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Shipping Company Halves Data Backup Time, Lowers Costs, Boosts Dependability
White Papers Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) USA is a subsidiary of a Geneva, Switzerland - based shipping company that operates 352 container vessels worldwide. The 10-person MSC USA IT infrastructure staff manages the data, computers, and network for 1...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Shipping Firm With 5 Terabytes of Data Deploys SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring
White Papers As second largest container ship line in the world, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) relies on its 5-terabyte database that tracks more than 15 billion transactions a year. With annual growth of 30 percent and an ever-more data requests from...
[January 1, 2007, 0:00]
Shipping is expensive across borders
Talkback I am in Greece where many items are more expensive but savings are often cancelled by very high shipping charges. Where postal service is used, delivery times are in weeks rather than days.
[October 26, 2009, 15:56]
Shipping Company Abandons Open Source Software for Integrated E-Mail and Operating System
White Papers Leading Baltic shipping company Lisco Baltic Service, which has cargo and passengers ferry lines from Lithuania to Germany, Sweden and Russia, decided to update its ageing Open Source IT infrastructure.
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
Shipping Test Examines RFID Label Durability
White Papers With vendor charge-backs for unreadable RFID labels an impending likelihood, concerns about RFID label durability during the shipping process are substantial. However, despite the prevalence of in-house laboratory testing that can quickly validate...
[November 23, 2006, 0:00]
Photos: Data centre in a shipping container
News On Friday Sun invited ZDNet.co.uk to an army museum in London to see what it is calling the world's first "virtualised data centre" — basically a data centre housed in a standard 20-foot shipping container.
[May 21, 2007, 17:52]
AMD starts shipping its 65nm chips
News Intel first began shipping 65nm chips in October 2005. Kepler also reiterated the company's goal of shipping chips on the 45nm process in 18 months, a shorter than normal time period between manufacturing nodes.
[December 5, 2006, 8:23]
Intel starts shipping 160GB solid-state drives
News Intel has begun shipping its 160GB solid-state drives, the manufacturer announced on Monday. The Sata solid-state drives (SSDs) were first announced in April, and come in two form factors — the 2.5-inch X25-M model is shipping to laptop...
[December 23, 2008, 11:37]
Palm begins shipping new PDA
News Palm today began shipping its latest handheld PDA, the Palm m105, in the US. The company said the device will be available world-wide from mid-March, and will cost £169. The m105 is the first Palm device to include as standard the company's Mobile...
[March 6, 2001, 11:31]
MS appeals injunction, offers shipping options
News While seeking an appeals hearing, Microsoft will comply with Judge Jackson's injunction by offering PC makers three options: They can ship the same version of Windows 95 they have been shipping all along with IE integrated if they choose; they can...
[December 16, 1997, 14:50]
Revolutionizing Military Supply Chains and Shipping Ammunition at the Blue Grass Army Depot
White Papers The Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) is responsible for shipping hundreds of containers per day to support various levels of armed conflict. The Savi Technology solution combines linear bar codes, Two Dimensional (2D) barcodes, and active RFID tags...
[June 16, 2006, 0:00]
Zim Integrated Shipping Services Delivers Secure SSL VPN as Easy as Connecting the Dots
White Papers Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd.is one of the largest container-shipping companies in the world. Zim faces the daunting task of maintaining information security while providing high-performance network access.
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
Blank Blu-ray disks shipping
News Japan's TDK has started shipping blank Blu-ray discs to retailers, and they cost about as much as a first-run movie on DVD. A 25GB recordable disc costs $19.95 (£11.50), according to the Blu-ray Disc Association, the trade group behind the next...
[April 11, 2006, 10:40]
Microsoft SQL Server 2000: Using Log Shipping
White Papers In this session we will discuss various aspects of the log shipping component of SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. We will examine the following aspects of SQL Server log shipping: setup, monitoring, modifying parameters, security configuration...
[November 11, 2003, 23:00]
Intel stops shipping faulty server chip
News Intel has stopped shipping its top-end server chip because of a bug that could cause servers to crash. Intel began shipping the chip, the Pentium III Xeon with 2MB of high-speed "cache" memory, in March.
[July 11, 2001, 9:06]
Amazon bug charges customers for 'free' shipping
News Amazon.com over the past week charged thousands of its customers for "free" shipping and did not apply discounts they were supposed to receive, the e-commerce giant said on Thursday. The problem affected only a portion of Amazon's customers who...
[September 27, 2002, 11:58]
Apple confirms Xserve G5 shipping delay
News Apple Computer on Monday confirmed it is behind schedule in shipping its Xserve G5 rack-mounted server. Apple had originally said it would start shipping the product in February, but now says it failed to reach that goal and instead hopes to ship...
[March 9, 2004, 8:05]
Networking Academy Program Launches Singapore Shipping Coordinator Into Promising New IT Career
White Papers The routine of his job as coordinator for a shipping company was boring, and his job satisfaction was very low. At 38 years of age, Khor Kean Hock was in a job that was going nowhere. With the encouragement and support of his wife, he decided to...
[April 13, 2007, 1:01]
Tracking Reusable Metal Shipping Containers Using Passive RFID
White Papers The evaluation focused on tracking large steel shipping containers and their contents as part of a parts distribution system. This paper looks at two main problem areas; tracking the containers throughout their lifetime using a permanent durable...
[August 14, 2009, 4:40]
Paxar's RFID Shipping Label Test Provides Durability Data
White Papers In Paxar's recent shipping study, the read strength of RFID transponders embedded in shipping labels affixed to 25 cases, was initially measured inside a precision anechoic chamber located in Paxar's RFID laboratory.
[December 7, 2006, 0:00]
