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Whitepapers

Business-Class Servers for a PC Budget

October 12, 2012 12:00am PDT

Edison Group interviewed a number of business owners running office or franchise workloads and consultants/resellers who cater to them, to assess the server-related challenges faced by these...

Provided by: IBM & Intel

Whitepapers

Simple and Nearly Optimal Multi-Item Auctions

October 12, 2012 12:00am PDT

The authors provide a Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme (PTAS) for the Bayesian optimal multiitem multi-bidder auction problem under two conditions. First, bidders are independent, have...

Provided by: University of Peloponnese

Whitepapers

Best Practices and Advantages of Cognos on Power Systems

October 11, 2012 12:00am PDT

IBM Cognos BI offers complete perspectives on business intelligence and analytics through a single, unified workspace. Read the white paper and see how Power Systems runs Cognos BI...

Provided by: IBM

Whitepapers

Scheduling of Wireless Metering for Power Market Pricing in Smart Grid

October 11, 2012 12:00am PDT

Remote metering is a key task in smart grid to collect the power load information for the pricing in power market. A wireless communication infrastructure is assumed for the smart meter network....

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

Q&A

Independent labor charge?

October 10, 2012 11:24am PDT

Independent labor charge? I am a former Marine Corps network administrator. As I have never done my job in the civilian sector, I am not knowledgeable as to pricing for labor. I am doing some...

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Whitepapers

Bad Data Injection Attack and Defense in Electricity Market Using Game Theory Study

October 10, 2012 12:00am PDT

Applications of cyber technologies improve the quality of monitoring and decision making in smart grid. These cyber technologies are vulnerable to malicious attacks, and compromising them can have...

Provided by: University of Hong Kong

Whitepapers

Market Share Analysis Between MNO and MVNO Under Brand Appeal Based Segmentation

October 9, 2012 12:00am PDT

The authors are interested in this paper by the competition between MNO and MVNO on a population of heterogeneous customers, with different perceptions of operators offer. The MVNO buys resources...

Provided by: Alcatel-Lucent

Whitepapers

Comfort-Aware Home Energy Management Under Market-Based Demand-Response

October 4, 2012 12:00am PDT

To regulate energy consumption and enable Demand-Response programs, effective demand-side management at home is key and an integral part of the future Smart Grid. In essence, the home energy...

Provided by: IFIP

Whitepapers

Improving Reliability of Non-Volatile Memory Technologies Through Circuit Level Techniques and Error Control Coding

October 3, 2012 12:00am PDT

Non-volatile resistive memories, such as Phase-change RAM (PRAM) and spin transfer torque RAM (STT-RAM), have emerged as promising candidates because of their fast read access, high storage...

Provided by: EURASIP

Webcasts

Quantifying the Business Value of VMware View - Webcast

October 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT...

Provided by: VMware

Whitepapers

Driving Innovation Through Analytics

October 1, 2012 12:00am PDT

Digital data is rapidly increasing, yet we aren't getting the right information to make crucial decisions. Business intelligence (BI) tools are difficult to use and slow to respond. Many default...

Provided by: Oracle

Blog Post

The tech behind Singapore's Electronic Road Pricing system

September 27, 2012 9:54am PDT

Paul Mah gives an overview of Singapore's Electronic Road Pricing system, which regulates the use of roads and manages traffic conditions.

Blog Post

Infographic: Making the case for big data analytics and intelligence

September 24, 2012 7:10am PDT

Slashdot offers this infographic that breaks down the business case for big data projects.

Whitepapers

Quantum/Relativistic Computation of Security and Efficiency of Electrical Power System for a Day-Ahead

September 21, 2012 12:00am PDT

An algorithm for Electrical Power System (EPS) quantum/relativistic security and efficiency computation via perturbative renormalization of the EPS, finding the computation flowcharts,...

Provided by: Cornell University

Whitepapers

Self-Service Business Intelligence: Empowering Users to Generate Insights

September 20, 2012 12:00am PDT

Business intelligence (BI) is becoming increasingly important and widely adopted throughout organizations. But what's at stake when you're granting non-IT employees access to analytics, reports,...

Provided by: Quest Software, now a part of Dell

Whitepapers

How a Large Traffic-Control Company Simplified Business Intelligence

September 20, 2012 12:00am PDT

Turning your organization's data into actionable information can be a huge challenge, sometimes taking hours or even days of painstaking manual labor. But it doesn't have to be that way. Read a...

Provided by: Quest Software, now a part of Dell

Whitepapers

Dynamic Energy-Aware Capacity Provisioning for Cloud Computing Environments

September 20, 2012 12:00am PDT

Data centers have recently gained significant popularity as a cost-effective platform for hosting large-scale service applications. While large data centers enjoy economies of scale by amortizing...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

Whitepapers

Resource Allocation with Interference Mitigation in OFDMA Femtocells for Co-Channel Deploymenta

September 18, 2012 12:00am PDT

Femtocells have been considered as a promising technology to provide better indoor coverage and spatial reuse gains. However, the co-channel deployment of macro-cells and femtocells is still...

Provided by: EURASIP

Whitepapers

Free Elasticity and Free CPU Power for Scientific Workloads on IaaS Clouds

September 17, 2012 12:00am PDT

Recent Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, such as Amazon's EC2 cloud, provide virtualized on-demand computing resources on a pay-per-use model. From the user point of view, the cloud...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

Blog Post

BI still dependent on IT

September 13, 2012 7:14am PDT

There's never been a better time for IT to step up and show what tech can do to drive the business. They're the only people who can set the systems in motion to capture data and mine it successfully.