This whitepaper sets out the 1E view of how 1E Computer Health™ (as part of WakeUp™) can maintain the health and performance of your PCs, allowing you to extend their lifecycle by up to two years in an effort to reduce capital expenditure.
Will You Be Prepared When The Next Disaster Strikes - WhitepaperChristian Caracciolo
This whitepaper discusses the importance of disaster recovery planning and outlines different disaster recovery strategies and solutions offered by EarthLink Business. It begins by discussing how disasters can impact businesses and cause downtime. It then outlines four common disaster recovery methods from fastest to slowest recovery time: physical colocation, virtual colocation, continuous data and application replication, and data backup. EarthLink offers all four methods as well as additional disaster recovery solutions like cloud server backup, database recovery, network service recovery, security recovery, and voice service recovery. The whitepaper argues that businesses should evaluate their recovery needs, priorities, and budgets to determine the best disaster recovery method or combination of methods.
This document discusses the Greentrac software which helps organizations reduce their energy waste from personal computers (PCs). It does this through features like enforcing power management policies, tracking individual and group energy efficiency scores, and sending subtle messages to encourage more efficient behaviors. The software is easy to deploy, delivers guaranteed savings of $35-$120 per PC per year, and typically pays for itself within 9 months. It allows for flexible policies that address different user needs.
The document discusses key aspects of data centers including:
- Defining what a data center is and its main components: white space, support infrastructure, IT equipment, and operations staff.
- How data centers are managed through coordinated efforts between IT and facilities to maintain systems and infrastructure.
- What a green data center is and how the federal government is involved in improving energy efficiency.
- Common concerns of key stakeholders like IT, facilities, and finance when managing a data center.
- Options for addressing lack of power, space or cooling through optimization, moving locations, or outsourcing.
- Important measurements and benchmarks for data center efficiency like PUE and where to find standards from groups
The document provides an overview of disaster recovery best practices and examples. It discusses defining recovery objectives, building replication strategies based on those objectives, and maintaining disaster recovery plans through regular testing. Several customer examples are also provided that implemented disaster recovery solutions using a combination of on-premise infrastructure, colocation, and cloud services.
This document discusses a scenario of Dr. Jill Foote wanting to computerize the operations of her doctor's office to improve efficiency. It describes the current paper-based system and Dr. Foote's growing frustrations with the administrative workload. The document then outlines the key parts of a computer system that would need to be considered for Dr. Foote's office, including the human/user aspects, processing environment, and interconnectivity. It emphasizes that all parts of a system, both technical and human, must be addressed for the new system to be usable, reliable and effective.
Implementing power management for monitors and computers (MPM and CPM) can save organizations significant amounts of money and energy. EPA's ENERGY STAR program provides tools and guidance to help organizations estimate potential savings from CPM and identify best practices for implementation. Common myths around CPM, such as concerns about hardware wear or inability to receive updates, are addressed. The document outlines steps organizations can take to implement CPM, including reviewing current behaviors, estimating savings, engaging IT staff, and joining EPA's program for assistance and recognition.
Green IT in the boardroom, Jose Iglesias SymantecIT Executive
Conferentie Greening the Enterprise,
IT Executive, 25 november 2009
Green IT in the Boardroom
Spreker: Jose Iglesias (VP of Global Solutions, Symantec)
At the same time that data centers are running short on space and power, IT organizations are also finding themselves dealing with skyrocketing amounts of information. But such challenges often have a way of presenting new opportunities. Today, Green IT is re-shaping the data center and bringing IT to the forefront in the boardroom. Energy efficiency is not just a set of quick fixes like virtualizing everything or focusing on new hardware – but rather a fundamental shift in how to approach the problem from the start by leveraging an existing investment in software and planning for how to save “green” while “going green” year over year. It covers the entire IT organization including the endpoints, servers, storage and communications. Jose will cover the practical issues of implementing green IT technologies into businesses and what the consequences are locally and across the globe.
This whitepaper sets out the 1E view of how 1E Computer Health™ (as part of WakeUp™) can maintain the health and performance of your PCs, allowing you to extend their lifecycle by up to two years in an effort to reduce capital expenditure.
