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White Papers
Fundamental Principles of Network Security
Apr 2009
Security incidents are rising at an alarming rate every year. As the complexity of the threats increases, so do the security measures required to protect networks. Data center operators, network...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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White Papers
Building a Scalable Data Warehouse Solution
Apr 2009
This paper presents storage architecture for an Oracle data warehouse solution. Key architectural features include scalable capacity from 30TB to over 2PB and performance up to 32GB/sec. In...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers - Video
The Cloud-Ready Data Center
Oct 2011
A video introduction to the Cisco Unified Data Center - the solution to expand the IT infrastructure from the physical, to the virtual, to the world of many clouds. Watch now.
Provided by Cisco Systems, Inc
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White Papers
Airflow Uniformity Through Perforated Tiles in a Raised-Floor Data Center
Apr 2011
Perforated tiles on a raised floor often deliver substantially more or less airflow than expected, resulting in inefficiencies and even equipment failure due to inadequate cooling. In this paper,...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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White Papers
Determining Total Cost of Ownership for Data Center and Network Room Infrastructure
Dec 2005
This paper describes an improved method for measuring Total Cost of Ownership of data center and network room physical infrastructure and relating these costs to the overall Information Technology...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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White Papers
Clipper Group Analyst Paper on SVC
Jul 2011
The typical data center is in the midst of radical change, consolidating under-utilized server sprawl onto fewer, more efficient multi-core platforms. Read this white paper to see how Solid State...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
IBM eserver pSeries and AIX Performance Considerations
Feb 2003
This paper outlines the results obtained from the analysis of AIX 5L v5.1 on maintenance level 5.1.15. This is designed to characterize the performance of AIX 5L v5.1 and, where possible, provide...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Monitor services in the cloud: Tips, tricks and tools
Apr 2011
Are you getting the most you can out of your resource utilization? This technical note features two scenarios designed to illustrate the technical process of monitoring cloud services. Learn more...
Provided by IBM
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Research
Mastering M&A: The CIO's Game Plan
Jan 2006
Few IT organizations have expertise integrating IT after mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity, yet business success is dependent upon IT's successful integration. Without a well-thought-out and...
Provided by Forrester Research
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White Papers
Scalability for Social Network Analysis Algorithms
Jun 2010
A Social network is a social structure made up of individuals called "Nodes" which are tied by "Edges". One example of a source for social network analysis is traffic in a mobile telephony network...
Provided by Uppsala University
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White Papers
Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g Technical
Jun 2009
Businesses want to minimize the cost of running business-critical applications, deliver new products and services at light speed for competitive advantage, and cope with ever-increasing customer...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Planning for Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging Deployment and Scalability (Level 300)
Apr 2008
The focus of this webcast is on proper planning for Unified Messaging to provide an efficient and simple deployment model that is highly scalable - without increasing the complexity of the...
Provided by Microsoft Tips
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White Papers
Amanda Enterprise: An Introduction
Aug 2008
This paper provides a technical overview of Amanda Enterprise. It describes design and operations of Amanda Enterprise and how it is unique in its ease of use, flexibility and scalability. As...
Provided by Zmanda
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Webcasts
On-Demand Webcast: IT As A Service
Oct 2008
The presenters of this webcast discuss the pros and cons of consuming IT resources and network bandwidth as an on-demand service. Benefits include a scalable infrastructure, usage-based pricing...
Provided by AT&T Intellectual Property
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White Papers
A Cloud Computing Architecture Framework for Scalable RFID
Mar 2010
RFID is a leading edge technology with some bleed points. Some of the issues in RFID are preventing it from gaining everyday acceptance. Such performance issues associated with RFID systems are...
Provided by www.jiit.ac.in
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Case Studies
Growing Pains: Staffing For Scalability
Sep 2004
This article from Cisco's iQ Magazine focuses on how four growing companies use their network infrastructures to help them get the people skills they need regardless of geographic locations.
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Strategy Guide To Converged Infrastructure In The Branch Office
Jul 2011
Most branches are added in a less-than-organized fashion. Each branch may have different brands and models of hardware of varying age, a variety of nonstandard applications and a networking...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
New TechNet Webcast: Windows Server 2008 Performance and Scalability
Feb 2008
This webcast presents a discussion of Windows Server 2008 performance features, results, and references. In this webcast, the presenter explores the themes behind the performance investments on...
