transaction
Contactless Smart Chip Technology: The Business Benefits
White Paper In addition, contactless smart chip technology delivers the convenience, durability, and reliability required by applications that must support fast transaction throughput in demanding environments. Contactless smart... [14 Nov 2009]
Anti-Money Laundering Advisory Services
White Paper Financial institutions are expected to design and implement effective AML compliance programs that address organizational needs, policies and procedures, transaction monitoring, independent testing of controls, filing of... [13 Nov 2009]
The State of Resilience and Optimization on IBM Power Systems
White Paper Even as transaction and data storage volumes have increased, ensuring that the right data protection and management practices are in place has moved up from a line-level responsibility to a core boardroom mandate. [13 Nov 2009]
Stateful Assessment
White Paper Stateful Assessment is based on a process of generating Web application transactions and evaluating the response of the browser over the course of the entire transaction. First generation Web application security... [13 Nov 2009]
Addressing PCI Compliance Via the Database
White Paper In addition, merchants are motivated by the fact that payment card companies offer preferred transaction rates and "Safe Harbor" from certain financial burdens to companies that do comply with the standard. [13 Nov 2009]
Understanding PCI DSS Compliance
White Paper These card issuers joined forces to develop the new requirements as part of an industry-wide standard for protection of cardholder' credit card account and transaction information. PCI DSS version 1.1 (the current... [13 Nov 2009]
Breaking the Bank - Vulnerabilities in Numeric Processing Within Financial Applications
White Paper So unsurprisingly these applications have higher requirements for data confidentiality, transaction integrity and service availability than many other web applications. Attackers will go to extraordinary lengths to... [13 Nov 2009]
Identity Assurance Comes of Age for Government, Business, and Consumer Security
White Paper An identity transaction itself can be defined as any digital transaction with internal or external systems that require the authentication of the person requesting access. Identity assurance within the... [12 Nov 2009]
Benchmarking Microsoft SQL Server Using VMware ESX Server 3.5
White Paper This paper presents the results of a benchmarking study, in which Brocade used an industry-standard online Transaction Processing Benchmark (TPC-C) in an ESX Server cluster to determine if ESX Server version 3.5 could... [12 Nov 2009]
Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay Only When It Matters
White Paper High consistency implies high cost per transaction and, in some situations, reduced availability. Cloud storage solutions promise high scalability and low cost. Existing solutions, however, differ in the degree of... [12 Nov 2009]
Pharmaceutical Shifts Towards UHF RFID for Savings
White Paper Distributing regulated pharmaceuticals is done through a complex supply chain involving thousands of trading partners who conduct business through multiple transaction levels. The pharmaceutical industry in the United... [12 Nov 2009]
Digital Rights Management - DRM: An Introduction to DRM
White Paper Attempts to link finer grained control to micro-payments controls has not been successful so far, and may prove to be unattainable in the longer term because the cost of operating the mechanism exceeds the possible income per... [12 Nov 2009]
eBay's Skype sale gets green light
News eBay has announced today that the sale of its controlling stake in VoIP service Skype will go ahead, following the settlement of litigation over the proposed transaction. The settlement restructures the deal with an... [06 Nov 2009]
Troubleshooting SQL 2005: Opening the Database Administrator's Toolbox
White Paper While these may provide some results, there's no better solution than tracking down empirical evidence as to the cause of a bottleneck or to the identity of the troublesome transaction. There are many methods for... [03 Nov 2009]
Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission Critical Applications
White Paper Oracle Tuxedo is the industry's #1 distributed transaction processing platform. It provides mainframe-class reliability, performance, and scalability, all on open, distributed systems for applications written in C, C++,... [15 Oct 2009]