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White Paper Citizants: Bringing IT In-House Read how one company enhanced IT flexibility and scalability by creating an in-house virtualized infrastructure that will pay for itself in 18 months.

Tags: Citizant, Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, Information Technology, Management

Sponsored by: Dell EqualLogic
Date: November 2009
Dell EqualLogic
White Paper Bottom Line Impact of Virtualization Discover how virtualization can help you improve service to users, reduce costs, and more effectively manage risk across your entire IT infrastructure.

Tags: Cloud Computing, Hardware, IBM Corp., Storage, Storage Management

Sponsored by: IBM
Date: July 2009
IBM
White Paper Adaptive Server® Enterprise (ASE) Cluster Edition: Higher Application Service Levels at a Lower Cost Enjoy a higher ROI from your IT infrastructure with a proven, low-cost solution that greatly simplifies cluster deployment and administration.

Tags: Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Sybase Adaptive Server

Sponsored by: Sybase
Date: September 2009
Sybase
White Paper Business Continuity Planning - IT Survival Guide Learn how to begin the process of developing an effective business continuity plan designed to minimize the impact of disasters and reduce risk.

Tags: Business Continuity, Management, It Services, Information Technology, Disaster

Sponsored by: CA XOsoft
Date: November 2009
CA XOsoft
White Paper IBM WebSphere Portal for z/OS taps into System z, Web 2.0: Executive update See how to lower costs and extract value faster with more responsive, interactive and intuitive business applications from WebSphere Portal Version 6.1.

Tags: Application Servers, Web 2.0, Web, Software, Portals

Sponsored by: IBM
Date: December 2008
IBM
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White Paper Bottom Line Impact of Virtualization Decades of case-by-case deployments, uncoordinated platform choices and ad hoc upgrades to support growth have created fragmented, inefficient infrastructures in many organizations. Find out...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Hardware, IBM Corp., Storage, Storage Management

Sponsored by: IBM
Date: July 2009
IBM
Webcast Learn how Performance Metrics for Telcomm Expense Management Drive new ROIs and SLAs Metrics that force organizations to think about service level agreements and measurements differently Learn how new high performance telecom expense management solutions will increase your...

Tags: Cerylion Inc., Service Level Management, Roi/Tco, ROI, Performance

Sponsored by: Cerylion
Date: November 2009
Cerylion
White Paper ESG Lab Field Audit Many companies have successfully implemented Riverbed WDS solutions within their Cisco networks. This ESG Lab Field Audit documents the success that these Riverbed customers have...

Tags: Audit, Network Technology, Networking, Riverbed Technology Inc., Telephony

Sponsored by: Riverbed
Date: July 2007
Riverbed
White Paper VoIP: How to Plan for the Bandwidth and Calculate the Cost Savings The economic drivers for VoIP are catching the attention of CFOs, CIOs, and others involved in costs. Learn how to justify the costs of implementing...

Tags: Bandwidth, Cost Savings, Global Knowledge, Networking, Telecommunications

Sponsored by: Global Knowledge
Date: October 2005
Global Knowledge
White Paper TCP/IP Sleuthing--Troubleshooting TCP/IP Using Your Toolbox Discover how to use common operating-system tools to troubleshoot various problems that could exist in your network.

Tags: Global Knowledge, Network Technology, Networking, Tcp/Ip

Sponsored by: Global Knowledge
Date: May 2006
Global Knowledge
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White Paper QoS: What Is It? Why Do We Need It? Quality of Service (QoS) is the ability to treat packets differently as they transit a network device, based on the packet contents. Without QoS, all...

Tags: QoS

Sponsored by: Global Knowledge
Date: April 2008
Global Knowledge
White Paper Why Install IPv6 Instead Of IPv4? The original framers of ARPAnet did not foresee the growth of what is now known as the Internet, or that the IPv4 address structure would...

Tags: IPv4, IPv6, Networking

Sponsored by: Global Knowledge
Date: January 2009
Global Knowledge
White Paper How a Spanning Tree Works The way a switch learns Ethernet (MAC) addresses is by inspecting the Ethernet frame and recording the source MAC address in a dynamic table. The...

Tags: Ethernet, MAC, MAC Address, Networking

Sponsored by: Global Knowledge
Date: June 2009
Global Knowledge
White Paper Choosing the Right Analyzer for Your WLAN WLAN analyzers, sometimes called wireless sniffers, help troubleshoot wireless local area networks for poor signal strength, interference, station saturation, and other problems. This white paper...

Tags: Global Knowledge, LANs, Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless

Sponsored by: Global Knowledge
Date: July 2009
Global Knowledge
White Paper Subnetting Shortcuts One of the most challenging topics for many IT Professionals is subnet masking. This white paper will de-mystify the math behind subnetting, and provide examples...

