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TadaSoft Restorepoint Review - SC Magazine With downtime a dirty word in today's enterprise networks, administrators have to tread carefully when it comes to making configuration changes to critical network devices. Businesses that don't have any laid-down codes of practice or change-management systems can get into a real mess if they're modifying key switches and routers and the aftershocks can be far reaching - not least with regulatory compliance. UK-based Tadasoft claims to have the answer with its Restorepoint appliances. These are designed to provide a central point of management for multiple network devices, which securely stores their configurations, backs them up at regular intervals and provides swift restoration facilities. The RSP-500 solution on review looks good value, as it can handle up to 500 network devices and the price includes the appliance plus a three-year maintenance contract.
Don't Let What You Know Limit What You Imagine - Bill Taylor One of the most perplexing features of these troubled times is that so many capable people in so many fields look so lost and ineffective. Whether it’s the stubborn inefficiencies of the health-care system, the ever-rising costs of the higher-education system, even the slow-motion collapse of the US postal system, leaders with unrivaled expertise and decades of experience can’t seem to develop creative solutions to dire problems. Why are so many smart executives so ineffective? One answer may be that all this experience is itself a problem. In her underappreciated book, The Innovation Killer, Cynthia Barton Rabe, a former innovation strategist at Intel, explains how “what we know limits what we can imagine.” Mitsubishi Corporation Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) has seven Business Groups which develop operations in the diverse fields of Global Environmental & Infrastructure; Industrial Finance, Logistics & Development; Energy; Metals; Machinery; Chemicals; and Living Essentials. In addition to these Business Groups, MC has also recently established its Business Service Group. Through these business groups and more than 600 subsidiaries and affiliates, MC serves customers around the world in virtually every industry.
Vodaphone Future Agenda The next decade will see more people and constrained resources but better connectivity and a shift in economic power to Asia. How will this affect the world we live in? What are the other big issues for the next decade? These are concerns that individuals, companies and governments need to address. The Future Agenda programme, sponsored by Vodafone Group, is a pioneering open foresight project that has brought together informed people from around the world to analyse the crucial themes of the next ten years. This website details the output from multiple discussions.
Telecom Operators Get the whole picture Get faster results, a new depth to analytics and unique predictive power by using big data. Read more Time to Play TV is a new game, it’s time to play.Time to Play Televisionary blogFollow the latest discussions on the Televisionary blog. Products - Tufin SecureTrack, Tufin SecureChange Tufin Security Policy Orchestration Suite Tufin’s Orchestration Suite™ extends the benefits of IT automation to network security. Around the world, organizations are using Tufin’s award-winning products to accelerate service delivery, increase IT agility, and reduce the time spent on security changes and audits by up to 80%. The Orchestration Suite is a complete solution for designing, provisioning, and auditing network security changes. It enables you to proactively assess risk in real-time, to continuously enforce compliance with standards, and to keep business-critical applications online.
Let them hack your innovation! Thousands of different ways Each of them has its benefits: open innovation (Chesbrough, 2003. Global Europe 2050 On 28 November 2011, the European Commission organized a conference in Brussels on "Global Europe 2050". This conference presented the results of a European foresight expert group year-long work. The focus of this expert group was "The World and Europe up to 2050: EU policies and research priorities". "Global Europe 2050" is line with the EU report published two years ago and entitled "The World in 2025". But "Global Europe 2050" has a longer-term perspective to tackle issues such as natural resources availability, infrastructures and territorial dynamics. This work is original as the three scenarios "Nobody cares", "EU under threats" and "EU Renaissance" have been quantified.
Local Number Portability (LNP) Port Out Guide On May 13, 2009, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted and released FCC Order 09-41, which mandates industry implementation of a one business day porting interval for simple ports. Certain LNP industry requirements were developed in support of FCC Order 09-41’s shortened porting interval. These changes in the NPAC will also require changes in Service Provider local systems, SOA, and Operational Support Systems (OSSs). Rules For the Social Era - Nilofer Merchant “This business model is right for a company selling Purina Dog Chow, circa 1970.” “There’s no way we could ever be this collaborative.” Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. The first is from a Google executive; the second, from an exec at Cisco.
Evolving Systems - Evolving Systems - Tertio: Provisioning & Subscriber Activation Overview Evolving Systems’ Tertio® solution is a high performance, multi-domain, next-generation service activation system. There are common issues across the communications industry: voice price erosion, consolidation, fixed/mobile convergence, and competition among service providers, broadcasters and media companies supplying digital content. As quickly as wired and wireless broadband service bandwidth increases, competitive forces are pushing down the price of bigger and bigger buckets of minutes, messages and data. In response, operators are banking on the service bundle, both to retain subscribers through compelling service combinations, and to take a bigger share of their subscribers' spend on communications and entertainment. More than 45 operators in 38 countries currently use our Tertio® solution.