LITERATURE REVIEW BY: Lynelle F. “The earth‚ that’s nature’s mother‚ is her tomb. What is her burying grave is her womb.” Shakespeare‚ W.‚ 1597 According to the World Food Summit in 1996‚ the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations states that food security exists when all people at all times have access to sufficient‚ safe‚ nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life. (FAO‚ 2006) Ensuring food security within a country is vital as it ensures each individual
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Business Horizons (2011) 54‚ 105—113 www.elsevier.com/locate/bushor The early bird catches the news: Nine things you should know about micro-blogging Andreas M. Kaplan *‚ Michael Haenlein ´publique‚ F-75011 Paris‚ France ESCP Europe‚ Avenue de la Re KEYWORDS Web 2.0; User-generated content; Social media; Micro-blogging; Twitter; Ambient awareness Abstract Micro-blogs (e.g.‚ Twitter‚ Jaiku‚ Plurk‚ Tumblr) are starting to become an established category within the general group of social media.
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Cloud computing: Silver lining for cooperative banks "Our customers have increased expectations for better services‚ particularly in the areas of Internet and mobile banking. New‚ more sophisticated and intelligent technologies can empower change and create opportunities for our bank to deliver these services and at the same time manage growth‚ risk and efficiency‚" said B V Dwarakanath‚ Chairman of the Sree Charan Souharda Cooperative bank. By implementing the cost effective‚ state-of-the-art
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T-Systems: Connecting Life and Work Enabler of a Connected Business World and Society How cloud computing can help airlines navigate industry turbulence By Natasha Kwan‚ Managing Director‚ Asia South The past few years have been turbulent for the aviation industry‚ and we’ve seen many players taking dramatic approaches to cost-cutting. Some are leasing old jets‚ while others have opted for flexible scheduling or buying newer more fuel-efficient planes. One airline even went as far as to buy an oil
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SGI versus Dell: Competition in Server and Cloud Computing Written Analysis BUSN 204- 00D: Case Problems SGI‚ or Silicon Graphics International‚ was formed by the merger of Rackable Systems and Silicon Graphics in May 2009. Although Silicon Graphics is the company with the longest and most famous history—it was once the industry leader in graphical‚ supercomputing solutions and worth $7 billion at its peak—it lost its competitive advantage in the last decade to other high-tech companies
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of Forensic Investigations in Cloud Computing Environments Dominik Birk January 12‚ 2011 Abstract Cloud Computing is arguably one of the most discussed information technology topics in recent times. It presents many promising technological and economical opportunities. However‚ many customers remain reluctant to move their business IT infrastructure completely to “the Cloud“. One of the main concerns of customers is Cloud security and the threat of the unknown. Cloud Service Providers (CSP) encourage
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Critical literature review techniques http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/business/ramsay/Reasoning/critreview.doc. In order to qualify as a ‘critical’ review you must go beyond the simple description of the sources you read. If you are writing a review with reference to specific research questions or objectives then you might consider: * the breadth of different pieces of work - how wide a range of the possible subject matter defined by your question(s) or objective(s) do different
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Literature Review: Literature portrays logistics and MIS practices from a variety of different perspectives with a common goal of ultimately improving performance and competitiveness. 1. Analysis of financial and MIS excellence of BRAC Bank Joydeep Sinha Roy‚ BRAC university 2. Course teacher instructions and lectures over the semesters. 3. Course book entitled Management Information Systems ( Managing the digital firm) written by Laudon and Laudon. While there is plenty of published
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Comparing three cloud computing companies‚ Amazon‚ Google & Rackpace; how different they are for as the following: cost‚ storage‚ operating system. First the cost: As of February 2013‚ Amazon charged about $.02/hour ($15/month) for the smallest "Micro Instance" (t1.micro) virtual machine running Linux or Windows. High CPU and memory instances for Compute Clusters cost as much as $4.60/hour. "Reserved" instances can go as low as $6.43/month for a three-year prepaid plan. The data transfer charge
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Globalization leads to cultural globalization and makes the impacts on local cultures. The conflicting between global culture and local cultures is a controversial topic which leads to the divergent position on cultural hybridization and homogenization. Cultural homogenization refers to the effects of globalization and aims to argue that foreign elements‚ particularly elements of dominant cultures‚ are replacing local elements. In contrast‚ cultural hybridization is the concept of combination between
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