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Network Architecture is the design of a communications system, which includes the backbones, routers, switches, wireless access points, access methods and protocols used. This may refer only to the access method in a LAN, such as Ethernet or Token Ring

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HP's Proven Data Center Transformation
By : HP Published Date: Sep 24, 2007
This white paper looks at HP's approach to Data Center Transformation and how it can help enterprise data centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. Learn about the 4 key factors which should influence your data center transformation strategy. See first hand how HP embarked on a three-year transformation program for its own data centers. This ambitious program involved rationalizing 85 data centers into just six global ones- with tangible and measurable benefits.

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HP
Leveraging CA IDMS Business Value for Innovation
By : CA Mainframe Published Date: Mar 21, 2008
Business and IT executives should not have to choose between their desire to innovate for future growth and the desire to avoid disrupting current operations. Enterprise innovation that embraces and extends existing infrastructure and applications is possible through modern software architectures such as web services and SOA – as long as those investments perform competitively when measured against alternative platforms and they are able to be modernized to participate in these architectures.
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CA Mainframe
Network Lifecycle Management - A Solution Approach to Managing Networks: A Perspective by EMA
By : HP Software Published Date: Aug 17, 2007
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) provides insight challenges facing network engineering and operations team.
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HP Software
SOA Performance: Scaling SOA Implementations Now And Into The Future
By : CA APM Published Date: Aug 04, 2008
Many organizations look to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to provide greater business agility in the face of evolving business requirements and complex, heterogeneous information technology (IT) environments. To achieve this agility, architects implement a Services abstraction that loosely couples business Services from the underlying implementations of those Services. Building such an abstraction layer is not without risks, however—inherent in building such an abstraction is the risk of sacrificing performance and scalability to achieve the organization’s required agility.
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CA APM
User Scalability for the Enterprise: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
By : Microsoft Published Date: Feb 20, 2008
Microsoft, together with Unisys Corporation, completed benchmark testing of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 running on the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating system with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database software. Benchmark results demonstrate that Microsoft Dynamics CRM can scale to meet the needs of an enterprise-level, mission-critical workload of 24,000 concurrent users while maintaining performance at sub-second response times.
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Microsoft
Achieving Manufacturing Leadership with HP Mission Critical Service
By : HP Published Date: Jul 21, 2008
This case study highlights how one of the world's leading manufacturing companies employed a Mission Critical architecture to protect their most important systems. Learn how this customer achieved 99.99% availability of their systems for 4 straight years. As a result of adopting a high availability strategy, this HP customer saved 97 million Euros, by avoiding lost downtime.
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Architecting the Virtual Data Center for Availability, Data Protection, and Disaster Recovery
By : VMware Published Date: Sep 25, 2008
Virtualization offers the promise of simplifying your IT infrastructure from the desktop to the data center. But can your virtual environment maintain the level of availability you need to keep your business running or to recover from a disaster?
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VMware
Bandwidth Utilization Improvements: Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 4.0
By : Microsoft Published Date: Mar 19, 2008
Microsoft has made significant enhancements to the architecture of Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 4.0 to improve network performance. Test results demonstrate network bandwidth utilization improvements of up to 94%. Improvements were evaluated in the number of round trips, bytes sent, and bytes received. Because the bandwidth utilization associated with a page can change after the first time the page is loaded, both initial (cold) and subsequent (warm) page loads were tested.
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Microsoft
Predict Server TCO - Learn How with this Free White Paper
By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Jun 08, 2006
From a capital expenditure perspective, hundreds of independent rack servers require thousands of repetitive parts. Blade server systems do not. Learn more with this complimentary white paper.
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HP BladeSystem
Top 10 Requirements for Effective Patch Management
By : Patchlink Published Date: Apr 13, 2006
Keeping up with the endless stream of security patches is a continuous strain on IT resources. Assessing, deploying, & tracking software patches across operating systems is even more difficult. This whitepaper distills the top 10 requirements for selecting an effective patch and vulnerability management solution.
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Patchlink
Change Control: Learn How to Address the Insider Threat
By : NetIQ Corporation Published Date: Jan 10, 2007
Learn why organizations need to limit IT administrator power to ensure operational integrity and assure compliance and how to implement robust change control processes and tools with this white paper.
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NetIQ Corporation
Datacenter Power & Cooling Problems? Here are 3 Innovations
By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Sep 14, 2006
Download this IDC white paper from HP, that cites 3 new technologies designed to quickly identify and address the key TCO operating expense issues facing today's data centers, including server management costs, interconnect complexity, power and cooling.
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HP BladeSystem
Don't Forget About The 'People Costs'
By : JBoss Published Date: Oct 25, 2007

Most white papers and webinars available on the Internet about choosing enterprise middleware focus the selection process around criteria such as licensing costs, technical coverage of long lists of specified functionalities, and vendor viability. While these criteria may have been suitable in the past, the experience of many enterprise architects leading J2EE projects over the past few years suggest that they are not enough. What’s missing? People costs.


