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Monitoring Heterogeneous IT Landscapes: A Guide for SMBs 2006-09-11 12:45:46 IBM

IT system monitoring is critical for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), but the task can be overwhelming. How can a small or medium-sized business with limited resources, budget, and staff manage a complex, diverse IT landscape that has applications and systems scattered all over the world? That question is the subject of this IBM white paper, which describes how IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express, an asset in the IBM Express Portfolio, provides broad visibility into the entire IT landscape -- one that enables a small staff to easily, efficiently, and effectively manage all its IT resources.

A New Paradigm for Application Performance Monitoring 2006-09-14 01:00:16 RTO Software

Traditional monitoring tools that provide server-specific metrics are of little or no use when it comes to optimizing application workloads. That is the premise of this Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) white paper, which discusses the need for application-level performance monitoring in on-demand infrastructures. Sponsored by RTO Software, the paper highlights the importance of application-centric monitoring and explains how RTO PinPoint can help you:

Readily identify the root causes of application performance problems

Avoid costly application downtime

Realize a rapid return on your monitoring investment

Download this informative white paper from EMA, compliments of RTO Software, to learn more.

Case Study: Intel PRO Multi-port Adapters Help Boost Bandwidth While Controlling Costs 2006-07-07 14:00:04 Intel

The Woodward Governor Company struggled with efficiency and performance challenges until they took advantage of Intel� PRO Multi-port adapters with virtualization technology to help improve capacity, reliability and flexibility to better serve their customers.

HP Serviceguard Solutions for End-to-End High Availability and Disaster Tolerance 2007-01-26 15:08:16 Hewlett-Packard

Investing in the appropriate IT infrastructure for high availability and disaster tolerance is a critical, strategic decision. Solutions must be reliable, proven, and cost-effective, and they must enable you to respond rapidly to shifting business needs and opportunities. Building on the concept of virtualization, HP Serviceguard solutions gracefully handle both planned and unplanned events. This white paper explains how HP Serviceguard can help you flexibly manage your clustered environment�and protect your mission-critical applications and data in the event of a disaster. Download it today!

Why Wait? Get Unified Commmunications for Exchange Now 2006-10-31 15:35:07 Adomo

Over the past several months, much has been said of Microsoft's announcement of unified communications functionality in Exchange 2007. A lot of it is good: a single desktop client (Outlook), integration with Live Communications Server, and message access via a variety of devices, including mobile phones and PDAs. And much causes concern: Exchange 2007 will only work on 64-bit servers and cannot co-exist with some older Exchange servers. Moving from your TDM phone system to VoIP on Exchange will have to be a flash cut; no phased migration for your multiple offices or phone systems. And if Exchange is unavailable, then voice messages cannot be delivered or received.

Learn how to extend unified communications functionality to Exchange 2000 and 2003. Adomo provides unified communications and intelligent mobility on a hardened appliance platform and connects to traditional TDM and new IP PBX systems, out of the box.

On System Scalability 2006-03-01 Carnegie Mellon University

A significant number of systems fail in initial use, or even during integration, because factors that have a negligible effect when systems are lightly used have a harmful effect as the level of use increases. This scalability problem (i.e., the inability of a system to accommodate an increased workload) is not new. However, the increasing size (more lines of code, greater number of users, widened scope of demands, and the like) of U.S. Department of Defense systems makes the problem more critical today than in the past. This paper presents an analysis of what is meant by scalability and a description of factors to be considered when assessing the potential for system scalability.

Tags: Scalability

ProCurve Secure Router 7000dl Series Reviewer's Guide 2006-08-03 01:00:11 Hewlett-Packard

ProCurve Networking by HP offers an extensive line of networking products built on the ProCurve Adaptive EDGE Architecture (AEA), which brings security, mobility, and convergence capabilities to businesses while giving IT administrators the ability to adapt to the changing needs of their organizations and centrally control their infrastructures.

This hefty, 66-page guide describes the ProCurve Secure Router 7000dl series, which builds upon the principles of the Adaptive EDGE to extend ProCurve's value proposition into the wide area network (WAN). It is written for IT and business decision makers who are actively evaluating networking equipment and solutions.

ProCurve Switch 8100fl Series Interconnect Fabric Technical Brief 0000-00-00 Hewlett-Packard (HP)

This white paper examines the hardware, software, and architecture of the ProCurve Switch 8100fl Series from ProCurve Networking by HP.

The ProCurve Switch 8100fl Series represents a new class of product - Interconnect Fabric - which enables enterprises to design and interconnect networks based on the ProCurve Networking Adaptive EDGE Architecture. The 8100fl Series offers high performance, high availability, and cost-effective connectivity for intelligent edge devices while delivering a flexible, scalable, high port-density Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) core networking solution. It complements ProCurve's traditional core product offerings and ProCurve's Intelligent Edge Switches, providing customers with investment protection and utmost choice and flexibility in designing their network. Download this informative white paper to learn more.

Integrating NetFlow Data into Your Network and Application Performance Monitoring System 2006-08-22 11:57:59 NetScout Systems

The network is a valued, integral component of a company's business and having detailed visibility of the individual users, the business applications and the networks they traverse for optimizing its performance to the needs of the business users, is essential for IT organizations. This paper presents evidence supporting the conclusion that NetScout's nGenius� Performance Management System offers organizations a superior performance management solution based on NetFlow data sources because of its:

Scalability

Advanced application recognition

Newspaper-style reporting

Integrated troubleshooting features

Extensibility to integrate other network traffic data sources through NetScout's CDM� technology

Sprint Global MPLS VPN IP white paper 2006-09-09 01:00:12 Sprint

This white paper reveals how Sprint Global MPLS VPN, powered by Cisco Systems, provides a standards-compliant solution designed to meet a wide array of enterprise customers' MPLS VPN-networking needs. Sprint MPLS VPN provides a simple, flexible solution, with security equivalent or better than Frame Relay or ATM alternatives. Sprint is able to provide value-added services such as network-based, firewall protected, secure Internet access; remote access; and Extranet connectivity on a single network platform. Sprint's IP backbone carries Cisco Multiservice Network Designation which certifies the network's performance and capabilities to support both delay-sensitive voice and video applications. Sprint is unique in offering wireless access to Global MPLS VPN. Both Class of Service (CoS) and multicasting capabilities are supported by Sprint Global MPLS VPN at no additional charge from the normal port charge. End-to-End performance reporting and industry leading Service Level Agreement (SLAs) come standard with Sprint Global MPLS VPN, and the service spans the U.S. and more than 100 countries worldwide.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Monitoring Heterogeneous IT Landscapes: A Guide for SMBs	2006-09-11 12:45:46	IBM
IT system monitoring is critical for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), but the task can be overwhelming. How can a small or medium-sized business with limited resources, budget, and staff manage a complex, diverse IT landscape that has applications and systems scattered all over the world? That question is the subject of this IBM white paper, which describes how IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express, an asset in the IBM Express Portfolio, provides broad visibility into the entire IT landscape -- one that enables a small staff to easily, efficiently, and effectively manage all its IT resources.
A New Paradigm for Application Performance Monitoring	2006-09-14 01:00:16	RTO Software
Traditional monitoring tools that provide server-specific metrics are of little or no use when it comes to optimizing application workloads. That is the premise of this Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) white paper, which discusses the need for application-level performance monitoring in on-demand infrastructures. Sponsored by RTO Software, the paper highlights the importance of application-centric monitoring and explains how RTO PinPoint can help you: Readily identify the root causes of application performance problems Avoid costly application downtime Realize a rapid return on your monitoring investment Download this informative white paper from EMA, compliments of RTO Software, to learn more.
Case Study: Intel PRO Multi-port Adapters Help Boost Bandwidth While Controlling Costs	2006-07-07 14:00:04	Intel
The Woodward Governor Company struggled with efficiency and performance challenges until they took advantage of Intel� PRO Multi-port adapters with virtualization technology to help improve capacity, reliability and flexibility to better serve their customers.
HP Serviceguard Solutions for End-to-End High Availability and Disaster Tolerance	2007-01-26 15:08:16	Hewlett-Packard
Investing in the appropriate IT infrastructure for high availability and disaster tolerance is a critical, strategic decision. Solutions must be reliable, proven, and cost-effective, and they must enable you to respond rapidly to shifting business needs and opportunities. Building on the concept of virtualization, HP Serviceguard solutions gracefully handle both planned and unplanned events. This white paper explains how HP Serviceguard can help you flexibly manage your clustered environment�and protect your mission-critical applications and data in the event of a disaster. Download it today!
