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  • Best Practices: Consolidation Strategy for UNIX Servers »

    "Server Sprawl" is a term that describes the IT phenomenon in which multiple over-distributed and under-utilized servers are incurring higher cost of operation than their return on investment. It is an offspring of the marriage of two other influential IT phenomena of the past decades - the highly popular distributed computing strategy, and the increasingly affordable server. This whitepaper takes a look at the potential issues with the uncontrolled server expansion, methods to rein in those servers, and the associated spending; lastly it offers a simple guideline to help manage a UNIX server consolidation project.

  • Best Practices: Enterprise Content Migration »

    The ability to have a bird's eye view of information from across the organization, in a way that is seamless and transparent, has unequivocal business value. No longer is information simply data, but content; content that can be interpreted, integrated, and more meaningful to corporate end users. Migrating content from one or more sources to a new environment allows a unified view and access to information in order to increase efficiency and maximize investment. The purpose of this whitepaper is to take you through the ten best practices around content migration. Adopting these best practices is a way to give your migration project a focused methodology before, during, and after completion. Together with Open Text's tools and technical expertise, you will be able to move your content and use it faster with potential roadblocks eliminated, more predictable outcomes attained, and unnecessary project risk avoided.

  • Best Practices: Exceed onDemand and Exceed Freedom Deployment Scenarios »

    No two business environments are identical, but many do share similar characteristics, such as the type of business applications deployed, the strategic distribution of application servers, the density of the user population, the relative distance between the user population and application servers, etc.These characteristics have definitive impacts on the IT infrastructure, which will ultimately shape the business environments. This whitepaper will outline five common business environments, at which accessing X Window-based business applications is one of the main requirements, and providing a recommended server deployment scenario for each.

  • Exceed onDemand Architectural Whitepaper »

    Exceed onDemand and Exceed Freedom are software solutions designed to keep the global work force in touch with their business X window applications. These software solutions are built for modern business server and desktop platforms, with sophisticated architecture as the foundation that gives them the power, flexibility, and security to meet business needs. This whitepaper provides a quick overview of the architecture of Exceed onDemand and Exceed Freedom, and it dives into the technical aspects of each major building block of each solution, and the interplay between components.

  • Exceed onDemand Cost Analysis »

    This whitepaper presents a simulated study using a fictional multi-national manufacturing company. The objective is to evaluate both decentralized and centralized scenarios within this company. In the decentralized scenario, the cost of delivering and maintaining X applications in branch offices is evaluated. In the centralized scenario, we appraise the effectiveness of Exceed onDemand in the quest to cut down IT costs.

  • FTP: The Enemy Within »

    Explore the business and technical reasons why companies should stop using FTP as their file transfer protocol. Learn how Open Text secure client and server solutions allow companies to offer the same flexibility and convenience as traditional FTP but in a much more secure environment.
  • NFS Under The New Storage Paradigm »

    Advent in the high performance computing and the growing number of regulations and compliance, such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act and HIPAA have set new business requirements that demand faster data transfer, higher data retention, and more accountable accessibility. These requirements propelled and solidified the value of a dependable storage strategy in any IT infrastructure. This whitepaper reviews technologies and trends in enterprise strategy, and demonstrates business values that NFS Maestro Server Enterprise Edition brings to enterprise users.

  • Open Text Integration Center Technical Whitepaper »

    The challenge of managing and leveraging all of the data within an enterprise is increasingly complex. More and more applications, such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Supply Chain Management (SCM), have become embedded in the enterprise's daily business, and combined with Web applications and legacy systems, they have created an elaborate and complicated IT environment. Many of these applications represent large investments by the company and yet the data contained in these systems is often isolated and not easily accessible. This paper is intended for IT professionals interested in understanding and learning about the Open Text Integration Center for integration requirements. It begins with an introduction to the product, and then it explores the product architecture and unique features, and concludes with an indication of future product directions.

  • PCI DSS Compliance »

    The most recent security survey by Computer Security Institute indicated that financial fraud is the most expensive computer security incidents. Symantec's annual Internet Security Threat Report revealed that credit cards were the most common commodity advertized on underground economy servers. This is the context in which the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has emerged in the past years. This whitepaper presents a history and an overview of this standard, analyze the cost of non-compliance and discuss how Open Text Security solutions can help organizations achieve some of the requirements of PCI DSS.

  • Practical and Prudent Data Integration »

    With today's economic turmoil, it is more important than ever to be practical with the resources you have. Leveraging existing technology solutions while decommissioning those that are not creating value can provide options for operational efficiencies and maximizing resources. This whitepaper paper discusses a wide range of customers, industries, business objectives, and specific parameters for practical and prudent data integration. In each case the customer found Open Text to be a trusted partner and advisor in reducing costs and increasing value in the IT infrastructure.


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