Will You Be Prepared When The Next Disaster Strikes - WhitepaperChristian Caracciolo
This whitepaper discusses the importance of disaster recovery planning and outlines different disaster recovery strategies and solutions offered by EarthLink Business. It begins by discussing how disasters can impact businesses and cause downtime. It then outlines four common disaster recovery methods from fastest to slowest recovery time: physical colocation, virtual colocation, continuous data and application replication, and data backup. EarthLink offers all four methods as well as additional disaster recovery solutions like cloud server backup, database recovery, network service recovery, security recovery, and voice service recovery. The whitepaper argues that businesses should evaluate their recovery needs, priorities, and budgets to determine the best disaster recovery method or combination of methods.
This document discusses the Greentrac software which helps organizations reduce their energy waste from personal computers (PCs). It does this through features like enforcing power management policies, tracking individual and group energy efficiency scores, and sending subtle messages to encourage more efficient behaviors. The software is easy to deploy, delivers guaranteed savings of $35-$120 per PC per year, and typically pays for itself within 9 months. It allows for flexible policies that address different user needs.
The document discusses key aspects of data centers including:
- Defining what a data center is and its main components: white space, support infrastructure, IT equipment, and operations staff.
- How data centers are managed through coordinated efforts between IT and facilities to maintain systems and infrastructure.
- What a green data center is and how the federal government is involved in improving energy efficiency.
- Common concerns of key stakeholders like IT, facilities, and finance when managing a data center.
- Options for addressing lack of power, space or cooling through optimization, moving locations, or outsourcing.
- Important measurements and benchmarks for data center efficiency like PUE and where to find standards from groups
The document provides an overview of disaster recovery best practices and examples. It discusses defining recovery objectives, building replication strategies based on those objectives, and maintaining disaster recovery plans through regular testing. Several customer examples are also provided that implemented disaster recovery solutions using a combination of on-premise infrastructure, colocation, and cloud services.
This document discusses a scenario of Dr. Jill Foote wanting to computerize the operations of her doctor's office to improve efficiency. It describes the current paper-based system and Dr. Foote's growing frustrations with the administrative workload. The document then outlines the key parts of a computer system that would need to be considered for Dr. Foote's office, including the human/user aspects, processing environment, and interconnectivity. It emphasizes that all parts of a system, both technical and human, must be addressed for the new system to be usable, reliable and effective.
Implementing power management for monitors and computers (MPM and CPM) can save organizations significant amounts of money and energy. EPA's ENERGY STAR program provides tools and guidance to help organizations estimate potential savings from CPM and identify best practices for implementation. Common myths around CPM, such as concerns about hardware wear or inability to receive updates, are addressed. The document outlines steps organizations can take to implement CPM, including reviewing current behaviors, estimating savings, engaging IT staff, and joining EPA's program for assistance and recognition.
Green IT in the boardroom, Jose Iglesias SymantecIT Executive
Conferentie Greening the Enterprise,
IT Executive, 25 november 2009
Green IT in the Boardroom
Spreker: Jose Iglesias (VP of Global Solutions, Symantec)
At the same time that data centers are running short on space and power, IT organizations are also finding themselves dealing with skyrocketing amounts of information. But such challenges often have a way of presenting new opportunities. Today, Green IT is re-shaping the data center and bringing IT to the forefront in the boardroom. Energy efficiency is not just a set of quick fixes like virtualizing everything or focusing on new hardware – but rather a fundamental shift in how to approach the problem from the start by leveraging an existing investment in software and planning for how to save “green” while “going green” year over year. It covers the entire IT organization including the endpoints, servers, storage and communications. Jose will cover the practical issues of implementing green IT technologies into businesses and what the consequences are locally and across the globe.
This document is a study guide for a data center availability certification exam. It begins with an introduction to availability, defining key terms like reliability, availability, MTBF, and MTTR. It discusses factors that threaten availability like power issues, inadequate cooling, equipment failures, disasters and human error. It explains how availability is calculated and the limitations of the "five nines" or 99.999% availability standard. Finally, it covers the costs of downtime, distinguishing between direct costs like lost revenue, overtime wages, and indirect costs. The overall document provides a high-level overview of data center availability fundamentals and considerations.
