Thursday, September 27, 2007

Weekly Update: FXP, SMTP, Load Balancing and more...

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Thursday, September 27, 2007

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Your weekly connection to the new and most popular entries from the Networking community.

**** CONTENTS ****

Groups: Windows file server slow sometimes (+9)
White Papers: BI on the Move: Cognos Go! Mobile (+4)
Documents: Preparing for an IT Security Career (+1)
Blogs: Save your company some money! (+9)
Wiki: Resilient packet ring (+5)
Jobs: ANSS - Remedy Application Analyst Needed (+5)
Events: Women and Technology Summit (+2)


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Calculate ROI for a Tape Consolidation Project
Discover 5 key steps to calculating ROI for a tape consolidation project, including areas such as hardware maintenance savings, off-site media savings, staff productivity savings, etc. Learn More.
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Most Popular Thread

WINDOWS FILE SERVER SLOW SOMETIMES
By lnarachi, member since 5/4/2007, Group: networkadmin-l
We have a windows fileserver running 2003 Server(latest) and I have an interesting issue. Sometimes file transfers take a LONG time. Sometimes they are fast as expected. We have an all Cisco switched environment and some VLAN routing at our core switch.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598268

Recent Threads

INTERNAL DNS DOESN'T RESOLVE
By westview1, member since 3/20/2004, Group: cisco-infrastructure-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598270

BOARD DRIVER
By chris sunday, member since 2/27/2006, Group: networkadmin-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598271

ABOUT VLAN WITH IP SUBNET
By shahnawaz_cisco2k3, member since 11/18/2006, Group: cisco-infrastructure-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598272

BANDWIDTH PROBLEM
By SAFARI, member since 9/21/2007, Group: cisco-infrastructure-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598274

NEW DOMAIN
By bhushanvs15, member since 12/16/2006, Group: networkadmin-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598275

CISCO 11500 CSS + LOAD BALANCING
By krishsil, member since 9/20/2007, Group: networkadmin-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598277

NEWBIE CISCO AND NORTEL QUESTION
By Nick, member since 9/23/2007, Group: cisco-infrastructure-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598279

NORTEL BAYSTACK 5520 AND CISCO CONNECTION
By Nick, member since 9/23/2007, Group: networkadmin-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598280

CLINET / SERVER
By REKSA, member since 9/23/2007, Group: networkadmin-l
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598282

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Recent White Papers

BI ON THE MOVE: COGNOS GO! MOBILE (Podcast)
By Cognos
Allowing business users anywhere, anytime access to the information they need is helping organizations become more agile and competitive. Learn how to get business intelligence into the hands of your business users, anywhere they go with Cognos Go! Mobile.
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5 KEY STEPS TO CALCULATING ROI FOR A TAPE LIBRARY CONSOLIDATION PROJECT
By Phil Wandrei, Datalink
This paper examines how to calculate ROI for a tape consolidation project, including areas such as hardware maintenance savings, off-site media savings, staff productivity savings, etc. Read about key areas that generate savings in a tape library consolidation project and examine the steps for...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/575152

MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS - THE NEXT EVOLUTION IN COMPUTING
By AMD
The exponential growth of digital data is leading businesses to seek greater processor performance and efficiency. Read AMD's whitepaper on how multi-core processors represent a major evolution in addressing this problem.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598187

ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE IM USAGE POLICY
By Symantec Corporation
This white paper provides a best practices overview for effectively managing the risks and costs associated with the corporate use of IM. Download this white paper today and learn more about security and legal risks associated with IM usage and how to overcome them...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/535381

BREAKING THROUGH THE NOISE AROUND APPLICATION AVAILABILITY
By Marathon Technologies
With a very stagnant availability market over the past ten years or so, businesses have had few viable options for enabling the varying degrees of availability they require. Marathon's everRun defines a new standard in automated application availability, using patented virtualization technology, everRun provides...
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**** DOER POPULAR Q&A ****
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Most Popular New Popular Q&A

PREPARING FOR AN IT SECURITY CAREER
By ITtoolbox as adapted from Security-Career discussion
What certifications are required to enter the IT Security field? How important is a university education? I'm considering going back to school, but don't want to go through it if I can just obtain security certifications through outside courses.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598285

Recent Popular Q&A

PAUSE ERRORS WITH A GIGABIT INTERFACE
By ITtoolbox as adapted from cisco-infrastructure-L discussion group
I am facing Pause output erors on a Cisco 2821 Series router on a Gigabit interface. The Gigabit interface is configured with 100/Full speed.I have tried changing port at other end, and also changing the cable, but I still get the Pause Errors...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598287

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Most Popular New Blog Entry

SAVE YOUR COMPANY SOME MONEY!
By Locutus
I think this is another topic that causes strong reactions on both sides. The progressive people will shout "Yeah! You tell'em Locutus!" While the regressive people will come out with statements like "Companies won't change." or "It will cost too much."
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598188

Recent Blog Entries

HOW I AM USING GOOGLE CALENDAR
By Matthew Moran
I recent posted a piece on how I use Google Calendar and SMS over on my personal blog...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598289

SALES CALL RESULTS PLUS
By Matthew Moran
I have been asked by other consultants and professionals I work with how I end up with clients all in one geographic location and how I have, for the most part, generated a decent consulting income year after year without much drive time...The answer...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598240

SALES CALL TUESDAY
By Matthew Moran
Working on bringing in work more to my liking… Mostly, Office Automation work using MS Office and other productivity tools. For me, it is fairly quick hit, high-value work - other technology work (support, networking, wireless), I've got some help on.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598241

