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<title><![CDATA[whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/Networking/Network Architecture]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Network Architecture is the design of a communications system, which includes the backbones, routers, switches, wireless access points, access methods and protocols used.  This may refer only to the access method in a LAN, such as Ethernet or Token Ring]]></description>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/networking/networking/</link>
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<title><![CDATA[KVM over IP and Enterprise Security: Safeguarding Access to Your Critical IT Infrastructure]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper265/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-21 13:42:02</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Information security is a primary concern for every IT organization. No company can afford to have proprietary data or valuable customer information fall into the wrong hands.  This white paper details critical components for consideration in a KVM over IP switching system including hub and spoke failover, exit macros, virtual media, and more.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Five Reasons Every IT Organization Needs to Capitalize on IPMI]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper267/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-14 12:01:03</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Every company&#39;s computing infrastructure is getting larger and more complex, and business demands availability, performance, scalability, and adaptability of that infrastructure. This whitepaper details how IPMI can help you manage a growing infrastructure with fewer resources.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[iDirect Network Accelerators]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper404/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-17 14:41:51</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Secure communications is a necessity for many organizations to protect corporate data.  Some highly secure organizations mandate the use of third-party encryption devices or external end to end security protocols.  The iDirect Network Accelerator is an external appliance  that maximizes the speed of encrypted traffic over a satellite network.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Appliances vs. Agents for XML Web Services Security]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper540/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-27 12:32:56</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Security is one of the main issues when deploying Web services in the enterprise. This white paper discusses the advantages of an appliance over an agent-oriented architecture for Web services security, how cross platform interoperation is immediate with a hardened appliance, and why web services security is different from web server security.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Architecting the Infrastructure for SOA and XML]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper544/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-27 12:35:06</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper introduces the requirements for an XML infrastructure that is designed to ensure the opportunities and benefits of SOAs and Web Services can be realized. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Achieving Configuration Compliance in a Regulatory Framework]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper571/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-19 13:35:28</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Regardless of whether your company is subject to HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, any number of state regulations, or none at all, configuration compliance has a place in most if not all business and government organizations.  Find out in this paper how you can achieve automated configuration compliance with the SafeWord SecureWire IAM appliance from Secure Computing.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Building Reliable IP Telephony Systems]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper579/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-25 08:35:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the most important pieces of keeping a business afloat is reflected in its voice system. This white paper takes a comprehensive, yet understandable, look into the world of IP telephony systems by defining reliability and availability, and discussing the important pieces to review when selecting a voice system.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Highly Integrated High Performance Business Computing (HPBC): Architecting a Simpler Solution]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper590/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-30 08:46:16</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The world of super computing has changed in recent years, moving from a scale-up, monolithic, expensive architecture to the scale-out clustering of low cost microprocessors, also referred to as High Performance Business Computing (HPBC) clusters.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Best Practices for Mobile Application Architectures]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper612/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-30 11:33:51</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The paper will explore the differences between smart-client and thin-client mobile architectures. It will then examine the details of common smart-client architectures, including what type of back-end systems they integrate with, the types of devices they support, how data is managed within the architecture, and development languages that can be used to build the application.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Realizing the Business Value of Converged Applications]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper648/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:33:10</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This IBM white paper posits that most enterprises have yet to realize the full value of convergence and explains why the real promise of IP networks lies in converged applications. It goes on to explain how IP convergence can build real business value for today&#39;s busy contact centers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Next-Generation Residential Gateways: Flexibility and High Performance Will Be Critical]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper676/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-25 09:24:22</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Read how the Next Generation Residential Gateway (RG) is capable of supporting the ever increasing need for higher data throughput rates, signaling range that covers the whole house and robustness capable of mitigating the sources of interference found in the home. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[On Demand IP Communications at IBM]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper692/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-06 09:32:33</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Download this paper to learn why IBM believes that the real business value of IPC voice systems is reflected in improved employee productivity, enhanced business processes, and the ability to deliver more responsive services and offerings.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Curb the Data Chaos: Download Top Ten Tips for Stepping Up to SAN]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper697/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-17 09:35:38</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 10 Data Protection Tips for SMBs]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper698/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-30 12:29:38</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The amount of data on business computers has grown astronomically over the past few decades.&nbsp; If a company loses this data, business grinds to a halt. The following tips can help you select the hardware and software you need to safeguard the integrity of your data, guarantee accurate restores, and manage backups without placing an undue burden on IT personnel.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 10 Requirements for Effective Patch Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper754/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-13 12:16:45</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Keeping up with the endless stream of security patches is a continuous strain on IT resources. Assessing, deploying, &amp; tracking software patches across operating systems is even more difficult. This whitepaper distills the top 10 requirements for selecting an effective patch and vulnerability management solution.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Building Scalable, High Performance Cluster and Grid Networks: The Role of Ethernet]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper780/</link>
<pubDate>2007-09-05 16:18:22</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With Grid computing, computer systems and other resources aren&rsquo;t necessarily constrained to be dedicated to individual users or applications, but can be made available for dynamic pooling or sharing to meet the changing needs of the organization.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enabling Virtualization in the Datacenter]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper784/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-24 23:03:52</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Virtualization is a key strategy for simplifying deployment of IT resources and maximizing their utilization. Specifically, virtualization refers to the concept of abstracting physical resources such as compute cycles, data storage, and network bandwidth, and then provisioning and sharing these resources amongst multiple applications.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enterprise Video Communications]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper832/</link>
<pubDate>2007-04-13 13:43:15</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper summarizes Enterprise Video Communications (EVC) and includes a high level plan to perform an EVC assessment helping ensure deployment success.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Guide to SOA Implementation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper932/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The information overload on SOA is largely on describing its merits, its principles and the vast variety of products intended to address its needs. This document is written to identify the factors to be considered, and articulate the principles and questions to be asked that will drive the decisions within each enterprise towards creating a road map for implementation. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Virtual Appliances: Improve Manageability & Automate Provisioning]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper964/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-10 11:50:50</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Virtual appliances have recently been gaining notoriety with IT organizations. These pre-packaged ready to deploy instances of an applicationcreated in a virtual machine or environment  can provide significant management savings. While they can be a powerful IT tool, not all virtual appliances are created equally.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper981/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-21 10:28:11</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the network-critical physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture. This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption for optimal data center efficiency.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Change Control: Learn How to Address the Insider Threat]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1034/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-22 13:45:51</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Learn why organizations need to limit IT administrator power to ensure operational integrity and assure compliance and how to implement robust change control processes and tools with this white paper.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Advanced Virtualization and Workload Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1088/</link>
<pubDate>2007-12-10 11:49:27</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[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.&nbsp; ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Predict Server TCO - Learn How with this Free White Paper]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1092/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[From a capital expenditure perspective, hundreds of independent rack servers require thousands of repetitive parts. Blade server systems do not. Learn more with this complimentary white paper.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Datacenter Power & Cooling Problems? Here are 3 Innovations]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1102/</link>
