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ALSO CALLED: Hardware Devices, Physical Devices, Machines DEFINITION: In information technology, hardware is the physical aspect of computers, telecommunications, and other devices. The term arose as a way to distinguish the "box" and the electronic circuitry and components of a computer from the program you put in it to make it do things. The program came to be known as the software.Hardware implies permanence and invariability. Software or programming can easily … Definition continues below.
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Metalogix Content Migration and Upgrade for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 sponsored by Metalogix WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses both Microsoft's out-of-box migration approaches and Metalogix's SharePoint Site Migration Manager 2010. It describes common migration scenarios, and how those scenarios can be addressed using the different migration approaches. Posted: 28 Apr 2010 \| Published: 28 Apr 2010 TOPICS: Backup Software \| Collaboration \| Content Management \| Content Management Software \| Database Administration \| Database Management \| Enterprise Content Management \| Hardware \| Legacy Applications Software \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization

Beyond the Hypervisor: Optimizing Virtualization Management sponsored by ASG Software Solutions WHITE PAPER: Enterprise Management Associates believes that sophisticated, integrated, heterogeneous, virtual systems management is a critical business differentiator for enterprises as they deploy and expand their virtualization infrastructure. Read this paper for more information. Posted: 27 Jan 2010 \| Published: 27 Jan 2010 TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Applications Management \| Hardware \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Server Virtualization \| Software Virtualization \| Systems Management \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

PC-Disable Delivers Intelligent Client-Side Protection for Lost or Stolen Notebooks sponsored by Absolute Software WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how new hardware-based technology, could help reduce the incidence of notebook theft. The result can be better protection of assets and sensitive data on notebooks, rapid reactivation when systems are returned, and reduced business risk. Posted: 14 Dec 2009 \| Published: 14 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Hardware \| Security \| Security Management \| Storage Management \| Storage Security

Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series: An Intelligent Approach to IT Challenges sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel WHITE PAPER: As data centers reach the upper limits of their power and cooling capacity, efficiency has become the focus of extending the life of existing data centers and designing new ones. As part of these efforts, IT needs to refresh existing infrastructure with servers that deliver more performance and scalability, more efficiently. Read on to learn more. Posted: 08 Jul 2009 \| Published: 08 Jul 2009 TOPICS: Hardware \| Processor Architectures \| Server Appliances \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Server Provisioning \| Workstations

Improving the mobile experience through solid state drive sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Intel IT is evaluating solid-state drive (SSD) technology to better understand the benefits to users and the impacts on the enterprise. We have initiated a proof of concept (PoC) study that includes extensive benchmark testing as well as deployment of notebooks with SSDs to the Intel workforce. Posted: 27 May 2009 \| Published: 05 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Hard Disk Drives \| Hard Disks \| Hardware \| Remote Access Hardware \| Remote Access Security \| Remote Network Management \| Solid State Disks

First the Tick, Now the Tock: Next Generation Intel Microarchitecture - Nehalem sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this paper and get a look at how the next generation microarchitecture's dynamically scalable and design-scalable features directly contribute to power efficiency and performance. Posted: 03 Apr 2009 \| Published: 02 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Application Server Hardware \| Data Centers \| Database Server Software \| Hardware \| Server Appliances \| Server Hardware \| Server Virtualization \| Web Server Software

Support PCI Security Compliance with Enhanced Solutions from IBM sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper briefly describes PCI requirements, the benefits of compliance and the penalties for noncompliance. Posted: 13 Feb 2009 \| Published: 13 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Data Security \| Hardware \| Security \| Software \| Vulnerability Assessments

Small Business Firewall Software Vs. Hardware Firewalls sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Small business firewall software and hardware firewalls are the methods used to protect computers against hacker attacks and other Internet threats. Posted: 02 Feb 2009 \| Published: 02 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Firewall Management \| Hardware \| Internet \| Network Management \| Security \| Small Businesses

Configuration and Change Management for IT Compliance and Risk Management sponsored by Tripwire, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses key issues surrounding configuration management and compliance, such as the IT department's need to lower costs, increase management flexibility and control, and increase responsiveness to business needs and requirements. Posted: 08 Jan 2009 \| Published: 01 Nov 2007 TOPICS: Business Processes \| Change Management \| Configuration Management \| Hardware \| Infrastructure Management \| IT Departments \| ITIL \| Risk Management \| Software

Integrating HP Data Protector Software with HP Data Deduplication Solutions sponsored by HP WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss HP Data Protector Software which fully supports HP data deduplication technologies allowing you to recover files more quickly while reducing your data management and storage costs. Posted: 10 Dec 2008 \| Published: 10 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Continuous Data Protection Software \| Data Deduplication \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Disaster Recovery \| Hardware \| High Availability \| NAS \| RAID \| SAN \| Vendors

Virtualization Overview sponsored by Global Knowledge WHITE PAPER: This paper explains an approach to virtualization software that relies on the host operating system to provide the service to talk directly to the underlying hardware. Posted: 10 Dec 2008 \| Published: 11 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Hardware \| IT Infrastructure \| IT Managers \| Networking Hardware \| Operating Systems \| Server Consolidation \| Software \| TCO \| VMware

Unlocking the Full Power of Massive Parallelism: Solving the Network Bottleneck in MPP Databases sponsored by Aster Data Systems WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the technical limitations inherent in the architecture of traditional databases and other MPP (massive parallel processing) alternatives. Posted: 09 Dec 2008 \| Published: 09 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Warehouses \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Hardware \| Network Performance \| Sales \| SAN

