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In the first of this series of three white papers, Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies defines what data governance is and then looks at the requirements that need to...
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There is growing interest on behalf of both data management professionals and senior business managers to understand the motivations, mechanics, and benefits of instituting data governance within an organization. This...
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Master data management forms part of an overall enterprise governance program that aims to establish trusted data throughout the enterprise. This white paper from Mike Ferguson of Intelligent Business Strategies...
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Companies worldwide struggle with inconsistent, inaccurate or unreliable data - and often don't know how to build more useful corporate information. This white paper examines a five-step method for...
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A shift is underway from simple automation to business optimization, and information is at the center of it. Information, when aligned with your business strategy, holds the key to
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Effective standby generator system installations must address the known problems and challenges relating to current and past designs. This paper presents a categorized and prioritized overview of generator system challenges...
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This note explains the sources of downtime in Electric Power Systems and provides an explanation for site-to-site variations in Power Availability. The the factors affecting power quality from generation to...
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The lead-acid battery is the predominant choice for Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) energy storage. Over 10 million UPSs are presently installed utilizing Flooded, Valve Regulated Lead Acid (VRLA), and High...
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Data centers are routinely and unknowingly missing a great portion of their entitlement from virtualization. In particular, row-based cooling, correctly sized power and cooling, and real-time capacity management are essential...
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New breakthroughs in power and cooling technology allow for a simple and rapid deployment of self-contained high density zones within an existing or new low density data center. The independence...
The web has no geographical barriers: We're used to making that point nowadays so it's become a bit blasé, but it's truly earth-shattering for a world constructed around physical and political space. But the advent of internet cafés and giving low...
The dot-com crash has been spectacular, sudden and dramatic, but is it art? An exhibition in San Francisco claims to be the first art show to chronicle the demise of the ecommerce start-up industry. Irrespective of whether it has any merit as a...
Sun's philosophy, by contrast, is to use a stacking-block approach of standardized "integratable" components, allowing Sun products to be easily exchanged with other companies' products. Today, Microsoft has emerged largely unscathed from its long...
Courts in the US have held that this does not include saving information such as a song onto a computer's hard drive, but that selling the information on a physical media such as a disc at an in-store kiosk could be covered.
Each motion sought to invalidate TVI patents cited in the case, on grounds of prior art and other causes. A federal judge ruled against Microsoft on Wednesday in a patent suit challenging "AutoPlay" technology included in recent versions of...
Alongside the growing digital asset library of its physical collections, the museum, which specialises in art and design, is also compiling an archive of wholly digital artefacts for posterity and the storage upgrade will form the cornerstone of...