Provided by Microsoft
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Resource Center
Network Security for Small Business: Things to Consider
Sep 2008
Securing your network isn't just a defensive strategy. Read about the other benefits of a secure network.
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Compliance Management in Environmental Health & Safety
Mar 2012
Aberdeen research report on how best in class companies manage Environmental Health & Safety processes and technology while out performing their peers.
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Releasing the Latent Value of CA TLMS Tape Management
Feb 2009
For over 30 years, CA TLMS Tape Management (CA TLMS) has delivered rock-solid tape data protection, library management and automation to enterprises that process thousands of tape files daily. It...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Implementing Oracle E-Business Suite R12 on the EMC Celerra Unified Storage Platform: Applied Technology
Mar 2009
A highly scalable and available architecture for Oracle E-Business Suite R12 environments can be deployed using the Celerra Unified Storage Platform and common Intel x86 servers with the Linux...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
EMC CLARiiON CX4-480 (42,000 User) Storage Solution for Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1
Aug 2008
The CX4-480 is a versatile and cost-effective solution for organizations seeking an alternative to server-based storage. The EMC CLARiiON CX4-480 delivers performance, scalability and advanced...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
BiotechCorp's Scalable Networking System Improves Support to Stakeholders and Industry Participants
Mar 2008
Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation (BiotechCorp) was set up by the government as the national agency for the development of biotechnology in Malaysia. Biotechnology is expected to generate an...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Mercadolibre, Inc. Increases User Base by More Than Three Million With a Scalable IT Infrastructure
Jun 2009
Mercadolibre, Inc. wanted to create a scalable, highly available IT infrastructure to sustain the growth of its online marketplace for users and consumers and establish a robust, easy-to-access...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Tesoreria General de la Republica de Chile Uses Scalable Platform to Create a Tax Payment Web Site
Jun 2009
Treasury Department wanted to replace obsolete systems with a scalable platform to improve and automate the extraction and administration of data related to handling public funds and creates a...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Tublip S.A. Sustains an Active User Market on the Web With a Solid, Scalable IT Infrastructure
Jul 2009
Tublip wanted to implement a solid, flexible, and scalable Web-based platform to promote and sell musical and artistic content online and provide a robust, high-availability database to manage...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Cloud Computing for the Enterprise: Part 2: WebSphere sMash and DB2 Express-C on the Amazon EC2 Public Cloud
May 2009
Among the three cloud types - public, private, and hybrid clouds - the public cloud is probably the most well-known and mature in its offerings. Accessibility and affordability are two of the key...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Scalable Alternatives to Virtual Output Queuing
Feb 2009
To avoid head of line blocking in switches, Virtual Output Queues (VOQs) are commonly used. However, the number of VOQs grows quadratically with the number of ports, making this approach...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System 5.0 From Symantec - Performance and Scalability Analysis: Extended Write Workload
Dec 2007
This white paper focuses on the performance and scalability of Veritas Cluster File System 5.0 in two workloads - a sequential write workload and an NFS file serving workload - in a configuration...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Virtual Appliances Offer Effective, Scalable Messaging Security: Virtual Appliance Messaging Security - The Simplicity of an Appliance With Virtual Flexibility
Aug 2008
The periodic and "Bursty" nature of both email and spam volume forces organizations to choose between maintaining message security resources geared to peak traffic conditions that are then...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Scale-Out Scalability of the Pentaho BI Platform
Mar 2008
This paper contains the description of a method used to measure the performance of a BI platform. Also included, are ways in which to use these measurements to determine the scalability of a BI...
Provided by Pentaho
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White Papers
Five Strategies to Help You Carve Out Costs With Open Source Solutions From Red Hat
Feb 2009
In today's economic climate, everyone's feeling the pressure. No industry is safe. And no one can comfortably predict just when things will turn around. The solution is open source. Red Hat offers...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Platform: Extending the Reach of Virtualization
Feb 2009
Virtualization is transforming the way organizations deploy and manage their IT resources. By helping them more efficiently utilize hardware, software, and personnel, virtualization enables them...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
Deploying Higher Level Building Blocks for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing Datacenters: How Tightly Coupled Data Access Appliances Simplify Scaling, Decrease Business Complexity, and Cut TCO
May 2009
Today's Web and cloud computing datacenters have reached a critical juncture as exploding demand for their services has collided with existing architectures and technologies. These datacenters...
