High Touch, High Assist: Technology Solutions from Gateway
From handling critical back-office network demands to mobile capabilities in the field, companies need the technology to meet challenges today and manage business-critical IT resources for the long term. Download this white paper to learn how Gateway offers a complete solution that can lower costs, offer customized service and support, and everything you need to build your technology infrastructure.

High Touch, High Assist: Technology Solutions from Gateway
From handling critical back-office network demands to mobile capabilities in the field, companies need the technology to meet challenges today and manage business-critical IT resources for the long term. Download this white paper to learn how Gateway offers a complete solution that can lower costs, offer customized service and support, and everything you need to build your technology infrastructure.

Impact of HDTV: Transmission of DTV Multi-Channel Broadcasting
HDTV transmissions in Australia have already commenced on a trial basis. Variations to the transmission quota legislation for HDTV have recently been passed by the Parliament and last week the Nine Network announced a significant number of programs that will be transmitted in HDTV. In the retail market, Set-Top-Boxes (STBs) that are able to receive HDTV services and convert them to whatever display is available in the viewer's home, have been available for over a year.

Doing More with Less: Helping Government Maximize Efficiency
E-voting, homeland security, privacy issues state and local agency concerns continue to evolve. This white paper explains how Gateway can help government agencies and ultimately your business -- become more efficient and responsive while improving accessibility and security.

The Duchess Chips for Process-Specific Wire Capacitance Characterization
The oscillation frequency of a ring of identical inverters depends on the number of inverters in the ring and upon the load borne by each. As the load increases, so does the delay in each inverter, and the frequency of oscillation decreases accordingly. The minimum possible load is a combination of the inverter's own parasitic output capacitance and the input capacitance of the next inverter in the ring. This paper releases a collection of ring oscillator experiments.

A Proven Approach to Optimizing Production Systems
Production tuning helps businesses optimize and maximize utilization of their current infrastructure. It creates cost savings by reducing unnecessary hardware and software usually purchased to solve performance problems. This white paper examines why applications fail in production after being thoroughly tested by QA. Mercury Interactive's experts have uncovered the main reasons and have developed a solution that allows organizations to maximize the performance of production systems without investing in additional infrastructure.

Embedded x86 Processor Performance-Power Rating
Clock speed has become a standard marketing tool for computer vendors and microprocessor companies seeking to gain mindshare with system designers. The benefit of clock speed as a measure of performance is that it's an easy to understand single number, where the higher the number - the better the performance. This paper describes the benchmark requirements, presents the benchmark suite, explain how scores are calculated, and provide examples using several popular processors.

The Road to RFID Compliance: Issues and Solutions
View this Sun Net Talk webcast; hear an expert discussion of key implementation issues and solutions, including the new Sun Java Systems RFID Software. You'll get a video tour of Sun's RFID Test Center and access to expertise and resources for ensuring the success of your deployment.

Real-Time Lens Distortion Correction: 3D Video Graphics Cards Are Good for More Than Games
Optical lens systems suffer from non-linear radial distortion. Image-based applications require distortion compensation for the accurate location, registration and measurement of image features, and a real-time capability is desirable for interactive systems. A texture-mapping graphics accelerator can use corresponding meshes of distorted and undistorted nodes along with the dynamic distorted image to render high quality distortion-corrected images at video frame rates. Mesh generation, an error analysis, and performance results are presented. The proposed polar-based method is shown to have both more accuracy than a conventional grid-based approach and greater speed than the traditional method of using the CPU to transform each pixel individually.

Printronix Professional Services Quickly Solves SAP R/3 Label Integration Issue
Dy 4 Systems, a business unit of Force Computers, provides mission-critical, open-architecture embedded computing solutions for aerospace and defense industry applications. To support its commitment to continuous improvement, Dy 4 implemented an SAP enterprise system. As a result, the company needed to migrate its existing packing label printing from a standalone process into its new R/3 environment. Printronix developed a complete solution that included the T5304 thermal printer and the standard Printronix Direct SAP R/3 Interface.

