FHS: First in its flight-control system’s class

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White Paper: Presentation: The Payoff of Driving Requirements Management Across Product Development

Requirements-driven product development case studies in aerospace and defense, medical electronics, and the automotive sector. Join our panel of experts from EADS, CareFusion, and Chrysler as they discuss their experiences in implementing a structured approach to requirements management based on IBM Rational software. During the presentation and discussion you will hear real-world experiences of how industry leaders: • Use proven best practices to improve product quality and reduce time to market • Integrate diverse teams around a common view of product requirements • Validate and verify requirements across all levels of system decomposition • Manage the growing complexity of systems development

Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Mobile Data: An Information-Centric Security Strategy

Sharing data among internal IT environments, mobile users, and applications or remote monitoring systems outside the firewall can expose organizations to multiple points of vulnerability. Dell, EMC, and RSA have teamed up to provide an efficient and flexible information-centric security strategy spanning the enterprise infrastructure from client laptops through applications and storage systems.

Robust, Efficient Data Protection with Symantec Backup Exec 2010

The Symantec? Backup Exec? 2010 solution delivers comprehensive data protection from server to desktop. New features such as data deduplication and archiving help to reduce storage costs and increase backup performance, while support for the latest Microsoft® Windows® platforms and granular recovery from virtualized application servers help to simplify management for IT administrators.

The 3 Rs: Refresh, Renew, Redeploy

Managing a fleet of desktops, laptops, and workstations across an enterprise presents major challenges. What are the best ways to simplify IT management, enhance security, and boost your employees? productivity? What changes might help reduce energy use and ensure environmental sustainability? How can you make the most of your company?s investments in client systems throughout their life spans?Following the three Rs?the three key strategies of refreshing, renewing, and redeploying?can help your business address these daily challenges. By refreshing legacy client systems with latest-generation hardware, employees and IT staff alike can gain the productivity, security, and efficiency benefits of advanced features and technologies. And by renewing existing systems with new software tools or hardware components, or redeploying these systems for new purposes, you can extract maximum value from the investments you?ve already made.

Where Android beats the iPhone

Can Google Android phones compete with the Apple iPhone? A few weeks ago, Google loaned me a Nexus One smartphone for experimentation, and I've spent the time since downloading applications and writing my own code. The good news is that the platform is not only competitive but is often a better choice than the iPhone for many programmers and the enterprises that employ them.

Top 10 desktop replacement laptops

Starting around $1,500 and typically costing thousands more, the systems reviewed here stretch the term "laptop" to the limit. They're big and bulky, sometimes weighing 10 pounds or more, and three hours of battery life is about all you can expect. But with their fast dual-core and quad-core processors, discrete graphics, gobs of RAM, and big beautiful screens, these are the luxury sports sedans of mobile computing. They have plenty of horsepower for gaming and often deliver the goods for home theater as well.

InfoWorld review: Dell PowerConnect 8024F hits 10G paydirt

Ah, the rarified air of 10G switching, very fast, very expensive, very exclusive -- until now. Dell has unveiled a 24-port 10G switch that, priced at $10,088, comes in at around $416 per SFP+ port. Now that's cheap.

Smarter system development: a systems engineering trade study

Refine marketplace demands into robust systems requirements to support green initiatives with model-driven development.

Systems development in the twenty-first century: delivering business value by connecting people, processes and tools

The complexity of smarter products-which comprise an interconnected network of systems, software and hardware-makes development projects more complex and presents management and quality challenges. Poorly managed projects can decimate budgets and schedules, and poor-quality products can diminish brand equity and ruin customer confidence and relationships with those customers.

Delivering smarter, better products faster---with reduced cost and risk

Producing smarter products and systems can be challenging. IBM offers a comprehensive solution that can help you improve the quality of your systems while helping reduce your cost and risk.

Arm sees over 50 new iPad-like devices out this year

The launch of Apple's iPad will pave the way for a slew of rival products this year, an Arm executive said Wednesday, predicting over 50 tablet PC devices will be launched globally.

Ex-Sun chief dishes dirt on Gates, Jobs

Don't expect Jonathan Schwartz to go quietly.

Rackspace hires to align with MySQL offshoot

A number of former Sun Microsystems employees who worked on Drizzle, an offshoot of the MySQL open-source database, have ended up at cloud infrastructure provider Rackspace, where they will continue their efforts, developer Jay Pipes wrote in a blog post Monday.

Practical priorities in PCI DSS logging

PCI security guidance mandates not only the creation of logs and retention, but also their review. It is essential that your logging policy and procedures cover such daily review tasks, whether using log management tools or manually.

Indian banker charged with online funds fraud

A senior Indian banker has been arrested by Indian police for an online fraud in which hackers siphoned close to 2.7 million Indian rupees (US$60,000) from a bank account, a senior police official of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu said on Wednesday.

Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing

Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.