Provided by Schoonover Associates
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White Papers
Mainframe Reliability on Industry-Standard Servers: Intel Itanium-Based Servers Are Changing the Economics of Mission-Critical Computing
Dec 2007
Downtime costs are skyrocketing in today's real-time, 24/7 business world. Intel Itanium-based servers offer a cost-effective solution, with enterprise-class systems that rival mainframes and...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Competitive SAN Local Switching Solution: Limiting Scalability, Not Improving It
May 2009
Local switching is switching in which traffic does not traverse the backplane of a switch but rather stays on a line card. This concept is positioned as a method for increasing the available...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
IPTV: More Than a Pretty Picture
Mar 2009
IPTV is a game-changing technology. But for telecommunications providers to successfully roll out and drive customer adoption of IPTV services, they must leverage the interactivity delivered by...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
PS Series Comprehensive Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange
Jan 2009
PS Series iSCSI SANs deliver high-performance, fully redundant, highly available storage platforms for Exchange deployments — supporting departmental to mission critical Windows® server...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Case Studies
EMC Helps Save US$3 Million and Ensures Scalability With Consolidated Grid Computing Solution
Jul 2009
EMC Corporation wanted to contain costs for the large, global services provider by enabling the company to migrate to lower cost commodity hardware and provide the flexibility to host databases in...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
A-MAC: Adaptive Medium Access Control for Next Generation Wireless Terminals
Jun 2007
Next Generation (NG) wireless networks are envisioned to provide high bandwidth to mobile users via bandwidth aggregation over heterogeneous wireless architectures. NG wireless networks, however,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Anonymous Agents Coordination in Smart Spaces
Jul 2011
Rapid developments of communication, data processing and storage technologies, and continuing proliferation of consumer devices that surround user have created an opportunity for creation of a new...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
REST-Based Meta Web Services in Mobile Application Frameworks
Jul 2011
This paper describes how a multimodal dialogue application framework can be used to implement specific mobile applications and dynamic HTTP-based REST services. REST services are already publicly...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Analysis of Reliable and Scalable Video-On-Demand Networks
Jul 2011
Various architectures have been proposed and implemented to handle the rapid growth in demand for video delivering technologies. This paper implements and thoroughly examines various...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Scalability of Distributed Dynamic Load Balancing Mechanisms
Jul 2011
A load balancing mechanism for large-scale systems should be distributed and dynamic in order to accomplish scalability and high availability. Also, it should be autonomic in order to ease network...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Debit: A Diversity-Based Method for Implicit Role Transition in RBAC Deployments
Sep 2011
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is a widely used access control paradigm in operating system due to its simplicity, scalability and fine-grained control ability. Current approaches need re-login...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Financial Business Cloud for High-Frequency Trading
Jul 2011
This paper defines a new business cloud model to create an efficient high-frequency trading platform. High-frequency trading systems, built to analyze trends in tick-by-tick financial data and...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
NetTopo: A Framework of Simulation and Visualization for Wireless Sensor Networks
Oct 2008
Network simulators are necessary for testing algorithms of large scale Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), but lack the accuracy of real-world deployments. Deploying real WSN testbed provides a more...
Provided by National University Of Ireland
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White Papers
Resolving Inter-Domain Routing Policy Disputes at Run-Time With Scalability Consideration
Dec 2009
Thousands of Autonomous Systems (ASes) cooperate with each other to provide global Internet connectivity. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is currently the only inter-domain routing protocol...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Simulation and Analysis of a QoS Multipath Routing Protocol for Smart Electricity Networks
Apr 2011
This paper presents several considerations that must be taken into account in the design of a QoS multipath routing protocol suitable for Smart Electricity Networks (SENs). The main goal is to...
Provided by IARIA
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White Papers
Redundancy-Aware Topology Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
Oct 2006
Extending the lifetime of wireless sensor networks remains the most challenging and demanding requirement that impedes large-scale deployments. Studies show that considerable energy saving can be...
Provided by Wayne State University
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White Papers
Cooperative Data Placement and Replication in Edge Cache Networks
Jan 2012
Cooperation among individual caches has proven to be an effective strategy to improve the scalability and performance of edge cache networks delivering dynamic web content. To date, research in...
