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Understanding Systems Management and Deployment Automation 2006-12-12 18:32:48 KACE

As your organization grows, systems management and provisioning isn't going to get any easier - if you follow traditional processes. The right tool can make implementing best practices much easier, but which methodology and features should you look for? Using an Appliance-based Delivery (AbSD) architecture, you can address the issues many mid-sized enterprises face in systems management such as hardware and software inventory, distributing software, patch management, scripting and security management, along with systems provisioning issues around disk imaging, installation, remote systems recovery and application slip streaming. Review this Flash demonstration of tools used to implement best practices for IT Automation.

MessageLabs Intelligence: "Do you want spam with that spam?" 2006-12-13 01:00:24 MessageLabs

This report provides the latest threat trends for October 2006, to keep you informed regarding the ongoing fight against viruses, spam and other unwelcome content. October marks the beginning of the spam season this year in the run up to the holiday period, with MessageLabs seeing a sharp increase in levels this month, especially in the past few weeks. As predicted in the September/Q3 MessageLabs Intelligence report, spam is not going away. This increase is largely attributed to the huge rise in botnet activity over the past few weeks. There are two contributing factors compounding this issue...

Bandwidth Sharing Network Design for Multi-Class Traffic 2006-12-09 01:00:17 Alcatel-Lucent

With the increasing commercial interest in supporting voice and multimedia services over the IP network there is a need for bandwidth guaranteed services. For example, guaranteeing the peak demand of VoIP traffic entails high costs in terms of bandwidth reservation requirements. To effectively make use of the reserved peak bandwidth, it is imperative that this bandwidth is shared with best effort data traffic during non peak periods. This paper formulates this bandwidth sharing network design problem. The goal is to minimize the total cost of bandwidth reservation while satisfying the peak demand for real time traffic, and the average demand of both real time and best effort data traffic.

Contactual Helps Labor Ready Respond Around the Clock, Around the World 2006-12-08 01:00:19 Contactual

The international staffing company Labor Ready had 94 different answering services�each with varying levels of customer service and cost�when related business problems prompted its search for a central call center solution. Chief among the company's key requirements for its new call center was a Web-based system that would:
Be easy to use and install

Work with Labor Ready's existing phone system

Include call management software and good reporting tools
Download this case study to learn why Labor Ready chose the award-winning Contactual OnDemand Contact Center and how the solution enabled just 52 agents to handle 1.1 million calls in 2005 alone!

Hitless Network Engineering of SONET Rings 2006-12-07 01:00:20 Alcatel-Lucent

Shrinking capital expenditure budgets are forcing telecom service providers to explore engineering tools that extract greater utilization from their existing transport infrastructure. This paper explores the challenges in engineering SONET rings to support higher traffic volumes. Unlike network design tools, engineering operations have to reconfigure live traffic and do so in a hitless manner. The paper presents an efficient algorithm called MobiRing that accounts for the unique constraints imposed by the SONET standard. In spite of the hardness of the optimization problems, the authors show using extensive simulations that the greedy approach of MobiRing performs extremely well.

Topology Discovery in Heterogeneous IP Networks 2006-12-07 01:00:20 Alcatel-Lucent

Knowledge of the up-to-date physical topology of an IP network is crucial to a number of critical network management tasks, including reactive and proactive resource management, event correlation, and root-cause analysis. Given the dynamic nature of today's IP networks, keeping track of topology information manually is a daunting (if not impossible) task. Thus, effective algorithms for automatically discovering physical network topology are necessary. Earlier work has typically concentrated on either discovering logical (i.e., layer-3) topology, which implies that the connectivity of all layer-2 elements (e.g., switches and bridges) is ignored, or proprietary solutions targeting specific product families. This paper presents novel algorithms for discovering physical topology in heterogeneous (i.e., multi-vendor) IP networks.

Precomputing High Quality Routes for Bandwidth Guaranteed Traffic 2006-12-07 01:00:20 Alcatel-Lucent

This paper investigates the problem of precomputing bandwidth guaranteed paths as a cheaper replacement for on-demand routing. The focus in the prior precomputation literature has been on minimizing storage and computational overhead of the precomputation process. This paper instead explores the "quality" of precomputed paths and attempts to answer the question - given a traffic ingress-egress node pair and storage for routes, what paths should be materialized for good routing performance? It is argued that the min-hop formulation typically assumed in prior precomputation work is a poor offline strategy.

