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- Willis Lease Finance is a lessor of commercial aircraft engines, primarily to commercial aircraft operators and maintenance, repair and overhaul organizations. Co.'s engine portfolio consists...
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- Willis Group Partners With HP to Stay Agile in Global Marketplace
- Willis develops and delivers professional insurance, reinsurance, risk management, financial and human resource consulting and actuarial services to corporations, public entities and institutions around the world. Their aim was to standardize IT hardware and services globally, reduce downtime and improve global IT security. The solution was HP ProLiant servers, models...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Partnership, Willis, Insurance, Workstations, Financial Planning, Strategy, Servers, Security, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- Computacenter Case Study: Willis
- Willis is one of the world's leading risk management and insurance intermediaries. Willis needed to ensure that business services are minimally impacted by a disaster or emergency. Before Willis could commit to its new approach to disaster recovery, it needed to evaluate the proposed data replication technology and its impact...
- Tags: Computacenter, Willis, Financial Planning, Insurance, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance
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- Did Intel rig test or out engineer AMD/ATI?
- When Humphrey Cheung at TG Daily wrote a glowing review of Intels G965 embedded graphics chipset beating an AMD/ATI X1600 dedicated graphics board on a video playback quality test, AMD cried foul and other journalists echoed some concerns with the massively one sided test. That prompted Cheung to do...
- Tags: AMD, Desktop, Fun Stuff, Hardware, Intel, News, Vista
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
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- With Virtual Infrastructure, Willis Group Makes Real Savings of Over £200,000
- Willis Group is one of the world's largest professional services firms specialising in risk management. One of the key issues facing Willis was that a number of its servers were approaching the end of their warranties and to replace them would have required a huge hardware investment. The team decided...
- Tags: EMC Corp., Willis Group, Storage, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies
- Mercury Interactive Case Study: Willis Group
- Willis Group is a leading global insurance broker that develops and delivers professional insurance, reinsurance, risk management, and financial and human resource consulting and actuarial services to corporations, public entities, and institutions around the world. As Willis moves toward a global services platform that involves developing mission-critical applications that will...
- Tags: Mercury Interactive Corp., Mercury LoadRunner, Willis Group, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
- Case studies
- Large Health Network Implements Digital Imaging With Microsoft Application Integration
- With a network of more than 74 healthcare facilities and 5,500 employees, Willis-Knighton Health System depends on the exchange of information between numerous third-party software applications for its day-to-day operations. Willis-Knighton needed to transfer information between a growing number of sources but found that its existing application integration software could...
- Tags: Digital Imaging, Imaging, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Application Integration, It Services, Middleware, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Kelkoo Desktop Search EU (widget)
- Kelkoo Desktop Search EU is based on the Kelkoo Desktop Search widget from Kris Willis. Kelkoo is a European price comparison search portal. Kelkoo Desktop Search EU supports most Kelkoo Web sites and is not passed through the TradeDoubler Web site. The results open in a new browser window. This...
- Tags: Kelkoo, Desktop Search, Search
- Software downloads 2007-07-11
- Looking for a new Linux game? Try Nero 2.0
- Nathan Willis at linux.com has a detailed article on the new 2.0 version of Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives NERO -- "a unique game in which players train forces of autonomous bots, then pit those forces against each other in hands-off, artificial intelligence AI-only competitions." NERO is actually...
- Tags: Game, Linux, Nero, Games, Personal Technology, Selena Frye
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- Adobe Systems Case Study: D'Arcy
- Part of global media group bCom3, D'Arcy is a leading advertising agency with household name clients such as Coca-Cola and Philips. D'Arcy is introducing Adobe InDesign to improve productivity, enhance quality, and minimize software maintenance and support costs. One of the most popular features at D'Arcy is InDesign's typographic strength,...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., D'Arcy, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Polese opens up on open-source plans
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Polese, SpikeSource, open source, software
- Technical articles 2005-01-05
- The Power of the Word
- I have a planA cunning plan."I have a plan so cunning you could brush your teeth with it." Edmund Blackadder Blackadder the Second"Wibble" Edmund Blackadder Blackadder goes Forth"But Rimmer, you ARE a smeghead" Todhunter (The Red Dwarf Series 1- The Beginning)"2X4B is a jerky middle name" ...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Bit - Twiddler, Red Dwarf, Johnny
- Discussion threads 2007-05-20
- Why does that new widescreen HDTV look so weird?
