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- Granularity
- The degree of modularity of a system. More granularity implies more flexibility in customizing a system, because there are more, smaller increments granules from which to choose.
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ZDNet Resources
- Introduction to Integrity Virtual Machines
- This paper introduces HP Integrity Virtual Machines Integrity VM - an extension of the existing Partitioning Continuum that blends and extends the benefits of HP-UX virtual Partitions vPars and HP Process Resource Manager PRM. Virtual partitions allow creating partitions to the granularity of the hardware (CPU, I/O card) with each...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Granularity, Hardware, Virtual Machine
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Usability and Security of Personal Firewalls
- Effective security of a personal firewall depends on the rule granularity and the implementation of the rule enforcement and the correctness and granularity of user decisions at the time of an alert. A misconfigured or loosely configured firewall may be more dangerous than no firewall at all because of the...
- Tags: Granularity, Personal Firewall, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2007-01-19
- Safesquid Content Filtering Proxy (tar)
- SafeSquid is a Content Filtering Internet Proxy and an application layer firewall that has world's biggest set of features for Total Content Control & Total Access Control. It's unique multi-threaded architecture, delivers maximum benefits when an enterprise seeks granularity, scalability & security. Administrators can achieve the desired goals, without compromising...
- Tags: Security, India, Granularity, Scalability, SafeSquid, Internet
- Software downloads 2006-06-13
- An Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Baseband Processor for Wireless Communications
- The popularity of wireless communication leads to the proliferation of many air interface standards such as the IEEE 802 families and the 3G families. This evolution of standardization continues in an accelerated manner. Most existing techniques for reconfigurable processors focus on the computation model. This paper focuses on increasing the...
- Tags: University Of Illinois, Granularity, Wireless Communication, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-01-14
- Deciding on the Right CMDB Granularity for Your MOF/ITIL Implementation
- The MOF Operations Guide for Configuration Management implies that the tools used to implement Configuration Management can be used to drive the design of the function and CMDB. It is clear that the implementations of solutions such as Service Desk from HP, Red Box or Visionael can lead to quick-wins...
- Tags: Granularity, CMDB, Configuration Management
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- How to maximize performance in virtualized environments
- Virtualization so far has found a home within pre-production and less-than-critical use--and has yet to find its way into more business-critical area, says OpTier's Motti Tal. Commentary--There’s no doubt about the great potential of virtualization to cut IT hardware and management costs, and utilize...
- Tags: Application, Performance, Information Technology, Environment, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, virtualization, managment, enterprise, Motti Tal, OpTier, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2008-06-19
- Parallels releases its Hypervisor -- on the Mac
- Today, virtualization vendor Parallels released the first version of its Server hypervisor for x86 hardware. The surprising thing about it is that it chose to go to release with its Mac version first. Parallels first came to market with its desktop-based virtualization products...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Hypervisor, Parallels Inc., Parallels Server, VM, Virtuozzo Container, Windows Version, Virtualization, Linux, Desktops, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Storage, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Ripplex Address Book for Mac (zip)
- Ripplex is free address book software with maximum control and ease to let you manage your multiple communication channels with no compromise to your privacy and confidentiality. Store and import all your scattered contact and personal information. Synchronize address book data on multiple MACs/PCs automatically. Exchange and update information with...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Address Book, PC, Ripplex
- Software downloads 2008-05-29
- Ripplex Address Book for Windows (zip)
- Ripplex is an address book software with maximum control and ease to let you manage your multiple communication channels with no compromise to your privacy and confidentiality. Store and import all your scattered contact and personal information. Synchronize address book data on multiple MACs / PCs automatically. Exchange and update...
- Tags: Address Book, PC, Microsoft Windows, Ripplex
- Software downloads 2008-05-20
- Build your ITIL configuration management system using scope, span, and granularity
- Effective configuration management requires you to capture and track data in your IT environment -- but how do you decide which data to include? This chapter from Implementing ITIL Configuration Management provides a detailed, jargon-free look at how to determine what data should go in your configuration management database CMDB.Viewing...