Product Specs: ProCurve Switch 2510 Series 2006-12-06 06:10:41 Hewlett-Packard

The ProCurve Switch 2510-24 is a managed, Layer-2, 24-port 10/100 switch with two dual-personality Gigabit ports providing 10/100/1000-T or mini-GBIC connectivity. The 2510-24 is fanless, ensuring quiet operation and making it ideal for deployment in open spaces. And it offers a basic Layer-2 feature set, including access security and basic traffic prioritization. Designed to cost-effectively meet the needs of small and growing networks, the 2510-24 brings commercial-grade quality to all businesses at an affordable price. It is also standards-based, facilitating interoperability with existing infrastructure and making it easy to deploy and manage.

Webcast: Ultimate Architecture Flexibility with HP BladeSystem and VMware Infrastructure 2007-03-19 11:07:35 VMware

Find out how you can architect your data center for unprecedented levels of flexibility using VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) on HP ProLiant C-Class Blades. That's the focus of this TechRepublic Webcast, which highlights the flexibility advantages of a combined HP BladeSystem/ VI3 solution.

The presentation features HP's Stephen L. Shultz, Systems Engineer, Strategic Alliances, along with Doug Hart, Systems/Software Engineer, and Barry Sinclair of HP BladeSystem Platform Marketing, who discuss best practices for architecting VI3 on HP ProLiant C-Class Blades.

You'll learn about the features and benefits of the newest generation of HP BladeSystem servers, including:

HP Virtual Connect technology and its "one module, one cable" capability

Shared storage within the BladeSystem chassis

BladeSystem virtualized resource pools

Expansion of the BladeSystem to meet VI3 needs

Now you can architect a physical infrastructure that's nearly as flexible as your virtualized environment. Listen to this on-demand Webcast, co-sponsored by VMware and HP, to learn how.

Update on Tivoli Provisioning software, including Vista migration support 2006-12-05 08:19:22 IBM

