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Planning for the Scalable Enterprise

whitepaper In particular, price/ performance advantages of Intel® architecture-based servers versus proprietary legacy systems1 have helped enable enterprises to satisfy a growing number of IT processing needs using cost-effective, industry-standard x86...

Tags: data center, architectures, environments, legacy

[10 Apr 2008]

Fujitsu Lays Foundation for Virtual Infrastructures

whitepaper Indeed, with its PRIMERGY line of x86 servers, Fujitsu is well positioned to support the use of the industry-standard virtualization platforms such as VMware, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5).

Tags: mainframes

[28 Mar 2008]

Using Serviceguard for Linux With VMware Virtual Machines

whitepaper HP Serviceguard for Linux A.11.18.02 (A.11.18 with the October 2007 patches) is certified for deployment on Linux Virtual machines created on VMware ESX server 3.0.2 1 running 32-bit and 64- bit versions of RedHat 4 U5, RedHat 5, and SLES10 on HP...

Tags: infrastructure management

[19 Mar 2008]

Xen: Enterprise Grade Open Source Virtualization: Inside Xen 3.0 - A XenSource White Paper

whitepaper In spite of - or indeed because of - the widespread adoption of relatively cheap, industry standard x86-based servers, enterprises have seen costs and complexity escalate rapidly. Virtualization has become a key requirement for the enterprise.

Tags: infrastructure management

[29 Feb 2008]

Large Scale Data Warehouses on Grid: Oracle Database 10g and HP ProLiant Servers

whitepaper In this paper one shows how a large-scale, high performing and scalable Grid based data warehouse can be implemented using commodity hardware (industry standard x86- based), Oracle Database 10G and Linux operating system.

Tags: business intelligence - data warehousing

[29 Feb 2008]

Liquid Computing for a Dynamic Datacenter

whitepaper No longer are customers satisfied to default to a one-workload-per-server deployment scenario aboard dozens, hundreds, or potentially thousands of inexpensive x86 servers. The confluence of several technology trends - including a consolidation on...

Tags: data center

[14 Feb 2008]

Itanium revisited - one year on

Comment It also offers demand-based switching to improve the power consumption of servers by dialling down the chip when not in use. Manchester University spin-off, Transitive, began shipping a variant of its QuickTransit application emulation environment...

Tags: itanium, servers, chips, named

[13 Dec 2007]

Dell Helps Lead Scale-Out Industry-Standard Server Computing

whitepaper Many have turned to server farms, clusters, or grids of x86 industry-standard servers as cost-effective alternatives to larger, proprietary symmetrical multiprocessing systems. As a worldwide leader in delivering x86 industry-standard servers...

Tags: high performance computing, industry standard, industry standard servers, examines

[12 Dec 2007]

Diane Greene

AS Profile Greene released a desktop virtualisation product in 1999, followed by one for servers in 2001. In doing so, she brought virtualisation out of the mainframe bunker and onto industry-standard x86 hardware, which had never been designed to be...

[12 Oct 2007]

TechNet Webcast: Maximize New Server Hardware Potential With Windows Server 2003 Enterprise X64 Edition (Level 200)

whitepaper Now that many of the new x86 servers are 64-bit capable, and Windows Server 2003 x64 editions have been on the market for two years, it might be time to take full advantage of x64 technology. The attendee of this webcast will learn about the...

Tags: application servers, adopt, learn, road

[28 Aug 2007]

Characterizing x86 Processors for Industry-Standard Servers: AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon

whitepaper The HP ProLiant server portfolio includes systems using the Intel Xeon family of x86 processors and systems using AMD Opteron x86 processors. To help customers understand the implications of these processor architectures on the system platform...

Tags: microprocessors, processors, architectures, intel

[17 Jul 2007]

Virtualisation gets trendy

Comment Virtualisation is not just about servers anymore. They originally used it to partition a server to consolidate numerous smaller servers - and for most people this is probably the first thing that springs to mind when the word is mentioned.

Tags: grid, soa, virtualisation

[15 May 2007]

Integrating Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 on HP ProLiant Servers

whitepaper This integration note describes the level of support available for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 on HP ProLiant servers; supported configurations of ProLiant servers; recommended system configuration and server platforms; supported software...

Tags: application servers, proliant, proliant servers, microsoft windows

[08 May 2007]

Xen: Enterprise Grade Open Source Virtualization

whitepaper In spite of - or indeed because of - the widespread adoption of relatively cheap, industry standard x86-based servers, enterprises have seen costs and complexity escalate rapidly. Virtualization has become a key requirement for the enterprise.

Tags: virtualization, maintenance, total cost, load

[01 Apr 2007]

Sun puts Debian founder on the payroll

News But the company afterward resurrected a nearly exterminated version of Solaris for x86 servers, where Linux is most popular, and McNealy predicted in 2005 that Solaris and Windows would be the "two clear survivors" in the operating system market.

Tags: debian, sun, linux

[20 Mar 2007]

Red Hat lines up next Linux shipment

News Virtualisation has been a feature on higher-end servers for years and has arrived on mainstream x86 machines chiefly through software from EMC's VMware subsidiary. The software includes new security features to protect against some attacks, plus a...

Tags: xen, virtualisation, red hat, linux

[02 Jan 2007]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Itanium - what's in a name?

Comment Similarly, during its extended development, Itanium was widely expected to become the dominant processor architecture for servers, workstations, and perhaps even desktops, replacing the ubiquitous x86 architecture to provide an industry-standard...

Tags: itanium

[06 Nov 2006]

Intel's Otellini announces new chip design

News It will be the basis for three new 65-nanometer dual-core products to be launched in the second half of 2006: Conroe for desktops, Merom for mobile use and Woodcrest for servers. But Otellini said the new generation of processors would also run...

Tags: otellini, intel

[24 Aug 2005]

IDC: 'Linux will be $10bn market'

News The forecasts are from an IDC study of the overall Linux ecosystem, including sales of Linux PCs, servers and packaged software running on those computers. Of that, IDC estimates $14bn will be packaged software, $10bn PCs and $11bn servers.

Tags: desktop linux, idc

[16 Dec 2004]

Raising the Standard on Industry Standards: AMD Opteron and x86

whitepaper There is very little that is "standard" about Sun's new industry-standard servers and workstations. Watch and save 20% on these new servers and workstations. Join Sun VPs and co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim as they discuss exceptional price...

Tags: sun solaris, workstations, demand, os

[29 Nov 2004]

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