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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

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Ensuring Business Continuity (Level 200) 2008-04-07 Microsoft Tips

Contoso expansion over the past years increased the challenges the IT organization faced with regard to the increased number of offices and data growth. As jobs come in and consignments travel around the globe, different external organizations require information 24-7. The Microsoft SQL Server systems have to be available around the clock around the world. This webcast looks at high availability options in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 that help ensure that these systems are there when they are needed - regardless of what component has failed.

Tags: Application Servers, Database Management

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 10 of 24): IIS 7.0 Diagnostics and Troubleshooting (Level 300) Configuration (Level 300) 2008-04-04 Microsoft Tips

The presenter of this webcast discusses new diagnostics and troubleshooting features in Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0. First, the presenter examines how the new Runtime Status and Control API (RSCA) allow administrators to obtain state information and to trigger events such as starting and stopping a site. Next, the presenter explores Automatic Failed Request Tracing technology that helps administrators capture information about and troubleshoot complex and intermittent problems. Finally, the presenter looks at adding trace events to ASPX pages and viewing logged information.

Tags: Servers, Windows Server 2008

Replication Degree Customization for High Availability 2008-04-04 Association for Computing Machinery

Object replication is a common approach to enhance the availability of distributed data-intensive services and storage systems. Many such systems are known to have highly skewed object request probability distributions. This paper propose an object replication degree customization scheme that maximizes the expected service availability under given object request probabilities, object sizes, and space constraints (e.g., memory/storage capacities). In particular, it discovers that the optimal replication degree of an object should be linear in the logarithm of its popularity-to-size ratio.

Classified Ventures Cuts Bandwidth Costs by 33% Using F5's BIG-IP 2008-04-03 F5 Networks

Classified Ventures, LLC is a strategic joint venture 100% owned and funded by five of the nation 's leading media partners whose objectives are to collectively capitalize on the revenue growth in the online classifieds of automotive, apartments, and real estate. Classified Ventures needed an all-in-one traffic management product that could efficiently load balance traffic and applications across their servers, delivering high availability and excellent site performance and optimize increasing amounts of traffic without increasing their bandwidth costs. To meet these challenges, Classified Ventures chose F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager.

Tags: High Availability

Lake Forest Hospital Delivers Life Saving Care With F5's BIG-IP Link Controller and FirePass SSL VPN 2008-04-03 F5 Networks

Lake Forest Hospital Foundation is among the nation's premier medical care providers. Located on the north shore of Chicago, Lake Forest Hospital offers state-of-the-art people-centered healthcare. To operate efficiently and deliver premium medical treatment, the hospital needed a technological solution that kept their application infrastructure accessible yet secure. Taking advantage of a versatile product suite, Lake Forest Hospital chose F5's BIG-IP Link Controller and FirePass SSL VPN to keep their network applications safe, reliable, and fast.

Tags: VPNs, SSL - TLS

IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Uses System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to Extend Network Health (Level 200) 2008-04-02 Microsoft Tips

The presenters of this webcast explain how Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 ensures that computers connecting or communicating on the network meet the organization's requirements for system health. By implementing it, Microsoft IT is able to enforce security and compliance, as well as target policies to specific forest and domains within Microsoft.

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Network Administration

IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Uses Using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to Extend Network Health (Level 200) 2008-04-02 Microsoft

The attendee of this webcast will learn how Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 ensures that computers connecting or communicating on the network meet the organization's requirements for system health. By implementing it, Microsoft IT is able to enforce security and compliance, as well as target policies to specific forest and domains within Microsoft.

Tags: Network Security, Security Management

Put New Capabilities of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to Work, Part 5: Managing Failed and Unrecoverable Events With IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.1 2008-04-01 IBM

In this series, learn about the dramatic changes in IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.1 - a major release that extends capability and simplifies how one monitors and manage the performance of one's business. The WebSphere Business Monitor 6.1 enhanced, integrated administrative console lets one administer failed events. In this paper, learn how to troubleshoot and manage failed and unrecoverable events for business monitor model applications.

Data Center Services Provider Boosts Service Levels With Monitoring Software 2008-04-01 Microsoft

Cervalis is a New York City - area IT infrastructure services company that aims to provide a superior level of IT management services to its clients. To that aim, Cervalis is replacing the application-specific monitoring solutions in its data centers with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, a unified, end-to-end service management solution usable for both Microsoft and non-Microsoft environments. With the knowledge gained through its rich reporting capabilities, Cervalis has been able to expand its services and provide integrated monitoring services across multiple platforms. Staff members are working more efficiently, annual audits have been streamlined, and customers are receiving more detailed information about their technology.

Tags: Infrastructure Management

Using Cisco IOS Zone-Based and Classic Firewall in High-Availability Network Environments 2008-04-01 Cisco Systems

Businesses increasingly rely on data networks to carry mission-critical information. This is particularly true for businesses that rely on IP data networks to carry voice-over-IP data for packet telephony. Data networks must offer high-availability capabilities so that business continuity is not interrupted by scheduled maintenance or unexpected downtime due to circuit, power, and physical hardware failures or configuration errors. Cisco IOS Firewall offers features that address stateful failover security requirements, but specific recommendations must be observed for network design and implementation when Cisco IOS Firewall is used for stateful inspection of IP traffic in non-failover environments. This paper addresses questions commonly asked by network engineers about the deployment and application of Cisco IOS Firewall in high-availability network environments.