How to Start a Windows Vista Pilot Deployment sponsored by Microsoft WHITE PAPER: Thinking about deploying Windows Vista? This guide gives an overview of how to successfully manage a pilot program that provides the best experience for pilot users and helps to provide positive project justification to business decision makers. Posted: 26 Nov 2008 \| Published: 26 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Hardware \| Mobile Workers \| Productivity \| Testing \| User Experience \| Windows Vista

Virtualizing the Client PC: A Proof of Concept sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: In this paper Intel IT explores a proof of concept study that examined the viability of abstracting the client operating system from the hardware platform using virtualization. Posted: 21 Nov 2008 \| Published: 21 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Enterprise Systems \| Hardware \| OEMs \| Performance Testing \| Productivity \| Server Virtualization \| TCO \| User Experience \| VM

Reducing Server Total Cost of Ownership with VMware Virtualization Software sponsored by VMware, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Technology purchases are often quantified simply by hardware and software costs. But there's more to it. This TCO study takes a holistic view. Posted: 13 Nov 2008 \| Published: 13 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Channel Management \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Hardware \| IT Infrastructure \| ROI \| Sales Channels \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| TCO \| VARs \| VMware

Application Virtualization and Desktop Virtualization Are Better Together sponsored by Citrix WHITE PAPER: This document is designed to help Citrix XenApp customers understand how and when Citrix XenDesktop can be used with Citrix XenApp to deliver virtual desktops to further reduce application and desktop computing costs. Posted: 05 Nov 2008 \| Published: 05 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Data Centers \| Desktop Management \| Hardware \| Security \| Server Virtualization \| TCO \| VMware

Multi-core Processors - The Next Evolution in Computing sponsored by AMD WHITE PAPER: Multi-core processors offer performance and productivity benefits beyond the capabilities of today's single-core processors. Posted: 04 Nov 2008 \| Published: 22 Aug 2008 TOPICS: Hardware \| IT Managers \| Multi-core Processors \| Operating Systems \| Security \| Server Consolidation \| Software

IT Takes Virtualization to Make an Agile Infrastructure sponsored by AMD WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how AMD's ecosystem partners are adapting their software to take advantage of new virtualization extensions. It also explores the future of virtual technology, and assesses its impact on the industry in years to come. Posted: 04 Nov 2008 \| Published: 22 Aug 2008 TOPICS: COBOL \| Fault Management \| Hardware \| IT Managers \| Operating Systems \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization \| VMware

Closed Loop Lifecycle Planning©: Optimizing for Energy Efficiency in the Upcoming Technology Refresh Cycle sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This paper encourages all businesses, regardless of size and complexities, to consider a more formal "green" strategy in regards to client computing and the technology refresh cycle. Posted: 20 Oct 2008 \| Published: 17 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Application Life-Cycle Management \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Hardware \| Investments \| Marketing \| Project Management \| Software

Disaster Recovery Solutions from VMware: Transforming Disaster Recovery - VMware Infrastructure for Rapid, Reliable and Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery sponsored by VMware, Inc. WHITE PAPER: VMware Infrastructure is transforming the way disaster recovery is done today and in the future; it changes the disaster recovery paradigm to one that is cost effective, rapid and reliable. Posted: 20 Oct 2008 \| Published: 18 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Replication \| Disaster Planning \| Hardware \| IT Infrastructure \| RPO \| RTO \| VMware

Oracle Database 11g: Real Application Testing & Manageability Overview sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how the new Real Application Testing capabilities in the Oracle Database 11g allows database administrators to adapt to changes easily, lower their testing costs and reduce hardware and software investments. Posted: 14 Oct 2008 \| Published: 14 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Data Recovery \| Database Management \| Databases \| Hardware \| Linux \| Oracle (Product) \| SQL

A Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and Service Automation sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company WHITE PAPER: This Shortcut Guide to Virtualization and IT Service Automation provides an insightful overview of virtualization and IT Service Management. It helps demystify virtualization and helps you determine if virtualization is right for your environment. Posted: 10 Oct 2008 \| Published: 10 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Enterprise \| Hardware \| IT Service Management \| ITIL \| Network Infrastructure \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Systems Development Life-cycles \| Systems Management Software

Document Solutions IP Faxing versus Conventional Faxing: A Critical Analysis sponsored by Premiere Global Services WHITE PAPER: This white paper uses examples in three industries with the heaviest fax usage - finance, healthcare, and insurance - to demonstrate costs and risks that are shared across all industries. Posted: 10 Oct 2008 \| Published: 10 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Communications Systems \| Fax Services \| Hardware \| HIPAA \| IP \| ROI \| Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance \| Security \| TCO

Big Is In: X86 Buying Trends sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Read the Gabriel Consulting x86 Server Vendor Preference Survey to learn why IBM is positioned as the leader for greater than 4-socket computing. Posted: 02 Oct 2008 \| Published: 02 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Centers \| ERP \| Hardware \| Hardware Configuration Management \| Hardware Management

Going Parallel with LabVIEW Delivers Throughput Gains sponsored by National Instruments WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper learn how by combining technologies with NI Lab VIEW parallel programming software and NI TestStand test management software, test engineers can create high-performance test systems. Posted: 16 Sep 2008 \| Published: 16 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Hardware \| High Performance Computing \| High Performance Parallel Interface \| Manufacturing \| Multi-core Processor Architecture \| Software \| Testing

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HARDWARE DEFINITION (continued): … be varied. You can put an entirely new program in the hardware and make it create an entirely new experience for the user. You can, however, change the modular configurations that most computers come with by adding new adapters or cards that extend the computer's capabilities.Like software, hardware is a collective term. Hardware includes not only the computer proper but also the cables, connectors, power supply units, and peripheral devices such as the keyboard, mouse, audio speakers, and printers.Hardware is sometimes used as a term collectively describing the physical aspects of telephony …
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