What's All the Static About?
Building an ESD-Safe Packaging Environment - from the Ground Up.<br><br>"Smaller and faster" is the mantra of today's electronics design engineer. Unfortunately, it's also the recipe for heightened electrostatic discharge (ESD). The smaller and faster the device, the higher the ESD sensitivity. And, simply put, that's what all the static is about.<br><br> ESD threatens product quality and reliability, and impacts everyone from the component manufacturer to the end user. In fact, ESD damage costs the electronics industry billions of dollars each year. That's enough to shock manufacturers into taking a closer look at how their devices are produced, assembled, packaged, and shipped.

Clocking Strategy for a Virtex-II-Pro DDR SDRAM Controller
DDR SDRAMs break with the traditional system synchronous clocking approach, that uses only one global and skewless clock distribution network. The application of DDR SDRAMs requires a source synchronous clocking concept that simultaneously transmits clock and data signals from the memory controller to the DDR SDRAM devices. From the perspective of this source synchronous clocking concept, many timing problems disappear and using DDR SDRAMs is quite straightforward. This paper discusses a clocking strategy for a DDR SDRAM Controller IP implemented in a Xilinx Virtex-II-Pro FPGA.

IBM eServer xSeries 365 Technical Introduction
The four-way Intel Xeon MP-based x365 is the follow-on to the popular x360 and offers second-generation Enterprise X-Architecture technology in a rack-dense 3U form factor. The x365 is targeted at database, e-mail, e-commerce and ERP applications. This paper introduces the new xSeries 365 and describes the technical aspects of the server.

Cable Modem Provisioning Scenarios
There are many different scenarios and permutations with regards to physically wiring cable modem termination systems (CMTSs). You could have a sparse mode where upstream (US) ports on the CMTS are kept separate, a dense mode where signal is fed to multiple US ports, multiple CMTSs on the same physical plant, or different card densities. These combinations affect what happens when provisioning, maintaining, and troubleshooting.

DDR400 for Athlon: A Comparison of 9 Motherboards
Boasting about their features - they're all good at that. But when it comes to outperforming its predecessor, the KT333 chipset, there's dissension in the KT400 camp. DDR400 doesn't seem to be the be-all and end-all of RAM because only rarely do you get more performance with the fast memory than you do with DDR333.

IBM eServer zSeries 990 Cryptographic Coprocessor Configuration
This paper provides information on the PCI X Cryptographic Coprocessor (PCIXCC) and the PCI Cryptographic Accelerator (PCICA) on a z990 server. It describes cryptographic domains and z990 configuration rules considering the increased number of logical partitions. It reviews items that should be taken into consideration when planning for non-disruptive installation of PCICA and PCIXCC features.

WIN Enterprises: Networking / Internet Appliance Applications
A pioneer in standards-based solutions that monitor distributed applications from end-to-end across enterprise networks. As a startup, they were trying to design and develop our own boards and then handle systems integration. They were having difficulty trying to build their business and develop the product at the same time - product manufacturing was not their core business. WIN recommended that they outsource their product manufacturing to them. Today, WIN provides them with four different systems that include specially designed cases and boards.

USB Audio Devices and Windows
The Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) describes class driver architecture for personal computer (PC) audio solutions supported in the next version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, codenamed Windows Longhorn. This paper provides information about how the USB Audio specifications are implemented by Usbaudio.sys, the Microsoft UAA class driver for USB audio devices.

BearingPoint Builds Tablet PC Solutions to Revolutionize Government Data Processing
BearingPoint, formerly KPMG Consulting, has deployed Tablet PCs running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition to its consultants. Based on its experience in Microsofts Rapid Adoption Program, BearingPoint estimates that its consultants are each saving 50 hours a year using the Tablet PC to capture and access information during meetings, and while travelingpotentially saving the company millions of dollars in compensation. Using technology to improve the productivity of its consultants means BearingPoint is building better customer relationships to improve its standing in the market.<!-- portable, computing, computer, laptop -->

Wireless Location Positioning Based on Signal Propagation Data
All location techniques have their limitations and, in the real world, unsatisfactory performance will be experienced in varying propagation environments, no matter which technique is used. From an operational point of view, the benefit of the GeoMode approach is that a wireless location positioning solution can be implemented today which meets FCC mandate requirements and requires very little infrastructure investment. This approach enables wireless carriers to support existing premium data services and LBS applications, which currently depend on Global Positioning Satellites (GPS).

