- A case for separate networks: converged networks forIT and facilities management may not be the bestchoice.
Today, many diverse systems use one physical network to share information within a single application and between multiple applications requiring the same information. Systems for enterprise resource planning (ERP), accounting, human resources and customer records share network bandwidth with HVAC controls, lighting controls, security cameras, building power management and access ......
- CERN pilots GigE hardware in big project linking PCs. Idea is to distribute reconstruction of physics events to individual boxes of 10,000 connected computers
[Graph Not Transcribed] The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which is used by about 6,500 particle physicists for their research, plans to use 10 Gigabit Ethernet hardware in its IT infrastructure. The research organization, located on the France-Switzerland border near Geneva, will pilot Enterasys Networks' Matrix El switching hardware ......
- A message about the medium
Following the late 1990s global information technology boom, spending in the IT sector slowed dramatically. As a result of this slowing growth, and of other factors as well, the IT industry is restructuring. Some once-dominant players, such as Sun Microsystems, are now but a shadow of their former selves. Others, ......
- How Delmarva Power manages IS
goals.
John Scoggin has one of the toughest jobs on the Delmarva peninsula. As supervisor of network operations for Delmarva Power & Light Co., he manages the mission critical local area and wide area T1 networks that transmit almost every bit of data amongst the company's 21 facilities. Delmarva provides electricity ......
- NCI awarded $15m contract for Army Information
Technology Services.
NCI Information Systems, Inc. (NCI), an information technology, enterprise management, systems engineering and integration organization, announced today that its NCI ITES Team has been awarded a five-year, firm fixed price Technology Enterprises Services task order by the Ft. Monmouth Directorate of Information Management (DOIM), Information Technology Services Directorate (ITSD) at ......
- Fast Fault Isolation and Restoral Key to Info
Management-Control.
The weakest link in an information-processing network is neither the data processing system nor the data communications system per se. In terms of network reliability and quality of service, the weakest link is whether or not a systems or network operator--data processing or data communications--can quickly track a fault to ......
- Shedding light on information technology risks: IT
auditing does not hinge solely on highly specialized reviews. Effective
tech-related risk management rests just as much on basic, commonsense
practices.
DUE TO INCREASED connectivity in the workplace, the average internal auditor receives considerably more exposure to IT systems than in the past, Technology plays a fundamental role in the way modern organizations function, and it has become integrated to the degree that virtually every type of audit requires at least ......