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How to Start a Windows Vista Pilot Deployment sponsored by Microsoft WHITE PAPER: Thinking about deploying Windows Vista? This guide gives an overview of how to successfully manage a pilot program that provides the best experience for pilot users and helps to provide positive project justification to business decision makers. Posted: 26 Nov 2008 \| Published: 26 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Hardware \| Mobile Workers \| Productivity \| Testing \| User Experience \| Windows Vista

Virtualizing the Client PC: A Proof of Concept sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: In this paper Intel IT explores a proof of concept study that examined the viability of abstracting the client operating system from the hardware platform using virtualization. Posted: 21 Nov 2008 \| Published: 21 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Enterprise Systems \| Hardware \| OEMs \| Performance Testing \| Productivity \| Server Virtualization \| TCO \| User Experience \| VM

Going Parallel with LabVIEW Delivers Throughput Gains sponsored by National Instruments WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper learn how by combining technologies with NI Lab VIEW parallel programming software and NI TestStand test management software, test engineers can create high-performance test systems. Posted: 16 Sep 2008 \| Published: 16 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Hardware \| High Performance Computing \| High Performance Parallel Interface \| Manufacturing \| Multi-core Processor Architecture \| Software \| Testing

Optimizing PC Performance with Simple Benchmarking Processes sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Check out this paper to learn how to enhance PC performance and overall IT efficiency by utilizing Intel's unique new platform performance benchmarking process. Posted: 02 Apr 2009 \| Published: 03 Nov 2008 TOPICS: Benchmark Testing \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Process Management \| PC Operating Systems \| Performance Testing \| Personal Computers \| User Experience

Disaster Recovery Solutions from VMware: Transforming Disaster Recovery - VMware Infrastructure for Rapid, Reliable and Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery sponsored by VMware, Inc. WHITE PAPER: VMware Infrastructure is transforming the way disaster recovery is done today and in the future; it changes the disaster recovery paradigm to one that is cost effective, rapid and reliable. Posted: 20 Oct 2008 \| Published: 18 Oct 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Replication \| Disaster Planning \| Hardware \| IT Infrastructure \| RPO \| RTO \| VMware

Support PCI Security Compliance with Enhanced Solutions from IBM sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper briefly describes PCI requirements, the benefits of compliance and the penalties for noncompliance. Posted: 13 Feb 2009 \| Published: 13 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Best Practices \| Data Security \| Hardware \| Security \| Software \| Vulnerability Assessments

Small Business Firewall Software Vs. Hardware Firewalls sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Small business firewall software and hardware firewalls are the methods used to protect computers against hacker attacks and other Internet threats. Posted: 02 Feb 2009 \| Published: 02 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Firewall Management \| Hardware \| Internet \| Network Management \| Security \| Small Businesses

PACs for Industrial Control, the Future of Control sponsored by National Instruments WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the origins of the Programmable Automation Controllers (PAC), how PACs differ from Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) and PCs, and the future direction of industrial control with PACs. Posted: 16 Sep 2008 \| Published: 16 Sep 2008 TOPICS: Data Management \| Database Management \| Hardware \| Interface Design \| Network Management \| Software \| TCP/IP \| Vendors

Unlocking the Full Power of Massive Parallelism: Solving the Network Bottleneck in MPP Databases sponsored by Aster Data Systems WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the technical limitations inherent in the architecture of traditional databases and other MPP (massive parallel processing) alternatives. Posted: 09 Dec 2008 \| Published: 09 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Warehouses \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Hardware \| Network Performance \| Sales \| SAN

First the Tick, Now the Tock: Next Generation Intel Microarchitecture - Nehalem sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this paper and get a look at how the next generation microarchitecture's dynamically scalable and design-scalable features directly contribute to power efficiency and performance. Posted: 03 Apr 2009 \| Published: 02 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Application Server Hardware \| Data Centers \| Database Server Software \| Hardware \| Server Appliances \| Server Hardware \| Server Virtualization \| Web Server Software