| Altiris boosts IT management tools
Altiris will launch new workflow and helpdesk solutions on 29 October, designed to help businesses deliver efficient IT services through business process automation. The IT management specialist unveiled its new Workflow Solution and updated Helpdesk Solution at its ManageFusion event in Malta this week. The tools are designed to enable business professionals with limited technical experience to create, change, test and deploy business processes with a drag-and-drop forms editor. Steve Morton, Altiris’s product management and strategy group vice president, said the solutions were a major addition to workflow and IT management. "The idea is to take business processes and map them to a workflow piece, then have the underlying technology driving conditional tasks and complex activities underneath the covers down to each individual endpoint," explained Morton.
June 2006
This could be your friend, your kid... you yourself. Drop some cashish. If you're broke, stop by Sun On The Run (508 743-0700, across from Lindsay's) and dump a few pennies in the jar... go there today to see my $5, if you really like this column. Read this story about Amy's little angel in this week's Upper Cape Codder Tragedy strikes family a second time By Robert Slager/ rslager@cnc.com A little angel has been whispering into Amy Johnson's ear every day since June 7. The voice of her little sister Kristen, forever frozen in time, is pleading with her to fight a little bit longer. "I know it's true," said Carol Henderson of Wareham, who lost one daughter to a car accident a decade ago and may now lose another. "Amy has injuries that you and I could not have survived." Amy Johnson, who moved from Wareham to Bridgewater just a few weeks ago, lost control of her car in the early morning and slammed into a tree near Exit 2 on I-495, suffering massive internal injuries.
Pollies fail to grasp key IT issues
The government and OPEL will invest around AU$1 billion each to rollout a wireless network based on the controversial but highly promising WiMax standard. Still unresolved, however, is the second part of the government's network strategy -- a metropolitan network that is widely expected to be fibre-based. Applications for the build-out of this network are to be considered by a broadband committee that conveniently won't make a final decision until after the election. The ALP, in response to the government's measures, has promised that if elected it will build a AU$4.7 billion national fibre-to-the-node network in partnership with the private sector, funded by the Future Fund and the remaining share in Telstra. Both of the parties' strategies have predominantly been discussed in relation to lingering issues over the market power of Telstra.
Ice pioneer Thompson to tackle remote New Guinea glaciers, vanishing ...
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea - For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they're gone. To the American glaciologist, the ancient ice is a vanishing "archive" of the story of El Nino, the equatorial phenomenon driving much of the world's climate. More than that, the little-explored glaciers are a last unknown for a mountaineering scientist who for three decades has circled the planet pioneering the deep-drilling of ice cores, both to chronicle the history of climate and to bear witness to the death of tropical glaciers from global warming. "No one knows how thick these remaining glaciers are," Thompson said of Puncak Jaya, or Mount Jaya.
Executive Overview: Dynamic Warehousing
Jerry List, Vice President of Cincinnati, Ohio-based QC Software debunks that any paradigm shift has taken place.
"When did warehousing ever go away? The most significant impact on warehousing has been the need for real-time warehouse data via WCS (warehouse control systems.) In today's economy, distribution centers need to be more dynamic to meet the ever changing demands of the global economy. They must constantly re-invent themselves, whether it is simply expanding an existing footprint, adding new operational processes such as value added services, or finding better ways to fulfill orders quicker. Warehouses cannot remain stagnant."
The ability of a warehouse to be dynamic depends on the configurability and scalability of the WCS. The warehouse control system enables an automated warehouse or distribution center to reach peak operating performance.
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