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Network Performance Management is the discipline of optimizing how networks function, trying to deliver the lowest latency, highest capacity, and maximum reliability despite intermittent failures and limited bandwidth.
 
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U.S. Data Centers: The Calm Before the Storm

By : Dell EqualLogic Published Date: Sep 25, 2007
According to Gartner, the majority of existing US data centers have not been designed to handle future energy demands. Strategic decisions, including the implementation of virtualization, must be made quickly. This research outlines why energy and floor space constraints will cause considerable disruption to U.S. data centers during the next three years.
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Dell EqualLogic

Bandwidth Utilization Improvements: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

By : Microsoft Published Date: Mar 19, 2008
Microsoft has made significant enhancements to the architecture of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 to improve network performance. Test results demonstrate network bandwidth utilization improvements of up to 94%. Improvements were evaluated in the number of round trips, bytes sent, and bytes received. Because the bandwidth utilization associated with a page can change after the first time the page is loaded, both initial (cold) and subsequent (warm) page loads were tested.
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Microsoft

How IT Management Can "Green" the Data Center

By : Dell EqualLogic Published Date: Jan 22, 2008
Data centers consume large amounts of energy, so it is imperative that IT management establishes energy efficiency goals and an integrated approach to energy-saving initiatives. This Gartner research provides IT managers with an outline of the trends affecting data centers and offers strategies with which to address these changes.
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Dell EqualLogic

Increasing Data Center Efficiency by Using Improved High Density Power Distribution

By : APC-MGE Published Date: Apr 25, 2006
A new approach to power distribution for high density server installations saves floor space, simplifies power cabling, saves capital cost, reduces weight, and increases electrical efficiency. This paper describes this distribution architecture and quantifies the benefits.
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APC-MGE

IT Service Management Metrics That Matter

By : Tripwire Published Date: Nov 07, 2007
Learn how your IT organization measures up against the best performing IT organizations and what you can do to improve efficiency, sustain compliance and security, increase system availability, and reduce the frequency of outages.
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Tripwire

Making Large UPS Systems More Efficient

By : APC-MGE Published Date: Aug 24, 2007
As energy resources become scarcer and more expensive, electrical efficiency is becoming a more important performance factor in the specification and selection of large UPS systems. There are three subtle but significant factors that can materially affect a company's cost of operating a UPS system and particularly the electrical bill. 
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APC-MGE

Guide: WAN Optimization Vendor Selection

By : Shunra Published Date: Feb 07, 2007
"Best Practices for Selecting a WAN Optimization Solution: Benchmarking Performance ROI" includes best practices for defining requirements and comparing alternative solutions, and offers a metric that IT organizations can use to select the WAN optimization solution that delivers the greatest value.
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Shunra

Log Law: Is Your Log Data Guilty?

By : NetIQ Corporation Published Date: Oct 20, 2006
This white paper is a must read for those involved in the process of log management for legal use. You'll examine the admissibility of log data in court cases; maintaining the authenticity of log data; and how log data can be attacked and stand up to scrutiny. And, learn legal terms like Hearsay, Best Evident Rules, etc.
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NetIQ Corporation

Patchlink Update and Microsoft SMS 2003: Implementing an Effective Patch Management Strategy

By : Patchlink Published Date: Jul 13, 2006
See how the advanced capabilities of PatchLink Update, working in tandem the Microsoft SMS foundational system can effectively counter today's emerging vulnerabilities and new rapidly spreading threats.
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Patchlink

2007 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report

By : Riverbed Published Date: Dec 14, 2007
Riverbed positioned in Leaders Quadrant of 2007 Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers. Analyzing strengths vs. cautions, Gartner helps organizations looking to acquire WAN Optimization Controller capabilities better understand the options.
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Riverbed

5 Ugly Truths about WAFS and Caching

By : Riverbed Published Date: Apr 02, 2008
WAFS and caching are approaches used to accelerate specific applications. They sound good in theory – saving bandwidth and making files go faster over the WAN – but did you know there are serious limitations in the architecture of these approaches? This white paper will give you the real story on why WAFS and caching aren't the best approaches available for application acceleration.
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Riverbed

Turn Virtual Management Into Automated Best Practices

By : Opalis Published Date: Jun 14, 2006
Virtualization adds additional layers of overhead and complexity, so cost savings on hardware are often offset by the increase in time and staff that are required to manage these environments. Learn more in this descriptive white paper.

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Opalis

Top Ten Network Management Lies and Deceptions

By : PerformanceIT Published Date: May 08, 2006
It's confusing and sometimes overwhelming. Learn about common misconceptions about network and system management software and the distortions that software vendors promote when it comes to marketing their product's features.
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PerformanceIT

Twisted-Pair Ethernet: Copper Cabling for High Performance Networking

By : Solarflare Communications Inc. Published Date: Sep 11, 2007
This white paper discusses how utilizing copper cabling in the data center can lead to high performance networking, along with other beneficial features.
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Solarflare Communications Inc.

