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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom

Comment A case in question is the Docklands area of London where the electricity grid is operating at full capacity and companies are having to move server farms to new areas where there is sufficient power. Written during an intensely boring conference...

Tags: data centres, green, energy, power

[16 May 2008]

Perspectives on Grid: Virtualization as a Foundation for SOA Environments - Synergies, Alignment, and the Relationship Between SOA and Infrastructure Virtualization

whitepaper In this paper, Matt Haynos provides a cursory analysis of the similarities and differences between grid computing and SOA and infrastructure virtualization techniques. SOA and infrastructure virtualization techniques are highly synergistic.

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Grid Failover Scenarios Version 1.1

whitepaper The capability to resume business operations in the event of a product or site failure is provided by the TS7700 Grid configuration. In a Grid configuration, two TS7700 Clusters are interconnected and can replicate data created on either TS7700...

Tags: tape drives - libraries

[16 May 2008]

Perspectives on Grid: An Overview of WebSphere Extended Deployment - Examining WebSphere XD as an Integrated Grid Platform for SOA and Infrastructure Virtualization Environments

whitepaper In this paper, one will get an overview of WebSphere Extended Deployment and how it can help the organization realize a dynamic, goals-driven grid infrastructure built on virtualization and which is ideal for SOA environments.

Tags: high performance computing

[16 May 2008]

Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Datacenters

whitepaper This paper provides a framework for improving the energy efficiency of both new and existing datacenters. Power availability is one of the most important challenges facing datacenters today. In the past, datacenter floor space has always loomed as...

Tags: data center

[16 May 2008]

Photos: BlackBerry Boldy goes Qwerty over touch again

Photo There is also a trackball scroller and additional navigation buttons, and the graphical user interface offers a tiled grid of clickable icons which are scrolled through via the trackball. The Bold has a shiny black face and curved silver edges...

Tags: rim, bold, iphone, blackberry

[15 May 2008]

Scalable Windows Servers for the Data Center

whitepaper In some cases, customers will choose to link multiple servers with clustering or grid software to support a given workload. These workloads can sometimes outgrow smaller servers, prompting a search for scalable servers that can host those workloads...

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Data Center One Technical Description

whitepaper A technical solution that utilizes grid computing is described in detail. Specific use cases and their corresponding solutions show how grid technology can be applied to solve real-world problems and how the technology fits within the current data...

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

Insight and Outlook, Part 11: The Resurgence of the Mainframe - Reassess the Mainframe as the Center of Your Business Management System

whitepaper Midsize UNIX boxes, grid computing schemes, and server farms made up of dozens of smaller systems seem to dominate today's IT infrastructure. A curious, possibly surprising development, eh? It seems a foregone conclusion that the days of CICS...

Tags: mainframes

[14 May 2008]

Beijing Tobacco Cuts Costs and Improves Resource Use by Adopting Grid Technology

whitepaper The company deployed Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters to build a powerful database environment to support 24/7 operations and ensured high availability by adopting a clustered server solution, which distributes workload across...

Tags: high availability

[14 May 2008]

Scalable, Grid-Enabled Service-Oriented Architecture Using Oracle Coherence

whitepaper One of the greatest benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) grid is that the cost of scalability is more predictable and efficient because of the option of using commodity hardware. This makes an SOA grid a highly efficient architecture...

Tags: monitoring systems

[13 May 2008]

Data Streaming, Workflow and Firewall-Friendly Grid Services With Styx

whitepaper This paper presents the Styx Grid Service (SGS), a remote service type that allows data to be streamed directly between service instances. The Styx Grid Service is built upon the Styx protocol, an established protocol for building distributed systems.

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Policy-Driven Access Control Over a Distributed Firewall Architecture

whitepaper Motivated by a Grid based scientific application, where a dynamic collection of individuals and institutions are required to share resources to achieve certain goals, this paper propose the synthesis of two lines of research.

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Service Provider Fuels Its Future With Sun Grid Compute Utility

whitepaper Virtual Compute Corporation uses the Sun Grid Compute Utility to handle work from its energy industry customers that exceeds the capacity of its own IT infrastructure. The Sun Grid gives Virtual Compute Corporation the ability to quickly and...

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 2008]

World-Renowned Genome Research Facility Relies on Sun to Provide Cost-Efficient High-Performance Compute Grid

whitepaper To achieve higher performance at lower cost, TIGR migrated and consolidated processing for a core genetic sequencing application from a HP AlphaServer Tru64 platform to a high-performance computing grid infrastructure using Sun Fire x64 servers...

Tags: application servers

[05 May 2008]

A Scalable PKI for a National Grid Service

whitepaper This paper describes work to expand the PKI for the UK National Grid Service (NGS), to integrate it with site authentication and improve usability. This work is complementary to the UK Shibboleth deployment.

Tags: pki

[03 May 2008]

Computational Power of Sun Compute Grid Helps Researchers Uncover New Ways to Treat Diseases

whitepaper A Sun Grid Rack System for High Performance Computing, comprised of 400 Sun Fire X2100 servers, was integrated by the Sun Customer Ready Systems program. One of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and a leader in clinical...

Tags: data center

[03 May 2008]

Geographic database opens doors to private sector

News Information contained on the system includes addresses, postcodes and national grid references, as well as a unique property reference number for each individual property. A national geographical electronic database is now available for commercial...

Tags: local authorities, database

[30 Apr 2008]

Calculating the Return on Investment for Clustered Caching and Data Grid Solutions

whitepaper This white paper demonstrates the ROI of clustered caching and data grid solutions using Oracle Coherence. Innovative middleware solutions such as In-memory Data Grid technology can dramatically increase the utilization of software and hardware...

Tags: middleware, budget, roi, coherence

[14 Apr 2008]

Green Grid Metrics: Describing Datacenter Power Efficiency

whitepaper The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise the energy efficiency of datacenters through a series of short-term and long-term proposals. In the long term, The Green Grid is proposing the Datacenter Performance...

Tags: data center

[11 Apr 2008]

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