A Survey of Cyber foraging systems: Open Issues, Research ChallengesEswar Publications
This document provides a survey of cyber foraging systems and discusses open issues and research challenges. It summarizes key cyber foraging applications like LOCUSTS, Slingshot, and Puppeteer that allow resource-deficient mobile devices to offload tasks to stronger surrogate machines. The document outlines the general process of cyber foraging including surrogate discovery, task distribution, migration, and remote execution control. It also discusses design challenges like efficient task distribution, migration, and security concerns. Finally, it provides more detail on the LOCUSTS framework, describing its architecture, approach to task distribution, and ability to migrate tasks between surrogates.
Understanding ROI for Network Change & Configuration ManagementSolarWinds
In a growing network infrastructure, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep pace with updates, patches, and configuration changes that are necessary to keep networking devices compliant.
Learn how traditional manual methods fall behind on network configuration & change management activities.
A Journey to Power Intelligent IT - Big Data EmployedMohamed Sohail
Sustainability has become a hot topic as a result of significant concerns about the unintended social, environmental, and economic consequences of rapid population growth, economic growth, and consumption of our natural resources. For the IT industry in particular, a highly important consideration that affects the decisions of IT managers is data center power consumption and carbon emission.
How to Calculate ROI for Network Management & MonitoringSolarWinds
IT staffs are being asked to do more with less, as well as show a tangible ROI for investments made on IT, by rightsizing their NMS solution. Let us help you with this easy to follow ROI model.
VMware Emerging Strategies for Managing MobilityVMware
This document summarizes the findings of a survey on emerging strategies for managing mobility in the public sector. Some key findings include:
- Agencies want to simplify desktop management and provide greater accessibility of applications and data from any device.
- BYOD is growing but agencies prefer controlling device distribution for security. Boundaries between work and personal use are blurring.
- Enabling more mobility requires secure access and prohibiting sensitive data storage on devices.
- Virtual desktop infrastructure adoption is growing due to benefits like flexibility, security, and productivity, but concerns around management complexity remain.
- Within two years over half of agency employees are expected to access desktops via VDI on endpoint devices.
The document discusses BlueLink IT Solutions' managed IT services offering. It begins by outlining issues with traditional "break-fix" IT support models, such as unpredictable costs and frequent downtime. It then introduces BlueLink's managed services solution as an alternative that offers reliable monthly costs, reduced downtime, and other benefits. Key aspects of BlueLink's managed IT services include 24/7 monitoring, preventative maintenance, help desk support, security management, and reporting tools. The document argues that these services can help businesses increase productivity and reduce total IT costs compared to break-fix models.
UPS is embracing sustainable technologies and developing a sustainable MIS infrastructure for several reasons:
1) Sustainable technologies can improve operational efficiency and reduce costs by lowering fuel consumption. This allows UPS to save millions.
2) It allows UPS to be more environmentally responsible.
3) UPS uses virtualization to consolidate servers, lower energy costs, and reduce physical server space. This saves UPS millions.
4) Virtualization also improves disaster recovery by allowing quick migration of virtual machines to new hardware if needed.
The document discusses using Intel Core processors with vPro technology and Microsoft Windows 7. It provides an agenda covering the improving business climate, avoiding rising PC costs through refreshing PCs, Intel IT's experience with mobile clients, and transitioning to Windows 7. It highlights benefits of Intel/Microsoft integration and the Core vPro platform for increased performance, security, and manageability.
The document discusses a product called the Wizard Card that provides instant recovery capabilities for computers. It summarizes:
1) The Wizard Card allows users to recover their computers easily and quickly with a single command in case of crashes, software failures, data loss or configuration changes. This prevents disruptive downtime for troubleshooting.
2) By implementing the Wizard Card, IT administrators can significantly reduce computer downtime and business losses, freeing up time and resources for higher priority tasks.
3) The Wizard Card instantly repairs a wide range of issues including program disruptions, failed operating systems, data corruption, configuration changes, and unauthorized access. It provides benefits like minimum business interruptions and increased productivity.
