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Consolidation through server virtualization is a powerful agent for datacenter change, but shrinking your server footprint is just a part of the value that server virtualization bring to your IT organization.
| Citrix |
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Nothing is scarier than the prospect of having to recover an entire site after a disaster. VMware® Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is designed to simplify and accelerate disaster recovery. This article discusses the challenges of DR planning and how VMware SRM -- in conjunction with NetApp storage functionality -- can simplify DR for virtual infrastructure.
| NetApp |
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Many companies over the last year have been moving forward with server virtualization and storage consolidation to better support their engineering, manufacturing, and business needs. Deploying a combination of Citrix XenServer and NetApp® storage using NFS, can help accomplish this. This article describes the reasons to choose these solutions for your organization.
| NetApp |
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This document is intended for IT professionals and managers who are considering deploying
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Novell has had a number of requests from customers looking for help specifically in moving from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. In addition to what customers have told us, we will share insights that Novell has gained, having helped numerous customers transition to the most open, most interoperable and most manageable Linux platform.
| Novell |
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Linux performance monitoring historically relied on ported versions of standard Unix tools such as netstat, vmstat, and ps. These local tools take performance snapshots when executed on a system but provide no insights into performance trends, peaks or valleys nor do they offer enough information for predictive or in-depth analysis. System performance is more valuable when viewed over time and in various states of load.
| Hyperic |
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Economic downturns have a tendency to accelerate emerging technologies, boost the adoption of effective solutions, and punish solutions that are not cost competitive or that are out of synch with industry trends. IDC research finds that Linux users are clearly satisfied about their choice to deploy Linux, and during trying economic times, the potential for those same customers to ramp up their deployment of Linux is strong.
| Novell |
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As any IT professional knows, it’s all about the details. Migrating from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is an easy process and starts with a simple step-by-step plan. More importantly, your migration to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is an opportunity to identify quick wins that will begin to provide immediate return on your decision to move to the world’s most interoperable enterprise Linux distribution.
| Novell |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise from Novell delivers interoperability and mission-critical support for the complete computing environment to help you reduce cost, complexity and risk. It has been especially designed for: Interoperability , mission-critical computing, and ubiquity.
| Novell |
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Learn how Mine Safety Appliance (MSA) used Citrix XenServer and NetApp storage to better support their engineering, manufacturing, and business needs which yielded improved application performance, an 80% reduction in physical space requirements, and a 30% reduction in power and cooling.
| NetApp |
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Proven cloud or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) computing solutions such as IBM’s Computing on Demand (CoD) are very attractive for many commercial enterprises especially in today’s environment of flat or shrinking IT budgets. With a spectrum of flexible offerings and pricing models, IBM’s CoD solution provides secure, affordable, elastic, and risk-free access to IT infrastructure resources for companies that need to quickly scale-up or scale-down their IT needs to adapt to their business demands.
| IBM |
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This brief looks at the challenge of harnessing storage growth within growing VMware environments based on input from third parties, analysts, as well as current VMware users. It also explores reports from NetApp and NetApp customers that claim the ability to shrink and reclaim VMware customer storage footprints by anywhere from 50% to 90%.
| NetApp |
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This technical report reviews the best practices for implementing VMware Virtual Infrastructure on NetApp fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems. NetApp has been providing advanced storage features to VMware ESX solutions since the product began shipping in 2001. During that time, NetApp has developed operational guidelines for the FAS systems and ESX Server.
| NetApp |
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The University built a new 3360-core supercomputer -- called BlueCrystal --based on IBM System xTM servers with ClearSpeed acceleration cards, housed in a new data center designed and constructed by IBM Global Technology Services and incorporating APC InfraStruXure water-cooled racks.
| IBM |
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StorNext is a file system software that enables multiple servers to access a common pool of storage regardless of OS type. It supports Windows, SuSE Linux, Red Hat Linux, Mac OS X (via Apple Xsan), Solaris, Irix, HP-UX, and/or AIX. Typical uses are in media, government, HPC and science & engineering organizations. Download a product brief to learn more.
| Quantum |
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The hotspot in the current IT world is optimized Web Services. Now the enterprises have started their vision towards next generation Web Services. This white paper gives information for the business managers and engineers in developing and deploying Web Services using Rational Application Developer (RAD) and WebSphere Application Server (WAS), respectively.
