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whitepaper Extended Assortitivity and the Structure in the Open Source Development Community2008-02-08 Indiana University
  Open source software development represents the work of hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of developers around the world and is a critical component of many widely-used software products. Much of this development is self-organizing, taking place outside the structures of specific organizations. This paper introduces 'Developmetrics,' the application of Bibliometrics techniques to similarly characterize the artifacts produced by open source development (software). Similar cross-over analysis has been done before in the study of other self-organizing networks, such as the Internet. They use a standard Bibliometrics visualization technique to guide the discussion and they introduce extensions to concepts of network assortativity, node afference and node efference to accommodate network meta-data.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper Nswap: A Network Swapping Module for Linux Clusters2008-01-01 Swarthmore College
  Cluster applications that process large amounts of data, such as parallel scientific or multimedia applications, are likely to cause swapping on individual cluster nodes. These applications will perform better on clusters with network swapping support. Network swapping allows any cluster node with over-committed memory to use idle memory of a remote node as its backing store and to "Swap" its pages over the network. As the disparity between network speeds and disk speeds continues to grow, network swapping will be faster than traditional swapping to local disk. This paper presents Nswap, a network swapping system for heterogeneous Linux clusters and networks of Linux machines. Nswap is implemented as a loadable kernel module for version 2.4 of the Linux kernel.   
whitepaper Evaluating Open Source Software for Your Business2008-01-01 Pathfinder Development
  This paper looks at the strange world of open source IT decision making that can get in the way of good decisions. The exuberant IT manager sees open source like found money or a snow day; if it's free and good, why bother with the evaluation? Let's just use it. The cynical IT manager sees open source as a toy or a joke; people get what they pay for, so why bother looking at open source? Both of these attitudes miss the mark. When it comes to open source, people should evaluate it like any other software they are considering for their company.   
whitepaper Red Hat Enterprise MRG: Realtime Whitepaper2007-11-16 Red Hat
  Many enterprise workloads have extremely demanding requirements for determinism - to ensure predictable response times at the 20 microsecond latency level. The difficulty has been that until now, all realtime operating systems have been niche offerings - absent of any COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) products. Red Hat is uniquely positioned to provide these capabilities due to its proven trackrecord of development and mainstream accepted Linux kernel realtime enhancements. In response to strong customer demand, Red Hat is productizing its realtime kernel in an offering called Red Hat Enterprise MRG, comprised of high speed messaging, realtime kernel, and grid cluster scheduler.

Tags: High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Build Your Own Oracle RAC Cluster on Oracle Enterprise Linux and iSCSI2007-11-01 Oracle
  One of the most efficient ways to become familiar with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11g technology is to have access to an actual Oracle RAC 11g cluster. There's no better way to understand its benefits - including fault tolerance, security, load balancing, and scalability - than to experience them directly. Unfortunately, for many shops, the price of the hardware required for a typical production RAC configuration makes this goal impossible. A small two-node cluster can cost from US$10,000 to well over US$20,000. That cost would not even include the heart of a production RAC environment - typically a storage area network - which can start at US$10,000.

Tags: Application Development		   
whitepaper SAN Connectivity for Oracle VM2007-11-01 Emulex
  Oracle has now entered the virtual server arena with the introduction of Oracle VM. Oracle VM is a powerful and easy to use solution that delivers the benefits of server virtualization and allows users to create and manage multiple Virtual Machines (VM) hosted on the same physical server but behaving like independent physical servers. Each VM possesses its own virtual CPUs, network interfaces, storage and operating system. In addition, with Oracle VM, users have access to an easy to use, rich, graphical interface to create and manage their virtual environments. Oracle VM offers an enterprise-class, scalable, high-performance platform for server virtualization. Oracle VM includes two components: Oracle VM Manager and Oracle VM Server.

Tags: SANs, Virtualization		   
whitepaper IBM Proventia Server Intrusion Prevention System for Linux2007-11-01 IBM
  IBM Proventia Server Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) for Linux software supports compliance regulations that require security against malicious threats which may compromise servers and sensitive data. With Proventia Server IPS, enterprises can protect against data breaches and benefit from capabilities that simplify and support compliance requirements. Proventia Server IPS for Linux benefits extend beyond compliance support by serving as a critical component in an organization's Data Loss Prevention (DLP) strategy. With trends in measuring the cost of server breaches based on cost per compromised record vs. server downtime, a comprehensive DLP strategy with Proventia Server IPS will enable real-time reporting on data and applications and provide data loss prevention and preemptive protection while enforcing corporate security policies for servers.

Tags: Security Management, Intrusion Detection Systems		   
whitepaper ITIL: Microsoft and Open Source2007-10-26 Microsoft
  Organizations live and die based on the efficiency, reliability, and security of Information Technology (IT). Because of this, IT must be fully aligned to the needs of all customers, internal and external. The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) provides a strategy to define, implement, and monitor that alignment across the full spectrum of IT processes, ranging from Incident and Problem Management to Security Management. This paper focuses specifically on the choices available from Microsoft and the open source community. Both offer solutions which can assist critical elements of ITIL. Some solutions are similar, while others are distinctive. This paper gives examples of different approaches to the issues which ITIL raises.

Tags: ITIL		   
whitepaper Using Vyatta for WAN Edge Connectivity, Security, and LAN Segmentation2007-08-30 Vyatta
  As the KeyMark business and network traffic load grew, its network infrastructure was becoming increasingly taxed. Using a Cisco 1720 for its initial network build-out created a situation where KeyMark owned proprietary hardware that would not meet its planned network requirements in terms of performance and throughput, available interfaces, and offered no upgrade path. After researching alternatives, KeyMark chose to purchase a Vyatta software subscription and a T1/E1 card from Vyatta. The Vyatta solution was able to deliver all of the technical requirements for managing KeyMark's growing business and offered the scalability required to ensure future needs could be met by the same platform.

Tags: Firewalls, Network Security		   
whitepaper What Is Red Hat Network?0000-00-00 Red Hat
  The attendee of this webcast will learn how Red Hat Network can maximize the Red Hat Enterprise Linux solution by provisioning new systems, updating systems, managing configuration files, monitor performance, and redeploy systems for a new purpose.

Tags: Linux Server OS