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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM)
Looking to make your network and IT staff more efficient? In this installment of our TCO series, we examine the costs associated with server configuration management, including predeployment planning, rollout and product maintenance. The price tag may be high, but it's a worthy investment.
Companies working with razor-thin margins and just-in-time parts deliveries have little room for error. Unfortunately, these supply chains are often incomplete and lacking good communication. In our analysis, we illustrate the savings an optimized supply chain can provide.
We invited four supply chain management vendors to pitch a plan for optimizing the supplier-distributor processes of our fictional company. Read our no-holds-barred evaluations of their RFI responses.
Tinseltown's love affair with celluloid is waning, and more movies are being digitally created. Now the industry has to build a supply chain of servers, high-speed networks and software that can move these bits and bytes from the camera to the silver screen.
Integration and automation are the trend, but the processes won't gel without IT and business people working together. We give you the lowdown on how to prepare.
A Brooklyn, N.Y., movie theater is showing Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge Of The Sith, in its native digital format off fault-tolerant servers housed in an IT center.
Organizations large and small, public and private, are flocking to appliance-based network-security solutions.
Researchers have created a proof-of-concept virus that propagates over IT. Just don't expect your local Wal-Mart's supply chain to disappear anytime soon. Also, find out what NWC readers say is the biggest hurdle to implementing VoIP.
Oracle Corp. on Tuesday unveiled Oracle Transportation Management, a platform which provides visibility into the flow of goods across the supply chain.
Managing the IT supply chain means keeping tabs on network switches, routers, WAN connections, load balancers, accelerators and firewalls. It's a wonder anything works or is even remotely reliable. The products we selected this year as the best in the Network and Systems Management category make the task of maintenance less stressful and improve customers' experiences.
A global approach to technology is a must. Here's how five of the big boys are handling the challenge.
Food and drug retailer Albertsons Inc. said it has launched an initiative to use electronic tags for tracking goods through its supply chain.
Business processes will continue to drive application initiatives, while businesses themselves will rely on enterprise architectures to integrate their apps with processes.
El Camino Hospital is rolling out an aggressive disaster-recovery strategy with its new backup site in Southern California and a new hospital infrastructure that's seismic-tolerant.
Analysts suggest move may have gone too far; could turn Nortel into a system-integration and software company by default.
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