| ZSL Inc |
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Collaboration is a hallmark of research and education, especially at Umea University, where a unique collaborative effort has led to the development and implementation of Akka, the fastest Windows-based system in Europe.
| IBM |
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CohesiveFT enables customers to dynamically define and deploy servers for virtual environments and clouds. The company's flagship platform, Elastic Server, eliminates the need for hand-coding and static templates by facilitating real-time assembly and management of horizontal, open source and third-party software components into easy-to-configure assemblies. In addition to its growing library, the flexible platform ensures ongoing relevance in evolving markets by supporting user-sourced components.
| CohesiveFT |
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Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5400 series help provide your data center or business with the perform- ance headroom needed to confidently consolidate applications onto fewer systems using proven virtualization solutions or the compute power necessary for high-performance computing applications and workstation solutions.
| Intel |
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Free Guide - "Advanced Load Balancing: 8 Things You Need to Handle Today's Network Traffic" shows you the functionality you need in your next load balancer. Learn how to get high availability, app performance and security in a single device! Get your copy today.
| Citrix |
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What are the business motivations for storage virtualization and exactly what benefits it can deliver? Learn the basics of the various storage virtualization approaches, their features, and limitations.
| HP |
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VMware High Availability (HA) allows companies to provide high availability to any application running in a virtual machine. It continuously monitors and automatically restarts virtual systems in the event of a host failure. VMware HA does not provide zero downtime and it is dependant on having enough available resources among the hosts in the cluster.
| VKernel |
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Today, many IT managers are looking to innovative new practices using tiered storage and information classification to optimize access and retrieval while balancing regulatory retention requirements. The ultimate goal is to develop storage and operational practices that not only maximize storage investments, but also ensure that data is protected. Often it requires integrating multiple heterogeneous storage methods with backup and restore, local mirroring, remote data replication, security, and archival applications with information life-cycle management (ILM) policies (ILM is the process of aligning data in tiered storage according to its value).
| Stonefly, Inc. |
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For cost-conscious IT decision makers, StoneFly Storage Concentrators, incorporate a virtualization engine for storage provisioning and management in order to add another important advantage: the ability to cut operating costs.
| Stonefly, Inc. |
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The prohibitive cost of traditional methods of retaining, managing, and disposing of regulatory compliance records, as well as the sheer volume of newly generated records, has resulted in the need for easy-to-use backup and restore solutions.
| Stonefly, Inc. |
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SANs deliver the capability for any server to access any storage device. Though this is extremely powerful and cost effective, it is obvious that security measures must be in place to prevent illegal access to data and to prevent accidental corruption or loss of data. Networked storage can introduce security vulnerabilities. To counter these weaknesses, it is important to adopt storage-specific security policies and practices.
| Stonefly, Inc. |
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This white paper describes, step-by-step, how to use a StoneFly Intelligent Networking Platform to set up a LAN-free disk-to-disk and disk-to-tape backup and restore environment for 2-25 servers or more with offsite replication.
| Stonefly, Inc. |
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The EVA provides virtualized storage enabling capacity pooling, simplified management, automatic performance load balancing, dynamic configuration, and re-configuration. Thanks to engineering advancements, users now see substantial real-world performance improvements over the HP StorageWorks 4100 Enterprise Virtual Array.
| HP |
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Open source technology has brings innovative solutions to the problems of database availability and performance. The leitmotif is scale-out: horizontal scaling of databases across hosts connected by a network. Scale-out designs handle issues ranging from basic availability to massive read and write scaling.
| Continuent |
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In the real world of 24-hour production, there are compelling differences among virtualization alternatives. In this paper we discuss how Citrix XenServer™ delivers powerful, yet simple and economical server virtualization in production environments, supporting the application availability and business continuity requirements of any size organization.
| Citrix |
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Case study comparing Embedded Digital Signage with PC based players.
| Winmate Communications Inc. |
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Virtualization of system resources aboard x86 servers is one technology that has the distinct potential to really change the dynamics of the industry in many ways as it quickly becomes a de facto component of modern computing. This IDC Technology Assessment presents IDC's view of how virtualization technologies are impacting and will continue to impact operating environments and the operating environment market near- and long-term.
