electrical
Law Firm Cuts IT Costs by 90 Percent, Dismisses Server Worries with Online Services
White Paper Removing the physical servers also helped Nolan downsize his space and save on rent and electrical bills. James C. Nolan Law Office specializes in immigration law. Owner James Nolan uses technology to deliver excellent... [16 Nov 2009]
Hardening Critical Systems at Electrical Utilities: Meeting Regulatory Requirements Through Endpoint Controls
White Paper Electrical power utilities generate and distribute the energy that is needed to drive the economy, as well as daily life, in modern America. Securing nation's critical power infrastructure has never been more important. [13 Nov 2009]
802.11n: The End of Ethernet?
White Paper The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11n standard represents the beginning of the end for wired Ethernet as the dominant Local Area Network (LAN) access technology in the enterprise. [12 Nov 2009]
Medical-Grade, Mission-Critical Wireless Networks
White Paper Off late healthcare environment requires an enterprise mobility solution for both patients and staff. Separate isolated networks are suboptimal from cost, management, scalability, and reliability perspectives. [12 Nov 2009]
Service Level Agreement Based Grid Scheduling
White Paper In order to co-ordinate multiple resource providers in grid environment to meet a common objective, support for negotiation is needed to establish a contract between the user and the resource providers that clearly states the QoS... [12 Nov 2009]
Achieving NERC Cyber Security Standards Compliance with Lumension® Solutions
White Paper NERC CIP standards and guidelines apply to all Responsible Entities (REs) within the bulk-power system, including investor-owned utilities, most generation and transmission (G&T) cooperatives, owners or operators of... [29 Oct 2009]
Performance Evaluation of Single-Mode and Multimode Fiber in LAN Environment
White Paper Optical networks are high capacity networks that meet the rapidly growing demand for bandwidth in the terrestrial telecommunications industry. This paper studies and evaluates single-mode and multimode fiber transmission by varying the... [09 Oct 2009]
A Quick Primer on Data Center Tier Classifications
White Paper The power and cooling capabilities of a facility are delivered by its Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) infrastructure. Today, a number of companies are either consolidating their data centers or implementing... [06 Oct 2009]
A Security Design of Data Exchange Platform
White Paper The paper introduces a data security assurance mechanism, which is already applied in a Security Data Exchange Platform (SDEP). Then, the paper describes the security design of SDEP in details. By using the security solution, information... [05 Oct 2009]
Dynamic Routing With Security Considerations
White Paper Security has become one of the major issues for data communication over wired and wireless networks. Different from the past work on the designs of cryptography algorithms and system infrastructures, the paper will propose a dynamic... [05 Oct 2009]
Accurately Measuring Denial of Service in Simulation and Testbed Experiments
White Paper Researchers in the Denial of Service (DoS) field lack accurate, quantitative and versatile metrics to measure service denial in simulation and testbed experiments. Without such metrics, it is impossible to measure severity of various... [02 Oct 2009]
Empirical Study of Tolerating Denial-of-Service Attacks With the Fosel Architecture
White Paper Filtering techniques are one of the main approaches to protect applications from Denial of Service Attacks (DoS). However filtering techniques suffer from two main challenges: the accuracy detection of DoS traffic and processing time. [02 Oct 2009]
Rack Powering Options for High Density
White Paper Alternatives for providing electrical power to high density racks in Data Centers and Network Rooms are explained and compared. Issues addressed include quantity of feeds, single-phase vs.three-phase, number and location... [01 Oct 2009]
Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
White Paper Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. In addition to reducing electrical consumption, efficiency improvements can gain users higher IT power densities and the ability to install... [01 Oct 2009]
Calculating Total Cooling Requirements for Data Centers
White Paper All electrical equipment produces heat, which must be removed to prevent the equipment temperature from rising to an unacceptable level. Most Information Technology equipment and other equipment found in a data center or... [01 Oct 2009]