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Linux on System z, an End-to-End View: From Sizing to Performance Analysis to Capacity Planning

whitepaper Critical enterprise Linux applications are being deployed in ever increasing numbers on IBM System z and zSeries servers. Equally important is the on-going capacity planning of z/VM and the Linux workloads.

Tags: mainframes

[11 May 2008]

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

whitepaper Data protection for Oracle on Windows or Linux, especially for remote offices does not have to be expensive or painful. The presenter of this webcast examines how Symantec Backup Exec provides a cost-effective data protection solution that reduces...

Tags: back-up

[11 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

[11 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

[11 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

[11 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

[11 May 2008]

Early Linux Adopter Turns to Windows for New Business Needs

whitepaper Upon its inception, Overstock.com made the decision to build its Web-based business on open source software - mainly SUSE Linux, now distributed by Novell. However, the company soon found that the Windows platform offered significant benefits over...

Tags: application servers

[11 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

[11 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. Today's data center is an increasingly complex mixture of server platforms, hardware, operating systems...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

IBM System p 570 2007 Benchmark Results for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Global Payroll (France) 8.9

whitepaper The p570, based on innovative POWER6 processor technology, opens new horizons in computing technology for UNIX and Linux clients. With the introduction of the IBM System p5 570 using the POWER6 processor technology comes the potential for increased...

Tags: unix

[11 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

[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. High-profile web servers often become the victim...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

OpenOffice 3.0 beta gets an airing

News The software is available for public download in US English on Linux, OS X, Solaris and Windows but Sun warned it is not considered suitable for production use. The first beta-test version of the OpenOffice.org 3.0 productivity suite was released...

Tags: windows, mac, openoffice

[09 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? Then we have silicon.com resident Naked CIO who...

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]

Data Center Migration

whitepaper One thing is clear, moving some or all of the data center functions to Linux can reduce costs, increase flexibility, improve security and simplify IT management issues. But the devil is in the details: how to go about doing it?

Tags: data center

[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]

Wellness Product Company Switches From Linux to Windows Server to Support Growth

whitepaper Zone Labs, known for its Evidence Based Wellness products, had an unsupported IT mix of Linux, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, and Java 2 Enterprise Edition, with financial data in QuickBooks. With no automated inventory control, no disaster recovery...

Tags: database management, labs, zone labs, continued growth

[04 May 2008]

Dell, HP, Lenovo openly pledge Linux driver support

News Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open-source drivers for Linux. Representatives from Dell, HP and Lenovo made the commitment at a Linux Foundation conference last week, promising to include wording in their hardware...

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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