From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Wed 04 May 2005 - 17:54:16 EEST
Welcome to the ZDNet IT White Papers newsletter - your weekly highlights of the most important white papers and case studies recently posted in ZDNet's White Paper library. In this edition, we present white papers on Wide Area Networks (WAN), Database Management, Cost Control/Risk Mgmt, File & Network Servers and SLA.
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This Week's Top White Papers:
CATEGORY: Wide Area Networks (WAN)
TITLE: Why Adding Bandwidth Doesn't Solve WAN Application Performance problems
COMPANY: Riverbed
DESCRIPTION: Wide-area client-server applications are a critical part of almost every large enterprise. However, access to widely used and critical infrastructure across WANs (like file servers,mail servers and networked storage), is handicapped by very poor response time when compared to the performance across Local Area Networks (LAN). This white paper will explore the concerns surrounding WAN performance, and will detail a new approach that can help improve overall performance.
LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/66284/1498125/10198/0/
CATEGORY: Database Management
TITLE: MaxDB - The Professional DBMS
COMPANY: SAP
DESCRIPTION: MaxDB by MySQL is an enterprise DBMS, which offers ease-of-use and low cost of ownership combined with outstanding performance. Despite its suitability as an enterprise-class DBMS, the use of MaxDB is not restricted to multi-user server-based scenarios. As its ease-of-use capabilities are built in and not built around, it can also be used as a desktop or laptop DBMS. In these environments, its self-managing capabilities simply turn it into an invisible DBMS.
LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/66284/1498125/63490/0/
CATEGORY: Database Management
TITLE: SAS ETLQ: Revolutionizing the Data Integration Platform
COMPANY: SAS Institute
DESCRIPTION: Organizations depend on data. Regardless of industry, revenue size or the market it serves, every company relies on its data to produce information for business decision making. With so much riding on such information, it is critical to obtain cleansed and integrated data. SAS ETLQ provides automatic, up-to-date documentation and easy-to-use metadata management, so development and maintenance take less time.
LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/66284/1498125/63491/0/
CATEGORY: Cost Control/Risk Mgmt.
TITLE: Linux and Email Infrastructure: Freedom and Choice
COMPANY: Scalix
DESCRIPTION: After decades of relatively little change, electronic mail, the world's most ubiquitous application, is in great need of improvement. Issues of security, reliability, performance, cost of ownership and lock-in plague most organizations today. The disruptive shift brought about by Linux and open source has created a unique opportunity to define a new generation email infrastructure that supports the demands placed on today's systems. The strengths inherent to Linux -- open, secure, reliable, cost-effective, high performance -- make it a superior platform for email infrastructure.
LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/66284/1498125/58037/0/
CATEGORY: SLA
TITLE: Knowledge Management and ITIL: Creating the Adaptive Organization
COMPANY: ServiceWare
DESCRIPTION: The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) provides organizations with a framework for consistent IT Service Management (ITSM) over time. Knowledge Management principles complement and augment the ITIL framework, especially in the core processes of incident, problem and change management. ITIL provides guidance on the high-level process steps for recording an event, resolving the issue and reporting conditions. Knowledge is needed to resolve the issue.
LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/66284/1498125/63492/0/
CATEGORY: Wide Area Networks (WAN)
TITLE: Why Adding Bandwidth Doesn't Solve WAN Application Performance problems
COMPANY: Riverbed
DESCRIPTION: Wide-area client-server applications are a critical part of almost every large enterprise. However, access to widely used and critical infrastructure across WANs (like file servers,mail servers and networked storage), is handicapped by very poor response time when compared to the performance across Local Area Networks (LAN). This white paper will explore the concerns surrounding WAN performance, and will detail a new approach that can help improve overall performance.
LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/66284/1498125/10198/0/
CATEGORY: File & Network Servers
TITLE: Best Practice for Multi-Tier Network Security
COMPANY: Sophos
DESCRIPTION: This paper describes the different tiers which make up an organization's IT infrastructure and assesses the need for security at each access point. It also looks at the factors organizations need to take into account when deciding how to manage, and where to invest in, endpoint and gateway protection.
LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/66284/1498125/63493/0/
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