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SGI Altix: Enhanced Return on Investment for the Datacenter

whitepaper Altix provides a unique combination of an open environment, a powerful processor platform, and the flexibility and scalability of the SGI system architecture. SGI Altix servers and clusters eliminate bottlenecks, enable real-time access to complex...

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

Thought Equity Delivers Film and Video Content Four Times Faster With Sun StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive

whitepaper Thought Equity added a high-capacity, high-throughput Sun StorageTek tape drive to its existing tape library to dramatically improve the storage density, speed and scalability of its digital archiving and on-demand content delivery system.

Tags: removable storage

[06 May 2008]

Data Grids and Service-Oriented Architecture

whitepaper This white paper addresses the challenges in selecting an SOA strategy, and how clustered caching can improve SOA performance, providing scalability for large-scale transaction volumes. When choosing an SOA strategy, corporations must rely on...

Tags: middleware, production, high availability, disparate

[22 Apr 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Windows Server 2008 Performance and Scalability (Level 300)

whitepaper Areas it covers include: file, networking, Web, virtualization, Terminal Services, and general scale-up advancements. This webcast discusses Windows Server 2008 performance features, results, and references.

Tags: application servers

[14 Apr 2008]

eBay Creates Technology Architecture for the Future

whitepaper Its business was growing so fast that it threatened to tax its existing two-tier technology architecture in areas of scalability and maintainability.eBay evaluated two architectural platforms: Microsoft's .NET initiative and the industry-standard...

Tags: platforms, java, scale, scalability

[11 Apr 2008]

Hitachi Storage at Work: Aarhus United

whitepaper Aarhus United therefore decided to consolidate their storage onto a new SAN that would provide increased performance, capacity and scalability while improving robustness and recovery capability. Aarhus United's existing Compaq SAN could not scale...

Tags: sans, san, consolidate, hitachi

[10 Apr 2008]

Fibre Channel over IP Design Using the MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Switches

whitepaper The Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches leads the industry in terms of scalability, performance, and availability for building today’s critical storage-area network (SAN) infrastructures.

Tags: fibre, protection, strategies, total cost

[10 Apr 2008]

Compaq Fibre Channel Storage System Technology

whitepaper With its inherent I/O and physical limitations, SCSI technology cannot support the scalability of storage capacity and I/O performance required by such applications. The Fibre Channel architecture of this solution enables administrators to scale...

Tags: fibre, demand, channel, capacity

[10 Apr 2008]

Solaris Containers: How Advances in Server Virtualization Will Simplify Service Manageability

whitepaper After nearly a decade of experience with large-scale distributed computing, businesses understand how to build scalability and availability into their IT infrastructure. Now, with the escalating costs of managing vast networks of servers with...

Tags: virtualization

[28 Mar 2008]

Peta-Scale I/O With the Lustre File System

whitepaper The features described deal with I/O and networking, lock management, recovery after failure, and other scalability-related issues. This paper describes low-level infrastructure in the Lustre file system that addresses scalability in very large...

Tags: scalability

[28 Mar 2008]

Brocade Tape Pipelining With Sun's StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager

whitepaper In addition to unmatched scalability, cost control, and availability, VSM5 supports FICON, for high-speed connectivity between multiple virtual tape subsystems and Automated Cartridge Systems (ACS). StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 5 (VSM5...

Tags: storage management

[28 Mar 2008]

Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems Technical Overview

whitepaper Windows Server 2008 builds upon this inherent scalability and processing power to provide an ideal platform for enterprise-scale workloads such as large databases, Line-Of-Business (LOB) applications, and custom applications, including workloads...

Tags: windows server 2008

[28 Mar 2008]

Reducing Total Cost of Ownership With a Corporate Reporting System for a Global Insurance Company

whitepaper The OneShore model was employed to provide the client with a cost-effective solution with built-in scalability to meet current and future business needs. Apart from managing interfaces with multiple applications such as GL, AP/AR, Comptroller and...

Tags: finance

[27 Mar 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Shop Talk Discussion: Distributed Data Warehousing With Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000 (2003) Datacenter Server - Level 200

whitepaper Encompassing 550 hard drives, and nearly 3 terabytes of customer-related data in SAN storage, this system demonstrates the scalability of Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and the Unisys platform in both a scale-up and...

Tags: database management

[27 Mar 2008]

Taobao.com Turns to Grid Computing to Improve System Performance and Reliability

whitepaper Taobao.com implemented a reliable, scalable, and high performing information technology architecture using a range of Oracle grid computing products and satisfied scalability requirements with four-node server cluster, with the option of expanding...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[24 Mar 2008]

Large Scale Use of the Netezza Performance Server System

whitepaper WinterCorp, an expert in large scale data management and a consultant to leading enterprises on data warehouse architecture and scalability, has closely tracked the development of data warehouse appliances with interest - and with a lot of questions.

Tags: application servers

[11 Mar 2008]

NetMotion Mobility XE Scalability

whitepaper Read this white paper to learn more about Mobility XE's ability to easily scale to meet your organization's changing mobile deployment needs. Designed to support mobile deployments of any size, NetMotion Mobility XE Mobile VPN software scales...

Tags: scalability

[02 Mar 2008]

CLASH: A Protocol for Internet-Scale Utility-Oriented Distributed Computing

whitepaper Emerging applications such as massively multiplayer online games and peer-to-peer content delivery networks may benefit from the primitives provided by DHT networks, but the workload from these applications will most likely exhibit significant...

Tags: load balancing

[29 Feb 2008]

New TechNet Webcast: Windows Server 2008 Performance and Scalability

whitepaper Areas covered include: file, networking, Web, virtualization, Terminal Services, and general scale-up advancements. This webcast presents a discussion of Windows Server 2008 performance features, results, and references.

Tags: scalability, windows server, scenarios, discussion

[27 Feb 2008]

VimpelCom Uses Advanced Human Resources System to Support Continued Growth

whitepaper The company worked with AT-Consulting to replace existing HR system with Oracle Human Resources Management, chosen for its scalability, broad-based functionality, and ability to integrate with existing Oracle Financials applications.

Tags: database management

[08 Feb 2008]

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