Dear Subscriber, Welcome to the ZDNet IT White Papers newsletter-your weekly highlights of the most important white papers and case studies recently posted in ZDNet's White Paper library. In this edition, we present white papers on Email Security, Data Center, Business Intelligence, Asset Management, EAI, Business Strategies, Ethernet, Network Security and Best Practises.
********************** ADVERTISEMENT *********************** Between January and June 2004 MessageLab's Anti-Spam service scanned a total of 5,006,942,923 emails. Of these 3,181,672,070 were identified as spam, this equates to a percentage of 63.5% Download the latest email intelligence report from MessageLabs for more information on email security. http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33251/1427290/12405/0/ ************************************************************ This Week's Top White Papers: CATEGORY: DATA CENTER TITLE: Embracing Business Changes: An Adaptive IT Enterprise Case Study COMPANY: Hewlett-Packard DESCRIPTION: A parcel delivery giant has a corporate policy of utilizing the latest technology to facilitate the execution of leading-edge services for its customers. They set about improving and consolidating key elements of its computing capability to become more economically efficient, and enable the company to even more swiftly embrace business changes via an adaptive IT enterprise. Download this case study to learn how this company overcame these challenges with solutions from HP. LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33251/1427290/12953/0/ CATEGORY: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TITLE: The Emerging Trend to Sales and Marketing Intelligence, Part 1 COMPANY: DM Review DESCRIPTION: Business and customer intelligence have largely been associated to application providers that couple ETL tools with high-powered analytical capabilities to help sales and marketing managers integrate disparate databases into data warehouses to run through millions of rows of data in hope that they be able to cater to customer needs. However, the focus with business and customer intelligence is often on the application, not the output. Sales and marketing intelligence is focused on the output, not the application. Sales and marketing intelligence serves the needs of sales and marketing professionals. LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33251/1427290/12954/0/ CATEGORY: ASSET MANAGEMENT TITLE: Best Practices of Systems Administration: A Path To Competitive Advantage COMPANY: Netopia DESCRIPTION: Every organization recognizes a certain �mind the store� element to doing business. However, you cannot mind the store unless you know what technology assets you have, how they are used and what�s needed to stay competitive. Explore how the right Systems Administration solution will meet these challenges while providing an efficient and cost-effective means to achieving a competitive IT advantage. LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33251/1427290/12956/0/ CATEGORY: EAI TITLE: Realizing the Business Value of EAI COMPANY: ebizQ DESCRIPTION: Most medium and large enterprises have a number of organizational and technological silos of information technology (IT) applications that have arisen as a result of functional specialization, divergent evolutionary paths of the IT components, and increasing sophistication of IT application products. This article attempts to remedy these drawbacks of a disintegrated IT infrastructure, organizations undertake enterprise application integration (EAI). LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33251/1427290/12957/0/ CATEGORY: BUSINESS STRATEGIES TITLE: Mergers and Acquisitions - Supporting IT Integration Efforts COMPANY: Siemens DESCRIPTION: Enterprises whose growth strategies include mergers and acquisitions are faced with unique challenges associated with the integration of distinct business entities. Not the least among these challenges are the ones presented in combining different IT infrastructures. Modern corporations rely on the smooth operation of their IT infrastructures to support their core business. All efforts aimed at integrating the people, processes, and technologies of two (or more) companies must, therefore be directed at minimizing the impact to day-to-day operations. LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33251/1427290/12959/0/ CATEGORY: ETHERNET TITLE: Virtual Networking on AIX 5L COMPANY: IBM DESCRIPTION: Virtual Ethernet technology is supported on AIX 5L V5.3 on POWER5 hardware. This technology enables IP-based communication between logical partitions on the same system using a VLAN capable software switch in POWER5 systems. Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA) technology (part of the optional Virtual I/O server feature on POWER5 hardware) enables the logical partitions to communicate with other systems outside the hardware unit without assigning physical Ethernet slots to the logical partitions. LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33251/1427290/12960/0/ CATEGORY: NETWORK SECURITY TITLE: Cisco Security Notice: Dictionary Attack on Cisco LEAP Vulnerability COMPANY: Cisco Systems DESCRIPTION: Cisco LEAP is a mutual authentication algorithm that supports dynamic derivation of session keys. With Cisco LEAP, mutual authentication relies on a shared secret, the user's logon password, which is known by the client and the network, and is used to respond to challenges between the user and the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server. LINK: http://newsletters.zdnetuk.cneteu.net/t/33251/1427290/12962/0/ CATEGORY: BEST PRACTISES TITLE: Patch Management: Managing and Maintaining Windows Updates COMPANY: St. Bernard Software DESCRIPTION: The number of patches and updates software vendors release is increasing, as is the complexity of the patches, updates, and service packs released. Although this is a positive step in closing security vulnerabilities and keeping applications current, the sheer volume of patches and updates can overwhelm IT professionals. TechRepublic's Patch Management: Managing and Maintaining Windows Updates outlines simple strategies, and describes several tools, for deploying and managing patches. 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