Tape storage remains a highly cost effective solution for backup and archival storage despite perceptions that it is outdated. Recent developments show continued improvements in tape technology with areal density demonstrations of 29.5 Gbit/in2 and LTO roadmaps extending to 12.8 TB capacities. The Long Term File System also allows tapes to be accessed like removable drives, opening new use cases. Together these advances ensure tape storage will continue to be relevant for the next decade.
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust implemented Imprivata OneSign to streamline clinical access and reduce password issues. Over 7,500 staff can now access 86 applications with single sign-on, reducing helpdesk calls by 25% and saving over £80,000 per year. Centralized access management also improved security and compliance. Clinicians have more time for patient care with easier IT access.
The document discusses disaster recovery planning and provides best practices. It addresses common misperceptions about business continuity/disaster recovery programs. Some misperceptions include that they are too expensive, only involve natural disasters, and that replicating data is sufficient. The document recommends five best practices: developing business justification through impact analysis, matching the recovery approach to needs, setting recovery objectives, developing a data management strategy, and managing the overall recovery program.
Embedded systems are specialized computer systems designed for specific tasks, often with strict requirements for performance, power consumption, and cost, and they are commonly used in devices like consumer electronics, vehicles, and industrial equipment. An embedded system combines both hardware and software components to perform dedicated functions in a larger mechanical or electrical system. Real-time operating systems are often used in embedded systems to ensure processes meet strict timing deadlines for functions like braking in a vehicle or medical monitoring equipment.
Successful Electronic Medical Record Implementation - Jonathan Levoy, Alego H...marcus evans Network
Jonathan Levoy from Alego Health, a solution provider company at the marcus evans National Healthcare CXO Summit Spring 2012, on getting the most out of Electronic Medical Records through mobile devices.
Interview with: Jonathan Levoy, VP of Business Development & Technology, Alego Health
Discover how to improve the health of your desktop PCs and laptops through 1E Computer Health, and save your users time and your organization millions of dollars.
This whitepaper sets out the 1E view of the costs associated with unnecessary user downtime due to unhealthy, unresponsive and slow laptops and desktops and how 1E Computer Health™ (as part of WakeUp™) could help drive down costs while driving up user productivity.
The document discusses options for implementing green IT initiatives to reduce energy consumption from desktop computing. It analyzes replacing CRT monitors with LCDs, replacing desktops with thin clients or laptops, raising user awareness, deploying power policies using group policies, and using an intelligent software-based solution called infraSECURE. InfraSECURE provides the benefits of 50-66k annual savings per 1000 desktops without dependencies on user behavior, maintains productivity, requires minimal investment and effort with ROI in less than 6 months, and generates no e-waste. It is concluded to be the ideal green IT solution.
This document is a study guide for a data center availability certification exam. It begins with an introduction to availability, defining key terms like reliability, availability, MTBF, and MTTR. It discusses factors that threaten availability like power issues, inadequate cooling, equipment failures, disasters and human error. It explains how availability is calculated and the limitations of the "five nines" or 99.999% availability standard. Finally, it covers the costs of downtime, distinguishing between direct costs like lost revenue, overtime wages, and indirect costs. The overall document provides a high-level overview of data center availability fundamentals and considerations.
A Survey of Cyber foraging systems: Open Issues, Research ChallengesEswar Publications
This document provides a survey of cyber foraging systems and discusses open issues and research challenges. It summarizes key cyber foraging applications like LOCUSTS, Slingshot, and Puppeteer that allow resource-deficient mobile devices to offload tasks to stronger surrogate machines. The document outlines the general process of cyber foraging including surrogate discovery, task distribution, migration, and remote execution control. It also discusses design challenges like efficient task distribution, migration, and security concerns. Finally, it provides more detail on the LOCUSTS framework, describing its architecture, approach to task distribution, and ability to migrate tasks between surrogates.
Understanding ROI for Network Change & Configuration ManagementSolarWinds
In a growing network infrastructure, it becomes increasingly difficult to keep pace with updates, patches, and configuration changes that are necessary to keep networking devices compliant.