Provided by University of Georgia
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White Papers
Privacy Protection in Participatory Sensing Applications Requiring Fine-Grained Locations
Jan 2011
The emerging participatory sensing applications have brought a privacy risk where users expose their location information. Most of the existing solutions preserve location privacy by generalizing...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
DMMP: A New Dynamic Mesh-Based Overlay Multicast Protocol Framework
Oct 2006
Multicasting can provide an efficient way of delivering data from a sender to a group of receivers. It has received much attention over the past decade because of an increasing demand for group...
Provided by University of Goettingen, Germany
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White Papers
Mouse Trapping: A Flow Data Reduction Method
May 2008
Flow based traffic measurement today is a very important tool for network management, but suffers from huge amounts of data and a lack of scalability. Therefore it is important to find methods to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Group-Decodable Diversity Embedded Space-Time Code
Dec 2009
Diversity embedded space-time code can be used to simultaneously transmit data streams with different diversity levels embedded. However, the decoding complexity of diversity embedded code is high...
Provided by Nanyang Technological University
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White Papers
Scalable Modulation for Video Transmission in Wireless Networks
Nov 2011
In conventional wireless systems with layered architectures, the PHYsical (PHY) layer equally treats all data streams from the upper layers and applies the same modulation and coding schemes to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Hybrid Distributed Stochastic Addressing Scheme for ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks
Oct 2011
This paper proposes hybrid distributed stochastic addressing (HDSA), which combines the advantages of distributed addressing and stochastic addressing, to solve the problems encountered when...
Provided by ETRI Journal
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White Papers
HMS: Towards Hierarchical Mapping System for ID/Locator Separation
Jun 2011
Recently, Internet Default Free Zone (DFZ) is facing a scalability problem due to the double use of the current Internet Protocol (IP) namespace. IP namespace is used for both the location finding...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Hierarchical Mapping System Approach for ID-to-Locator Resolution
Apr 2011
Internet Default Free Zone (DFZ) is facing today a serious scalability problem due to the double use of the current Internet Protocol (IP) name space. IP name space today is used both for location...
Provided by Kyung Hee University
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White Papers
An Efficient Destination-Based Data Management Policy for Vehicular Networks
Aug 2011
The Vehicular Ad hoc NETwork (VANET) takes the advantage of the relative mobility of the vehicles to opportunistically share dynamic information when they meet, aiming to avoid accidents and...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
An Adaptable Mobility-Aware Clustering Algorithm in Vehicular Networks
Sep 2011
The forthcoming Intelligent Transportation System aims to achieve safety and productivity in transportation using Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs) to support the communications system required....
Provided by Kyung Hee University
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White Papers
Coordination-Free Safety Messages Dissemination Protocol for Vehicular Network
Apr 2012
Many vehicular safety applications depend on the rapid and reliable dissemination of safety messages to vehicles at risk. In order to allow sufficient reaction time for emergency events in adverse...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Context-Aware Wireless Sensor Networks for Assisted Living and Residential Monitoring
Aug 2008
Improving the quality of healthcare and the prospects of "Aging in place" using wireless sensor technology requires solving difficult problems in scale, energy management, data access, security,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
GOAL: A Parsimonious Geographic Routing Protocol for Large Scale Sensor Networks
Sep 2011
Geographic routing protocols have attracted significant attention from the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) research community, because they are simple and scalable. In geographic routing, a source...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Distributed Server Migration for Scalable Internet Service Deployment
May 2008
The effectiveness of service provisioning in large-scale networks is highly dependent on the number and location of service facilities deployed at various hosts. The classical, centralized...
Provided by Boston University
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White Papers
Sum-Product Based Optimization for Scalable Video Streams in Peer-to-Peer Mesh Network
May 2011
Receiver heterogeneity of a P2P network can be effectively addressed by scalable video streams. Due to the discontinuous nature of scalable video, traditional convex-optimization approach is not...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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White Papers
An Event-Triggered Distributed Primal-Dual Algorithm for Network Utility Maximization
Aug 2009
Many problems associated with networked systems can be formulated as Network Utility Maximization (NUM) problems. This paper presents a distributed primal-dual algorithm for the NUM problem that...
Provided by University of Notre Dame
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White Papers
Characterization of Vision-Aided Indoor Localization and Landmark Routing
Mar 2012
GPS is the premier method of localization and way-finding in outdoor environments. Indoor environments prevent GPS from functioning properly or at all. RF-based solutions have been proposed using...
