Stories about: National Instruments

A new hosted Web application lets enterprises quickly collect, view and analyze temperature and energy data collected from a network of wireless sensors.

As companies migrate to New Data Center architectures, it stands to reason that they'll look at a wide range of vendors with new tools to help. Here are seven promising products.

Google's recent foray into the enterprise search market may have raised the profile of the technology, but the tools are nothing new to Jeff Watts and National Instruments's 3,500 employees and 25,000 customers.

Jason Hamlett was caught by surprise last December when an oil refinery explosion destroyed his company's new office space in Hemel Hempstead, England, and caused its existing offices and data center to go offline for 48 hours. The ferocious Buncefield fire burned for several days and was the largest to hit Europe in peacetime.

Wireless technologies -- from RFID to 802.11 -- as well as supply chain management and machine-to-machine communications will be among the top IT issues at the National Manufacturing Week show in the US this week.

A strong business process, robust application integration capabilities and solid management buy-in are key factors in any successful customer relationship management installation, said users at two events in San Francisco last week.

Furthering its studies into global atmospheric change by implementing a new VHF radar at the Davis station, Antarctica, is one of many key initiatives the Australian Antarctic Division's (AAD) Atmospheric Sciences Division has scheduled in for this summer. Yet as researchers pool their concentration into deploying the radar and exploring the atmosphere, the division's technicians are hard at work crafting unique IT control systems which not only run the equipment, but also manage the volumes of information being generated.

This week's Internet World show here brought a slew of announcements from smaller and industry-specific companies expanding and partnering to gain more market share.

Consumer Web sites may be after revenue, but some business-to-business sites aren't even going to pretend that their e-commerce efforts will bring in much money.