Validated by leading analyst firms Gartner and Forrester, data virtualization is considered a “must have” in every enterprise’s data integration portfolio. This white paper discusses the five most frequently deployed data virtualization usage patterns. 

The majority of user authentication schemes today still use userid and password. The burden to users of managing large numbers of userids and passwords has led to proposals for Federated Identity systems, where a single set of credentials can be used to authenticate with several organisations, which have agreed to work together as a federation. 

As a leading project and portfolio management solution on the IBM Lotus Notes platform, Genius Project for Domino allows your organization to consolidate all of your project information delivering a 360 degree view of your resources, budgets, earnings, and strategic alignment of all of your projects. 

This essential e-zine offers expert insights from industry guru Brian Madden on the ins and outs of desktop virtualization from the basics to the many complexities.  Madden covers key topics such as app virtualization, the differences between “TCO” and “ROI”, desktop virtualization's effect on the network and much more. 

While desktop virtualization and VDI are certainly becoming trendy, the reality today is that properly designing a system is still complex and a source of worry and confusion for many architects. 

When ABD Insurance & Financial decided to switch its email environment from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange, the company knew it would have to optimize its network. By offering a variety of flexible equipment and applications, Riverbed met the company’s diverse needs for WAN optimization, DR, and replication services. 

Troubleshooting is a necessary evil. Where does one start when the operating system does not start, the application does not load or run correctly, the network hangs or a network service does not listen or perform? Linux is noted for being rock solid, stable, and easy to manage but not as user friendly. 

Putting to rest many of the claims that tape has passed its prime, this Clipper Note from The Clipper Group confirms that tape can be an important cost-saving storage technology for long-term archiving of big files in a tiered storage architecture.  

This series examines some of the implications of virtualization for small and medium-sized businesses. In this note, we examine opportunities to leverage virtualization to automate service level management. 

Business continuity and disaster recovery can mean a rapid return to operations or financial downfall. This IDC white paper highlights the challenges and best practices for implementing continuity and recovery solutions, and details how Riverbed WAN optimization solutions enable firms to meet their recovery requirements. 

This paper examines that while the global economic recession of recent years has largely been replaced by a lethargic recovery, many workers continue to be impacted by job loss, reduction insalary and benefits, or job change. 

This paper examines the usefulness and goal of summarization. These goals consist of conserving RAM, bandwidth and CPU by hiding information from some of the routers.