- I'll take black bars for $300 AlexI like the use of pictures to make the problem clear. I have always preferred the black bars. The worst technology is the "pan and scan" when the DVD maker tries to go full screen, it looks so incredibly unnatural and actually ruins some...
- Tags: Die Hard, george ou, black bar, Justin James, off-topic, stretch, HDTV
- Discussion threads 2006-08-16
- Geek Trivia: The once and future King
- Test your command ofuseless knowledge by subscribing to TechRepublic's Geek Trivia e-newsletter. Automaticallysign up today!Break out the monkey suits and head for the tallest buildingyou can find, boys and girls, because the first, best, and undisputed championof primate protagonists turns 72 on March 2. On this day in 1933, the...
- Tags: King Kong
- Technical articles 2005-03-01
- If sci-fi geeks ran Hollywood...
- A few weeks ago, our buddies over at SFSignal asked a bunch of top-flight sci-fi writers, editors, and bloggers what would happen if, say, a bunch of top-flight sci-fi fans ran Hollywood, rather than the usual collection of business-school rejects and soulless, jaded, film-school burnouts. Now that the Hollywood...
- Tags: Hollywood, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- NetAdminChallenge: Help Andy fix his mistake
- Andy must develop a group planning strategy using Active Directory. He has several groups that need the same permissions to resources. Check out his strategy and see if you can figure out what he's done wrong. You could win a TechRepublic T-shirt!Every other week, NetAdmin Republic poses a systems or...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Directory services, Jim Wells MBA, Help Andy
- Technical articles 2000-07-31
- The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2006
- It's that time of year again, when "best of" lists start making the rounds. For your geekish pleasure, I have three such collections, all found via SFSignal. First up, Jonathan Strahan, editor of The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, has posted the Table of Contents to Volume...
- Tags: Fantasy, Amazon.com Inc., Wiki, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
- Using GnuPG in Windows 2000
- If you are in need of solid encryption but want to steer clear of the mainstream, then GnuPG is for you. In this Daily Feature, Jack Wallen, Jr., explains how to install GnuPG and its basic features.If you're like other paranoid, overly caffeinated, highly intelligent IT professionals, you know that...
- Tags: E-mail, Microsoft Windows, Jack Wallen, Jr., Microsoft Windows 2000, GnuPG
- Technical articles 2001-09-05
- Getting certified for Internet Information Server 4.0
- Ivan Mayes tells you what to expect as you prepare to take Microsoft Exam 70-087.Between juggling the finance department’s demands for on-line stock quotes (why they can’t figure out PointCast, I don’t know) and Human Resources’ attempt to print 5,000 copies of the employee handbook on a dot-matrix, you barely...
- Tags: Ivan Mayes, Microsoft IIS Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft IIS 4.0, Microsoft Management Console, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Management
- Technical articles 1999-06-22
- Hear Ye, Hear Ye - NEIL WAS RIGHT. Maxwell was wrong
- Hear Ye, Hear Ye - NEIL WAS RIGHT. Maxwell was wrong.http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=8&threadID=188273&messageID=1933292I stand corrected. Neil was RIGHT, while I was WRONG. It would take a minimum of TWO years to get to the moon, assuming ALL focus was dedicated in that one and only direction, and assuming absolutely everything went right,...
- Tags: Hear Ye, Maxwell, maxwell edison, moon, Neil, off-topic, Space Exploration
- Discussion threads 2006-01-25
- Age difference
- Age differenceWide open question Just interested in opinionsWhat is an "acceptable" age difference for a relationship? Assuming all parties are over 25.that's not fair.I'm 24 and I prefer men twice my age. It's what is on the inside that counts. Age means nothing.WellThere was an reason for it, I'm...
- Tags: Bob in Calgary
- Discussion threads 2005-09-26
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