July 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This article presents an overview of the various Ethernet 10/100/1000 physical layer technologies for the copper medium. It discusses the pros and cons of active versus passive tapping and why active tapping is preferred for Gigabit Ethernet running over the copper medium. The switch-over behavior of active relay-based tapping is also presented.
May 2008 - (Free Research) The calibration method described in this article can be applied to any analog measurement such as pressure, amperage, weight, length or force.
April 2009 - (Free Research) The articles in this E-Guide include "Application performance management: Developing a strategy", "Understanding the network application environment", and "Application performance management: How to prepare for new applications with an impact analysis". If you've got a question about application performance management, the answer is probably here.
November 2009 - (Free Research) No single technology guarantees security, however application whitelisting covers situations not addressed by firewalls or anti-virus utilities. This paper focuses on how application whitelisting can be effectively used as an important layer in your security scenario.
November 2009 - (Free Research) No single technology guarantees security, but application whitelisting covers situations not addressed by firewalls or anti-virus utilities. This webinar focuses on how application whitelisting can be effectively used as an important layer in your security scenario.
November 2009 - (Free Research) The Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution is part of Microsoft's Business Ready Security approach. The Identity and Access Management solution enables more secure, identity-based access to applications both on-premises and in-the-cloud from virtually any location or device. Read this data sheet to learn more!
November 2009 - (Free Research) The ever present demand to maximise the value delivered by business-critical applications requires that we optimise the use of all the resources that execute and manage them. BMC Software is one of the major vendors offering such support and has a highly regarded set of solutions collectively called BMC SQL Performance for DB2.
July 2009 - (Free Research) According to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. In this videocast W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data.
October 2008 - (Free Research) Virtualization is one of the hottest technologies in IT infrastructure today. Intel is helping enable the next generation of virtualization usage efficiently. Virtualization 2.0 focuses on increasing service efficiency through flexible resource management. In the near future, this usage model will become absolutely critical to data centers.
November 2009 - (Free Research) The ARRA was enacted to jumpstart the US economy and drive it out of the recession. One of the requirements of the recovery act is that organizations that receive funds for projects must report on the outcomes of those projects. Read on to learn what these executives and managers plan to do to meet the reporting and compliance mandates.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This paper proposes several sample virtualization architectures based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are based on the features and capacity of each product, as well as the complexity of the overall architecture.
September 2008 - (Free Research) The support team for Microsoft SQL Server has published guidelines for virtualizing this database engine. Read this paper to learn how to move forward with the process and create supported SQL Server virtual machines (VMs) that can be hosted on Dell PowerEdge servers.
November 2009 - (Free Research) What will be most important to IT organizations over the next 12 months? It's probably no surprise that cost control or reduction in spending is the key priority. This white paper looks at the near-term activities of the IT organizations surveyed by TechTarget, along with their constraints, issues, motivating factors, and strategies.
October 2009 - (Free Research) This paper explains how whitelisting (accepting only applications and behaviors that are on the approved list and denying everything else) provides a lighter, more agile alternative to blacklisting as a means to protect networks and end points.
August 2009 - (Free Research) Check out this paper to learn about McAfee Change Control, an operational-friendly, low-touch and low overhead software that can be deployed on a wide range of hardware platforms. McAfee Change Control provides change control on servers, network devices (including switches, routers and firewalls), and databases.
August 2009 - (Free Research) McAfee PCI Pro provides a comprehensive file integrity monitoring (FIM), audit trail and network configuration audit solution designed to help merchants and service providers quickly, easily and cost-effectively meet the following requirements of v 1.2 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
November 2009 - (Free Research) The economic downturn is no time to compromise on data availability, especially when storage virtualization software has made it possible to eliminate costly, storage-related downtime without paying a premium.
July 2009 - (Free Research) Virtualization is among the technologies that have become increasingly attractive in the current economic climate, with good reason. Organizations are implementing virtualization solutions to obtain several functional benefits. But achieving these can be challenging.
June 2009 - (Free Research) The Microsoft® Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2008 provides unified processes and tools for desktop and server OS deployment using a common deployment console and a collection of best practices. The toolkit provides a single mechanism for image creation and an automated installation process to reduce deployment time.
November 2009 - (Free Research) MySpace knows better than anyone the high demands that consumers can make on application and web servers. It maintains two sets of servers depending on application transaction load. Even so, continued transaction growth on these servers was resulting in poor performance. MySpace decided to give Fusion-io a try.
December 2009 - (Free Research) Lotus shops that have adopted Microsoft SharePoint are struggling to meet their collaboration goals. Learn how to promote user adoption by integrating SharePoint with email, and review IT options for integrating the two channels – including email migration and Notes-SharePoint coexistence strategies. Register Now!
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