availability
RSS availabilityConsistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay Only When It Matters
White Paper Its experience using such systems indicates that there is a non-trivial trade-off between cost, consistency and availability. High consistency implies high cost per transaction and, in some situations, reduced... [12 Nov 2009]
Using Database Monitoring Tools to Measure, Manage, and Prove SLA Compliance
White Paper Because monitoring database availability and performance is so important to nearly every enterprise application, the production DBA needs to make sure he has the right tools for the job. Service level agreements put IT... [12 Nov 2009]
JDA MMS: Maximizing ROI and Getting More From the Same
White Paper With renewed focus on its MMS offering, JDA has demonstrated its commitment to the product and has announced the availability of a GUI version of MMS in the near future. This would be welcomed by the MMS customer... [12 Nov 2009]
Trend Micro Web and Email Security Solutions on Crossbeam X80 Platform
White Paper The largest is the X80 platform, a 14-slot chassis running Crossbeam's own network operating system with high availability, load balancing, dynamic routing, and package management built into the platform. [12 Nov 2009]
Making VoIP Secure: Proactive Network Intrusion Prevention for Enterprises and Service Providers
White Paper Ensuring network availability and quality of service are also important issues but are beyond the scope of this white paper. This white paper takes a close look at security concerns associated with Voice over Internet... [12 Nov 2009]
Why Traditional Monitoring Tools Cannot Deliver True Mobile User Management for the BlackBerry Platform
White Paper The shift has prompted IT organizations to actively explore what key technical capabilities (such as proactive monitoring tools) and internal process standards are needed to ensure superior performance and availability. [12 Nov 2009]
Automating HIPAA Compliance With Security and Configuration Auditing
White Paper As the legislation was drafted, a rule was added to protect the privacy of individuals' personal health information - the Privacy Rule - as well as a rule to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of... [12 Nov 2009]
The Transitioning of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Sizes
White Paper This included lessons learned over many years of dealing with key management issues, and attempts to encourage the definition and implementation of appropriate key management procedures, to use algorithms that adequately protect... [12 Nov 2009]
Service Level Agreement Based Grid Scheduling
White Paper The paper proposes a deviation based resource ordering algorithm (DRS) that orders and selects the resources for negotiation based on their deviation value computed from the parameters in the job request against their current... [12 Nov 2009]
Sun and VMware Solutions Guide for Windows Server Consolidation
White Paper Designing a Windows server consolidation initiative creates a new set of challenges for the storage infrastructure - storage solutions must offer simplicity, performance, availability, and ease of management. [12 Nov 2009]
How to Replicate the Fire: HA for Netfilter Based Firewalls
White Paper With traditional, stateless firewalling (such as ipfwadm, ipchains) there is no need for special High Availability (HA) support in the firewalling subsystem. As long as all packet filtering rules and routing table... [12 Nov 2009]
Optimizing the Data Center for Cost and Efficiency
White Paper The availability of faster processors, more capacity and denser architectures at relatively lesser cost, have led to an escalation in densities inside the datacenter. This is because enterprises have, over the years,... [11 Nov 2009]
Using Skybox Solutions to Achieve Efficient HIPAA Compliance
White Paper The main objective of HIPAA is to assure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of electronic health information. The Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and... [11 Nov 2009]
The Challenges of Administering Active Directory
White Paper As a result, organizations need assistance in creating repeatable, enforceable processes that will ultimately reduce their administrative overhead, while simultaneously helping increase availability and security of their... [11 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
News The momentum around virtualisation looks likely to continue next year too: the technology more often than not features in analysts' lists of the top priorities for IT departments and Gartner recently named virtualisation for... [11 Nov 2009]
