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Network Performance refers to the level of quality of service of a telecommunications product as seen by the customer. It should not be seen merely as an attempt to get "more through" the network. Performance can also be modelled instead of measured; one example of this is using state transition diagrams to model queuing performance in a circuit-switched network.

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2007 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report
By : Riverbed Published Date: Dec 14, 2007
Riverbed positioned in Leaders Quadrant of 2007 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers. Analyzing strengths vs. cautions, Gartner helps organizations looking to acquire WAN Optimization Controller capabilities better understand the options.
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Riverbed
5 Ugly Truths about WAFS and Caching
By : Riverbed Published Date: Apr 02, 2008
WAFS and caching are approaches used to accelerate specific applications. They sound good in theory – saving bandwidth and making files go faster over the WAN – but did you know there are serious limitations in the architecture of these approaches? This white paper will give you the real story on why WAFS and caching aren't the best approaches available for application acceleration.
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Riverbed
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
Are Network Services Impacting Your Users?
By : CA NVM Published Date: Jul 07, 2007
The CA vision is Enterprise IT Management, or EITM. What this means is producing products that help customers unify and simplify the management of enterprise-wide IT, not only all of a company’s assets, network, systems, and database, but also the enduser experience as it relates to the IT services as well as the business processes.
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CA NVM
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
Fortis Turkey Increases Quality of Customer Services with Improved Network Management
By : CA NVM Published Date: Jan 09, 2008
Providing highly available financial services to its customers is a cornerstone of Fortis Turkey’s strategy for growth. Fortis aims to double its market share in selected products in Turkey by 2009. Delivering quality of service throughout this period is critical for the bank’s profitability and competitive advantage. With the bank’s 270-plus Turkish branches and 4,975 staff reliant on IT to deliver services across a range of channels and process customer transactions, Fortis Turkey must be able to guarantee the availability and performance of its network.
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CA NVM
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
How Network Routers Affect IP Video Quality
By : Juniper Networks Published Date: Apr 10, 2008
Service providers are making the transition to IP infrastructures to deliver video. This move offers significant economic and operational advantages, but it also comes with challenges.  One of the main challenges is to ensure that the quality of the video is sufficiently high to attract and retain subscribers.  This paper discusses how and why service providers must be able to deliver a superior quality of experience (QoE) to drive adoption of IP video.
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Juniper Networks
Increasing Data Center Efficiency by Using Improved High Density Power Distribution
By : APC-MGE Published Date: Apr 25, 2006
A new approach to power distribution for high density server installations saves floor space, simplifies power cabling, saves capital cost, reduces weight, and increases electrical efficiency. This paper describes this distribution architecture and quantifies the benefits.
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APC-MGE
IT Service Management Metrics That Matter
By : Tripwire Published Date: Nov 07, 2007
Learn how your IT organization measures up against the best performing IT organizations and what you can do to improve efficiency, sustain compliance and security, increase system availability, and reduce the frequency of outages.
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Tripwire
Interpreting Events With Intelligence to Find Root Cause
By : CA NVM Published Date: Apr 10, 2008
Today’s complex IT infrastructures are dynamic, multi vendor engines made of frequently changing components and technologies. The complexity of the infrastructure and the continual changes caused by business demands often lead to faults within the infrastructure. A fault in a single device can have a ripple effect that causes performance and availability problems for many users. The ripple effect also makes it difficult to pinpoint the root cause of the fault.
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CA NVM
Making Large UPS Systems More Efficient
By : APC-MGE Published Date: Aug 24, 2007
As energy resources become scarcer and more expensive, electrical efficiency is becoming a more important performance factor in the specification and selection of large UPS systems. There are three subtle but significant factors that can materially affect a company's cost of operating a UPS system and particularly the electrical bill. 
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APC-MGE
Managing the WAN's Migration from Plumbing to Platform
By : CA NVM Published Date: Apr 10, 2008
Today, WAN design has two distinct goals. One goal is to ensure that the WAN continues to exhibit utility-like characteristics. The other goal is to ensure that the WAN can also support the key business and application trends by adding sophisticated WAN functionality. This white paper will describe some of the key business, application and network trends in general, and will also discuss how these trends impact certain key industries.
