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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Quad CPUs gives Exinda WAN optimization a kick New top line model ups throughput to 10 Gbps thanks to new processors. An industry analyst says data centres can take advantage of more powerful WAN optimization
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Eight levels of analytics You may have two, three or even four levels of analytics at your business. But are you using the ones that really matter? SAS outlines the eight levels of analytics at an invitation-only event in Vegas
Monday, August 17, 2009
Symantec reduces data management complexity with de-duplication strategy Symantec wants companies to adopt a "stop buying storage philosophy" by employing data de-duplication strategy 
Monday, October 27, 2008
Step away from the printer: Optimize your fleet Print optimization can save businesses a lot of money, but CIOs remain elusive adopters. HP and others give advice on how IT managers might change their minds
Thursday, March 06, 2008
WAN acceleration market to double: Infonetics A market researcher says globalization and telecommuting will drive demand for wide-area network optimization equipment from vendors like Riverbed, Blue Coat and Cisco. Get the latest outlook on Gigabit Ethernet
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Citrix takes orbital route to branches Citrix Systems Inc. has been steadily collecting technologies aimed at delivering applications and information in ways that are faster, friendlier and more secure. The latest acquisition of Orbital Data Corp. for US$50 million means the company will be a very significant competitor to Cisco Systems Inc. in the branch office, analysts say. 
Thursday, June 22, 2006
WAFS may offer WAN relief for data centres If you are a large enterprise customer with many sites or with many data centres sending large amounts of data over the WAN, you need to learn about WAFS. WAFS, or Wide Area Files Services, is a relatively new technology for an old concept. The goal of WAFS is to make file services and links across the wide area more efficient.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
CERN to offer secure grid CERN, the Geneva-based nuclear physics research center, has launched a collaborative effort with some of the biggest names in IT to tighten up security on its landmark Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project, as well as working on platform virtualization and the interoperability of grid software. 
Thursday, January 19, 2006
App acceleration food for thought Application acceleration is a broad term, encompassing devices such as wide area network (WAN) optimization gear, Layer 4-7 switching, compression, caching, TCP/IP and SSL offload and application security and firewalling capabilities. George Kurian, Cisco’s vice-president of application delivery products, helped kick off the discussion about what problems application acceleration gear is supposed to solve.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
SlipStream aims to accelerate wireless carriers With the same techonology SlipStream Data Inc. employs to help ISPs get a faster Internet connection for their customers, the Waterloo, Ont.-based company announced last month it would address similar needs for wireless carriers.
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Supply chain whirl Five years ago, Whirlpool began an effort to turn around its global supply chain. The company is seeing results, but it's not done yet.
Saturday, November 13, 2004
Customer experience optimization: the new CEO The customer experience, at every interaction, affects future revenue and profit. Customer experience optimization ensures that his or her experience across channels and marketing media reinforce the organization’s basic brand value proposition. The Meta Group outlines how to achieve CEO in 10 steps. 
Thursday, November 20, 2003
German IT users continue cutting costs to the bone Times are tough for IT managers in Germany where an ailing economy has prompted numerous enterprises to slash costs for computer equipment and services. That was the unavoidable message at the two-day IT Meets Business conference, which opened Monday in Munich.
Sunday, March 30, 2003
Revenue optimization software Just about all any business is looking for is a way to maintain precisely the right amount of product inventory or resources to supply a service and to know the highest possible price the market will bear for its products or services.
Monday, August 05, 2002
Database horizons The modern database era began in 1970, when E.F. Codd published his paper "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks." His ideas enabled the logical manipulation of data to be independent of its physical location, greatly simplifying the work of application developers.
Sunday, April 14, 2002
Trucking firm uses optimizing tool to manage operations Contract Freighters Inc. (CFI) was looking for a way to cut costs by better matching drivers to the loads that needed to be delivered.
Sunday, August 26, 2001
Process optimizing One of the bigger challenges facing manufacturing companies is shipping products on time, but typically once products are shipped, the manufacturer's job is done. That's not the case at Equistar Chemicals LP, a petrochemical company that converts chemicals into pellets used to make plastic bags and other products. In polymer processing, lot-to-lot consistency is important, and customers often need to know the exact conditions under which a rail-size shipment of plastic pellets was manufactured.
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