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Model Checking for Verification of Mandatory Access Control Models and Properties

Mandatory Access Control (MAC) mechanisms control which users or processes have access to which resources in a system. MAC policies are increasingly specified to facilitate managing and maintaining access control. However, the correct specification of the policies is a very challenging problem. (...)

5 February 2012

EMWF: A Middleware for Flexible Automation and Assistive Devices

EMWF (EMbedded Workflow Framework) is an open source middleware for flexible (i.e., configurable, customizable and adaptable) automation and assistive devices and systems, referred to collectively as SISARL (Sensor Information Systems for Active Retirees and Assisted Living). Examples include (...)

3 February 2012

An Access Control Protocol for Embedded Devices

Embedded devices are today important elements of critical infrastructures like networking, telecommunications, electric/gas/water utility automation, and industrial automation. Access to these embedded devices should be restricted and strictly controlled. Current authentication schemes for (...)

31 January 2012

On the Design and Exploitation of User's Personal and Public Information for Semantic Personal Digital Photograph Annotation

Automating the process of semantic annotation of digital personal photographs is a crucial step towards efficient and effective management of this increasingly high volume of content. However, this is still a highly challenging task for the research community. This paper proposes a novel (...)

29 January 2012

Meeting Virtual Organization Performance Goals Through Adaptive Grid Reconfiguration

In order for Grids to become relied upon for critical infrastructure and reliable scientific computing, Grid-wide management must be automated so that it is possible in quickly and comprehensively respond to or anticipate specific environmental changes and requirements. That is, due to the (...)

21 January 2012

Policy Generation Framework for Large-Scale Storage Infrastructures

Cloud computing is gaining acceptance among mainstream technology users. Storage cloud providers often employ Storage Area Networks (SANs) to provide elasticity, rapid adaptability to changing demands, and policy based automation. As storage capacity grows, the storage environment becomes (...)

11 January 2012

Traveling to Rome: A Retrospective on the Journey

Starting in 1994/5, the Storage Systems Program at HP Labs embarked on a decade-long journey - to automate the management of enterprise storage systems by means of a technique the authors initially called attribute-managed storage. The key idea was to provide declarative specifications of (...)

7 January 2012

The importance of effective SAP solution management

IBM Tivoli offers the power to manage your SAP and non-SAP environment, through enhanced Visibility, Control and Automation. The objectives are to cut service management cost, reduce business risk, increase service levels and deliver enhanced business (...)

6 January 2012

The Power of Simple with the EMC VNX Family

Simple...It is probably the last word any IT team would consider when it comes to dealing with data growth and the storage solutions that must be in place to deal with it. But simple is exactly the strategy at the heart of EMC's VNX solution, from efficiency to virtualization and everything in (...)

6 January 2012

Microsoft & Viewfinity Present: Windows 7 Migration is the Opportunity to Lockdown Desktops & Manage Standard User Privileges

In this webcast, Microsoft and Viewfinity discuss endpoint security within the context of Windows 7 migrations with a specific emphasis on the protection provided by removing administrator rights. Alex Shteynberg, Technology Architect in the New York City Microsoft Technology Center discusses (...)

1 January 2012

Simulating Real-Time Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) technology has been mainly used in the applications with low-frequency sampling and little computational complexity. Recently, new classes of WSN-based applications with different characteristics are being considered, including process control, industrial (...)

23 December 2011

Ease database management and automate functions with triggers in MySQL

Ease database management and automate functions with triggers in MySQLarticle rootCron jobs with Trigger Cron Job Using TriggerIs it possible to do a Cron Job with Trigger functions? If so, can you please explain?Ex - Cron Job: I (...)

19 December 2011

Elve Mobile 1.5 (Mobile)

** The Elve Touch Service MUST be installed, running, and accessible to use this app. **Elve is an internet enabled control, automation, and media management solution providing automated and remote control for all your home automation and home theater devices. Elve can control your lighting (...)

13 December 2011

Orchestrated MobiLinc 3.04.00 (Mobile)

Introducing Orchestrated MobiLinc Infusing your home with energy management intelligence from the palm of your hand.Mobile Integrated Solutions and Orchestrated Home have partnered to bring an affordable home automation solution that effortlessly manages your home's lighting and small appliance (...)

