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whitepaper Railway Ticketing Agency Improves Performance and Eases IT Management2008-05-01 Microsoft
  Voyages-sncf.com is the online travel agency for the Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais (SNCF), a public enterprise that operates rail services for passengers and freight throughout France. With more than 9 million Web site visitors a month, Voyages-sncf.com needed to ensure that its ticketing Web site is available to customers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The company wanted a new operating system that would interoperate with upgraded hardware. Additionally, IT staff at Voyages-sncf.com wanted to improve server management, increase productivity, enhance security, and provide an optimized IT foundation for the future. The agency deployed Windows Server 2008 with its Read-Only Domain Controller feature and upgraded to 64-bit HP servers with Intel Xeon quad-core processors.

Tags: Application Servers, Windows Server 2008		   
whitepaper MSDN Webcast: Windows XP Embedded Overview and Applications (Level 200)2008-05-01 Microsoft Tips
  Windows XP Embedded is a powerful embedded operating system solution that has been used in a variety of applications - thin clients, test equipment, car computers, industrial controls, gaming machines, multimedia recorders, security systems, and much more. This webcast provides an overview of Windows XP Embedded and the development tools to build custom operating system images.

Tags: Windows XP, Application Development		   
whitepaper College Boosts Productivity, Security by Upgrading to the Latest Operating System2008-05-01 Microsoft
  Thomas College is a small liberal arts school in Maine that prides itself on providing the latest technology for its students and staff. The school's Information Technology department wanted to standardize on one PC operating system in order to improve user productivity, enhance security, and ease management tasks. The school decided on the Windows Vista operating system and recommends that all incoming students purchase portable computers from Dell with the operating system preinstalled. Widespread use of Windows Vista on the campus is helping improve user productivity, enhance security, and create a solid foundation for future improvements in the IT environment, including 64-bit computing.

Tags: Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Construction Materials Supplier Simplifies Branch Office IT Management, Saves $400,0002008-05-01 Microsoft
  Lafarge North America needed a cost-effective solution to reduce network security risks at branch offices while increasing the efficiency of centralized server administration. The company became an early adopter of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise to test the enhanced features of the Server Core installation option, read-only domain controller, and Terminal Services. Lafarge anticipates that increased efficiencies will produce a savings of U.S. $400,000 over the next three years.

Tags: Remote Access - RA Servers, Windows Server 2008		   
whitepaper Black Belt Itanium Processor Performance: The Foundation (Part 1 of 5)2008-04-30 Intel
  Many optimizations will automatically be enabled with aggressive compiler flags. However, with a small amount of performance analysis, architectural insight and targeted code modification, the software developer can greatly improve the resulting application performance. Understanding and resolving pointer ambiguation is important on all architectures and will always improve performance, but on Itanium architecture-based processors the payoff can be enormous, and help release the full power of this new architecture.

Tags: Programming Languages, Application Development		   
whitepaper Business Integration Technology Case Study: Novus International2008-04-25 Business Integration Technology
  Based on decades of research and development at Monsanto, Novus International, Inc. was formed in 1991 and employs over 350 people in more than 20 countries. New business initiatives resulted in dramatic increases in the volume of sales orders and shipments in Novus' European operations. Although most of the 13 warehouses and 16 transporters wanted to communicate with Novus electronically, many did not have the required infrastructure. A change like this would require effort on their part to implement an integration solution. Novus hired Business Integration Technology to assist in the design, development and implementation of an integration solution for their Novus Europe team. Business Integration Technology implemented the Novus solution using an open source, standards-based architecture.

Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development		   
whitepaper TechNet Webcast: Mitigating Application Issues Using Shims (Level 400)2008-04-24 Microsoft Tips
  The presenter of this webcast explores many of the compatibility issues that the Windows team has experienced at customer sites in the context of what can be fixed without updating the application, and how to fix it. The Windows Application Compatibility Infrastructure (Shim Infrastructure) is a powerful tool for resolving compatibility issues and unblocking Windows Vista operating system deployments. But understanding where and how to leverage and configure shims can be daunting until one learns some of the tricks and subtleties, many of which are exposed in this webcast.

Tags: Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Managed Application Delivery - Is Thin Client the Best Answer? (podcast)2008-04-14 Intel
  Download this Intel Webcast in podcast format!

Are you considering thin clients and wondering if they are right for you?

Learn how new models of application delivery are simplifying corporate computing environments and helping companies deal more effectively with their IT security, management, and budgeting needs. Thin clients and server-based computing are only one option available today.

Listen to this TechRepublic Webcast, available on demand as a downloadable Podcast, to hear Mike Ferron-Jones, Manager, Emerging Models Program, Intel, and David Greschler, Director, Integrated Virtualization Strategy, Microsoft, discuss pros and cons of the centralized computing landscape as well as those of the various centralized compute models.

This Webcast covers these topics and more:
  • Discussion of the range of delivery options available today
  • Application virtualization and how it can satisfy the needs of IT and Users
  • TCO, security and technical challenges of centralized vs. decentralized systems
   
whitepaper TechNet Webcast: Making Windows Vista Application Compatibility Testing More Predictable (Level 300)2008-04-10 Microsoft Tips
  When helping the customers accelerate their deployments of the Windows Vista operating system by assisting with application compatibility, it was found that there are a number of technical skills to master. However, technical acumen is never enough-effectively managing the project is critical to making the process predictable and measurable, in addition to controlling costs and maximizing effectiveness. The presenter of this webcast reviews the best practices learned for effectively managing this process from enterprise customers worldwide.

Tags: Best Practices, Windows Vista		   
whitepaper Planning Considerations for HiperDispatch Mode2008-04-02 IBM
  For all levels of z/OS, a TCB or SRB may be dispatched on any logical processor of the type required (standard, zAAP or zIIP). A unit of work starts on one logical processor and subsequently may be dispatched on any other logical processor. The logical processors for one LPAR image receive an equal share for equal access to the physical processors under PR/SM LPAR control. For example, if the weight of a logical partition with four logical processors results in a share of two physical processors, or 200%, the LPAR hypervisor will manage each of the four logical processors with a 50% share of a physical processor. All logical processors are used if there is work available, and they typically have similar processing utilizations.

Tags: Mainframes,