Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- SLA Design and Service Provisioning for Outsourced Services
- In this work, a business-driven approach to designing Service Level Agreements in an e-commerce environment is proposed. In contrast to conventional SLA design approaches, the one proposed better captures the relationship between service provider and service client by considering the negative business impact business loss originated from IT infrastructure failures...
- Tags: SLA, Outsource, Service Provisioning, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2008-10-23
- Arcor AG & Co. KG Achieves Highly Flexible Service Provisioning and Ensures Data Availability
- Arcor wanted to develop an efficient and highly flexible service infrastructure to facilitate provisioning for the company's triple-play and other offerings and automate configuration of different network elements in the Arcor Internet Protocol IP network. The challenge was to enable self care and self provisioning capabilities and ensure transaction security,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Provisioning, Service Provisioning
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- MPLS VPN Service Requests
- The focus of IP Solution Center ISC is the service provided for a customer on the link between a customer CE and a provider PE. The service request model is the centerpiece of service provisioning. With the service request model, the ISC can capture the specified VPN service provisioning request,...
- Tags: MPLS VPN, IP, Service Provisioning, Service Request, Microsoft Windows CE, VPNs, Networking, Network Security, Telecommunications, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Brasil Telecom Increases Efficiency of Network Management and Service Provisioning
- To meet Brasil Telecom's regulation-related business and service provisioning challenges, the company needed to improve its order management and provisioning processes and reduces its capital expenses and operating expenses. To operate more efficiently and gain market share, the company needed an inventory system with an architecture that could speed up...
- Tags: Process Management, Network, Provisioning, Service Provisioning, Network Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-10-01
- Dynamic Service Provisioning Using GRIA SLAs
- Service Level Agreements SLA include Quality of Service QoS constraints and bounds that have to be honoured by the service provider. To maximise the Service Provider revenue while satisfying the QoS requirements of the agreed SLAs it is important to be able to per-form a dynamic distribution of the service...
- Tags: SLA, QoS, Service Provider, Service Provisioning, University Of Southampton, Service Level Management, Business Services, It Operations, It service Management
- White papers 2007-08-31
- Oracle Communications Network Discovery Overview
- Keeping the Operational Support Systems OSSs in synch with their live network improves data accuracy and increases their service provisioning success rate. Oracle Communications Network Discovery provides automated discovery of the network including network elements, physical resources, logical resources, and provisioned services. One can use Oracle Communications Network Discovery to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Network, Service Provisioning, Oracle Communications Network Discovery, Networking
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Design and Implementation of an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Emulator Using Virtualization Techniques
- Multimedia service provisioning in Packet-Switched networks is one of the most active research and standardization efforts nowadays, and constitutes the most likely evolution of current telecommunication networks. In this environment, the 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS represents the service provisioning platform of choice for SIP-based content delivery in mobile and...
- Tags: Virtualization, IP, Service Provisioning, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2006-04-24
- Service Provisioning Through ESB
- Similar to SOA, Enterprise Service Bus ESB is neither a technology nor a product in itself, but a platform, a set of tools, and a design philosophy. Using ESB, the user can deploy SOA components in an autonomous but federated manner. This allows easy growth for applications, application boundaries, and...
- Tags: Service Provisioning, Enterprise Service Bus, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services
- White papers 2005-10-18
- IEEE 802.16 Medium Access Control and Service Provisioning
- This paper describes the IEEE 802.16 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM and the 802.16 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access OFDMA, Medium Access Control MAC protocols, both of which are key elements of the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access Forum WiMAX deployments. The paper also discusses the types of provisioning and...
- Tags: IEEE 802.16, Service Provisioning, OFDMA, WiMAX, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi
- White papers 2004-08-20
- Using BizTalk 2004 to Implement an SOA for Service Provisioning
- This webcast will describe the process of building an Operational Support System OSS for a large telecom company in Europe. The solution was built on Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, the Microsoft .NET Framework and industry-standard XML Web Services. The OSS integrated several services that have been...
- Tags: Microsoft BizTalk Server, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, Service Provisioning, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts
- Provisioning of Broadband Telecommunication Services
- FastWeb, a member company of the E.Biscom group, is the leading provider of innovative broadband telecommunication services in Italy. The need to keep track of and coordinate all processes involved in customer acquisition, network development, building management and service activation, lead FastWeb to design and implement a Service Provisioning system....