| VMware |
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Addressing preventable downtime and degradation is becoming easier, with analysts and vendors focused on network change and configuration management (NCCM). Automated NCCM tools provide an opportunity to reduce the downtime and degradation caused by configuration changes by ensuring uniform configurations and by minimizing the impacts of human error inherent in manual configuration changes. Independent NCCM tools, however, are not enough on their own. In this white paper, learn how to realize these key benefits resulting from incorporating network configuration change capabilities into change-aware fault management tools.
| CA |
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Cloud computing shifts the way data centers provide software applications to users. Applications are un-bundled from specific computers and servers, and run as services in the network cloud. This paper will examine the impact and adoption of Cloud Computing for the Corporate Data Center, specifically how cloud computing and the lessons learned from Web companies like Google, Amazon and Yahoo will impact Global 2000 organizations.
| DataSynapse |
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IT organizations need to assess their business and technology requirements should open source applications be added to the monitoring mix. Learn how you can derive more value by moving away from component management to service management using open source solutions such as GroundWork to leverage existing deployment of open source tools.
| GroundWork |
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This IDC paper discusses scalable servers from Sun Microsystems, as well as the IT considerations for scalable servers, their role in the enterprise and the business benefits seen by customers who have deployed these servers in their data centers.
| Sun Microsystems |
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Bivio Networks has created a new disruptive technology platform that will change the way DoD and other Federal agency IA personnel think of high-performance, defense-in- depth, networking strategies.
| Bivio |
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IDC OPINION: As pressure increases on the upstream seismic processing community to deliver ever-higher levels of productivity and efficiency, a new generation of storage solutions will be required that allow the maximum utilisation of high-performance computing (HPC) Linux cluster resources, together with the minimum of management overhead. Some storage vendors have risen to this challenge with innovative high-performance storage solutions that take many of the high-level management tasks and handle them as automated or background processes.
| Panasas |
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Virtualization has become the buzz word of the industry, with people looking at consolidation of multiple servers onto a single server. Many reasons for consolidation come to mind, including cost reduction, better utilization of hardware, and better control of resources.
| HP |
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When blade servers are densely packed, they can exceed the power and cooling capacities of almost all traditional data centers. This paper explains how to evaluate the options and select the best power and cooling approach for a successful and predictable blade deployment.
| APC |
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Avoidable mistakes that are routinely made when installing cooling systems and racks in data centers or network rooms compromise availability and increase costs. These unintentional flaws create hot-spots, decrease fault tolerance, decrease efficiency, and reduce cooling capacity. Although facilities operators are often held accountable for cooling problems, many problems are actually caused by improper deployment of IT equipment outside of their control. This paper examines these typical mistakes, explains their principles, quantifies their impacts, and describes simple remedies.
| APC |
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The combination of scalable application software and HPC clusters with Panasas storage technology has demonstrated new and significant productivity advantages for workflows in CAE applications. The benefits range from dramatic HPC cost-performance improvements to "non-practical" high-fidelity CAE simulation solutions on commodity clusters.
| Panasas |
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High-density servers offer a significant performance per watt benefit. However, depending on the deployment, they can present a significant cooling challenge. Vendors are now designing servers that can demand over 40 kW of cooling per rack. With most data centers designed to cool an average of no more than 2 kW per rack, innovative strategies must be used for proper cooling of high-density equipment. This paper provides ten approaches for increasing cooling efficiency, cooling capacity, and power density in existing data centers.
| APC |
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With the iDataPlex, a new system design that leverages industry‐standard processors to address the needs of next generation data centers, IBM plans to extend current HPC cluster solutions by providing an economical architecture that can increase computing density in a standard enterprise rack and scale‐out to 1000s of racks.
| IBM |
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Many factors contribute to the ownership cost for enterprise storage. These include (but are not limited to): physical capacity relative to physical space requirements, performance capacity for data transfer and system reaction time, software maintenance and updates, expandability and flexibility, hardware purchase price, software licensing costs, hardware expansion or upgrade costs, administrator training, power utilization, day-to-day management costs, and third-party costs for installation, configuration, and integration. Three of these factors -- training, power utilization and day-to-day management -- have a large and increasingly critical impact on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) today.
| HP |
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The combination of distributed application architectures and outsourced software development are very quickly undermining the effectiveness of many popular software development processes. Enterprises everywhere are facing massive server sprawl, setup and provisioning overhead, and costly system failures that can be a real headache for developers and administrators. The good news is that a solution is available in the form of Virtual Lab Automation.
