Social media provides a wealth of data that can tell you a lot about your brand and your consumers – providing you can effectively act upon that data. According to Digiday, “”48% of digital marketing executives say they focus ‘relentlessly’ on building customer insights, yet few are executing those strategies in meaningful ways. This white ...

CA Nimsoft Monitor verifies network connectivity to devices and application services revealing accessibility and network latency. The solution auto-discovers network interfaces, monitors interface traffic and calculates bandwidth utilization. Interface variables are polled for status data and the solution receives unsolicited SNMP traps. Read more… Subscribe to the Developer Insider Newsletter From the hottest programming languages ...

Many enterprises, educational institutions, and government agencies find themselves still managing both legacy end-user hardware and an antiquated OS. The time has come to move to modern Windows options and given the gamut of robust computing hardware, upgrading both at once simply makes good sense. Download this paper to discover how your organization can benefit ...

End user computing as we know it is undergoing a huge transformation; it’s no longer about the device or technology, it’s about the overall experience. Wise CIOs should embrace and proactively respond to these changing trends. Download this paper to discover best practices for creating a tangible, cost-effective three to five year strategic plan that ...

Blade server computing is growing in popularity, largely driven by virtualization within the data center, which requires simplified management and increased flexibility in order to deliver operating efficiency and productivity. Adoption is also driven by a need for better performance and scalability, according to a recent survey by IDG Research Services. The survey’s 87 respondents, ...

The grid computing paradigm is replacing localized computer clusters or the traditional “supercomputer” model for research and industry enterprises requiring increasingly large amounts of processing power and storage. Computational grids are distributed systems integrating geographically-separate resources into a single, massively parallel network well-suited to complex processing tasks. This article introduces grid computing, lays out a ...

In business environments, few variables are as important as communication. Although this is a simple consideration, it has far-reaching effects. After all, companies that are not able to effectively communicate and collaborate with external partners, clients and customers may soon find themselves facing diminishing returns and decreased profit margins. Internal communications are equally important—operations can ...

Arguably computation models seen in client space are much more diverse than those in the server space proper. For servers, there are essentially two, the earlier model of static consolidation and the more recent dynamic model where virtual machines lightly bound to their physical hosts and can be moved around with relative ease. With virtualized ...

The appeal of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunks as a means of connecting UC systems to the outside world is growing in popularity. SIP trunks offer lower operating costs, more flexibility in ordering service and capacities and advanced features, such as virtual phone numbers in different geographies, which let companies establish a virtual worldwide presence. ...

Human life becomes more complex without technology. It makes people’s life more comfortable, here the authors define a new step for the location recognition technology. The Location Based Service (LBS) is an information service, accessible through mobile devices, such as Smartphone’s, which provides the identification of peoples and object locations. In recent years, many indoor ...

Meter reading and billing are complex tasks of electricity, water and gas supplier companies. The current technology of billing process uses manual process of meter reading, updating the server with reading and billing customer. The authors are suggesting a technology that includes android application and web application to get reading, updating server and inform consumers ...

This white paper explores the changing requirements for campus networks, driven by mobility and the bring your own device (BYOD) movement, as well as the increasing adoption of rich‑media applications balanced against ongoing IT resource constraints. Like many other IT organizations, you may be faced with the new urgency to re‑examine your strategies for providing ...

As the pace of change quickens, you want to keep your staff engaged and responsive regardless of where they are. Wireless network access is moving beyond conference rooms and building lobbies to have a pervasive presence in every work environment. People simply want and need to stay connected- everywhere and all the time. Read this ...

Ensuring the safety and protection of the general public in the United States employs millions of people, investigating and responding to millions of incidents and offenses each year, supported by millions of unstructured data sources and records. In this context, it is easy to appreciate why content analytics solutions are increasingly being used to drive ...

Unless you operate out of a cave, chances are your business has become awash with connected devices brought into the enterprise by everyone from the CEO to factory floor workers. The age of BYOD is here, and with it a myriad of threats and challenges so broad that some have dubbed the phenomenon “Bring Your ...