Learn how traditional manual methods fall behind on network configuration & change management activities.
A Journey to Power Intelligent IT - Big Data EmployedMohamed Sohail
Sustainability has become a hot topic as a result of significant concerns about the unintended social, environmental, and economic consequences of rapid population growth, economic growth, and consumption of our natural resources. For the IT industry in particular, a highly important consideration that affects the decisions of IT managers is data center power consumption and carbon emission.
How to Calculate ROI for Network Management & MonitoringSolarWinds
IT staffs are being asked to do more with less, as well as show a tangible ROI for investments made on IT, by rightsizing their NMS solution. Let us help you with this easy to follow ROI model.
VMware Emerging Strategies for Managing MobilityVMware
This document summarizes the findings of a survey on emerging strategies for managing mobility in the public sector. Some key findings include:
- Agencies want to simplify desktop management and provide greater accessibility of applications and data from any device.
- BYOD is growing but agencies prefer controlling device distribution for security. Boundaries between work and personal use are blurring.
- Enabling more mobility requires secure access and prohibiting sensitive data storage on devices.
- Virtual desktop infrastructure adoption is growing due to benefits like flexibility, security, and productivity, but concerns around management complexity remain.
- Within two years over half of agency employees are expected to access desktops via VDI on endpoint devices.
The document discusses BlueLink IT Solutions' managed IT services offering. It begins by outlining issues with traditional "break-fix" IT support models, such as unpredictable costs and frequent downtime. It then introduces BlueLink's managed services solution as an alternative that offers reliable monthly costs, reduced downtime, and other benefits. Key aspects of BlueLink's managed IT services include 24/7 monitoring, preventative maintenance, help desk support, security management, and reporting tools. The document argues that these services can help businesses increase productivity and reduce total IT costs compared to break-fix models.
UPS is embracing sustainable technologies and developing a sustainable MIS infrastructure for several reasons:
1) Sustainable technologies can improve operational efficiency and reduce costs by lowering fuel consumption. This allows UPS to save millions.
2) It allows UPS to be more environmentally responsible.
3) UPS uses virtualization to consolidate servers, lower energy costs, and reduce physical server space. This saves UPS millions.
4) Virtualization also improves disaster recovery by allowing quick migration of virtual machines to new hardware if needed.
The document discusses using Intel Core processors with vPro technology and Microsoft Windows 7. It provides an agenda covering the improving business climate, avoiding rising PC costs through refreshing PCs, Intel IT's experience with mobile clients, and transitioning to Windows 7. It highlights benefits of Intel/Microsoft integration and the Core vPro platform for increased performance, security, and manageability.
The document discusses a product called the Wizard Card that provides instant recovery capabilities for computers. It summarizes:
1) The Wizard Card allows users to recover their computers easily and quickly with a single command in case of crashes, software failures, data loss or configuration changes. This prevents disruptive downtime for troubleshooting.
2) By implementing the Wizard Card, IT administrators can significantly reduce computer downtime and business losses, freeing up time and resources for higher priority tasks.
3) The Wizard Card instantly repairs a wide range of issues including program disruptions, failed operating systems, data corruption, configuration changes, and unauthorized access. It provides benefits like minimum business interruptions and increased productivity.
Tape storage remains a highly cost effective solution for backup and archival storage despite perceptions that it is outdated. Recent developments show continued improvements in tape technology with areal density demonstrations of 29.5 Gbit/in2 and LTO roadmaps extending to 12.8 TB capacities. The Long Term File System also allows tapes to be accessed like removable drives, opening new use cases. Together these advances ensure tape storage will continue to be relevant for the next decade.
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust implemented Imprivata OneSign to streamline clinical access and reduce password issues. Over 7,500 staff can now access 86 applications with single sign-on, reducing helpdesk calls by 25% and saving over £80,000 per year. Centralized access management also improved security and compliance. Clinicians have more time for patient care with easier IT access.
The document discusses disaster recovery planning and provides best practices. It addresses common misperceptions about business continuity/disaster recovery programs. Some misperceptions include that they are too expensive, only involve natural disasters, and that replicating data is sufficient. The document recommends five best practices: developing business justification through impact analysis, matching the recovery approach to needs, setting recovery objectives, developing a data management strategy, and managing the overall recovery program.