13 December 2011

Service Provider Case Study: Infocrossing, a Wipro Company

Infocrossing, a Wipro company, is an end-to-end IT managed infrastructure services company operating multiple data centers as hosting facilities for large and mid-enterprise customers. Infocrossing sought to address operational efficiency, expand automation and enhance service projection by (...)

7 December 2011

Introducing Logical Neighborhoods for Programming Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks

Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSAN) are composed of heterogeneous devices that sense from and act on the environment. Applications envisioned for this kind of systems range from chemical attack detection to home automation. Usually, these are composed of many different collaborating (...)

4 December 2011

Simplify, Improve, and Save with Dynamic Workload Management, with John McKenny

It's no surprise that IT organizations need to simplify and control complex business processes while reducing costs. That's why it's important to identify underperforming management processes within the data center and systematically make these processes more effective by using a (...)

3 December 2011

State Agency Invests in Technology to Manage Increased Calls

The Oregon Employment Department (OED) is an active partner in the development of the state's workforce development system. OED has an automated message that is played for every incoming call, providing useful information about claims, how to file online, and the like. The lack of flexibility (...)

3 December 2011

Home Energy Saving Through Wireless Sensor Networks

This paper presents a Home Automation system based on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) that allows managing and saving the energy consumption of home appliances. According to recent studies energy consumptions are increasing year after year, and if effective energy saving policies will not be (...)

3 December 2011

CIO2CIO: Use IT to Deliver a Superior Customer Experience -- and Beat the Competition

With today's challenges of the global economy and the onslaught of technologies that give consumers more information and power than ever before, it's never been more critical to business survival to retain current customers while attracting new ones. According to CIO Magazine's "2010 State (...)

2 December 2011

Oracle Data Guard 11g Data Protection and Availability for Oracle Database

Efficient business operations, quality customer service, government regulation compliance and safeguarding corporate information all require high levels of data protection and availability. Thus, it is no surprise that data protection and availability are among the top priorities for all (...)

1 December 2011

Webcast: Human Capital Management Trends and Innovations

Once defined as simply the "workforce," human capital has come a long way. The vast knowledge, expertise and ability cannot be replaced with automation but still must be managed effectively for growth and profitability. Imagine being able to do just that in your own organization -- (...)

28 November 2011

LexisNexis Delivers Multi-Tenant Cloud-Based Data Center Services on NetApp Storage

LexisNexis, a technology provider with 37 years of legal industry experience, strong data management expertise, and world-class global data centers. LexisNexis wants to add value by offering private virtual data center services to law firm customers. LexisNexis chose NetApp to overcome this (...)

28 November 2011

PORR AG Builds Up to 10 Times Faster Access to Group-Wide Construction Data With NetApp

A.Porr AG is one of the largest construction companies in Austria. The projects managed by the PORR Group are large-scale. The PORR Group is a full-service provider with an extensive service portfolio that is oriented toward the changing demands. Their challenge is to improve performance and (...)

28 November 2011

Correctness of Sensor Network Applications by Software Bounded Model Checking

The authors strongly rely on embedded systems, which are widely used in highly distributed as well as safety-critical systems, such as structural monitoring of bridges, intrusion detection, and many industrial use cases, e.g., using SureCross from Banner Engineering Corp. or SmartWireless from (...)

27 November 2011

Etisalat Secures Growth

Etisalat provides an array of communication services from phone to mobile, broadband, and cable television to specialized e-Government offerings, traditional e-mail, hosting, and Domain Name System (DNS) management services. They need to build an automated risk management program that could (...)

26 November 2011

Sustainable, Secure Business Growth

Paylocity provides web-based payroll, HR and time and attendance solutions across the U.S. They need to make certain its rapidly growing applications and dynamic infrastructure remains resilient to failure and resistant to breaches. Previous vulnerability assessment tools lacked the accuracy (...)

26 November 2011

JuiceDefender - battery saver 3.8.0 (Mobile)

*** Over 5,000,000 Downloads! ***JuiceDefender - Battery Saver is a powerful yet easy to use power manager app specifically designed to extend the battery life of your Android device. Packed with smart functions, it automatically and transparently manages the most battery draining components, (...)

