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Is Your Network Infrastructure Helping or Hurting Your High-Performance Business Goals? 08/10/08 Juniper Networks

CIOs and IT executives should read this white paper to discover how different attributes of the network infrastructure can help them achieve their aggressive business goals. This white paper will show how Juniper Networks, Inc. high-performance networking infrastructure, which provides fast, reliable and secure access to applications and services over a single network, will meet all three levels of business goals: staying in the race, winning the race and changing the rules. sponsored by

Enterprise Data Center Network Reference Architecture 08/10/08 Juniper Networks

The data center is an extremely critical corporate asset. As such, the data center network that connects all critical servers, applications and storage services is increasingly a key component that needs to be carefully planned and managed in order to meet the growing performance demands of users and many network-centric applications. Juniper Networks offers a comprehensive data center network solution that combines best-in-class products with well-defined practices to build high-performance, robust, virtualized, cost-effective and business supported data center networks.

This reference architecture proposes practices, technologies and products that help data center architects and engineers responsible for answering the requirements of designing modern data center networks. sponsored by

Deploying IP Telephony with EX-Series Switches 08/10/08 Juniper Networks

The new EX-series Ethernet switches from Juniper Networks offer a number of features for optimizing IP telephony deployments. This application note describes how voice over IP (VoIP) phones can be deployed in conjunction with endpoint hosts such as desktop or laptop computers; provides background information on Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and LLDP-Media Endpoint Discovery (LLDP-MED); and describes the interaction between VoIP phones and EX-series switches. sponsored by

Network Operating System Evolution 08/10/08 Juniper Networks

This paper discusses the requirements and challenges inherent in the design of carrier-class network operating system (OS). Key facets of JUNOS� software, the Juniper Networks OS, are used to illustrate the evolution of OS design and underscore the relationship between functionality and architectural decisions.

The challenge of designing a contemporary network operating system is examined from different angles, including flexibility, ability to power a wide range of platforms, nonstop operation, and parallelism. Architectural challenges, trade-offs and opportunities are identified, as well as some of the best practices in building state-of-the-art network operating systems. sponsored by

Group-Aware Stream Filtering for Bandwidth-Efficient Data Dissemination 2008-03-06 Dartmouth College

This paper is concerned with disseminating high-volume data streams to many simultaneous applications over a low-bandwidth wireless mesh network. For bandwidth efficiency, they propose a group-aware stream filtering approach, used in conjunction with multicasting, that exploits two overlooked, yet important, properties of these applications, many applications can tolerate some degree of "Slack" in their data quality requirements, and there may exist multiple subsets of the source data satisfying the quality needs of an application. This paper also analyzes the key factors that affect its performance, based on testing with heterogeneous filtering requirements.

Tags: Data Quality

Oracle Real User Experience Insight 2008-03-01 Oracle

UXinsight is a powerful solution for monitoring Web traffic. Data capture is based on Network Protocol Analysis (NPA). Typically, it is installed before the Web servers, behind a firewall in the DMZ, and required minimal maintenance. UXinsight is "invisible" to the monitored networks and completely secure. Installation of an UXinsight system requires no changes to a Web infrastructure or website content. A standard UXinsight system can be operational within an hour. UXinsight provides an easy-to-use browser interface where one can correlate different information in a simple way. To create reports, one simply selects an interesting view within the browser interface, and clicks a single button.

State of Indiana Saves $14 Million, Boosts IT Reliability, Offers New Services for Residents 2008-03-01 Microsoft Tips

In 2005, the state of Indiana embarked on an optimization of its core IT infrastructure to dramatically improve service levels while reducing cost. The state replaced a highly decentralized series of e mail solutions running on 100 server computers with Microsoft Exchange Server software running on two 4-computer clusters. Hundreds of desktop applications - including many older applications that were causing conflicts with current software - were virtualized using Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack. And software deployments, security updates, asset inventory, and remote help-desk support were enabled by a move from Altiris Notification Server to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007.

Tags: Application Servers, Email

Groupama Phoenix Accelerates Access to Customer Data by 60% and Optimizes IT System 2008-03-01 Oracle

Groupama Phoenix is one of Greece's leading insurance companies, distributing a diverse product line through a network of 350 agents, 930 brokers, and a team of 80 insurance advisors. Groupama Phoenix wanted to implement a stable, highly available data infrastructure with the ability to seamlessly scale to support future business needs and optimize performance and stability of IT systems to ensure critical business continuity. The challenge was to enhance customer service by enabling authorized personnel to access customer data more rapidly and creates a rapid, one-stop solution for technical issues. Groupama Phoenix deployed Oracle Real Application Clusters to create a highly available and scalable data infrastructure that enables rapid and seamless additions of new users and applications.