- Tags: Broadband, Provisioning, Service Provisioning, FastWeb, Telecommunications
- Case studies
- Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Using BizTalk 2004 to Implement an SOA for Service Provisioning
- This webcast will describe the process of building an Operational Support System OSS for a large telecom company in Europe. The solution was built on Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, the Microsoft .NET Framework and industry-standard XML Web Services. The OSS integrated several services that have been...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft BizTalk Server, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, Service Provisioning, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts
Additional Resources
- Overview on SP1 Release for Storage Foundation and High Availability for Windows 5.1
- Storage Foundation and High Availability for Windows 5.1 will be releasing Service Pack 1 (SP1) in November. This SP1 release includes an eye-popping list of extended features and additional functionality that enables this product to maintain its competitive edge in the storage management and availability space for the Windows environment....
- Tags: Symantec Corp., High Availability, Provisioning, Service Pack, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-11-12
- SaaS: Shelfware as a service?
- Think the conclusions are a bit flawedI think we can all agree that SaaS saves operational expenses, increases agility and improves the user experience. I don't think the fact that Salesforce.com has been successful can be held against the category.The shelfware point is a bit more subtle. The...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, shelfware
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- EvriChart: A Linux Success Story
- Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...
- Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Google defends itself as FCC asks for more information
- Per Wikipedia Google Voice IS a Telecommunications Service "Google Voice formerly GrandCentral is a telecommunications service by Google[1] launched on March 11, 2009. The service provisions a U.S. phone number, chosen by the user from available numbers in selected area codes,"and as such they should be required to play by...
- Tags: Federal government, Telecom & Utilities, Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VOIP, Google Inc., FCC, phone, GrandCentral
- Discussion threads 2009-10-11
- VMware to step up data center automation game
- ResponseThis is great news for the IT world. These tools will greatly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of virtual environments. And VMware is smart to focus on automation. They understand better than anyone that automation is the key to virtualization and then cloud computing.Without it, you?re not likely...
- Tags: Server virtualization, Virtualization, VMware Inc., game, automation, provisioning, virtual server
- Discussion threads 2009-09-27
- ServePath GoGrid - an F5 customer profile
- I recently had the opportunity to communicate with Telemachus Luu, Director of Product Engineering at GoGrid, the Cloud Computing Division of ServePath. Please introduce your company and your role GoGrid is the leading Cloud Computing, hosted, Internet service that delivers true â€Control in the Cloudâ€. GoGrid enables system...
- Tags: Load Balancing, Environment, API, ServePath GoGrid, F5, Servers, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Live Webcast: Strong Authentication: Leveraging Industry Standards and your Existing Technology Investments
- Strong authentication - everyone wants it but how do you afford it? The costs are more than just the tokens. In fact there are quite compelling strong authentication methods today that don't even require a token. Never-the-less you must factor in the enrollment and provisioning costs,...
- Tags: Webcast, Industry Standard, Investment, Authentication, Security
- Webcasts 2009-09-08
- Managing IT Infrastructure With Template-Based Provisioning
- The ideal approach is one in which all underlying physical IT data center resources and their interdependencies can be manipulated in software-defined templates. The entire application or service infrastructure can be provisioned or repurposed on-demand or automatically in response to real-time business needs. This results in less overbuilding, significant operational...
- Tags: IT Infrastructure, Data Center, Information Technology, Provisioning, Liquid Computing, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2009-09-03
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
SmartPlanet
-
Thought-provoking progressive ideas on diverse topics that intersect with technology, business, and life, and matter to the world at large.
Visit SmartPlanet
- More from IBM
-
-
Innovate your business' process model, play against the market, compete against others on our scoreboards and WIN!
Try INNOV8 2.0: A BPM Simulator
-
Enabling Real-World Business Transformation through IBM Service Management
Read the EMA Analyst Report
White Papers and Webcasts
Doc delivers the scoop on today's enterprise content management, printer maintenance, and all other issues related to document management. It's the DocuMentor Blog.
The Business Essentials Guide provides you useful tools and templates to help grow your business and save you time with automated shipping solutions.