TOWARDS A BSD-LICENSED COMPILER
By Dru
Last week Hubert Feyrer blogged about experiments using PCC to compile the NetBSD userland. PCC is interesting for several reasons: it's blazingly fast (always nice in a compiler) and its BSD-licensed (the GPL-licensed gcc has always been seen as a thorn in...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598290

UNBUNDLING WINDOWS?
By Octavius
The Globalisation Institute today published a policy briefing that calls on the EU to require all PC's to be sold without Operating Systems. Entitled Unbundling Microsoft Windows, it suggests that forcing consumers and businesses to buy their OS's separately would be good for...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598291

SALARY, GENDER AND THE SOCIAL COST OF HAGGLING
By Dru
There's some insightful quotes in this Washington Post article, beginning with the introductory story: All their male counterparts in the university's PhD program were teaching courses on their own, whereas the women were working only as teaching assistants. That mattered, because doctoral students...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598293

OPEN LOGIC EXCHANGE
By Dru
OpenLogic is launching OLEX this month and it looks to be a promising resource for enterprise open source. You'll have to register to download the resources, but the open source policy builder under Create an Open Source Policy contains 28 questions businesses should be...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598294

MIXED BAG
By Dru
Here's my latest list of cool stuff I haven't found time to blog about yet: From the "I can't believe I've never run across this one before" department, the Netcraft of mailservers. Some oldies but goodies for those into Unix humour...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598295

IDENTIFYING YOUR STRENGTHS
By kenyonswim
There are a slew of blogs and books out there that point to "how to identify who or what you are, and what you like to do" genre. In my subsequent job loss, I've been forced to re-evaluate who I was, and why...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598296

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Recent Wiki Contributions

RESILIENT PACKET RING
By aksbh
Resilient packet ring (RPR) is a network technology that is optimized for an efficient packet networking over a fiber ring topology and is being developed as a topology and new standard for fiber optic rings which are widely deployed as part of WANs...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598297

NODE
By innobate
In a network, a node is a connection point, either a redistribution point or an end point for data transmissions. In general, a node has programmed or engineered capability to recognize and process or forward transmissions to other nodes. A node is any intelligent device...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598298

SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL
By innobate
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a standard text-based client-server protocol which facilitates the email transmission across the Internet. Using SMTP the client transmits an email message to the server. The end-user email client is referred to as the MUA...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/580877

POST OFFICE PROTOCOL VERSION 3
By cfaj
The Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) is a client/server protocol used for downloading and reading messages from a mail server.The POP or POP3 (the later version of POP) is a kind of "store-and-forward" mail managing service. After connecting to the server...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598299

NETWORK QUALITY ASSURANCE
By narahari
QA for all network related aspects, like performance, configuration of devices, maintenance, error control, upgradation, migration, etc.
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/598300

FILE EXCHANGE PROTOCOL
By aksbh
File eXchange Protocol (FXP) is a specialized FTP protocol which facilitates to transfer data from server to server (that is from one remote server to another server) without routing the data through the clients connection. In the FXP session, a client maintains a standard FTP...
http://www.ittoolbox.com/da/595396

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ANSS - REMEDY APPLICATION ANALYST NEEDED
Company: Accenture
Location: San Antonio, TX
Accenture is seeking a ANSS - Remedy Application Analyst who has at least 1 year experience in BMC Remedy installation and configuration. Description: Organization : ANSS - Systems Integration & Technology...
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SIEBEL SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER- SR SPECIALIST NEEDED
Company: Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC is seeking a Siebel Systems Programmer- Sr Specialist who has a Bachelors degree and a minimum of five years of Siebel administration...
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT-SUPPLY NETWORK PLANNING CONSULTANT NEEDED
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Location: Nationwide
Bristlecone, Inc. is seeking a Supply Chain Management-Supply Network Planning Consultant who has at least 2 year's Supply Chain experience, including one full cycle implementation of...
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SAP PROJECT LEADER, ERP INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING NEEDED
Company: Merck & Co. Inc.
Location: Whitehouse Station, NJ
Merck & Co. Inc. is seeking a SAP Project Leader, ERP Infrastructure Engineering who has at least eight years of experience with the development and implementation of global infrastructure...
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SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR, WINDOWS NEEDED
Company: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Location: Las Vegas, NV
The Office of Information Technology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is seeking candidates for a Windows Systems Administrator. This is a full-time, 12-month professional...
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MS PROJECT SERVER ADMIN NEEDED
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WOMEN AND TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT
9/27/2007 by WITI
Date: September 26-29, 2007 Location: Santa Clara, CA Venue: Hyatt Regency <br>WITI's Women and Technology Summit is Returning to the Silicon Valley! Including the 12th Annual WITI Hall of Fame Awards! Innovation will lead the topics at WITI's 2007 Women and Technology...
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INTEROP NEW YORK
10/22/2007 by CMP Media
Date: October 22-26, 2007 Location: New York, NY Venue: Javits Center, NY <br>See all of the latest technologies in action at Interop New York, October 22-26, 2007. Visit 200+ exhibitors, attend 100+ sessions, and check out live demos of practical business solutions.
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MOBILE BUSINESS EXPO
10/22/2007 by CMP
Date: October 22-25, 2007 Location: New York, NY Venue: Javits Convention Center <br>With case studies, demonstrations, keynotes, workshops and conference tracks covering the latest mobile technologies, and issues such as security and infrastructure decisions, Mobile Business Expo helps you build and manage a mobile...
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