You are here: silicon.com > Tags

76 stories on

core server operating systems

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Power Company Optimizes Technology, Increasing Efficiency While Reducing Costs

whitepaper Edesur turned to Microsoft Consulting Services for assistance, which recommended the Core Infrastructure Optimization Model, a phased plan for modernizing Edesur's technologies, systems, and procedures.

Tags: customer support services, desktops, microsoft office, plan

[15 May 2008]

SAP With Veritas Storage Foundation HA on IBM System x and IBM Bladecenter

whitepaper More and more enterprises are running mission-critical applications like SAP that are fundamental to their core business. As Windows server operating systems become increasingly accepted in the large scale and high-end mission-critical parts of...

Tags: application servers

[14 May 2008]

Microsoft Webcast: The Microsoft Perspective on Windows Server and Linux for Server Operating Systems (Level 100)

whitepaper But how do these operating systems compare when it comes to core requirements such as cost, reliability, security, and interoperability? On x86 servers, the two most commonly considered server operating systems are Windows Server and Linux.

Tags: linux server os

[16 Apr 2008]

Siemens PLM Software Validated to Easily Support 5,000 Users With SQL Server 2008

whitepaper Siemens engineers visited the Microsoft Engineering Excellence Center Laboratory in Redmond, Washington to conduct their own heavy-load tests of Teamcenter running on SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (64-bit) and the Windows Server 2008 for 64-Bit...

Tags: application servers

[23 Mar 2008]

TechNet Podcast: An Interview With Iain McDonald on Windows Server 2008 Fundamentals

whitepaper This webcast is a candid conversation about the powerful improvements to the core fundamentals in Windows Server 2008 from the Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems. The listener will learn about notable improvements to networking...

Tags: application servers

[27 Feb 2008]

Miami Trims City-Wide Network Costs by Uniting Into Single Windows 2000 Enterprise

whitepaper Operating under tight budgets, the City's core IT departments are charged with optimizing routine business processes while at the same time minimizing technology costs and maintenance requirements. In order to reduce its total cost of network...

Tags: application servers

[19 Feb 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Extending Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Management With Windows Features (Level 300)

whitepaper Through practical examples, the webcast demonstrates how the new Windows Remote Management (WinRM), Windows Remote Shell, and event forwarding features can address management needs for Active Directory Server Core deployment and Active Directory...

Tags: application servers

[14 Jan 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Optimize Your Data Center Using PlateSpin Solutions, Dell Servers, and Microsoft Virtual Server (Level 200)

whitepaper At the core is PlateSpin's Workload Portability Technology which provides the flexibility to move and rebalance workloads (data, applications, and operating systems) in any direction between physical and virtual hosts.

Tags: application servers

[14 Jan 2008]

Security threats evolve again

News Speaking at the RSA Conference Europe 2007, Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development for the Windows Core Operating System Division at Microsoft, said: "It shouldn't come as any surprise that as we improve the security of the operating...

Tags: windows server, rsa, malware, microsoft

[24 Oct 2007]

Virtualisation - a CIO's best friend?

News Speaking at the launch of AMD's new Opteron quad-core server processor in Barcelona - which is touted by the chip-maker as very virtualisation-friendly by enabling more virtual machines to be run per server - Ingle said: "This is all about data.

Tags: servers, energy, chips, virtualisation

[14 Sep 2007]

Commercial Bank With 27 Branches Moves Operations From Oracle to SQL Server 2005

whitepaper To reduce complexity and to gain the agility to better meet customer needs, NLB Tutunska banka needed to migrate its operations - including core banking - to a more tightly integrated environment. Each node is configured with eight Dual-Core Intel...

Tags: application servers, core, banking, microsoft windows

[05 Sep 2007]

PROFESION + AUGE Prepares to Grow With Intel Itanium 2 Processors

whitepaper In September 2004, the company started to migrate its core Sun Enterprise 450 platform to two ARM ATICA I4002S 2-way servers based on Intel Itanium 2 processors running RedHat Linux Advanced Server 3 operating system and keeping its Oracle9i...

Tags: microprocessors, core, processing, operating system

[25 Apr 2007]

Sun burned brighter than server rivals last year

News He attributed the change to slowed purchases from customers, who were anticipating new models with quad-core processors. He also put it down to the effect of virtualisation, which allows customers to replace multiple servers with a single server...

Tags: servers, sun

[23 Feb 2007]

Travel Industry Innovator Widens Consumers~ Horizons With Open Architecture

whitepaper HP servers running the HP-UX 11i v2, Microsoft Windows, and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating systems make up the core of the 24x7 Amadeus IT infrastructure, which includes a 250-terabyte HP StorageWorks SAN.

Tags: core, data center, europe, transactions

[22 Feb 2007]

Improving Scalability for Citrix Presentation Server

whitepaper With multiple-core processors becoming the norm, and servers with four to eight CPUs providing the best price point for servers, it is important for applications in the data center to be effective in scaling to servers with larger numbers of CPUs.

Tags: presentation, citrix, cpus, citrix presentation server

[22 Feb 2007]

IBM eServer p5 575 Ultra-Dense, Modular Cluster Node for High Performance Computing

whitepaper With the performance advantages provided by the powerful POWER5 processors and their associated system architecture, a fast system bus, high memory bandwidth and robust Input/Output (I/O) subsystems, the 8-core and 16-core p5-575 systems provide...

Tags: bandwidth, linux, operating systems, memory

[08 Feb 2007]

Intel's Xeon back in the Sun

News John Fowler, Sun's executive vice president for servers, said: "Woodcrest and Clovertown are substantially improved technology," referring to the dual-core and quad-core Xeon processors geared for dual-processor servers.

Tags: xeon, sun, intel

[23 Jan 2007]

Sun set to bring back Intel's Xeon for servers

News Sun pushed Intel out of its x86 server line in favour of AMD's Opteron in early 2005, saying Intel's chips were slower and more power-hungry, but Intel's new dual-core Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" and quad-core Xeon 5300 "Clovertown" processors have...

Tags: xeon, amd, solaris, sun

[22 Jan 2007]

Evaluating Network Processing Efficiency With Processor Partitioning and Asynchronous I/O

whitepaper A key attraction of this overall approach is that it exploits the architectural trend toward greater thread-level parallelism in future systems based on multi-core processors. Applications requiring high-speed TCP/IP processing can easily saturate...

Tags: tcp - ip, processing, processors, perform

[06 Jan 2007]

Red Hat lines up next Linux shipment

News Rhel 5 is based on version 2.6.18 of the Linux kernel - the core of the operating system - compared to 2.6.9 for the current Rhel 4. One major feature arriving in Rhel 5 is Xen, virtualisation software that lets a single computer run multiple...

Tags: xen, virtualisation, red hat, linux

[02 Jan 2007]

Sort by: Date | Relevance


Site Map    


Quick Sitemap Links: