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ALSO CALLED: Networks and Local Area Networks
DEFINITION: A local area network (LAN) is a group of computers and associated devices that share a common communications line or wireless link. Typically, connected devices share the resources of a single processor or server within a small geographic area (for example, within an office building). Usually, the server  … 
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Disarm the Threat of Identity Theft: The Role of Identity Resolution in Fraud Detection, Risk Management, and Regulatory Compliance
sponsored by Informatica
WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses how your organization can use Informatica Identity Resolution in your arsenal in the fight against fraud, money laundering, and other criminal activities.
Posted: 30 Nov 2008 | Published: 27 Nov 2008
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Emerging Multicast VPN Applications
sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides background information on MVPNs, as well as describes emerging MVPN applications.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Published: 25 Nov 2008
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Air Distribution Architecture Options for Mission Critical Facilities
sponsored by APC
WHITE PAPER: An understanding of the 9 types of cooling systems and their attributes can be used to develop guidelines for when each type should be used, and such guidelines are provided in this paper for both raised floor and hard floor applications.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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Online Backup and Recovery of Virtual Server Environments
sponsored by Iron Mountain Digital
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the use of LiveVault and VMware to achieve excellent data protection by leveraging the benefits of each technology.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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Top 5 Reasons Why Network Admission Control (NAC) Is Not Enough
sponsored by ConSentry Networks
WHITE PAPER: Network admission control (NAC) provides a strong baseline for protecting who can access your network, but most NAC solutions fail to provide adequate user and application control.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Best Practices for Selecting and Deploying LAN Security
sponsored by ConSentry Networks
WHITE PAPER: Undertaking a LAN security project can be a bit overwhelming, but by following these best practices, you'll be able to take a broader, more comprehensive view of the requirements and simplify your deployment.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Testing… One, Two Three
sponsored by Diligent Technologies Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Too often, people assume backups have worked. But backups are not �set it and forget it� applications. In this PowerPoint presentation Jeff Harbert discusses why testing is necessary and what to test and how to test.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 18 Nov 2008
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IP & Fibre Channel in SANs
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
WHITE PAPER: iSCSI SANs are attractive because of their flexible low/high cost - low/high performance options and the familiar IP architecture. High-end arrays enable both FC and iSCSI interfaces to storage.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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TOPICS:  DAS | FCIP | Fibre Channel | iSCSI SAN | LAN

Securing the Everywhere Network
sponsored by SonicWALL
WHITE PAPER: Everywhere networking streamlines facilities and energy costs, eliminates commuting time and expenses, builds global business partnerships, broadens markets and staffing pools and shortens customer response times.
Posted: 18 Nov 2008 | Published: 18 Nov 2008
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Are You Ready for Unified Communications? Creating an IT Organization to Support Unified Communicaitons
sponsored by Avaya Inc.
WHITE PAPER: On top of the new business communication capabilities that are possible with unified communications (UC), new challenges await the IT department in how to deploy and manage this integrated platform.
Posted: 13 Nov 2008 | Published: 13 Nov 2008
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Creating the Green IT Action Plan
sponsored by Avaya Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Enterprise CIOs have a variety of motivations for improving the environmental footprint of their IT operations. Read this for more.
Posted: 13 Nov 2008 | Published: 13 Nov 2008
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eGuide: Data Deduplication for Primary Data
sponsored by Ocarina Networks
WHITE PAPER: This E-Guide will explore if Data Deduplication is suitable for primary data and what vendors are doing to keep performance high for your company's backups.
Posted: 13 Nov 2008 | Published: 13 Nov 2008
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Backup and Recovery: A Guide for the Law Firm technical decision maker
sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
WHITE PAPER: EVault Software is a highly comprehensive backup and recovery platform that provides law firms with the building blocks for successful data protection-from high performance and efficiency to ease of use, flexibility and scalability.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Published: 11 Nov 2008
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Network Design Checklist: 6 Factors to Consider When Designing LANs
sponsored by Channel Media Group
WHITE PAPER: Learn the 6 factors you should consider before you begin a LAN design project in order to help you ensure success.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Published: 06 Nov 2008
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Rogue-on-the-Network
sponsored by Motorola, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how you can automate the process of rogue discovery, analysis, threat assessment, and termination, with a comprehensive solution that can scale to tens or hundreds of widely distributed sites.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Published: 10 Nov 2008
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WEP Cloaking for Legacy Encryption Protection
sponsored by Motorola, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Several known vulnerabilities and attack tools have compromised Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), making it unsuitable for secure WLAN implementations without additional layers of security. This white paper describes a WEP Cloaking solution.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Published: 10 Nov 2008
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Wireless LANs: Is my enterprise at risk?
sponsored by Motorola, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overall understanding of the risks associated with wireless LANs, as well as an overview of the inherent properties of wireless LANs and what makes them different from wired networks.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Published: 10 Nov 2008
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Wide Area Data Services (WDS): Optimizing the Remote Office
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, find out how WAFS, WAN optimization, compression, and Web acceleration technologies have come together into one powerful solution: Wide-area Data Services (WDS).
Posted: 31 Oct 2008 | Published: 31 Oct 2008
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Accelerating Satellite WANs with Riverbed
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
PRODUCT LITERATURE: This solutions brief explains how using WDS can enable more robust, LAN-like performance over satellite connections with out-of-the-box compatibility that accelerates the broadest range of applications remote workers need to function.
Posted: 31 Oct 2008 | Published: 31 Oct 2008
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Accelerating the Next Phase of Virtualization
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: In this paper, see how wide-area data services (WDS) is now having tremendous success in enabling server virtualization and remote site consolidation.
Posted: 31 Oct 2008 | Published: 31 Oct 2008
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eBook: The Definitive Guide to Converged Network Management
sponsored by CA
BOOK: This guide highlights the overall service management challenges facing enterprise business and identify common industry best practices for effectively managing an integrated, unified communications environment using VoIP.
Posted: 31 Oct 2008 | Published: 30 Oct 2008
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Enabling Carrier-class Communications with EX Switches
sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains why a high-performance, highly available and secure network is essential for supporting a wide array of traffic types and a diverse user community.
Posted: 21 Oct 2008 | Published: 21 Oct 2008
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Implementing UTM at Branch Offices
sponsored by Juniper Networks, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper addresses typical security threats that face today's distributed enterprise and how an appropriate security policy enforced by Juniper Networks family of SSG devices can help mitigate these threats.
Posted: 21 Oct 2008 | Published: 21 Oct 2008
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IT Briefing: How to Optimize ETL for Demanding Data Environments
sponsored by Syncsort
WHITE PAPER: This document is based on a Syncsort/TechTarget Webcast entitled "How to Optimize ETL for Demanding Data Environments."
Posted: 21 Oct 2008 | Published: 21 Oct 2008
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ESG LAB VALIDATION REPORT Exanet ExaStore Clustered NAS Performance
sponsored by Exanet
WHITE PAPER: This report explores how scale-out ExaStore clustered NAS systems deliver SAN levels of performance with the ease of management and the lower cost of NAS.
Posted: 15 Oct 2008 | Published: 15 Oct 2008
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LAN DEFINITION (continued): …  has applications and data storage that are shared in common by multiple computer users. A local area network may serve as few as two or three users (for example, in a home network) or as many as thousands of users (for example, in an FDDI network).

Major local area network technologies are:

 Ethernet
 Token Ring
 FDDI
 

Ethernet is by far the most commonly used LAN technology. A number of corporations … 
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