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Outsourcing Your Web Infrastructure Management: A Resource-Effective Alternative Offering Substantial Benefits to Your Business

As organizations become increasingly more reliant on the Internet and on technology to enable their critical business processes, they are being forced to continuously build and update the infrastructure supporting their Internet-based activities and Web-enabled applications. This paper presents a number of the benefits that businesses can derive by outsourcing...

Tags: Manitoba Telecom Services Inc., Benefit, Outsourcing, Web Infrastructure, ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Internet, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2005-01-07

Maxtor Deploys Blue Coat Proxy Appliances to Protect and Control Its Web Infrastructure

Maxtor Corporation is one of the world's leading suppliers of hard disk drives. The company needed a more efficient and effective strategy to keep spyware and viruses from entering its networks and prevent users from accessing inappropriate Web content, reduce helpdesk requirements, and improve network performance. Maxtor deployed Blue Coat...

Tags: Maxtor Corp., Web Infrastructure, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Help Desk, Cyberthreats, Call Centers, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, It Operations

Case studies

State of Alabama Picks Blue Coat Proxy Appliances to Protect Web Infrastructure

The State of Alabama wanted to regulate Web traffic and address productivity concerns. With a diverse population of up to 35,000 online users, the solution had to provide very granular control without significantly increasing in-house maintenance or support requirements. The State of Alabama deployed two Blue Coat Proxy SG appliances...

Tags: Network, Alabama, Web Infrastructure, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Networking

Case studies

Marubeni Infotec Supports Software and Hardware Sales With IBM Web Infrastructure

On October 1, 2004, Marubeni Infotec Corp. merged with Computer Wave, Inc. Up to that point, Marubeni Infotec had operated mainly as a hardware wholesaler. Meanwhile, Computer Wave had accumulated sales know-how as a distributor of personal computer software. The first goal was to achieve seamless integration with the back-end...

Tags: IBM iSeries, Web Infrastructure, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Servers, Enterprise Software, Management, Hardware, Software

Case studies

Additional Resources

News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...

Tags: Layoff, MSN, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Motorola Inc., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, Storage, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-11-05

ARI Asynchronous Remote Interface 1.0 (Windows)

ARI, which stands for Asynchronous Remote Interface is a .NET Ajax library that eliminates all of the complexity of Ajax programming for .NET based web sites. ARI is a drop-in solution that allows you to make remote calls to all of the server side code residing in the App_Code directory...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web Site, Programming, Clipper Software, ARI, AJAX, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Web Site Development, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-04

You'll be far better off in a future without enterprise software

As per usual...you give no concrete examples only ethereal ideas that go nowhere. You talk about services as though it is something other than software. Everything you propose goes back to the fact that you still have to have infrastructure and software before you can even get started. You use...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Tools & Techniques, Middleware, SOA, software, hardware, enterprise software

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Iron Speed Designer Free Edition 6.2.1 (Windows)

Iron Speed Designer generates database and reporting applications for .NET in minutes, straight from your database. Quickly create visually stunning, feature-rich Web 2.0 applications that are easy-to-customize and ready-to-deploy. Simply point to an existing database and let the Iron Speed Designer wizards build a sophisticated, database-driven application thats ready to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Iron Speed, Iron Speed Designer, Web 2.0, Storage, Servers, Databases, Internet, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-11-01

Making a foundation a real solution to the mySQL mess

Sounds good. Too good?This sounds like a great solution to a problem that is probably costing Oracle, destroying what little credibility Sun has as a brand, while ensuring that every website on the planet virtually retains access to a free, secure and efficient database. If we don't do something, the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Dana, MySQL, Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

Amazon launches relational database service: Think MySQL in the cloud

Amazon on Tuesday launched a public beta of a service dubbed the Amazon Relational Database Service RDS. The main appeal: Allow customers to operate and scale database clusters while leaving pesky tasks like patching and administration to Amazon Web Services. Adam Selipsky, vice president of Amazon Web...

Tags: MySQL, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., RDBMS, EC2, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-27

IsItUp 6.74 (Windows)

IsItUp Network Monitor allows companies of all sizes to monitor critical applications and infrastructure. A wide variety of monitor types are included such as a Ping Monitor, Web site Monitor, Tcp/Ip Port Monitor, Windows Service Monitor,and an e-mail System Monitor. IsItUp continuously monitors multiple IP devices, Web sites, e-mail systems,...

Tags: Web, Monitor, Microsoft Windows, Web Site, Taro Software, IsItUp Network Monitor, Web Site Monitor, E-mail, Web Site Development, Monitors & Displays, Web Technology, Channel Management, Online Communications, Internet, Hardware, Components, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-27

Accelerating Business Performance: San Francisco & Frankfurt Enterprise 2.0 Conferences

Next week sees the inaugural West Coast iteration of the Enterprise 2.0 conference, which is also an annual June event in Boston on the east coast. Sameer Patel and I will be running a track throughout the event which is focused on Selling the Case for...

Tags: Performance, Use Case, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Net neutrality: a faster Internet for all

If I pay my ISP for fast speeds, I should get it.If I pay my ISP for fast speeds, I should get it.I do [b]not[/b] want my internet to slow down just because some person on the [b]other[/b] end didn't pay for priority traffic.Net Neutrality had to happen in the...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet Service Provider, Net Neutrality, faster Internet, Toll-Free, population density, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

AT&T cuts churn rate; Activates 3.2 million iPhones; Touts network upgrades

It will be interesting to see if Droid ....... effects that churn rate.If AT&T wanted me in their network......AT&T must lower the deposit to $100 instead of $500.Sorry, AT&T! You lost and Sprint is the winner! :)What deposite?We paid no deposite.Not at the start.Many people just bought into the 2...

Tags: Smart phones, network upgrade, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, network, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

SecReport Enterprise 1.0.2.0 (Windows)

Folder Permissions Reporting For NTFS Smart-X Enterprise Edition. Get a clue who can actually access you files and folders on your network. Generate NTFS permissions reports from the context menu. Provide periodic security reports that comply with SOX standards. Automatically generate reports and send it by E-mail. Folder Permissions Reporting...

Tags: NTFS, Permission, Microsoft Windows, Smart-X

Software downloads 2009-10-22

Is the IBM Client for Smart Work an alternative to 7 for schools?

Windows 7 looks like a genuinely good OS. Reasonable system requirements, high levels of usability and stability...What's not to like? Well, the price, of course. Volume educational licensing runs around $70 a seat for Windows 7 Professional upgrades. Then there's the actual upgrade process. Major rollouts...

Tags: Ubuntu, IBM Corp., Ubuntu 9.10, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Roi/Tco, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 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

Demand this from software vendors

I was getting a briefing last week from a software executive. We got to a point in the conversation where the discussion was focusing on existing products. I moved the conversation to a different space, though. If you're getting a pitch from a vendor, you should move the conversation, too!...

Tags: Software, Vendor, Customer, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Sales, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Application performance can't be maximized in the dark

When optimizing and managing how applications perform ? from the eyes of the user ? IT teams need light shed onto the actual trouble spots says OpTier's Motti Tal. Commentary - Sometimes, when end users experience application trouble, response times degrade slowly. Other times, applications seem to turn off...

Tags: Performance, Monitoring, Application Performance, Response Time, Storage, Hardware, applications, database, Motti Tal OpTier, Special to ZDNet, Motti Tal OpTier, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-20