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CA NVM
Managing Voice over IP for Successful Convergence
By : CA NVM Published Date: May 16, 2006
Voice over IP (VoIP) has much to offer in cost savings but some customers have concerns about VoIP call quality compared to the quality of traditional voice services. This white paper will help you learn how to take the right steps so that voice quality is assured. It leads you through the pre-deployment assessment and describes how quality of service should be applied to ensure your production network will meet users' expectations.
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CA NVM
Measuring the Total Value of HP Quality Management Solutions
By : HP Software Published Date: Mar 06, 2008
Learn how you can manage and centrally store all of your assets, schedule concurrent tests, pool licenses, and gain more efficiency from your performance assets.
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HP Software
Stratavia’s Data Center Automation Value Proposition
By : Stratavia Published Date: May 20, 2008
This white paper provides an overview of current challenges in the modern data center, the impact those challenges have on the business, and Stratavia’s approach to solving those problems.
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Stratavia
The Changing Face of Network Management
By : CA NVM Published Date: Oct 05, 2007
Managing your network is serious business. It is absolutely essential that it is up and running since your critical business services depend on it — and so does your revenue stream. At the same time, your network continues to grow in size and complexity, with the addition of more devices and new technologies, in response to business growth and demands.
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CA NVM
Technology Integration Directions: Network and Systems Management
By : CA NVM Published Date: Jan 27, 2006
This paper will review the CA, Concord and Aprisma product lines to give customers and the market a clear view into CA's strategy for network and systems management. We will examine the offerings from CA, Concord and Aprisma and show how they map to varying aspects of functional network and systems management requirements regarded as being the most valuable by both our customers and the market.
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CA NVM
The 5 Essential Ingredients for Effective Event Correlation and Root Cause Analysis
By : CA NVM Published Date: May 13, 2007
In this paper, find out what you need to know about selecting applications to perform event correlation, impact and root cause analysis across network, systems and application infrastructure.
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CA NVM
Delivering Software As Appliances: Expert Advice
By : Network Engines Published Date: Aug 07, 2007
Enterprise customers want software applications delivered as server appliances because they help to reduce IT costs and complexity. Appliances provide better performance, security and manageability. Learn from experts, about factors to consider and things to avoid with the appliance delivery model.
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Network Engines
Guide: WAN Optimization Vendor Selection
By : Shunra Published Date: Feb 07, 2007
"Best Practices for Selecting a WAN Optimization Solution: Benchmarking Performance ROI" includes best practices for defining requirements and comparing alternative solutions, and offers a metric that IT organizations can use to select the WAN optimization solution that delivers the greatest value.
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Shunra
10 Ways to Sell Upper Management on a Network Upgrade
By : ITManagement Published Date: Oct 10, 2007
The days of deploying new equipment for the sake of having the latest and greatest ended when the Internet bubble burst. So when you know it's time for a network upgrade, you need to have more than the technical facts — you need to arm yourself with a rock-solid business case. Start with these 10 ways to sell the members of your upper-management team on the network upgrade.
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ITManagement
Wide Area Network Security and Acceleration: A Short Guide to a Faster WAN
By : Quocirca Published Date: Jun 06, 2007
Wide areas networks (WANs) are essential to the majority of businesses, connecting remote locations and individuals back to centralized IT resources. But as the network is expected to handle more bandwidth intensive applications such as voice and video it is essential to ensure the WAN usage is well managed – eliminating unwanted traffic and accelerating business content.
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Quocirca
Building Scalable, High Performance Cluster and Grid Networks: The Role of Ethernet
By : Force10 Networks Published Date: Jun 16, 2004
With Grid computing, computer systems and other resources aren’t necessarily constrained to be dedicated to individual users or applications, but can be made available for dynamic pooling or sharing to meet the changing needs of the organization.
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Force10 Networks
Benefits of Integrating an Onsite Appliance and Hosted Services for Network Monitoring
By : Jumpnode Systems Published Date: Jun 08, 2007
Network monitoring software packages require complex installation, ongoing maintenance and additional costs for servers and third-party applications. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) network monitoring alternatives greatly simplify implementation and maintenance, but they rely on uninterrupted Internet access to function, often require comple