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Profitably Improving Site Infrastructure Energy Efficiency by Upsite Technologies, Inc.
Learn about the causes of energy overconsumption and how to improve your organization's overall energy efficiency, resulting in huge cost savings. One measurement of data center's site infrastructure energy efficiency is the ratio of all power consumed by all electrical and mechanical systems supporting the computer equipment load...
Building a Small Office Network: Getting Started by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Building a small office network means starting with a foundation of switches and routers. The following guide will help you understand the difference between switches and routers and develop a clear vision for what your network foundation needs. Building a small office network means starting with a foundation of switches and routers. The...
The Case for an Untethered Enterprise by Motorola, Inc.
Learn how to take your enterprise completely wireless by implementing the most up to date wireless technology. Today, most enterprises are running two separate network's one wired, and one wireless. Most enterprises have treated Wi-Fi as an ancillary tool, meant to complement, but not replace, a company's wired Ethernet network. However, several new...
Preventing Data Corruption in the Event of an Extended Power Outage by APC
Protecting computer systems with Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) hardware is part of a total data center solution, but power management software is also necessary to prevent data corruption after extended power outages. Without shutdown software installed on the protected computer, the net effect of the UPS is simply to delay the...
An Approach to Data Management with Higher Application Service Levels at a Lower Cost by Sybase, Inc.
architecture designed to support up to 32 computers (or nodes), each running one or more instances of ASE's core database manager. ASE Cluster Edition employs a shared data cluster architecture designed to support up to 32 computers (or nodes), each running one or more instances of ASE's core database manager. The systems simultaneously access the same data stored in a...
Beyond Server Consolidation: Bringing the Benefits of Virtualization to the Desktop by CDW Corporation
Desktop virtualization allows IT control over applications, without depriving end users of the experience they get from a traditional computer. While server virtualization is becoming commonplace in data centers, desktop virtualization is still in its infancy. Now the technology is maturing fast, and it can improve security,...
Automating and Optimizing Service Desk Performance by Kaseya
The service desk is the first line of defense for reacting to IT issues, yet most organizations haven't designed their service desk properly. Read this white paper to learn about a solution that addresses this problem and help support your clie... A key component of any successful IT management strategy is an effective service delivery...
More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Netboot/i by Double-Take Software
Read this paper to learn how the netBoot/i technology separates state from compute devices, allows them to run from iSCSI SAN, and provides many benefits to an organization. Storage has been evolving throughout the history of computer systems. Storing both operating system state and data within the computer caused management challenges such as...
FREE TRIAL: Patch Authority Ultimate Version 6.1 - Prevents Attacks! by ScriptLogic Corporation
Ultimate is licensed according to the number of computers that will be patched. Note that Patch Authority Ultimate's license is a "term" or "non-perpetual" license - it will not let you scan or patch computers after support has ended.

Special Requirements: Windows NT 4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, and 2008 client and server operating systems are supported on both x86 and x64 platforms...
Total Economic Impact Of VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - Healthcare Industry by VMware, Inc.

1. PC replacement savings from repurposing old computers as thin clients.

2. IT support staff savings.

3. Improved worker productivity and reduced PC downtime.

4. Electricity savings from purchased thin client machines.

Qualitative Benefits

  • Improved data and endpoint security by storing information centrally and locking down computers.
  • Improved user experience for
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Qualcomm's Successful Virtualization Experiment by VMware, Inc.
experiment in consolidating physical server computers proved successful, and the Qualcomm IT department aggressively pursued virtualization starting in 2003. For Qualcomm, the well-known wireless telecommunications research and development company, virtualization started as an experiment. The experiment in consolidating physical server computers proved...
Sun™ Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 2.0: Your Desktop, Wherever You Are by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
and applications off physical personal computers, consolidate them in the datacenter. Read this white paper to learn how to design an infrastructure that enables organizations to move desktop instances of operating systems and applications off physical personal computers, consolidate them in the datacenter, and then present them to end users through...
e-Book: Chapter 1 - What is e-discovery and Why Should IT Shops Care? by Symantec Corporation
Electronic discovery known as e-discovery refers to any process in which electronic data is sought, located, secured and searched with the intent of using it as evidence in a legal case. Read this e-book to learn why e-discovery is so important. Electronic discovery known as e-discovery, refers to any process in which electronic data is sought, located...
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Product Overview by Microsoft
interacting with a wide variety of desktop computers and mobile client computers. For IT departments, managing and supporting this assortment of mission-critical technologies is a challenge. Deploying server virtualization technology is an increasingly popular option for facing this challenge.

