Whitepapers

Backup Express and Network Appliance: A Cost-Effective Remote Site Business Continuity Solution
In this white paper, discover how the Syncsort/NetApp disk-based backup solution delivers what remote sites need - an assurance that the data they create today will be there tomorrow, no matter what

Console Management in the Data Center
Console Management in the Data Center

The State of the Data Center
Sustaining continuity and meeting demands for better service

Scyld ClusterWare
Scyld ClusterWare: An Innovative Architecture For Maximizing Return On Investment In Linux Clustering

Simplify Admin of Large Linux Web & App Infrastructures
Simplifying the Administration of Large Linux Web and Application Infrastructures

Console Management in the Data Center
Console Management in the Data Center

Data Center Control
Guidelines to Achieve Centralized Management

Best Practices for Secure Console Port Management in the Data Center
For years, network administrators have faced challenges maintaining their critical devices. They have been forced to learn a multitude of software packages to manage their heterogeneous environments. To keep networks up and running, organizations have turned to console management solutions, which allow them to use the existing business IP network to access and manage data center devices.

Bringing Intelligence to Backup and Recovery
Bringing Intelligence to Backup and Recovery

How vendors protect organizations from spam
Organizations face a significant threat from spam viruses, but how do organizations select a solution to face these threats?

Solaris 10 Operating System
Enterprise-Class Functionality on x86-Based Systems

The Solaris 10 Operating System
Delivering Relentless Availability, Optimal Utilization, Extreme Performance, and Unparalleled Security

Predictive Self-Healing in the Solaris 10 Operating System
A Technical Introduction, September 2004

Solaris 10 Operating System Security Featuers
Exceptional Security

Solaris 10 Operating System Networking Features
Extreme Network Performance

Solaris Operating System and Linux Interoperability
Reducing Business Costs and Risks

Solaris Dynamic Tracing
Increasing Performance with Complete Software Observability

Solaris Containers
Optimizing Resource Utilization to Deliver Predictable Service Levels

Sophos PureMessage protects more than 2,000 email users rs for Coast Capital Savings Credit Union
Sophos PureMessage protects more than 2,000 email users for Coast Capital Savings Credit Union

Sophos PureMessage protects more than 2,000 email users for Coast Capital Savings Credit Union
Sophos PureMessage protects more than 2,000 email users for Coast Capital Savings Credit Union

Sophos PureMessage protects more than 2,000 email users for Coast Capital Savings Credit Union

The Sophos Protection Advantage
The Sophos Protection Advantage

How Vendors Protect Organizations from Spam
How Vendors Protect Organizations from Spam

Sophos PureMessage protects more than 10,000 users at the Texas Department of Transportation

The Threat of the Spam Economy
The Threat of the Spam Economy

It's The End of the Line for Spam
It's The End of the Line for Spam

Less is More: Announcing the Complete Global Monitoring Solution
Less is More: Announcing the Complete Global Monitoring Solution

Sophos PureMessage protects more than 2,000 email users...
Sophos PureMessage protects more than 2,000 email users for Coast Capital Savings Credit Union

Improving the Government Workplace with the Right Anti-Spam...
Improving the Government Workplace with the Right Anti-Spam Implementation

IT Operations Best Practices...
IT Operations Best Practices or "How I learned to love process"

Go-Global Provides Windows Remote Access...
Go-Global Provides Windows Remote Access to Mission-Critical UNIX Enterprise Applications

Comprehensive Remote IT Management Via Xceedium's SSL VPN+
Comprehensive Remote IT Management Via Xceedium's SSL VPN+

Sophos PureMessage protects over 15,000 email users
Sophos PureMessage protects over 15,000 email users for the University of Wyoming

College Solves Spam & Virus Woes...
Ithaca College Solves Spam and Virus Woes While Upholding Individuals' Rights and Freedoms

Comprehensive Remote IT Management via Xceedium's SSL VPN
Comprehensive Remote IT Management via Xceedium's SSL VPN

Sophos PureMessage protects over 15,000 email users...
Sophos PureMessage protects over 15,000 email users for the University of Wyoming

College's ITS Department Saves Time, Saves Money and Wins Fans with Anti-Spam Implementation
"Of all the services we've put in the college, CanIt-PRO has been the best received. CanIt has nearly eliminated or virus and spam problems, and made our e-mail system usable."