| VMware |
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Power densities and power corruption costs in data centers are rising. Learn what to consider when choosing the appropriate power distribution products at the rack level.
| Avocent Corporation |
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Can you cost justify complete infrastructure redundancy across multiple sites for the sake of improved business continuity? Learn about other ways to insure your IT is always on.
| Avocent Corporation |
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Voice over Internet Protocol, or "VoIP" -- transmission of voice packets over IP networks -- is one of the most innovative emerging trends in telecommunications. This paper outlines the landscape of VoIP in telephony history, presents an outline of prevalent VoIP protocols and then explores the current security vulnerabilities in VoIP.
| Secure Computing Corporation |
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This paper discusses the different aspects to consider during the planning phase for the implementation of power distribution at the cabinet level. Effective planning will yield considerable benefits and provide tools and information to aid in the management of the data center. Additionally, this will help avoid problems down the road such as insufficient power to fully populate the cabinet, having enough capacity and outlets for redundancy, avoiding the need to run additional power drops in the future and not having enough poles on the distribution panel to provide it.
| Server Technolgy Inc. |
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What is storage virtualization? In essence, virtualization separates logical data access from physical data access, enabling users to create large storage pools from physical storage. In short, it is a better way to access and protect data.
| HP |
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Effective security for health care information requires a multi-layered approach. Physical, logical and operational security are essential ingredients for successful compliance with HIPAA.
| Avocent Corporation |
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Learn why out-of-band management is a more efficient way to cut costs and improve service levels and productivity.
| Avocent Corporation |
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Learn how consolidated remote server management technologies such as Avocent service processors managers can provide the increased availability that your business demands.
| Avocent Corporation |
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Learn about Simple Remote Management Infrastructure(SRMI)-- a comprehensive suite of out-of-band remote office management tools for managing branch offices.
| Avocent Corporation |
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Virtual servers provide significant benefits, as well as new management challenges. Discover how Avocent's management solutions can address the needs of the virtualized server environment.
| Avocent Corporation |
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Virtual Media addresses operational efficiency and security. Learn how Virtual Media can keep you out of the data center and still improve management, security, and overall working environment.
| Avocent Corporation |
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Multi-core processing capacity can provide great benefits, but realizing these benefits, requires new solutions that harness parallel multi-core hardware in light of the predominately serial software architectures that exist today.
| eXludus Technologies, Inc. |
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There is a lot of discussion in the marketplace today around enterprise-capable solutions. When making a selection decision regarding an enterprise solution it is imperative to carefully weigh all the options. This white paper discusses why organizations no longer have to forgo enterprise functionality to have an open source solution. Learn six key requirements for any enterprise open source solution to meet mission critical needs.
| Ingres |
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A very well integrated solution to monitor your network, applications and servers is the combination of Jalasoft Xian Network Manager Io with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. In a very user friendly and single console environment, you are able to monitor your windows servers, Linux servers, virtual servers, switches, routers and many other network devices. On the Xian Io side you can easily add network devices and set up rules. All without any complicated scripting, just a matter of drag and drop the rules. Xian Io comes with about 100 build in rules per device type!
| Jalasoft |
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This white paper describes how to build a storage infrastructure for VMware ESX Environments. Topics covered include:
- The disk partitioning of an ESX host
- VMware snapshots and creating/locating virtual disks
- Monitoring snapshot files
| Veeam |
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The open-source market has evolved and grown in leaps and bounds. This white paper explains why open-source is a viable option for large enterprises and small businesses alike. Learn the truth about six myths about open source.
| Ingres |
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| Datalight |
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Dealing with downtime, security breaches and high costs? Your data center should drive business forward -- not derail it. It’s time for a better choice in enterprise computing, and that's why organizations worldwide are turning to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell. This innovative data center powerhouse is ready for your business. You get maximum reliability and security -- and a way to cut your infrastructure costs by up to 70 percent.
| Novell |
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As a part of the AMD64 family of processors, the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture is designed to meet the demand for stable, long-term solutions, while delivering exceptional energy efficiency, advanced virtualization technology, and outstanding computing performance.
