Computer/IT Services
A Bloor InDetail Paper on Sybase IQ 15.1
Sybase IQ is a column-based relational database that has been designed specifically for analytics and business intelligence applications. It can offer a number of very significant advantages within a data warehousing environment, including performance, scalability and cost of ownership benefit...
A Closer Look at the Financial Benefits of Intelligent File Virtualization
F5 Acopia products virtualize existing file storage resources for dramatically reduced storage costs, improved resource utilization and simplified storage administration. As expected, there are normally significant capital expense (CapEx) and operation expense (OpEx) savings associated with the ...
Business continuity for minimising risk and achieving competitive advantage
Business continuity management (BCM) has become an established part of business planning for 21st Century companies, minimising the risk of threats from external factors in the form of infectious pandemics, terrorism and natural disasters or the failure of internal systems. However, while the former...
Disaster Recovery: Not Just Planning for the Worst
This paper describes how businesses can use F5 Networks’® BIG‑IP® Global Traffic Manager™ to leverage all the benefits of their secondary site in an active-active configuration to holistically manage their applications across multiple sites. This paper also describes how you can use BIG-...
Get Analytics Right from the Start
A decade ago, businesses, governments, even charitable foundations spent considerable time and effort in rationalizing and replacing the disparate legacy operational systems that consumed a major portion of the IT budget. Despite the enormous cost these efforts respresented as well as the risk of de...
Multi-Vendor Analysis: Cisco, EMC and VMware ignite the cloud marketplace
As businesses extend the benefits of virtualization from the data center to the desktop, they are laying the foundation for cloud computing: a computing environment driven by business policy that instantly reacts by automating tasks throughout the entire supporting infrastructure. Businesses are rap...
Power over Ethernet Plus - Update and Cabling Considerations
Power over Ethernet (PoE) – bundling power and data transfer in one cable – is becoming increasingly common on the market. Application options increase if higher power can be provided. This is why PoEplus will be launched in 2009. More electrical energy in the data cable automatically means...
Resultaten onderzoek ICT-fitheid van ondernemers
ICT’ers en ondernemers spreken een andere taal. Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek van kenniscentrum KMO-IT (www.kmo-it.be) en webhostingspecialist COMBELL (www.combell.com). Samen testten ze de ICT-fitheid van 1900 ondernemers: hun parate kennis van informatie- en communicatietechnologie (ICT). Plus...
Risk Analysis on the Fly: Fast Markets, Complex Portfolios
If the economic crisis of the past year has taught us anything, it is that more-active measurement and management of risk in complex portfolios and across complex trading organizations is a potential source of profound differentation. We need not look any further than the algorithmic trading communi...
The Future is Flexible: Working Practices in the 21st Century Organisation
Competitive success demands organisational flexibility so that employees can be close to customers. Thus work is no longer constrained to the nominal business hours of 9am to 5pm, nor is it contained within office walls. Business is conducted 24/7 and the workplace is wherever employees happen to be...