Introduction to Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX 3.5
This paper describes the features and benefits of Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) 3.5, the award winning interoperability Toolkit from Microsoft. SFU enables Windows and UNIX clients and servers to share network resources, integrates account management, simplifies cross-platform management, and provides a full UNIX scripting and application execution environment that runs natively on Windows.

A Case Study on Capacity Planning
Through capacity planning IT organizations can realize major cost savings immediately

The Solaris 9 Operating System
Increase service levels. Decrease costs. Reduce risks.

A Case Study on Capacity Planning
Through capacity planning IT organizations can realize major cost savings immediately.

PureMessage is 'Big Win' for Vignette Corp.
PureMessage has reduced email administration for my department. There are no more spam-related helpdesk tickets. And our users are very impressed with the effectiveness. It's taken the spam headache out of their lives.

PureMessage Spam Filter Increases Productivity at Pulitzer
PureMessage significantly reduces the level of incoming spam and protects the company's network from potential viruses.

PureMessage Protects 120,000 Mailboxes for U. of Washington
PureMessage is a complete email filtering system for spam protection, virus protection, and corporate policy enforcement. Featuring an enterprise-caliber, multi-threaded engine, PureMessage will stop up to 98% of spam for any sized organization.

Scandinavian IT Group - a case study
A weak economy and reduced IT budgets force companies to get more out of their IT investments. Scandinavian IT Group is doing just that.

Macrovision Finds PureMessage Accuracy "in the High 90s"
PureMessage has made a positive impact across Macrovision, "Our management team, and the people who receive large volumes of email, are very happy with the product. We can definitely see the value."

Make Your Business Accelerate With High Performance Computing Solutions
MSC.Software's High Performance Computing Solutions have delivered 400% faster performance at 1/3 the cost

Building High-performance Computing Clusters with Intel Acrhitecture, Part 2
Planning your build out of an Intel Architecture-based cluster will reduce headaches. While HPC clusters can be built from scratch, the mechanics of building clusters is simplified with middleware packages, such as SCYLD and OSCAR.

Building High-performance Computing Clusters with Intel Architecture, Part 1
Since the first clusters of 1989, Intel Architecture has changed the approach to high-performance computing. Discover Intel Architecture-based clusters for yourself with this introduction to Intel Architecture-based HPC clusters.

ISS is going gangbusters over Linux partnerships for High Performance Computing
ISS is vitally interested in providing certified software to meet out customer's requirements. Spanning from cluster inter-connects, compilers, middleware enablers, and end user applications. We have been working on partnerships in High Performance Computing to assist our customers in migrating or starting to use Linux as an operating environment on all of our hp platforms.

PureMessage Protects 120,000 Mailboxes for U. of Washington
PureMessage is a complete email filtering system for spam protection, virus protection, and corporate policy enforcement. Featuring an enterprise-caliber, multi-threaded engine, PureMessage will stop up to 98% of spam for any sized organization.

NonStop computing success story
Driving Growth: BP moves to NonStop S-series server to handle booming European fuel-card business.

Macrovision Finds PureMessage Accuracy "In the High 90s"
PureMessage is tagging 45% of Macrovision's mailstream, effectively solving the productivity drain and potential legal liability associated with spam.

VeriSign Staying Ahead of the Curve
Poor capacity planning can take a data center by surprise and create a number of unhappy customers -- imagine having millions, or even billions to satisfy. VeriSign, Inc. does battle with this issue on a daily basis. Process flow and system load balancing can get out of control if you're not careful. VeriSign understands this, and adheres to service level agreements (SLAs) and a performance management and capacity planning strategy that guarantees quality service for billions of transactions each day -- without any hiccups.

