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Capgemini Sogeti

1 The IT consultancy is a full-range provider of IT and management

services with focus on Application Services, Software Control Testing,

Infrastructure Services and High Tech Consulting.


Fujitsu - Fujitsu Technology Solutions

1 The term Dynamic Infrastructures stands for a comprehensive range of IT products, solutions, and services –

from PCs and notebooks, to data center solutions, and Infrastructure as a Service and Managed Infrastructure services that dynamically adapt and adjust to the ever changing demands

of today’s economy


Rackspace Cloud - Cloud Servers

1 Cloud Servers is a cloud infrastructure service that allows

users to deploy "one to hundreds of cloud servers instantly" and create

"advanced, high availability architectures" similar to the Amazon

Elastic Compute Cloud


RightScale - Partnerships

1 On April 15, 2013, RightScale announced that it would provide enterprise support for Windows Azure in conjunction with the Microsoft announcement of its general availability release of Windows Azure Infrastructure

Services.


IBM Global Services - IBM Global Technology Services

1 IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) primarily reflects infrastructure services. It includes outsourcing services, business

continuity and resilience, Integrated Technology Services, and Maintenance. GTS accounts for around 39% of IBM's revenue globally ($42B in revenue in

2011 out of $107B for IBM overall), the highest revenue of the 5 segments of

IBM.


HP Converged Cloud - Moving between clouds

1 Other models that mixes on-premises cloud with public cloud technologies include Platform as a Service (PaaS),

which includes infrastructure services combined with development tools and middleware; and Software as a Service (SaaS), which is used to

develop packaged software.


Cognizant - Services

1 Cognizant provides information technology, consulting and BPO services.

These include business & technology consulting, systems integration,

application development & maintenance, IT infrastructure services,

analytics, business intelligence, data warehousing, CRM, supply chain

management, engineering & manufacturing Solutions, ERP, R&D outsourcing, and testing solutions.


Cognizant - Services

1 In the 2012 earnings announcements, the CEO Francisco D'Souza categorized the company's service offerings in three

groups: Horizon 1 (application development and maintenance), Horizon

2 (BPO, IT Infrastructure Services & business consulting) and Horizon 3

("SMAC" - Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud). As of September 2012, the

Horizon 1 services accounted for over 75% of the company's revenues, and

Horizon 2 services about 20%.


Sun Microsystems - Other software

1 Sun offered other software products for software development and infrastructure

services


Tata Consultancy Services - Acquisitions

1 Tata InfotechFebruary 2006 IT Services India $ 259.2 m 3,600 The

merger of Tata Infotech added 15 new Fortune 500 clients and

enhanced TCS’ Systems Integration and Infrastructure Service

capabilities.


Cloud collaboration - Origins

1 Very early moves into cloud computing were made by Amazon Web Services who, in 2006, began

offering IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web

services


VMware ESX - Related or additional products

1 vCenter Server, enables monitoring and management of multiple ESX, ESXi and GSX servers. In addition,

users must install it to run infrastructure services such as:


Virtual Machine lifecycle management

1 Service Design – When designing the virtual infrastructure services,

administrators consider both the structure of the individual virtual

machine given to the customer as well as the interactions between all

of the virtual machines in the environment, as they come online,

move, and expire


Architecture domain - Typical architecture domains

1 Technical architecture or infrastructure architecture: The structure and

behaviour of the technology infrastructure. Covers the client and

server nodes of the hardware configuration, the infrastructure

applications that run on them, the infrastructure services they offer to

applications, the protocols and networks that connect applications and nodes.


Hosted service provider - Services offered

1 Infrastructure services (both remotely managed and/or hosted

services spanning data centre services, managed servers and

databases, performance monitoring, security services, storage services

and business continuity)


Windows Server 2008 R2 - New features

1 Enterprise, the next-highest edition after those two, can only use 8.) When deployed in a file server role, new File Classification Infrastructure services allow files to be stored on designated

servers in the enterprise based on business naming conventions,

relevance to business processes and overall corporate policies.