Traffic Congestion vs. Traffic Control: Solving Last Mile Connection Speed Problems

By : Visualware Published Date: Aug 23, 2007
It is important to measure the actual data flow of a connection to get a meaningful picture of connection throughput. See how MySpeed measures and reports data transfers, and helps identify performance impacted by network congestion and traffic control.
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Visualware

Wide Area Network Security and Acceleration: A Short Guide to a Faster WAN

By : Quocirca Published Date: Jun 06, 2007
Wide areas networks (WANs) are essential to the majority of businesses, connecting remote locations and individuals back to centralized IT resources. But as the network is expected to handle more bandwidth intensive applications such as voice and video it is essential to ensure the WAN usage is well managed – eliminating unwanted traffic and accelerating business content.
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Quocirca

Advanced Virtualization and Workload Management

By : SWsoft Published Date: Jun 12, 2007
Virtualization and workload management are essential technologies for maximizing scalability, availability and value on high-end computing systems, and Itanium(r) 2-based servers offer many options. One is SWsoft Virtuozzo, a proven, software-based virtualization solution for consolidating Linux and Windows applications. 
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SWsoft

Achieving Business Performance Goals through Virtualization Management Best Practices

By : eG Innovations Published Date: Apr 08, 2008
This EMA white paper investigates virtualization management issues in detail, outlining the key drivers and outcomes of virtualization, explaining critical inhibitors to virtualization success (and how to overcome them), and describing core virtualization performance management solution requirements. It also briefly describes one such solution, the eG Enterprise Suite, and includes a short case study highlighting this solution in action.
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eG Innovations

Benefits of Integrating an Onsite Appliance and Hosted Services for Network Monitoring

By : Jumpnode Systems Published Date: Jun 08, 2007
Network monitoring software packages require complex installation, ongoing maintenance and additional costs for servers and third-party applications. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) network monitoring alternatives greatly simplify implementation and maintenance, but they rely on uninterrupted Internet access to function, often require complex VPNs or firewall modifications, and typically provide limited access to historical data.
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Jumpnode Systems

Competitive Landscape: TNICs vs. NICs vs. iSCSI HBAs

By : Alacritech Published Date: Nov 28, 2005
Today's systems and servers need an efficient way to move the ever-increasing amounts of data over networks. Many companies have introduced solutions such as TCP/IP Offload Engines (TOE) Network Interface Cards (TNICs), Network Interface Cards (NICs), and iSCSI Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) to solve efficiency and throughout challenges. However, the functionality of these solutions is quite varied, and in some cases, rapidly becoming obsolete.
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Alacritech

Centralized Data Center Management Software: Best Practices to Control Your Data Center

By : Avocent Published Date: May 11, 2006
This white paper details best practices for achieving secure access to any server or network device from a single interface in your data center. Topics covered include centralized access and control, integrating management tools, KVM server management, serial over IP, power management over IP, and full remote access.
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Avocent

Curb the Data Chaos: Download Top Ten Tips for Stepping Up to SAN

By : EMC Insignia Published Date: Aug 01, 2006
EMC, the world leader in storage and IT management, developed these Top 10 Tips for SMBs considering stepping up to SAN. The following tips can help you make informed decisions when selecting the hardware and technologies that you use.
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EMC Insignia

Calculate Your Energy Savings with IBM Power Configurator Tool

By : IBM Published Date: Jun 19, 2008
Energy costs keep going up, and IT departments must find new ways to save. The IBM Power Configurator tool is designed to show you how IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter servers offer high-performance and flexibility businesses need, plus advanced power management that keeps energy costs as low as possible. Download the Power Configurator tool and see how much savings IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter can deliver for you.
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IBM

Class of Service: Myths and Misconceptions

By : AT&T Published Date: Aug 14, 2007
Class of Service (CoS) functionality can help optimize network performance. For a successful deployment, network designers should identify all applications, understand requirements associated with each application, designate appropriate mapping for groups of applications and provide mechanisms in the underlying network to deliver CoS. CoS mapping and deployment are important; adhering to tested strategies and avoiding common misconceptions helps IT managers advance optimization across the wide area network.
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AT&T

Disk Monitoring: Calculating the Real Cost of Disk

By : CCSS Published Date: Aug 21, 2007
Many IT Managers will be familiar with the ‘disk or die’ ultimatums that a disgruntled system can issue. If the system demands feeding and threatens to shut down if it doesn’t get more disk to chew, it’s time to address the issue of disk once and for all.  The expense of using disk to accommodate problems in the hope of buying extra investigation time is a quick fix that few organizations can sustain.
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CCSS
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