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- Infrastructure for Distributed Applications in Ad Hoc Networks of Small Mobile Wireless Devices
- Mobile wireless computing devices such as cellphones, pagers, personal digital assistants, pocket PCs, and tablet computers are all potential platforms for participating in small group, wireless, many-to-many distributed applications. The networking technology needed to support such applications is readily available. However, almost all existing middleware infrastructure for distributed applications was...
- Tags: Advertisement, Mobile, Network, Wireless Device, Middleware, Distributed Computing, Anhinga Infrastructure, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Network Technology, Networking
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- Momentum Webcast: Introduction to the Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimization Model (Level 100)
- Infrastructure Optimization IO is the systematic process of reducing the complexity and costs associated with managing an IT infrastructure while improving its security and stability to achieve enhanced productivity for both those who support the infrastructure and those who use the infrastructure to accomplish the goals of the business. Microsoft...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Webcast, Optimization, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Infrastructure Optimization, Infrastructure Optimization Model, Strategy, Management
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- Microsoft Webcast: Infrastructure Optimization (Part 01 of 11): Realize the Value of IT Investments
- As an IT manager, one can use infrastructure optimization to realize the value of the company's IT infrastructure investments and make the IT infrastructure a strategic asset. Ultimately, infrastructure optimization helps organizations connect with people, information, and business processes to increase market responsiveness and helps eliminate inefficiencies. To that end,...
- Tags: Webcast, Optimization, Information Technology, IT Investment, Microsoft Corp., Infrastructure Optimization, Operational Planning, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
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- Confused Infrastructure Management Strategies
- Forrester recently surveyed IT decision-makers at 64 European financial services companies about their current situation and strategic plans regarding applications, application infrastructure, IT infrastructure, and IT infrastructure management. This paper will focus on survey results concerning data center strategies and infrastructure management. With a representative sample of banks, insurance companies,...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., It Services, It Management, Financial Accounting, Strategy, It service Management, Finance, Management
- White papers 2005-05-11
- Infrastructure Optimization
- An organization must obtain the best inputs and align technology imperatives with business imperatives. Therefore, business-IT alignment has become a top priority for most CIOs, be it to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations, enable faster time to market or increase customer intelligence. All the critical applications that create value rely on...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Optimization, Information Technology, Imperative, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Benefits of Upgrading to a 4Gb SAN Infrastructure
- Today's organizations must weigh the decision to upgrade to a 4Gb SAN infrastructure against their current and future service requirements in terms of functionality, scalability, and strategic growth. If self-containment is important, and the SAN infrastructure is performing adequately, it is likely that no changes need to occur. However, if...
- Tags: SAN, Benefit, Infrastructure, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Trusted Infrastructure
- Running a business requires the availability and reliability of the IT infrastructure, which underlies most critical business processes. The reliability of the IT infrastructure is paramount. It implements the appropriate technologies to secure the end-to-end IT infrastructure, including data centers, networks, productivity tools, end-user desktops, and wireless devices. A trusted...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, Information Technology, Storage, Security
- White papers 2006-02-07
- Improving Key Metrics for Application Infrastructure Management: Defining and Improving Application Infrastructure Management Metrics
- IT infrastructure is a broad term, potentially encompassing interrelated and dependent components from network switches to application and web servers. In this paper, the term application infrastructure is used to mean the set of infrastructure components above the operating system such as databases, messaging servers, application servers and web servers....
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Infrastructure Management, Server, Application Infrastructure Management, It Services, Web Servers, It Management, Internet, It service Management
- White papers 2006-01-09
- Exploring IT Architecture Disciplines, Part 4: Update Your Infrastructure Architecture to Serve and Protect Your Enterprise
- Now that one has supplemented the business architecture with an information architecture, one can move on to updating the existing infrastructure architecture. This update consists of a validation and a possible realignment of the infrastructure to meet the requirements outlined in both the business and the information architectures. Traditional enterprise...
- Tags: Information Technology, Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-09-19
- Cisco - Protecting Your Core: Infrastructure Protection Access Control Lists
- This white paper presents guidelines and recommended deployment techniques for infrastructure protection access control lists ACLs. Infrastructure ACLs are used to minimize the risk and effectiveness of direct infrastructure attack by explicitly permitting only authorized traffic to the infrastructure equipment while permitting all other transit traffic. The newly constructed ACL...