Open educational resources - Licensing and Types of OER

1 These new options have become a critical infrastructure service for the OER movement


Treasury Enterprise Architecture Framework - System Interface Description

1 The graphic descriptions and/or supporting text for the System Interface

Description should provide details concerning the capabilities of each

system. For example, descriptions of information systems should include details concerning the applications

present within the system, the infrastructure services that support the applications, and the means by which the system processes, manipulates,

stores, and exchanges data.


Ubuntu Linux - Cloud computing

1 Ubuntu 11.04 added support for OpenStack, with Eucalyptus to OpenStack

migration tools to be released by Canonical in Ubuntu Server 11.10. Ubuntu 11.10 is expected to focus on OpenStack as the Ubuntu's preferred IaaS offering

though Eucalyptus is also expected to be supported. Another major focus is Juju

(software)|Canonical Juju for provisioning, deploying, hosting, managing, and

orchestrating enterprise data center infrastructure services, by, with, and for

the Ubuntu Server.


National Center for Atmospheric Research - Computational and Information Systems Laboratory

1 The Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) is a laboratory within the National Center for Atmospheric Research. CISL was formerly known as the Scientific Computing Division (SCD). CISL manages

and operates NCAR's supercomputers, mass storage system, networking, and other

computing and cyberinfrastructure services. The Institute for Mathematics Applied to

Geosciences (IMAGe) is a research division within CISL.[https://ncar.ucar.edu/org-chart

NCAR's Clickable Organization Chart]


GoGrid

1 'GoGrid' is a cloud infrastructure service, hosting Linux and Microsoft Windows|Windows virtual machines managed by a multi-server Control

panel (computer)|control panel and a RESTful API. GoGrid is privately held

and also provides a dedicated hosting service.


Water supply - Regulatory agencies

1 Dozens of countries around the world have established regulatory agencies for infrastructure services, including often water supply and sanitation, in

order to better protect consumers and to improve efficiency


Linux on Power - PowerLinux Solution Editions

1 In April 2012, IBM introduced two new Linux-specific systems focusing on solutions for big data analytics,

industry applications and open-source infrastructure services such as Web-serving, email and Social

Media collaboration services.


Fujitsu Services - Fujitsu Technology Solutions

1 The term Dynamic Infrastructures stands for a comprehensive range of IT products, solutions, and services –

from PCs and notebooks, to data center solutions, and Infrastructure as a Service and Managed Infrastructure services that dynamically adapt and adjust to the ever changing demands

of today’s economy


United States Army Corps of Engineers - Other USACE organizations

1 * Enterprise Infrastructure Services (CEEIS)— designs information technology standards for the Corps, including

automation, communications, management, visual information, printing,

records management, and information assurance. CEEIS outsources the

maintenance of its IT services, forming the Army Corps of Engineers Information

Technology (ACE-IT). ACE-IT is made up of both civilian government employees and

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China Communications Services

1 'China Communications Services Corporation Limited', or 'CCS', () is the subsidiary company of China

Telecom. It is engaged in providing telecommunication infrastructure

services and outsourcing services to telecommunication operators and

government organizations in China.


Critical Infrastructure Protection - Department of Defense and CIP

1 Other DoD responsibilities for CIP included assessing the potential

impact on military operations that would result from the loss or

compromise of infrastructure service


Critical Infrastructure Protection - Phase 4: Mitigation

1 The Mitigation phase (Phase 4), is made up of preplanned coordinated actions in response to infrastructure warnings or incidents. Mitigation actions are taken

before or during an infrastructure event. These actions are designed to minimize the operational impact of the loss of a

critical asset, facilitate incident response, and quickly restore the

infrastructure service.


Cognizant Technology Solutions - Services

1 Cognizant provides information technology, consulting and BPO services.

These include business technology consulting, systems integration,

application development maintenance, IT infrastructure services, analytics, business intelligence, data warehousing, customer

relationship management|CRM, supply chain management, engineering

manufacturing Solutions, Enterprise resource planning|ERP, Research and

development|RD outsourcing, and software testing|testing solutions.


Public capital - Economic growth

1 Moreover, infrastructure services carry the market-distorting features

of pure, non-rival public goods; Network effect|network externalities;

natural monopolies; and the Common-pool resource|common

resource problem such as congestion and overuse.


NetWare - NetWare 5.x

1 * directory-enabled Public key infrastructure services (PKIS)


VMware ESXi - Related or additional products

1 * vCenter Server, enables monitoring and management of multiple ESX, ESXi and GSX servers. In addition,

users must install it to run infrastructure services such as:


MphasiS - Acquisitions

1 * Fortify Infrastructure Services in US

(2010)


Wikileaks - U.S. diplomatic cables leak responses

1 On the same day, Amazon.com severed its association with

WikiLeaks, to which it was providing infrastructure services, after an intervention by an aide of U.S


Patni Computer Systems - Cloud Computing

1 *Cloud Infrastructure Services


Virtual private cloud

1 VPC is most commonly used in the context of cloud infrastructure

services (IaaS). In this context, the infrastructure provider, providing the

underlining public cloud infrastructure, and the provider

realizing the VPC service over this infrastructure, may be different

vendors.


IBM's The Great Mind Challenge - History

1 IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software (with a focus on the latter), and

offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in

areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.


Entrust - History

1 Entrust acquired Orion Security Solutions, a supplier of public key

infrastructure services, in June 2006.


Architecture of Windows NT - Executive

1 :The Object Manager (Windows)|Object Manager (internal name Ob) is

an executive subsystem that all other executive subsystems,

especially system calls, must pass through to gain access to Windows

NT resources—essentially making it a resource management infrastructure

service


Job scheduler - History

1 # Service Oriented job scheduling - recent developments in Service

Oriented Architecture (SOA) have seen a move towards deploying job

scheduling as a reusable IT infrastructure service that can play a

role in the integration of existing business application workload with new

Web Services based real-time applications.


Bank of Ireland - Relationship with outsourcing companies

1 The Bank has forged strong links with IT outsourcing companies since 2004 or earlier. On 1 November 2010 IBM won

the $450M full scope outsource contract to manage BoI Group's Information

Technology (IT) infrastructure services (e.g. mainframe, servers, desktops and

print services) in a competitive bid against HP (the incumbent outsource

provider) and HCL. This follows on from the Bank's natural expiration of its

current agreement with HP, which was signed in 2004.


RACF

1 RACF has continuously evolved to support such modern security

features as digital certificates/public key infrastructure services,

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol|LDAP interfaces, and case

sensitive IDs/passwords


Electronic Data Systems - Services

1 EDS catalogued its services into three service portfolios; Infrastructure,

Applications, and Business Process Outsourcing.[http://www.eds.com/services

Services], EDS Website Infrastructure services includes maintaining the operation of part or all of a client's

computer and communications infrastructure, such as Computer network|

networks, Mainframe computer|mainframes, Midrange computer|midrange

and Web servers, Desktop computer|desktops and Laptops, and printers


Electronic Data Systems - Major clients

1 DOD and EDS have had a 13-year relationship of providing DISA with a wide range of infrastructure services, hardware and software through the DISA I-Assure and Encore contract

vehicles.http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/12/17/3861775.htm


History of IBM

1 IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software (with a focus on the latter), and

offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in

areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology


Apache Drill

1 Drill is the open source version of Google's Dremel (software)|Dremel

system which is available as an Infrastructure as a service|

infrastructure service called Google BigQuery


Ubuntu Server - Cloud computing

1 Ubuntu 11.04 added support for OpenStack, with Eucalyptus to OpenStack migration

tools added by Canonical in Ubuntu Server 11.10. Ubuntu 11.10 added focus on

OpenStack as the Ubuntu's preferred IaaS offering though Eucalyptus is also

supported. Another major focus is Juju (software)|Canonical Juju for provisioning,

deploying, hosting, managing, and orchestrating enterprise data center

infrastructure services, by, with, and for the Ubuntu Server.


