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Post-Katrina, New Orleans Sees Benefit of Using Cloud to Enable Disaster Recover

The City of New Orleans and private businesses that struggled to survive the devastation of Hurricane Katrina learned some valuable lessons. One of the primary caveats when it comes to business continuity is to mitigate risk by embracing the cloud.

Stuck With Cloud Provider That May Not Be Your Long-term Choice?

In 2010, when Netflix was still early into its shift from DVD rentals to online movies and shows, it started using Amazon Web Services, the retailer's cloud computing division. Now that Netflix streams 100 million-plus hours of video every day, it's sticking with Amazon partly because of Amazon's scale and features, and partly because switching vendors "would be a significant multi-year effort," says Yury Izrailevsky, Netflix's vice president for cloud and platform engineering.

Gigantic Container Ships Enter Into Lloyd's Classification System

Lloyd's Register is classing the world's largest-ever container ships – led by a recent contract to oversee the building of six ultra-large container ships of more than 20,000 TEUs.

Electric-drive Manufacturer Enhances Productivity, Lowers Inventory with RFID Tech

Bosch Rexroth, a manufacturer of electric drives and controls, has boosted productivity and reduced the volume of inventory it must keep onsite by integrating radio frequency identification technology at its assembly line in Homburg, Germany.

CEOs Should Stop Squinting in the Rear-view (Data) Mirror, and Look Ahead

If the company is the bus and its leader is the driver, as Jim Collins' famous analogy states, then it stands to reason that when the bus is moving, the driver should mostly be looking out the windshield (toward the future) rather than consulting the rear-view mirror.

Effective Inventory Management in Bulk Distribution

It doesn't matter if the cost of supply is at an all-time high or fluctuating wildly, the impact of excess inventory and inefficient operations can be crippling to cash flow in bulk distribution.

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Kenco Implements FDA Validated System to Deliver 50% Productivity Improvement

Challenge: A pharmaceutical customer's growing order volumes and regulatory compliance needs prompted Kenco to reevaluate the customer's technology solution.

Sales, Prices of Used Class 8 Trucks Continue to Rise

Used Class 8 truck metrics were generally in line from June to July, with average age and miles up an incremental 1 percent each. Compared to last year, average prices were up 2 percent in July and 6 percent year to date, according to the latest release of the State of the Industry: U.S. Classes 3-8 Used Trucks, published by ACT Research.

JDA Integrates Supply-Chain Apps With IBM Commerce

JDA Software Group Inc. has integrated its JDA Intelligent Fulfillment and Labor Productivity applications with order-management software from IBM Commerce.

Are Makers of IoT Devices, Systems Obligated to Build in Anti-hacking Security?

With the current state of IoT security, we might call it the Internet-of-Vulnerable-Things. It's all the more alarming because of the types of physical machines/systems that are increasingly network-connected - traffic lights, airplanes, nuclear power plants, and other critical or potentially lethal systems.

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Impact of Tianjin Chemical Explosions 'Will be Far Worse than Reported'

The global business community should be aware that the impact on supply chain operations worldwide - from the two massive explosions that occurred Aug. 12 at the Ruihai International Logistics warehouse in Tianjin, China - will be far worse than suggested by news analysts and Chinese officials, says Resilinc CEO Bindiya Vakil.

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Arena Solutions Teams With GoodData to Form Arena Analytics

Arena Solutions, a vendor of cloud-based software for product lifecycle management (PLM), has partnered with GoodData to create Arena Analytics.

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