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Premise-based Optimization: How It Works
The requirements, integration/deployment scenarios and delivery of a premise-based optimization solution.
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Lower Technology Rollout Project Costs And Time
Learn how to minimize project costs and time for your nationwide and global technology deployments.
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The Multiple of Multi-Platform KVM Technologies
Every time a network administrator turns around there are new standards, protocols and platforms to support in the data center - TCP/IP, Telnet, SSH, SSL, PPP, Solaris, USB, MacOS, Linux, and Windows 2003 servers - and the list goes on and on. Each of these offers their share of flexibility, standardization, compatibility and convenience. But they also pose challenges. In some cases, this creates "silos" of information and limits access from other applications across different server platforms. Finding the right balance can consume an IT budget quickly.
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Centralized Management Software: Best Practices to Control Your Data Center
Distributed enterprises and network operating centers require powerful, centralized, and remote control of computer systems, serial-based devices, and power distribution products such as UPS and intelligent power strips. To effectively manage all of these disparate devices from a single console, a comprehensive user interface is necessary to provide point-and-click connectivity and enforce strong access and control.
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Performance Beyond Expectation
HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) is the communication protocol responsible for delivering web-based objects and applications from servers to clients. HTTP relies on TCP as its IP transport protocol. TCP is a session-based protocol that provides error checking and guarantees delivery of its upper layer protocol (HTTP). Although TCP is an ideal delivery mechanism for web traffic, it has drawbacks. TCP possesses overhead that often leads to significant resource utilization on a web server, and poor performance.
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Effective Information and Event Management
This white paper identifies problems associated with managing your network security data and solutions that save vast amounts of time and money.
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Beyond Remote Control
Features that Take Remote Control Capabilities to the Next Level of Network Management
Remote control technologies can enable a system administrator to connect directly to the desktop of an end users computer for support call resolutions. This white paper analyzes current trends in the remote control industry and identifies features that will not only allow users to control another computer, but can also enable them to manage an entire network from a centralized location.
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Achieving A Higher Level Of Business and Network Adaptability With F5's Unified Application Infrastructure Services and 9.4 Release
While it is important to understand the numerous benefits F5's BIG-IP® application delivery networking products bring to an organization, such as high availability, improving application performance, optimizing infrastructure, and providing unique application security, the goal of this paper is to explore a more fundamental business and technical problem plaguing today's organizations and how BIG-IP - specifically version 9.4 and the 8800 platform - solves it.
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The "True" Cost of Acquisition
This white paper compares the acquisition costs of general-purpose servers running Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition vs. Infoblox appliances deployed in the branch office. With the introduction of the Infoblox-250, the difference in acquisition costs has been greatly reduced, thereby, providing additional impetus for making the shift to appliances.
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The Mandate to Implement Unified Performance Management
In most companies there is a gap between the needs of the Business Unit Managers and the perceived value of the services provided by the company's Information Technology (IT) organization in general, and the IT infrastructure organization in particular. This disconnect has a negative impact on both the performance of the Business Units as well as the perception of the IT function.
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Redefining Performance Management to Match Today's Business Model
Opportunity and necessity are propelling businesses to leverage public internet infrastructure to expand global reach, sell products, work with suppliers, and distribute content. As a result, IT executes like you are forced to relinquish control - losing the ability to identify problems that may adversely affect your users' experience, simply because those problems occur outside of your infrastructure and/or are unusually difficult to detect.
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Cisco Service-Oriented Network Architecture: Support and Optimize SOA and Web 2.0 Applications
Today, Web 2.0 and service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are among the top issues of concern for IT architects and executives. Both are poised for exponential growth over the next few years, due to their flexibility, cost effectiveness, and ease of integration. Each technology creates highly distributed composite applications that unite components or subsystems to form higher-level functional systems or target applications
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A Network Engineer's Guide to Troubleshooting User Satisfaction Problems with SAP Applications
A new application performance metric, Apdex, was created by an industry consortium, the Apdex Alliance, specifically to address the challenge of analyzing application performance in meaningful terms. The goal of the Apdex metric is to provide a single metric that represents the quality of service an end user is receiving from an application.
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Network Power Protection
Power fluctuations can wreak havoc with a network. In a worst-case scenario, power or surge-related problems affecting servers, routers, or switches can bring your business to a halt. And with the growing demand for interconnected computer, telephone, and LAN systems, many new pathways for power, surge, and transient problems are created every day. That's why your computer network requires complete protection on all AC power and datacomm lines
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The Five Dangers of Poor Network Timekeeping
Most organizations today rely on networks of computers, all of which rely on clocks. So what happens when the clocks in these computers don’t agree with each other – or with the correct time? What happens to the processes running in these networks? What happens to the organizations?
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