Urban planner - Specialisations

1 The infrastructure and transport planner would ensure the efficient provision of basic infrastructure

services, including water, electricity and sewerage needed for the smooth running of the businesses, as well as

plan for basic public transport services or delineate out cycling

paths.


Vanuatu - Economy

1 It noted the economy was expanding, noting that the economy grew at an impressive 5.9% rate from 2003 to 2007, and lauded positive signals

regarding reform initiatives from the government in some areas but

described certain binding constraints such as poor infrastructure services


Ajit Gupta - Philanthropy

1 In 2003, Gupta established a philanthropy program for Speedera called Giving Back, which provided free Internet infrastructure services to non-profit organizations including

Unicef.org, Goodwill Industries International, Autism.org, and the St


Jamshedpur - Economy

1 Jamshedpur Utilities and Services Company (JUSCO) was carved out of

Tata Steel from its Town Services Division in 2004. JUSCO is today India’s only comprehensive urban

infrastructure service provider.


U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Cyber Crimes

1 The fourth section, the Information Technology and Administrative

Section (ITAS), provides the technical and *operational infrastructure

services necessary to support the other three C3 sections


Privatisation of British Rail - Infrastructure owner

1 Railtrack let out most of the 2,509 stations to the franchised passenger

train operators, managing only a handful (12, later 17) of the largest city termini itself; maintenance and renewal

of the infrastructure was also contracted out to British Rail

Infrastructure Services, leaving Railtrack's directly-employed staff

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Privatisation of British Rail - Infrastructure maintenance and renewal

1 British Rail Infrastructure Services (BRIS), which took responsibility for the

engineering requirements of the railway. BRIS was subsequently organised for

privatisation on the basis of seven infrastructure maintenance units (IMUs),

which maintained the railway, and six track renewal units (TRUs), which replaced rail lines, both organised

geographically.


Pinkerton National Detective Agency

1 The company now operates as Pinkerton Consulting Investigations, Inc. d.b.a. Pinkerton Corporate Risk

Management, a division of the Swedish security company Securitas AB. The

former Government Services division, PGS, now operates as Securitas Critical

Infrastructure Services, Inc.http://www.linkedin.com/company/pi

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Print on demand - POD enablement platforms

1 QooP and Peecho take on the role of an infrastructure service provider,

allowing any partner website to leverage its pre-designed payment

and printing functions


SecureWorks - History

1 In 2009, SecureWorks acquired the Managed Security Services (MSS)

business from VeriSign, Inc., a trusted provider of Internet

infrastructure services for the networked world, and grew to more

than 500 employees worldwide


Italian Air Force - Comando Logistico

1 * 'Servizio Infrastrutture' (Infrastructure Service)


French Army - Administrative services

1 * In September 2005, the Central Engineering Directorate (Direction

centrale du génie, DCG) was merged with its counterparts in the air force

and the navy to form the infrastructure service defense|Central Directorate of Defense Infrastructure

(Direction centrale du service d'infrastructure de la défense);


Agra - Mughal Heritage Walk

1 The Mughal Heritage Walk is a part of community development programme being implemented with support of

Agra Municipal corporation, USAID and an NGO; Center for Urban and Regional Excellence. It seeks to build sustainable livelihoods for youth and women from

low resource communities and improve their living environments through

infrastructure services and integration within the city.


National Cash Register Company - Services

1 * Information technology|IT

infrastructure services


NYSE Euronext - NYSE Technologies

1 Launched in January 2009, it provides data and infrastructure

services, comprehensive transaction, and managed solutions for buy-side, sell-side, and exchange communities

that require next-generation performance and expertise


Alison McInnes - Career

1 A councillor for 15 years prior to entering parliament, Alison McInnes was first elected to Gordon District Council in

1992. She went on to represent Ellon and District on Aberdeenshire Council

between 1995 and 2007, becoming one of the most senior councillors in the

region. During this time McInnes chaired the council's infrastructure services committee and Nestrans (North East

Regional Transport Partnership).


