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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...
[December 31, 2006, 23:00]
Shipping Company Cuts IT Management Costs By 25 Percent With New Solution
White Papers ABX Turners Shipping provides companies around the world with freight management and logistics services. To control rising IT costs associated with the company's growth, ABX deployed Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007.
[August 30, 2007, 0:00]
Attica-Enterprises Shipping Group Of Companies Standardises Backup And Delivers 24/7 Availability
White Papers In the highly competitive and challenging shipping market, businesses like online services from Attica Enterprises cannot afford to have less than 100 per cent reliable networks. Attica Enterprises is the parent company of the Superfast Ferries...
[May 31, 2005, 0:00]
Global Shipping Company Upgrades Messaging System, Improves Mobile Access
White Papers DHL, a leading international shipping company with operations in more than 220 countries and territories, wanted to improve the availability, security, and features of its mobile messaging, while replacing expensive older technologies.
[November 14, 2006, 23:00]
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]
Global Shipping Organization Sharpens Its Commercial Edge In A Highly Competitive Sector
White Papers A leading Asia Pacific feeder and container shipping operator striving to maintain its competitive edge in this business environment, like other businesses in the same sector, must ensure timely information delivery to support the industry's bills...
[April 18, 2005, 0:00]
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]
Amazon Vows To Keep Free Shipping
Talkback The cost of Amazon's shipping is borne by their suppliers. Amazon dictate the amount of shipping the shipper can recover and it is very much lower than actual cost. If Amazon's profits continue to fall expect the range of products available to...
[July 26, 2004, 11:18]
Maritime Shipping Agency Wins Global Business With Integrated Extranet Portal
White Papers Rhode Island-based Moran Shipping Agencies is the largest independent shipping agent in the U.S.handling over 5,000 port calls per year for many of the world's most prominent ship owners, oil companies, and commodity traders.
[October 13, 2006, 0:00]
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]
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]
Google Patents Data Centre In A Shipping Container
News Google has patented the idea of putting a complete data centre in a shipping container. According to the technology columnist, Robert X Cringley, Google first mooted the idea of installing a data centre in a shipping container two years ago, but he...
[October 11, 2007, 18:04]
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]
Security: Improving The Security Of The Global Sea-Container Shipping System
White Papers In light of the new terrorism, the security of the global sea-container shipping system needs to be reviewed and systematically analyzed. A systematic review of global container commerce with an eye to improving system wide security is required.
[December 12, 2004, 23:00]
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 6, 2006, 23:00]
Genica Achieves Total Automation Of Ordering, Processing, And Shipping
White Papers Following implementation of Microsoft Business Solutions, they have achieved “total automation” of the ordering, processing, inventory, and shipping processes. Genica Corporation sells computers and peripherals to businesses, resellers, and consumers.
[November 13, 2003, 23:00]
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]
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]
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Log Shipping
White Papers In this session, we will discuss the new SQL Server Log Shipping feature and the enhancement made to this newly automated feature. We will explain the enhancement and the challenges you may encounter when you deploy Log Shipping on the Enterprise...
[November 11, 2003, 23:00]
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]
