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whitepaper White paper: Actionable Information for Business Optimization2007-10-01 IBM
  We live and work in a fast-moving and dynamic world, caught between a host of conflicting demands on our time and attention. Against this backdrop we're called on to boil an ocean of information in order to support the decisions that we have to make on an hour-by-hour basis.

In this paper Gary Barnett (a Partner with the Bathwick Group) and Greg Milwid (a Manager within IBM's Software group) discuss the challenges we face when it comes to ensuring that we have the right information, in the right format and context, and at the right time in order to make the right decisions.

Tags: Data Mining - Analysis, Data Quality, Strategic Planning		   
whitepaper Are You Protected by a Piece of Plastic and Two Screws?: Wiegand Had Its Day! Borer All-in-One Solution, Will Ensure Your Data Is Secure2007-10-01 Borer Data Systems
  The majority of cards and biometric readers in access control systems use a Wiegand interface to transmit data read from a card to a control panel. The control panel will then validate the date received and grant/deny access. Often people in the Access Control Industry accept the Wiegand interface as a standard. Wiegand is not a standard as there is no formal definition, ratified by ISO or the IEEE, of the Wiegand Interface against which manufacturers can measure the performance of their equipment. Wiegand is more of an informal working convention, which has allowed the manufacturers of card and biometric readers using a variety of reading technologies to connect their products to control panels produced by system integrators.   
whitepaper Recipe for Mobile Data Security: TPM, Bitlocker, Windows Vista and Active Directory2007-10-01 Erudio Security
  If one's business is like mine, laptops regularly disappear. Until recently, centrally managed mobile storage encryption solutions for Windows environments were either too costly, required users to carry a key-resident device, or relied on keys residing on local disk. Sometimes the best solution under these circumstances was the presence of administrative controls (i.e. policies) prohibiting users from storing sensitive information on local laptop drives. With the proliferation of TPM 1.2 across most laptop platforms and the release of Microsoft Windows Vista, most roadblocks to laptop data encryption have been removed.

Tags: Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Turbo-Charging Spreadsheets: Accessing SAS Forecast Server From Microsoft Excel2007-10-01 SAS Institute
  According to major surveys of organizational forecasting practices, there is continued widespread use of spreadsheets for forecasting, despite major advances during the last 20 years in the availability, performance, and ease of use of business forecasting software. And, forecasting is not just for supply and demand planning anymore. Elements of forecasting are incorporated into a broad range of business problems covering every industry. Automotive manufacturers and consumer product companies care about warranty claims and returns. Phone companies and credit card issuers care about the churn of their customer base. Lenders care about risk and bad debt provisioning. Airlines care about reservation center and flight crew staffing. Manufacturers care about predictive maintenance in their factories.

Tags: Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Spreadsheets		   
whitepaper Dell High Performance Visualization Cluster2007-10-01 Dell
  Dell's visualization system, the Dell High Performance Visualization Cluster, is a clustering system of high performance workstations, utilizing the aggregate performance of data processors, graphics accelerators, and network technologies. The visualization cluster provides scientists and engineers with the visualization power to study/simulate large scale problems such as earth simulation, very high resolution problems such as molecular bonding, or high resolution datasets. This paper explains the visualization cluster reference architecture, components, HW/SW configuration, and installation process.   
whitepaper IBM Balanced Warehouse Buyers' Guide - unlock the potential of data with the right data warehouse solution2007-09-25 IBM
 

Regardless of size or industry, every organization needs fast access to accurate, up-to-the-minute data. Yet many companies are unable to turn their data into actionable business insight.

This IBM whitepaper looks at the value of an effective data warehouse solution, suggesting that significant competitive advantage can be gained through continuously managing data, and transforming it into information-led business initiatives

   
whitepaper Winter Corporation Advances in Data Warehouse Performance2007-09-25 IBM
 

Every organisation produces huge volumes of data, but this leaves IT departments with twin challenges: improving the value they derive from all that data, while lowering costs at the same time.

This paper examines how IBM’s DB2 Warehouse solution can support high performance data access, offer real time data warehousing, and storage optimisation to lower costs.

   
whitepaper Executive Brief - From conflicting, unintegrated historical data to actionable insight. An introduction to dymanic warehousing from IBM2007-09-25 IBM
 

Companies need the right information, right now. Traditional data warehousing play a critical role this process. However, going forward easy- to-access and real time warehousing will be required just to keep up with the competition.

This paper investigates Dynamic Warehousing, IBM’s new strategy to help organizations squeeze the greatest possible business value out of their information.

   
whitepaper Follow the Trend or Make a Difference: The Evolution of Collective Opinions2007-09-25 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  No aspect of the massive participation in content creation that the web enables is more evident than in the countless number of opinions, news and product reviews that are constantly posted on the Internet. Given their importance their temporal evolution was analyzed in a number of scenarios. It was found that ignorance of previous views leads to a uniform sampling of the range of opinions among a community. Exposure of previous opinions to potential reviewers induces a trend following process which leads to the expression of increasingly extreme views. When the expression of an opinion is costly and previous views are known, a selection bias softens the extreme views, as people exhibit a tendency to speak out differently from previous opinions.   
whitepaper Blink: Advanced Display Multiplexing for Virtualized Applications2007-09-06 Association for Computing Machinery
  Providing untrusted applications with shared and safe access to modern display hardware is of increasing importance. The new display system, called Blink, safely multiplexes complex graphical content from multiple untrusted Virtual Machines onto a single Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Blink does not allow clients to program the GPU directly, but instead provides a virtual processor abstraction which they can program. Blink executes virtual processor programs and controls the GPU on behalf of the client, in a manner that reduces processing and context switching overheads. Blink provides its own stored procedure abstraction for efficient hardware access, but also supports fast emulation of legacy OpenGL programs. To achieve performance and safety, Blink employs just-in-time compilation and simple program inspection.

Tags: Virtualization