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HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4400) Performance White Paper

whitepaper Engineering advancements have enabled substantial real-world performance improvements over the HP StorageWorks 4100 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4100). The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) product family offers midsize to enterprise...

Tags: storage management

[14 May 2008]

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

whitepaper It shows how a multi-tier datacenter workload that required tens (to hundreds) of platforms in the past can potentially map on to one (or a few) single-socket tera-scale CMP platforms running Virtual Machines (VMs) and thereby creating Datacenter...

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action

Photo For his next project, Swade says he plans on building Babbage's Analytical Engine.but this time, in a virtual space. Doron Swade is a world-renowned Babbage Expert and is also the curator of computing at the London Science Museum.

Tags: history museum, babbage

[12 May 2008]

Microsoft Online Customer Story: AG Interactive

whitepaper Offering everything from musical birthday cards to virtual sticky notes for your desktop. With American Greetings as its parent company, AGI accesses one of the world's largest design and editorial studios.

Tags: email

[03 May 2008]

Microsoft Online Customer Story: Jeep

whitepaper But what if getting people to react positively to a brand - and hopefully influencing their future automobile purchases - actually involved them driving a virtual vehicle? One compelling feature of Zoo Tycoon 2 is the ability to include a driving...

Tags: sales - marketing

[03 May 2008]

Business still experimenting in Second Life

News Businesses are unsure about the benefits of using Second Life with many still just experimenting with the virtual world to discover its true value. One trend is that organisations are increasingly looking at the virtual world as a place to...

Tags: collaboration, unilever, bt, virtual world

[25 Apr 2008]

Cool tech gets down with the kids

News Technology businesses need to monitor and be aware of such social trends if they hope to succeed - taking advantage of blogs, virtual worlds and online search summaries to help keep up with the kids - he said.

Tags: ipod, apple, virtual worlds

[23 Apr 2008]

Hitachi Storage at Work Case Study: Virgin Mobile

whitepaper Virgin Mobile is the UK's first, and the world's biggest virtual network operator. They decided to install a storage system because they had loads of storage all over the place. What Virgin Mobile wanted to do was to consolidate it all - put it all...

Tags: storage management, storage area network, hitachi data systems, data systems

[10 Apr 2008]

Dell OpenManage IT Assistant

whitepaper Dell had a problem: its flagship network manage-ment application's user interface ran on a Java Virtual Machine that Microsoft would not be able to support in the future. Dell is the world's leading computer systems company.

Tags: windows nt - 2000 - 2003, .net, user interface, dell

[10 Apr 2008]

ALSTOM Powers IT Infrastructure With VMware Software

whitepaper By early 2005, ALSTOM had installed VMware software on more than 30 physical servers running 277 virtual machines with ESX Server at its main offices and GSX Server at branch offices. ALSTOM designs, builds, and services technologically advanced...

Tags: offices, esx server, gsx server, energy

[10 Apr 2008]

HP StorageWorks Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server Always on Technologies White Paper

whitepaper HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVA) and XP Disk Arrays deliver state-of-the-art reliability and "Always-on" availability for mission-critical applications where downtime is not an option. In a world where every business decision...

Tags: database management, storageworks, arrays, art

[10 Apr 2008]

Calor Gas Airs Server Consolidation Success

whitepaper Experienced Triangle consultants worked with Calor Gas to implement the solution based on IBM hardware and VMware virtual infrastructure software. Calor Gas is a wholly owned subsidiary of SHV, the largest distributor of liquefied petroleum gas...

Tags: server consolidation, gas, implement, consultants

[10 Apr 2008]

VSM and SVA Component Redundancy: Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) System and Shared Virtual Array (SVA)

whitepaper The V-Series Shared Virtual Array (SVA) disk systems and Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) system were engineered with reliability in mind and have built-in redundancy in nearly every major component that is a potential point of failure that could...

Tags: storage management, virtual, component, processing

[10 Apr 2008]

Atkins Engineers Complete IT Overhaul With VMware Virtual Infrastructure

whitepaper Atkins is one of the world's leading providers of professional, technologically based consultancy and support services. During its regular technology review, Atkins' IT Management and Enterprise Solutions team scrutinized the IT infrastructure and...

Tags: server consolidation, vmware, vmware esx server, vmware gsx server

[10 Apr 2008]

From Packets to Profit: Revenue Assurance in the IP World

whitepaper As a result, a great deal of attention has been devoted to next-generation services, such as videoconferencing and virtual private networks. Internet Protocol-based services have the potential to become a crucial component of many telecom companies...

Tags: ip technologies, revenue, telecom, support systems

[10 Apr 2008]

Tesco Mobile users hungry for ads

News The mobile virtual network operator has been trialling a WAP advertising portal since May 2007, which Tesco said has displayed strong month-on-month growth, gaining 300,000 unique visitors in December.

Tags: mobile advertising, mvno, tesco mobile

[09 Apr 2008]

Messaging Security Goes Virtual: Improve Email Security and Lower Costs with Virtual Appliances

whitepaper Virtual appliances are that encapsulation applied to the virtual computing world. How virtual appliances can eliminate "appliance overload" by combining the advantages of hardware appliances and virtualization technology

Tags: security tools, virtualization, virtual, roi

[07 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08

Round-Up Virtual world inhabitants meeting government policy makers. Philip Rosedale, chief executive of Linden Lab, the company that runs Second Life, said: "It is likely that virtual world activities are somewhat more 'policeable' and the law somewhat...

Tags: microsoft, apple, vista, hmrc

[04 Apr 2008]

IP Communications Overview for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

whitepaper In today's rapidly changing business world, new challenges such as the expansion of the virtual workforce, growth of communications traffic, and the heightened need for business agility are turning organizations toward technology solutions that...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[03 Apr 2008]

Choosing a Microsoft Web Conferencing Solution

whitepaper They also need to enable their employees to collaborate with virtual teams that span the world. In today's global economy, companies need to communicate in real time with a multinational customer base.

Tags: communications software

[03 Apr 2008]

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