Toshiba Mobile technology today
The hardware driving mobility is faster, safer and more portable than ever. We take a look at whats available today, plus the latest market and security trends. With corporate cost cutting on the way out and investment in innovative technologies on the way in, theres never been a better time to take advantage of mobile hardware. New security encryption standards ensure that wireless data is safe from prying eyes, and advances processor performance, form factor, battery life and weight mean a better mobile experience. With a choice of desktop replacement or ultra-light notebooks, plus the versatile Tablet PC and handy Pocket PC form factor, theres a portable solution for everyone.<!-- mobility, technology, trends, security, inovation, notebooks, tablet pc, pocket pc, portable, mobile hardware, battery life -->

Toshiba Mobile technology today
The hardware driving mobility is faster, safer and more portable than ever. We take a look at whats available today, plus the latest market and security trends. With corporate cost cutting on the way out and investment in innovative technologies on the way in, theres never been a better time to take advantage of mobile hardware. New security encryption standards ensure that wireless data is safe from prying eyes, and advances processor performance, form factor, battery life and weight mean a better mobile experience. With a choice of desktop replacement or ultra-light notebooks, plus the versatile Tablet PC and handy Pocket PC form factor, theres a portable solution for everyone.<!-- mobility, technology, trends, security, inovation, notebooks, tablet pc, pocket pc, portable, mobile hardware, battery life -->

Dixon Marketing Takes Smart Logistical Approach to Stocking Military Commissaries
Dixon Marketing Inc. (DMI) of Kinston, NC, has kept America's military supplied since 1964. Not with bullets and tanks, but with something equally important: groceries. Always looking for ways to streamline procedures and help reps maximize their in-store time, DMI recently began researching ways to eliminate a time-consuming, error-prone paper-based replenishment system in the 173 commissaries it services in the contiguous United States. The company discovered, through partnering with mobile solutions provider Integrated Solutions International, an integrated, easy-to-use application that stands up to the demanding job and which features rugged, reliable microFlash 4t 4-inch-wide thermal printers from O'Neil Product Development.

Toshiba Mobile technology today
The hardware driving mobility is faster, safer and more portable than ever. We take a look at whats available today, plus the latest market and security trends. With corporate cost cutting on the way out and investment in innovative technologies on the way in, theres never been a better time to take advantage of mobile hardware. New security encryption standards ensure that wireless data is safe from prying eyes, and advances processor performance, form factor, battery life and weight mean a better mobile experience. With a choice of desktop replacement or ultra-light notebooks, plus the versatile Tablet PC and handy Pocket PC form factor, theres a portable solution for everyone.<!-- mobility, technology, trends, security, inovation, notebooks, tablet pc, pocket pc, portable, mobile hardware, battery life -->

High Touch, High Assist: Technology Solutions from Gateway
From handling critical back-office network demands to mobile capabilities in the field, companies need the technology to meet challenges today and manage business-critical IT resources for the long term. Download this white paper to learn how Gateway offers a complete solution that can lower costs, offer customized service and support, and everything you need to build your technology infrastructure.

HP Printing and Imaging Center
Read this white paper for recommendations to help reduce operating cost and improve productivity though HP printing and imaging tools.

Optimizing Your Imaging and Printing Environment with HP Total Print Management Solutions
One often-overlooked area where you might be able to increase your company's productivity and reduce costs is in your printing and imaging systems. Research says such costs in total can run one to five percent of revenues. Find out how HP's Total Print Management solutions can help you save on document production costs through its proven methodologies.

