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RSS nodesGuide to Unix/Linux Compliance Auditing: Solving Three Key Challenges
White Paper While Unix systems introduced a number of improvements compared to mini-computers, they remain to this day autonomous nodes where users are granted or denied access based on configurations specific to each individual... [13 Nov 2009]
Managing Third Party Risk
White Paper Some sources of risk that may not be top-of-mind include service providers, web hosting services, contractors, outsourcers, supply-chain nodes, consulting services, and travel services - any number of outside entities... [12 Nov 2009]
Towards Complete Node Enumeration in a Peer-to-Peer Botnet
White Paper As an alternative strategy, the malware defense community has been trying to identify the bot-infected hosts and enumerate the IP addresses of the participating nodes so that the list can be used by system administrators... [11 Nov 2009]
PuppetCast: A Secure Peer Sampling Protocol
White Paper Existing peer sampling protocols are either very vulnerable to attacks by malicious nodes, do not scale to large systems or provide only a static sample of the population. PuppetCast continues to operate when 50% (or... [02 Oct 2009]
Detection of Denial of Service Attacks in Wireless Mesh Networks
White Paper Mesh networks are a new technology that provide nodes with the ability of self forming and self healing as well as provide multi hop wireless links with infrastructure support. Previous research has mainly been on... [02 Oct 2009]
British Airways Makes Business-Critical Systems Unbreakable and Lowers Total Cost of Ownership
White Paper British Airways plc (BA) migrated 35 live databases on 20 clusters, each comprising of two or four nodes onto Oracle Real Application Clusters, having chosen it for applications requiring high availability, disaster... [01 Oct 2009]
Bridging and Fingerprinting: Epistemic Attacks on Route Selection
White Paper Users building routes through an anonymization network must discover the nodes comprising the network. Yet, it is potentially costly, or even infeasible, for everyone to know the entire network. The paper introduces a... [16 Sep 2009]
BCube: A High Performance, Server-Centric Network Architecture for Modular Data Centers
White Paper Servers act as not only end hosts, but also relay nodes for each other. This paper presents BCube, a new network architecture specifically designed for shipping-container based, modular data centers. At the core of the... [16 Sep 2009]
Convergence Speed of Binary Interval Consensus
White Paper With binary consensus problem, each node initially holds one of two states and the goal for each node is to correctly decide which one of the two states was initially held by the majority of nodes. This paper considers... [16 Sep 2009]
Towards Data Security in Affordable Data Warehouses
White Paper The Data Warehouse Striping (DWS) technique is a round-robin data partitioning approach especially designed for affordable data warehousing environments based on clusters of low-cost computers running low-cost open-source software, which... [02 Sep 2009]
Technical Considerations for Creating a Serviceguard Cluster That Spans Multiple IP Subnets
White Paper Serviceguard has required that nodes in the cluster be on the same IP subnet and that all the interfaces on the same subnet must be connected at the link level. This requirement has become too restrictive, especially for... [01 Sep 2009]
Driving Insights and Decisions: Data Warehousing at Hudson's Bay Company
White Paper Historically HBC has added an average of two nodes every year, mostly to support retail expansion and new BI applications. TDWI Research provides research and advisory services to Business Intelligence (BI) and data... [01 Sep 2009]
Fundamentals of a Well-Built SAN
White Paper They add the advantage of linear scalability, high availability, per-logical-volume configured reliability, and throughput of 10-Gb/s per node that is aggregated between all nodes in a cluster. Every SAN is built from a... [01 Sep 2009]
Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition 5,800 User Benchmark on HP DL380 G4
White Paper This benchmark was designed to showcase how the Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE) Release 10.1.3.2.1 performs under very high user-loads, and how it can be scaled transparently across multiple... [01 Sep 2009]
Introducing Veritas Storage Foundation HA 5.0 for ASE Cluster Edition - Increasing the Manageability, Availability and Performance of Sybase ASE Cluster Edition Environments
White Paper ASE Cluster Edition employs a shared data cluster architecture designed to support up to 32 computers (or nodes), each running one or more instances of ASE's core database manager. The attendee of this webcast will learn... [29 Aug 2009]