26 November 2011

PaySimple Credit Card Terminal 1.0 (Mobile)

Accept credit card, debit card and eCheck (ACH) payments anytime, anywhere. No more missing sales, or waiting for checks in the mail.WHY GO WITH PAYSIMPLE?* We are a full-service provider designed especially for small businesses. Combining Payment Acceptance, Customer Management, and Billing (...)

22 November 2011

SAS: Mitigating ITIT Vulnerability Risks Through Rapid Insight

SAS is one of the largest software companies in the world. Leader in business intelligence and analytics software that helps companies in every industry transform their data into predictive insights about company performance, customers, markets, risks and more. SAS needed an automated and fully (...)

15 November 2011

Software Development: Tripwire Passes Blackboard's Configuration Control Test

Blackboard's business need is to track configuration changes across mission-critical infrastructure, implement automated detective controls to support IT security and compliance strategies and increase maturity of change management and compliance practices to meet business growth demands. (...)

12 November 2011

Delivering on Network Security and PCI DSS Compliance

Blueport Commerce provides trusted, managed e-commerce technology and services to retail chains and organizations with unique e-commerce needs, including big ticket, customizable or difficult to ship products and complex business structures. Blueport Commerce must remain compliant with PCI DSS, (...)

12 November 2011

VMware Solutions for Small and Midsize Business

VMware is the most trusted virtualization vendor across all industries and company sizes, used by more than 250,000 customers worldwide. With VMware, you can keep your business running with business continuity protection, and improve productivity by enabling end users to access their (...)

12 November 2011

Satisfy your PCI DSS requirements

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a far-reaching regulation, with three core principles: access control, separation of duties, and audit. Without comprehensive and powerful solutions, achieving PCI DSS compliance, and proving that compliance, can be a complex, (...)

11 November 2011

Financial Services

A global financial institution, Rothschild Bank AG has numerous branch offices with IT managed centrally from Zurich. Their business need is to attain visibility across a multi-location, multi-platform IT infrastructure, implement an automated, cost-efficient method for monitoring change (...)

7 November 2011

Six ways virtualisation helps IT managers

Pick the right solution, and virtualisation can be an affordable option that is easy to deploy and supports business standards and policies. It can help your business to:-Automate your IT and save time managing it-React more quickly to business opportunities or system outage-Dramatically cut (...)

4 November 2011

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager delivers integrated capacity planning, VM sprawl control, performance monitoring, configuration management, and charge back automation - all in one awesomely affordable product that's easy to download, deploy, and use. In fact it's so easy that you can be up (...)

3 November 2011

On-Demand Billing & Customer Services

Aria Systems provides a SaaS subscription billing and customer lifecycle management platform that helps businesses establish better control of their finances. Their business need is to demonstrate PCI DSS compliance as a Level 1 Merchant, implement PCI solution quickly and without additional (...)

30 October 2011

Automated data backup

Your business depends on consistent access to vital data. Without an automated data backup system, your organization can be vulnerable if your storage systems are compromised. This data sheet discusses how IBM can help with a professionally managed, cloud-based data backup and protection (...)

25 October 2011

Webcast: Best Practices in Enterprise Application Lifecycle Management

Attend this complimentary webcast to learn how application lifecycle management solutions from IBM Rational® can make your development teams more collaborative, productive and transparent — regardless of your team size, geographical location, or current development practices (...)

25 October 2011

Automating Security & Compliance With SIEM at Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

In this webcast, the presenters say about relentless cyber-threats and increasing compliance requirements can overwhelm the existing processes used by hospital IT staffs. New Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions automate threat detection, enable rapid incident response and (...)

24 October 2011

Power Line Communication Networks for Large-Scale Control and Automation Systems

Power Line Communications (PLC) uses the existing power line infrastructure for communication purposes. While the majority of recent contributions have discussed PLC for high data-rate applications like Internet access or multimedia communication serving a relatively small number of users, in (...)