| AMD |
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The SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 platform is the first Linux distribution to fully integrate of the Xen 3.0 hypervisor as a core component of the operating system. Available from Novell, SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 offers data centers the first enterprise-ready Linux virtualization solution on the market.
| Novell |
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This paper discusses the advantages of using BalaBit Shell Control Box (SCB) to control remote access to your UNIX/Linux servers and Windows Terminal Services. SCB can transparently control, audit and replay the Secure Shell (SSH) and Remote Desktop (RDP) protocols commonly used to remotely access and manage servers. The document is recommended for technical experts and decision-makers working on auditing server-administration processes for policy compliance (e.g., PCI-DSS), or for forensics situations in case of security incidents.
| BalaBit IT Security |
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Virtualization has recently become important technology for embedded systems. So, it is important for embedded-systems developers to understand the power and limitations of virtualization. This paper presents an introduction to virtualization technology and specifically discusses its application to embedded systems. It explains the inherent differences between the enterprise-systems style of virtualization and embedded system virtualization. It explains virtualization’s benefits in embedded systems, and with regard to security and IP protection. It discusses the limitations of plain virtualization approaches in embedded systems. These relate to the highly-integrated nature of embedded systems, specifically security and reliability requirements. It presents the microkernel approach to virtualization, and explains the microkernel’s suitability for embedded systems. It shows how microkernels like Open Kernel’s OKL4 technology overcome limitations of plain virtualization.
| Open Kernel Labs |
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This white paper, intended for enterprise IT groups, discusses the benefits of migrating to 4-Gbps FICON; the advantages of the Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Director switch; and how this switch enables migration from 1/2-Gbps FICON to 4 Gbps without business disruption.
| Cisco |
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This paper presents several fundamental criteria for evaluating HA/DR solutions and
reviews the components, architecture, and functional characteristics of two that are designed
to protect critical applications on VMware ESX: VMware HA and Symantec Veritas™ Cluster
Server for VMware ESX.
| Symantec Corporation |
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Although data-protection processes and technologies are among the most mature in all
of information technology, the growing size, criticality, and complexity of data-protection
environments—coupled with growth in the demands placed on them—are raising new challenges.
The Veritas NetBackup Platform addresses these challenges by delivering next-generation data
protection with centralized, end-to-end management for heterogeneous protection services.
| Symantec Corporation |
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Independent test of Vyatta's open-source, Linux-based router vs. Cisco 7204. Test focus is on BGP and WAN performance.
"The Vyatta system outperforms the Cisco 7204VXR in BGP convergence times and routing table capacity at a cost savings of over 75%. Vyatta also demonstrates superior price/throughput performance providing more than a 3.3X advantage..."
| Vyatta |
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The introduction of Linux brought the promise of a new level of cost-efficiency and flexibility in enterprise IT
environments. But as Linux systems scale, management typically becomes unwieldy. The prohibitive cost of managing large installations over time, making sure every single server is running right, rolling out updates and security patches, even up to thousands of servers, has gotten in the way of achieving Linux’s full potential.
The core challenges include massive heterogeneity, sheer volume of equipment and data, and lack of nimble
management tools.
Levanta has created a new administration model with innovative technology that breaks down the barriers to
making the most of Linux systems. This paper will provide an in-depth look at the workings of Levanta’s product,
the first Linux appliance of its kind.
| Levanta |
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In order to keep hardware costs to a minimum Children's Nationwide Hospital turned to Advanced Clustering Technologies to help them find the most cost effective custom Beowulf cluster that would meet their performance demands. Through testing and a in depth knowledge of the client's algorithm, Advanced Clustering was able to develop a cluster that increased performance, and that saved time and money.
| Advanced Clustering Technologies, Inc. |
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Because improvements in practical computer power lag far behind these exponential hardware improvements, the key to maintaining processor performance has become multiprocessor or multicore design. This White Paper details how the Clustered Multiprocessor (CMP) from F5, in combination with TMOS, provides customers with scalability, extensibility, adaptability, and manageability.
| F5 Networks |
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An overview of the industry trend toward virtualization, how server consolidation has increased the importance of application uptime and the steps being taken to integrate load balancing technology with virtualized servers.
| Coyote Point |
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| pentaho |
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Verio's commitment to open-source software dates back to the company's inception. Over a decade ago, we pioneered virtual private server technology. Today we offer a variety of virtual private server (VPS) and managed private server (MPS) plans to deliver a range of high-performance, low-maintenance Web hosting services.
