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Public Relations Firm Boasts Server Performance Increase by 50% 2008-03-06 Microsoft

Litzky Public Relations is a premiere boutique public relations agency based in historic Hoboken, New Jersey, which specializes in consumer product publicity. Litzky Public Relations needed a new, up-to-date network infrastructure that mirrored the qualities of the company, and they needed it fast. Litzky Public Relations knew that its IT vendor, eMazzanti Technologies (a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Microsoft Small Business Specialist), had all the Microsoft server product expertise and knowledge of the firm's network that it needed to quickly and successfully deploy three servers running Windows Server 2008. The firm realized that the technology choice (for performance) and vendor selection (for skills) were equally important, so it decided to use Windows Server 2008.

Tags: Windows Server 2008

How Cisco IT Automated Vendor Services Delivery 2008-01-24 Cisco Systems

This case study describes Cisco IT's internal deployment of a networked solution to centralize and control ordering, provisioning, and asset management for a broad range of vendor services. This solution provides corporate finance and department managers with decision-making information, provides users with a streamlined ordering process for approved services, and enables the cost-effective management of service-related assets.

Tags: Network Administration

Integrating Application Delivery Solutions Into the Data Center Infrastructure 2008-01-01 Cisco Systems

This paper examines the value of using integrated application delivery devices to meet the challenges of delivering hundreds of dynamic business-critical applications while containing costs and simplifying infrastructure. In particular, it describes the Cisco solution. The Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module, which provides the highest levels of performance and scalability, secure virtualization, and role-based administration capabilities, is natively integrated with the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers. The paper describes some of the solution's main integration features from a technical standpoint and its benefits in comparison to those of traditional appliances: cabling, power, and cooling savings; greater availability; higher performance; and enhanced security.

Tags: Data Center

Peer-to-Peer Computing for Secure High Performance Data Copying 2008-01-01 Stanford University

The BaBar Copy Program (bbcp) is an excellent representative of peer-to-peer (P2P) computing. It is also a pioneering application of its type in the P2P arena. Built upon the foundation of its predecessor, Secure Fast Copy (sfcp), bbcp incorporates significant improvements performance and usability. As with sfcp, bbcp uses ssh for authentication; providing an elegant and simple working model - if one can ssh to a location, he or she can copy files to or from that location. To fully support this notion, bbcp transparently supports 3rd party copy operations. The program also incorporates several mechanism to deal with firewall security; the bane of P2P computing.

Tags: Data Recovery - Security

Peer-to-Peer Ink Messaging Across Heterogeneous Devices and Platforms 2007-12-20 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

Pen and touch interfaces for personal and shared devices are becoming increasingly relevant today, in the context of mobility and ease of use. A key capability enabled by pen-interfaces is that of messaging using handwritten, as opposed to text messages. Not only are ink messages easier to enter than text messages (especially when a full keyboard is not present), they allow the incorporation of other elements such as drawings and doodles into instant messaging. However since ink formats are typically platform-specific and proprietary, messaging across different platforms such as Tablet PCs and Linux-based PDAs poses an interoperability problem. This paper shows how Ink Markup Language (InkML), an open draft standard from W3C, can be used to address this problem.

Network Admission Control Design 2007-12-01 Cisco Systems

As the number of unmanaged devices used by employees, contractors, and guests who need access to the network expands, the likelihood of noncompliance with the security policies also increases. To solve this dilemma, many IT professionals are either implementing or considering Network Admission Control (NAC). Is NAC right for the network? What are the issues in successfully deploying NAC? This webcast answers these questions and shows the principal technical considerations and options available to one in a mature, goal-oriented NAC implementation.

Tags: Network Administration

Designing High-Performance Next-Generation Wireless Networks 2007-12-01 Cisco Systems

This webcast discovers how new standards and enhancements such as 802.11n and Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) are delivering five times the throughput of existing wireless networks to support real-time applications, including voice and multimedia. It reviews key deployment scenarios for next-generation wireless, including strategies for managing challenging RF environments, bandwidth-intensive applications, and mixed-client device support.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications, Wi-Fi (802.11)

Cisco's Growing With Technology Award 2006: Montage of Winners 2007-11-27 Cisco Systems

The presenter of this webcast explains how to use technology innovations to unleash the potential through the power of the Internet or Network.

Aspects of Network Design 2007-11-01 Princeton University

This paper discusses the multicommodity buy-at-bulk network design problem, a problem that occurs naturally in the design of telecommunication and transportation net-works. An underlying graph is given and associated with each edge of the graph, a cost function that represents the price of routing demand along this edge. A set of demands is also given between pairs of vertices each of which needs to be satisfied by paying for sufficient capacity along a path connecting the vertices of the pair. In the multicommodity network design problem the objective is to minimize the cost of satisfying all demands.

