power and storage
RSS power and storageHigh Availability Server Clustering Solutions
White Paper By using high availability server clustering in storage environments, organizations can intelligently combine servers and RAID arrays with the purpose of simultaneously increasing the security and the computing power of the whole system. [18 Jul 2008]
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment True sustainability is much more than hammering the data centre over power, says Martin Atherton. The current penchant for invoking green IT whenever data centre power consumption is mentioned may suit the goals of IT vendors with new power... [17 Jul 2008]
Photos: Inside a supercomputer lab
Photo The Cray X1E is so power-intensive that it requires liquid cooling from 16-inch pipes installed in the floor underneath the supercomputer. It is rated for 18 teraflops of processing power. The Cray X1E supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National... [14 Jul 2008]
Taylor Woodrow heads for the cloud
Case Study P is for Power lines The company predicts it could save around £1m in terms of up front costs with each of the 1,800 licences costing just £25 per year for 25GB of storage. Taylor Woodrow has moved its 1,800 staff onto Google Apps for email and... [10 Jul 2008]
DLB - A Dynamic Load Balancing Tool for Grid Computing
White Paper The current computational power demands and constraints of organizations have led to a new type of collaborative computing environment called Grid Computing. With grid computing, an individual can unite pools of servers, storage systems and... [10 Jul 2008]
Dynamic Load Balancing for Distributed Search
White Paper A key challenge with mapping the desired computation to the available resources is that the most efficient distribution depends on several factors: relative power and number of compute nodes; network bandwidth between the compute nodes; the cost... [10 Jul 2008]
Storage Management Considerations in Virtual Environments
White Paper Virtualization solves the server sprawl problem allowing organizations to consolidate their physical environments to save money on power, cooling and space. However, server virtualization presents a new set of storage management complexities and... [09 Jul 2008]
Dell Case Study: Ryerson University
White Paper Ryerson University wanted to speed server provisioning; reduce space, power, and cooling needs; and implement rapid disaster recovery. As a solution Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services led a project to identify underutilized servers and... [08 Jul 2008]
Beyond Carrier Ethernet: Making Ethernet Performance-Grade
White Paper This paper is currently at the beginning of a huge ramp in network bandwidth demand due to the low cost of storage and computing power fueling the growth in video and imaging applications. Off late, virtually all new end-user and most new machine... [07 Jul 2008]
Network Intrusion Detection Through Adaptive Sub-Eigenspace Modeling in Multiagent Systems
White Paper This paper, a distributed multiagent Intrusion Detection System (IDS) architecture is proposed, which attempts to provide an accurate and lightweight solution to network intrusion detection by tackling issues associated with the design of a... [06 Jul 2008]
German District Council Expands to Manage Data Requirements of 10 Authorities With Virtualization
White Paper When a new German Administration Reform Law came into force, their aim was to promote streamlined management of local government administration and simplify IT environments, and their IT employees had to rapidly increase the processing power of... [06 Jul 2008]
Automotive Supplier Achieves Impressive ROI
White Paper At TRW, power and software limitations in the prototyping stages of design development proved costly and slowed performance. The company needed to upgrade its server and storage systems in line with its cutting-edge development processes. [06 Jul 2008]
By Consolidating 90 Percent of Its Physical Servers, the Ryerson University IT Group Is Poised to React More Quickly to University Needs
White Paper Ryerson wanted to speed server provisioning and reduce space, power, and cooling needs and also implement rapid disaster recovery. Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services (ICS) led a project to identify underutilized servers and consolidate onto... [05 Jul 2008]
Rechenzentrum Garching Powers Up With a Supercomputer Solution From IBM
White Paper As scientific models become more complex and include more data, the demand for processing power and storage capacity increases rapidly. The Rechenzentrum Garching (RZG) is the computing centre of the Max Planck Institute for Plasmaphysics (IPP... [03 Jul 2008]
Designing Mobile Games for WAP
White Paper On WAP, the data storage and processing power are completely on the server side while the WAP phones themselves are dumb terminals. From a game designer's point of view, this means that both the game content and the game logic must be stored on the... [03 Jul 2008]