Pure Message Stops 98% of SPAM for State of Indiana
The State of Indiana is comprised of more than 70 state agencies, aproximately 38,000 employees, and more than 800 worksites around Indiana. Over the course of 2002, the State's IT staff watched spam escalate from a nuisance to a problem that was "almost out of control," Despite the unique requirements of a state government, PureMessage performance was high from the outset. "Out-of-the-box, the spam catch rate was around 95% and with minimal tuning, PureMessage is now identifying over 98% of our spam. The accuracy is excellent.

amazon.com + hp
"There are two types of retailers," says Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, "those who work hard to raise prices and those who work hard to lower prices." Since early 2001, Amazon.com has pursued the latter business model -- and it has strengthened the company's position as the world's premier online retailer.

StarOffice 6.0 Enterprise Edition Office Suite — A Sun ONE Software Offering
The StarOffice 6.0 Enterprise Edition Office Suite -- A Sun Open Net Environment software offering -- provides a feature-rich, full-function office productivity suite at an excellent value while offering a full range of world-class service and support. It delivers exceptional cross-platform compatability with enhanced support for the Solaris Operating Environment, Linux, and Microsoft Windows, and is designed to suit all your business needs.

Teradactyl Provides Scalable Backup for Distributed Data Environments
When the True incremental Backup System (TiBS) Release 2.0 began shipping in January of 2001, the School of Computer Science at Caregie Mellon University (CMU-SCS) wanted to know how it might help them improve their data backup and recovery. Patent-pending TeraMerge technology offered to reduce network loads created by their current backup solution.

Dixons Group Right-Sizing their Servers
With £4 billion per annum (over $6 billion USD) in revenue, Dixons Group has become UK's leading High Street retailer of consumer electronics, selling the largest range of TV, video, audio, personal computer, photographic and communications technology.

dreamworks + hp
Caught between moviegoers' ever-rising expectations and movie studios' ever-shrinking budgets, the world-renowned animation team at DreamWorks had long had its eye on Linux. And for good reason. DreamWorks' leagacy systems could no longer handle graphics-intensive, proprietary applications like Toonshooter, and the company needed a flexible, scalable and less expensive platform that could.

PureMessage Identifies Close to 100% of Spam for University
The CS Department was beginning to reel form the amount of spam directed to their servers -- of an average 14,000 emails daily, approximately 3500 were spam. "We have always tried to remain relatively open with email content, and have readily available email addresses for everyone," said Rob Henderson, Associate Facilities Director for the CS Department. "There were lots of complaints from our because of teh upsurge in spam. THey were basically stopping me in the hall, asking, "What can we do to stop all this spam?"

Teradactyl Provides Scalable Backup for Distributed Data Environments
When the True incremental Backup System™ (TiBS) Release 2.0 began shipping in January of 2001, the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU-SCS) wanted to know how it might help them improve their data backup and recovery. Patent-pending TeraMerge® technology offered to reduce network loads created by their current backup solution. “It was important to minimize the impact on network load”, said Daryl Clevenger, Supervisor of Maintenance Programming at CMU-SCS, “The feature of taking daily incremental backups and accumulating changes over time was an attractive way to minimize the impact on our network.” TiBS generates new full backups using data already present on the backup server. At the time, six backup servers provided support for about three terabytes of data distributed over hundreds of workstations and servers.

PureMessage Spam Filter is "Incredibly Accurate", says ISP.
As an Internet Service Provider, AlaWeb was very concerned about the offensive nature and amount of spam received by their customers. Hugh Messenger, Senior Network Administrator explains, "Our users feel th eresponsibility for stopping spam is ours, so we need an extremely effective spam filter or we risk losing them."

Get Your FREE Red Carpet Enterprise Evaluator's Guide Today!
Red Carpet Enterprise, part of the Ximian family of Red Carpet services, is a powerful, server-based software application that provides IT managers, network engineers and system administrators with a secure, customizable, behind-the firewall solution that automates the central management of software packages on workstations and servers.