Software deployments across today's complex and rapidly evolving environments can create a number of significant challenges. A proper deployment must carefully coordinate efforts involving people, processes, information and technology. Unfortunately, many companies still try to deploy applications with a variety of unrelated point products from different vendors. In this video you will get an update on the comprehensive IBM Tivoli portfolio for software provisioning and how it can help you take the pain out of software deployment.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Understanding Systems Management and Deployment Automation	2006-12-12 18:32:48	KACE
As your organization grows, systems management and provisioning isn't going to get any easier - if you follow traditional processes. The right tool can make implementing best practices much easier, but which methodology and features should you look for? Using an Appliance-based Delivery (AbSD) architecture, you can address the issues many mid-sized enterprises face in systems management such as hardware and software inventory, distributing software, patch management, scripting and security management, along with systems provisioning issues around disk imaging, installation, remote systems recovery and application slip streaming. Review this Flash demonstration of tools used to implement best practices for IT Automation.
MessageLabs Intelligence: "Do you want spam with that spam?"	2006-12-13 01:00:24	MessageLabs
This report provides the latest threat trends for October 2006, to keep you informed regarding the ongoing fight against viruses, spam and other unwelcome content. October marks the beginning of the spam season this year in the run up to the holiday period, with MessageLabs seeing a sharp increase in levels this month, especially in the past few weeks. As predicted in the September/Q3 MessageLabs Intelligence report, spam is not going away. This increase is largely attributed to the huge rise in botnet activity over the past few weeks. There are two contributing factors compounding this issue...
Bandwidth Sharing Network Design for Multi-Class Traffic	2006-12-09 01:00:17	Alcatel-Lucent
With the increasing commercial interest in supporting voice and multimedia services over the IP network there is a need for bandwidth guaranteed services. For example, guaranteeing the peak demand of VoIP traffic entails high costs in terms of bandwidth reservation requirements. To effectively make use of the reserved peak bandwidth, it is imperative that this bandwidth is shared with best effort data traffic during non peak periods. This paper formulates this bandwidth sharing network design problem. The goal is to minimize the total cost of bandwidth reservation while satisfying the peak demand for real time traffic, and the average demand of both real time and best effort data traffic.
Contactual Helps Labor Ready Respond Around the Clock, Around the World	2006-12-08 01:00:19	Contactual
The international staffing company Labor Ready had 94 different answering services�each with varying levels of customer service and cost�when related business problems prompted its search for a central call center solution. Chief among the company's key requirements for its new call center was a Web-based system that would: Be easy to use and install Work with Labor Ready's existing phone system Include call management software and good reporting tools Download this case study to learn why Labor Ready chose the award-winning Contactual OnDemand Contact Center and how the solution enabled just 52 agents to handle 1.1 million calls in 2005 alone!
Hitless Network Engineering of SONET Rings	2006-12-07 01:00:20	Alcatel-Lucent
Shrinking capital expenditure budgets are forcing telecom service providers to explore engineering tools that extract greater utilization from their existing transport infrastructure. This paper explores the challenges in engineering SONET rings to support higher traffic volumes. Unlike network design tools, engineering operations have to reconfigure live traffic and do so in a hitless manner. The paper presents an efficient algorithm called MobiRing that accounts for the unique constraints imposed by the SONET standard. In spite of the hardness of the optimization problems, the authors show using extensive simulations that the greedy approach of MobiRing performs extremely well.
Topology Discovery in Heterogeneous IP Networks	2006-12-07 01:00:20	Alcatel-Lucent
Knowledge of the up-to-date physical topology of an IP network is crucial to a number of critical network management tasks, including reactive and proactive resource management, event correlation, and root-cause analysis. Given the dynamic nature of today's IP networks, keeping track of topology information manually is a daunting (if not impossible) task. Thus, effective algorithms for automatically discovering physical network topology are necessary. Earlier work has typically concentrated on either discovering logical (i.e., layer-3) topology, which implies that the connectivity of all layer-2 elements (e.g., switches and bridges) is ignored, or proprietary solutions targeting specific product families. This paper presents novel algorithms for discovering physical topology in heterogeneous (i.e., multi-vendor) IP networks.
Precomputing High Quality Routes for Bandwidth Guaranteed Traffic	2006-12-07 01:00:20	Alcatel-Lucent
This paper investigates the problem of precomputing bandwidth guaranteed paths as a cheaper replacement for on-demand routing. The focus in the prior precomputation literature has been on minimizing storage and computational overhead of the precomputation process. This paper instead explores the "quality" of precomputed paths and attempts to answer the question - given a traffic ingress-egress node pair and storage for routes, what paths should be materialized for good routing performance? It is argued that the min-hop formulation typically assumed in prior precomputation work is a poor offline strategy.
Product Specs: ProCurve Switch 2510 Series	2006-12-06 06:10:41	Hewlett-Packard
The ProCurve Switch 2510-24 is a managed, Layer-2, 24-port 10/100 switch with two dual-personality Gigabit ports providing 10/100/1000-T or mini-GBIC connectivity. The 2510-24 is fanless, ensuring quiet operation and making it ideal for deployment in open spaces. And it offers a basic Layer-2 feature set, including access security and basic traffic prioritization. Designed to cost-effectively meet the needs of small and growing networks, the 2510-24 brings commercial-grade quality to all businesses at an affordable price. It is also standards-based, facilitating interoperability with existing infrastructure and making it easy to deploy and manage.
Webcast: Ultimate Architecture Flexibility with HP BladeSystem and VMware Infrastructure	2007-03-19 11:07:35	VMware
Find out how you can architect your data center for unprecedented levels of flexibility using VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) on HP ProLiant C-Class Blades. That's the focus of this TechRepublic Webcast, which highlights the flexibility advantages of a combined HP BladeSystem/ VI3 solution. The presentation features HP's Stephen L. Shultz, Systems Engineer, Strategic Alliances, along with Doug Hart, Systems/Software Engineer, and Barry Sinclair of HP BladeSystem Platform Marketing, who discuss best practices for architecting VI3 on HP ProLiant C-Class Blades. You'll learn about the features and benefits of the newest generation of HP BladeSystem servers, including: HP Virtual Connect technology and its "one module, one cable" capability Shared storage within the BladeSystem chassis BladeSystem virtualized resource pools Expansion of the BladeSystem to meet VI3 needs Now you can architect a physical infrastructure that's nearly as flexible as your virtualized environment. Listen to this on-demand Webcast, co-sponsored by VMware and HP, to learn how.
Update on Tivoli Provisioning software, including Vista migration support	2006-12-05 08:19:22	IBM
Software deployments across today's complex and rapidly evolving environments can create a number of significant challenges. A proper deployment must carefully coordinate efforts involving people, processes, information and technology. Unfortunately, many companies still try to deploy applications with a variety of unrelated point products from different vendors. In this video you will get an update on the comprehensive IBM Tivoli portfolio for software provisioning and how it can help you take the pain out of software deployment.