24 October 2011

SAP Citizen Connect 1.0.0 (Mobile)

With the SAP Citizen Connect mobile app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod, you can report issues to your municipality (for example, potholes, debris, graffiti, suspicious activities), locate an issue on a map using the GPS, take a picture and add it to the report, select a service category, edit (...)

14 October 2011

Winning with Managed Services:How to Facilitate Rapid, Lean Growth with Professional Services Automation

Managed Service Providers (MSP) deliver network-based services, applications, and equipment to corporate clients. Common types of managed services include monitoring and management of IT networks, storage, backup, software maintenance, and managed security. To succeed in a marketplace crowded (...)

14 October 2011

Webcast: Human Capital Management Trends and Innovations

Once defined as simply the "workforce," human capital has come a long way. The vast knowledge, expertise and ability cannot be replaced with automation but still must be managed effectively for growth and profitability. Imagine being able to do just that in your own organization -- (...)

13 October 2011

Open source: catalyst for an argument?

For some unknown reason, open source seems to be a catalyst for workplace arguments--regardless of how technical (or not) the people involved are.

11 October 2011

The Business Case for ALM Transformation

Transformation begins high in the organization with the decision to change -- to break out of the status quo and turn Application Lifecycle Management into a strategic advantage. A common Application Lifecycle Management platform provides the benefits enterprises need today - real time (...)

10 October 2011

IT needs to slow down: PM guru

Australian organisations need to be less focussed on efficiency so they can respond to change and embrace innovation, project management guru Tom DeMarco claims.

9 October 2011

Project problems to avoid

How to avoid failure ââ,¬" following are some common problems in IT projects from Technology and Business assistant editor, Natalie Hambly.

9 October 2011

Recession-proofing your IT career

Not so long ago, a career in IT was regarded as "recession-proof". But not any more, as large numbers of IT managers and consultants have found out. ZDNet Australia compiled this guide to shoring-up your long term job (...)

8 October 2011

Business Continueity for SAP on System Z

This book describes the IBM High Availability Solution for SAP on System z, which provides the means for fully automating the management of all SAP components and related products running on z/OS, AIX®, or Linux®. The automation software monitors all resources and controls the (...)

4 October 2011

Gain IT asset visibility, control and automation

This white paper describes how IBM IT asset management solutions provide the visibility, control and automation to support asset management across the IT asset life cycle, including planning, acquisition, management and disposition of software, hardware and related (...)

4 October 2011

System z Solution Edition for Cloud computing

Combines industry-leading IBM System z server withTivoli software and IBM services to create a service automation and management framework used for cloud computing workloads and use cases within the enterprise.

4 October 2011

Merkur Group effectively controls IT costs with automated, integrated service management initiative.

Case study. Merkur conducted an extensive selection process for service management solutions, evaluating technologies from IBM, HP, BMC and Computer Associates against more than 120 requirements. Merkur then invited three companies, including IBM, to provide proof-of-concept demonstrations. (...)

4 October 2011

Cloud Cross Program - System z Solution Edition for Cloud computing

Combines industry-leading IBM System z server with Tivoli software and IBM services to create a service automation and management framework used for cloud computing workloads and use cases within the enterprise

3 October 2011

Software Asset Management Anchors Effective IT Operations (ESG)

Enterprise Strategy Group. Effective software asset management in today's dynamic computing environments requires significant levels of automation and integration in order to keep up with the fluid nature of emerging software (...)

3 October 2011

Discover and visualize your dynamic IT Infrastructure Solution Brief

IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager supports the alignment of IT and business with robust and automated application mapping and discovery that helps organizations understand the impact of change and meet compliance needs with detailed reporting and (...)

3 October 2011

Genetic Algorithm for Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks

Large scale Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) can be used for various pervasive and ubiquitous applications such as security, health-care, industry automation, agriculture, environment and habitat monitoring. As hierarchical clusters can reduce the energy consumption requirements for WSNs, they (...)

2 October 2011

Smart Grid - The New and Improved Power Grid: A Survey

The Smart Grid, regarded as the next generation power grid, uses two-way flows of electricity and information to create a widely distributed automated energy delivery network. In this paper, the authors survey the literature till 2011 on the enabling technologies for the Smart Grid. They (...)

