- Becoming the Paperless Office
- Apr 17, 2009
- K.J. McCorry outlines the complexities of eliminating paper in the workplace.
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- Been Cracked? Just Put PAM On It!
- Oct 26, 2001
- Pluggable authentication models (PAM) allow you to configure your Linux environment to meet your own particular security needs.
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- Beginning SOA Using BEA WebLogic Workshop
- Oct 15, 2004
- Emmanuel Proulx discusses service-oriented architecture (SOA) and provides an example of an SOA system using the BEA WebLogic Workshop development environment.
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- Best of the Best: Inside Andy Grove's Leadership at Intel
- Dec 10, 2004
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- Best Practices for Designing a Nagios Monitoring System
- Mar 23, 2007
- David Josephsen provides important advice to help you to make important network monitoring design decisions.
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- Best Practices in Knowledge Management
- Nov 20, 2001
- In this excerpt from Publishing Intellectual Capital James Cortada looks at the value of and the best practices for managing knowledge.
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- Beyond e-Business: Infrastructure Strategies that Will Enrich Your Value Chain
- Mar 29, 2002
- If your front doors aren't robust, highly available, and secure, your company risks major losses. The authors of Enriching the Value Chain: Infrastructure Strategies Beyond the Enterprise tell you how to get it right.
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- BizTalk Server 2004 to the Rescue
- Mar 11, 2005
- This article looks at the order-fulfillment problems faced by a fictitious e-commerce company: PinkAndBlue, Inc. Ravindra Okade shows how BizTalk Server 2004 is used to provide an elegant solution within a small budget and a very short implementation time. The proposed solution has all the required ingredients: scalability, failover support, message tracking, flexible transport protocols, and business rules support.
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- BPEL: The Next Big Thing in Software?
- Nov 18, 2005
- Software is far more fluid now than even five years ago. Look at the way we accept new virus definitions and automatic updates to Windows XP! Stephen Morris suggests that this change reflects a gradual migration toward web-based services for upgrades, a small step away from using automatic web services for tasks such as share trading and resource planning. The future may be bleak for monolithic applications, and the main reason may be found in the area of business process modeling.
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- Breaking the Mold: Preparing Your Company for Innovation and Change
- Apr 1, 2005
- It isn't always easy to break the management momentum, but sometimes a change is needed. Using Chrysler as an example, this chapter will help you to prepare your company for major changes.
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- Building a Roadmap for Securing Your Enterprise
- Nov 16, 2001
- This sample chapter from Maximum Security describes the basics of creating a pro-active information security plan, including the elimination of vulnerability points and the implementation of self-audit mechanisms.
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- Building a Roadmap for Securing Your Enterprise
- Jul 13, 2001
- This sample chapter equips you with a roadmap for surviving the information security onslaught.
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- Building a World Class IT Infrastructure
- Jun 1, 2001
- Harris Kern’s Enterprise Computing Institute explores the ugly history and bright future of IT infrastructure.
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- Building Message Specifications in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004
- Nov 18, 2004
- Messaging is the foundation of BizTalk Server, and message schemas are the bedrock on which messaging is built. This chapter will help you to get started in BizTalk messaging by specifying message schemas.
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- Building Resilient IP Networks: The Access Module
- Jun 9, 2006
- This chapter focuses on Ethernet switching technology, specifically Layer 2 network resiliency and how it should be built to provide a solid foundation for the Layer 3 network.
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- Building Systems from Commercial Components Using Model Problems
- Feb 15, 2002
- This article by Robert Seacord, provided courtesy of the Software Engineering Institute, covers using model problems — focused experimental prototypes that reveal technology/product capabilities, benefits, and limitations in well-bounded ways — to add rigor to component based system design.
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- Building Systems from Commercial Components: Design and Search
- Feb 15, 2002
- Building systems from commercial components is often a completely different experience from building custom systems in that the focus of control shifts from the architect or designer to the commercial marketplace. To deal with this loss of control, the successful architect must take a risk-driven approach by considering multiple design contingencies, weighing benefit against risk, and generally playing the odds.
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- Building the Case for IT Infrastructure Management
- Jun 22, 2001
- If you're not going to manage it properly, just take that state-of-the-art equipment out of the boxes and put it directly into the trash. It's less wasteful--see why in this article.
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- Building the Data Warehouse
- Oct 4, 2000
- Data Warehousing expert Laura Brown discusses how to build a successful Data Warehouse.
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- Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and the Worst-Case Scenario
- Jun 22, 2007
- Randy Nash discusses the risks of ignoring a "worst-case scenario" in your disaster recovery planning.
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