Introduction 1 SAN Fundamentals 1 What Is a SAN? 1 Benefits of SANs 3 SAN Applications 3 SAN Architecture 4 SAN Operating System Software Components 5 SAN Technologies and Solutions 5 Fiber-Channel-Arbitrated Loop Transport Protocol (FC-AL) 5 InfiniBand Solutions 6 Crossroads Systems With a Storage Router 6 Brocade’s Configurations 6 Other Storage Networking Technologies 6 VI (Virtual Interface...

Current Internet architecture is based on the Best Effort (BE) model, where packets can be dropped indiscriminately in the event of congestion. This architecture attempts to deliver all traffic as soon as possible within the limits of its abilities, but without any guarantees about throughput, delay and packet loss etc. Though such a model works well for certain traditional applications such as...

By the end of 2008, Intel will have shipped three platform generations of Intel® CoreTM2 processors enabled with Intel® vProTM technology, offering unique energy-efficient performance, built-in manageability, and proactive security features targeted at information technology (IT) organizations for large, as well as smalland medium-sized enterprises. Intel vPro technology solutions, offered in s...

We consider an SLA (Service Level Agreement) committed between two parties to use the guarantee of QoS provided by a QoS Enabled Network (QEN). QEN can provide guarantee of QoS because a Bandwidth Broker (BB) manages its resources based on a policy. The IETF and the DMTF have done extensive work in this field and have proposed a policy framework in order to store and manage policy and the stand...

In most Brazilian cities, oral health is still a challenge for the Brazilian Health System (SUS). The aim of this study was to analyze the prevalence of dental caries (DMFT index), the differences with regard to gender and geographic localization, Significant Caries Index and the percentages of caries-free adolescents in Itaí-SP - Brazil, in 2006. The methodology used was in agreement with the ...

Policy based management is being adopted widely for different domains like QoS, security and VPNs in order to allow new services and facilitate network management. Also, the interface to the network device and the information models required for specifying policies are either standardized or being standardized in IETF and DMTF. This paper reports the design, implementation, and performance eval...

OBJECTIVES To determine the dental caries experience in relation to the severity of dental fluorosis and; to evaluate the dietary snacking habits of adolescents. DESIGN A descriptive cross-sectional study. SETTING A peri-urban primary school in Nairobi, Kenya. SUBJECTS Two hundred and seventy five adolescents aged 13-15 years among whom 128 were males and 149 were females. RESULTS Two h...

In 2020, a new platform-regulatory model was initiated in the United Kingdom. The main focus of this article is on development Digital Regulators Cooperation Forum (DRCF), set up to regulate continually changing challenges posed by major platforms. British has drawn UK competition regulation, collegial governance international banking, and ‘agile’ regulation debates. backdrop ‘neo-regulatory' b...

We present the open reference architecture of the SeaClouds solution. It aims at enabling a seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of complex applications by supporting the distribution, monitoring and reconfiguration of app modules over heterogeneous cloud providers. 1 Motivation and Objectives of SeaClouds Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient and on-demand network access to a ...