Whitepapers Selected for CPT Students

Here’s a fact: hiring managers want to hire you. They go into every interview hoping that you’ll be the one they choose to hire. If you don’t get hired, it’s because you’ve convinced the interviewer that you’re not the person for the job. Why sabotage yourself with a resume and employment habits that make hiring managers want to turn you down?

Every company faces critical hours when system downtime is unwelcome—whether it’s planned or unplanned. One company’s important hours might only be from 9-to-5, while for another it’s 24x7. Increasingly, shops that were able to accommodate some periods of downtime for backups and system maintenance are finding that this window is quickly shrinking (or has disappeared altogether) because of increased system demands—especially from global and online business. Because of the need to keep systems available for increasing amounts of time, companies are realizing that a system failure or a site disaster would create an enormous disruption and expense, especially if it went on for longer than a few hours. For many companies, exposure to this amount of potential downtime has become unacceptable. Shops that thought they weren’t candidates for a high availability solution are now realizing an urgent need to start looking at their options.

Published by Symantec, this guide will de-mystify the technology involved and give you the information
you need to make the best decision when considering your online security options. Copyright 2012

In the mid-1990s the business question of the day was “Do you have a Web site?” A well-designed Web site was a new and exciting marketing medium that businesses and users alike saw as a novel, nice-to-have tool. Fast-forward a decade and nice-to-have has given way to necessity, and questions of Web presence have given way to questions of Web purpose.

An in depth paper on the need, uses, and technology for data storage and protection.

For all its benefits, server virtualization can be difficult to implement and could actually increase your costs and complicate network management. Here are some common pitfalls to look out for and avoid. Everybody’s talking about virtualization and server consolidation these days, and many companies are taking some kind of action, with large enterprises in the lead. Server consolidation through virtualization is a proven way to save money in many ways: less hardware, lower power consumption, less floor space and more. And that’s just server virtualization. There’s also storage virtualization, data center virtualization, application virtualization and desktop virtualization, all of which promise significant economic and performance benefits. Without doubt, virtualization is the future of computing, because it decouples computing operating systems and applications from the hardware, lending enormous flexibility and agility to an enterprise’s computing system. For all its benefits, however, server virtualization can be difficult to implement and could actually increase your costs and complicate your life. The objective is to avoid potential pitfalls.

Email is one of the most important applications in business today. This whitepaper compares various email management systems.

The native speakers of the islands of Hawaii probably had no notion of the inadequacy of the duopoly of Word and Email in corporate communication while coining the term Wiki(literally meaning fast). However, Wikis have grown into just that - a fast and efficient way of fostering communication across corporations worldwide.

There is no question that business environments will constantly change and business climates will continually shift. Therefore, IT management would benefit from developing and adopting strategies that would enable easy evolution of their IT infrastructure to best align with the needs of their dynamic business requirements, which the IT infrastructure supports.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides a means of integrating disparate applications within an enterprise,improving reuse of application logic while liminating duplication of production environments.

Together, Dell and JBoss offer open source customers reliable, stable server solutions via leadership in standards-based computing.

When planning a wireless network installation, be sure to carefully assess and resolve risks. Otherwise unforeseen implications, such as RF interference, poor performance, and security holes will wreak havoc. By handling risks during the early phases of the deployment, you’ll significantly increase the success of a wireless network.

The Dell Flexible Computing Solution, On-Demand Desktop Streaming, is based on the Citrix® Provisioning Server™ for Desktops. This solution enables streaming the operating system and applications seamlessly to diskless client machines. This document presents the steps required to deploy On-Demand Desktop Streaming using a client image stored on either a standalone server or a highly available configuration of servers and shared by all clients. The steps presented apply to deployment on clients with Dell EasyConnect™ Technology and configured by Dell. EasyConnect Technology simplifies deployment and eliminates manual license management requirements. Detailed information about additional features and options for deploying, configuring, customizing, and managing the solution is contained in the documentation provided with the Citrix software and is not within the scope of this document.

Timely and accurate information forms the basis of everything we do. It provides us with the proper knowledge tomake the right decisions at the right time. Anything short of this and youmight as well try your luck in Vegas.

So, do new storage technologies make defragmentation obsolete? The quick and dirty answer is simply: No. File defragmentation is still a vital solution for peak system performance and reliability.

Meru Networks provides this whitepaper of the development of wireless infrastructures.

As one of the top cyber crime ploys impacting both consumers and businesses, phishing has grown in volume and sophistication over the past several years. The down economy is providing a breeding ground for new, socially-engineered attempts to defraud unsuspecting business people and consumers. With honest money-earning avenues less available, the cyber crime ecosystem is ready with off-the-shelf phishing kits. It no longer takes a hacker to enable and commit fraud on the Internet — anyone with a motive can join in.

Meru Networks provides an indepth whitepaper on where we are today with wireless networking.

This guide begins with an introduction to LAN troubleshooting. We will review the troubleshooting process and the eight steps to successful troubleshooting. Next, will be information on troubleshooting physical layer problems. We will cover twisted-pair copper and fiber optic media. Advice on troubleshooting common network user complaints will follow. Common complaints include user connection issues and slow networks. The guide concludes with an in-depth discussion of troubleshooting switches. We will describe many switch troubleshooting methods. Frontline LAN troubleshooters who learn how to apply these methods will be able to solve network problems fast.

Although free software has existed for more than twenty years, it is only recently that it has started to be considered as a valid alternative for many users, companies, and increasingly, governments and institutions. Currently, GNU/Linux is one of the most reliable and efficient systems that can be found. Although initially the fact that it was free software made users and companies reluctant to adopt it, GNU/Linux has proven to be up to the task as well as any other operating system in existence.