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Discover How Automated Meter Management and SOA Can Light the Way for Utility Companies: Establishing the Necessary Infrastructure to Maximize Flexibility and Component Reuse

whitepaper Many utility companies have unintegrated systems that use a silo approach, with applications "Burying" information. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) can play a crucial role in helping the utility industry transform itself to become more flexible...

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 May 2008]

Championing Energy Efficiency in the Data Center: An IBM Server Consolidation Analysis

whitepaper Energy efficiency has long been a top priority at a large natural gas and electric utility headquartered in the United States. This utility company, teaming with IBM, is currently undertaking a server consolidation of their data center with the...

Tags: server consolidation

[11 May 2008]

Exciting, High-Growth NZ Company, DELTA, Surges Forward With SAP

whitepaper Delta Utility Services wanted to have a comprehensive job management system and asset register system and find a software package that could be used in its standard form. Based in the south island of New Zealand, DELTA is an infrastructure...

Tags: business intelligence - data warehousing

[11 May 2008]

Yangtze Power Improves Business Intelligence With Integrated Database and Analysis Tools

whitepaper Ltd is China's largest publicly listed utility. China Yangtze Power Co. Yangtze Power relies heavily on technology to support smooth operations. To gain a coherent view of its operations, Yangtze Power had to consolidate data from these systems, a...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[11 May 2008]

ConGES Consulting Embeds Security, Scalability, and Performance Into Real-Time Collaboration for Utilities

whitepaper Multi-utility consultancy ConGES develops turnkey mobile solutions that enable field engineers working for regional energy and water providers to capture orders, measure consumption, and monitor assets using PDAs or laptops.

Tags: scalability

[11 May 2008]

WebSphere Application Server for z/OS: Migrating to Version 6.1

whitepaper And like previous versions and releases, V6.1 comes with a utility that will migrate previously-built configurations to the V6.1 level. WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V6.1 is IBM's latest offering of the application server on the z/OS platform.

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

HP-UX 11i v3 Crash Dump Improvements

whitepaper The Crash Dump utility has been enhanced in HP-UX 11i v3 to significantly increase performance and scalability, and to improve the availability and manageability of the dump configuration. Crash dump, the ability to write (dump) a copy of system...

Tags: hp-ux

[11 May 2008]

SAP ERP Helps Tata Motors to Serve Their Customers Better and Faster

whitepaper Tata Motors Limited, India's largest automobile company, is the leader by far in commercial vehicles in each segment, and the second largest in the passenger vehicles market with winning products in the compact, mid-size car and utility vehicle...

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

City IT Department Improves Data Protection and Backup Process Efficiency

whitepaper In addition, city employee's process mailed-in paper documents, such as utility bills, and enter that information into various databases. Southlake, Texas, is a small, growing city of 26,000 people. Residents and local businesses rely on the city's...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Dynamic Data Center: The Direct Link Between Business Needs and IT Requirements

whitepaper It will be some time before Dynamic Data Center functionality and the transition to what is referred to as "Utility computing" are fully realized, but the use of Dynamic IT Solutions already gives customers of Fujitsu Siemens Computers the...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Installing and Operating HP PolyServe for Microsoft SQL Server for SAP Databases

whitepaper HP PolyServe for Microsoft SQL Server (also known as HP PolyServe Database Utility for SQL Server) is a server consolidation solution that offers an alternative to the traditional Microsoft shared nothing, standby and failover cluster concept.

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

Live Data Center Migration across WANs: A Robust Cooperative Context Aware Approach

whitepaper This paper proposes new network functions to enable server migration and replication across wide area networks (e.g.the Internet), and finally show the utility of intelligent and dynamic storage replication technology.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Service Provider Fuels Its Future With Sun Grid Compute Utility

whitepaper Virtual Compute Corporation uses the Sun Grid Compute Utility to handle work from its energy industry customers that exceeds the capacity of its own IT infrastructure. Virtual Compute Corporation is a global provider of on-demand high-performance...

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 2008]

Automated System and Service Monitoring With openQRM and Nagios

whitepaper The combination of the enhanced monitoring utility Nagios and the automated error-handling, high-availability and fail-over features of the openQRM data center management platform creates a powerful and dynamic environment which reduces down-time...

Tags: data center

[06 May 2008]

Sun Helps Keep Datacenters Cool, Efficient and Reliable for Fast-Growing Nevada Utility

whitepaper The Las Vegas Valley Water District is a not-for-profit agency that provides water to Las Vegas and nearby communities. The company's challenge was to replicate production database for use by multiple development groups to improve storage...

Tags: database management

[05 May 2008]

Improving Performance and Reducing Costs to Supply Growing Demand

whitepaper Sabah Electricity Sendirian Berhad (SESB) is the only power utility company in Sabah (formerly North Borneo) supplying electricity to over 350,000 customers distributed over a wide area of 74,000 sq.km.

Tags: data center

[05 May 2008]

Incentive Programs for Data Center Thermal Analysis, Energy Assessments and Server Consolidation Projects

whitepaper Technology advances in IT systems deliver more and more computing power for dollar, but they can also stress the power and cooling infrastructures and, in some cases, the local utility grid. With virtualization offering increased performance per...

Tags: data center

[05 May 2008]

IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - Data Center Stored Cooling Solution

whitepaper By shifting energy consumption for cooling to off-peak hours when utility rates are lower, it helps reduce energy cost. IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - data center stored cooling solution can deliver significant...

Tags: infrastructure management

[05 May 2008]

Configuration Best Practices for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 With HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 4000 and HP Blade Servers White Paper

whitepaper Offline database backup and restore methods and performance results using SYMANTEC NetBackup and HP StorageWorks Library and Tape Tools Utility Read this best practices paper that leverages HP servers, storage, and management software by providing...

Tags: infrastructure management, sql, sql server, virtual

[02 May 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white

Comment Utility-based pricing models Responsibility is often scattered - so control and costs go out the window. One answer is managed print services, argues Louella Fernandes. Despite the growth in digital communications and promises of the paperless...

Tags: managed services, outsourcing, printers

[22 Apr 2008]

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