- Tags: CMDB, Configuration Management, ITIL, IBM Corp.
- Book chapters 2008-04-25
- IBM TSM for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Backup and Restore Solution
- IBM TSM Tivoli Storage Manager for SharePoint Server 2007 provides site, subsite, and item-level backup and restore granularity down to the single document level. Granular restore capability is the key to quicker restore times with SharePoint. When TSM is combined with a reliable, scalable disk subsystem like the IBM System...
- Tags: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, IBM Corp., Backups, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-04-24
- How to tap into the largest SOA in the world
- How to tap into the largest SOA in the worldSOA vs. WOAPer Dion Hinchcliffe, of ZD Net.."Essentially, WOA describes a core set of Web protocols like HTTP and plain XML as the most dynamic, scalable, and interoperable Web service approach".And they are..Since these are the core of Web services, why...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, endpoint, WOA
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- Fortify offers source code analysis to states
- Fortify offers source code analysis to statesVulnerabilities in Coding are but one part of the puzzleFortify is an excellent company offering critical and timely services to ascertain the integrity of the coding process for voting machines. It's important to note that while vetting the code process and removing vulnerabilities in...
- Tags: SECURITY, Reporting, vulnerability, Palamida, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-02-04
- Five great unsolved mysteries of SOA
- There's a lot of mystery still surrounding service-oriented architecture. Many people -- even in IT -- say they don't fully understand what it can do, or how to go about building one. For a subject that is being hyped to incredible levels by vendors and analysts, there is precious little...
- Tags: SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Windows Defender (version 1593)
- Microsoft Windows Defender is perhaps the best free antispyware application we looked at this year, but we disagree with Microsoft's aggressive need to verify our Windows license--not once but twice--before allowing us the opportunity to download and install Windows Defender. Given that it's a free app, we would prefer that...
- Tags: Operating systems, Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Microsoft Windows Defender, Windows Defender, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Product reviews 2007-12-13
- Sunbelt CounterSpy 2.0
- In its first appearance, CounterSpy was the only antispyware product that correctly identified every piece of spyware in our current active-detection test. It did very well in active scanning, on-demand detection, and complete spyware removal. We also like its overall look and feel. CounterSpy also costs less than the competition...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, CounterSpy, anti-spyware, spyware, Sunbelt Software
- Product reviews 2007-12-12
- Intel uses SOA to chip away at integration, project management issues
- Intel Corporation reports that it has seen a return on investment "in excess of tens of millions of dollars" as a result of its three-year-old SOA effort. Intel gradually moves from custom development to reuse of common services This savings is measured from the...
- Tags: Project Management, ROI, SOA, Service, Intel Corp., Chip, Integration, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Roi/Tco, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Salesforce to Salesforce, the anti-viral network
- When I heard the details of Salesforce.com's newly announced feature that allows subscribing companies to link data and processes with each other, my first reaction was very favorable. My second reaction — when I heard the price — was, "How much? You must be kidding." Salesforce to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Network, Organization, Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Balancing Site Goals and Service Goals in Datacenter Management
- A shift is witnessed from large mainframe computing to commodity, off-the-shelf clusters of servers. The cluster paradigm allows organizations to acquire resources at a fine granularity, scaling the cluster to provide the resources necessary for increasingly-powerful simulations, multimedia rendering, and web farms. As yesterday's clusters grow into today's data centers,...
- Tags: Datacenter Management, Data Center, Duke University, Data Centers, Mainframes, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Web 2.0 Summit: Zuckerberg on Facebook
- The Web 2.0 Summit kicked off with an interview with Mark Zuckerberg defining the term "social graph." "We don't have a social graph. It's just a thing we model and map out," he said. The reason Facebook doesn't have a social graph, he explained, becasue it's simply...
- Tags: Web, Facebook, Web 2.0, Internet, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
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