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- Gigabit Ethernet Enables Kverneland Group Deutschland to Boost Staff Productivity by Increasing the Speed of Its Network Dramatically
- Kverneland Group Deutschland GmbH is the German subsidiary of the world's largest specialised producer and distributor of agricultural and viticultural implements with headquarters in Kvernaland. Users at the company were being hindered by frequent network disconnections when trying to access vital data held on the company's file server. This was...
- Tags: Ethernet, Network, Gigabit Ethernet, Intel Corp., Kverneland Group Deutschland GmbH, Networking, File Servers, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
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- Microsoft Case Study: ONStor
- ONStor is a provider of scalable clustered NAS solutions that deliver cost effective open network file storage for the enterprise. ONStor implemented a Windows compatible file server using open, publicly available information on the CIFS Server Message Block SMB protocol. To ensure full Windows protocol compliance now and in the...
- Tags: ONStor, Microsoft Corp., File Server, File Servers, Storage Management, Microsoft Windows, Kerberos, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Security
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- From Vulnerable to Invincible: What Every SMB Needs to Know About Data Protection
- More than half the businesses that lose data in a disaster are out of business within two years. What would happen if a hacker compromised the file server? Or someone in the business inadvertently deleted critical files from a shared drive? How quickly could a person recover the data? Could...
- Tags: Iron Mountain Inc., Data Protection, Small And Medium Business, LiveVault Corp., Smb/Sme, File Servers, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Introduction to Creating a File Server
- This paper is a general guide to building a file server, for the inexperienced system administrator. While the principles are applicable to any system, the specifics are targeted towards a UNIX operating system. Both hardware and software concerns are addressed. The paper focuses on system design, leaving the exact implementation...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, File Server, File Servers, Storage Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware
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- Marketing Firm Experiences Smoother Reorganization With Digital Note-Taking Program
- For 55 years, the market research and consulting firm Cheskin has helped Fortune 500 clients build and refine their products and brands. With 70 employees in five cities, Cheskin collects and retains a vast amount of knowledge. Meeting notes, Web research, and client profiles were assembled on paper in file...
- Tags: Knowledge, Microsoft Corp., File Servers, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Office Suites, Marketing
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- RAID-II: A High-Bandwidth Network File Server
- The RAID Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks group at U. C. Berkeley built a prototype disk array called RAID-I. The bandwidth delivered to clients by RAID-I was severely limited by the memory system bandwidth of the disk array's host workstation. The authors designed the second prototype, RAID-II, to deliver more...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Disk, Disk Array, File Servers, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Portal Solution Helps Consultant Firm Improve Knowledge Management
- German strategic management consulting firm SMP AG historically supported its operations with a file server system built on Microsoft technology. As the company grew, there were only organisational rules for information management; however, they were not supported by formal processes and IT-Infrastructure for information storage. Information was stored in separate...
- Tags: Knowledge, Microsoft Corp., File Server, File Servers, Strategic Management, Storage Management, Portals, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Internet, Management
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- Florida Law Firm Ensures Its Data Is Available, Even if a Hurricane Strikes
- Ruden McClosky is one of Florida's largest and most prominent law firms, providing a full range of legal services and business solutions across 10 Florida offices and one office in Venezuela. The director of IT decided to set up a secondary data center in Chicago, IL (out of the path...
- Tags: Director Of Information Technology, XOSoft, Florida, Ruden McClosky, WANs, Litigation, File Servers, Data Centers, Networking, Network Technology, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
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- XOsoft's WANSync Business Continuity Platform Helps Richard Fleischman & Associates Inc. Keep Systems Availability High During East Coast Blackout
- Richard Fleischman & Associates Inc. RFA is a provider of network solutions that support New York-area portfolio managers and promote successful hedge fund management. RFA builds all of its networks with the highest availability possible, based on an advanced array of electrical and communications redundancies, which it has recently strengthened...
- Tags: XOSoft, RFA, File Servers, It Services, Investment, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
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- School District Complies With Federal Mandates by Deploying Security at the Internet Gateway
- Nationwide, school districts face a common dilemma - how to protect their IT infrastructure from viruses and spyware, and safeguard their student body from inappropriate Web sites. The school districts needed to comply with the Federal Children's Internet Protection Act CIPA that mandates to protect the students from inappropriate and...