Embedded systems are specialized computer systems designed for specific tasks, often with strict requirements for performance, power consumption, and cost, and they are commonly used in devices like consumer electronics, vehicles, and industrial equipment. An embedded system combines both hardware and software components to perform dedicated functions in a larger mechanical or electrical system. Real-time operating systems are often used in embedded systems to ensure processes meet strict timing deadlines for functions like braking in a vehicle or medical monitoring equipment.
Successful Electronic Medical Record Implementation - Jonathan Levoy, Alego H...marcus evans Network
Jonathan Levoy from Alego Health, a solution provider company at the marcus evans National Healthcare CXO Summit Spring 2012, on getting the most out of Electronic Medical Records through mobile devices.
Interview with: Jonathan Levoy, VP of Business Development & Technology, Alego Health
Discover how to improve the health of your desktop PCs and laptops through 1E Computer Health, and save your users time and your organization millions of dollars.
This whitepaper sets out the 1E view of the costs associated with unnecessary user downtime due to unhealthy, unresponsive and slow laptops and desktops and how 1E Computer Health™ (as part of WakeUp™) could help drive down costs while driving up user productivity.
The document discusses options for implementing green IT initiatives to reduce energy consumption from desktop computing. It analyzes replacing CRT monitors with LCDs, replacing desktops with thin clients or laptops, raising user awareness, deploying power policies using group policies, and using an intelligent software-based solution called infraSECURE. InfraSECURE provides the benefits of 50-66k annual savings per 1000 desktops without dependencies on user behavior, maintains productivity, requires minimal investment and effort with ROI in less than 6 months, and generates no e-waste. It is concluded to be the ideal green IT solution.
Executive SummaryThis report addresses four major concerns that .docxrhetttrevannion
This report provides recommendations to address four concerns of the New York City Council regarding its aging IT infrastructure located at City Hall. The concerns are: having over 1000 personal computers needing reduction to save on energy costs; whether the current PCs meet Windows 10 requirements; security of the operating system; and securely backing up documents. The report recommends upgrading to Windows 10, replacing 550 PCs that do not meet requirements, increasing RAM on 300 PCs, and using 200 PCs for three more years. It also recommends a 64-bit server operating system and cloud-based document sharing.
The document provides guidelines for maximizing the value of computing investments for businesses. It recommends purchasing name-brand hardware with adequate specifications and extended warranties. It also recommends regularly replacing hardware every 3-4 years according to a schedule, as support costs rise over time. Centralized management of antivirus, patches, backups, and other security features is presented as an effective approach to control costs and minimize downtime.
IRJET- Smart Tracking System for Healthcare Monitoring using GSM/GPSIRJET Journal
This document describes a smart tracking system for healthcare monitoring using GSM/GPS technologies. It involves sensors that measure a patient's temperature, heart rate, and other vital signs. These sensors transmit the parameters to a microcontroller which collects the data and sends it via GSM module in SMS format to a patient's mobile phone. The system allows healthcare providers to monitor patients remotely. It uses GPS for location tracking. The system aims to help manage cardiovascular diseases like hypertension through continuous remote monitoring of vital signs.
IRJET- A Review on Aluminium (LM 25) Reinforced with Boron Carbide (B4C) & Tu...IRJET Journal
This document describes a smart tracking system for healthcare monitoring using GSM/GPS technologies. The system uses sensors to monitor patient parameters like temperature and heartbeat. The sensors send the data to a microcontroller which then sends the parameters via SMS to the patient's mobile phone using a GSM module. The GPS device tracks the patient's location. The system thus allows remote health monitoring and tracking of patients.
The document is a case study report analyzing two portable computer options, the Micro-pro 8500 Series and Hewlett Packard 3000CTX model 5/233, for use by training staff at client sites. Key factors like cost, size, screen size, memory, battery life, and warranty period are compared between the two models. Based on the analysis, the Micro-pro 8500 Series is recommended due to its value for money, durability, and standard features like larger screen size and memory.
