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

whitepaper In this paper, Matt Haynos provides a cursory analysis of the similarities and differences between grid computing and SOA and infrastructure virtualization techniques. SOA and infrastructure virtualization techniques are highly synergistic.

Tags: web services

[16 May 2008]

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700 Series Grid Failover Scenarios Version 1.1

whitepaper The capability to resume business operations in the event of a product or site failure is provided by the TS7700 Grid configuration. In a Grid configuration, two TS7700 Clusters are interconnected and can replicate data created on either TS7700...

Tags: tape drives - libraries

[16 May 2008]

Perspectives on Grid: An Overview of WebSphere Extended Deployment - Examining WebSphere XD as an Integrated Grid Platform for SOA and Infrastructure Virtualization Environments

whitepaper There are many technologies that comprise grid computing. IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment, however, is an example of an integrated grid platform for virtualizing and managing Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.4 (J2EE) and Java application...

Tags: high performance computing

[16 May 2008]

Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Datacenters

whitepaper Power availability is one of the most important challenges facing datacenters today. In the past, datacenter floor space has always loomed as the primary issue. Now, more and more datacenters run out of power availability before they run out of...

Tags: data center

[16 May 2008]

Use of the Signal Reference Grid in Data Centers

whitepaper This paper explains the origins of the signal reference grid, the operating principles and limitations, and why they no longer are needed. Signal reference grids are automatically specified and installed in data centers despite the fact that they...

Tags: network design

[15 May 2008]

Scalable Windows Servers for the Data Center

whitepaper In some cases, customers will choose to link multiple servers with clustering or grid software to support a given workload. Workloads such as business intelligence, database, decision support, and ERP applications - which are already available for...

Tags: application servers

[15 May 2008]

Beijing Tobacco Cuts Costs and Improves Resource Use by Adopting Grid Technology

whitepaper Founded in 1986, Beijing Tobacco Monopoly Administration oversees the tobacco industry in Beijing. Beijing Tobacco Monopoly wanted to construct an integrated IT infrastructure that offers high performance, reliability, and availability and enable...

Tags: high availability

[14 May 2008]

Data Center One Technical Description

whitepaper A technical solution that utilizes grid computing is described in detail. Specific use cases and their corresponding solutions show how grid technology can be applied to solve real-world problems and how the technology fits within the current data...

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

Insight and Outlook, Part 11: The Resurgence of the Mainframe - Reassess the Mainframe as the Center of Your Business Management System

whitepaper Midsize UNIX boxes, grid computing schemes, and server farms made up of dozens of smaller systems seem to dominate today's IT infrastructure. IBM has seen growth in its System z mainframe business for six of the last nine quarters, according to IBM...

Tags: mainframes

[14 May 2008]

Scalable, Grid-Enabled Service-Oriented Architecture Using Oracle Coherence

whitepaper One of the greatest benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) grid is that the cost of scalability is more predictable and efficient because of the option of using commodity hardware. This makes an SOA grid a highly efficient architecture...

Tags: monitoring systems

[13 May 2008]

Data Streaming, Workflow and Firewall-Friendly Grid Services With Styx

whitepaper This paper presents the Styx Grid Service (SGS), a remote service type that allows data to be streamed directly between service instances. The Styx Grid Service is built upon the Styx protocol, an established protocol for building distributed systems.

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Policy-Driven Access Control Over a Distributed Firewall Architecture

whitepaper Motivated by a Grid based scientific application, where a dynamic collection of individuals and institutions are required to share resources to achieve certain goals, this paper propose the synthesis of two lines of research.

Tags: firewalls

[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. The Sun Grid gives Virtual Compute Corporation the ability to quickly and...

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 2008]

World-Renowned Genome Research Facility Relies on Sun to Provide Cost-Efficient High-Performance Compute Grid

whitepaper The company's challenge was to improve performance of compute grid to accommodate compute-intensive research to reduce IT expenses to maintain internal cost efficiency. To achieve higher performance at lower cost, TIGR migrated and consolidated...

Tags: application servers

[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]

Computational Power of Sun Compute Grid Helps Researchers Uncover New Ways to Treat Diseases

whitepaper A Sun Grid Rack System for High Performance Computing, comprised of 400 Sun Fire X2100 servers, was integrated by the Sun Customer Ready Systems program. One of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and a leader in clinical...

Tags: data center

[03 May 2008]

A Scalable PKI for a National Grid Service

whitepaper This paper describes work to expand the PKI for the UK National Grid Service (NGS), to integrate it with site authentication and improve usability. This work is complementary to the UK Shibboleth deployment.

Tags: pki

[03 May 2008]

Calculating the Return on Investment for Clustered Caching and Data Grid Solutions

whitepaper This white paper demonstrates the ROI of clustered caching and data grid solutions using Oracle Coherence. Innovative middleware solutions such as In-memory Data Grid technology can dramatically increase the utilization of software and hardware...

Tags: middleware, budget, roi, coherence

[14 Apr 2008]

Green Grid Metrics: Describing Datacenter Power Efficiency

whitepaper The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise the energy efficiency of datacenters through a series of short-term and long-term proposals. For the short term, The Green Grid is proposing the use of Power Usage...

Tags: data center

[11 Apr 2008]

Dynamic Firewalls and Service Deployment Models for Grid Environments

whitepaper However, the traditional client-server paradigm supported by most of today's firewall does not accommodate the specific requirements of novel Grid applications. This paper presents two different approaches to partially overcome the limitations in...

Tags: firewalls

[11 Apr 2008]

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