This paper introduces Microsoft's Hyper-V, a...
eGuide: Technology Management Strategies for the Midmarket CIO by Hewlett-Packard Company
Learn how midmarket CIOs are re-examining computer infrastructure and realizing a return on their investment while grappling with new challenges. As midmarket organizations move to centralize and consolidate computing environments, server virtualization is a natural fit. Learn how midmarket CIOs are re-examining computer infrastructure...
RS-232: A Key to Understanding Data Communications by Global Knowledge
Read this paper to learn the history and current application of RS-232, a standard that refers to two classes of devices: Data Terminal Equipment and Data Circuit Terminating Equipment. Experts have been predicting the death of RS-232 for decades, and yet it continues to serve us well. It is a highly proven technology that is inexpensive and easy to...
5 Virtualization Do's and Don'ts by Information Security Magazine
now, few enterprises will use "real" computers. Everything done with databases, Web applications or file shares will be intercepted and emulated by virtualization software, allowing one rack-mount server to act like 10.

Virtualization is inescapable; it's the most important new force in enterprise IT since IP networks.

Virtualization is a win for enterprise...
CA E-Guide: VoIP Management Tool Kit by CA
View this expert E-Guide and learn about the tools and strategies needed to guarantee a complete management solution for VoIP systems. Management of enterprise VoIP systems to ensure voice quality and reliability is a key element to an organizations success. Therefore, it's important to make sure the companies have acceptable tools in...
Virtualization Reference Guide: Discover the Benefits of One Computer Doing the Work of Many by CDW Corporation
This document provides information that allows to make educated decisions and it also examines those areas that can see marked improvement through virtualization. Virtualization allows for the separation of resources or dependencies, which makes it easier to control and move other resources to different locations in order to enhance...
Improve Your Business through Best Practice IT Management by Kaseya
This white paper provides insight on ways that MSPs and IT departments can improve their management of services. Learn how using ITIL best practices with an automated management solution can address a number of the unique challenges these businesses face. MSPs and corporate IT departments each have their own particular challenges that they...
Reliance for Managed Service Providers by Univa UD
Reliance is a service-based application delivery appliance that enables managed service providers to guarantee application performance and end user satisfaction - while optimizing resource utilization and minimizing costs. Reliance is a service-based application delivery appliance that enables managed service providers to...
Is virtualization a black hole in your security? 5 ways to ensure it isn't by Sophos Inc.
This paper describes the hidden threats raised by unauthorized, unsecured desktop virtualization, and gives five effective ways to secure yourself against them. The ease with which virtual computer image files can now be downloaded means there is a much higher risk of end users running unauthorized applications - from games to browsers to beta...
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Mainframe vulnerabilities: Be proactive rather than reactive by Robert Crawford, Contributor
must be jealously protected on all the concerned computers. But, my favorite gotcha is the fact that passwords on 3270 sessions go over the network in clear text. Sniffer trace, anyone?

System datasets
Most shops had this one figured out long ago. The person who can update SYS1.PARMLIB has the keys to the kingdom. The same goes for every parameter library... More...

Data center cooling optimization in the virtualized-server world by Julius Neudorfer
and cooling resources.

The plain truth about all computers is that they turn every Watt (W) of power directly into heat (and, yes, I know that they also do useful computing). With the advent of the widespread virtualization based on high-performance, multi-core, multiprocessor servers, the amount of power used per square foot has risen from 25 W to 50 W... More...

Five mainframe myths busted by Robert Crawford, Contributor
COBOL, Assembler and C++ using VSAM, DLI and DB2. Mainframe computers have come a long way since the early days, but many of the mainframe myths remain. Expert Robert Crawford sheds some light on the modern mainframe... More...
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AMD releases 45-nm Shanghai Opteron processor on schedule by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
underlying Shanghai includes some of the popular features of Barcelona, such as virtualization-assist technologies and power-efficiency features, but improves on them and is more cost-effective, said Burke Banda, the product marketing manager of AMD's Server and Workstation Division.

In addition, Shanghai's release comes on schedule with it's processor... More...

How will data centers weather the economic downturn? by Matt Stansberry, Senior Site Editor
data center will continue as they have been due to the cost benefits in the long run.

Virtualization technologies will be just as important and some groups might start eyeing cloud computing as a way to temporarily augment their current infrastructures without extra capital expense. Finally, I think penny pinching will cause more groups to lean toward free... More...

With IBM blades and VMware, firm shrinks data center footprint, cost by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
Co. ProLiant servers and replaced them with IBM blade servers running VMware Inc.'s virtualization technology to reduce space requirements, cut power and cooling costs, and make data center management easier.

Until a few years ago, the real estate company's technology was warehoused in a colocation facility with 17 racks of about 93 HP and Compaq servers. The cost... More...