The document discusses the benefits of refreshing business PCs every 3 years. It notes that older PCs experience increased costs, security risks, and decreased productivity. Maintaining refresh rates avoids higher support costs associated with older hardware and software. Newer PCs provide improved performance, security, energy efficiency, and manageability through features like Intel vPro technology. Refreshing PCs every 3 years leads to lower total cost of ownership and a return on investment within 10-17 months.
The document provides an introduction to fundamentals of digital computers and problem solving techniques. It discusses the five basic functions of a computer as taking input, storing data, processing data, generating output, and controlling operations. It also outlines the components of a computer including input and output units, CPU, and memory. Memory types discussed are cache memory, primary/main memory, and secondary memory. The document further describes different types of computers based on size and capabilities as microcomputers, mini computers, mainframe computers, and supercomputers. It provides examples of applications for each type.
Industrial Report - Ndlovu Kevin MehluliKevin Ndlovu
This document is an industrial attachment report submitted by Ndlovu Kevin Mehluli for their Diploma in Computer Science from Swaziland College of Technology. The report provides details of Kevin's 12-week internship at Informatics Africa, including an overview of the company, descriptions of their main work areas in customer care, testing, networking and other duties, and highlights of major tasks completed in networking, testing and server technology. The report is organized into chapters with an introduction, general outline of the company, work area descriptions and details of major completed tasks.
Green Enterprise Computing- Approaches Towards a Greener ITAM Publications
Green Enterprise Computing refers to how business or corporate sectors can deal with the prospect of Green Computing to manage power consumption and boost energy efficiency. Green Computing or Green IT is the study and practice of using computing resources in an eco-friendly manner to tone down the environmental impacts of computing.[1] In recent years, this practice has drawn serious attention from educational institutions, environmental organizations and the corporate and business sector, among others. In the 21st century, the business landscape has also expanded and the use of computers and other power devices has increased tremendously. All these, in turn, bring up the issue of reducing unscrupulous use of resource and power. Taking a careful approach to make our IT industry greener falls in our list of responsibilities towards creating a healthier, cleaner and safer environment, and spreading awareness and ensuring people to take necessary individual as well as collective actions to achieve the goals of Green Enterprise Computing is one of our major steps. [2] In the present paper we discuss how Green Computing can be incorporated into different industries, corporate and business sectors and in various IT companies.
Top Three Root Causes of Data Center OutagesRahi Systems
UPS failure, accident / human error & cooling system failure are major reasons for data center outage. DCIM can detect downtime issues with constant monitoring.
This document discusses NComputing as an architecture that improves green computing. It begins with an introduction to green computing and the goals of reducing energy consumption and environmental impact. It then describes how NComputing works, allowing multiple users to access a single computer through small access devices. This significantly reduces energy usage compared to each user having their own computer. The document evaluates the benefits of NComputing, such as consuming less energy per user, reducing heat output and air conditioning needs, and creating less electronic waste. It concludes that green computing and desktop virtualization approaches like NComputing can enable more efficient computing power usage.
Have you really taken into account your IT Department's impact on the environment? Green IT has moved beyond efforts to discourage employees from not printing emails. This panel will discuss:
Creating a Green IT Strategy
Green Software and Hardware Overview
Virtualization
Sustainable Design and Printing
Panelists: David Deal, Community IT Innovators, Com, Anna Jaeger TechSoup Global's GreenTech Initiative, and Ann Yoders, Green IT Consortium
This document describes Power Efficiency Management Software that helps businesses save energy and reduce costs by managing power usage of Windows PCs. It analyzes power usage, sets power management policies, and provides reports on energy and cost savings. Installation is easy and provides an quick return on investment. The software integrates an ecoButton device that empowers users to actively save more energy.
Mobile/smart phones and tablets have evolved from basic call-making devices to fully-fledged computers that can run apps, access the internet, take photos and more. They typically use touchscreen controls instead of buttons. Smartphones can make calls, access the internet, use GPS, play media, manage contacts and more. Data plans are often included with mobile plans and allow for a set amount of monthly downloads. There are differences between phone models like weight, screen size, processor speed and memory. Mobile devices can also be used to provide health services through apps and by connecting external devices.
