IP(IPv6): The Protocol of Choice for Smart Grid(?) by Zen Kishimoto

At the GridCom Forum, a panel discussed the roles of IP and IPv6. In the ICT area, IP is becoming (or has become) the protocol of choice. A consensus is forming for smart grid as well. NIST’s "Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 1.0” lists IP...

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TLLTS Guest Tara Spalding from Groundwork Open Source by Tek-Tips

Tara Spalding is the VP of Marketing at Groundwork Open Source. Groundwork has a community project known as MonitoringForge.org, which is platform agnostic. Before GWOS, she was at SugarCRM. Click here to listen to the podcast from The Linux Link Tech Show in mp3 format....

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Internet Privacy Myth by Tek-Tips

The battle for privacy continues to make more U-turns as FBI Director, Robert Mueller claims he "called for data retention on the part of Internet providers, and emphasized the point two years later when explicitly asking Congress to enact a law making it mandatory. But it had not ...

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Empathy: Litmus Test for Success in Web 2.0 by Tek-Tips

We dance around the idea of empathy as if it was an old lecherous politician with wine breath. Instead of embracing the idea of putting ourselves in the shoes of others - opponents, competitors and anyone with whom we disagree - we assume that doing so will weaken our stance, instead of buildin...

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Looking at What Makes Good Application Security Knowledge by Drazen Drazic

It's always interesting reading about larger scale fraud like this one recently with the Bank of Queensland. You wonder in cases like this, had the accused pulled the pin earlier, would he ever have gotten caught? You wonder how many do get away with it - stopping before obvious alarm bells start to...

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Open, Simple, and Scalable Storage at a Fraction of the Cost by Sun Microsystems

This white paper demonstrates how power, cooling, and real estate requirements are finally combining—to form a perfect storm for expensive, locked-in, proprietary hardware. But open storage appliances are based on industry-standard hardware and install up to 10 times faster than traditional sy...

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Reducing Storage Complexity by Sun Microsystems

The experts at IDC predict that external disk storage capacity will grow 50% through 2010—but with that capacity comes a new set of hurdles. In this free white paper, you′ll discover 4 key storage challenges for organizations facing the future; 4 important benefits of unified storage; an...

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What Is Open Storage?: The Need for a New Storage Architecture by Sun Microsystems

This free white paper reveals how the latest generation of open storage systems is helping businesses stay flexible and profitable. Learn how Web 2.0′s massive storage requirements are pushing businesses toward storage that′s affordable, reliable, and dynamic; how open source code gives ...

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Simplify and Speed Business Intelligence and Web Analytics Deployment by Sun Microsystems

This webcast introduces the latest business intelligence technology that can help you discover your insight “needle” in a haystack of data. In under an hour, you′ll learn how to avoid expensive hardware and “forklift” upgrades, via an open-source platform; cut costs by ...

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Best Practices for Creating Defect Resolution Processes that Trigger Developer Adoption using Static Analysis by Coverity

Whether you are evaluating static analysis in your development cycle or already using static analysis today, learn what every development team needs to know, including what to look for when evaluating static analysis solutions, how to minimize the risk that noise and false positive rates pose to suc...

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Managing Software Integrity in an Agile World by Coverity

Software integrity experts Mark Donsky and George Swan, Ph.D, from Coverity present how static analysis supports Agile to automate testing and find defects earlier in the development cycle, enforces in-cycle QA to share the quality responsibility across QA and development, and is used at Coverity to...

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AVI (Audio Video Interleave)

A Microsoft-specified format for saving audio and/or video clips, referred to by Windows as "Video for Windows." You can play the files through the Media Player in Windows or through many popular browser plug-in multimedia players. Files of this type have a .avi extension.

Average Selling Price (ASP)

This term is used in the microchip manufacturing world. Companies like AMD and Intel strive for high ASPs. The ASP is an indication not only of direct profits, but how well a company is keeping up with the technology curve. It is not uncommon for Intel to have an ASP of around US$100 and AMD to be close behind.