| Verio |
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| Force10 Networks |
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When RAID was first invented the capacity of disk drives was measured in hundreds of megabytes; today, terabyte-sized drives are beginning to appear. Large drives take much longer to rebuild than their smaller predecessors. Application performance degradation that occurs during a RAID rebuild is intolerable for any important operational system. Since the number of disk media failures expected during each read over the surface of a disk grows proportionately with the massive increase in density, media defects in these large drives increase the likelihood of a catastrophic RAID failure and loss of all data. Commercial sites running thousands of concurrent users or processes can avoid the penalties these large disks impose, while taking advantage of their performance, scalability, and availability in an easily managed and cost-efficient fashion.
| Panasas, Inc. |
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An introduction to VoIP related technologies and services that can be offered with a hosted telephony IP system based on Rack-Soft's software PBX server software.
4PSA VoipNow is a multitenant IP PBX softswitch, based on Open standards, which runs under Linux. The software is used by service providers to deliver hosted VoIP services and by SMB's to replace traditional PBX hardware. Easy to use and deploy, 4PSA VoipNow increases user productivity and reduce communication costs. On a business environment the software can communicate with third party applications and can be integrated in a unified communications infrastructure.
| Rack Soft srl |
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The Dutch healthcare organisation Interakt Contour saved $100.000 by choosing Red Hat & Zarafa as the alternative for MS Exchange for 800 users.
| Zarafa |
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This white paper examines the compelling business and technical case for centralizing administration in Microsoft’s Active Directory, which is a robust, scaleable and supported identity management and policy infrastructure that the vast majority of enterprises have already deployed. Learn how to seamlessly integrate your Unix, Linux, Mac, Java and web platforms with Active Directory's identity, access and policy management services in order to: (1) Reduce infrastructure costs by moving to a central directory with a single point administration. (2) Strengthen security by eliminating orphan and dormant accounts and enforcing consistent security and configuration policies across heterogeneous systems. (3) Simplify compliance with regulatory requirements. This white paper also introduces the solution architecture and benefits of Centrify
DirectControl.
| Centrify |
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Microway has developed a family of InfiniBand-based FasTreeTM switches that work with conventional HCAs and the PathScale’s InfiniPathTM connector. The first switch in the family employs a pair of Mellanox 24-port 4X InfiniScaleIIITM devices. It can be used to build low-latency switches in the 32- to 1008-port range or as a building block used to create large distributed non-blocking “fat tree” networks. When building large switched
networks, the use of FasTree components for leaf nodes and spines has a number of
advantages over the popular monolithic fat tree design. The advantages include
modularity, reduced latency, extensibility, and improved cable management.
| Microway |
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Because software bugs cost customers and vendors billions of dollars every year and exploited software vulnerabilities are consistently making headlines, companies need to take a closer look at their software development processes.
| Coverity, Inc. |
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Want to know how Coverity’s static source code analysis technology works? This technical white paper will provide everything a developer will need to know in gory detail.
| Coverity, Inc. |
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Are you developing multi-threaded applications? This technical white paper reviews dangerous concurrency defects such as Race Conditions and Deadlocks you need to be wary of.
| Coverity, Inc. |
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Intel has delivered on "Moore's Law" using dual-core processing to build a 128-node High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster that delivers theoretical peak performance of 3.2 teraflops and sustained performance of over 2.1 teraflops. Based on off-the-shelf technologies, including the next-generation dual-core Intel Xeon processor and an InfiniBand interconnect, the cluster represents a new era that rapidly increases performance while reducing or holding steady the requirements for power, heat and floor space. Industry collaborators and end-users can access the machine through the Intel Remote Access Service and use it to test-drive their codes and accelerate their move to Intel multi-core computing.
| Intel |
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It takes a comprehensive strategy to scale high performance computing (HPC) capabilities, while simultaneously containing power and cooling costs. New Dual-Core Intel Xeon and Intel Itanium processor-based servers offer a critical new resource, delivering dramatic increases in performance, price/performance and energy-efficiency across a broad range of HPC applications. Read about this and other Intel advances that can help you increase density, reduce costs and scale capacity in your existing facilities.