Alison McInnes - Career timeline

1 **Chair, Infrastructure

Services Committee


Inter-American Development Bank - Infrastructure

1 The infrastructure strategy identifies priority areas of action: a)Promote access

to infrastructure services b)Support infrastructure for regional and global

integration c)Foster financing mechanisms and leverage private sector participation in infrastructure d) Adopt and promote a multisector agenda e)

Support the construction and maintenance of an environmentally and

socially sustainable infrastructure f) Promote ongoing improvements in

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National Grid Service

1 The 'National E-Infrastructure Service' (NES), formerly the 'National Grid

Service', was an organisation for UK academics and researchers from 2004 through 2011. It was funded by two

governmental bodies, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Joint Information

Systems Committee (JISC).


National Grid Service - Research

1 The science and research ranged from the permeation of drugs

through a membrane to the welfare of ethnic minority groups in the

United Kingdom.The UK National e-Infrastructure Service, Weeks K

[http://ercim-news.ercim.org/ ERCIM news July 2007] Service-Oriented

Computing 2007


Taobao - History

1 In 2008, Taobao fueled the overall growth of the Chinese online

shopping industry through execution of the “Big Taobao” strategy with the

aim of becoming a provider of e-commerce infrastructure services for all e-commerce market participants.


RISC (disambiguation)

1 *Rural Infrastructure Service Commons, rural development strategy in

India


NorduGrid - History

1 This marked clear separation between Grid middleware providers and infrastructure services providers


NorduGrid - NorduGrid Certification Authority

1 [http://ca.nordugrid.org NorduGrid Certification Authority] (CA) is

currently the only major infrastructure service provided by

the NorduGrid


NYSE Technologies

1 'NYSE Technologies' is the commercial technology division of

NYSE Euronext. It provides transaction, data, and infrastructure

services in the commodities exchange industry.


Beacon frame

1 'Beacon frame' is one of the management frames in IEEE 802.11

based WLANs. It contains all the information about the network. Beacon frames are transmitted periodically to announce the presence of a wireless

LAN. Beacon frames are transmitted by the Access Point (AP) in an infrastructure

Service set (802.11 network)|BSS. In IBSS network beacon generation is

distributed among the stations.


Charlie Catlett - Selected publications

1 *[http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/articles/2006/05/creating-and-

operating-national-scale-cyberinfrastructure-services/

Creating and Operating National-Scale Cyberinfrastructure Services], CTWatch Quarterly, Charlie Catlett, Pete Beckman, Dane Skow, and Ian

Foster,vol. 2, no. 2, May 2006.


HP Cloud - Moving between clouds

1 Other models that mixes on-premises cloud with public cloud technologies include Platform as a Service (PaaS),

which includes infrastructure services combined with development tools and middleware; and Software as a Service (SaaS), which is used to

develop packaged software.


2011 Minnesota state government shutdown - Preceding budget negotiations

1 The legislature passed budget bills that balanced the budget with significant cuts to social and

infrastructure services, rather than raising any taxes


Server appliance

1 or IBM's Lotus Foundations which is designed to offer IT infrastructure services for the small to midsize

business.


Capita - Operations

1 Property, Engineering infrastructure services are provided under the Capita Symonds

brand.


Accra, Ghana - Housing characteristics

1 Parts of inner-city Accra comprise a mixture of very low-density

development with under-utilised service infrastructure on the one

hand, high-density development and overstretched infrastructure services

on the other


Accra, Ghana - Housing conditions

1 Usually, these areas, unlike the low-income areas, are planned

developments, but are in need of infrastructure services


County of London - Creation of the county

1 This reform created an indirectly elected Metropolitan Board of Works

which initially provided basic infrastructure services for the

metropolitan area.Robson 1939, pp


Colt Group S.A. - History

1 In May 2011 Colt acquired a majority shareholding in MarketPrizm, a

provider of low latency market data and trading infrastructure services.


