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whitepaper Multinational Healthcare Provider Simplifies Platforms and Networking With HP ProLiant Servers and HP NC7170 Network Adapters0000-00-00 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Founded in 1971 in Columbus, Ohio, Cardinal Health has grown into a multinational healthcare provider for customers ranging from healthcare manufacturers to patient care providers. Cardinal Health has evolved beyond drug distribution and acquired leading companies across the healthcare industry. As one might expect with this number of acquisitions and mergers, the IT environment under the ever-expanding Cardinal Health umbrella included a wide range of technologies and diverse platforms. A few years ago, the company began a long-term project to bring uniformity across all the business units. With standardization and efficiency as the primary goals, Cardinal Health has put HP ProLiant servers and the HP NC7170 Dual-port Gigabit Server Adapter at the center of this transformation.

Tags: Application Servers, Windows NT - 2000 - 2003		   
whitepaper Thames Valley Hospital Planning Partnership Improves Patient Care and Reduces Costs With HP Medical Archiving Solution2006-08-25 01:00:13 Hewlett-Packard
  The Thames Valley Hospital Planning Partnership, composed of eight healthcare institutions in southwestern Ontario, was formed as a way to integrate and share strategic healthcare services, including diagnostic imaging, clinical care, laboratory systems, and capital planning. The driving force for establishing it was to accelerate the access of all participating hospitals to medical imaging services, and give medical professionals immediate access to medical records such as X-rays and MRIs. To provide the services, the partnership turned to a PACS medical imaging solution, and to the HP Medical Archiving Solution. The solution enabled the partnership to access, store, and share digital medical images, such as X-rays, MRIs and CT scans, and to eliminate the expensive use of film.   
whitepaper Cutting Through the Complexity of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Performance2006-08-22 11:57:59 NetScout Systems
  Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) has gained attention as organizations look for new ways to lower the cost, extend the scalability, improve the reliability and secure their network data, however, these gains are offset by a lack of visibility into the detailed information needed for troubleshooting and traffic engineering networks. This paper outlines the best practices for collecting network and application performance information over MPLS enabled wide area networks (WANs).   
whitepaper Application Visualization for Enterprise Network Performance Management: The Big Picture in High Definition2006-08-22 11:57:59 NetScout Systems
  The enterprise Network Operations Center (NOC), like the overall IT Operations Group, is undergoing an evolution. The volume of data, number of applications, breadth of systems and servers have become challenging to manage by the integrated NOC, as they are tasked to reduce Mean Time to Repair, increase availability of mission critical networked applications, and provide a seamless transition escalation of problem-solving - with reduced resources - manpower, vendor tools, and budget. To achieve these lofty goals, integrated solutions for IT Operations have had to evolve as well. A complete solution for performance management in the network operations center now needs to include three essential elements: an automated early warning system, an application aware enterprise-wide monitoring and analysis solution, and an affordable deep capture and packet analysis tool. With its technologically superior performance management solutions, NetScout Systems has maintained a leading position in this evolution. This paper will demonstrate how the nGenius Performance Management System, serving as the application aware enterprise-wide monitoring and analysis solution, delivers a sophisticated mix of continuous application monitoring and response time analysis to pinpoint network problems and degradations, identify trends, reduce troubleshooting time, and ensure that applications are performing within prescribed responsiveness levels.   
whitepaper Set Conferencing Free: Bring the Benefits of Unlimited Conferencing to Everyone in Your Company2006-09-15 01:00:16 Interwise
  Gartner describes conferencing and collaboration as "Birthright" workplace tools for high-performance companies, tools that are universally useful and should be deployed in some form to almost everyone in the company. Interwise shares Gartner's vision of giving conferencing and collaboration tools to everyone in the enterprise. This white paper outlines the value of broadly distributing these tools and explains how to do this efficiently, securely, and affordably in the real world.   
whitepaper Computacenter Case Study: Bank of Ireland2006-08-10 01:00:12 Computacenter
  Bank of Ireland UK provides a broad range of financial services that range from investment fund management and life assurance to financial advice and mortgages. When Bank of Ireland UK decided to roll out a new core lending application, it needed to ensure that it did not expose itself to any such business continuity risks. The company brought in IT infrastructure services provider Computacenter to implement a highly scalable and flexible system, and to monitor the infrastructure to ensure it is continuously available.   
whitepaper Computacenter Case Study: Open Business Exchange0000-00-00 Computacenter
  As with many other business functions, the Internet provides organisations with the opportunity to both streamline the invoicing process and cut their overheads. Open Business Exchange (OBE) has launched an electronic invoicing service (OB10OB10) that will provide just this streamlining for suppliers and buyers, whatever their size or accounting package. The IT infrastructure supporting the online service is crucial to OBE's success, which is where Computacenter's integration and implementation expertise came into play. In addition to helping design and architect the infrastructure, Computacenter also has overall responsibility for the application layer through its comprehensive Managed Availability service.

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Services		   
whitepaper Webcast: Why Remote Access is Critical to Your Disaster Recovery Plan2006-08-17 16:41:27 Positive Networks
  Although business continuity planning is often driven by natural disaster risks such as hurricanes, tornadoes, or even a potential bird flu pandemic, it's much more likely that your company's next "disaster" will actually be caused by a hardware failure or power outage. But no matter which scenario seems more probable, the bottom line is this: Your remote access solution will have to work flawlessly if you are to maintain business operations during a disaster or other disruption.

Check out this TechRepublic Webcast, now available on demand, to learn about a reliable and cost-effective approach to providing remote access that doesn't require you to buy, deploy, or maintain an expensive, appliance-based VPN. Hosted by James Hilliard, Moderator for TechRepublic, and featuring Positive Networks' Jason Sloderbeck, Director of Security and Service Delivery and Evan Conway, EVP of Channel Management, our discussion of remote access as it relates to business continuity planning highlights these important topics and more:

  • Key considerations for your disaster recovery plan
  • The pros and cons of the various DR solutions in use today
  • How you can reduce the costs associated with disaster planning and recovery

As anyone who's ever gotten a "Maximum sessions reached" error can attest, having an unreliable VPN connection can be almost as frustrating as having no remote access at all. Such problems, of course, are only amplified during a natural disaster or other outage.

Fortunately, there's a new remote access alternative--a hosted, managed VPN service--that can provide reliable remote connectivity under both normal and extraordinary circumstances. So don't delay--listen to this TechRepublic Webcast, sponsored by Positive Networks and now available on demand--to learn more about this exciting new approach to providing remote access and what it can mean for your business co

  
whitepaper Designing a Highly-Scalable Operating System: The Blue Gene/L Story2006-08-07 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  Blue Gene/L is currently the world's fastest and most scalable supercomputer. It has demonstrated essentially linear scaling all the way to 131,072 processors in several benchmarks and real applications. The operating systems for the compute and I/O nodes of Blue Gene/L are among the components responsible for that scalability. Compute nodes are dedicated to running application processes, whereas I/O nodes are dedicated to performing system functions. The operating systems adopted for each of these nodes reflect this separation of function. Compute nodes run a lightweight operating system called the compute node kernel. I/O nodes run a port of the Linux operating system.

Tags: Network Design, Supercomputers		   
whitepaper Consulting Firm Acquires Seven Companies, Doesn't Miss a Call2006-10-20 07:58:25 Cisco Systems
  This case study examines how Navigant Consulting, an independent consulting firm, used a single, converged IP network to help a dynamic global workforce improve responsiveness to clients -- regardless of location.