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Skype drops open-source appeal

News The licence requires vendors to ship source code with any open-source product but Skype's WSKP100 phone was sold without giving users access to the source code, according to a case brought by gpl-violations.org, a group policing open-source...

Tags: skype, gpl, open source

[12 May 2008]

Data Centers Are Adopting Green Initiatives But Are Wary of Vendors' Marketing Messages

whitepaper The IT industry and business in general are slowly waking up to the impact they are having on the environment. While the newspaper headlines target the growth of cheap flights as a leading cause of global warming, some commentators have suggested...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Data Center I/O Consolidation: From Ethernet in the Data Center to a Data Center Over Ethernet

whitepaper As network vendors continue to reengineer and ramp up production of 10G Ethernet equipment, the promise of unifying data, HPC and storage networks onto a common technology - Ethernet - increases. Network vendors have some significant technical and...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

A Functional Comparison of Systems Management Tools From IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell

whitepaper Many basic management features are available from all vendors; however, the vendors differ greatly in how they perform this basic management and in their products' more advanced monitoring and alerting capabilities.

Tags: high availability

[11 May 2008]

3Com Solutions: XRN Technology and Clustered Stacking

whitepaper Since 3Com invented the stackable form factor in the early 1990's, it has become the de facto standard for networking vendors because of its flexibility, scalability, and the ability it provides for companies to cost-effectively upgrade their...

Tags: switching

[11 May 2008]

Securing Connections Between WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ - Part 2: Secure the WebSphere MQ Link Using the Service Integration Bus

whitepaper The Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Specification, Version 1.3, required software vendors to include a Java Message Service (JMS) provider within their application server products. IBM WebSphere Application Server V5.0 provided this...

Tags: communications software

[11 May 2008]

An Introduction to OMA Device Management: Improve the Interoperability Between Devices and Servers With the Latest Specification

whitepaper With the dramatic increase in available devices and vendors, various proprietary device management implementations have evolved, and as a result, threaten the interoperability of devices and servers. Device management pertains to configurations...

Tags: cellular equipment

[11 May 2008]

Heavy Truck Maker Cuts Software Distribution Time and Cost, Enables Secure Vendor Access

whitepaper Freightliner LLC wanted to improve management of thousands of computers spread across 13 facilities to reduce costs and to provide secure network access for outside vendors. It's in the process of doing all that and more with the help of Microsoft...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Nortel Secure Network Access and Microsoft Network Access Protection Integration

whitepaper However, confusion around industry standards, the multitude of NAC vendors and the complexity of the solutions has led to a relatively slow industry-wide NAC adoption rate. With the ever-increasing need for enterprises to provide endpoint security...

Tags: security management

[11 May 2008]

Best Practices for Managing the Move to Vista

whitepaper It will take many organizations about 18 months from the time Windows Vista ships to test applications, get Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to support applications, build images and run pilots. To deploy Windows Vista in 2008, a significant...

Tags: windows vista

[11 May 2008]

Media Company Achieves Low-Cost Enterprise Licensing Through SAM

whitepaper The growth in the number and complexity of software vendors' licensing plans in the past several years made this process highly challenging. A major entertainment company was poised to negotiate a global enterprise software licensing agreement with...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Research Institute Streamlines IT Management With Flexible Deployment

whitepaper Now it can deploy a standard customized image to computers from multiple hardware vendors. The Institute of Microbiology at ETH Zurich wanted a more flexible, streamlined deployment process for client software.

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Insight and Outlook, Part 1: Why and When Should You Choose SOA? - IBM Technical Leaders Answer Pressing Questions About IT Architecture

whitepaper At least that's what IBM executives say, along with many other platform vendors, analysts, consultants, and software developers. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become a de facto standard for developing component-based applications that can...

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

Introduction to CC/PP Technology: Effective Ways to Manage Device Capability and Preference Information

whitepaper In this way, CC/PP saves the service provider from having to maintain device capability information on the server side - a real boon as device specifications might be changed by device vendors. Get to know Composite Capabilities/Preference Profile...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications

[11 May 2008]

SAP Transaction Banking: Measurements of IBM System z DB Server Using DB2 V9.1 for z/OS

whitepaper However, changes in the competitive market place as well as legal and regulatory requirements have caused many banks to consider application packages from vendors such as SAP AG. Bank posting and balancing, often called core banking, are crucial to...

Tags: mainframes

[11 May 2008]

Make Employees Feel Valued

whitepaper That weather report - fair or foul - is broadcast endlessly to customers, vendors, suppliers, and everyone else in the industry. How one manages the staff and handle their conflicts and goals directly influences the company climate.

Tags: it hr - staffing - training

[11 May 2008]

Managed File Transfer and the PCI Data Security Standards

whitepaper The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) are intended for use by merchants, financial processors, point-of-sale vendors, and banks, credit unions and other financial institutions that transmit, process and/or store credit...

Tags: security standards

[09 May 2008]

Effectively Marketing Your SaaS Offering

whitepaper In order to reach these potential customers, however, software vendors must develop and implement an effective marketing strategy now. The Software as a Service (SaaS) and Web application delivery model presents significant new sales opportunities.

Tags: business strategies

[09 May 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Licensed to bill

Comment This all seems part of a wider pattern, where the publicity machines of the likes of the Federation Against Software Theft (Fast) pump out comments that suggest the civilised world is about to end unless ever more draconian legislation is passed...

Tags: licensing, piracy, software

[07 May 2008]

Warning: The Storm still rages on

News Some security vendors have reported that the influence of Storm is waning. A number of nascent Storm hosting domains using fast-flux techniques to mask their URLs have been identified by the security company, which issued a warning this week.

Tags: malware, botnet, storm

[07 May 2008]

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