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Dental Provider Gains Efficiencies With Converged Network

The Productivity of dental office staff was hampered by lack of adequate phone service. The network capacity limited growth, and lack of redundancy put company at risk for business disruption. Willamette Dental lacked the capacity and resiliency to implement electronic dental records application. Cisco switches and routers reduced equipment needs...

Tags: Phone, Converged Network, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco IP Phone System, Telecom & Utilities

Case studies 2008-02-01

One of Oregon's Largest Counties Deploys Equallogic

Clackamas County, Oregon, is home to more than 338,000 people. Heavily timbered, the county's geographical features include Mt. Hood and numerous rivers - the Willamette, Clackamas, Sandy, Pudding, Molalla and Salmon. The Aging Fibre Channel SAN could not scale to meet growing demands. Clackamas County replaced old Fibre Channel SAN...

Tags: EqualLogic, SAN, Oregon, Dell EqualLogic, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware

Case studies 2008-01-18

Famed neurologist: pedestrians with iPods "walk in front of cars," and are "like zombies"

I see this in urban settings all the time. iPod or iPhone user, music being IV'd to the ears, doesn't look left or right when they cross the street. I started to think well hey, maybe I am becoming a curmudgeon. But then...

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Pentium 4, we hardly knew ye

Pentium 4, we hardly knew yeSo LongI for one am very pleased to see this insult to architectural design go. Netburst was a pathetic.I am very glad AMD was able to produce such strong competition with Intel these last few years. It got Intel off its lazy butt...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, Processors, Operating systems, Intel Pentium, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Pentium 4, Phoenix Technologies

Discussion threads 2007-02-02

Coming up: Sprint EV-DO, THE major road test

CES is done. AFT, and I dont mean the American Federation of Teachers. After significant miles underfoot, the clamor, the clang, the commotion of 140,000 Type A souls, the hours waiting for convention shuttle buses, taxis- the FRIGGIN RACKET- man am I ready for downtime.Over-stimmed. Decompression mandatory.Some would...

Tags: General, Case Studies, SprintNextel, EVDO

Blog posts 2007-01-11

Portland City Commish: we won't put filters on our Muni Wi-Fi

Here in my hometown of Portland, Oregon, we're getting a free citywide municipally sponsored city-wide Wi-Fi system. Components of the system, which is being built by California-based MetroFi, are already in place. Yet unlike other cities, we are not planning to install filters that will...

Tags: municipal Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi

Blog posts 2006-10-25

Willamette Education Service District Chooses Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies for Their Enterprise Portal, Predicting 20% Improvements in Service Delivery, 10% Reduced Costs, and Increased Community Support

Willamette Education Service District WESD is the administrative agent for over 40 state and federal projects across three Oregon counties. WESD needed to improve service delivery, coordinate its operations, and improve communication and teamwork. After evaluating several products from leading vendors, WESD decided to implement a solution based on Microsoft...

Tags: Enterprise Portal, Microsoft SharePoint, Willamette, Microsoft Corp., Willamette Education Service District, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

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