Slash Software Management Costs!
Red Carpet Enterprise, part of the Ximian family of Red Carpet services, is a powerful server-based application that provides system administrators and IT managers with a secure, customizable solution that automates the central management of Linux software versions on workstations and servers running a variety of Linux distributions. Deployed entirely behind a corporate firewall, Red Carpet Enterprise provides automated dependency and conflict resolution for systems performing Linux software and package updates. It enables administrators to implement Linux standards and control Linux software versions accross workstations and servers for teams and departments.

linux services: implementing and optimizing your linux infrastructure
In view of the requiremant to integrate your Linux environment with your existing IT infrastructure, HP has developed a portfolio of Linux services based on our extensive experience on the HP-UX platform. These services ensure that your Linux implementation supports your business in addition to providing the availability you require to compete in the global marketplace.

hp mc/serviceguard for linux: protecting your environment
With more than 50,000 licences currently deployed on HP-UX, HP MC/Serviceguard is the proven solution for managing and protecting environments requiring high levels of availability. HP MC/Serviceguard is a robust clustering solution for protecting mission critical applications from a wide variety of hardware and software failures.

linux for the always-on internet infrastructure -- highly available and manageable for user optimization
Developed by Finland's Linus Torvalds, distributed for free, and organically enhanced by thousands of programmers worldwide, Linux has now hit the big time! According to IDC, Linux realized a 27% share of operating system software sold in 2000, up from 17% in 1998. As Linux gains acceptance, corporations in the telecommunications, oil and gas, retail, ISP, and manufacturing industries are exploiting its openness and cost benefits in the areas of CRM, point-of-sale, Web hosting, e-mail servers, and scientific applications.

Agentless Monitoring Comes of Age
Long before the rest of the company knew that IT was an acronym, operations groups realized the critical link between a company's business and the performance of its internal systems. As a result, most operations groups have invested in monitoring and alerting software to keep apprised of system performance issues -- before the impacted the business.

Teach your servers self-defence...It's all in the HIPS
Host Intrusion Prevention Systems (HIPS) are the most advanced server security tools available today. HIPS protect at the operating system level and allow servers to defend themselves from attack.

hp and Apache: flexibility and power
Based on the popular open source Apache web server from the Apache Software Foundation, and combined with a breadth of open source modules and HP value-added features, the HP Apache-based web server is commercially ready as a total solution for web server deployment...

hp Apache-based web server on HP-UX for the Itanium architecture
Offering your customers secure transactions is no longer an option. But secure transactions can take up to 10 times longer and slow down your your Internet infrastructure and result in potential loss of revenue and opportunities. Serves that can handle thousands of ordinary web connections per second slow to a crawl when faced with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connections using math-intensive encryption and decryption calculations. To obtain faster SSL performance, most solutions today deploy additional systems or install SSL accelerator cards, which add complexity and increase investment costs.

ActiveState PureMessage Stops 99% of nVidia's Spam
nVidia receives approximately 20K email messages per day. End users were increaasingly frustrated at the volume of unwanted email, as well as at teh inappropriate content in some emails.

Recover critical data in minutes, not hours; assure business continuance
WIth hardware-, application-, or server-based replication systems it takes three to seventeen hours -- at an estimated $90,000 per hour -- to revover data after a system crash or corruption. Data is recovered successfully, but at what cost to the enterprise?

NCR Gets the Most Out of Its IT Dollars with TeamQuest
Information technology budgets are stretched tighter than ever. Companies are being forced to look at existing resources for optimal performance. Purchaces truly must be justified and provide a quick ROI. NCR Corp., a Fortune 100 organization, is one company doing just that -- optimizing performance of existing tools to keep its global data processing center up and running at peak performance.

The Evolution of the OS
Sun’s Solaris(tm) Operating Environment is designed to support the high-level infrastructure that today’s successful organizations need. Because it is available, scalable, manageable and secure, the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) provides optimal support for the wide range of services necessary for both enterprise and Internet-based service-on-demand environments. The Solaris OE delivers the predictability of the datacenter with the agility of the Internet.