Picking the right storage vendor
News These second tier service providers monitor your system in real time, respond to problems before they develop, and are right there with you when something catastrophic occurs. This first tier of providers works hard to produce innovative, quality...
[October 19, 2004, 12:05]
EBay starts to track sellers' footsteps
News The second tier of the authentication service will be used with sellers who offer high-value goods. As part of the first tier of the new authentication service, eBay will use VeriSign's system to verify the identities of sellers when they register...
[May 8, 2002, 14:37]
Marc Ambasna-Jones's Diary
News So come on all you tier three vendors start kicking some ass. We were sitting here wondering which tier two and three vendors have gone under recently. The company's one saving grace is that it is a technology vendor, not an assembler.
[January 24, 1998, 7:00]
vCharter Pro review
Reviews We created an end-user tier that contained the Linux firewall used to provide access to the accountancy server, and another tier that contained the Windows-based application server and its outbound firewall.
[July 3, 2008, 9:11]
Microsoft: Best of breed doesn't work
News The industry needs true open standards, he contended, "with no first tier and second tier services" depending on which platform people are accessing them from. The question is, what type of environment will help you work; one that says focus on one...
[March 4, 2002, 16:34]
Jim Allchin bet on the right man
News Sources say he played a key role in rethinking the way Microsoft conducted its Rapid Deployment Program, the software testing program that the company conducts in conjunction with its top-tier customers.
[December 15, 1999, 6:10]
Outage points to depth of P2P arsenal
News Although Morpheus and rival Kazaa Media Desktop remain the file-swapping tools of choice, a raft of second-tier peer-to-peer products together drew more than 1 million downloads in the past week, according to CNET Download.com, a software...
[March 7, 2002, 9:11]
Is your application .Net ready?
News Application tier supported by COM objects Strong partitioning at the data tier typically relies on encapsulating data manipulation logic within stored procedures. With luck or prescience, you will find the presentation tier coded in a single...
[January 16, 2003, 9:19]
Simplifying the Management of Tier 1 ERP Systems for Mid-Sized Companies
White Papers When CEOs, CFOs and CIOs of mid-sized companies face the prospect of transitioning to a top-tier enterprise application system, one of the most problematic issues they must address is maintaining and upgrading the system after it's in place.
[December 1, 2009, 8:06]
Enterprise Solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server
White Papers E-mail has become the most visible of the tier 1 applications. So if one depends on Microsoft Exchange Server, the marketshare leader in e-mail solutions, he or she needs a highly reliable storage infrastructure that maximizes data availability.
[February 20, 2008, 0:02]
Nortel Network Case Study: CLSA
White Papers Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Hong Kong, CLSA's major shareholder is France's Credit Agricole, the world's 6th largest bank by Tier One capital and 7th by assets. CLSA is an award-winning brokerage, investment banking and private equity...
[January 11, 2008, 0:01]
The Data Center Tier Performance Standards and Their Importance to the Owners Project Requirements
White Papers One of the principal changes has been the development of the Tier Performance Standards. The standards provide quantifiable plateau's or Tier Levels. Tier Levels provide an objective basis for comparing the capabilities of a particular design...
[April 11, 2008, 1:02]
The Data Center Tier Performance Standards and Their Importance to the Owner's Project Requirements
White Papers One of the principal changes has been the development of the Tier Performance Standards. Tier Levels provide an objective basis for comparing the capabilities of a particular design topology against other designs as well as the associated site...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
MSDN Webcast: Visual Basic .NET Soup to Nuts: Building a Multi-Tier Business Application (Level 200)
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn how building business applications with a multi-tier architecture can enable one to build an application for maintainability, reusability, and extensibility. This webcast shows how a person can build a multi...
[July 5, 2007, 1:00]
XML Guide for Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST)
White Papers DST allows specifying target storage volumes for file creation (where to allocate blocks for new files) and for file relocation (where to allocate replacement blocks when migrating a file from one storage tier to another).
[May 26, 2007, 1:00]
Magma Design Automation Chooses Appro HyperBlade Cluster Solutions
White Papers After much consideration, the company decided to skip over tier one vendors like IBM and Sun Microsystems and purchase a clustering environment from a smaller local vendor. The hundreds of servers that made up Magma Design Automation's Linux-based...
[April 4, 2007, 1:00]
Building Blocks to Evolving Your Analytic Practice
White Papers Building a top tier analytics practice is an evolution. It should grow and strengthen from past experiences and vision on where one needs to go. Although many CRM systems claim they will answer all the analytic questions that are needed, many of...
[April 28, 2007, 1:00]
Agency Chooses New Technology to Drive Up Tourism and Strengthen Customer Relations
White Papers To address this issue and more, they utilized the research of a tier-one customer relationship management consultancy and selected Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM 4.0. The goal of South African Tourism's global employees is to increase tourism to the...
[October 28, 2009, 8:45]
Using Dynamic Storage Tiering: How the Veritas Storage Foundation Helps You Get the Most From Multi-Tier Online Storage
White Papers It describes the multi-tier storage value proposition, the Storage Foundation solution, the Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) facility, and provides best practices, recommendations for use, and detailed technical guidelines.
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
BERTL iTchat: Samsung UK's Ambitious Plans for B2B Domination
White Papers Samsung has a bold mission - to become a top tier player in the global laser printer market by 2012, narrowing the gap between it and the market leader HP. As a major player in the semiconductor, flat panel TV and mobile phone markets, Samsung has...
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]