Koç Holding - Fields of activities

1 *Information technologies: Systems integration, services, consultancy

and outsourcing, managed network services, ISP and VISP services,

hosting, application services provider infrastructure services, B2B and B2C platforms, training and e-learning, cable TV operator, venture capital

projects.


Microland

1 'Microland' is an IT infrastructure services provider which offers services within infrastructure

management, end user services, cloud computing, virtualization,

collaboration and mobility.


2008–2010 Thai political crisis - Siege of Government House

1 PAD demonstrators occupied the runways of and closed down airports in the southern

cities of Hat Yai, Phuket and Krabi.Wannabovorn, Pressure grows on Thai prime minister to resign (The airports later reopened on the 30th and 31st.) The State Enterprise Worker’s Union threatened to

disrupt public infrastructure services including electricity, waterworks, airline, bus, port and communications services, beginning with police and government

offices, on 3 September.


Ciudad de la Costa - Population

1 The population growth has not been accompanied by an adequate development of infrastructure services, so that much of the city lacks public sanitation and many roads are often impassable during rainy periods. Despite these difficulties, the

Ciudad de la Costa is now a commercial and tourist centre of importance in the

country. The Carrasco International Airport is located north of the city, and Autodromo

Victor Borrat Fabini to the east.


Electricity sector in Bolivia - World Bank

1 * A project to assist the implementation of [http://web.worldbank.org/external/project

s/main?pagePK=64283627piPK=73230theSitePK=40941menuPK=228424Projectid=P073367

Decentralized Infrastructure for Rural Transformation] financed by a US$20 m

IDA credit and approved in June 2003. The project aims at improving the delivery of

infrastructure services. Its first objective is the development of effective strategies to improve and accelerate electricity access,

with a focus on renewable sources.


Railways Act 1993 - Overview

1 British Rail's track maintenance and renewal operations were sold to

private companies, with contracts to provide infrastructure services to

Railtrack


Bandra Kurla Complex - Development till date and in future

1 A number of offices and residential buildings and three schools have been constructed and occupied. Construction

of other buildings is in an advanced stage of completion. Most of the

infrastructure services work including water supply, sewerage, telephone, gas,

storm water, and electricity is completed. CNG and Petrol Pump outlet are operational. Mahim Nature Park is

development in ‘H’ block of the complex.


EnServe

1 'EnServe Group Limited' (formerly 'Spice Limited') is a support services

company headquartered in Macclesfield, United Kingdom which

provides infrastructure services to the utility sector. Formerly listed on the

London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index, it

has been wholly owned by the private equity company Cinven since 2010.


Babahoyo - Demographics

1 The center has all infrastructure services and a large part of the

community centers of the city; the buildings of this sector are built with

strong, modern materials


Bike boulevard - Similar road designs outside the USA

1 [http://www.ivv.amsterdam.nl Dienst Infrastructuur Verkeer en Vervoer],

official website of the Dutch Traffic and Transport Infrastructure Service The

general concept here is that cyclists can integrate relatively safely with vehicular traffic that is travelling at, or below, but

that segregated bike lanes should be installed along roads with a higher speed

limit


City planner - Specialisations

1 The infrastructure and transport planner would ensure the efficient provision of basic infrastructure

services, including water, electricity and sewerage needed for the smooth running of the businesses, as well as

plan for basic public transport services or delineate out cycling

paths.


NaviSite - Acquisitions and subsidiaries

1 * NaviSite acquired Conxion Corporation, a California based

company dealing in Internet infrastructure services in April 2003.


NaviSite - Acquisitions and subsidiaries

1 * Incorporated in April 2003, California-based Jupiter Hosting was acquired by NaviSite in 2007. Jupiter

Hosting provides dedicated and complex managed hosting and

infrastructure services.


Forgottonia

1 He expanded the definition to include communications (educational

television, fiber-optic routes, etc.) and infrastructure services (private

and public)


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