Similar to Automated and dynamic maintenance keeps your computers healthy and performing for longer (20)
Why should you reclaim unused software and how can you automate the process? Companies will save money, ensure compliance, and improve security using automated reclaim.
Creating an enterprise app store empowers users to select the right software to best perform their jobs or task in hand and access it almost instantly.
This document discusses how data center managers can identify servers that are not performing useful work using Nightwatchman Server Edition software. It notes that rapid server growth has led to underutilized servers, and virtualization exacerbates this through "virtual sprawl". Nightwatchman analyzes server workload at the application level to determine what tasks constitute "useful work" like database processing versus maintenance tasks. It provides graphs showing server power usage and level of useful work, helping identify candidates for decommissioning or putting into low-power "drowsy" mode when idle. The software helps address inefficient energy use from servers performing no productive tasks.
This document describes the challenges of accurately reporting energy usage costs and carbon savings across different geographic locations with variable electricity tariffs. It explains how factors like electricity prices, carbon dioxide emission rates, and utility rebates vary in different places. The NightWatchman 6 software addresses this by allowing users to define tariffs for locations that specify the cost per kWh, carbon conversion rate, and utility provider. This enables NightWatchman to accurately calculate and report costs, emissions, and savings at each location.
This document discusses remote management of BIOS configuration on Windows workstations. It provides information on different methods for configuring BIOS settings without manually booting into the BIOS setup, including using various vendor management systems and utilities. The document also covers troubleshooting Wake-on-LAN, extending hardware inventory reporting in SMS/SCCM, an overview of what the BIOS is, and available options from major PC vendors for remote BIOS management.
Putting users in charge of finding and downloading applications they need through self-service could dramatically reduce help desk costs while adding value. User self-service allows organizations to save $300,000-$450,000 annually by reducing calls to the help desk by 20%. It also improves efficiency and effectiveness by empowering users to fulfill their own needs faster. While maintaining cost reductions, user self-service can increase the business value delivered by IT through faster request handling and more responsive support that is better aligned with business needs. Self-service allows organizations to both cut costs and improve service levels by reducing help desk workload.
BranchCache is a new feature available in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 that reduces WAN bandwidth usage. It improves application responsiveness when workstations in a remote location access content from the head office or datacenter. It does this by downloading and caching content on the local network as it is requested, making it immediately available to other clients that subsequently request the same content.
This paper examines the BranchCache functionality specifically in the context of software distribution using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to determine if it is an optimal solution for the deployment of software, patches and operating systems to remote, serverless branches.
This whitepaper sets out the 1E view of how organizations can blend the benefits of both centralized and decentralized approaches to IT management, resulting in reduced costs, greater business agility and happier, more motivated users.
This whitepaper sets out the 1E view of how organizations could dramatically reduce help desk costs and increase the value that the IT help desk delivers to the business by empowering end users to search for, find and download the applications they need, when they need them.
The document discusses how user empowerment is gaining ground in forward-thinking organizations. It argues that giving users control over their own hardware and software choices can drive down costs, increase productivity, and improve user satisfaction. The document presents examples of companies like Google, UNUM, BP, and Syngenta that are allowing users to select their own devices and applications, which has resulted in significant cost savings, higher efficiency, and better support of a distributed workforce. The key idea is that empowering users to make their own choices within set guidelines can benefit both the users and the organization.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
Automated and dynamic maintenance keeps your computers healthy and performing for longer
1. AUTOMATED AND DYNAMIC
MAINTENANCE KEEPS YOUR
COMPUTERS HEALTHY AND
PERFORMING FOR LONGER
HOW IMPROVING THE HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE OF YOUR PCS CAN EXTEND THEIR
USEFUL LIFE EXPECTANCY BY TWO YEARS
SOPHIE CHANG
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1E
OCTOBER 2010
ABSTRACT: This whitepaper sets out the 1E view of how 1E Computer Health™ (as part of WakeUp™) can maintain
the health and performance of your PCs, allowing you to extend their lifecycle by up to two years in an effort to
reduce capital expenditure.
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