Monitoring Redundant Uninterruptible Power Supplies Using IBM Director
Most UPS monitoring software assumes the server is communicating directly with, and getting power from, only one UPS. Larger UPSes have multiple communication ports or network ports to allow multiple servers to monitor the state of the UPS. This paper will discuss and demonstrate using IBM Director to monitor UPSes in this environment. It also covers the ability of IBM Director to shut down the appropriate systems, when necessary.

Dell Picture Studio
The development of inexpensive digital cameras and easy-to-use image editing software has brought digital photography capability into mainstream use. Hand-in-hand with the proliferation of digital cameras is the emergence of associated software and services that allow users to organize and catalog the sometimes hundreds of digital photographs stored on their PCs, as well as to share the photos with friends, family, and customers over the Internet or as traditional prints. These software packages and services are typically separate, un-integrated services that can be difficult to set up and use. In response to this customer need, Dell recently launched the Dell Picture Studio, a complete, integrated digital photography solution that is factory-installed on new consumer Dell Dimension desktop and Inspiron portable computer systems. This whitepaper provides a short overview of Dell Picture Studio and the functions it performs.

Enhancing Communications through Display Solutions
Companies are constantly looking to enhance communications and improve efficiencies by building a high-tech, interactive environment which includes engaging display solutions. This white paper explains some of todays display solutions, how and why they are important to have, and how easily they can be implemented into your organization.

PCI Card Placement Rules for the IBM eServer iSeries Server
The implementation of Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) architecture provides flexibility in the placement of input/output processors (IOPs) and input/output adapters (IOAs) in iSeries 270, 800, 810, 820, 825, 840, 840, 870, 890, SB2, and SB3 servers. This can result in a more efficient use of card slots, which in turn can lower the cost of implementation. This paper describes the configuration and card placement rules that you must understand and follow to develop valid configurations.

Dixon Marketing Takes Smart Logistical Approach to Stocking Military Commissaries
Dixon Marketing Inc. (DMI) of Kinston, NC, has kept America's military supplied since 1964. Not with bullets and tanks, but with something equally important: groceries. Always looking for ways to streamline procedures and help reps maximize their in-store time, DMI recently began researching ways to eliminate a time-consuming, error-prone paper-based replenishment system in the 173 commissaries it services in the contiguous United States. The company discovered, through partnering with mobile solutions provider Integrated Solutions International, an integrated, easy-to-use application that stands up to the demanding job and which features rugged, reliable microFlash 4t 4-inch-wide thermal printers from O'Neil Product Development.

Printronix Solution Improved Bar Code Scan Rate by 48 Percent in Sears' Distribution Center
Sears needed an integrated total solution to meet its retail distribution bar-code labeling needs. In conjunction, Sears needed a proven solution to recommend to its vendor community. Although Sears achieves high levels of compliance with its vendors, the company seeks new ways continually to improve efficiency in its vendor-retailer supply chain. Sears turned to Printronix to analyze its situation and provide a complete solution to its compliance labeling problems. To improve efficiency and solve Sears' label scanning problems, Printronix recommended its T5000 printers with Online Data Validation (ODV). Sears found that ODV provides a cost-effective, hands-free quality-control process to ensure that faulty bar codes aren't affixed to products.

SDDC Moves Toward a Flexible, Easy-to-Manage Infrastructure With Help From IBM
Galeries Lafayette Group is a leading retailer in France, with stores that include Galeries Lafayette and Nouvelles Galeries department stores, the Monoprix supermarket chain and BHV stores, which specialize in home decor and appliances. Like many businesses, SDDC's IT infrastructure has become increasingly distributed and complex over time. SDDC looked to IBM to propose an autonomic computing strategy that would enable the company to infuse self-managing capabilities into its infrastructure. Through its Autonomic Readiness Assessment, IBM Global Services evaluated the autonomic computing maturity level of SDDC's IT infrastructure and proposed solutions and a roadmap to increase its autonomic computing capabilities.

