Wireless intelligence sent back to the edge
News Trapeze Networks was one of three start-ups that pioneered the centralisation concept when it launched four years ago. One of the main vendors pushing the concept of centralised wireless networking has turned the technology on its head by...
[October 11, 2006, 13:05]
SICK AG - On Its Way to Information Lifecycle Management
White Papers It needed centralisation for its entire globally-operative corporate group, which had large volumes of data. SICK AG had a highly complex heterogeneous storage environment which had associated high costs.
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
Dundee City Council Chooses IBM System z9 Business Class
White Papers The Council wanted to consolidate servers and reduce software licensing costs; introduce full disaster recovery capabilities; make more effective use of IT budget through centralisation of resources and management.
[August 23, 2006, 0:00]
Specialist Consultant Helps IT Company Reduce Costs and Improve Customer Services
White Papers With the ESC, EDS initiated the centralisation and consolidation of the existing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 infrastructure and enhanced the services provided in various sites. Employees at the Europe, Middle East, and Africa division of...
[November 6, 2007, 0:00]
Borland updates tools for global development
News The company claimed that, although centralisation saves money, it can adversely affect performance; conversely, replication offers reasonable performance due to the higher proximity of network assets but can drain budgets from hardware, software...
[April 1, 2008, 14:04]
Napster: Guerilla tactics will hamper RIAA
News Open source variations on Napster, like Gnutella, have been developed and distributed freely on the Internet with no commercial centralisation. Gagging Napster may be the easiest task the RIAA has to face.
[July 27, 2000, 12:33]
High-tech cops hit back against ISP claims
Talkback As a new threat appears there is a new squad and no centralisation. If there was a hi-tech offices at each station it would be represented in "The Bill" often aclaimed as an acurate mirror of the Police.
[April 6, 2004, 15:08]
Forrester offers tips for outsourcing success
News While this may seem like an obvious step, Forrester found companies are failing to analyse the degree of IT centralisation and the role of IT in the overall performance of the business before picking an outsourcing option.
[October 3, 2007, 8:21]
Moving clients to an Active Directory environment: The benefits
News Centralisation sums up my primary reason for implementing Active Directory. Now that Microsoft has had the official launch ceremony for Windows Server 2003, Windows NT's days are numbered. Since Microsoft will soon be discontinuing support for...
[July 17, 2003, 13:27]
NHS patient data 'insecure', says group
News The centralisation is partly an effort to combat fraud, as it will enable investigators to more easily detect patterns across all NHS records. An information policy think tank has called for the NHS to improve its safeguards on patient privacy...
[February 5, 2003, 10:44]
Businesses urged to tackle mobile-working issues
News Butler Group said many remotely accessed applications are mission-critical to businesses but IT managers face issues with centralisation and manageability, poor performance, reliability and security. As the trend for flexible and remote working...
[October 4, 2007, 8:28]
Unions pour scorn on Vodafone layoffs
News These included the outsourcing of the company's IT application development and maintenance activities, as well as the centralisation of its data centres and network supply chain management activities.
[May 30, 2006, 17:00]
Oracle: Life after Ray Lane
News Like Lane, Bloom kept posturing and rhetoric to a minimum, focusing his remarks on the business case for moving toward more centralisation and Internet-based automation. For Oracle, is there life after Ray Lane?
[October 3, 2000, 9:34]
Wireless deployment at enterprise level
News The move toward centralisation has resulted in a corresponding move away from more "intelligent" WAPs and towards so-called "light" access points (also called Wireless Termination Points or WTPs) that are controlled by a centralised controller in...
[September 14, 2006, 15:40]
IBM prepares Notes update
News The capability could help rebuff efforts by Microsoft and others to recruit Notes developers alienated by Lotus' increasing centralisation on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition language. IBM plans to add connections to its DB2 database software and a...
[August 6, 2004, 13:00]
P2P firms claim filtering 'impossible'
News Peer-to-peer companies say they don't intend to add those centralisation features to their software and note that a federal judge has said that decentralised file-swapping network tools such as Gnutella are legal to distribute.
[January 29, 2004, 8:00]
Smaller databases best, even if they restrict police
News Discrete databases make it easier to set appropriate rules for access and storage, which is why the Conservative Party is against centralisation of data, shadow security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones tells ZDNet UK.
[November 11, 2008, 15:00]
Privacy tsar: Gov't will collect less data
News I think we will see less instinctive centralisation and less government collection of personal data in future years," he said. The outgoing information commissioner has predicted that government will reverse the trend to collect more personal data.
[May 15, 2009, 15:37]
Deployment guidelines for WLANs
News Centralisation is generally a better approach cost-wise, but performance issues may lead to a distributed approach. What you need to know As more vendor choices become available, wireless local area network (LAN) deployment can be a confusing...
[May 19, 2004, 12:30]