Network Design Paper: IS 280 - Data Communications Systems 2007-10-29 University of Hawaii

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that one can design a simple household network and explain it on paper. The title of the paper shall be "Home Network Design for X" where X is replaced by the name of the person for whom the network is intended. Typically this should be parents or family, but other alternatives are acceptable. This person is the client. The finished paper shall be printed on normal printer paper using margins of 1.25 inches left and right, top and bottom.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Public Relations Firm Boasts Server Performance Increase by 50%	2008-03-06	Microsoft
Litzky Public Relations is a premiere boutique public relations agency based in historic Hoboken, New Jersey, which specializes in consumer product publicity. Litzky Public Relations needed a new, up-to-date network infrastructure that mirrored the qualities of the company, and they needed it fast. Litzky Public Relations knew that its IT vendor, eMazzanti Technologies (a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Microsoft Small Business Specialist), had all the Microsoft server product expertise and knowledge of the firm's network that it needed to quickly and successfully deploy three servers running Windows Server 2008. The firm realized that the technology choice (for performance) and vendor selection (for skills) were equally important, so it decided to use Windows Server 2008. Tags: Windows Server 2008
How Cisco IT Automated Vendor Services Delivery	2008-01-24	Cisco Systems
This case study describes Cisco IT's internal deployment of a networked solution to centralize and control ordering, provisioning, and asset management for a broad range of vendor services. This solution provides corporate finance and department managers with decision-making information, provides users with a streamlined ordering process for approved services, and enables the cost-effective management of service-related assets. Tags: Network Administration
Integrating Application Delivery Solutions Into the Data Center Infrastructure	2008-01-01	Cisco Systems
This paper examines the value of using integrated application delivery devices to meet the challenges of delivering hundreds of dynamic business-critical applications while containing costs and simplifying infrastructure. In particular, it describes the Cisco solution. The Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module, which provides the highest levels of performance and scalability, secure virtualization, and role-based administration capabilities, is natively integrated with the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers. The paper describes some of the solution's main integration features from a technical standpoint and its benefits in comparison to those of traditional appliances: cabling, power, and cooling savings; greater availability; higher performance; and enhanced security. Tags: Data Center
Peer-to-Peer Computing for Secure High Performance Data Copying	2008-01-01	Stanford University
The BaBar Copy Program (bbcp) is an excellent representative of peer-to-peer (P2P) computing. It is also a pioneering application of its type in the P2P arena. Built upon the foundation of its predecessor, Secure Fast Copy (sfcp), bbcp incorporates significant improvements performance and usability. As with sfcp, bbcp uses ssh for authentication; providing an elegant and simple working model - if one can ssh to a location, he or she can copy files to or from that location. To fully support this notion, bbcp transparently supports 3rd party copy operations. The program also incorporates several mechanism to deal with firewall security; the bane of P2P computing. Tags: Data Recovery - Security
Peer-to-Peer Ink Messaging Across Heterogeneous Devices and Platforms	2007-12-20	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Pen and touch interfaces for personal and shared devices are becoming increasingly relevant today, in the context of mobility and ease of use. A key capability enabled by pen-interfaces is that of messaging using handwritten, as opposed to text messages. Not only are ink messages easier to enter than text messages (especially when a full keyboard is not present), they allow the incorporation of other elements such as drawings and doodles into instant messaging. However since ink formats are typically platform-specific and proprietary, messaging across different platforms such as Tablet PCs and Linux-based PDAs poses an interoperability problem. This paper shows how Ink Markup Language (InkML), an open draft standard from W3C, can be used to address this problem.
Network Admission Control Design	2007-12-01	Cisco Systems
As the number of unmanaged devices used by employees, contractors, and guests who need access to the network expands, the likelihood of noncompliance with the security policies also increases. To solve this dilemma, many IT professionals are either implementing or considering Network Admission Control (NAC). Is NAC right for the network? What are the issues in successfully deploying NAC? This webcast answers these questions and shows the principal technical considerations and options available to one in a mature, goal-oriented NAC implementation. Tags: Network Administration
Designing High-Performance Next-Generation Wireless Networks	2007-12-01	Cisco Systems
This webcast discovers how new standards and enhancements such as 802.11n and Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) are delivering five times the throughput of existing wireless networks to support real-time applications, including voice and multimedia. It reviews key deployment scenarios for next-generation wireless, including strategies for managing challenging RF environments, bandwidth-intensive applications, and mixed-client device support. Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications, Wi-Fi (802.11)
Cisco's Growing With Technology Award 2006: Montage of Winners	2007-11-27	Cisco Systems
The presenter of this webcast explains how to use technology innovations to unleash the potential through the power of the Internet or Network.
Aspects of Network Design	2007-11-01	Princeton University
This paper discusses the multicommodity buy-at-bulk network design problem, a problem that occurs naturally in the design of telecommunication and transportation net-works. An underlying graph is given and associated with each edge of the graph, a cost function that represents the price of routing demand along this edge. A set of demands is also given between pairs of vertices each of which needs to be satisfied by paying for sufficient capacity along a path connecting the vertices of the pair. In the multicommodity network design problem the objective is to minimize the cost of satisfying all demands.
Network Design Paper: IS 280 - Data Communications Systems	2007-10-29	University of Hawaii
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that one can design a simple household network and explain it on paper. The title of the paper shall be "Home Network Design for X" where X is replaced by the name of the person for whom the network is intended. Typically this should be parents or family, but other alternatives are acceptable. This person is the client. The finished paper shall be printed on normal printer paper using margins of 1.25 inches left and right, top and bottom.