server workloads
Credit crunch prompts open source adoption
News For instance, a Forrester Research survey earlier this month found the market for open-source databases to be booming due to new workloads, such as RFID projects, rich web applications and small portals, despite the unwillingness of enterprises to... [29 Jul 2008]
Web 2.0 prompts love for open source
News The market for open-source databases is booming due to new workloads such as RFID projects, rich web applications and small portals, despite the unwillingness of enterprises to replace their Oracle, DB2 or SQL Server systems with open source... [24 Jul 2008]
Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments
White Paper Businesses are running production workloads on virtual machines and finding the Server virtualization is one such technology that provides liquidity to IT by delivering improved hardware utilization, physical server consolidation, increased... [24 Jul 2008]
Distributed Utilization Control for Real-Time Clusters With Load Balancing
White Paper Such clusters must adaptively control the CPU utilizations of many processors in order to maintain desired soft real-time performance and prevent system overload in face of unpredictable workloads. Recent years have seen rapid growth of online... [10 Jul 2008]
Evaluating the Performance of Middleware Load Balancing Strategies
White Paper Third, it presents the results of experiments that systematically evaluate the performance of adaptive load balancing strategies implemented using the Cygnus middleware framework using workloads generated by LBPerf. [10 Jul 2008]
HP Integrity gets Parallel virtualisation
News HP has said it will offer technology from virtualisation company Parallels to those customers who wish to virtualise Microsoft Windows and Linux workloads on HP Integrity servers. Serguei Beloussov, chief executive of Parallels, said: "Container... [03 Jul 2008]
Triage: Performance Isolation and Differentiation for Storage Systems
White Paper This paper focuses on storage system throughput as the key resource that is shared by the workloads. Throughput sharing is arbitrated by throttling storage access requests of different workloads. Throughput reflects the capacities of different... [03 Jul 2008]
Introducing the NEC Express5800/1320Xd Server: Leveraging Hardware Virtualization for Highly Available Computing
White Paper IT executives need to be able to implement a balanced server environment to handle the growing variety of applications and workloads to support an Internet-based economy. This white paper articulates NEC's new server platform, the Express5800... [03 Jul 2008]
Shipbuilder Introduces HPC on Microsoft to Develop High Value-Added Ship Types
White Paper DSME was using a large-scale UNIX-based system for its simulation software and it had to add server computers to keep up with growing workloads. To achieve more productive operations, the company decided to deploy a new high-performance computing... [03 Jul 2008]
Microsoft Cluster Server is a Standard Element of Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition
White Paper It will provide HA capabilities for applications and databases running on a pair of Windows NT Server systems and support scalable applications that allow multiple servers to share workloads. This paper looks at Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS), the... [03 Jul 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Windows Compare (Part 3 of 6): High-Performance Computing With Windows (Level 200)
White Paper Then it examines demanding workloads, the benefit from high-performance computing, and show how to configure a HPC solution. It first looks at what comes built in to Windows Compute Cluster Server, compared to what one get with a Linux solution. [03 Jul 2008]
VMware ESX Server 2: Performance and Scalability Evaluation
White Paper IBM's High-Volume Web Sites team joined with representatives of VMware, Inc.to determine the suitability of applying VMware's virtualization technology, ESX Server 2, to the IBM Server Allocation for WebSphere Application Server, a limited IBM... [03 Jul 2008]
Windows Server 2003 Family of Servers: The Platform for the Competitive Enterprise
White Paper In an era of depleted budgets and mounting workloads, does your 24/7 enterprise have a 24/7 server solution? With the powerful and easy-to-use capabilities of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family of servers, you can transform your organization... [03 Jul 2008]
Behavior of Mixed Workloads Consolidated Using Solaris Resource Manager Software
White Paper Solaris Resource Manager software enables system resources to be fairly allocated between various workloads, ensuring predictable service levels for applications. Capable of scaling to 64 CPUs, the Sun Enterprise[tm] 10000 server running the... [03 Jul 2008]
Web Log Analysis for Performance Troubleshooting
White Paper These tools calculate lots of statistics, often used in Load Testing to reproduce realistic workloads. Web Server Logs contain powerful, but often hidden, information about the performance of the Web Applications. [03 Jul 2008]
