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Beijing 2008 Olympics IT gets ready for the big freeze

News In the second half of May comes the final deployment of hardware to the 70 venues. The IT team has made a few changes since the Athens games - for example hardware is all now preconfigured before it goes to the venues.

Tags: software, games, beijing, olympic

[13 May 2008]

HP close to buying EDS for $12bn

News Thanks to IBM's Global Services arm, Big Blue can offer back-end hardware such as servers along with long term service contracts. Hewlett-Packard is in talks to buy Electronic Data Systems, HP has confirmed.

Tags: hurd, compaq, eds, hp

[13 May 2008]

Best Practices for Microsoft Exchange 2007 with HP Server and Storage in Mid-range Environments (MSA60, MSA70, MSA1500)

whitepaper They are intended to help you perform pre-deployment planning and ensure adequate hardware and predictable performance for your specific business requirements. This paper provides configuration and performance data, best practices and...

Tags: infrastructure management

[12 May 2008]

Hardware/Software Co-Development Using a Model-Driven Systems Development Approach - Part II: Illustrating the Solution

whitepaper This multipart paper explores joint hardware/software product development from a systems perspective and offers a generalized Model-Driven Systems Development (MDSD) approach designed to optimize functional allocation.

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Lawson M3 7.1 on IBM Power Hardware and IBM i 6.1 Operating System

whitepaper This paper describes testing that was done with M3 7.1 on the latest IBM Power hardware and the IBM i 6.1 operating system. The paper highlights three benefits of this latest technology. First it shows how runtime performance on i V6.1 has improved...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Enabling Web Services to Use Hardware Encryption With WebSphere Application Server for z/OS Version 6.0.2

whitepaper The IBM mainframe hardware can execute many cryptographic functions. The number of these hardware cryptographic functions that WebSphere Application Server for z/OS Version 6.0.2 is able to exploit is very limited.

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Moving to the Managed Desktop Environment (Part 1 of 2) (Level 200)

whitepaper This webcast focuses on a scenario in which multiple hardware configurations exist. To address these issues, the company's IT group has defined standard desktop images with standard applications for deployment to all hardware configurations across...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Agility Now (Part 04 of 10): Moving to the Managed Desktop Environment (Level 200)

whitepaper Having solved several identity and access issues earlier in the series, this webcast focuses on a scenario in which multiple hardware configurations exist. To address these issues, the company's IT group has defined standard desktop images with...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

The Importance of Rapid System Recovery

whitepaper It can involve repairing the hardware and then reinstalling the operating system, applications, patches, and system updates - with several reboots along the way. Today, all systems - from servers to desktops to laptops - must be quickly recoverable...

Tags: disaster recovery

[11 May 2008]

A Functional Comparison of Systems Management Tools From IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell

whitepaper This paper evaluates the x86 hardware platform management products from IBM, Hewlett-Packard (HP), and Dell, and how these products contribute to the goals of effective systems management. A hardware platform manager is software or hardware...

Tags: high availability

[11 May 2008]

Research Institute Streamlines IT Management With Flexible Deployment

whitepaper Now it can deploy a standard customized image to computers from multiple hardware vendors. The institute also plans to reduce server hardware by 50 percent with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V virtualization technology.

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Measurements of SAP ECC 5.0 With Unicode on IBM eServer zSeries Using DB2 for z/OS V8

whitepaper The paper looked at a highly recommended option zSeries hardware data compression. The goal of this effort was to investigate some of the performance impacts of Unicode, Unicode with zSeries hardware data compression, as well as some of the...

Tags: mainframes

[11 May 2008]

Leader in Automotive Auctions Shifts Into Higher Gear With New Desktop Standards

whitepaper Partnering with Core Business Technology Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Partner, ADESA implemented a major IT standardization effort, including software and hardware upgrades throughout the company. As a result, ADESA made significant reductions in...

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

System Center Configuration Manager Asset Intelligence

whitepaper Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 includes hardware and software inventory and software metering capabilities that help IT organizations understand exactly what hardware and software assets they have, who is using them, and where...

Tags: network administration

[11 May 2008]

Judicial Authority Saves $2 Million With Centralized IT Management Tools

whitepaper The new solution provides centralized management tools that help improve service across the organization and reduce software licensing, hardware, and staffing requirements. The result will be an estimated saving of U.S.million on hardware and...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

MCA Error Recovery: HP-UX Feature for Recovering From Machine Check Aborts

whitepaper Nevertheless, even the best of computers can occasionally experience hardware problems that lead to unplanned downtime. HP Integrity servers provide superior reliability and availability. Some of these problems are caused by transient events such...

Tags: processors

[11 May 2008]

Reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of Your Virtual Data Center With BMC Software and VMware Solutions

whitepaper VMware technology works with the current infrastructure solutions by enabling to eliminate hardware dependencies, thus giving the flexibility to choose the right operating system for the right application.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Advanced Availability for VMware Infrastructure 3 - Veritas Cluster Server for HA, DR and More...

whitepaper Where a hardware failure may have previously impacted a single application, with virtualization multiple applications would now be affected. It's like having too many eggs in one basket. There is a greater need for a single HA/DR solution that is...

Tags: disaster recovery

[11 May 2008]

Veritas Storage Foundation: Simplifying Heterogeneous Data Migrations and Data Mobility

whitepaper All server and storage hardware has a useful life. And, unfortunately performing data migrations and array migrations are a question of when not if. Additionally with heterogeneous data centers and new technologies being introduced, infrastructure...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[11 May 2008]

Activating z890 and z990 Cryptographic Services for WebSphere

whitepaper This paper provides instructions for activating the cryptographic hardware on IBM 2084 and 2086 mainframe. References to the appropriate manuals are also included. WebSphere Versions 4, 5 and 6 for z/OS use the cryptographic services for Secure...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

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