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RSS commodityHow Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News Where I can deem services and technology as being commodity I will seek to externalise, outsource or place them in the cloud. Following its sale by parent company Ford last year, car maker Jaguar Land Rover has had to... [26 Oct 2009]
Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Mission Critical Applications
White Paper Tuxedo is the premier platform for building mission-critical applications and re-hosting mainframe applications on open systems and commodity-based grid infrastructure. Oracle Tuxedo is the industry's #1 distributed... [15 Oct 2009]
Alberta Department of Energy Improves Forecasting
White Paper Energy commodity price volatility and production variability in the Province of Alberta can cause wide swings in provincial royalty revenue streams. A $5 barrel of oil equivalent variation in price equates to a royalty... [19 Sep 2009]
With Its New PowerXCell 8i Product Line, IBM Intends to Take Accelerated Processing Into the HPC Mainstream
White Paper Fifteen years ago, the High-Performance Computing (HPC) market started to abandon its data-parallel, vector architectural lineage and turned to commodity-priced scalar processors. One by one, the other custom components... [16 Sep 2009]
Semantic-Less Coordination of Power Management and Application Performance
White Paper This occurs, for instance, in commodity software that runs on multiple platforms, and emerging cloud hosted applications that operate on platforms outside developers' control and alongside unknown other workloads. [16 Sep 2009]
BCube: A High Performance, Server-Centric Network Architecture for Modular Data Centers
White Paper At the core of the BCube architecture is its server-centric network structure, where servers with multiple network ports connect to multiple layers of COTS (commodity o-the-shelf) mini-switches. This paper presents... [16 Sep 2009]
Challenges to Enterprise Systems Manufacturers: Delivering Flexibility, Managing Complexity, and Providing Optimal Service
White Paper One piece of equipment can have commodity hardware, custom ASICs, embedded software, and operating system and third party hardware and software components. In high tech, the term "Enterprise Systems" means large-scale... [02 Sep 2009]
Measuring the Performance of the Oracle Exadata Storage Server
White Paper Exadata employs an innovative architecture featuring scalable I/O bandwidth; intelligence integrated into the storage system;and, standard, commodity hardware. The Oracle Exadata storage server (Exadata) provides high... [02 Sep 2009]
Accurate Costing Is Key to Profitability
White Paper Companies worldwide are confronting a period of extreme volatility in commodity and other prices as well as exchange rates. This has intensified the challenge of dealing with changing customer requirements, a shifting... [01 Sep 2009]
On Domination Game Analysis for Microeconomic Data Mining
White Paper The paper presents a multidimensional market model, where every dimension represents one attribute of a commodity. Game theory is a powerful tool for the analysis of the competitions among manufacturers in a market. [29 Aug 2009]
EMC Helps Save US$3 Million and Ensures Scalability With Consolidated Grid Computing Solution
White Paper EMC Corporation wanted to contain costs for the large, global services provider by enabling the company to migrate to lower cost commodity hardware and provide the flexibility to host databases in multiple ways to... [28 Aug 2009]
Deploying Veritas Storage Foundation Scalable File Server From Symantec: Reference Configurations Using Dell Hardware
White Paper The clustered NAS solution is provided in a software appliance form factor deployed on readily available commodity hardware. Veritas Storage Foundation Scalable File Server from Symantec delivers scalable,... [05 Aug 2009]
Evaluating Two-And Four-Socket Server Virtualization Platforms
White Paper Test scenarios included performance Service-Level Agreements (SLAs), commodity consolidation on in which memory is the limiting factor, and data centers with power and cooling constraints or limited LAN and Storage Area... [05 Aug 2009]
Guide to Deploying Carrier Grade Services Using Open Source Technologies
White Paper Open source technologies and commodity, carrier-grade hardware can combine to create a highly available, scalable, and responsive infrastructure to deploy next-generation communications services. This paper examines a... [31 Jul 2009]
Sun Netra X4250 and X4450 Server Architecture: Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology
White Paper Sun Netra X4250 and X4450 servers showcase Intel's talent for creating high-performance commodity chipsets along with Sun's innovative engineering and rugged chassis design. Today in these environments, IT managers face... [31 Jul 2009]
