Nortel Network Case Study: FXCM (Forex Capital Markets LLC)
[ Source: Nortel Networks ]
January 2008-
A few short years after it pioneered foreign currency exchange trading at the retail level, FXCM had built a customer base of over 78,000 individuals and institutions. Tasked to solve FXCM’s critical communications problems, Ivan Brightly began by querying his colleagues in the financial markets community. They recommended Nortel. Together with networking partner NetVersant Solutions, Nortel provided a comprehensive IP-based telephony and IP Contact Center environment. One of the greatest benefits is the ease with ....
TEAMQUEST and ITIL: Part 3 - Implementing Capacity Management
[ Source: TeamQuest ]
January 2008-
Once a decision has been made to improve service by adopting ITIL frameworks and best practices, a plan must be developed to implement the changes to the organizations. The risk of a full implementation is that some processes may not operate immediately as expected and therefore impact business processes. Other ITIL proponents feel that IT and business leaders should choose a staged approach when implementing the ITIL framework and best practices because the impact of ....
DRAC 5: Dell Remote Access Card 5 Security
[ Source: Dell ]
January 2008-
Using Dell Remote Access Card 5 (DRAC 5) one can easily remotely monitor, troubleshoot, and repair servers even when the server is down. It offers a rich set of features like virtual media, virtual Keyboard Video Mouse, and so on, which have the potential to make the system prone to security risks. This Dell paper briefly describes the security features that DRAC 5 uses to help ensure authentication, authorization, privacy, and data integrity. DRAC 5 ....
Understanding the Impact of Running WAN Emulation with Load Testing
[ Source: Shunra ]
June 2008-
As reflected by the robust capabilities of industry-standard load testing tools such as HP LoadRunner, the proper setup and execution of a load test is a complex undertaking. Significant effort goes into each load testing project. Organizations that are disciplined enough to properly implement performance testing into their application development lifecycle have gained significant business benefits from finding issues and properly sizing capacity prior to application roll-out. Increasingly, many pre-deployment testing labs have found that ....
Managing Application Performance by Understanding Applications
[ Source: Shunra ]
April 2008-
IT organizations are considering application delivery from new perspectives due to the automation of key business processes, and the fact that acceptable application performance is continually becoming more difficult. The goals of this white paper are to:
• Identify some of the key issues that make ensuring acceptable application performance so difficult.
• Describe how IT organizations can use WAN emulation tools to improve application performance, plan for change and improve relationships ....
The Power of Intelligent Automation - Why Automated Network and Systems Monitoring Is Critical to IT and Business Performance
[ Source: CITTIO ]
April 2008-
Despite the ever increasing complexity in the underlying infrastructure, IT is increasingly being called upon to do more with less. New network, systems, applications and multiple types of edge devices are being added daily. This infrastructure is essential to business operations making outages and slowdowns unacceptable during or after deployment. Also, the explosive growth and dynamic nature of many of the new infrastructure components makes traditional manual intervention inadequate.
Take a ....
Multicast And Mobility Over Satellite Using IPV6
[ Source: 6WIND ]
January 2008-
Multicast and mobility over satellite using IPv6 is a collaborative project, funded by CNES (French National Space Agency), led by 6WIND (private French leader and innovator of embedded IP networking software), Astrium (a world leader in the design and manufacture of satellites) and LSIIT (Strasbourg University IPv6 research team). In the context of ""Anywhere, anytime Internet access"" its objective is to identify applicative scenarios that could best benefit from multicast and mobility features over satellite. ....
Effectiveness of Loss Labeling in Improving TCP Performance in Wired/Wireless Networks
[ Source: Boston University ]
January 2008-
The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) has been the dominant transport mechanism for reliable data transfer over the Internet. In this paper the researchers study the fundamental gains and limits of explicit loss labeling techniques employed to empower TCP in hybrid wired/wireless networks. The filter is re-instantiated to measure RTT and augment it with history information so as to distinguish between congestion and wireless losses, specifically to empower TCP NewReno in wired/wireless networks.
Deploy Changes 80% Faster: Oracle Real Application Testing—Business Agility Through Superior Testing
[ Source: Oracle ]
March 2009-
Companies that cannot adapt to address fluctuating business opportunities and challenges face serious downside risk. The ability to adopt new IT technology successfully can be a major enabler for change, while the inability can be a major anchor that holds a company back, preventing business evolution.
Superficially, it can seem relatively easy to make technology changes, but testing and ....
White Paper for Load Balancing
[ Source: Bulwark Systems ]
January 2008-
Load balancing allows incoming HTTP requests to a company’s website to be distributed across several physical servers. Incase of failure of one server, other servers pick up the workload. Load balancing can be performed using application software. Bulwark Systems’ dedicated switch can perform this function much faster as the redirection is handled by specialized hardware. Clients access servers through a virtual IP address, with load balancing.