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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. Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008…   Video: CIO Agenda 2008...

Tags: skype, gpl, open source

[12 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]

Novell Data Center Strategy

whitepaper Novell has a strategy for delivering lower-cost, Linux-based data center solutions. With a proven Linux foundation, the Novell data center strategy is a secure, innovative approach to data center computing.

Tags: data center

[02 May 2008]

Better Performance at a Lower Cost: Optimize Retail Operations by Enhancing Your Use of IT

whitepaper This white paper explains how the IBM Retail Environment for SUSE LINUX can help retailers respond to market conditions, improve customer service, protect technological investments and optimize flexibility throughout their stores.

Tags: retailers, stores, retail, paper explains

[11 Apr 2008]

Using Grid Computing to Create a Virtual Environment for Applications

whitepaper Organizations are increasingly turning to clustered low-cost Intel architecture (IA) systems and open source software like Linux to lower their hardware and software acquisition costs, enhance overall performance of computational, volume or data...

Tags: high performance computing, availability, administrators, configuration

[10 Apr 2008]

Minimize Your Disaster Recovery Investment With Cross Platform Replication

whitepaper In this webcast, the listener will learn how he or she can utilize a lower cost platform - such as Linux - for data migration and replication. Could the business benefit from saving some money during a disaster recovery implementation?

Tags: data recovery - security, migration, replication, reducing

[10 Apr 2008]

Adelaide and Meath National Children's Hospital, Dublin - June 2004

whitepaper It includes Dell PowerEdge Servers, Dell/EMC Storage Area Network (SAN) and Oracle Database on a Red Hat Linux Cluster. Benefits include: Performance and scalability, Resilient and robust infrastructure, High system availability, Secure, rapid back...

Tags: storage management, dell, oracle database, operating system

[10 Apr 2008]

Taking Hold of Your Future: Upgrading to Novell Open Enterprise Server on Linux

whitepaper Novell Open Enterprise Server pairs the proven manageability, security and reliability of Novell services, which previously were available only in NetWare, with the rapid innovation and lower cost associated with the open source Linux platform.

Tags: application servers

[28 Mar 2008]

Linux and High Performance Computing

whitepaper The total cost of ownership of a Linux system is significantly lower than other popular operating systems. Linux has emerged as a key operating system competing for market share in the desktop and server market.

Tags: linux - open source, linux, robust, ownership

[24 Mar 2008]

Asus to put Windows XP on two-thirds of Eee PCs

News The Taiwan company's branded business last year launched a seven inch child-friendly Linux-based personal computer priced as low as $200, and new models with Microsoft's Windows XP will be priced around $390 to $400.

Tags: asus, windows xp, eee pc, low cost

[14 Mar 2008]

Capitalizing on the IBM Retail Environment for SUSE LINUX

whitepaper The paper also illustrates how the Linux platform can help retailers reduce costs through an open and flexible environment and enhances store operations — all while helping to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO).

Tags: retail, linux, retailers, novell

[12 Dec 2007]

Initial End-to-End Performance Evaluation of 10-Gigabit Ethernet

whitepaper With appropriate optimizations to the configurations of Linux, TCP, and the 10GbE adapter, over 4-Gb/s throughput and 21- µs end-to-end latency is achieved between applications in a local-area network despite using less capable, lower-end PCs.

Tags: ethernet

[05 Dec 2007]

Businesses warned over consumer tech 'bargains'

News Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP. Some businesses buy consumer class PCs and laptops for company use due to their lower initial cost but analyst Gartner is warning they could actually end up with a higher total cost of ownership.

Tags: gartner, consumer, hardware, pcs

[03 Dec 2007]

Housing Development Board (HDB) Houses Linux on IBM

whitepaper Adding Linux to its operating environment generated a variety of key efficiencies for HDB, enabling the organisation to expand its system capabilities without increasing its IT budget. HDB needed to consolidate its IT infrastructure and lower its...

Tags: linux - open source, board, total cost, maximize

[24 May 2007]

How ISVs Can Benefit From the Linux Standard Base

whitepaper The Linux Standard Base was created to solve these challenges and lower the cost of supporting the Linux platform. Linux and its variances between distributions present ISVs with a unique set of challenges: different versions of libraries...

Tags: linux - open source, linux, linux platform, variances

[18 May 2007]

Capitalizing on the IBM Retail Environment for SUSE LINUX: An Open, Flexible, Retail-Optimized Linux Point-of-Service Platform

whitepaper It illustrates how the Linux platform can help retailers reduce costs through an open and flexible environment that simplifies and enhances store operations - all while helping to lower the Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO).

Tags: linux - open source, retail, retailers, linux

[18 May 2007]

Enterprise Linux Selection Guide: Balancing Features, Support, and Cost

whitepaper Moreover, as open source software, Linux encourages a continuous stream of new applications and development tools and offers benefits such as lower risk and easier customization. This paper can help an enterprise make an informed Linux choice by...

Tags: linux - open source, functionality, decade, risk

[18 May 2007]

The UnAppliance Provides Higher Performance, Lower Cost File Serving

whitepaper The product aggregates up to 16 low-cost Linux-based servers for high-performance, fault-tolerant file serving across a SAN. The PolyServe File Serving solution is software that allows a customer to leverage the volume economics of industry...

Tags: file and network servers, file, cluster, high performance

[18 May 2007]

Australian Transportation Company Utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Increase Efficiency and Lower Costs

whitepaper As a solution the company selected Red Hat as their Linux provider and deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3. The company wanted to continually increase efficiency by finding an operating system that was as reliable as UNIX, yet far more cost...

Tags: linux - open source, hat, red hat, australia

[15 May 2007]

Server Clustering Is Tailor-Made for Burlington Coat Factory

whitepaper A retailer needs to migrate 40 Oracle-based applications from a proprietary UNIX platform to a lower-cost, highly scalable, available, flexible and manageable IT infrastructure using Intel architecture-based servers and Linux.

Tags: linux - open source, intel, storage area network, intel architecture

[15 May 2007]

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