<pubDate>2007-05-21 12:30:01</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Download this IDC white paper from HP, that cites 3 new technologies designed to quickly identify and address the key TCO operating expense issues facing today&#39;s data centers, including server management costs, interconnect complexity, power and cooling.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enabling Technologies for Blade Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1103/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today&#39;s data center management and administrative costs continue to eclipse all other cost categories. Is your budget under scrutiny? Get quick answers with this white paper.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Optimize Your Vision: Aligning Your IT Portfolio & Business Strategy]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1117/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Read this guide, that was published in BusinessWeek, on how organizations are now beginning to tackle this problem by taking a more holistic approach to IT Portfolio Management, enabling rapid decision-making based on a company roadmap.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[System Architecture: A Critical Element When Evaluating a Network Monitoring System]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1120/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-21 13:15:39</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Get this free whitepaper now and read how a newer architecture, Appliance-enabled Software (AeS) services, combines a plug-in monitoring appliance with a hosted dashboard application to provide the benefits of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) along with failover out-of-band communication capabilities for dependable alert notification and escalation.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Network Fax Technology: A Primer]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1144/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A fax server buyers&#39; guide, this paper describes the features you need to look for in fax server software and why. It also discusses the type of fax server devices (fax cards) available and which to choose.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GFI FAXmaker for Exchange/SMTP 12: Architecture and Deployment Options]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1145/</link>
<pubDate>2007-06-14 12:10:21</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This technical white paper describes the different ways in which GFI FAXmaker for Exchange/SMTP 12 can be deployed, depending on your mail server type/version and network infrastructure.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Implementing SOA with an Offshore Partner]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1175/</link>
<pubDate>2007-10-30 14:38:45</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This whitepaper is written as a guide to an alternative mechanism for project implementation for business owners holding responsibility to deliver IT solutions in the SOA space. It could also be of interest to those who would like to know more about how the phenomenon of offshore/onsite coordination, that emerged in the nineties, can be effectively applied towards realizing the promise of SOA. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[DNS Best Practices]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1265/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-09 15:15:18</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper introduces and describes the principal concepts and techniques involved with DNS best practices.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Network Costs of Spam]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1281/</link>
<pubDate>2007-08-09 12:10:03</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper provides an overview of costs of spam facing large organizations, such as multinational enterprises, universities, and governments, as well as small and medium sized businesses that own or operate networks used by employees and other end users. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Network Lifecycle Management - A Solution Approach to Managing Networks: A Perspective by EMA]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1319/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-12 14:41:34</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) provides insight challenges facing network engineering and operations team.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ZapThink: The Mainframe as a First Class SOA Participant]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1763/</link>
<pubDate>2008-03-14 16:16:08</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this whitepaper, ZapThink research analyst Jason Bloomberg explores the challenges customers face when attempting to integrate their legacy systems with new technologies and architectures, and the issues associated with traditional mainframe integration methods. He guides the reader to a better understanding and approach that involves a single mainframe architecture for reduced complexity, cost and risk.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Layered Approach to Securing Remote Maintenance Consoles]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1777/</link>
<pubDate>2008-06-26 13:16:42</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Availability and security of networks at remote locations are tied together. Due to requirements to keep the network operating, you need fast access to equipment in case of an outage or problem.&nbsp; This white paper discusses a layered approach to securing your system while maintaining the highest possible efficiency.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Advances in Wireless LAN Architecture: The Aerohive Cooperative Control Architecture]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper1949/</link>
<pubDate>2008-02-11 09:14:13</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Craig Mathias, Principal of the Farpoint Group, explores the advent of cooperative control, an innovative new class of wireless infrastructure from Aerohive Networks. Aerohive&rsquo;s cooperative control architecture gives you all of the benefits of autonomous access points and controller-based infrastructures, without the high OPEX or CAPEX associated with either approach. Cooperative control architecture represents an innovative approach to wireless LAN systems, one that incorporates a number of interesting features and corresponding benefits.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Benefits of a ContentAware Architecture in Protecting Enterprise Data]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2171/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-08 08:35:08</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Today&rsquo;s enterprise faces a convergence of data protection challenges. Addressing them means extending online data retention, enabling deduplication, and simplifying operations. This report outlines how ContentAware VTL and deduplication solutions from SEPATON uniquely address these challenges.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Let's Get Virtual: A Look at Today's Server Virtualization Architectures]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2386/</link>
