High Level Data Link Control Protocol

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn about two network protocol models, TCP/IP and OSI.

Posted: 04 Mar 2011 | Published: 04 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: With IP there are two Link-State protocols in use OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) and IS-IS (Intermediate System to Intermediate System). Both work in much the same way, but OSPF is more commonly used. This white paper examines OSPF synchronization.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses operational risk management (ORM) in the context of "Sound Practices for the Management and Supervision of Operational Risk," a paper from the Basel Committee.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: View this paper to describe how Centrify DirectAudit can solve the security, compliance and third-party access challenges organizations face when auditing and monitoring UNIX, Linux and Windows systems and discover why traditional approaches cannot address the requirements of today's changing environment.

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 | Published: 21 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper is a lab testing summary report of Ethernet fabrics. The study is trying to validate the advantages provided to the data center implementations by Shortest Path Bridging Mode (SPB or SPBM) protocol.

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Check out this presentation transcript to learn how traditional storage technologies like SAN and NAS are being turbo-charged to achieve higher performance, and how new approaches like object storage are taking over the web by achieving order-of-magnitude speed improvements with solutions like DDN’s Web Object Scaler (WOS).

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: TGen has been a pioneer in the cluster computing industry for over 5 years. By deploying the DDN EXAScaler, TGen eliminated I/O bottlenecks and now fully has in place a storage solution for today’s and tomorrows’ sequence alignment. Read this case study to learn more.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Storing and managing ever-increasing amount of data presents a formidable business challenge. Midsized companies are particularly challenged, because they typically lack the resources to handle the deluge. You can’t stop the massivegrowth in data, but you can doa better job of managing it.

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 | Published: 14 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Oracle Grid computing architecture features many powerful techniques that improve energy efficiency and data center productivity.

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 | Published: 03 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: QoS can be used in converged networks to provide voice packets priority access to resources, or it can be used to differentiate data packets from different application stream and provide access to resources according to policy.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Every routing protocol has some pros and cons and its own metric considerations. In this white paper, we will discuss Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), a Cisco-proprietary routing protocol.

Posted: 24 Feb 2010 | Published: 24 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This report will reveal five secrets you should know before you purchase a WMS. They will help guide your evaluation and selection processes in a way that best benefits your business, your customers and your long-term success and competitive advantage.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: As enterprises expect and demand more from their IT and the organizations that provide it, IT functions need management frameworks and enabling technologies to help to deliver high quality IT services and cost efficiencies, to demonstrate delivered business value, and to increase IT-to-business alignment or integration.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

TEST RESULTS: This is a lab testing summary report comparing the scalability and QoS for voice and video of Avaya’s WLAN 8100 versus 3 competitor’s products.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 02 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: The DDN Web Object Scaler (WOS) is a revolutionary object-based, cloud storage system that addresses the needs of content scale-out and global distribution. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how media organizations are deploying DataDirect Networks (DDN) solutions to solve operational challenges and capitalize on new streams of revenue.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

EBOOK: The deadline for the UK's Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme has now passed, and companies will begin to receive fines if they can't demonstrate how they've reduced their carbon footprint or are putting processes in place to do so. This expert IT handbook offers detailed information about this new regulation and how organisations can adhere to it.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) was developed to solve the problems caused by loops in a bridged, or switched, topology. Read this paper for useful knowledge of the Spanning Tree Protocol - knowledge that will be useful for the CCNA exam.

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 06 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: The effective management of your warehouse and fulfillment/distribution operations is critical to the ongoing success of your business—but you’re unsure whether to select your ERP’s warehouse module or a best-of-breed warehouse management system (WMS). This paper will help determine which type of solution is the best fit for your business.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: The protocol utilized to transport data between servers and storage for High Performance Computing (HPC) and to define a Storage Area Network (SAN) is Fibre Channel(FC). Fibre Channel is an "invisible" protocol, because it is only known to the technicians that implement it and keep it working. This paper will provide an overview of this technology.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

EZINE: The IT in Europe virtual data centre e-zine covers the effects of virtualisation on data centres, including management headaches. Discover the challenges posed by an ever-increasing number of virtual resources and access three case studies from the Best of VMworld Europe 2011 User Awards.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: MPLS stands for Multiprotocol Label Switching and is defined as “a mechanism in high-performance telecommunications networks that direct and carried data from one network node to the next, making it easy to create ‘virtual links’ between distant nodes.” Read on for a thorough overview of MPLS and learn how MPLS can benefit your organization.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Exponential data growth is challenging today's IT managers to scale their storage capacity while delivering high performance and staying within tight budgets. This paper explains how Oracle can help by offering the first unified storage solution that optimizes performance with HSPs and delivers radical simplification of storage management.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how to defend against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and strengthen your security controls. A DDoS attack involves flooding a server with traffic until it becomes overloaded and can no longer function.

Posted: 24 Feb 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

EBOOK: In this chapter of the "Introduction to Virtualization E-book" we will look at how to protect production workloads running in a virtual environment as well as off load this work to a stand-by host if needed.

Posted: 28 May 2009 | Published: 28 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn four solid reasons why putting your warehouse management system in the cloud may make the most sense for your business – and how it can affect your bottom line with a faster return on investment.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011