Tags: Global Knowledge, Subnet

Sponsored by: Global Knowledge
Date: August 2009
Global Knowledge
White Paper Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g Technical 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...

Tags: Finance, Managerial Accounting, Oracle Corp., QoS, Roi/Tco

Sponsored by: Oracle
Date: June 2009
Oracle
White Paper 10 Steps to Control Wireless Costs Through Consumption Management In the telecom and data communications environment, the challenge is to strike the right balance between understanding corporate usage trends and adopting new technologies that...

Tags: MBG Expense Management, Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Telephony

Sponsored by: MBG Expense Management
Date: October 2009
MBG Expense Management
White Paper Service Level Definitions Implementation Agreement This document establishes a Frame Relay Forum Implementation Agreement on the definitions of transfer parameters that describe frame relay service performance. They are suitable for...

Tags: Agreement, Networking, Network Service Provider, Network Service, It service Management

Company: Frame Relay Forum
Date: August 1998
Frame Relay Forum
White Paper Fine-Tuning for IP QoS IP QoS (Quality of Service) is a highly effective way of getting more out of the existing LAN and point-to-point WAN connections. Furthermore, chances are...

Tags: IP, IP QoS, Networking

Company: CMP Media
Date: November 2000
CMP Media
White Paper Managing Enterprise Networks: Network Monitoring, Quality of Service Management and Intrusion Monitoring Network management challenges today go well beyond simple network availability. Issues like Quality of Service (QoS), Service Level Agreements (SLA), network growth/deployment, and most importantly,...

Tags: Enterprise Network, Intrusion, Monitoring, Network, Network Monitoring

Company: Niksun
Niksun
White Paper Quality of Service (QoS) Networking QoS refers to the capability of a network to provide better service to selected network traffic over various technologies, including Frame Relay, Asynchronous Transfer Mode...

Tags: Network, Networking, QoS

Company: Cisco Systems
Date: February 2003
Cisco Systems
White Paper Quality of Service in Distributed Systems Delivering quality of service (QOS) guarantees in distributed systems is fundamentally an end-to-end issue, that is, from application-to-application. Consider, for example, the remote access and...

Tags: Distributed System, QoS

Company: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Columbia University Department of Computer Science
White Paper A Quality of Service Architecture For applications relying on the transfer of multimedia, and in particular continuous media, it is essential that quality of service (QoS) is guaranteed system-wide, including...

Tags: Multimedia, QoS, QoS-A

Company: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: September 2000
Columbia University Department of Computer Science
White Paper Carrier Service-Level Agreements A service-level agreement (SLA) is an informal contract between a carrier and a customer that defines the terms of the carrier's responsibility to the customer...

Tags: Carrier, It Operations, It service Management, Service Level Management, SLA

Company: Visual Networks
Visual Networks
White Paper SLA Description: a Description of Service Level Agreements A description of Service Level Agreements. What are they, why are they needed, what are they comprised of, and how to create and implement them.The...

Tags: Information Technology, It Operations, It service Management, Service Level Management, SLA

Company: RL Information Consulting
Date: January 2002
RL Information Consulting
White Paper A Handbook for Successful VoIP Deployment: Network Testing, QoS, and More Deploying Voice over IP (VoIP) successfully in a data networkhas some unexpected pitfalls. In previous papers, we’ve explored how to do a Voice Readiness Assessment...

Tags: NetIQ Corp., Network, Networking, QoS, Telecommunications

Company: NetIQ
Date: January 2001
NetIQ
White Paper Top 25+ Reasons Web Applications Don’t Scale This white paper presents the most common performance bottlenecks identified and encountered during the testing of thousands of Web applications by Empirix and its consultants....

Tags: Cloud Computing, Empirix Inc., Web Application

Company: Empirix
Date: January 2003
Empirix
White Paper Gigabit Ethernet Technology and Solutions In a scenario all too familiar to network managers, users begin complaining of slower response times. Network management tools indicate that server CPU utilization is...

Tags: Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Intel Corp., Network, Network Technology

Company: Intel
Date: November 2001
Intel
White Paper Bandwidth Management Solutions for Service Providers and Enterprise LANs The paper describes the need of higher bandwidth. Companies are growing, adding new offices and remote sites, using technically advanced and powerful applications, and of...

Tags: Bandwidth, Business Services, IMC Networks, LAN, Service Provider

Company: IMC Networks
Date: April 2002
IMC Networks
White Paper AutoQoS for Voice Over IP (VoIP) Cisco IOS Software offers a portfolio of QoS features that enable customer networks to address voice, video, and data application requirements, and are extensively deployed...

Tags: Cisco IOS, Cisco Systems Inc., IP, QoS, VoIP

Company: Cisco Systems
Date: February 2003
Cisco Systems
White Paper Understanding Quality of Service (QoS): A Customer's Perspective This paper describes the evolution occurring in today's networks, explaining the various quality of service (QoS) protocols and why QoS is so important for effective...