<pubDate>2008-04-09 11:34:42</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Increasing power demands and space limitations in the data center have begun to transition server virtualization technologies from luxuries to necessities. Server virtualization provides a path toward server consolidation that results in significant power and space savings, while also offering high availability and system portability. Today, vendors are building hardware and software platforms that can deliver virtualization solutions at near-native performance. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BlueArc's Titan Architecture: Architecting a Better Storage Solution]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2513/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[BlueArc&rsquo;s Titan Architecture creates a revolutionary step in file servers by creating a hardware-based file system that can scale throughput, IOPS and capacity well beyond conventional software-based file servers. With its ability to virtualize a massive storage pool of up to 4 petabytes of usable, tiered storage, Titan can scale with growing data requirements and provide a competitive advantage for business processes by consolidating applications while ensuring optimal performance. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 SOA Projects That Can Pay for Themselves in 6 Months]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2584/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-14 08:42:23</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Service oriented architecture (SOA) could revolutionize the way we think about IT. Why is that possible? Because SOA finally has the potential to make the concept of reuse real. Companies have been talking about reuse for years, but have never been able to transform that talk into full-scale reality. Now, you might be asking, &quot;How can SOA succeed where previous approaches have failed?&quot; Because the standards, best practices and governance models have finally matured to the point where reuse can actually work.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Smart SOA- Best Practices for Agile Innovation and Optimization]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2586/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-13 13:15:08</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In this era of unprecedented change, organizations need agility to adapt rapidly. Part of what separates winners from losers is the ability to respond quickly and intelligently to market opportunities, competitive threats and regulatory constraints - in short, to innovate and create value. The best companies understand how to use technology for strategic advantage to help accomplish these goals. Service oriented architecture (SOA) can help. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Smart SOA- The Experienced Approach]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2587/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-14 08:42:55</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The business value that the Smart SOA approach brings is well-established, expanding and mainstream. IBM has a track record of helping to deliver agility through the Smart SOA approach and has made it clear how to get the most out of your SOA pursuits. If you haven&#39;t already done so, consider implementing a focused Smart SOA starter project to help you achieve rapid business value. Extend your implementation end to end with BPM enabled by SOA. Get a head start by using industry frameworks and solutions. Scale up and scale out with the confidence of robust process integrity.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Appliance Update Management]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2674/</link>
<pubDate>2008-05-16 16:37:28</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Appliances are complex combinations of hardware and software that enterprises put into production environments to meet specific &ndash; and often critical &ndash; computing needs. Offering high performance and reliability with minimal IT involvement, appliances are the delivery vehicle of choice in several key segments of the technology industry, including security, storage and telecommunications. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Data Center Consolidation with Stratavia’s Data Palette]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper2689/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This document provides an overview of data center consolidation methodologies, the general impact of each method, and how Stratavia&rsquo;s Data Palette helps data center consolidation initiatives.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Quantum Cryptography: The Future of Secure Communications]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3006/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Quantum Cryptography is an emerging technology that may offer new forms of security protection. Relying on the laws of quantum mechanics, transmission is carried by a single particle that can only be measured one time, making encryption and decryption difficult to compromise. Businesses are evaluating architectural solutions using Quantum Cryptography to understand its potential benefits. Future implementations of the technology may soon make it more available for enterprise business.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[User Scalability for the Enterprise: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3049/</link>
<pubDate>2008-08-01 08:51:56</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft, together with Unisys Corporation, completed benchmark testing of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 running on the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating system with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database software. Benchmark results demonstrate that Microsoft Dynamics CRM can scale to meet the needs of an enterprise-level, mission-critical workload of 24,000 concurrent users while maintaining performance at sub-second response times.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bandwidth Utilization Improvements: Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 4.0]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3050/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-04 15:45:38</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has made significant enhancements to the architecture of Microsoft Dynamics&reg; 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.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Enterprise Architecture Is More Than Engineering]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3058/</link>
