-04-08
Idea of the day: Warm up your pool with excess data center heat: Score three (this week!) for IBM's green data center team. They have been cranking out the green data center "win" press releases in the past week, touting projects in Egypt, Austria and Switzerland. I have to say BY FAR the coolest idea to come out of...; Tags: Data Center, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-04-02
Software Developer Improves Time to Market With Change Management Tool: 1eEurope, a Zurich-based IT solution provider and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner wanted to optimise its development environment and improve collaboration between teams in different offices worldwide. By implementing the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System development system, the company has improved visibility of projects, and developers can create more robust product...; Tags: Software, Developer, Microsoft Corp., Software Developer, Change Management, Tools & Techniques, Management; Case studies 2008-03-14
Research Institute Streamlines IT Management With Flexible Deployment: The Institute of Microbiology at ETH Zurich wanted a more flexible, streamlined deployment process for client software. It installed Windows Server 2008 to take advantage of Windows Deployment Services. Now it can deploy a standard customized image to computers from multiple hardware vendors. The institute also plans to reduce server...; Tags: IT Administration, Microsoft Windows Server, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware; Case studies 2008-03-01
Google Earth for the body: This is the expression used by an IBM researcher to describe the software he developed for visualizing electronic health records eHRs in 3-D. In a long article, IEEE Spectrum describes the IBM's Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine ASME, which maps the information in a patient's eHR to a 3-D image...; Tags: Software, 3D, Google Inc., Patient, Electronic Health Record, Doctor, Google Earth, Image, IBM Corp., E-health, Healthcare, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-01-12
Why the '8 things' tag meme is important: Now and again, someone will dream up a tag meme game. The idea is the writer says x-number of things and tags y-number of others to follow suit. Right now the 8 things you didn't know about me tag meme is doing the rounds and yes, I've been tagged on...; Tags: Workplace, Oracle Corp., Idea, Blog, Workforce, OraNA, Cyberthreats, Blogging, Spam, Games, Recruitment & Selection, Security, Internet, Spam And Phishing, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-01-11
First reflected light from an exoplanet: European astronomers have for the first time ever been able to detect and monitor the visible light that is scattered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, HD 189733b, which is also known as a 'hot Jupiter,' and orbits a star slightly cooler and less massive than the Sun located about...; Tags: Planet, Orbit, Team Management, Productivity, Web Site Development, Management, Internet, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-12-27
Cruising in our cities: If you drive a car in many European cities, I bet you're not always happy to see the traffic lights stopping you. And you're not alone: environmentalists agree with you -- but for other reasons. As traffic flows account for about one-third of global energy consumption, better control systems for...; Tags: Network, Traffic Light, Transportation, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-11-18