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By Jean-Christophe Cimetiere of TechMetrix Research These four technologies are closely linked, although on closer inspection we can highlight the two basic standards that have led to the Internet’s success: HTTP and XML. Of the four standards, the least interesting is UDDI. Although it aspires to be the absolute, universal distributed repository for finding and […]

By Jean-Christophe Cimetiere of TechMetrix Research Web services marketers and Web services developers can be the same or different companies. We have separated them simply to highlight their different jobs. We can also break them down further with the identification of two categories: end-user enterprises and Web services providers. End-user enterprises are those that use […]

By M.A. Dockter RADIUS is first and foremost a protocol, and it really doesn’t show its benefits unless there is more than one RADIUS server on the network. A RADIUS server at its simplest is a computer configured in a certain way that can “speak” the RADIUS language over the network with NAS and other […]

Cost Is a Factor The cost of a disaster can, of course, be enormous. But assessing the risk and impact of disaster often sets up the question: How much will disaster recovery and protection cost? If the risk is relatively low or the cost of disaster not so high, then the ongoing cost of protection […]

Assessing the Risk Disaster risk assessment is an often complex and sometimes subjective endeavor. Therefore, this tutorial can only begin to touch the surface on approaches and topics. Risk assessment is one area where the differences between enterprises are extremely important and where consultants can be invaluable. Generally, however, a common approach is to break […]

Developing a Recovery Plan At the heart of most recovery plans for server operations is physical separation. At a minimum, data, and often servers, are maintained offsite (i.e., physically separated from the enterprise’s facilities so that any local disaster will not affect them). The place of storage is usually called the recovery site (or sites), […]

In-House or Hosted? Because of the expense of re-creating hardware and software environments for recovery plans, most enterprises must consider the advantages and disadvantages of operating their own recovery site or using third-party services — i.e., a hosted recovery site. Thanks to the Internet, many application service providers specialize in disaster recovery and offer a […]

Implementing and Maintaining the Plan Implementing a disaster recovery plan is not an typical project. For one thing, the plan must cover more than just the IT concerns of physical protection for servers, data, and communications. If things go wrong — very wrong — the effect on people and business processes will be equally profound. […]

Check Out the Racks In a server blade approach, the rack is best place to start when comparing systems. Although a company will buy far fewer racks than blades, the rack is the fundamental framework, and its physical properties say much about the operation and benefits of the system designed for it. For example, consider […]

Buying Blades Even more so than is the case with traditional servers, server blades will be designed for target applications. Some will be aimed at “general” use, typically as Web servers. These will often be of the edge server type, supporting many blades vertically mounted in a densely packed configuration. RLX Technologies, for example, recently […]

Now and in the Future Server blade manufacturers have not been immune to the downturn in the economy and the resulting decline in server sales. However, their recovery is predicted to be rapid both because of the advantages that server blades offer and because their approach is new. The savings offered by blades — especially […]

Less Than Secure Introduction Within the next few weeks, ServerWatch will offer links to reviews of instant messaging servers. For those not yet clear on the basics of instant messaging servers, we offer this overview compiled from articles previously published on CrossNodes. The security concerns are legitimate. For an IM system to work, a user’s […]