A public interest law firm is private, for-profit association of lawyers, like any other private law firm. However, public interest law firms are distinguished from private firms in that their primary mission is to assist under represented people or causes, rather than to make money. This difference in mission creates a difference in billing practices ...

A hosted PBX system delivers PBX functionality as your service, available over the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and/or the internet. Hosted PBX is provided by the telephone company, using equipment located in the premises of the telephone company’s exchange. This means the customer organization doesn’t need to buy or install PBX equipment (generally the ...

Recently, I was involved with the implementation of a replication solution at an electric utility company. This implementation was the center piece of a disaster recovery (DR) implementation for one of their power plants. Normally, when a replication solution is implemented, data recoverability at the remote site is mandatory. After all, what good is the ...

The Gray Lady may once again ask for some green if you want to view something that’s black and white and read all over. Reports surfaced over the weekend that The New York Times is about to announce another attempt at a paid-access business model for its Web site, with management apparently deciding that a ...

A growing number of technical and economic incentives are mounting that make a strong case for modernizing and transforming enterprise mainframe applications — and the aging infrastructure that support them. IT budget planners are using the strident economic environment to force a harder look at alternatives to inflexible and hard-to-manage legacy systems, especially as enterprises ...