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Database Applications

Beijing Tobacco Cuts Costs and Improves Resource Use by Adopting Grid Technology 2008-03-01 Oracle

Founded in 1986, Beijing Tobacco Monopoly Administration oversees the tobacco industry in Beijing. Beijing Tobacco Monopoly wanted to construct an integrated IT infrastructure that offers high performance, reliability, and availability and enable online information sharing and collaboration. The challenge was to utilize any spare capacity to improve system performance and simplify IT maintenance to reduce costs. The company deployed Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters to build a powerful database environment to support 24/7 operations and ensured high availability by adopting a clustered server solution, which distributes workload across multiple machines to maintain stable system performance.

Tags: Database Management, Database Applications

ConGES Consulting Embeds Security, Scalability, and Performance Into Real-Time Collaboration for Utilities 2008-03-01 Oracle

Multi-utility consultancy ConGES develops turnkey mobile solutions that enable field engineers working for regional energy and water providers to capture orders, measure consumption, and monitor assets using PDAs or laptops. ConGES wanted to guarantee rapid, automatic, bidirectional rules-based data synchronization between field engineers and back-office staff and eliminate risk of transmission failure or communication delays. The challenge was to provide unrivalled security for customers' business-critical data and build scalable solutions to support growing user numbers. ConGES replaced legacy embedded database with Oracle Database Lite to ensure seamless, reliable data exchange between mobile devices operating on multiple platforms and the corporate Oracle Database and benefited from the unparalleled scalability of Oracle Database Lite to ensure no communication delays or failures in two years.

Tags: Database Management

American Crystal Sugar Company Upgrades Management System to Minimize Costs 2008-03-01 Oracle

American Crystal Sugar Company is an agricultural cooperative that specializes in sugar and sugar-based products and byproducts. The company wanted to maximize shareholder profit and control variable costs, such as overtime. The challenge was to manage nonproductive time. American Crystal Sugar Company utilized Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Human Capital Management and Oracle support tools to allow American Crystal Sugar Company to minimize costs. It optimized system availability for 24x7 operations and leveraged Oracle's support tools to plan updates at the appropriate time for the business and create a more efficient migration process.

Tags: Database Management, Human Capital Management

Solutia Inc. Improves System Reliability and Availability With Advanced Data Infrastructure 2008-03-01 Oracle

Solutia is a market-leading performance materials and specialty chemicals company. Solutia wanted to create a highly available and scalable data infrastructure to support the company's manufacturing, distribution, and human resources processes. The challenge was to minimize IT downtime and steamline IT management. Solutia implemented Oracle Database and Oracle Real Applications on Windows to ensure a highly available data foundation that supports the company's manufacturing and business applications and gained the ability to add capacity cost effectively and as needed with Oracle Real Application Clusters.

Tags: Database Management, Database Applications

Secretaria Distrital de Planeacion Centralizes Information and Improves Public Policy Planning 2008-03-01 Oracle

Secretaria Distrital de Planeacion is part of one of the 12 divisions of the Bogota mayor's office. Secretaria Distrital de Planeacion wanted to implement a flexible, scalable IT infrastructure for better long-term public policy planning and establish a reliable database to make up-to-date information available 24x7, facilitating timely decision making. The challenge was to organize and centralize information to establish operating standards throughout the organization. Secretaria Distrital de Planeacion worked with Oracle Consulting to implement a flexible and reliable IT infrastructure, allowing the city to plan its public policy for the next 15 to 20 years and implemented Oracle Database to facilitate access to up-to-date information and accelerate decision making.

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Database Management

Humble ISD's Centralized, Clustered Network Infrastructure Is Improving the Quality of Education Through 20-Fold Faster Data Access, Greater Uptime, More Reliable Data Backup and a 40% Reduction in IT Administration Time 2008-03-01 Dell

The Humble Independent School District is named for a pioneering Texas settler, not for its approach to education. The fast-growing Humble Independent School District needed to improve network bandwidth and uptime, make data backup faster and more reliable, and reduce the time its IT staff spent on repairs and routine maintenance. Dell Services helped Humble ISD implement a highly robust, scalable server cluster, based on Dell PowerEdge servers. The cluster consolidates e-mail, office software and educational tools from 40 separate servers and offers dramatically faster access and simplified maintenance. The district turned its old data center into a mirrored disaster recovery site using Dell and EMC technology.