Tags: Firewalls, Security Tools

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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
TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Ensuring Business Continuity (Level 200)	2008-04-07	Microsoft Tips
Contoso expansion over the past years increased the challenges the IT organization faced with regard to the increased number of offices and data growth. As jobs come in and consignments travel around the globe, different external organizations require information 24-7. The Microsoft SQL Server systems have to be available around the clock around the world. This webcast looks at high availability options in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 that help ensure that these systems are there when they are needed - regardless of what component has failed. Tags: Application Servers, Database Management
TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 10 of 24): IIS 7.0 Diagnostics and Troubleshooting (Level 300) Configuration (Level 300)	2008-04-04	Microsoft Tips
The presenter of this webcast discusses new diagnostics and troubleshooting features in Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0. First, the presenter examines how the new Runtime Status and Control API (RSCA) allow administrators to obtain state information and to trigger events such as starting and stopping a site. Next, the presenter explores Automatic Failed Request Tracing technology that helps administrators capture information about and troubleshoot complex and intermittent problems. Finally, the presenter looks at adding trace events to ASPX pages and viewing logged information. Tags: Servers, Windows Server 2008
Replication Degree Customization for High Availability	2008-04-04	Association for Computing Machinery
Object replication is a common approach to enhance the availability of distributed data-intensive services and storage systems. Many such systems are known to have highly skewed object request probability distributions. This paper propose an object replication degree customization scheme that maximizes the expected service availability under given object request probabilities, object sizes, and space constraints (e.g., memory/storage capacities). In particular, it discovers that the optimal replication degree of an object should be linear in the logarithm of its popularity-to-size ratio.
Classified Ventures Cuts Bandwidth Costs by 33% Using F5's BIG-IP	2008-04-03	F5 Networks
Classified Ventures, LLC is a strategic joint venture 100% owned and funded by five of the nation 's leading media partners whose objectives are to collectively capitalize on the revenue growth in the online classifieds of automotive, apartments, and real estate. Classified Ventures needed an all-in-one traffic management product that could efficiently load balance traffic and applications across their servers, delivering high availability and excellent site performance and optimize increasing amounts of traffic without increasing their bandwidth costs. To meet these challenges, Classified Ventures chose F5's BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager. Tags: High Availability
Lake Forest Hospital Delivers Life Saving Care With F5's BIG-IP Link Controller and FirePass SSL VPN	2008-04-03	F5 Networks
Lake Forest Hospital Foundation is among the nation's premier medical care providers. Located on the north shore of Chicago, Lake Forest Hospital offers state-of-the-art people-centered healthcare. To operate efficiently and deliver premium medical treatment, the hospital needed a technological solution that kept their application infrastructure accessible yet secure. Taking advantage of a versatile product suite, Lake Forest Hospital chose F5's BIG-IP Link Controller and FirePass SSL VPN to keep their network applications safe, reliable, and fast. Tags: VPNs, SSL - TLS
IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Uses System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to Extend Network Health (Level 200)	2008-04-02	Microsoft Tips
The presenters of this webcast explain how Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 ensures that computers connecting or communicating on the network meet the organization's requirements for system health. By implementing it, Microsoft IT is able to enforce security and compliance, as well as target policies to specific forest and domains within Microsoft. Tags: Infrastructure Management, Network Administration
IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Uses Using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to Extend Network Health (Level 200)	2008-04-02	Microsoft
The attendee of this webcast will learn how Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 ensures that computers connecting or communicating on the network meet the organization's requirements for system health. By implementing it, Microsoft IT is able to enforce security and compliance, as well as target policies to specific forest and domains within Microsoft. Tags: Network Security, Security Management
Put New Capabilities of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to Work, Part 5: Managing Failed and Unrecoverable Events With IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.1	2008-04-01	IBM
In this series, learn about the dramatic changes in IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V6.1 - a major release that extends capability and simplifies how one monitors and manage the performance of one's business. The WebSphere Business Monitor 6.1 enhanced, integrated administrative console lets one administer failed events. In this paper, learn how to troubleshoot and manage failed and unrecoverable events for business monitor model applications.
Data Center Services Provider Boosts Service Levels With Monitoring Software	2008-04-01	Microsoft
Cervalis is a New York City - area IT infrastructure services company that aims to provide a superior level of IT management services to its clients. To that aim, Cervalis is replacing the application-specific monitoring solutions in its data centers with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, a unified, end-to-end service management solution usable for both Microsoft and non-Microsoft environments. With the knowledge gained through its rich reporting capabilities, Cervalis has been able to expand its services and provide integrated monitoring services across multiple platforms. Staff members are working more efficiently, annual audits have been streamlined, and customers are receiving more detailed information about their technology. Tags: Infrastructure Management
Using Cisco IOS Zone-Based and Classic Firewall in High-Availability Network Environments	2008-04-01	Cisco Systems
Businesses increasingly rely on data networks to carry mission-critical information. This is particularly true for businesses that rely on IP data networks to carry voice-over-IP data for packet telephony. Data networks must offer high-availability capabilities so that business continuity is not interrupted by scheduled maintenance or unexpected downtime due to circuit, power, and physical hardware failures or configuration errors. Cisco IOS Firewall offers features that address stateful failover security requirements, but specific recommendations must be observed for network design and implementation when Cisco IOS Firewall is used for stateful inspection of IP traffic in non-failover environments. This paper addresses questions commonly asked by network engineers about the deployment and application of Cisco IOS Firewall in high-availability network environments. Tags: Firewalls, Security Tools