Provided by Northwestern University
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White Papers
Flexible Integration of Tunneling and Translation for IPv6 Transition
Nov 2011
The IPv6 transition problem has become the most urgent and practical obstacle holding back the development of the next generation Internet. Various translation and tunneling techniques have been...
Provided by Tsinghua University
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White Papers
Energy-Efficient Multihop Polling in Clusters of Two-Layered Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Feb 2008
In this paper, the authors study two-layered heterogeneous sensor networks where two types of nodes are deployed: the basic sensor nodes and the cluster head nodes. The basic sensor nodes are...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
DSRP: Distributed SensorWeb Routing Protocol
Jan 2011
The authors propose a new multi-hop routing protocol for wireless sensor networks, suited for monitoring and control applications. The aim of this research is to adapt flat and hierarchical...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Schedule-Driven Coordination for Real-Time Traffic Network Control
Apr 2012
Real-time optimization of the dynamic flow of vehicle traffic through a network of signalized intersections is an important practical problem. In this paper, the authors take a decentralized,...
Provided by Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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White Papers
MASY: MAnagement of Secret KeYs for Federated Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
Mar 2011
Wireless Sensor Networks are becoming federated and mobile environments. These new capabilities pose a lot of new possibilities and challenges. One of these challenges is to create a secure...
Provided by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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White Papers
Maestro: A System for Scalable OpenFlow Control
Jan 2012
The fundamental feature of an OpenFlow network is that the controller is responsible for the initial establishment of every flow by contacting related switches. Thus, the performance of the...
Provided by Rice University
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White Papers
Speeding Multicast by Acknowledgment Reduction Technique (SMART)
Sep 2011
The authors present a novel feedback protocol for wireless broadcast networks that utilize linear network coding. They consider transmission of packets from one source to many receivers over a...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Implementation and Evaluation of A-GAP: Adaptive Monitoring With Controllable Accuracy
Aug 2007
The authors report on the implementation and prototype evaluation of A-GAP, a protocol for continuous monitoring of network state variables, which are computed from device counters using...
Provided by KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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White Papers
PLL Based Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jun 2009
Time synchronization is a key component in numerous wireless sensor network applications. Most of the current software based time synchronization approaches suffer from communication overhead and...
Provided by Tennessee State University
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White Papers
Compressed Wideband Sensing in Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks
Dec 2008
In emerging Cognitive Radio (CR) networks with spectrum sharing, the first cognitive task preceding any dynamic spectrum access is the sensing and identification of spectral holes in wireless...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Energy-Efficient Decentralized Event Detection in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks
Sep 2009
This paper addresses the problem of decentralized event detection in large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Comparing with centralized or hierarchical solutions, decentralized algorithms are...
Provided by University of Science and Technology of China
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White Papers
Releasing the Latent Value of CA TLMS Tape Management
Feb 2009
For over 30 years, CA TLMS Tape Management (CA TLMS) has delivered rock-solid tape data protection, library management and automation to enterprises that process thousands of tape files daily. It...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Implementing Oracle E-Business Suite R12 on the EMC Celerra Unified Storage Platform: Applied Technology
Mar 2009
A highly scalable and available architecture for Oracle E-Business Suite R12 environments can be deployed using the Celerra Unified Storage Platform and common Intel x86 servers with the Linux...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
EMC CLARiiON CX4-480 (42,000 User) Storage Solution for Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1
Aug 2008
The CX4-480 is a versatile and cost-effective solution for organizations seeking an alternative to server-based storage. The EMC CLARiiON CX4-480 delivers performance, scalability and advanced...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
BiotechCorp's Scalable Networking System Improves Support to Stakeholders and Industry Participants
Mar 2008
Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation (BiotechCorp) was set up by the government as the national agency for the development of biotechnology in Malaysia. Biotechnology is expected to generate an...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Mercadolibre, Inc. Increases User Base by More Than Three Million With a Scalable IT Infrastructure
Jun 2009
Mercadolibre, Inc. wanted to create a scalable, highly available IT infrastructure to sustain the growth of its online marketplace for users and consumers and establish a robust, easy-to-access...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Tesoreria General de la Republica de Chile Uses Scalable Platform to Create a Tax Payment Web Site
Jun 2009
