Crafting the Office Furniture Request for Proposal
If you are deciding the saint doable fit for your office, chances are that you have spoken to many vendors whom might ask you for a request for proposal. Responding to an RFP is an pricey and time-consuming piece of work, too. If you craft your RFP in too general a fashion, you’ll create a [...]
Why the Trans-pacific Express Cable Network Might Fail
Last December, a 7.1 seism off the coast of Taiwan severely dilapidated Asia’s undersea fiber-optic cables, disrupting telecommunication circuits crossways the continent.
China and Southeast Asia saw their communications capacity begin to between 2 and 10 percent, and though a portion of service has since been rerouted to alternative fixed lines and suicidally slow satellite [...]
Things you need to know about HDPE pipe repair
Protecting your pipeline from external corrosion can commonly be accomplished by following some modern technologies, plastic extrusion, to combine the pipeline material with High Density Polyethylene (HDPE). This innovation of pipeline engineering helps to protect the pipeline with greater resistance. Normally a pipeline surface is coated with specific dyes, but the portions that are dyed [...]
Book Review: Unholy Domain by Dan Ronco
There are a plethora of sci-fi books that have explored what the Earth would be like after the apocalypse, and generally the apocalypse in question is a nuclear war, or some sort of plague.
Unholy Domain takes this genre in a new and very thought provoking direction. One only has to spend a couple of minutes [...]
Are your Green Projects a sickly shade of Gray? It?s time to get back to basics
Green IT 2.0 is getting a lot more publicity but what is it? Put simply it’s about using technology to enable greener business practices. That means deploying IT in smarter ways so it’s used to enable further reductions in the total carbon footprint of a company. I read some Forrester research recently and they cited [...]
Enterprise Content Management And Enterprise Reporting Procedures
The ECM Association ,AIIM, defines ECM as: “…the technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents related to organizational processes. ECM tools and strategies allow the management of an organization’s unstructured information, wherever that information exists.”
The focus of the definition above is on tools and technologies. AIIM itself emphasizes that while [...]
Tidal Power: Wave of the Future?
Tidal power is using the tides to extract energy to convert into electricity. The tides are the result of the gravitational force between the Earth and Moon. On a regular basis this force pulls up tons of water, thus the tides. The tides are also brought back down, allowing for tidal [...]
Mastering the Transition From Technician to Technical Manager
If you talk to any information technology (IT) or research and development (R&D) professional, they’ll smile when you say this: The complaint from business is, “The work is always late, and it’s always over budget.” When you ask a technology company’s executives, managers or human resources vice president, “Would you like to get more work [...]
China’s Shot Heard ’round the Galaxy
China’s counterspace program — punctuated by the Jan 2007 successful test of a direct-ascent anti-satellite weapon — poses dangers to human space flight and puts at risk the assets of all space faring nations. –U .S. Department of Defense
The United States unquestionably holds the strategic high ground of space today. What is very much in question, [...]
