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Dynamic Aspect-Oriented Load Balancing in Java RMI 2008-05-08 University of Waterloo

Load balancing is the process of distributing client requests over a set of servers, and is a key element of obtaining good performance in a distributed application. Java RMI extends Java with distributed objects whose methods can be called from remote clients. In some Java RMI programs, there may be multiple replicas of a given object that can be the receiver of a remote method invocation. Effectively distributing these requests across these replicas requires either an extra balancer process or additional code on the client for this distribution. This paper demonstrates the use of dynamic aspects in JAC to solve this problem.

Global Biopharmaceutical Company Stays Secure With Security Information and Event Management System 2008-05-07 Check Point Software Technologies

Global biopharmaceutical is a leading pharmaceutical company, with headquartered in the United States. The organization is challenged with continuing security audits of its network and data security systems by its partner companies and the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). The company needed a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system that takes massive volumes of data logs from all of the company's security devices and gathers them into a central repository. As a long-time Check Point customer, the pharmaceutical company has a substantial standing investment in VPN-1 technology. With Eventia Analyzer, the company is able to correlate log data from Check Point security devices-as well as third-party security devices-automatically prioritizing security events for decisive, intelligent action.

Tags: Security Management, Data Recovery - Security

TechNet Webcast: Configuring DNS, Certificates, Ports, and Load Balancers for Communications Server 2007 (Level 300) 2008-05-06 Microsoft Tips

Within Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, users are required to deploy servers with appropriate DNS records, ports configured, and possibly load balancers depending on what type of topologies are selected. This webcast will address all three in advanced topology configurations and also provide examples of global type deployments with these settings.

Tags: Communications Software, Application Servers

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 18 of 24): Network Access Protection (Level 200) 2008-05-02 Microsoft Tips

This webcast introduces Network Access Protection (NAP), a policy enforcement platform built into the Windows Server 2008 operating system that empowers organizations to better protect their networks by enforcing compliance with computer health requirements. The presenter shows how to deploy and configure NAP, and explains how to create NAP policies to validate computer compliance before allowing connection to the network. The presenter also describes the option for confining noncompliant computers to a restricted network until they become compliant. The presenter walks through the process of configuring NAP for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Tags: Network Security, Windows Server 2008

Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Storage Networking Evolution 2008-05-01 Cisco Systems

Evolving business requirements underscore the need for high-density, high-speed, and low-latency consolidated networks that enable data center scalability and improve manageability while controlling IT costs. Data centers typically run multiple separate networks, including an Ethernet network for client-to-server and server-to-server communications and a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN). To support various types of networks, data centers use separate redundant interface modules for each network: Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs) and Fibre Channel interfaces in their servers, and redundant pairs of switches at each layer in the network architecture. Use of parallel infrastructures increases capital costs, makes data center management more difficult, and diminishes business flexibility.

Tags: Storage Management

Cisco Nexus 5000 and Emulex LP21000 2008-05-01 Cisco Systems

Data Center managers are challenged to keep pace with continuous growth while managing capital, operational and facilities costs. Organizations have turned to server virtualization as a means of reigning in the costs by consolidating applications on virtual servers. Increases in SAN attachment have gone hand in hand. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offers the framework for implementing a Unified Fabric as a way to get beyond today's cost and complexity challenges. Cisco and Emulex have worked collaboratively on both standards and products that will deliver on the promise of a Unified Fabric reducing the total cost of ownership; offering investment protection of existing severs, networks, storage, and facilities; enhancing business agility; and enabling higher levels of operational continuity; while offering alignment with existing operational domains.

Tags: SANs, Fibre

Cisco MDS 9000 Family: Total Investment Protection 2008-05-01 Cisco Systems

Evolving business requirements underscore the need for high-density, high-speed, and low-latency networks that improve data center scalability and manageability while controlling IT costs. As discussed in this paper the Cisco MDS 9000 Family provides the leading high-density, high-bandwidth storage networking solution along with Integrated Fabric Applications to support dynamic data center requirements. With the addition of the third-generation modules, the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of storage networking products now supports 1-, 2-, 4-, 8-, and 10-Gbps Fibre Channel along with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). One major benefit of the Cisco MDS 9000 family architecture is investment protection: the capability of first-, second-. and third-generation modules to all coexist in both existing customer chassis and new switch configurations.

