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  1-10 of 33 Reviews about "Installation Management (K.6.2)": Date Reviewed
  MRCP-RM: a technique for resource allocation and scheduling of MapReduce jobs with deadlines
Lim N., Majumdar S., Ashwood-Smith P. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 28(5): 1375-1389, 2017.  Type: Article

In this paper, the authors discuss issues in scheduling (that is, match making) of job streams with end-to-end service-level agreements (SLAs) with agreed-upon quality of service (QoS) and allocation of resources in a distributed cloud...

Jun 9 2017
  Creative destruction of computing systems: analysis and modeling
Hritonenko N., Yatsenko Y. The Journal of Supercomputing 38(2): 143-154, 2006.  Type: Article

Certain rules for calculating the optimal lifetime of computing systems, which are based on rates of technological change in the computing industry, are provided in this paper. Particularly, the study claims that the laws of the develo...

Mar 20 2007
  Mac OS X 10.3 Panther little black book
Steinberg G., Paraglyph Publishing, 2004.  Type: Book (9781932111866)

Gene Steinberg is well known among users of Apple computers for his Web site (http://www.macnightowl.com) and associated radio show and journal articles. He has written a number of books on using various releases of Mac OS X, and its p...

Nov 4 2004
  Automating Unix and Linux administration
Bauer K., APress, LP, 2003. 592 pp.  Type: Book (9781590592120)

Bauer has a written a very thorough book. It could also be described as comprehensive, extensive, excellent, and well researched, but overall, “thorough” is the most fitting description. This is alarming. In our rap...

Mar 22 2004
  Network services investment guide: maximizing ROI in uncertain times (networking council)
Gaynor M., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 2003. 288 pp.  Type: Book (9780471214755)

This book purports to be about return-on-investment, and, in fact, it is, but not in the usual financial modeling, or even directly economic, sense. This is really a book about contingency thinking in a modern, complex, networked enter...

Nov 11 2003
  Comparing industry benchmarks for J2EE application server: IBM’s trade2 vs Sun’s ECperf
Zhang Y., Liu A., Qu W.  Conference in research and practice in information technology (Proceedings of the twenty-sixth Australasian computer science conference, Adelaide, Australia, 199-206, 2003.  Type: Proceedings

This paper attempts to compare two Java enterprise application server benchmark suites--IBM Trade2 and SUN ECperf--and illustrates this using an IBM Websphere applications case. The paper states the difficulties invol...

Aug 19 2003
  Efficient collaboration between main and sub-suppliers
Fagerström B., Jackson M. Computers in Industry 49(1): 25-35, 2002.  Type: Article

In today’s competitive environment, ever-increasing customer needs put tremendous pressure on suppliers to shorten product development cycles. This, in turn, drives supplier integration, design coordination, and collaborative...

Jun 10 2003
  How often should a firm buy new PCs?
Post G. Communications of the ACM 42(5): 17-21, 1999.  Type: Article

Post answers the question that every organization must answer from time to time: How often should we purchase new personal computers? He analyzes 12 different scenarios, varying time between purchases from 12 to 48 months and levels of...

Jul 1 1999
  Another approach to justifying the cost of usability
Lund A. interactions 4(3): 48-56, 1997.  Type: Article

The purpose of this paper is to provide a model for measuring the effectiveness of usability studies. Lund defines usability as making a system or product easy to learn, easy to use, useful, compelling, and safe. For internal systems, ...

Feb 1 1998
  Investing in information technology
Bysinger B., Knight K., Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, NY, 1996.  Type: Book (9780442023379)

An approach for identifying technology investment opportunities and then justifying the required technology investment is described in this book. Quite frankly, the book has major shortcomings. The material is very, very basic̵...

Sep 1 1997
 
 
 
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