- Tags: Infrastructure Protection, Cisco Systems Inc., Access Control
- White papers 2003-08-08
- Critical Infrastructure and Key Assets: Definition and Identification
- This report reviews the concept and definition of "critical infrastructure" as it has appeared in federal reports, legislation and regulation since the early 1980s. The report highlights the changes and expansion of that definition as the focus of public policy debates shifted from infrastructure adequacy to infrastructure protection. Finally, the...
- Tags: Asset, Report, Congressional Research Service, Asset Management, Regulations, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Government, Marketing
- White papers 2004-10-01
- VMware Infrastructure Architecture Overview
- VMware Infrastructure is the industry's first full infrastructure virtualization suite that allows enterprises and small businesses alike to transform, manage and optimize their IT systems infrastructure through virtualization. VMware Infrastructure delivers comprehensive virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability and operational automation capabilities in an integrated offering. With a whole suite...
- Tags: VMware Inc., VMware Infrastructure, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2006-09-06
- Tips and Trends for Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection
- There are now 13 industry sectors classified as critical infrastructure. Identifying the assets, which collectively constitute a critical infrastructure sector, is not always easy to define. Regardless of the sector, however, securing any critical infrastructure from the constant and varied threat of terror requires flexibility, cooperation, and an understanding of...
- Tags: Infrastructure Protection, Sector, Homeland Security, Business Ethics, Government, Leadership, Management
- White papers 2004-12-23
- Defining IT Infrastructure Using Templates
- Defining the IT infrastructure, evaluate the alignment between the IT infrastructure and the appropriate business units, the business requirements, the services that IT provides, and a higher level definition of these areas.
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2002-01-22
- Application Infrastructure Management Best Practices: A Best Practices Based Approach to Infrastructure Configuration Management
- Application infrastructure configuration management is a core discipline necessary to effectively manage today's IT infrastructure. Highly-effective IT organizations often practice a common set of configuration management processes, and that's what this paper is about. The processes, policies and procedures that very-effective IT organizations use to manage application infrastructures. These represent...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Configuration Management, Best Practice, Application Infrastructure Configuration Management
- White papers 2006-01-04
- Building an Information Infrastructure to Optimize Your Virtual Infrastructure
- The presenter of this webcast builds an information infrastructure to optimize the virtual infrastructure.
- Tags: EMC Corp., Infrastructure, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts
- Wipro Technologies Builds Next-Generation Messaging Infrastructure to Deliver Agility, Availability, and Access
- Wipro Technologies has over 41,000 employees working in different parts of the world. It was faced by several challenges. In keeping with its growth, the IT infrastructure had become large, cumbersome, and complex. To be agile and yet provide high availability, Wipro needed to re-evaluate the IT infrastructure architecture. Using...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Microsoft Access, Wipro Technologies, Information Technology, Strategy, Management
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- Momentum Webcast: Introductory Session to Microsoft Core Infrastructure Optimization Model and Virtualization (Level 100)
- Infrastructure Optimization IO is the systematic process of reducing the complexity and costs associated with managing an IT infrastructure and improving its security and stability, with the goal of enhanced productivity for an organization and its people. The Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Model IOM provides a framework for identifying the people,...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Webcast, Optimization, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Infrastructure Optimization, Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Model, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Management
- Webcasts 2007-11-01
- Perspectives on Grid: Virtualization as a Foundation for SOA Environments - Synergies, Alignment, and the Relationship Between SOA and Infrastructure Virtualization
- SOA and infrastructure virtualization techniques are highly synergistic. As services take hold in enterprises, and their size and scale grows, it will become increasingly necessary to implement infrastructure virtualization techniques to support them. Without infrastructure virtualization, enterprises become exceedingly complex to manage and the primary benefits of agility and flexibility...
- Tags: SOA, Grid, Infrastructure Virtualization Technique, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Virtualization, Utility Computing, Web Services, Storage Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2006-06-27
- Protecting Your Core: Infrastructure Protection Access Control Lists
- In an effort to protect routers from various risks both accidental and malicious infrastructure protection Access Control Lists ACLs should be deployed at network ingress points. These IPv4 and IPv6 ACLs deny access from external sources to all infrastructure addresses, such as router interfaces. At the same time, the ACLs...
- Tags: Infrastructure Protection, Access Control List, Access Control, Infrastructure Access Control List
- White papers 2007-07-24
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