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whitepaper The Benefits of SageCRM Internet Architecture2008-08-26 Sage Software
  Investing in a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application is no different than any other business management software investment - whether one is looking for an enterprise level software application or a department level solution, one expects a quick and measurable return on one's investment. Before investing in a CRM application, consider several aspects of the application including its features, support for existing and emerging technologies, initial cost, ease of use, integration with other applications, and more. One of the most important aspects of a business management application, including a CRM application, is its underlying architecture. A well-designed architecture will accommodate future growth and adapt to business changes without affecting the performance of the application or requiring an exhaustive re-implementation.

Tags: Network Management		   
whitepaper Floodless in SEATTLE: A Scalable Ethernet Architecture for Large Enterprises2008-08-22 Association for Computing Machinery
  IP networks require massive effort to configure and manage. Ethernet is vastly simpler to manage, but does not scale beyond small local area networks. This paper describes an alternative network architecture called SEATTLE that achieves the best of both worlds: The scalability of IP combined with the simplicity of Ethernet. SEATTLE provides plug-and-play functionality via flat addressing, while ensuring scalability and efficiency through shortest-path routing and hash-based resolution of host information. The paper shows that SEATTLE efficiently handles network failures and host mobility, while reducing control overhead and state requirements by roughly two orders of magnitude compared with Ethernet bridging.

Tags: Network Management, Network Management		   
whitepaper A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture2008-08-22 Association for Computing Machinery
  Today's data centers may contain tens of thousands of computers with significant aggregate bandwidth requirements. The network architecture typically consists of a tree of routing and switching elements with progressively more specialized and expensive equipment moving up the network hierarchy. Unfortunately, even when deploying the highest-end IP switches/routers, resulting topologies may only support 50% of the aggregate bandwidth available at the edge of the network, while still incurring tremendous cost. Non-uniform bandwidth among data center nodes complicates application design and limits overall system performance. This paper shows how to leverage largely commodity Ethernet switches to support the full aggregate bandwidth of clusters consisting of tens of thousands of elements.

Tags: Network Management, Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper KT's Online Marketing System and Service Based on NGN2008-08-19 KT
  KT is transforming into a multimedia company. KT is going to offer personalized services, and advertisements that are made using customer information and an NGN (Next-Generation Network) infrastructure, which are the key advantages held by KT, a telephone company. To accomplish this, KT has built an NGN infrastructure, which it will connect with SDP (Service Delivery Platform) -based systems (authorization, billing, payment, presence, location info, etc. as a common platform) and will offer personalized services and advertisements based on the personal information of the user, regardless of the access window - Video VoIP, IPTV, Internet, Wibro - being used.

Tags: Network Management		   
whitepaper Intelligence-Ready Network Infrastructure: An Ecosystem to Control Third-Party Intelligence Distribution Close to Nomadic Users2008-08-16 Alcatel-Lucent
  The continuous creation of new services that require customized traffic relationships - blending different services into a combined, coordinated customer experience - is driving the emerging architecture proposals for today's converged networks. In the networking business model, relationships between the roles of network operator and service provider are increasing in complexity and flexibility because of evolving regulation. This paper analyzes these issues and describes the architectural guidelines for a "Blended" operational model, where the network provider maintains an ecosystem feeding an intelligence-ready communication infrastructure that can host mobile service provider - designed software modules offering personalized functionality to individual subscribers. The network provider can use its knowledge of user location to distribute and run service provider software modules close to end users.

Tags: LAN - WAN		   
whitepaper Why MFPs Matter to IT, Part II: Managing the Print Environment2008-08-08 Xerox
  This second white paper in Xerox's "Why MFPs Matter to IT" series explains how adding the right print-management tool to the network can offer a real boost in productivity for end-users of the network as well as the IT staff that manage the network. While a variety of print-management tools is available, most are not conducive to an enterprise that uses a mix of devices and their corresponding print drivers.

Also, check out:
Why MFPs Matter to IT, Part I: Validating the Technology

Why MFPs Matter to IT, Part III: Transforming Business Processes

Why MFPs Matter to IT, Part IV: Ensuring Security on the Network

Tags: Server Hardware, User Satisfaction, Security Administration, IT Infrastructure, Office Equipment, Workflow Management, Peripherals		   
whitepaper Foundry Helps EEC Deploy Internal and External Network2008-08-01 Foundry Networks
  Located at Microsoft's corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, the Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) is a state-of-the-art proving ground for the world's most complex computing environments. The EEC wanted to deploy a network that would give internal and external customers access to resources located within the EEC, as well as the labs connected to a new 10 Gigabit Campus Area Network (CAN). Microsoft's Enterprise Engineering Center selected Foundry Networks NetIron MLX-16 router for its core, as well as two NetIron MLX-4 routers in other labs to allow for VPLS across a 10 Gigabit connection.

Tags: LAN - WAN, Network Management		   
whitepaper PT Excelcomindo Improves Service Quality With Comprehensive Network Fault and Performance Management Systems2008-08-01 IBM
  PT Excelcomindo Pratama (XL) is one of the largest mobile operators in Indonesia. To be the preferred information and communication technologies provider through-out Indonesia, XL must be able to meet customers' communications needs any-time, anywhere and deliver outstanding service quality at all times. To achieve this XL needed an integrated and comprehensive network fault and performance management system that would help staff proactively detect network problems and understand performance in real-time of its multivendor network infrastructure including legacy and next-generation elements. Following a comprehensive review, XL chose IBM over HP to support its network management initiative. IBM teamed with its Business Partners Fastwire and Niaga Prima Paramita to implement a fault and performance management system based on IBM Tivoli Netcool software.

Tags: Network Management		   
whitepaper Design Guidelines for IT Security Management Tools2008-06-23 University of British Columbia
  One of the most important factors that impact usability of security systems within an organization are security tools. This paper reports preliminary results of their survey about design guidelines for IT security management tools. The paper gathered guidelines and recommendations related to IT security management tool from available literature as well as result of their previous studies on IT security management. It categorized and combined these guidelines into a set of high level guidelines that can be used by tool developers in development of tools. In addition the paper identified the relationship between guidelines and challenges in IT security management as well as the strength of evidence for each guideline.

Tags: Network Management, Security Administration		   
whitepaper Predict User Mobility in Enterprise Networks: Introducing a Design Pattern for Predicting User Movement2008-06-10 IBM
  With the advent of high-speed, high-bandwidth mobile radio technologies and low-power, high-computing mobile devices, enterprise-application users are becoming increasingly mobile, rather than remaining fixed or nomadic. To migrate existing real-time applications of such users to these high-mobility networks, knowledge of user movement is essential. In the absence of this knowledge, reestablishing the network-side application context of users can be costly and lead to performance bottlenecks. In this paper, learn about a behavioral design pattern for mobility prediction in a nomadic, mobile, or an ad-hoc network.

Tags: Network Management, Mobile and Wireless