Station Casinos Wins Guest Loyalty With Around-the-Clock Rewards Program
Residents of Las Vegas, Nevada, know their casinos. And since 1976, when Station Casinos, Inc. first opened its doors, it has been known for premier gaming and entertainment. To decrease the risk of downtime and its impact on customer retention efforts, Station Casinos required a highly available, resilient IT infrastructure - with the flexibility to support changes on the fly. Station Casinos worked with IBM to upgrade existing systems to take advantage of a variable cost structure. The company upgraded its existing platform to two IBM eServer iSeries 825 servers running the IBM OS/400 operating system and equipped with three 6-way processors and IBM Premier Business Partner Vision Solution's high-availability software.

SDDC Moves Toward a Flexible, Easy-to-Manage Infrastructure With Help From IBM
Galeries Lafayette Group is a leading retailer in France, with stores that include Galeries Lafayette and Nouvelles Galeries department stores, the Monoprix supermarket chain and BHV stores, which specialize in home decor and appliances. Like many businesses, SDDC's IT infrastructure has become increasingly distributed and complex over time. SDDC looked to IBM to propose an autonomic computing strategy that would enable the company to infuse self-managing capabilities into its infrastructure. Through its Autonomic Readiness Assessment, IBM Global Services evaluated the autonomic computing maturity level of SDDC's IT infrastructure and proposed solutions and a roadmap to increase its autonomic computing capabilities.

Planning Considerations for the Transition From PSSP to CSM
This paper provides an introduction to the transition planning steps that are required before converting an IBM Parallel System Support Program (PSSP) cluster into a Cluster System Management (CSM) cluster. It provides information about the tools, documentation, and other resources available to help you plan before transitioning your cluster system from a PSSP-managed environment to a CSM-managed environment. It also examines the different paths you can take to make this transition and illustrates these different paths with step-by-step transition procedures.

Reliable Resources: Building a Robust Network
No matter how big your business is, reliable back-office solutions are imperitive. Putting critical data at employees' figertips to boost productivity is just part of a complete solution. Download this white paper to learn more about Gateway's complete solution which delivers a comprehensive lineup of rack-mount and tower servers, tape backup devices, Direct-Attached Storage(DAS), Network-Attached Storage(NAS) and Storage-Area Network(SAN) enterprise solutions for your business.

Blades 2004 and Beyond
In this Videocast we'll look at the current state of blades, including market share, revenue and OSs. Well highlight the benefits of blades and consider where the technology is heading.

Best Practices, Tips & Tricks for Porting to OpenVMS on Itanium
Attend this webcast to hear about how to, port and migrate OpenVMS, VAX, and Alpha application code to Itanium hardware platforms. The experts on these platforms have compiled their best practices to make your quest easier. The session will highlight tips and tricks that they use, and should prove valuable to your job of porting and support of a solution. Areas addressed will include the build environment, compiler usage, floating point, setting quotas, debugging, and deployment of the solution.

Intelligent Disaster Recovery
Have you ever tried to recover a server? How long can you afford to have your email server out of commission? When a network server fails, due to human error, hardware failure or even a major disaster, the system must be carefully recovered before the applications and backed-up data can be restored. This is a manual, error-prone, and time-consuming process. This White Paper tells you how VERITAS automates the process to deliver rapid server recovery with the Backup Exec Intelligent Disaster Recovery Option. It reduces the time and cost of restoring a server, and helps reduce the overall impact to your business

Building a Bootable DVD to Deploy a Solaris Flash Archive
This document provides techniques to augment a DVD-ROM-based installation with the services and behaviors typically provided by a JumpStart server. The techniques presented in this article can be used when one need to perform an automated installation of a Solaris Flash archive, but are unable to use a JumpStart server. This document describes a procedure to create a bootable installation DVD-ROM with a complete software stack on a DVD that one can use to perform a standardized and fully automated installation of the software stack from the DVD.

