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RSS x86Mission-Critical Workloads for Windows Servers : How NEC Supports IT Best Practices
White Paper IDC's Views: Mission-Critical Workloads for Windows Servers: How NEC Supports IT Best Practices Within the typical enterprise-class datacenter, delivering mission-critical workloads with predictable levels of scale and reliability and... [05 Oct 2009]
Photos: Intel's latest technology on show
Photo Sean Maloney, newly-promoted and heir apparent to CEO Paul Otellini in the eyes of many, was the first to take the stage at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday. The show is Intel's flagship event to announce new... [28 Sep 2009]
Intel takes aim at clever TVs as the gogglebox gets connected
News Intel may not have attained the same dominance in TVs as it has in personal computers, but the company remains convinced that interactive, networked, computing-intensive tasks will win the company a foothold in the world of video. [28 Sep 2009]
Automated Verification of Practical Garbage Collectors
White Paper Garbage collectors are notoriously hard to verify, due to their low-level interaction with the underlying system and the general difficulty in reasoning about reachability in graphs. Several papers have presented verified collectors, but... [16 Sep 2009]
With Its New PowerXCell 8i Product Line, IBM Intends to Take Accelerated Processing Into the HPC Mainstream
White Paper Fifteen years ago, the High-Performance Computing (HPC) market started to abandon its data-parallel, vector architectural lineage and turned to commodity-priced scalar processors. One by one, the other custom components of HPC systems... [16 Sep 2009]
Migrating Oracle e-Business Suite 11i From Sun Solaris to an HP-UX and Linux Split Configuration
White Paper This white paper describes the procedures for migrating an Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 11i application and database tiers from a Sun Microsystems SPARC-based server running Solaris to a split configuration using HP Integrity and HP... [02 Sep 2009]
HP Reference Configuration for Citrix XenApp: 1,500 Microsoft Office 2003 Users on HP ProLiant BL460c G6 Server Blades
White Paper HP and Citrix collaborate at an engineering level to ensure that customers benefit from software, hardware and service solutions that are jointly tested, certified, and tuned to deliver optimal server performance. [02 Sep 2009]
HP Reference Configuration for Citrix XenApp: 1,500 Microsoft Office 2003 Users on HP ProLiant BL465c G6 Server Blades
White Paper HP and Citrix collaborate at an engineering level to ensure that customers benefit from software, hardware and service solutions that are jointly tested, certified, and tuned to deliver optimal server performance. [02 Sep 2009]
Green IT Project Report: Consolidation and Virtualization in x86 Environments
White Paper Wincor Nixdorf needed To reduce complexity - consolidation of Blade Server infrastructure with 150 servers to cut costs - modern server hardware and virtualization, to improve service for users - streamlined operational processes and... [01 Sep 2009]
Best Practices for Deploying Citrix XenApp on XenServer on HP ProLiant Servers
White Paper Since the first hypervisor came on the market, businesses have been challenged to consolidate underutilized servers on to a single physical machine. While early results were disappointing, resulting in large performance penalties due to... [01 Sep 2009]
Business Value of Virtualization: Realizing the Benefits of Integrated Solutions
White Paper The use of static x86 server configurations is quickly becoming an outdated concept with the introduction of modern solutions based on blade architectures, which can offer both intelligent configuration and management... [30 Aug 2009]
AMD and Novell: The Best-Engineered Linux Foundation for Enterprise Computing
White Paper As the x86 industry's first native quad-core processor, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are designed to significantly improve performance in physical and virtual environments. From the beginning, SUSE Linux Enterprise... [30 Aug 2009]
Linux Adoption in a Global Recession
White Paper Linux has been a commercially viable solution for much of the past decade and has battled its way into the number 2 position in the industry on the basis of units deployed on an annual basis. In the process, Linux has passed Unix server... [30 Aug 2009]
Choosing the Right Hardware for Server Virtualization
White Paper Currently, virtualization is one of the most talked about new technologies in IT infrastructure. The ability to virtualize servers and reclaim, up until now, excess capacity has caught the interest of datacenter managers who are facing... [30 Aug 2009]
Google Chrome for Linux, arriving soon in 64 bits
News Google has begun work on a 64-bit version of Chrome for Linux, a move likely to whip Linux loyalists into a lather of excitement. Chrome engineer Dean McNamee said in a mailing list message Thursday: "The V8 team did some amazing work... [21 Aug 2009]
