- Worst of the lot: PCConnection and PCMall
- 10 ways the Chinese Internet is different
- Hacker writes rootkit for Cisco's routers
- Cisco loses $2 million order to Nortel
- Enterasys, Extreme hooking up?
Discover how Wait-Time Analysis, a new approach to application and database performance optimization, allows IT professionals to fine-tune applications based on service levels. With this management tool you will find all root causes of problems impacting customers and identify the resources that will resolve that problem. Learn more today.
Get the latest on storage technologies that allow IT professionals to better cope with new IT demands. Learn how storage technologies can help you successfully tackle e-Discover, regulatory compliance, green data center initiatives and the data explosion. Get all the details now.
IT professionals like the idea of consolidating hundreds of servers into only a few, but it takes a lot more to cost effectively consolidate and virtualize servers. Watch this six-chapter webcast, "Reduce Complexity and Cost - Windows Server Consolidation with Virtualization" to learn how to effectively consolidate your Windows environment. One of the themes explored includes the characteristics of an orchestrated data center, which includes: Resource management, dynamic provisioning, job management, policy management, accounting and auditing and real-time availability. Learn more about orchestration and much more today. Register below to learn more and be entered to win an Archos 605 Portable Media Player.
it's ture, at least for the time being, people living in china cann't access to blogspot, wikipedia(the...- someone_who_s_in_china
IBM Friday announced it acquired privately-held SRD, for an undisclosed amount, to fill out its business intelligence middleware portfolio.
SRD makes analytics software that specializes in gleaning information about individuals' identities and discovering obscure associations - such as if someone is bouncing checks at five different banks using five different names or identities.
Originally developed for the casino gaming industry, SRD's Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness (NORA) software can sift through multiple records that might appear to describe different people but in reality are related to a single person. NORA can send alerts when it detects suspicious or positive customer relationships - during a background check of a job applicant or when a high-value customer makes a reservation, for example.
Businesses can use the technology to get an accurate view of individuals and relationships in real-time, seeing associations that previously were nearly impossible to discover, IBM says. For example, companies could use it to aggregate customer information scattered among multiple systems, reconciling slight variations in name or address along the way, to create a single view of a customer.
“The seemingly simple questions of ‘who is who?' and 'who knows whom?' cut across a wide variety of business problems today,” said Janet Perna, general manager of IBM's information management software group, in a statement.
SRD's software works with IBM and non-IBM data sources, including Oracle and Microsoft databases. IBM plans to integrate SRD’s operations into its information management software group.
SRD is the 20th company acquired by IBM's software division since 2001, and the seventh for its DB2 information management division.