1 October 2011

The Path to Operational Efficiency: Standardized Deployments Bolstered by a Standard Operating System Environment Approach

Choosing a consistent Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution has a demonstrated value. The combination of standardization bolstered by a standard operating environment approach improves automation and repeatability of IT infrastructure deployment and management. This approach will ensure you are (...)

1 October 2011

Don't try to avoid hard work by automating

The root cause of automated crap is perhaps the basic notion that applying a technology, methodology, or other management voodoo can replace the hard work required for personal (and organizational) improvement.

28 September 2011

Assessing the Security of VoIP Services

VoIP networks are in a major deployment phase and are becoming widely spread out due to their extended functionality and cost efficiency. Meanwhile, as VoIP traffic is transported over the Internet, it is the target of a range of attacks that can jeopardize its proper functionality. In this (...)

28 September 2011

Creating Searchable Content from Fax Images Whitepaper

Not all documents or information that ends up in an ECM system are the same. Faxes for example, are difficult to search since after all, they are mere images of a document, albeit legally binding and acceptable in its photographic form. Mining for the true content of a fax requires various (...)

27 September 2011

A revolutionary approach to IT service management

Serena Service Manager helps you keep IT and business in sync. Serena Service Manager represents a new, process-driven approach to IT service management-one that allows IT and business to work together, in harmony. With Serena Service Manager, your IT organization can automate its end-to-end IT (...)

26 September 2011

Consulting Group Moves Services to Secure Private Cloud

Hay Group is a global management consulting firm specializing in developing talent, organizing people to be more effective, and motivating them to perform at their best. Their facing challenges were to providing high availability for customer web portals, to increase business agility, to (...)

22 September 2011

FTT-Ethernet: A Flexible Real-Time Communication Protocol That Supports Dynamic QoS Management on Ethernet-Based Systems

Ethernet was not originally developed to meet the requirements of real-time industrial automation systems and it was commonly considered unsuited for applications at the field level. Hence, several techniques were developed to make this protocol exhibit real-time behavior, some of them (...)

17 September 2011

PACMAN: A Platform for Automated and Controlled Network Operations and Configuration MANagement

The lack of automation associated with network operations in general and network configuration management in particular, is widely recognized as a significant contributing factor to user-impacting network events. In this paper, the authors present the work on the PACMAN system, a Platform for (...)

17 September 2011

Cortexa 1.5 (Mobile)

Connect your home to your lifestyle with the Cortexa and Cortexa's iPhone / iPod Touch application, that together provide you complete home automation control right at your fingertips. Cortexa delivers security and peace-of-mind for homeowners by helping to reduce the time, effort, energy, and (...)

17 September 2011

WatchGuard Solutions Leave Nothing to Chance

The LVCVA is best-known for its high-profile advertising campaigns, but the authority does much more behind the scenes. For perimeter protection and web content filtering, the LVCVA had been using SteelGate firewalls and Barracuda web filtering devices. They had redundant pairs, but the setup (...)

15 September 2011

Assessing the Security of VoIP Services

VoIP networks are in a major deployment phase and are becoming widely spread out due to their extended functionality and cost efficiency. Meanwhile, as VoIP traffic is transported over the Internet, it is the target of a range of attacks that can jeopardize its proper functionality. In this (...)

15 September 2011

Automating Virtual Infrastructure Management With PRO Tips in System Center

The people don't want to miss this podcast on how one can turn the virtualization infrastructure into a highly automated and dynamic application servicing machine. See how Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) in Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 and Microsoft System (...)

15 September 2011

Understanding the Microsoft Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool

The Microsoft Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (OVMST) provides guidance and automated tools to keep the offline virtualized environment up to date with the latest updates and safe from attackers. The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool now supports Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, (...)

15 September 2011

Reflecting on Self-Adaptive Software Systems

Self-adaptability has been proposed as an effective approach to automate the complexity associated with the management of modern-day software systems. While over the past decade the authors have witnessed significant progress in the manner in which such systems are designed, constructed, and (...)

