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Datacenter-on-Chip Architectures: Tera-Scale Opportunities and Challenges

whitepaper Tera-scale CMP architectures, consisting of several tens of physical cores and hundreds of hardware threads, are highly suitable for throughput computing especially in the server market place. This paper starts by highlighting tera-scale potential...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Scalable Windows Servers for the Data Center

whitepaper The process of IT transformation built on a new generation of hardware and software products will result in both scale-up and scale-out server deployments. Workloads such as business intelligence, database, decision support, and ERP applications...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Perspectives on Grid: Virtualization as a Foundation for SOA Environments - Synergies, Alignment, and the Relationship Between SOA and Infrastructure Virtualization

whitepaper As services take hold in enterprises, and their size and scale grows, it will become increasingly necessary to implement infrastructure virtualization techniques to support them. SOA and infrastructure virtualization techniques are highly synergistic.

Tags: web services

[11 May 2008]

Application Architecture Essentials, Part 2: Getting Started With Design Patterns

whitepaper Patterns cover many complex areas, from large-scale structure of the application architecture to specific design problem solutions. Identifying, applying, and documenting patterns are ubiquitous activities for application architects.

Tags: software engineering

[11 May 2008]

Beijing MTR Enhances Budget Control, Streamlines Accounting Processes

whitepaper The scale of the project and number of parties involved required Beijing MTR to maintain tight control over costs. In February 2005, three private sector entities entered into a public-private partnership with the Beijing Municipal Government to...

Tags: asset management

[11 May 2008]

Operational Best Practices for the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series

whitepaper With the wide-scale deployment of the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series in networks worldwide, Cisco Systems has been able to better understand the demands placed on the switching infrastructure. Companies today place high demands on network infrastructure.

Tags: switching

[11 May 2008]

Bobby Woolf: A Quick Intro to WebSphere Business Process Management

whitepaper Service-oriented architecture is an enterprise-scale IT architectural style that develops IT resources as business-aligned services to fulfill business needs. IBM WebSphere Business Process Management is a solution for modeling, assembling...

Tags: business management

[11 May 2008]

SGI Altix: Enhanced Return on Investment for the Datacenter

whitepaper SGI Altix servers and clusters eliminate bottlenecks, enable real-time access to complex data sets, and scale with customer needs. SGI offers customers a new choice for maximizing Return On Investment (ROI) with a highly scalable platform based on...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

SAP With Veritas Storage Foundation HA on IBM System x and IBM Bladecenter

whitepaper As Windows server operating systems become increasingly accepted in the large scale and high-end mission-critical parts of organizations, meeting stringent requirements regarding data and application availability, disaster tolerance and business...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Groupama Phoenix Accelerates Access to Customer Data by 60% and Optimizes IT System

whitepaper Groupama Phoenix wanted to implement a stable, highly available data infrastructure with the ability to seamlessly scale to support future business needs and optimize performance and stability of IT systems to ensure critical business continuity.

Tags: high availability

[11 May 2008]

IT Services Supplier Boosts Service to GPs With Streamlined Operations Management

whitepaper It needed a management solution that: better monitored service performance, lowered the total cost of ownership, helped INPS scale services easily to accommodate 6,000 new GPs and aligned INPS better with NHS Connecting for Health strategy to...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Deploying Operating Systems With Configuration Manager 2007 (Part 2 of 2) (Level 300)

whitepaper Then, using the Microsoft Deployment Solution Accelerators, the presenter plans and executes a large-scale deployment and also shows how to track the deployment, using the reporting capabilities in Configuration Manager 2007.

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Extreme Business Warehousing: 60 Terabytes and Beyond

whitepaper It shows the how the application, infrastructure and middleware can scale-out to meet the most extreme business requirements, therefore the name "Extreme Business Warehousing". This paper covers the design criteria and implementation of an SAP...

Tags: business intelligence - data warehousing

[11 May 2008]

Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communication: Cultures, Firewalls, and Imported Norms

whitepaper Because U.S.public diplomacy is characterized by episodic commitment, organizational stovepipes, tribal cultures, and excessive reliance on "accidental" personalities, reforms of unusual duration and scale are required in a world where geography...

Tags: security tools

[11 May 2008]

An Enterprise Process Framework Defined and Delivered With IBM Rational Method Composer

whitepaper When applied on an enterprise scale, RMC enables the realization of an IT Enterprise Process Framework (IT-EPF). Today's IT enterprise environment is characterized by high degrees of intricacy, increasing demands from its customer base, and an ever...

Tags: groupware - workflow

[11 May 2008]

Manufacturer Optimizes Data Center Network for SAP Portal

whitepaper The Cisco CSMs are deployed in active-passive redundant mode that provides a complete application delivery and acceleration solution for the company's large-scale SAP deployment. For one large European manufacturer of factory automation and process...

Tags: switching

[11 May 2008]

Drive Enterprise Innovation with IT Simplication

whitepaper The solution is to develop a strategy to scale and streamline IT systems, to support business growth while reining in costs. Today's globally competitive business climate demands that organisations reduce complexity to ensure the reliable delivery...

Tags: infrastructure management, streamline, complexity, infrastructures

[07 May 2008]

Service Provider Fuels Its Future With Sun Grid Compute Utility

whitepaper The company wanted scale infrastructure quickly to meet customer demands for high-performance computing power to avoid large capital outlays required to build out IT infrastructure to meet customer demands.

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 2008]

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

whitepaper The company wanted to provide customers with rapid online access to large film and video files to scale petabyte-level storage environment in cost-effective increments to keep pace with customer requirements and support demanding, high duty-cycle...

Tags: removable storage

[06 May 2008]

IBM's Vision for the New Enterprise Data Center

whitepaper It also can help reduce and control rising costs and improve provisioning speed and data center security and resiliency - at any scale. IBM's vision for the new enterprise data center is an evolutionary model that helps reset the economics of IT...

Tags: data center

[05 May 2008]

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