Tags: Application Servers, Back-up

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Title	Date Added	Company
Is Your Network Infrastructure Helping or Hurting Your High-Performance Business Goals?	08/10/08	Juniper Networks
CIOs and IT executives should read this white paper to discover how different attributes of the network infrastructure can help them achieve their aggressive business goals. This white paper will show how Juniper Networks, Inc. high-performance networking infrastructure, which provides fast, reliable and secure access to applications and services over a single network, will meet all three levels of business goals: staying in the race, winning the race and changing the rules.		sponsored by
Enterprise Data Center Network Reference Architecture	08/10/08	Juniper Networks
The data center is an extremely critical corporate asset. As such, the data center network that connects all critical servers, applications and storage services is increasingly a key component that needs to be carefully planned and managed in order to meet the growing performance demands of users and many network-centric applications. Juniper Networks offers a comprehensive data center network solution that combines best-in-class products with well-defined practices to build high-performance, robust, virtualized, cost-effective and business supported data center networks. This reference architecture proposes practices, technologies and products that help data center architects and engineers responsible for answering the requirements of designing modern data center networks.		sponsored by
Deploying IP Telephony with EX-Series Switches	08/10/08	Juniper Networks
The new EX-series Ethernet switches from Juniper Networks offer a number of features for optimizing IP telephony deployments. This application note describes how voice over IP (VoIP) phones can be deployed in conjunction with endpoint hosts such as desktop or laptop computers; provides background information on Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and LLDP-Media Endpoint Discovery (LLDP-MED); and describes the interaction between VoIP phones and EX-series switches.		sponsored by
Network Operating System Evolution	08/10/08	Juniper Networks
This paper discusses the requirements and challenges inherent in the design of carrier-class network operating system (OS). Key facets of JUNOS� software, the Juniper Networks OS, are used to illustrate the evolution of OS design and underscore the relationship between functionality and architectural decisions. The challenge of designing a contemporary network operating system is examined from different angles, including flexibility, ability to power a wide range of platforms, nonstop operation, and parallelism. Architectural challenges, trade-offs and opportunities are identified, as well as some of the best practices in building state-of-the-art network operating systems.		sponsored by
Group-Aware Stream Filtering for Bandwidth-Efficient Data Dissemination	2008-03-06	Dartmouth College
This paper is concerned with disseminating high-volume data streams to many simultaneous applications over a low-bandwidth wireless mesh network. For bandwidth efficiency, they propose a group-aware stream filtering approach, used in conjunction with multicasting, that exploits two overlooked, yet important, properties of these applications, many applications can tolerate some degree of "Slack" in their data quality requirements, and there may exist multiple subsets of the source data satisfying the quality needs of an application. This paper also analyzes the key factors that affect its performance, based on testing with heterogeneous filtering requirements. Tags: Data Quality
Oracle Real User Experience Insight	2008-03-01	Oracle
UXinsight is a powerful solution for monitoring Web traffic. Data capture is based on Network Protocol Analysis (NPA). Typically, it is installed before the Web servers, behind a firewall in the DMZ, and required minimal maintenance. UXinsight is "invisible" to the monitored networks and completely secure. Installation of an UXinsight system requires no changes to a Web infrastructure or website content. A standard UXinsight system can be operational within an hour. UXinsight provides an easy-to-use browser interface where one can correlate different information in a simple way. To create reports, one simply selects an interesting view within the browser interface, and clicks a single button.
State of Indiana Saves $14 Million, Boosts IT Reliability, Offers New Services for Residents	2008-03-01	Microsoft Tips
In 2005, the state of Indiana embarked on an optimization of its core IT infrastructure to dramatically improve service levels while reducing cost. The state replaced a highly decentralized series of e mail solutions running on 100 server computers with Microsoft Exchange Server software running on two 4-computer clusters. Hundreds of desktop applications - including many older applications that were causing conflicts with current software - were virtualized using Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack. And software deployments, security updates, asset inventory, and remote help-desk support were enabled by a move from Altiris Notification Server to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. Tags: Application Servers, Email
Groupama Phoenix Accelerates Access to Customer Data by 60% and Optimizes IT System	2008-03-01	Oracle
Groupama Phoenix is one of Greece's leading insurance companies, distributing a diverse product line through a network of 350 agents, 930 brokers, and a team of 80 insurance advisors. Groupama Phoenix wanted to implement a stable, highly available data infrastructure with the ability to seamlessly scale to support future business needs and optimize performance and stability of IT systems to ensure critical business continuity. The challenge was to enhance customer service by enabling authorized personnel to access customer data more rapidly and creates a rapid, one-stop solution for technical issues. Groupama Phoenix deployed Oracle Real Application Clusters to create a highly available and scalable data infrastructure that enables rapid and seamless additions of new users and applications. Tags: Infrastructure Management, Database Applications
