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A Guide to Next-Generation Backup, Recovery, and Archive
It is likely that your organisation is facing dramatic information growth. With this growth, you may need to re-evaluate whether your backup and recovery systems can cope with this increase...

Tags: disaster recovery, backup, guide, evaluate

63% found useful
18/03/08

Building a Hybrid Data Warehouse Model
This paper discusses the hybrid design and provides a fully functional reference implementation. The system runs on Oracle Database 10g. It contains all code needed to build the database schemas,...

Tags: programming languages

39% found useful
01/04/07

Build your own consulting contract using this sample form
Both independent consultants and their clients benefit when they're working with a solid contract. Download this sample contract from TechRepublic member and IT consultant Randy Barger as a guide for...

Tags: services, clients, client, contract

64% found useful
30/01/06

Say 'no thanks' the right way with this sample rejection letter
It's a good practice to let job candidates know when they haven't gotten the job. Use this sample thanks-but-no-thanks letter to build goodwill with people who may be a better...

Tags: career development, job, matter, letter

91% found useful
29/09/05

A Guide to Storing More Intelligently
With enterprise IT organizations battling year-over-year information growth rates of 50 to 60 percent, we need to start storing information more intelligently. This will improve energy efficiency, reduce system complexity...

Tags: storage management, energy efficiency, covering, complexity

64% found useful
18/03/08

Guide to Increasing Project Visibility
Managing a project portfolio can take you into rough waters. The Serena Mariner Guide to Increasing Project Visibility tells you how to keep on an even keel and get to...

Tags: software project management, visibility, guide, portfolio

75% found useful
27/02/08

IT2020: The New Performance Management Paradigm
How is business? This question is quickly becoming the only relevant metric for IT performance. IT performance management used to be the exclusive domain of system administrators who focused solely...

Tags: infrastructure management, business results, domain, administrators

73% found useful
15/02/08

Financial Primer: How to Calculate ROI, NPV, Payback and IRR
There are many different techniques to measure the financial attractiveness of any large financial endeavor such as an IT project. The vast majority of companies use one or more of...

Tags: roi - tco, measurement, investment, rate

9% found useful

A Guide to Virtualising Your Information Infrastructure
Today, Virtualisation is at the top of every IT shop's "must-have" lists as CIOs and data center managers look to tackle challenges such as system growth, complex servers and storage,...

Tags: storage management, tco, service levels, lists

33% found useful
18/03/08

Balancing Security Against Productivity
What makes for great security? Is it about keeping the bad guys out or letting the good guys in? About defending attacks or preventing them? When IDG Research Services queried...
81% found useful
07/04/08

13 interview questions that will help reveal a candidate's true qualities
Today's IT job hunters are often so adept at fielding interview questions, it can be difficult to get a read on whether they'd be a good fit for your organization....

Tags: career development, questions, job, interview

50% found useful
25/10/05

Moving to a Blade world
The evolution of Blade Computing has moved from mere server consolidation to a way of managing IT assets which brings significant business benefits. This paper aims to explain those benefits...
50% found useful
16/11/07

Trialware: Test Drive Mercury TestDirector for Quality Center
Mercury TestDirector™ for Quality Center brings communication, organization, documentation, and structure to your application testing processes. It allows you to deploy high-quality applications quickly and effectively by providing a consistent,...

Tags: diagnostics and analysis, requirements management, testdirector, aspects

38% found useful
01/05/06

Step by step: Configure a Windows Server 2003 VPN—Server side
Set up a Windows Server 2003-based PPTP virtual private network (VPN) with this step-by-step installation and configuration guide. No matter how small or large your network may be it is a...

Tags: vpns, virtual, vpn, private network

60% found useful
26/07/05

Define project expectations with this criteria acceptance form
Establishing acceptance criteria at the beginning of a project helps ensure that the results are well received. This sample form will make those criteria clear from the project outset. Detailing acceptance...

Tags: services, book, criteria, acceptance

75% found useful
17/11/05

Automation for the New Data Center
Is your data centre being squeezed by increasing power and cooling costs? Are your servers underutilised and costly to manage? Virtualization enables data center managers to make far better use...

Tags: automation, data center, managers, cooling

67% found useful
07/04/08

Overview of HP LoadRunner and Load Testing
This webcast gives overview of LoadRunner and LoadTesting. It shows how VuGen is used to create scripts. The webcast explains how LoadRunner is used to run a loadTest It also...

Tags: diagnostics and analysis

20% found useful
26/03/07

Join a domain during Windows logon using a VPN client
You have remote users who rarely, if ever, visit an office, and connect almost exclusively through a VPN. The VPN connection isn't a significant support headache except when you need...

Tags: vpns, download, vpn, logon

100% found useful
21/06/05

Using NIC Teaming to Achieve High Availability on Linux Platforms
Network interface card (NIC) teaming is one method for providing high availability and fault tolerance in servers. This white paper examines how Broadcom Advanced Server Program (BASP) and Intel Advanced...

Tags: fault-tolerant servers, interface, availability, high availability

40% found useful
01/02/03

Thin-Client Vs. Fat-Client TCO
Thin-client deployment will offer substantial savings for enterprises without best practices for managing fat-client desktops, with a quick return on investment. Enterprises planning to deploy thin-client applications for TCO benefits...

Tags: thin clients, deployment, client, thin client

91% found useful
28/09/01

Configuring and Enabling Sender ID Filtering in Exchange 2003 SP2
As many of people already know Sender ID is an e-mail industry initiative invented by Microsoft and a few other industry leaders. The purpose of Sender ID is to help...

Tags: spam - e-mail fraud - phishing, mail, domain, sender

85% found useful
04/11/05

Augmented Reality With Wearable Computers Running Linux
This paper describes the concept of augmented reality, the process of drawing virtual images over the real world using a head mounted display. Using wearable computers, it is possible to...

Tags: linux - open source, graphics, reality, augmented

50% found useful
04/06/02

Automatic Protection Switching on the CBX 500 and GX 550 Multiservice WAN Switches
This document describes the Automatic Protection Switching (APS) 1+1 features on the CBX 500 and GX 550 multiservice WAN switches. There are currently several varieties of APS, which differ across the...

Tags: switching, switches, aps, manuals

50% found useful
01/08/01

Audio-Visual Feature Extraction for Semi-Automatic Annotation of Meetings
This paper presents the building blocks of the semi-automatic annotation tool which supports multi-modal and multi-level annotation of meetings. The main focus is on the proper design and functionality of...

Tags: multimedia, multi, actions, algorithms

50% found useful
07/07/06

Global Radiation Changes in the Lower Atmosphere Related to Solar Activity Phenomena
The Earth's climate is known to depend strongly on the solar radiation input in the lower atmosphere, being an important energy source of atmospheric circulation. Although the solar irradiance changes...

Tags: satellite communications, cycle, activity, input

14/04/01



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