- Tags: Trend Micro Inc., School District, File Servers, Internet, Storage Management, Servers, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware
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- File Cache Performance and Tuning
- The built-in Windows 2000 file cache is essential to the performance of Windows 2000 file servers. It is also an important factor in the performance of Microsoft Internet Information Server IIS as well as many other applications. The file cache is a specific, reserved area of virtual storage in the...
- Tags: Performance, O'Reilly Media Inc., Microsoft IIS Server, Performance Management, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, File Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software
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- Data Protection for HP Servers
- Symantec Backup Exec 11d for Windows Servers is the industry-leading Microsoft Windows data protection and recovery solution designed for disk and tape, providing comprehensive, cost-effective, and certified backup and recovery - now including continuous data protection for Microsoft Exchange, file servers, and desktop and laptop workstations.
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Data Protection, HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Disaster Recovery, Backups, Microsoft Windows, File Servers, Servers, Security, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware
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- Evaluation of Enterprise-Class Solutions Leads to the Selection of Trend Micro NeatSuite
- CCS Income Trust provides technology and services to the world's largest operations. CCS Income Trust provides premium, integrated energy and environmental waste management services to some of the world's biggest companies. With the acquisition of Hazco, the company decided that it was time for a new comprehensive security solution to...
- Tags: Trend Micro Inc., CCS Income Trust, File Servers, Internet, E-mail Servers, Storage Management, Servers, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Storage, Hardware
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- Meijer Inc. Shops for File Services With Higher Standards and Rings Up Super-Combo HP NAS-SAN
- In 70 years, Meijer Inc. has grown from a corner grocery store in the midst of the Depression to one of the largest privately held companies today. Over time, Meijer realized that it was extremely costly and ineffective to support and upgrade multiple configurations on more than 150 distributed file...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Standards, File Servers, Utility Computing, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
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- TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Deployed File Server Resource Manager (Level 300)
- With the increasing demand on storage resources, Information Technology IT administrators must oversee larger and more complex storage infrastructures yet still track the kinds of information available in it. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 File Server Resource Manager allows administrators to understand, control, and manage the quantity and type of...
- Tags: Webcast, Information Technology, Server, Microsoft Corp., File Server, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 File Server Resource Manager, File Servers, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
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- Free 30 Day Trial: Sophos Endpoint Security and Control
- Sophos Endpoint Security makes it easy to secure your desktops, laptops, mobile devices and file servers from viruses, spyware, adware, potentially unwanted applications PUAs, and hackers, so you no longer need to manage multiple products to stop different threats. You can even stop your staff from using unauthorized software such...
- Tags: Sophos Plc., File Servers, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Sun Software Products Help Los Alamos National Laboratory Link to the Internet
- Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico played a key role in the Human Genome Program HGP. Database administrator for the Center for Human Genome Studies, Los Alamos has relied on Sun technology for it's main computing power for over a decade. The main file server and Sybase...
- Tags: Internet, Software Product, Sun Microsystems Inc., Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sun Solaris, File Servers, Workstations, Storage, UNIX, Databases, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Data Management
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- Retailer Shops for File Services With Higher Standards and Rings Up Super-Combo HP NAS-SAN
- Meijer Inc., located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a family-owned grocery and general merchandise retailer with over 150 stores across the Midwest that feature more than 120,000 national brands and private-label products. A retail IT environment dependent on file servers distributed throughout the company's 150 locations made it too costly...
- Tags: Information Technology, Retail Company, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Retail, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), File Servers, Quality, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
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- Softbank Investment Data Is Available - And Safe With StorageTek L20/L40
- Softbank Investment Corporation Softbank Investment constitutes the core of the Softbank Group's venture capital operations. Softbank Investment operates a total of five servers, beginning with its key Solaris + Oracle-based system for managing the various funds, and including a consolidated accounting system, a Windows NT server-run accounting system, an intranet...
- Tags: Softbank Corp., StorageTek, Softbank Investment, Venture Capital, File Servers, Investment, Servers, Finance, Financing Startups, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
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- Morneau Sobeco Improves Project Success and Customer Satisfaction With eProject Enterprise
- Morneau Sobeco delivers outsourcing solutions to support the ongoing administration of health & welfare benefit and pension plans. Prior to implementing eProject, Morneau Sobeco kept project schedules, issue tracking spreadsheets, and documents on file servers and circulated them as email attachments. This created several challenges. Communication via email was at...
- Tags: eProject Inc., Customer Satisfaction, Morneau Sobeco, File Servers, E-mail, Outsourcing, Storage Management, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Human Resources
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