Beijing Tobacco Cuts Costs and Improves Resource Use by Adopting Grid Technology	2008-03-01	Oracle
Founded in 1986, Beijing Tobacco Monopoly Administration oversees the tobacco industry in Beijing. Beijing Tobacco Monopoly wanted to construct an integrated IT infrastructure that offers high performance, reliability, and availability and enable online information sharing and collaboration. The challenge was to utilize any spare capacity to improve system performance and simplify IT maintenance to reduce costs. The company deployed Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters to build a powerful database environment to support 24/7 operations and ensured high availability by adopting a clustered server solution, which distributes workload across multiple machines to maintain stable system performance. Tags: Database Management, Database Applications
ConGES Consulting Embeds Security, Scalability, and Performance Into Real-Time Collaboration for Utilities	2008-03-01	Oracle
Multi-utility consultancy ConGES develops turnkey mobile solutions that enable field engineers working for regional energy and water providers to capture orders, measure consumption, and monitor assets using PDAs or laptops. ConGES wanted to guarantee rapid, automatic, bidirectional rules-based data synchronization between field engineers and back-office staff and eliminate risk of transmission failure or communication delays. The challenge was to provide unrivalled security for customers' business-critical data and build scalable solutions to support growing user numbers. ConGES replaced legacy embedded database with Oracle Database Lite to ensure seamless, reliable data exchange between mobile devices operating on multiple platforms and the corporate Oracle Database and benefited from the unparalleled scalability of Oracle Database Lite to ensure no communication delays or failures in two years. Tags: Database Management
American Crystal Sugar Company Upgrades Management System to Minimize Costs	2008-03-01	Oracle
American Crystal Sugar Company is an agricultural cooperative that specializes in sugar and sugar-based products and byproducts. The company wanted to maximize shareholder profit and control variable costs, such as overtime. The challenge was to manage nonproductive time. American Crystal Sugar Company utilized Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Human Capital Management and Oracle support tools to allow American Crystal Sugar Company to minimize costs. It optimized system availability for 24x7 operations and leveraged Oracle's support tools to plan updates at the appropriate time for the business and create a more efficient migration process. Tags: Database Management, Human Capital Management
Solutia Inc. Improves System Reliability and Availability With Advanced Data Infrastructure	2008-03-01	Oracle
Solutia is a market-leading performance materials and specialty chemicals company. Solutia wanted to create a highly available and scalable data infrastructure to support the company's manufacturing, distribution, and human resources processes. The challenge was to minimize IT downtime and steamline IT management. Solutia implemented Oracle Database and Oracle Real Applications on Windows to ensure a highly available data foundation that supports the company's manufacturing and business applications and gained the ability to add capacity cost effectively and as needed with Oracle Real Application Clusters. Tags: Database Management, Database Applications
Secretaria Distrital de Planeacion Centralizes Information and Improves Public Policy Planning	2008-03-01	Oracle
Secretaria Distrital de Planeacion is part of one of the 12 divisions of the Bogota mayor's office. Secretaria Distrital de Planeacion wanted to implement a flexible, scalable IT infrastructure for better long-term public policy planning and establish a reliable database to make up-to-date information available 24x7, facilitating timely decision making. The challenge was to organize and centralize information to establish operating standards throughout the organization. Secretaria Distrital de Planeacion worked with Oracle Consulting to implement a flexible and reliable IT infrastructure, allowing the city to plan its public policy for the next 15 to 20 years and implemented Oracle Database to facilitate access to up-to-date information and accelerate decision making. Tags: Infrastructure Management, Database Management
Humble ISD's Centralized, Clustered Network Infrastructure Is Improving the Quality of Education Through 20-Fold Faster Data Access, Greater Uptime, More Reliable Data Backup and a 40% Reduction in IT Administration Time	2008-03-01	Dell
The Humble Independent School District is named for a pioneering Texas settler, not for its approach to education. The fast-growing Humble Independent School District needed to improve network bandwidth and uptime, make data backup faster and more reliable, and reduce the time its IT staff spent on repairs and routine maintenance. Dell Services helped Humble ISD implement a highly robust, scalable server cluster, based on Dell PowerEdge servers. The cluster consolidates e-mail, office software and educational tools from 40 separate servers and offers dramatically faster access and simplified maintenance. The district turned its old data center into a mirrored disaster recovery site using Dell and EMC technology. Tags: Application Servers, Back-up