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Pain-Free Remote Office Data Protection for Oracle on Windows and Linux Environments

whitepaper The presenter of this webcast examines how Symantec Backup Exec provides a cost-effective data protection solution that reduces IT overhead and extends media resources for Oracle and Oracle RAC environments on Windows and Linux.

Tags: back-up

[17 May 2008]

Consolidation Through Virtualisation With Sun x64 Servers

whitepaper As this Sun whitepaper explores, the Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Blade modular systems powered by AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors let businesses run the Solaris Operating System (OS), Linux or Windows today, and change direction tomorrow.

Tags: server consolidation, solaris operating system, sun blade, fire

[17 May 2008]

Dell commits to green dream

News When questioned on whether Dell would promote Linux more heavily as an environmentally sustainable alternative to Microsoft Windows Vista, which has been criticised by Greenpeace and others for its reliance on powerful hardware and its influence...

Tags: laptop, pc, dell, green

[16 May 2008]

OLPC's Sugar gets sweeter with Windows

News Customers will be able to choose to run the computer on either a Windows or a Linux operating system. Sugar was designed only to work with a free Linux operating system. Eventually, the goal will be to develop versions of the laptop to run both...

Tags: microsoft, windows, olpc

[16 May 2008]

Repetitive Task Management on Multiple Linux Images

whitepaper Often, it is desirable to perform tasks remotely on a Linux system(s) without actually doing a manual log in. This may be especially true when a specific set of repetitive tasks needs to be done on one or more systems.

Tags: linux server os

[16 May 2008]

SuSE Linux on System z: Getting Started Tutorial

whitepaper In this paper users can become better acquainted with using SuSE Linux on System z. Commands suggested in this paper should work on most SuSE Linux images running SLES8 or newer. In fact, the knowledge is generally valid across most distributions...

Tags: mainframes

[16 May 2008]

Migration Scenarios for SAP to Linux on IBM Power Systems

whitepaper This paper describes different scenarios in which a customer could migrate their SAP system to the Linux operating system running on IBM Power Systems hardware. Migration of an SAP system is never an easy task.

Tags: erp

[16 May 2008]

LiMo targets the business mobile

News The LiMo Foundation, a broad industry consortium of manufacturers, operators and software developers working to put Linux onto the mobile phone, is to launch a major enterprise push later this year. Asked whether a serious mobile Linux push into...

Tags: business, mobile, linux

[15 May 2008]

Configuring Oracle RAC Over InfiniBand

whitepaper This paper is intended to provide the general instructions on how to do the following: install Oracle Cluster Ready Services (CRS) over InfiniBand; install Real Application Clusters (RAC) 10g R2 over InfiniBand; configure a cluster database on...

Tags: cluster, infiniband, oracle rac, configure

[15 May 2008]

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

whitepaper In the case of the Application Server, both AIX as well as Linux are measured for zSeries Application Servers. This paper describes several measurements, or stress tests, that were done using a zSeries Database Server and DB2 for z/OS in both non...

Tags: mainframes

[15 May 2008]

Remote Install of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM X3 Servers

whitepaper Secondly, there are known challenges in getting Red Hat Linux installed on these machines in a remote or "Lights out" environment, so the intent is to provide pointers to make this process go more smoothly.

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Web Analytics Developer Standardizes on Microsoft Software to Gain Competitive Edge

whitepaper In the past, Web analytics solution provider WebTrends maintained its products on multiple platforms, with its products for Linux and UNIX accounting for 41 percent of costs but only 17 percent of revenue.

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Skype drops open-source appeal

News Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide source code with Linux-based VoIP phones. The company has dropped its appeal against its conviction last July in a German court of failure to...

Tags: skype, gpl, open source

[12 May 2008]

Data Center Best Practices: Optimizing Service Infrastructure Through OS Portability

whitepaper These legacy technologies are persistent, forming a collective of Windows and Linux servers that are costly to run and difficult to manage. This causes a dramatic increase in the probability of human error and the subsequent risk to the business...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

DIADEM Firewall: Web Server Overload Attack Detection and Response

whitepaper This paper outlines the integration an FPGA based high-speed classifier engine integrated into the Linux Netfilter firewall as well as its deployment during a response action against the DDoS attack. This paper presents the DIADEM Firewall...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment So what you are saying is you have no systems management experience on Unix or Linux systems, especially if you regard them as "bulky" - have you taken a look at Vista's hardware footprint recently? And if I misunderstand your nuance when we share...

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

Charity Migrates From Linux and Cuts Web Publishing to Just Seconds

whitepaper Microsoft Partner Afkar Information Technology transferred the charity's Linux-based portal and the intranet to a new solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) wanted a Web environment for its...

Tags: application servers

[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]

Dell, HP, Lenovo openly pledge Linux driver support

News Representatives from Dell, HP and Lenovo made the commitment at a Linux Foundation conference last week, promising to include wording in their hardware procurement processes to "strongly encourage" the delivery of open-source drivers for...

Tags: lenovo, linux, dell, open source

[02 May 2008]

Bank Finds Windows Solution 20 Percent Less Expensive, More Capable Than Linux/Oracle

whitepaper A new IT chief with deep UNIX and Oracle roots launched a serious investigation into migrating the bank to a Linux/Oracle platform. However, analyses showed that Linux costs would be at least 20 percent higher than those in a Windows environment.

Tags: customer support services

[02 May 2008]

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