Why Wait? Get Unified Commmunications for Exchange Now	2006-10-31 15:35:07	Adomo
Over the past several months, much has been said of Microsoft's announcement of unified communications functionality in Exchange 2007. A lot of it is good: a single desktop client (Outlook), integration with Live Communications Server, and message access via a variety of devices, including mobile phones and PDAs. And much causes concern: Exchange 2007 will only work on 64-bit servers and cannot co-exist with some older Exchange servers. Moving from your TDM phone system to VoIP on Exchange will have to be a flash cut; no phased migration for your multiple offices or phone systems. And if Exchange is unavailable, then voice messages cannot be delivered or received. Learn how to extend unified communications functionality to Exchange 2000 and 2003. Adomo provides unified communications and intelligent mobility on a hardened appliance platform and connects to traditional TDM and new IP PBX systems, out of the box.
On System Scalability	2006-03-01	Carnegie Mellon University
A significant number of systems fail in initial use, or even during integration, because factors that have a negligible effect when systems are lightly used have a harmful effect as the level of use increases. This scalability problem (i.e., the inability of a system to accommodate an increased workload) is not new. However, the increasing size (more lines of code, greater number of users, widened scope of demands, and the like) of U.S. Department of Defense systems makes the problem more critical today than in the past. This paper presents an analysis of what is meant by scalability and a description of factors to be considered when assessing the potential for system scalability. Tags: Scalability
ProCurve Secure Router 7000dl Series Reviewer's Guide	2006-08-03 01:00:11	Hewlett-Packard
ProCurve Networking by HP offers an extensive line of networking products built on the ProCurve Adaptive EDGE Architecture (AEA), which brings security, mobility, and convergence capabilities to businesses while giving IT administrators the ability to adapt to the changing needs of their organizations and centrally control their infrastructures. This hefty, 66-page guide describes the ProCurve Secure Router 7000dl series, which builds upon the principles of the Adaptive EDGE to extend ProCurve's value proposition into the wide area network (WAN). It is written for IT and business decision makers who are actively evaluating networking equipment and solutions.
ProCurve Switch 8100fl Series Interconnect Fabric Technical Brief	0000-00-00	Hewlett-Packard (HP)
This white paper examines the hardware, software, and architecture of the ProCurve Switch 8100fl Series from ProCurve Networking by HP. The ProCurve Switch 8100fl Series represents a new class of product - Interconnect Fabric - which enables enterprises to design and interconnect networks based on the ProCurve Networking Adaptive EDGE Architecture. The 8100fl Series offers high performance, high availability, and cost-effective connectivity for intelligent edge devices while delivering a flexible, scalable, high port-density Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) core networking solution. It complements ProCurve's traditional core product offerings and ProCurve's Intelligent Edge Switches, providing customers with investment protection and utmost choice and flexibility in designing their network. Download this informative white paper to learn more.
Integrating NetFlow Data into Your Network and Application Performance Monitoring System	2006-08-22 11:57:59	NetScout Systems
The network is a valued, integral component of a company's business and having detailed visibility of the individual users, the business applications and the networks they traverse for optimizing its performance to the needs of the business users, is essential for IT organizations. This paper presents evidence supporting the conclusion that NetScout's nGenius� Performance Management System offers organizations a superior performance management solution based on NetFlow data sources because of its: Scalability Advanced application recognition Newspaper-style reporting Integrated troubleshooting features Extensibility to integrate other network traffic data sources through NetScout's CDM� technology
Sprint Global MPLS VPN IP white paper	2006-09-09 01:00:12	Sprint
This white paper reveals how Sprint Global MPLS VPN, powered by Cisco Systems, provides a standards-compliant solution designed to meet a wide array of enterprise customers' MPLS VPN-networking needs. Sprint MPLS VPN provides a simple, flexible solution, with security equivalent or better than Frame Relay or ATM alternatives. Sprint is able to provide value-added services such as network-based, firewall protected, secure Internet access; remote access; and Extranet connectivity on a single network platform. Sprint's IP backbone carries Cisco Multiservice Network Designation which certifies the network's performance and capabilities to support both delay-sensitive voice and video applications. Sprint is unique in offering wireless access to Global MPLS VPN. Both Class of Service (CoS) and multicasting capabilities are supported by Sprint Global MPLS VPN at no additional charge from the normal port charge. End-to-End performance reporting and industry leading Service Level Agreement (SLAs) come standard with Sprint Global MPLS VPN, and the service spans the U.S. and more than 100 countries worldwide.