Case study: the ups and downs of revamping IT architecture
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A New York government agency determined it was time to move off its old Wang system to an IT foundation that would integrate data from all eight departments within the agency. Here's how they did it.
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(Fluke Networks)  When a business expands an existing facility, adds a new location, incorporates an influx of new users, or upgrades an existing infrastructure - it's vital to ensure network readiness and validate infrastructure changes to optimize network performance, minimize user downtime and reduce problems after implementation. This white paper describes a methodology to manage network changes that meets the need for speed of implementation without sacrificing accuracy.
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New virtual-machine technology can be used to test software patches and migrate aging Windows NT applications. By John Foley, Paula Rooney, CRN.
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Leading IT organizations are replacing older-generation integration software with InterSystems Ensemble. Learn why Stanford Hospital and Clinics made the switch.
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Some are questioning the fit between the two companies from the perspective of open-source tools and APIs.
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Understand the issues of migrating an application from an application server architecture to a portal-centric architecture.
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Itâs funny how circumstances can change your perception of whatâs possible. A few months ago, key Microsoft architects were telling me that it would be impossible to decouple the Avalon presentation subsystem from the Longhorn OS.
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Server virtualization may be enterprise computing's latest technology, but a recent survey of corporate IT buyers shows that near-term adoption may not match the hype.
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A Services Oriented Infrastructure presents a vision of common IT infrastructure elements  CPU, network, storage  presented as services to applications.
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InfoWorld - Server virtualization has, without doubt, taken the IT industry by storm. It provides a cost-effective way to dramatically reduce downtime, increase flexibility, and use hardware much more efficiently.
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In many respects, SOA is an evolution of the fundamental tenets governing component-based development (CBD). In this article, Bernhard Borges, Kerrie Holley and Ali Arsanjani from IBM discuss the relationship between CBD and SOA and a technique for performing SOA modeling, analysis, and design for services, where services are realized using components.
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The former World Class product-of-the-year PDA gets a much-needed upgrade.
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While developers are naturally curious over tweaks to the Longhorn road map, many IT administrators barely take notice. Enterprise IT customers typically lag at least
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A smooth integration will not be a matter of simply swapping one set of software or hardware for another. It may hinge on changing deep-seated mind-sets.
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There is something rather antiquated about many of the server clusters used today by engineers, scientists and media fiends. Their high-powered computing machines are often cobbled together over many days
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Flip-flop Computacenter has managed to tighten its belt a couple of notches and turn its infrastructure business into its headline feature - for the right reasons.â¦
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Taking a page from OSS for improving interagency collaboration.