Tags: Allied Telesis, Network, Networking, QoS

Company: Allied Telesis
Date: February 2002
Allied Telesis
White Paper PVQM - Proactive Voice Quality Monitoring This white paper discusses PVQM capabilities - which will allow enterprises and service providers to take voice quality management beyond traditional telephony to a level...

Tags: Business Services, Monitoring, Networking, Nortel Networks Corp., Telecom & Utilities

Company: Nortel Networks
Date: June 2003
Nortel Networks
White Paper Air Distribution Architecture Options for Mission Critical Facilities There are nine basic ways to use air to cool equipment in data centers and network rooms. These methods vary in performance, cost, and ease...

Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Strategy, Storage, Productivity, Performance Management

Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: April 2009
American Power Conversion (APC)
White Paper Network Readiness Assessment for Voice and Video over IP Preparing for voice and video over IP requires understanding current network traffic, determining network policies for traffic, and applying quality of service (QoS) controls over...

Tags: IP, Network, Network Technology, Networking, Packeteer

Company: Packeteer
Date: August 2003
Packeteer
White Paper Cisco - Capacity and Performance Management: Best Practices White Paper This paper examines the general capacity and performance issues, including the risks and potential capacity issues within networks. The paper also looks at the capacity...

Tags: Best Practice, Software, Performance Management, Performance, Human Resources

Company: Cisco Systems
Date: March 2003
Cisco Systems
Webcast Optimising Enterprise Network Bandwidth There are many solutions to improve WAN and application performance. In this Webcast, Gartner describes several solutions and how they can improve performance. Gartner's Neil...

Tags: Bandwidth, Enterprise Network, Gartner Inc., Networking, WANs

Company: Gartner
Gartner
White Paper Core Network Planning, Optimization and Forecasting in GSM/GPRS Networks This paper aims at identifying the main features of a proper POFTool that efficiently supports dimensioning and optimization studies for combined GSM / General Packet...

Tags: Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Forecasting, GPRS, GSM

Company: National Technical University of Athens
Date: July 2001
National Technical University of Athens
White Paper Improving Service Levels by Implementing Service level Management- A practical Guide Given the complexity and dynamic nature of today's IT enterprises, achieving the high levels of service users’ demand is a considerable challenge. This...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., It Management, It Operations, It service Management, Remedy Corp.

Company: BMC Remedy
BMC Remedy
White Paper QoS Parameters to Network Performance Metrics Mapping for SLA Monitoring This paper categorizes SLM into seven functions. The paper defines the concept of SLA monitoring in the network management layer. The most important factor in...

Tags: It Operations, It service Management, Network, QoS, Service Level Management

Company: Pohang University of Science And Technology
Date: January 2003
Pohang University of Science And Technology
White Paper Data Centers: Cisco Best Practices for Security and Performance Network service providers seeking Cisco® Powered Network Program membership must meet rigorous application requirements that, among other things, include network performance, network security, and customer...

Tags: Best Practice, Service Provider, Security, Performance, Networking

Company: Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems
White Paper Cisco Catalyst 3750 Metro Series Switch Enhanced Services Ports Deliver Advanced QoS Features for Metro Ethernet Service Providers Cisco Catalyst 3750 Metro Series switches are built with two types of ports - customer ports and Enhanced Services ports. Customer ports connect to end...

Tags: Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Catalyst 3750 Metro Series Switch, Cisco Systems Inc., Metro Ethernet, QoS

Company: Cisco Systems
Date: January 2004
Cisco Systems
White Paper A New Imperative: Total Service Quality Management for Wireline and Wireless Environments The concept of Total Service Quality Management is essential for companies competing in today's fixed-line, data services and wireless telecommunications markets. This approach to...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., It Operations, It service Management, Quality Management, Service Level Management

Company: Hewlett-Packard (HP)
Date: August 2004
Hewlett-Packard (HP)
White Paper Combining ITIL and Six Sigma to Improve Information Technology Service Management at General Electric ITIL defines the "what" of service management and Six Sigma defines the "how" of quality improvement. Together, they make a great combination for improving the...

Tags: Business Operations, Six Sigma, Quality, Process Improvement, ITIL

Company: BMC Software
Date: October 2004
BMC Software
White Paper IEEE 802.16 Medium Access Control and Service Provisioning This paper describes the IEEE 802.16 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and the 802.16 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols,...

Tags: IEEE 802.16, OFDMA, Service Provisioning, Wi-Fi, WiMAX

Company: Intel
Date: August 2004
Intel
Case Study Quality of Service and the Cisco Network The Cisco QoS story really started in 1995, when the Cisco IT team began implementing QoS policy link by link. Originally, administrators looked at traffic...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Network, QoS

Company: Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems

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