Arm Sees Over 50 New IPad-like Devices out This Year

The launch of Apple's iPad will pave the way for over 50 rival tablet PC devices to be launched globally, an Arm executive said Wednesday.

Indian Banker Charged With Online Funds Fraud

Indian banker held for hacking into a bank account to siphon out funds

Samsung?s 3D TVs: Bold and Bright

Samsung?s 3D TV technology arrives in new LED, LCD, and plasma TVs; new content arrives from DreamWorks and Samsung?s new HDTV apps store.

British hopeless at backing up PCs

Germans and French plan for disasterEuropeans differ in their approach to PC backup, a new survey has found. The Germans do it efficiently, the French with enthusiasm, while the British sometimes have trouble taking it seriously at all.

EMC offers deduplication for VWware on Celerra NAS

Free plug-ins allows automated fail overEMC announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments.

How to ensure your network security

Complement your monitoring with endpoint securityWhen I visit my company's overseas offices, I'm often asked what we can do to control USB ports and other external connectors in order to prevent the loss of intellectual property. That's a goal I'm always interested in pursuing.

Major Problem Reviews in 6 Easy Pieces

If you are ITIL certified then you remember Major Problem Reviews (MPR). You may still remember that Problem Management performs a MPR after resolving a major problem to identify...

Did the Chicken & Egg Know About Change & Configuration?

If there is a "burning question" as an organization drives its ITIL process implementation through the planning stages, it is "... which comes first - Change or Configuration Management?" And, as if that were not enough of a challenge, it is followed by, "Can you do one without the other?" and, close on its heels, "If you do one without the other will you achieve any meaningful level of success?"

CSF's, KPI's, Metrics, Outcomes and Benefits

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

Service catalogs

Everything you want to know, but were afraid to ask With the recent economic downturn, many IT organizations are increasingly of the need to partner with their customers to ensure they are delivering the right services at the right price. Service catalogs are a powerful tool for ensuring your alignment with your customers, and for providing greater visibility and cost control capabilities. Not only does it allow your customers the ability to maximize their utilization of IT, it also provides a central part of any shared service or ITIL service management implementation. Despite being a critical element central to many processes, a service catalog can be difficult to implement. Many service catalog projects underestimate the effort or leave out critical components. These result in systems or documents that languish on the shelf and have little or no use. Often the focus of the project is on the activity or the specific technology and not the intended business use leading to a lack of adoption by the business. In a recent survey only 57% of the respondents characterized their service catalog implementations as successful. What can be done to ensure your service catalog project is not one of those left on the shelf? What can you do to make sure it is successful? Our experience across many service catalog implementations both large and small has shown that the keys to success lie in these four domains: Motivation: A mutual understanding and clear communication of the reasons why you should implement a service catalog is critical for engaging your stakeholders and ultimately is essential to success Design: The initial design of service catalog should be built with the customer in mind, emphasizing their business needs Implementation: There are some common pitfalls during the initial implementation that can easily be avoided Managing: Ongoing success results from the infrastructure and processes to manage the service catalog over the long term This article explores each of these areas listing five key insights, or top tips, to keep in mind when building your service catalog Motivation: Why implement a service catalog? For any project to be successful all the stakeholders need to know the reasons the project is undertaken and have a common vision of the goals. Here are the key reasons both IT and the business will benefit from the service catalog. Brings IT closer to the business ? Until you start to define what you do in terms that the business can understand and align yourself in a way that clearly supports what the business does, you are still in a technology silo and not doing real service management.

The 7 Software Development Wastes - Lean series Part 5 - Motion

Motion - Task Switching Waste #5 in manufacturing is defined as Motion. And motion can be compared to "task switching" in Software Development - as defined by the thought leaders applying Lean thinking to software development.

The Art of Having Fun

Taking it all a little less seriously can be good for your project health ?I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by? Douglas Adams (Author of ?The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy?) You have to laugh; well I think you have to laugh. Without a little bit of fun in every project then the project world can be a dark and depressing place.

Chimpp: A Click-based Programming and Simulation Environment for Reconfigurable Networking Hardware

HPL-2010-25 Chimpp: A Click-based Programming and Simulation Environment for Reconfigurable Networking Hardware - Rubow, Erik; McGeer, Rick; Mogul, Jeffrey C.; Vahdat, Amin Keyword(s): FPGAs, modular programming, Click Abstract: Reconfigurable network hardware makes it easier to experiment with and prototype high-speed networking systems. However, these devices are still relatively hard to program; for example, the NetFPGA requires users to develop in Verilog. Further, these devices are commonly designed to work with softwa ... Full Report

Estimation of chain-dependent survival distributions from censored observations

HPL-2010-31 Estimation of chain-dependent survival distributions from censored observations - Dyer, Justin S.; Tang, Hsin-Khuern Keyword(s): no keywords Abstract: We present a survival model for data with multiple recurrent events of several interrelated types, such as might arise from customer transactions on a website. The model is based on a semi-Markov chain that drives several renewal processes. We develop a computationally tractable expectation-maximiza ... Full Report