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JBoss
Enabling Technologies for Blade Management
By : HP BladeSystem Published Date: Oct 11, 2006
Today's data center management and administrative costs continue to eclipse all other cost categories. Is your budget under scrutiny? Get quick answers with this white paper.
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HP BladeSystem
GFI FAXmaker for Exchange/SMTP 12: Architecture and Deployment Options
By : GFI Published Date: Jan 02, 2007
This technical white paper describes the different ways in which GFI FAXmaker for Exchange/SMTP 12 can be deployed, depending on your mail server type/version and network infrastructure.
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GFI
Highly Integrated High Performance Business Computing (HPBC): Architecting a Simpler Solution
By : SilverStorm Technologies Published Date: Nov 04, 2005
The world of super computing has changed in recent years, moving from a scale-up, monolithic, expensive architecture to the scale-out clustering of low cost microprocessors, also referred to as High Performance Business Computing (HPBC) clusters.
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SilverStorm Technologies
iDirect Network Accelerators
By : iDirect Published Date: Nov 16, 2005
Secure communications is a necessity for many organizations to protect corporate data. Some highly secure organizations mandate the use of third-party encryption devices or external end to end security protocols. The iDirect Network Accelerator is an external appliance that maximizes the speed of encrypted traffic over a satellite network.
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iDirect
Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers
By : APC-MGE Published Date: Aug 22, 2006
It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the network-critical physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture. This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption for optimal data center efficiency.

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APC-MGE
Implementing SOA with an Offshore Partner
By : Torry Harris Business Solutions Published Date: Oct 31, 2006
This whitepaper is written as a guide to an alternative mechanism for project implementation for business owners holding responsibility to deliver IT solutions in the SOA space. It could also be of interest to those who would like to know more about how the phenomenon of offshore/onsite coordination, that emerged in the nineties, can be effectively applied towards realizing the promise of SOA.
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Torry Harris Business Solutions
KVM over IP and Enterprise Security: Safeguarding Access to Your Critical IT Infrastructure
By : Avocent Published Date: May 11, 2006
Information security is a primary concern for every IT organization. No company can afford to have proprietary data or valuable customer information fall into the wrong hands. This white paper details critical components for consideration in a KVM over IP switching system including hub and spoke failover, exit macros, virtual media, and more.
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Avocent
Let's Get Virtual: A Look at Today's Server Virtualization Architectures
By : Burton Group Published Date: May 14, 2007
Increasing power demands and space limitations in the data center have begun to transition server virtualization technologies from luxuries to necessities. Server virtualization provides a path toward server consolidation that results in significant power and space savings, while also offering high availability and system portability. Today, vendors are building hardware and software platforms that can deliver virtualization solutions at near-native performance.
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Burton Group
MPLS Plug-and-Play for Metro Ethernet Networks
By : Juniper Networks Published Date: Apr 21, 2008
Carriers are discovering an opportunity to revolutionize the way their MPLS Metro Ethernet Networks are built by applying the concept of Plug-and-Play to reduce operating expense and network complexity.  This paper shows service providers how to easily map their access MPLS network into their larger core MPLS network, or create a completely new architecture.
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Juniper Networks
Next-Generation Residential Gateways: Flexibility and High Performance Will Be Critical
By : Texas Instruments Published Date: Sep 14, 2006
Read how the Next Generation Residential Gateway (RG) is capable of supporting the ever increasing need for higher data throughput rates, signaling range that covers the whole house and robustness capable of mitigating the sources of interference found in the home.

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Texas Instruments
Network Fax Technology: A Primer
By : GFI Published Date: Jan 02, 2007
A fax server buyers' guide, this paper describes the features you need to look for in fax server software and why. It also discusses the type of fax server devices (fax cards) available and which to choose.
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GFI
Network Costs of Spam
By : COMDOM Software Published Date: Jul 19, 2007
This paper provides an overview of costs of spam facing large organizations, such as multinational enterprises, universities, and governments, as well as small and medium sized businesses that own or operate networks used by employees and other end users.
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COMDOM Software