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whitepaper Securing Your Apache Web Server with a thawte Digital Certificate2006-07-01 Thawte
  In this guide thawte examines the importance of Apache-SSL and who needs an SSL certificate. The paper looks at how SSL works, how it benefits your company, and how your customers can tell if a site is secure.   
whitepaper Assessing and Sizing: Intel® 64-Bit Architecture Porting2005-02-24 13:23:02
  The early stages of porting software from the 32-bit environment to 64-bits can dramatically increase the efficiency and chances of success for the entire project. This document identifies key considerations for migrating to the Itanium® 2 Processor Family and Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel® EM64T).   
whitepaper Netnice: Nice Is Not Only for CPUs - A Simple Subnetwork Bandwidth Management Scheme2005-08-02 03:00:01
  This paper presents "Netnice", a mechanism that allows processes to throttle their own network bandwidth consumption. As the name suggests, it is inspired by the Unix nice command in that it allows users and administrators to limit the network resources used by individual processes in order to avoid impacting the performance of other processes. In the paper, to address the problem of transient performance deterioration in local area network (LAN) environments, the authors propose the bandwidth limitation primitive that works within a host's kernel, and show several uses of netnice.   
whitepaper Virtuozzo: An Introduction to OS Server Virtualization and a New Approach to Server Consolidation2006-12-14 11:54:44 SWsoft
  Virtualization and automation technology is a major advance in IT infrastructure management. By leveraging the capability to abstract software and data from hardware and treat hardware as a pool of resources, virtualization and automation technology:
  • Reduces the complexity and cost of IT infrastructures
  • Provides users with better levels of service
  • Increases IT and business flexibility
This SWsoft white paper discusses these and other advantages of server virtualization and explains how Virtuozzo, its flagship virtualization solution, allows enterprises to increase manageability and service levels while dramatically reducing their total cost of ownership (TCO).

  
whitepaper British Telecommunications Plc Enjoys Benefits of a Single Enterprise Scheduling Solution2005-09-13 03:00:03
  British Telecom is one of Europe's leading providers of telecommunications services. The challenge was to efficiently monitor, manage and automate critical batch business processes across a diverse infrastructure, to meet high service level requirements and reduce manual errors BT evaluated various scheduling solutions as well as BMC Software's CONTROL-M. Given its capabilities, CONTROL-M best suited BT's current and future needs. CONTROL-M has enabled BT to standardize system housekeeping, system management, software delivery, scheduling, and performance-monitoring functions across all the servers they support.   
whitepaper BMC Software Uses PATROL Performance Assurance Solutions to Free Up Administrator Time2005-09-13 03:00:03
  BMC Software provides enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage their IT infrastructure from a business perspective. The challenge was to provide information to application owners and administrators in a quick, concise and high-level format, thus freeing resources for critical performance assurance tasks. BMC Software developed a Web server product that provides easy access, viewing and export of PATROL Performance Assurance data: PATROL Perceive. Perceive allows systems programmers to quickly provide performance data to customers, without a console.   
whitepaper Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology2007-03-01 07:22:22 SWsoft
  This SWsoft white paper is a valuable decision-support resource that offers guidance for evaluating competing server virtualization solutions. It opens with a review of the three types of virtualization technologies available today: hardware virtualization, para-virtualization, and OS virtualization. The paper explains the basic concepts behind each approach and provides a detailed list of ten considerations to take into account as you research which virtualization technology is right for your organization. It even provides a handy worksheet that you can fill in for an at-a-glance comparison of the solutions you evaluate.

  
whitepaper Automated Load Tests Ensure SAP R/3 Reliability, Performance for Texaco (UK) Ltd.2005-09-20 03:00:07
  Texaco (U.K.) Ltd. is the fourth largest gasoline retailer in the U.K. and ranks among the top 10 oil producers in the North Sea. The challenge was how to ensure that a new SAP R/3 exploration and production ("upstream") system in multiple locations throughout the U.K. would perform reliably and effectively when deployed? The solution implemented was automated load test using Mercury Interactive's LoadRunnerandMercury WinRunner, in combination with SAP R/3, UNIX and network utilities.   
whitepaper Timex Corporation Windows 2003 Case Study: ISS/Andrews-Funded Project2005-11-18 01:00:02
  Timex Corporation began life in 1854 as Waterbury Clock, one of the first makers of affordable timekeepers for working-class Americans. The key challenge for Timex was to maintain and extend its dominance in the jewelry and fashion-accessory consumer category on a global basis. To help accomplish this, the company must have a flexible, adaptable IT infrastructure one that can support rapid changes in company structures and market dynamics. Soon after the introduction of the Microsoft Windows operating system, Timex Corporation recognized the advantages Windows offered running on reliable HP ProLiant servers. These benefits included increased infrastructure flexibility and reduced costs.   
whitepaper Smead Manufacturing Switches From UNIX to Microsoft Windows 2000, Achieves 75% Reduction in Total Cost of Ownership2005-11-15 01:00:02
  Faced with serious performance and capacity problems, Smead Manufacturing began investigating the cost to upgrade the existing UNIX/Oracle platform that ran its mission-critical Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Human Resources (HRMS) applications. When the initial estimate came back at $6 million, Smead started evaluating alternatives, and decided to switch to the Microsoft platform. Total costs including staffing were only $1.5 million, enabling the company to achieve a 75 percent reduction in total cost of ownership - enough to pay Smead's entire IT salary budget for the next three years.