Archives : May 2010

trading solutions: one network for community access cope with electronic trading latency issues

published on 2010/05/31 by Patrick Chambeau

Trading Solutions previously known as Etrali was created in 1965. In 2006, Etrali joins Orange Business Services , the B2B Orange Group entity, and becomes Orange Business Services - Trading Solutions . 45 years of experience dedicated for trading floors. Olivier Vonet, in charge of Business development at Orange Business Services-Trading Solutions explains how Trading community Network can be important within trading institutions. Where voice was the only way to discover firm prices, today voice is still present in all markets but sometimes only used as a backup system. Voice and electronic networks co-exist, this is not a transition phase......

Solid state storage: an answer to power problems in data centres?

published on 2010/05/31 by Stewart Baines

If your enterprise is not already exploring solid state, it may well be worth considering instead of, say, buying more servers to try and increase performance. The capital expenditure may be smaller, and the physical footprint and power consumption may be lower, too. ...

Solid state storage: an answer to power problems in data centres?

World Cup aiding South African IT modernisation

published on 2010/05/31 by Stewart Baines

Preparations for the World Cup have helped South Africa to modernise its digital information systems, said ministers this week, but added that it still needs help in some areas from the ITU.Speaking at the fifth World Telecommunication Development Conference this week, South African deputy minister of communications Dina Pule said that the country had deployed fibre-optic cables to each of the ten World Cup stadia, located in nine cities across the country."International connectivity is of course a critical component for South Africa and the African continent to participate on equal footing with the rest of the world in the global......

World Cup aiding South African IT modernisation

World Cup aiding South African IT modernisation

published on 2010/05/31 by Stewart Baines

Preparations for the World Cup have helped South Africa to modernise its digital information systems, said ministers this week, but added that it still needs help in some areas from the ITU.Speaking at the fifth World Telecommunication Development Conference this week, South African deputy minister of communications Dina Pule said that the country had deployed fibre-optic cables to each of the ten World Cup stadia, located in nine cities across the country."International connectivity is of course a critical component for South Africa and the African continent to participate on equal footing with the rest of the world in the global......

World Cup aiding South African IT modernisation

Trey Pennington: "Companies Trying To Fix Structural Changes With Technology Will Fail"

published on 2010/05/28 by Yann Gourvennec

In this sequel to our first video interview of Social Media expert Trey Pennington, Trey tells us all about the human factor with regard to the adoption of Social Media in the Enterprise. It's not so much a matter of technological investment nor even a question of doing things right or wrong Trey says (there are no magical recipes in that respect), it is a matter of human investment. Amongst companies which showed the way for doing things right, Trey mentions American high tech retail chain Best-Buy as a striking example of how things should be done: "They did a......