15 September 2011

Relation Based Access Control: Logic and Policies

The Web 2.0, GRID applications and more recently semantic desktop applications are bringing the Web to a situation where more and more data and metadata are shared and made available to large user groups. Things are further complicated by the highly unpredictable and autonomous dynamics of (...)

15 September 2011

On Resource Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks Application to Automated Highway Systems

This paper discusses a general solution to provide Quality of Service (QoS) in heterogeneous wireless networks. The mechanisms the authors mainly discuss in this paper are resource management in a WiMAX-WiFi heterogenous wireless network within the context of an Automated Highway System (AHS). (...)

15 September 2011

SLA-Aware Virtual Resource Management for Cloud Infrastructures

Cloud platforms host several independent applications on a shared resource pool with the ability to allocate computing power to applications on a per-demand basis. The use of server virtualization techniques for such platforms provides great flexibility with the ability to consolidate several (...)

15 September 2011

A Healthcare Company Deploys Software in Just 90 Minutes

Managing change in large enterprises by helping them streamline complex software implementations has become the calling card of IBM Business Partner HaddonHill Group. They wanted to upgrade its claims processing system and deploy IBM WebSphere Process Server software into a virtual server farm (...)

31 August 2011

Understanding the HP CloudSystem Reference Architecture

HP CloudSystem is an integrated system for building and managing services across private, public and hybrid clouds. HP CloudSystem combines servers, storage, networking and security together with an integrated approach to automate the application-to-infrastructure life cycle. The result is a (...)

30 August 2011

GE Healthcare Case Study

GE Centricity EDI, part of GE Healthcare IT's Centricity portfolio, leverages technology to help healthcare providers improve patient care, process claims more quickly and efficiently, streamline operations, trim revenue cycles, and improve cash flows. Processes that were once handled manually (...)

30 August 2011

Simplified Billing Accuracy and Revenue with Automated Invoicing

Growing revenue is tough enough, from deliverable's to deadlines, time is money. Worrying about time sheets, invoicing and billable hours should be the last thing on any workflow managers mind. The right solution for automation is now attainable with Abak Software. Abak's time and billing (...)

24 August 2011

Computacenter Relies on FlexPod From Cisco, NetApp, and VMware for Its Managed Workplace Services Portfoli

Computacenter is Europe's leading multi-vendor IT infrastructure services provider. Users want access to their data everywhere and from a wide range of devices: in the morning on their office PC, on the road with their smartphone or tablet PC, and in the evening from their Mac at home. Their (...)

22 August 2011

Cloud computing and virtualisation: Why IT automation matters.

IT organisations can obviously see potential benefits from using cloud computing and virtualisation, from cost savings to a flexible infrastructure. But research from UBM TechWeb for CA shows that many IT administrators are struggling to realise this potential without the use of IT services (...)

19 August 2011

Cloud computing and virtualisation: Why IT automation matters.

IT organisations can obviously see potential benefits from using cloud computing and virtualisation, from cost savings to a flexible infrastructure. But research from UBM TechWeb for CA shows that many IT administrators are struggling to realise this potential without the use of IT services (...)

19 August 2011

Keep device drivers updated with Windows 7 Device Installation Settings

Keep device drivers updated with Windows 7 Device Installation Settingsarticle rootWhich way do you choose?Do you let Microsoft update your drivers or do you do it yourself? I let Microsoft update everything but video drivers because I prefer the Nvidia supplied reference drivers.It is a (...)

17 August 2011

WinInstall 10.10.0010 (Windows)

WinInstall Lifecycyle Management Suite includes: Client Reset Templates. WinINSTALL's unique client reset technology allows IT administrators to build workflow templates around common desktop management tasks. Alternative to Imaging. Whether restoring a PC, deploying new hardware, or migrating (...)

16 August 2011

Automated data backup: Protect distributed data with a robust, security-rich backup and recovery system

Your business depends on consistent access to vital data. Without an automated data backup system, your organization can be vulnerable if your storage systems are compromised. This data sheet discusses how IBM can help with a professionally managed, cloud-based data backup and protection (...)

2 August 2011

Should you invest in GRC Tools?

