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whitepaper Amanda Enterprise: An Introduction2008-08-08
  This paper provides a technical overview of Amanda Enterprise. It describes design and operations of Amanda Enterprise and how it is unique in its ease of use, flexibility and scalability. As organizations of all sizes become increasingly dependent upon their data, centralized protection and recovery of distributed data across all platforms, databases and applications is essential. Yet, faced with small IT staffs and limited budgets, many businesses cannot afford to purchase and manage expensive and complex backup solutions. Amanda Enterprise software provides enterprise-level backup and restore capabilities, coupled with ease of implementation and management, at less than a fifth of the cost of other well-known backup products.

Tags: Desktop Client OS, Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Avanade Develops Innovative Technologies for TASER2008-08-01 Avanade
  TASER International designs and manufactures stun guns used by law enforcement agencies, the military, companies, and private citizens. In 2006, TASER sought to improve communication between employees and the media. The company also wanted to provide online background checks to its customers. Using Microsoft technologies, Avanade helped TASER deploy a new intranet and Web site, as well as TASER CheckLock - a revolutionary background check technology. These solutions have expanded the company's retail base, accelerated communication with the media, improved data access and employee collaboration, streamlined IT operations, and created a scalable system that allows for future development.

Tags: Office Suites, Network Management		   
whitepaper Virtual Appliances Offer Effective, Scalable Messaging Security: Virtual Appliance Messaging Security - The Simplicity of an Appliance With Virtual Flexibility2008-08-01 Symantec
  The periodic and "Bursty" nature of both email and spam volume forces organizations to choose between maintaining message security resources geared to peak traffic conditions that are then underutilized when traffic is routine, or maintaining resources that are adequate for routine loads but whose capacity is strained when traffic spikes. New virtualized messaging security appliances offer a solution: world-class protection in simple, secure appliance format, on flexible, cost-effective virtual platforms. Virtual appliance security solutions offer high security, high performance, and the flexibility to adapt quickly and effectively to the requirements of any network environment - and any level of threat.

Tags: Intrusion - Tampering, Security Administration		   
whitepaper Non-Profit Organization Redefines Itself as an Early IT Adopter With the Help of the AMD Opteron Processor2008-07-25 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
  Warm Beach Christian Camps and Conference Center (WBC) was growing in popularity: its camps were increasingly sold out and seasonal events such as "The Lights of Christmas" were bringing in tens of thousands of people within narrowly constrained timelines, creating huge and somewhat unpredictable spikes in demand for IT capacity. It needed to support increasing organizational growth, improve reliability, scalability and performance, alleviate the burden on a strained IT staff, etc. It deployed Microsoft Windows Essential Business Server running on AMD Opteron processor-powered HP ProLiant DL145 and DL365 servers.

Tags: Components, Network Technologies		   
whitepaper Scalable VPN Routing Via Relaying2008-06-06 Association for Computing Machinery
  Enterprise customers are increasingly adopting MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) VPN (Virtual Private Network) service that offers direct any-to-any reachability among the customer sites via a provider network. Unfortunately this direct reachability model makes the service provider's routing tables grow very large as the number of VPNs and the number of routes per customer increase. As a result, router memory in the provider's network has become a key bottleneck in provisioning new customers. This paper proposes Relaying, a scalable VPN routing architecture that the provider can implement simply by modifying the configuration of routers in the provider network, without requiring changes to the router hardware and software.

Tags: Network Management, LAN - WAN		   
whitepaper Maintenance Company Consolidates with Terminal Services2008-06-04 Microsoft
  Tube Lines provides maintenance and support services for the London Underground. With employees spread across more than 90 locations, Tube Lines relied on its terminal services solution to deliver central access to applications. However, limited scalability and low bandwidth affected application performance and employee productivity. The company added more server computers to accommodate its users, but this increased the management burden and strained network resources further. To improve performance and simplify management, Tube Lines is implementing Windows Server® 2008 Terminal Services on 64-bit servers from HP. The company expects to decrease terminal services hardware by 80 percent, making management easier. The company will reduce costs as a result. In addition, faster connections and improved stability will help employees to work more easily

Tags: Network Management, IT Infrastructure, Business Functions, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Improve Branch Office Admin with Flexible Server Solution2008-06-04 Microsoft
  Paul Smith, a global fashion designer, wanted to improve management of its remote infrastructure. A small IT team in England centrally managed the company's entire infrastructure, including distant branch offices. Without local IT support, branch offices could be difficult to manage. Further, local systems could place the whole network at risk if they became compromised. To improve management and stability, Paul Smith is implementing the Server Core installation option of Windows Server® 2008. By taking advantage of hardened services and installing only the server roles required at each location, Paul Smith is reducing risk. With fewer components running on each server, the network will be less vulnerable to attack and software maintenance will be easier. Finally, Paul Smith can implement a remote infrastructure with Windows Server 2008 that is more strategically designed and managed.

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Server Platforms - OS, Intrusion - Tampering, Wholesale - Retail		   
whitepaper Implementing a Scalable, Highly Available Oracle Database Solution for Small and Mid-Size Businesses2008-06-01 Hewlett-Packard
  High availability and scalability are just as important for small and mid-size companies as they are for larger corporations. Traditionally, small businesses have had limited ability to deploy the same levels of high availability as their larger counterparts. They usually rely on single server systems and most of them have suffered through periods of down time which have negatively impacted revenue and caused reductions in customer service and satisfaction. Scalability for small and mid-size companies has also been an issue. Typically, when the resources on a single system have been exhausted, a complete system upgrade has been required causing disruption to customers, potential revenue loss, and unnecessary IT expenditures.

Tags: Network Management, Data Infrastructure		   
whitepaper Addressing Heterogeneity, Scalability, and Privacy in Layered Multicast Congestion Control2008-05-15 AT&T Labs-Research
  Multicast is attracting a resurgence of interest because it has a potential to address the explosively growing need for efficient streaming of large-volume Internet content. However, to realize the potential, large-scale multicast distribution requires effective congestion control. This paper designs SIM, a protocol that combines three distinct mechanisms (Selective participation, Intra-group transmission adjustment, and Menu adaptation) to provide a general solution for efficient fair scalable privacy-preserving multicast congestion control with heterogeneous receivers. Whereas the individual mechanisms have appeared in earlier multicast protocols, the main contribution lies in the cohesive integration of the techniques. SIM achieves such integration by operating the three mechanisms at different timescales and distributing the responsibility for control to different entities in the network.

Tags: Network Management		   
whitepaper TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Data Warehousing Scale and Performance (Level 200)2008-05-05 Microsoft Tips
  The foundation of Contoso's Business Intelligence (BI) strategy is the development of a data warehouse using Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Scalability and performance of the data warehouse are important for the successful deployment of Contoso's enterprise data warehouse. This webcast covers the new features in SQL Server 2008 that support Contoso's goals, such as partition-aligned indexed views; star join query optimization; data compression; partitioned table parallelism; and grouping sets.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, Data Tools