Backup and Recovery Challenges with Sharepoint [ Source: Autonomy ]
May 2010- Almost 70% of organizations these days are either planning or already have SharePoint deployed as a platform for collaboration within their IT infrastructure. But with this success we are seeing SharePoint go through the same growing pains many other Microsoft products went through in their initial success stages. With the high-speed adoption of Exchange in the mid-1990s, we saw the volume of information grow to where the backup systems started to buckle under the ever-increasing ...

Industrial Network Security With OPC Tunneling [ Source: Integration Objects ]
September 2009- OPC tunneling software allows the secure transfer of process data, even across multiple firewalls, Network Address Translators (NAT) and WAN networks. By not securely transmitting process data, companies expose process control networks to potential cyber attacks which can disrupt production, compromise safety, and cause significant financial losses for companies. This paper addresses the issues and challenges of using DCOM when deploying OPC technology and presents an alternative solution that addresses the industrial end-user requirements.

Open Architectures To Improve Plant Visibility And Performances [ Source: Integration Objects ]
February 2009- Manufacturing companies have invested large amounts of money in industrial automation infrastructures, but many have yet to realize the full value from their investment as many of these infrastructures remain islands of automation; information silos disconnected from other systems, including business systems. This paper will discuss some of the options available for integrating automation islands and for distributing information at any level in the organization. In particular, two main players in the system integration arena ...

Top 5 Myths of Screen Scraping [ Source: Seagull Software ]
June 2008- Many organizations with mainframe, System i or OpenVMS applications still ask their employees to use green-screen (or text-based) user interfaces to work with essential business information. Green-screens are a business problem and a technology problem. They're unappealing, hard to learn, intimidating, and accessible only with terminal emulation software. They’re also incompatible with modern application integration methods like Web services and SOA.

The appeal of screen-scraping is understandable — it's simple and inexpensive. But ...

Semantic Discord and Data (Dis)Integration [ Source: expressor software corporation ]
February 2008- As business requirements continue to accelerate, the ability of existing data integration technologies to solve those requirements lags appreciably behind. In an effort to address this issue, vendors have been frantically retooling their platforms and/or buying "complementary technologies" to help them stay afloat. Unfortunately, these incremental improvements and bolt-on solutions have not been successful in resolving the core problem. What is needed is a fundamental shift in the way that data integration projects are ...