ALTANA Pharma Finds a Cure for Storage Problems With Comparex and IBM
ALTANA Pharma is a division of ALTANA AG, an international company with more than 10,000 employees, 30 subsidiaries and operations in Europe, North and South America, South Africa, Asia and Australia. ALTANA Pharma saw an opportunity to secure its VMS/Open environment, and to create the possibility for a single backup solution for the future. Working with Comparex, ALTANA Pharma implemented an IBM eServer pSeries storage server running IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.1, with an IBM TotalStorage UltraScalable Tape Library 3584 (Linear Tape-Open) with five LTO tape drives. This solution provides storage for nine VMS/Open clients, and enables ALTANA Pharma to backup research data more securely than previously.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery Best Practices for Microsoft Exchange 2000
With today's need to communicate with employees, customers and partners 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Microsoft Exchange servers are crucial for ensuring business success. As more and more demands are placed on those servers for expanding communication, the importance of keeping them up and running and highly available has become even more crucial to business today. The obvious challenge is to configure and manger Exchange servers to minimise downtime and recover quickly. The more difficult proposition is to do this all while containing the total cost of ownership for the Exchange solution.

Allocating Disk Space
The powerful abstraction provided by network storage virtualization software has finally and fully taken shape. Its compelling economic value is derived from the softwares ability to compensate for many of the undesirable and costly properties of managing disk hardware-especially the antiquated and wasteful methods of physically allocating and moving disk space.

Reliable Resources: Building a Robust Network
No matter how big your business is, reliable back-office solutions are imperitive. Putting critical data at employees' figertips to boost productivity is just part of a complete solution. Download this white paper to learn more about Gateway's complete solution which delivers a comprehensive lineup of rack-mount and tower servers, tape backup devices, Direct-Attached Storage(DAS), Network-Attached Storage(NAS) and Storage-Area Network(SAN) enterprise solutions for your business.

IBM TotalStorage: FAStT Best Practices Guide
This paper provides the conceptual framework for understanding FAStT in a Storage Area Network and includes recommendations, hints, and tips for the physical installation, cabling, and zoning. IBM TotalStorage Fibre Array Storage Technology (FAStT) Storage Server is a redundant arrays of independent disks (RAID) storage subsystem that contains the Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces to connect both the host systems and the disk drive enclosures.

Windows Servers in a Storage Area Network Environment
Storage area network (SAN) technology, once restricted to large organizations and mainframe environments, is becoming more common in mid-sized organizations that need to store and share access to large amounts of data. With the development of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) technologies, the benefits of SAN technologies are likely to extend even to small organizations. This white paper describes how SANs are used with Windows products such as Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003, as well as with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000.

The University at Albany Optimizes Collaborative Research With IBM Technology
The University at Albany, State University of New York is a nationally recognized public research university with ambitious goals. As scientific research escalated and computations pushed standard technology limits, individual departments couldn't afford high-performance computing (HPC) systems. UAlbanys disparate computing infrastructure and distributed support became costly. By building a shared HPC infrastructure based on grid computing technology to process trillions of calculations in a mere second, the university is synergizing physical and intellectual resources. The new infrastructure is based on an IBM eServer pSeries 655 server, featuring 64 IBM POWER4+ processors as eight servers that run independently or in parallel on a 64-bit SUSE Linux operating platform.

Baxter Healthcare Data Management Grows Stronger With IBM and REAL Solutions
Baxter International Inc. (Baxter, www.baxter.com) is a global healthcare company, manufacturing medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology products. At Baxter, multiple production systems, each with isolated, local data storage requirements, were proving hard to manage and costly to maintain. Working with IBM Business Partner REAL Solutions (REAL, www.realsolutionsuk.com), Baxter selected a Storage Area Network (SAN) based on two IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) systems, providing up to 22TB of storage for all connected server platforms, regardless of type or vendor.

Reliable Resources: Building a Robust Network
No matter how big your business is, reliable back-office solutions are imperitive. Putting critical data at employees' figertips to boost productivity is just part of a complete solution. Download this white paper to learn more about Gateway's complete solution which delivers a comprehensive lineup of rack-mount and tower servers, tape backup devices, Direct-Attached Storage(DAS), Network-Attached Storage(NAS) and Storage-Area Network(SAN) enterprise solutions for your business.