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Choosing the Right CMDB: Smart Considerations for Strategic Decision Makers 2008-06-25 ASG Software Solutions

A forward-looking 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

ASG Service Dependency Mapping: Making the Link between IT and the Business 2008-07-29 ASG Software Solutions

Aligning IT and business perspectives requires the ability to create links between configuration information in the 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

Understanding Your CMDB Project's ROI 2008-07-28 ASG Software Solutions

Targeted at IT executives responsible for both the financial and ultimate project oversight of an enterprise 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.

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

Measurements and Mitigation of Peer-to-Peer-Based Botnets: A Case Study on Storm Worm 2008-02-18 University of Mannheim

Botnets, i.e., networks of compromised machines under a common control infrastructure, are commonly controlled by an attacker with the help of a central server: all compromised machines connect to the central server and wait for commands. However, the first botnets that use Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks for remote control of the compromised machines appeared in the wild recently. This paper introduces a methodology to analyze and mitigate P2P botnets. In a case study, the paper examines in detail the Storm Worm botnet, the most wide-spread P2P botnet currently propagating in the wild. The paper was able to infiltrate and analyze in-depth the botnet, which allows to estimate the total number of compromised machines.

Tags: Remote Access - RA Servers

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 Architecture Case Study: Gnutella Network 2008-01-01 University of Chicago

Despite recent excitement generated by the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm and the surprisingly rapid deployment of some P2P applications, there are few quantitative evaluations of P2P systems behavior. The open architecture, achieved scale, and self-organizing structure of the Gnutella network make it an interesting P2P architecture to study. Like most other P2P applications, Gnutella builds, at the application level, a virtual network with its own routing mechanisms. The topology of this virtual network and the routing mechanisms used have a significant influence on application properties such as performance, reliability, and scalability. The paper has built a "Crawler" to extract the topology of Gnutella's application level network. This paper analyzes the topology graph and evaluates generated network traffic.

Component Deployment Using a Peer-to-Peer Overlay 2008-01-01 Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon

The deployment of component-based software applications usually relies on a centralized repository where the components are stored. This paper describes a peer-to-peer approach for components distribution. The software components are distributed among a set of nodes participating in the execution of services. When a node wants to install a component which is not present locally, this component is both searched and installed using a peer-to-peer network. The proposed architecture is an underlayer for OSGi application (bundles) deployment and execution management.

Tags: Component-Based, Application Development

A Network Layer Architecture for Personal Networks 2008-01-01 Ghent University

Personal Networks (PN) is a new concept related to pervasive computing with a strong user-focused view. While several existing technologies can offer solutions to part of a person's future communication needs, there is very little work on combining these technologies into something a normal user can handle. It will undoubtedly be the network layer that should integrate a person's all devices and networks into one single network for the person; the Personal Network. This paper introduces a network layer architecture for PNs that can handle the dynamic and demanding situation a PN is facing.

Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications

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.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Choosing the Right CMDB: Smart Considerations for Strategic Decision Makers	2008-06-25	ASG Software Solutions
A forward-looking 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
ASG Service Dependency Mapping: Making the Link between IT and the Business	2008-07-29	ASG Software Solutions
Aligning IT and business perspectives requires the ability to create links between configuration information in the 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
Understanding Your CMDB Project's ROI	2008-07-28	ASG Software Solutions
Targeted at IT executives responsible for both the financial and ultimate project oversight of an enterprise 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. Tags: ROI - TCO, Network Administration, Service Level Management, Strategic Planning, IT Reliability
Measurements and Mitigation of Peer-to-Peer-Based Botnets: A Case Study on Storm Worm	2008-02-18	University of Mannheim
Botnets, i.e., networks of compromised machines under a common control infrastructure, are commonly controlled by an attacker with the help of a central server: all compromised machines connect to the central server and wait for commands. However, the first botnets that use Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks for remote control of the compromised machines appeared in the wild recently. This paper introduces a methodology to analyze and mitigate P2P botnets. In a case study, the paper examines in detail the Storm Worm botnet, the most wide-spread P2P botnet currently propagating in the wild. The paper was able to infiltrate and analyze in-depth the botnet, which allows to estimate the total number of compromised machines. Tags: Remote Access - RA Servers
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 Architecture Case Study: Gnutella Network	2008-01-01	University of Chicago
Despite recent excitement generated by the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm and the surprisingly rapid deployment of some P2P applications, there are few quantitative evaluations of P2P systems behavior. The open architecture, achieved scale, and self-organizing structure of the Gnutella network make it an interesting P2P architecture to study. Like most other P2P applications, Gnutella builds, at the application level, a virtual network with its own routing mechanisms. The topology of this virtual network and the routing mechanisms used have a significant influence on application properties such as performance, reliability, and scalability. The paper has built a "Crawler" to extract the topology of Gnutella's application level network. This paper analyzes the topology graph and evaluates generated network traffic.
Component Deployment Using a Peer-to-Peer Overlay	2008-01-01	Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon
The deployment of component-based software applications usually relies on a centralized repository where the components are stored. This paper describes a peer-to-peer approach for components distribution. The software components are distributed among a set of nodes participating in the execution of services. When a node wants to install a component which is not present locally, this component is both searched and installed using a peer-to-peer network. The proposed architecture is an underlayer for OSGi application (bundles) deployment and execution management. Tags: Component-Based, Application Development
A Network Layer Architecture for Personal Networks	2008-01-01	Ghent University
Personal Networks (PN) is a new concept related to pervasive computing with a strong user-focused view. While several existing technologies can offer solutions to part of a person's future communication needs, there is very little work on combining these technologies into something a normal user can handle. It will undoubtedly be the network layer that should integrate a person's all devices and networks into one single network for the person; the Personal Network. This paper introduces a network layer architecture for PNs that can handle the dynamic and demanding situation a PN is facing. Tags: Mobile - Wireless Communications
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.