Treasury Department wanted to replace obsolete systems with a scalable platform to improve and automate the extraction and administration of data related to handling public funds and creates a...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Tublip S.A. Sustains an Active User Market on the Web With a Solid, Scalable IT Infrastructure
Jul 2009
Tublip wanted to implement a solid, flexible, and scalable Web-based platform to promote and sell musical and artistic content online and provide a robust, high-availability database to manage...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Cloud Computing for the Enterprise: Part 2: WebSphere sMash and DB2 Express-C on the Amazon EC2 Public Cloud
May 2009
Among the three cloud types - public, private, and hybrid clouds - the public cloud is probably the most well-known and mature in its offerings. Accessibility and affordability are two of the key...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Scalable Alternatives to Virtual Output Queuing
Feb 2009
To avoid head of line blocking in switches, Virtual Output Queues (VOQs) are commonly used. However, the number of VOQs grows quadratically with the number of ports, making this approach...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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White Papers
Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System 5.0 From Symantec - Performance and Scalability Analysis: Extended Write Workload
Dec 2007
This white paper focuses on the performance and scalability of Veritas Cluster File System 5.0 in two workloads - a sequential write workload and an NFS file serving workload - in a configuration...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Virtual Appliances Offer Effective, Scalable Messaging Security: Virtual Appliance Messaging Security - The Simplicity of an Appliance With Virtual Flexibility
Aug 2008
The periodic and "Bursty" nature of both email and spam volume forces organizations to choose between maintaining message security resources geared to peak traffic conditions that are then...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Scale-Out Scalability of the Pentaho BI Platform
Mar 2008
This paper contains the description of a method used to measure the performance of a BI platform. Also included, are ways in which to use these measurements to determine the scalability of a BI...
Provided by Pentaho
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White Papers
Five Strategies to Help You Carve Out Costs With Open Source Solutions From Red Hat
Feb 2009
In today's economic climate, everyone's feeling the pressure. No industry is safe. And no one can comfortably predict just when things will turn around. The solution is open source. Red Hat offers...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Platform: Extending the Reach of Virtualization
Feb 2009
Virtualization is transforming the way organizations deploy and manage their IT resources. By helping them more efficiently utilize hardware, software, and personnel, virtualization enables them...
Provided by Red Hat
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White Papers
Deploying Higher Level Building Blocks for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing Datacenters: How Tightly Coupled Data Access Appliances Simplify Scaling, Decrease Business Complexity, and Cut TCO
May 2009
Today's Web and cloud computing datacenters have reached a critical juncture as exploding demand for their services has collided with existing architectures and technologies. These datacenters...
Provided by Schoonover Associates
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White Papers
Mainframe Reliability on Industry-Standard Servers: Intel Itanium-Based Servers Are Changing the Economics of Mission-Critical Computing
Dec 2007
Downtime costs are skyrocketing in today's real-time, 24/7 business world. Intel Itanium-based servers offer a cost-effective solution, with enterprise-class systems that rival mainframes and...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Competitive SAN Local Switching Solution: Limiting Scalability, Not Improving It
May 2009
Local switching is switching in which traffic does not traverse the backplane of a switch but rather stays on a line card. This concept is positioned as a method for increasing the available...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
IPTV: More Than a Pretty Picture
Mar 2009
IPTV is a game-changing technology. But for telecommunications providers to successfully roll out and drive customer adoption of IPTV services, they must leverage the interactivity delivered by...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
PS Series Comprehensive Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange
Jan 2009
PS Series iSCSI SANs deliver high-performance, fully redundant, highly available storage platforms for Exchange deployments — supporting departmental to mission critical Windows® server...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Case Studies
EMC Helps Save US$3 Million and Ensures Scalability With Consolidated Grid Computing Solution
Jul 2009
EMC Corporation wanted to contain costs for the large, global services provider by enabling the company to migrate to lower cost commodity hardware and provide the flexibility to host databases in...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Telenet Meets Growing Customer Demand for Digital Television Service With Highly Scalable IT Platform
Jul 2009
Telenet wanted to meet the growing demand for digital television services and provide a new core server platform for digital television services to support the company's elevated growth rate and...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
The Multi-Tiered Hybrid Data Center: An Innovative Design Model for Cost Reduction and Facilities Optimization
Mar 2009
By helping today's enterprises work within tightened budgetary constraints and realize more cost-effective and energy-efficient operation - while accommodating their continuing need to house...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Non-Profit Organization Redefines Itself as an Early IT Adopter With the Help of the AMD Opteron Processor
Jul 2008
Warm Beach Christian Camps and Conference Center (WBC) was growing in popularity: its camps were increasingly sold out and seasonal events such as "The Lights of Christmas" were bringing in tens...
