You are here: silicon.com > Resources > White Papers > Professions and Industries > Government > Procurement and Sourcing

Procurement and Sourcing White Papers

Reliability Models for Electric Power Systems

Overview 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 the utilization point are summarized. There is a qualitative description of a model which can be combined with data to provide a method for estimating down time based on site-related factors.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	American Power Conversion (APC)	File Format	HTML & PDF
Date Published	April 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Procurement and Sourcing, Knowledge and Data Management, VoIP - IP Telephony, TCP - IP

Did you find this white paper useful? 1 out of 4 users found this white paper useful

HP ProCurve Network Immunity Manager v2: Event Interpretation

This paper is intended to inform administrators about Network Immunity Manager (NIM) events and how to interpret them. It will also provide a guide to follow while optimizing NIM in...

Publisher:
Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Tags:
procurement and sourcing

Imperial College Streamlines Purchasing and Improves Efficiency With e-Auction-Based Sourcing

Imperial College wanted to maintain and improve the college's position as a leading academic institution with the help of very careful spending and realize greater savings and efficiencies across all...

Publisher:
Oracle

Tags:
procurement - purchasing

Reliability Models for Electric Power Systems

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...

Publisher:
American Power Conversion (APC)

HP Trade-In Program for Government, Health, and Education

This HP Program Brief introduces a technology trade-in program for federal, state, and local government bodies. The HP Trade-In Program offers government agencies the highest market values for their aging...

Publisher:
Hewlett-Packard (HP)

FSP Group Cuts Procurement Costs and Improves Supplier Management With Web Based System

FSP Group wanted to find an efficient and cost-effective way of processing the large amounts of data resulting from supplier transactions and reduce the lead time from order placement to...

Publisher:
Oracle

Tags:
portals

Cambridge back on track after $32m investment

CPS develops technology to track the locations of mobile phone users, using the Enhanced Observed Time Difference method, which estimates the distance between a user and a base station by estimating the time taken for the phone signal to travel...

Channel:
Mobile & Wireless

Web services takes another, secure step forward

Web services is both a programming method and a series of protocols for building applications that can easily exchange data and processes. A standardised method for reliable security would drive broader usage of web services, according to analysts.

CIO Jury: Who is to blame for security breaches?

The silicon.com CIO Jury is split this week on whether software vendors should be forced to pay compensation when insecure products lead to costly security breaches and system downtime. Some of those who said software vendors should be forced to...

Channel:
CIO Jury

Google desktop exploited by IE flaw

CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a method for setting common styles across multiple web pages. The proof-of-concept method is an example of how security flaws in software can offer all kinds of access to programs on vulnerable PCs, including to...

Channel:
Security Strategy

Google plugs hole in desktop search tool

The bug in IE allows an attacker to retrieve private user data or execute operations on the user's behalf from remote domains, Gillon wrote in his description of the attack method. Google has made an adjustment to its desktop search tool to foil...

Quocirca's Straight Talking: A game of two halves

The Naked CIO: Madness in the method The idea is that physical images are not actually held - instead, a model or a description of an image is held. Through referring to Microsoft's functional repository - its own version of a Universal Description...

Featured White Papers

Harnessing the Power of Location Intelligence in the Public Sector

Throughout the world, public services today are under pressure. The current economic climate, where taxreceipts are naturally suppressed, provides very seriousfunding challenges. Moreover, in good times and bad, increasing regulation at the regional and national level is imposing additional duties and responsibilities on the public services without additional resources to carry them out. Store closures are changing the urban landscape. Demographic and/or economic change isincreasing demand for health and social services.Demand for decreased crime rates is focusing minds in law enforcement. And the threat of internationalterrorism is forcing greater contingency duties on the emergency services. The net result is a need to do more with lessquite a challenge.

Publisher:
Pitney Bowes

Buyers' Guide - How to ease the shift to mobile working

With momentum building behind mobile working, are higher costs inevitable when moving staff to laptops? Not necessarily. In fact it's possible to emerge with lower management overheads - and tighter security. Read on to find out more.

Publisher:
Intel

IBM Virtualization Services

Virtualization is a powerful technology and can have profound effects on the datacenter; however, it should be viewed as a component of an overall IT strategy that will be able to support the enterprise's needs. IDC recommends that enterprises look at theentire architecture and determine how to best deploy virtualization