Consumer Image Retrieval by Estimating Relation Tree From Family Photo Collections

HPL-2010-32 Consumer Image Retrieval by Estimating Relation Tree From Family Photo Collections - Zhang, Tong; Chao, Hui; Willis, Chris; Tretter, Dan Keyword(s): Consumer image retrieval, family relation tree, face analysis, face clustering, demographic assessment, and social networking. Abstract: In this paper, we propose an approach to automatically estimate relationship among people in a family image collection based on results from face analyses technologies including automated face recognition and clustering, demographic assessment, and face similarity measurement, as well as contextual ... Full Report

Sun’s Open Source Chief Steps Down

Sun’s Open Source Chief Steps Down (http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Open-Source/Sun-Open-Source-Chief-Steps-Down.html)Chief open source officer Simon Phipps has left Sun following its much-delayed acquisition...

FBI Nabs California Cyber-Extortionist

FBI Nabs California Cyber-Extortionist (http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Security/FBI-Nabs-California-Cyber-Extortionist.html) A California man's attempt to take an insurance company for $200,000 shows how easily companies can...

Eight Top Text Analytics Vendors

Eight Top Text Analytics Vendors (http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Business-Intelligence/Eight-Top-Text-Analytics-Vendors.html) The text analytics business is quickly coming of age. Here are eight vendors that are...

Setting up Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2010

Welcome to the first of a 4 part series where I'll be guiding you through the do's and don'ts of setting up SharePoint FBA on different versions of the SharePoint platforms, being MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010.

Partner Spotlight: Mint Management Technologies

Mint Management Technologies (Pty) Ltd was established in 1971 and has rendered market intelligence gathering and deployment solutions to South African corporate and multi-national companies for over 38 years.

SPoint.me ? The SharePoint Social Network

It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to SPoint.me . SPoint is aiming to become the premier Social Network for people in the SharePoint Industry. Its a little bit of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, and Wordpress, all rolled into one.

The Experts? Take on Business Analysis and Agile

If you ask Business Analysts what they think about ?Agile?, you?re likely to get a mixed bag of answers... With so many different ideas on what Agile is and how Agile impacts the Business Analysis profession, we decided to talk with leading experts in the Agile field and get their opinions on the subject.

What is a Business Rule?

For business analysts, understanding decision logic from the perspective of business people is key. For that you need business rules. But when can a rule be considered a business rule, and when not? This article presents five pragmatic tests for knowing when you have identified a true business rule.

What the CIO Needs: BA?s and Understanding the Stakeholder

Business Analysts are required to contribute to a project in a number of ways: primarily by identifying the needs of the target community; building the Communications Plan; defining use case models; and Business Requirements document. In order to do their job effectively a large element of a BA?s time must be spent understanding and managing stakeholders in the project... From a CIO?s viewpoint the skills they look for in a good Business Analyst include an aspect of stakeholder management and an ability to find a path through the likely problem zones.

Live Expert Chat: The A to Z of Desktop Virtualization with Microsoft – Learn How to Enable Faster Windows 7, Application Deployment and maintenance and Much More

Join this chat to get answers from experts on how Desktop Virtualization can help you save costs, add more flexibility, better management and security in your Enterprise. Post questions now and review the answer during the live chat on March 23rd from 11am-2pm ET. Published by: Microsoft

Quantifying the Value of a Business Rule Management System

Extend and enhance key Microsoft technologies with rule technology, and quantify ROI for the CFO. This paper provides:  factors for determining the ROI of implementing rule technology, IT and Business cost considerations, User implementation example and Description of RuleVantage, an online tool for analyzing costs for your unique requirements. Published by: InRule Technology

Clinical Collaboration on BlackBerry 'In Action' - Customer Testimonials

Hear from customers in major medical facilities across the USA speak to their success in implementing the BlackBerry® Healthcare Solution. Published by: BlackBerry

Virtualization with the Intel Xeon Processor: A Proof of Concept

Intel IT, together with Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, End User Platform Integration, and Intel's Software and Services Group, conducted proof-of-concept testing and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis to assess the virtualization capabilities of Intel Xeon processor 5500 series. Read this whitepaper to learn how to support approximately twice as many virtual machines for the same TCO.

A Smart Path To Virtualization

As server virtualization continues to transform the data center, enterprises have some critical decisions to make. How will they migrate to a fully virtualized environment? How should the IT infrastructure be configured for maximum business benefit? Dell is partnering with other industry leaders to build a flexible, industry-standard approach that helps simplify the transition.

A Cure for Server Sprawl

Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting helps DeKalb Medical create a virtualized server environment to eliminate up to 90 servers and reduce power consumption by an anticipated 20 percent.