Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Weekly Update: Green IT, Pre-merger security, Last Mile and more

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White Paper: Higher and Higher: IITS Brings Reliability and...
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White Paper: Calculating Total Power Requirements for Data...
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Blog Post: Lost in the wilderness... a wireless router...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/772537

Blog Post: Citrix brings high definition to virtual desktops...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/772538

Networking-career discussion: How to get Into SAN Administration
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/602837/networking-career/2571540

Info-security-management-sp discussion: Mergers - How are security risks identified...
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Wiki Article: Document your Network
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TIRED OF THE SAME OLD SONG? CRANK UP THE ROI OF YOUR HELP DESK
By CDC Software
The help desk can be a rich resource for cost savings and ROI on the people, process and technology investments you've...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/762813?mid=


GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR BUSINESSï¾' BLACKBERRY DEVICES
By Intermedia
The difference between using BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) and BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES) can make a big...
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REDUCING DESKTOP POWER CONSUMPTION: HOW IT AND FACILITIES CAN BOTH WIN
By Faronics
"Greenwashing" - the practice of hyping eco-friendly product features that are dubious at best - has become...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/744992?mid=


INCREASE PRODUCTIVITY BY UP TO 40% - PART 2 OF THE ROADMAP TO REDUCE WEBCAST SERIES (Download)
By Micro Focus
Part 2 of the Roadmap To Reduce Webcast Series discusses how smart companies have made significant savings by investing...
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THE FIVE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS FOR EFFECTIVE EVENT CORRELATION AND ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
By CA
The five essential ingredients for effective event correlation and root cause analysis are at the heart of delivering...
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DATA CENTERS MORE ADAPTIVE WITH LOGICAL SERVERS
By Hewlett Packard
Logical servers are a new class of abstracted servers that allows administrators to manage physical machines and...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/738916?mid=


SECURE, SINGLE SIGN-ON FOR SAP
By Centrify
When SAP is deployed on UNIX or Linux, end-users must enter their credentials every time they access it. This creates...
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HIGHER AND HIGHER: IITS BRINGS RELIABILITY AND BANDWIDTH TO UPSTATE NEW YORK MUNICIPALITY
By Motorola
Because of the terrain, Poughkeepsie poses special non-line-of-sight challenges that the City's original radio LAN...
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CALCULATING TOTAL POWER REQUIREMENTS FOR DATA CENTERS
By APC
Part of data center planning and design is to align the power and cooling requirements of the IT equipment with the...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/745039?mid=


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Recent Blog Entries

LOST IN THE WILDERNESS... A WIRELESS ROUTER IMPLEMENTATION SAGA
Posted by Tom Olzak (Director, Information Security)
When I received a Linksys wireless router as gift, I was pretty confident that setting it up would...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/772541

CITRIX BRINGS HIGH DEFINITION TO VIRTUAL DESKTOPS WITH XENDESKTOP 3 AND HDX
Posted by Dana Gardner (Principal Analyst)
Citrix Systems last week delivered a one-two punch in the battle for virtual desktop infrastructure...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/772542

3 REASONS OUTSOURCING PROBABLY WON'T SAVE YOU IN HARD ECONOMIC TIMES
Posted by Dennis Stevenson (Director, Software as a Service)
Over the last several months, I've read a number of blogs suggesting that in these difficult...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/772532

PROOF THAT THE FREE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT KNOWS IT CANNOT COMPETE: BOYCOTT NOVELL » 66 PAGES OF MICROSOFT EVILNESS
Posted by Payton Byrd (System Architect )
The Free Software Movement is notoriously socialist (some would say Communist), and to me the real...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/772547

MAINFRAME ON A STICK!
Posted by iTech-Ed (CEO)
In the past, I've looked at mainframes that aren't really mainframes! You know things like PSI's...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/772543


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HOW TO GET INTO SAN ADMINISTRATION (Networking-career)
Asked By Naresh Kumar (Network Admin) | Replies (4)
I am system administrator for a Windows domain. I am looking for SAN Administration...
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SOA RELEASE MANAGEMENT (Soa-sp)
Asked By rscultho
It would seem that traditional Release Management is not gonna "cut the mustard" in managing the...
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SOA - MINIMUM HARDWARE & SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS (Soa-sp)
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I was wondering if anyone can help me identify the minimum Hardware (i.e. xml appliance...
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FUTURE COMPARISION BETWEEN .NET AND NETWORKING (Networking-career)
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I am working as software engineer. My friends are suggesting me to do networking courses which...
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SELECTING THE RIGHT EA TOOL (Enterprise-architecture-sp)
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Could someone assist with the following topics in Enterprise Architecture: 1. Selecting the...
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MERGERS - HOW ARE SECURITY RISKS IDENTIFIED DURING PRE-MERGER ACTIVITES? (Info-security-management-sp)
Asked By jimgetz | Replies (1)
When two organizations are planning a merger, what main security areas are a real point of concern?
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/602836/info-security-management-sp/2575027

RHCE SAMPLE QUESTIONS (Linux-career)
Asked By rkahirwar (ENGINEER(IT)) | Replies (1)
Does any one have RHCE sample question paper?
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DOCUMENT YOUR NETWORK -- last edited by aharsch
This list has been created to provide the most elaborate overview of elements in a network that...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/741000

Recent Wiki Contributions

THE LAST MILE -- last edited by melissa_bezeau
The Last Mile refers to communication technology that carries a signal from the broadband to and...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/772548

GREEN INITIATIVES -- last edited by stevetuf
How will we survive on a planet which is rapidly using up resources faster than we can produce them...
http://it.toolbox.com/trd/666957

WAN PROTOCOL -- last edited by stevetuf
When we talk about a Wide Area Network (WAN) we are describing a network of computers, or indeed...
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