Tags: Storage Management, SANs

FEUP Breaks Security-Performance Bottleneck With Check Point Technology 2008-05-01 Check Point Software Technologies

The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, (FEUP) is a Portuguese engineering teaching institution, integrated into the University of Porto, where undergraduate and postgraduate courses are taught in various engineering disciplines. FEUP needed to increase its Internet access bandwidth, currently rated at 1Gbps, while maintaining or even increasing security and needed a solution that supports quick, secure data transfer, a key prerequisite for researchers who have international projects. A new technology from Check Point called CoreXL helped alleviate the problem. This technology is integrated with VPN-1 Power and is employed on Intel multi-core processors for speeding up network security scanning.

Tags: Security Management

Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) and Message-Based Load Balancing (MBLB) 2008-05-01 F5 Networks

At the service provider level, the number of VLAN, TCP (or UDP) port, and IP triplet combinations is affecting the Session Initiated Protocol (SIP). Between servers, where the VLAN, TCP port, and IP variations are limited, the ephemeral ports are constantly being pushed and overrun. Because of active SIP subscriber counts in the millions, the potential to use various combinations of IP addresses and ephemeral ports is not realistic. Providing a method to aggregate and disaggregate these communications into a single triplet - or as an individual stream of information - enables greater scalability, performance, and reliability, and relieves the strain caused by these limitations.

Benchmark Framework for a Load Balancing Single System Image 2008-05-01 Universiti Putra Malaysia