An organization's GRC strategy is only as good as the tools used to implement it. Home grown GRC tools, perceived by many as a quick fix to undertake complex compliance requirements, often fail to scale and perform miserably leaving organizations on the brink of non-compliance.This paper takes (...)

2 August 2011

VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit: Private VMware vCloud Service Definition

Cloud computing is an approach to computing that leverages the efficient pooling of on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure that is consumed as a service. The cloud computing approach - made possible by sophisticated automation, provisioning, management, and virtualization technologies - (...)

1 August 2011

An RFID Based E-commerce Solution for the Implementation of Secure Unattended Stores

The present research concentrates on automation of retail process that involves customers. One can save on total man power required to manage a physical retail store and store tills if RFID at item level is implemented in a retail store. One can reduce number of persons at Security / Payment (...)

1 August 2011

VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit: Public VMware vCloud Service Definition

Cloud computing is an approach to computing that leverages the efficient pooling of on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure that is consumed as a service. The cloud computing approach - made possible by sophisticated automation, provisioning, management, and virtualization technologies - (...)

1 August 2011

VICTORY IS YOURS! Remotely manage multiple PCs easily with LogMeIn Central

Managing multiple computers and remote systems can seem like a never-ending battle. Now there's a way to win the war once and for all. With Central's web-based management console, you can:Keep systems up-to-date and secure by applying Windows Updates at the same timeDeploy LogMeIn Free or Pro (...)

29 July 2011

Improve results with BRMS in five key areas

Business rule management systems (BRMS) allow companies to automate complex decisions, freeing up time for the IT department to improve their products and save money. Business is becoming increasingly complex. There are constant demands, from complying with regulations and reforms, keeping (...)

29 July 2011

LabTech Software Free Trial

Looking for an affordable and powerful Managed Services tool to increase your service efficiency, productivity and profitability? Or, transform your break-fix model into a recurring managed services profit center? LabTech is the only Managed Services tool for remote monitoring, management, and (...)

19 July 2011

Call Center Services Provider Guarantees 99.999 Percent Uptime Assurance for Its SaaS Platform

The economy has accelerated many companies' willingness to outsource applications to control costs and gain flexibility. Despite perceived risks, even critical applications are becoming candidates for the cloud. USAN, a provider of hosted call center services to telecommunications companies (...)

13 July 2011

SemTrace: Semantic Requirements Tracing Using Explicit Requirement Knowledge

In the Software Engineering (SE) domain the EU challenge on semantic systems and services motivates better support of knowledge creation as well as better access of SE stakeholders to the knowledge they need to perform their activities. Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is the coordination (...)

10 July 2011

Microsoft Virtual Academy: System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Overview and Infrastructure (Module 6) : Software Update Management

System Center Configuration Manager 2012 has invested in Software Update Management (SUM) to make it easier to configure, deploy and maintain the software in the environment. Learn more about superseded updates, the SUM admin role, client agent settings, simplified update groups, automation, (...)

7 July 2011

Sumtotal Learning Maestro - Powerful Simplicity

Learning Maestro is an on-demand Internet-hosted talent development solution that enables organizations to capture, create, manage and share knowledge to improve workforce productivity, accelerate critical business processes, and drive organizational performance. The system centralizes and (...)

3 July 2011

Evaluator Group: HP's Converged Storage (A Vision for Emerging Customer Requirements)

HP and Intel are building a multifaceted storage product portfolio with a common foundation that will enable the integration of server and storage into Converged Systems. The most desirable storage solution technologies are represented including virtualization, data deduplication, automated (...)

1 July 2011

Nexho 1.5 (Mobile)

NEXHO is an application for home automation control. The existing menus allow to manage items such as HVAC, lighting, blinds, electrical generic equipment, flood alarms, fire alarms, intrusion alarms... This application has been designed to only work with our NEXHO range of products.For more (...)

17 June 2011

RadiaLE: A Framework for Designing and Assessing Link Quality Estimators in Wireless Sensor Networks

Stringent cost and energy constraints impose the use of low-cost and low-power radio transceivers in large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). This fact, together with the harsh characteristics of the physical environment, requires a rigorous WSN design. Mechanisms for WSN deployment and (...)

13 June 2011