<pubDate>2008-07-07 13:07:49</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While many enterprise architecture (EA) programs may be less than effective or threatened by extinction, the EA discipline is still an important set of skills and processes that improve IT decision-making and CIO effectiveness. Yet, after decades of architecting systems, the advent of several EA frameworks, and the many definitions available for the term EA, we still strive to understand what EA is, what it does, and what it looks like when it is successful.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Achieving Manufacturing Leadership with HP Mission Critical Service]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3110/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This case study highlights how one of the world&#39;s leading manufacturing companies employed a Mission Critical architecture to protect their most important systems. Learn how this customer achieved 99.99% availability of their systems for 4 straight years. As a result of adopting a high availability strategy, this HP customer saved 97 million Euros, by avoiding lost downtime.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[HP's Proven Data Center Transformation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3113/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This white paper looks at HP&#39;s approach to Data Center Transformation and how it can help enterprise data centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. Learn about the 4 key factors which should influence your data center transformation strategy. See first hand how HP embarked on a three-year transformation program for its own data centers. This ambitious program involved rationalizing 85 data centers into just six global ones- with tangible and measurable benefits.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MPLS Plug-and-Play for Metro Ethernet Networks]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3254/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Carriers are discovering an opportunity to revolutionize the way their MPLS Metro Ethernet Networks are built by applying the concept of Plug-and-Play to reduce operating expense and network complexity.&nbsp; This paper shows service providers how to easily map their access MPLS network into their larger core MPLS network, or create a completely new architecture.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tidal's Enterprise Scheduler Provides Staples with Cost-Effective Automation and Centralization]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3357/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Staples&rsquo; information systems play a critical role in delivering on their brand promise &#39;that was easy.&#39; As part of a recent strategic imperative, Staples recently embarked on a major modernization of its systems architecture and supporting processes. The goal was to ensure IT&rsquo;s systems could scale with the company&rsquo;s continued global expansion without sacrificing the quality of the brand experience. One critical target for modernization was Staples&rsquo; enterprise job scheduling processes and systems. After researching the top software providers in this space, Staples selected Tidal Software to support its efforts to centralize and streamline automated batch processing.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Simplify Scheduling through Consolidation and Automation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3358/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With 50+ percent of all business processes leveraging batch operations, it is essential to keep your batch production running smoothly in order to keep your business running smoothly. Whether you are consolidating datacenter operations, moving apps to more cost-effective platforms, or transitioning from customized to packaged applications, learn how you can simplify and lower the cost of batch management with a single interface to all batch processes across platforms and applications and more.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Leveraging CA IDMS Business Value for Innovation]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3391/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-15 12:38:28</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Business and IT executives should not have to choose between their desire to innovate for future growth and the desire to avoid disrupting current operations. Enterprise innovation that embraces and extends existing infrastructure and applications is possible through modern software architectures such as web services and SOA &ndash; as long as those investments perform competitively when measured against alternative platforms and they are able to be modernized to participate in these architectures.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SOA Performance: Scaling SOA Implementations Now And Into The Future]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3398/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-23 11:22:32</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many organizations look to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to provide greater business agility in the face of evolving business requirements and complex, heterogeneous information technology (IT) environments. To achieve this agility, architects implement a Services abstraction that loosely couples business Services from the underlying implementations of those Services. Building such an abstraction layer is not without risks, however&mdash;inherent in building such an abstraction is the risk of sacrificing performance and scalability to achieve the organization&rsquo;s required agility.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Addressing Network Management Challenges with NETCONF]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3417/</link>
<pubDate>0000-00-00 00:00:00</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This paper reviews the business cost of major outages. It also details some of the reasons that network architecture has become so complex, discusses current approaches to the problem and finally presents NETCONF as a powerful building block solution to the network management problem.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't Forget About The 'People Costs']]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3464/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 18:28:18</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Most white papers and webinars available on the Internet about choosing enterprise middleware focus the selection process around criteria such as licensing costs, technical coverage of long lists of specified functionalities, and vendor viability. While these criteria may have been suitable in the past, the experience of many enterprise architects leading J2EE projects over the past few years suggest that they are not enough. What&rsquo;s missing? People costs.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Architecting the Virtual Data Center for Availability, Data Protection, and Disaster Recovery]]></title>
<link>http://whitepapers.windowsnetworking.com/whitepaper3506/</link>
<pubDate>2008-09-29 15:01:34</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Virtualization offers the promise of simplifying your IT infrastructure from the desktop to the data center. But can your virtual environment maintain the level of availability you need to keep your business running or to recover from a disaster?]]></description>
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