Recent developments in the load balancing Single System Image (SSI) clusters enabled workstations to provide a cost effective and high performance environment which has become increasingly attractive to many users. However, in practice, clusters of workstation failed to exploit their performance potential advantages. This paper presents and propose a framework for benchmarking and performance evaluation of a load balancing SSI and shows how this framework used as a methodology for a comprehensive examination of load balancing SSI clusters performance and behavior.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Dynamic Aspect-Oriented Load Balancing in Java RMI	2008-05-08	University of Waterloo
Load balancing is the process of distributing client requests over a set of servers, and is a key element of obtaining good performance in a distributed application. Java RMI extends Java with distributed objects whose methods can be called from remote clients. In some Java RMI programs, there may be multiple replicas of a given object that can be the receiver of a remote method invocation. Effectively distributing these requests across these replicas requires either an extra balancer process or additional code on the client for this distribution. This paper demonstrates the use of dynamic aspects in JAC to solve this problem.
Global Biopharmaceutical Company Stays Secure With Security Information and Event Management System	2008-05-07	Check Point Software Technologies
Global biopharmaceutical is a leading pharmaceutical company, with headquartered in the United States. The organization is challenged with continuing security audits of its network and data security systems by its partner companies and the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). The company needed a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system that takes massive volumes of data logs from all of the company's security devices and gathers them into a central repository. As a long-time Check Point customer, the pharmaceutical company has a substantial standing investment in VPN-1 technology. With Eventia Analyzer, the company is able to correlate log data from Check Point security devices-as well as third-party security devices-automatically prioritizing security events for decisive, intelligent action. Tags: Security Management, Data Recovery - Security
TechNet Webcast: Configuring DNS, Certificates, Ports, and Load Balancers for Communications Server 2007 (Level 300)	2008-05-06	Microsoft Tips
Within Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, users are required to deploy servers with appropriate DNS records, ports configured, and possibly load balancers depending on what type of topologies are selected. This webcast will address all three in advanced topology configurations and also provide examples of global type deployments with these settings. Tags: Communications Software, Application Servers
TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 18 of 24): Network Access Protection (Level 200)	2008-05-02	Microsoft Tips
This webcast introduces Network Access Protection (NAP), a policy enforcement platform built into the Windows Server 2008 operating system that empowers organizations to better protect their networks by enforcing compliance with computer health requirements. The presenter shows how to deploy and configure NAP, and explains how to create NAP policies to validate computer compliance before allowing connection to the network. The presenter also describes the option for confining noncompliant computers to a restricted network until they become compliant. The presenter walks through the process of configuring NAP for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Virtual Private Network (VPN). Tags: Network Security, Windows Server 2008
Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Storage Networking Evolution	2008-05-01	Cisco Systems
Evolving business requirements underscore the need for high-density, high-speed, and low-latency consolidated networks that enable data center scalability and improve manageability while controlling IT costs. Data centers typically run multiple separate networks, including an Ethernet network for client-to-server and server-to-server communications and a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN). To support various types of networks, data centers use separate redundant interface modules for each network: Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs) and Fibre Channel interfaces in their servers, and redundant pairs of switches at each layer in the network architecture. Use of parallel infrastructures increases capital costs, makes data center management more difficult, and diminishes business flexibility. Tags: Storage Management
Cisco Nexus 5000 and Emulex LP21000	2008-05-01	Cisco Systems
Data Center managers are challenged to keep pace with continuous growth while managing capital, operational and facilities costs. Organizations have turned to server virtualization as a means of reigning in the costs by consolidating applications on virtual servers. Increases in SAN attachment have gone hand in hand. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offers the framework for implementing a Unified Fabric as a way to get beyond today's cost and complexity challenges. Cisco and Emulex have worked collaboratively on both standards and products that will deliver on the promise of a Unified Fabric reducing the total cost of ownership; offering investment protection of existing severs, networks, storage, and facilities; enhancing business agility; and enabling higher levels of operational continuity; while offering alignment with existing operational domains. Tags: SANs, Fibre
Cisco MDS 9000 Family: Total Investment Protection	2008-05-01	Cisco Systems
Evolving business requirements underscore the need for high-density, high-speed, and low-latency networks that improve data center scalability and manageability while controlling IT costs. As discussed in this paper the Cisco MDS 9000 Family provides the leading high-density, high-bandwidth storage networking solution along with Integrated Fabric Applications to support dynamic data center requirements. With the addition of the third-generation modules, the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of storage networking products now supports 1-, 2-, 4-, 8-, and 10-Gbps Fibre Channel along with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). One major benefit of the Cisco MDS 9000 family architecture is investment protection: the capability of first-, second-. and third-generation modules to all coexist in both existing customer chassis and new switch configurations. Tags: Storage Management, SANs
FEUP Breaks Security-Performance Bottleneck With Check Point Technology	2008-05-01	Check Point Software Technologies
The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, (FEUP) is a Portuguese engineering teaching institution, integrated into the University of Porto, where undergraduate and postgraduate courses are taught in various engineering disciplines. FEUP needed to increase its Internet access bandwidth, currently rated at 1Gbps, while maintaining or even increasing security and needed a solution that supports quick, secure data transfer, a key prerequisite for researchers who have international projects. A new technology from Check Point called CoreXL helped alleviate the problem. This technology is integrated with VPN-1 Power and is employed on Intel multi-core processors for speeding up network security scanning. Tags: Security Management
Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) and Message-Based Load Balancing (MBLB)	2008-05-01	F5 Networks
At the service provider level, the number of VLAN, TCP (or UDP) port, and IP triplet combinations is affecting the Session Initiated Protocol (SIP). Between servers, where the VLAN, TCP port, and IP variations are limited, the ephemeral ports are constantly being pushed and overrun. Because of active SIP subscriber counts in the millions, the potential to use various combinations of IP addresses and ephemeral ports is not realistic. Providing a method to aggregate and disaggregate these communications into a single triplet - or as an individual stream of information - enables greater scalability, performance, and reliability, and relieves the strain caused by these limitations.
Benchmark Framework for a Load Balancing Single System Image	2008-05-01	Universiti Putra Malaysia
Recent developments in the load balancing Single System Image (SSI) clusters enabled workstations to provide a cost effective and high performance environment which has become increasingly attractive to many users. However, in practice, clusters of workstation failed to exploit their performance potential advantages. This paper presents and propose a framework for benchmarking and performance evaluation of a load balancing SSI and shows how this framework used as a methodology for a comprehensive examination of load balancing SSI clusters performance and behavior.