Provided by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
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Case Studies
IBM Cognos Solution Helps Keep CiCi's Fresh
Jun 2009
Based in Coppell, Texas, CiCi's Enterprises, LP, operates 650 restaurants in 30 states and expects continued aggressive growth. It needed to create reliable, easily readable budgets and forecasts...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Carrier Call Gains Instant Return on Investment From No-Cost Upgrade That Will Power Exponential Growth
Aug 2008
Founded in 2002, Carrier Call provides management solutions that enable international voice carriers to leverage maximum revenue from their services through automated least-cost traffic routing,...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
HP Global Method for BI Implementation: Drive Business Value While Controlling Costs and Complexity
Feb 2009
Business Intelligence (BI) is powerful, providing organisations deep insight into key customers, vital industry trends and lucrative opportunities. Unfortunately, due to the size and complexity of...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
IBM Systems Solution for SAP Netweaver Business Warehouse Accelerator: Proven Scalability From Small to Jupiter-Sized Workloads
Apr 2009
Timely access to relevant information has always been critical to business success. Thousands and thousands of companies and institutions use SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse as the cornerstone...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network
Aug 2009
To be agile and cost effective, data centers should allow dynamic resource allocation across large server pools. In particular, the data center network should enable any server to be assigned to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Enterprise-Ready and Scalable: UFIDA U9 Software With SQL Server 2008
Jan 2009
This white paper describes how UFIDA uses Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to provide an enterprise-ready, highly scalable data platform for ERP-U9 applications. SQL Server 2008 enables businesses to...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
SAS Helps Improve Manufacturing Processes at Legendary Semiconductor Plant
Oct 2008
Just 20 years ago, semiconductor chip components were measured in microns, or thousands of nanometers. Today, IBM builds chip components on 300mm wafers, using a 90-nanometer process for even...
Provided by SAS Institute
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Case Studies
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Scalability Benchmark Executive Summary
Jun 2009
Download the Executive Summary to learn more about how Microsoft Dynamics CRM delivered a new CRM industry scalability benchmark record and redefined the price-performance equation with 50,000...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Management Strategy for Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure
Sep 2009
When choosing a management solution for the physical infrastructure of IT networks, management of individual devices is necessary in order to have visibility to the many data points required for...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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White Papers
SAMPLE: Performance and Scalability Assessment of Customer Implementation
Feb 2009
Microsoft Dynamics CRM business software is designed to help enterprise achieve a 360-degree view of their customers across marketing, sales, and service. Engineered to scale efficiently to the...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
eHarmony, Inc. Increases Database Scalability and Availability, Improves Customer Service
Aug 2009
eHarmony, Inc. is a pioneer in using relationship science to match singles seeking long-term relationships. Its services, available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom,...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Fucerep Centralizes Information and Accelerates Response Times in Its Business Processes
Sep 2008
Fucerep is a savings and loan cooperative that started operations over 30 years ago in Uruguay. Regulated by the Central Bank of Uruguay, it has four branches and 11,500 clients throughout the...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
MercadoLibre.com Supports Active, Growing Online Consumer Marketplace With Solid IT Infrastructure
Jan 2008
MercadoLibre.com, with operations in more than 12 countries, is the largest online market in Latin America. The company provides a forum in which thousands of people meet daily to buy and sell...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz, Mexico Improves Analysis With Integrated Information System
Oct 2009
Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz wanted to create a robust, flexible, and scalable information system to facilitate information gathering and provide access to up-to-date information for objective...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Improved Scalability Boosts Agora's Ability to Deliver Web-Based Advertising
Oct 2009
Agora SA wanted to improve the performance of the ad server supporting Gazeta.pl and address a sudden increase in the volume of ads in the system, stemming from Agora's launch of an ad network...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
AVIT Deploys Intel Architecture to Enhance Performance and Scalability of IT Services for Egyptian Civil Aviation
Sep 2009
As the organisation responsible for providing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services and solutions to Egyptian airports, airlines and government bodies, AVIT is dedicated to...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Collaborating on Cost Savings: A Scalable Software Whitepaper
Nov 2009
It should surely therefore come as no surprise to anyone that IT executives are unlikely to own up to years of unnecessary expenditure, indeed it is more likely that they deny it and thus...
Provided by Scalable Software
