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whitepaper Fulfill Your Remote Access Strategy for Mobile Users2008-02-21 Akamai Technologies
  Transform the Internet into a business-ready application delivery platform and achieve a successful remote access strategy.

Download this Frost & Sullivan white paper to see how.

Tags: Wireless Internet, Remote Access - RA Servers, Mobile - Wireless Communications, ASPs, Resources Mgmt.		   
whitepaper Improve Availability and Resiliency with Software Infrastructure Testing by IT Operations2008-08-30 StackSafe
  Does your company know how the next software patch or configuration change will impact uptime? An alarming number of companies cannot be completely sure what any change will do to their critical business applications. Their IT operations teams lack the testing resources and processes to understand the impact of changes and be sure that they won't cause service degradation, or, worse yet, take an application offline completely. And yet today's business environment requires that systems be available 24/7 for people both inside and outside the company. So how can you better understand the impacts of changes to the software infrastructure? And what are the costs associated with testing?

In this webcast, trusted advisors from Gartner and StackSafe discuss the importance of software infrastructure testing to improve uptime. You'll also find out why new technologies like virtualization can make testing easier and more effective.

Tags: Software Project Management, Diagnostics and Analysis, Computer Testing Equipment, Application Development, Software Engineering, Methodology, Services, Virtualization		   
whitepaper A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture2008-08-22 Association for Computing Machinery
  Today's data centers may contain tens of thousands of computers with significant aggregate bandwidth requirements. The network architecture typically consists of a tree of routing and switching elements with progressively more specialized and expensive equipment moving up the network hierarchy. Unfortunately, even when deploying the highest-end IP switches/routers, resulting topologies may only support 50% of the aggregate bandwidth available at the edge of the network, while still incurring tremendous cost. Non-uniform bandwidth among data center nodes complicates application design and limits overall system performance. This paper shows how to leverage largely commodity Ethernet switches to support the full aggregate bandwidth of clusters consisting of tens of thousands of elements.

Tags: Network Design, Data Center		   
whitepaper DyNeF: Host-Privilege-Based Dynamic Network Firewall for Grid Environment2008-08-01 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
  Security in grid environment is still a major challenge considering the possible security breaches that can occur in a multi-institutional resource sharing infrastructure. Unlike the Internet, grid is a dynamic collection of resources, users and services that poses increased security challenges to the research community. This paper address the need for a dynamic network firewall in grid environment for supporting its dynamic nature whereby, protecting it from network intrusions. In this vision, it brings out the need for host-based access privileges and the importance of these privileges in addressing security challenges imposed by the grid environment.

Tags: Firewalls, Network Security		   
whitepaper Control System for Internet Bandwidth Based on Java Technology2008-07-07 Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology
  This paper presents a Java-based real-time Internet access estimation tool for Quality of Service (QoS) in Internet accesses for Multimedia applications (JEQoSIM). It is specially aimed for real-time multimedia applications which use the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). The system is capable of estimating access capacity, available bandwidth and delay as the critical end-to-end QoS parameters for this kind of applications. The algorithm used for QoS estimations is one-way, and is based on the packet train technique. Real-time QoS estimation elements are distributed among a central server and the Internet end user. The central server contains a UDP packet bursts server and a web server that hosts the Java applet that implements the UDP packet bursts client.

Tags: Bandwidth Issues, Java		   
whitepaper A Two-Tiered On-Line Server-Side Bandwidth Reservation Framework for the Real-Time Delivery of Multiple Video Streams2008-07-01 Boston University
  The advent of virtualization and cloud computing technologies necessitates the development of effective mechanisms for the estimation and reservation of resources needed by content providers to deliver large numbers of Video-On-Demand (VOD) streams through the cloud. Unfortunately, capacity planning for the QoS-constrained delivery of a large number of VOD streams is inherently difficult as VBR encoding schemes exhibit significant bandwidth variability. This paper presents a novel resource management scheme to make such allocation decisions using a mixture of per-stream reservations and an aggregate reservation, shared across all streams to accommodate peak demands.

Tags: Bandwidth Issues, Streaming Media		   
whitepaper Deploying RSVP in Multiple Security Domains Networks: Securing Application Quality of Service2008-07-01 Cisco Systems
  This white paper brings out a possible solution for deploying Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) admission control within a multiple security domains network. Multiple security domains networks, as they are deployed today, often lack strict QoS guarantees, deterministic performance, application-aware and user-aware policy enforcement, and efficient bandwidth utilization. RSVP-based admission control solution is a widely accepted mechanism to provide all these benefits in an enterprise environment. However, deploying RSVP inside a multiple security domains network requires special attention to achieve end-to-end resource reservation across the security boundaries.   
whitepaper Choosing the Right CMDB: Smart Considerations for Strategic Decision Makers2008-06-25 ASG Software Solutions
  A forward-looking Configuaration Management Database (CMDB) does more than keep an organization's IT operations running. It draws clear connections between IT components and business services, which is the core of Business Service Management (BSM). But even more critical than the CMDB's ability to support business as it is now, is the question of how well it will drive business innovation in the future. If a CMDB is right for modern business, it should go beyond BSM.

Tags: Network Administration, Service Level Management, Strategic Planning, IT Reliability, Infrastructure Management		   
whitepaper ASG Service Dependency Mapping: Making the Link between IT and the Business2008-07-29 ASG Software Solutions
  Aligning IT and business perspectives requires the ability to create links between configuration information in an enterprise Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and the business service as experienced by the user. Service Dependency Mapping (SDM) products automate the process of creating and maintaining these links.

This Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) white paper examines how IT organizations can transition to a more service-focused approach to managing business applications, and how these leading-edge management solutions support this transition. This new approach is business service-driven instead of infrastructure-driven and enables IT organizations to manage the service in context to technology. In doing so, it brings IT into much closer overall alignment with the business.

Tags: Network Administration, Service Level Management, Resources Mgmt., Strategic Planning, IT Reliability, Infrastructure Management		   
whitepaper Understanding Your CMDB Project's ROI2008-07-28 ASG Software Solutions
  Targeted at IT executives responsible for both the financial and ultimate project oversight of an enterprise Configuration Management Database (CMDB) initiative, this Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) white paper level-sets expectations for ROI calculations for CMDB initiatives, provides basic ROI best practices, and gives readers sufficient insight to move forward with their CMDB project. The paper discusses real-world ROI experiences in the larger context of the CMDB value proposition focusing on the pragmatic choices that must be made. A brief EMA viewpoint discusses the merits of the ASG's MetaCMDB solution for those executives concerned with ROI. <-- A Board Room View: Understanding Your CMDB Project's ROI -->

Tags: ROI - TCO, Network Administration, Service Level Management, Strategic Planning, IT Reliability, Infrastructure Management