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Integrating physical surveillance with your IT security system
News Video surveillance has been a mainstay of companies' physical security systems for a long time, but today those systems can integrate into your network to allow you to monitor what's going on at the office from anywhere in the world, over the...
[March 1, 2006, 12:40]
IDC: Virtual servers set to overtake physical boxes
News IT departments in Western Europe will deploy more virtual machines than physical servers for the first time this year, according to a new report from IDC. The research company found that the number of physical servers shipped in 2008 fell by a...
[May 15, 2009, 16:02]
High Availability for Physical & Virtual Servers
White Papers Read IDC's evaluation of ExpressCluster and learn about new features that span not only physical servers, but hypervisor-based virtual servers. NEC's ExpressCluster integrates application monitoring and data mirroring capabilities into a single...
[June 16, 2009, 9:31]
Breaking the Physical Barriers With Electronic Dynamically Compensating Optics (eDCO)
White Papers Electronic Dynamically Compensating Optics (eDCO) is a leading edge technology that breaks the physical barriers to enable reliable and cost-effective broadband connectivity across 2000+ km and over any fiber build-out while ensuring simple...
[September 15, 2007, 1:01]
Converged Physical and Network Security to Protect Your Business Data
White Papers Converged physical and logical technologies are the solution. Forward-thinking organizations are bringing together physical and logical organizational silos to develop a unified approach to managing all aspects of organizational security.
[July 1, 2009, 1:19]
File Integrity Monitoring: Secure Your Virtual and Physical IT Environments
White Papers File integrity monitoring solutions minimize security risk resulting from undesirable configuration change by monitoring, detecting, and reconciling changes to key files throughout the virtual and physical IT infrastructures.
[March 18, 2009, 20:16]
Implement an advanced physical database with SQL Server 2000
White Papers This sample chapter, taken from MCAD/MCSE/MCDBA 70-229 Exam Cram 2: Designing & Implementing Databases w/SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition, discusses some of the more advanced aspects of the physical database design.
[May 25, 2006, 3:17]
Let's get Physical ! (sorry couldn't resist...)
Blog Belonging to a company that specialise in Data Centre Hosting, security is an important benefit of our service and we have a lot of both logical and physical systems in place to protect our customers and allow them to sleep soundly.
[July 29, 2008, 14:13]
Deciding the Physical Implementation of ETL Workflows
White Papers This paper deals with the problem of determining the best possible physical implementation of an ETL workflow, given its logical-level description and an appropriate cost model as inputs. The paper further extends this technique by intentionally...
[October 14, 2008, 1:01]
Towards Linking Virtual Models With Physical Objects in Construction Using RFID - Review of Ontologies
White Papers It is expected that a digital link between the virtual models and the physical objects in the construction process can improve the information and knowledge handling from design to construction, operation and maintenance.
[November 20, 2009, 0:25]
Reconfigurable Real-Time Middleware for Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems With Aperiodic Events
White Papers Different distributed cyber-physical systems must handle aperiodic and periodic events with diverse requirements. While existing real-time middleware such as Real-Time CORBA has shown promise as a platform for distributed systems with time...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Considerations for the Migration of Existing Physical Access Control Systems to Achieve FIPS 201 Compatibility
White Papers Identity verification and management processes range from enrollment and issuance to usage in logical and physical access control systems and authentication with back-end systems. The use of a smart card is only the tip of the iceberg in a secure...
[November 14, 2009, 23:00]
Sun RFID Industry Solution for Physical Asset Tracking
White Papers Meanwhile, many companies are becoming interested in simple asset tracking solutions that can help track critical or valuable assets within a specific physical area or process under the company's control.
[November 15, 2006, 0:00]
Making Tuple Spaces Physical With RFID Tags
White Papers By accessing in a wireless way the re-writable memory of such RFID tags according to a tuple-based access model, it is possible to enforce mobile and pervasive coordination and improve the interactions with the physical world.
[May 10, 2006, 1:00]
Bridging the Great Divide: The Convergence of Physical and Logical Security
White Papers Despite their common purpose, physical access and logical access technologies exist in parallel worlds. Physical access technologies, such as building security systems and employee access cards, are controlled by the corporate security department.
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
An Assessment of Threats of the Physical and MAC Address Layers in WiMAX/802.16
White Papers One of the other aspects of this paper will be to review all the associated weaknesses to the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer and at the PHYsical (PHY) layer. This paper investigates the risks and vulnerabilities associated to the security of the...
[April 15, 2009, 1:22]
Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure for Medical Imaging & Diagnostic Equipment
White Papers Failing to implement the necessary Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure (NCPI) can result in unexpected downtime, and safety and compliance issues, which translates into lost revenue and exposure to expensive litigations, negatively affecting...
[April 6, 2005, 0:00]
Scalable OFDMA Physical Layer in IEEE 802.16 WirelessMAN
White Papers A scalable physical layer enables standard-based solutions to deliver optimum performance in channel bandwidths ranging from 1.25 MHz to 20 MHz with fixed subcarrier spacing for both fixed and portable/mobile usage models, while keeping the...
[December 1, 2004, 2:00]
A Temporal RFID Data Model for Querying Physical Objects
White Papers RFID holds the promise of real-time identifying, locating, tracking and monitoring physical objects without line of sight, and can be used for a wide range of pervasive computing applications. To achieve these goals, RFID data have to be collected...
[April 15, 2009, 1:22]
MAA/Data Guard 10g Setup Guide - Creating a RAC Physical Standby for a RAC Primary
White Papers Published as part of the MAA series of white papers, this paper focuses on creating a RAC physical standby database for a RAC primary database. Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is Oracle's best practices blueprint based on proven...
[June 5, 2007, 1:00]