| Intel |
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This paper explores the market adoption of and customer value proposition and adoption plans for the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series since its market introduction in 2006, focusing on workloads that are designed to run on multicore and multisocket platforms. In addition to discussing the range of workloads, IDC has interviewed customers who are adopting the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series to learn about the IT requirements that they are addressing and the deployment patterns found in those sites.
| Intel |
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This document presents a comparative analysis of the performance of LS-DYNA, a finite element analysis application, using two interconnect and fabric technologies: Gigabit Ethernet and Cisco InfiniBand.
| Cisco |
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The InfiniBand standard supports single, double, and quadruple data rate that enables an InfiniBand link to transmit more data. This paper discusses the characteristics of single data rate (SDR), double data rate (DDR), and quad data rate (QDR) InfiniBand transmission with respect to performance, transmission distances, and cabling considerations.
| Cisco |
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Traditionally, parallel applications have run on monolithic supercomputers that have been prohibitively expensive for many companies to acquire and operate. A recent development that uses much the same principles as traditional supercomputers are HPC clusters. HPC clusters are made up of multiple, sometimes many thousands, of industry standard computers that use cluster software and high-performance network interconnects to run parallel applications at a fraction of the cost of traditional supercomputers.
| Cisco |
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Over the last 40 years, the use of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) has increased by several orders of magnitude in industry and research laboratories, largely due to the impressive advances in computing architectures as well as in the algorithmic techniques created to exploit these architectures. Each major innovation in the computing industry has directly enabled CAE practitioners to solve more realistic and complex engineering design and simulation problems, resulting in better products faster. This investment by the community in adapting CAE applications to take advantage of newer computing architectures has paid off handsomely.
| IBM |
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The organization faced several major challenges in providing IT resources for high-throughput biomedical research, including providing high-performance computing capabilities that allow TGen's scientists to analyze large volumes of complex data very quickly.
| IBM |
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Achieve highest possible computational performance with limited budget and floor space; resolve issues related to concentration of heat output from ultra-dense blade servers.
| IBM |
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Blades are one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry, already accounting for 10% of all server shipments. Up until now, blade servers haven’t been a good fit for the mid-market. That was then, this is now and today businesses of any size and reap the benefits of blade servers.
| HP |
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This white paper describes how to integrate Objectivity/DB within SOA to create a platform approach to Web Services-based data storage. The two technologies can be combined to form a synergistic relationship, allowing users to capitalize on the scalable, high-throughput performance of Objectivity/DB and the loosely coupled, interoperable and secure communications channels found in SOA.
The paper highlights numerous possibilities that arise with the integration of the two technologies, including the ability to:
- construct customer business work-flows that will process complex data in real-time,
- design services that can dynamically operate, maintain and manage databases and data, or
- provide a secure Web Service interface and broaden the pool of applications with access to data in a flexible, distributed architecture.
| GridwiseTech |
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Developers of HPC and enterprise software are using RapidMind today to create manageable, single-threaded applications that leverage the full potential of multi-core processors from AMD and Intel. RapidMind also optionally allows developers to seamlessly take advantage of the application acceleration available from GPUs and the Cell Broadband Engine. This White paper includes an overview of the platform architecture, detailed explanation of the API, code samples, benchmarks, and comparison to alternative task and data parallel approaches to multi-core programming.
| RapidMind Inc. |
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This paper discusses the advantages of using syslog-ng Premium Edition to implement distributed syslog architectures in heterogeneous environments. The document is recommended for technical experts and decision makers working on implementing centralized logging solutions, but anyone with basic networking knowledge can fully understand its contents. The procedures and concepts described here are applicable to version 2.1 of syslog-ng Premium Edition.
| BalaBit IT Security |
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The Evolution of Data Replication - Data replication has expanded out of the realm of business continuance and has begun to address a much broader set of business issues. In turn, these business issues have placed pressure back on the data replication technologies to become richer and to do more. This paper will attempt to identify the key characteristics of today’s replication methodologies so that you, the reader, will be better equipped to choose an approach that is right for you.
| Radiant Data |
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The idea of load balancing is well defined in the IT world: A network device accepts traffic on behalf of a group of servers, and distributes that traffic according to load balancing algorithms and the availability of the services that the servers provide. From network administrators to server administrators to application developers, this is a generally well understood concept.
The implementation of load balancing, however, is another matter. There are often many questions regarding how load balancing is deployed, how the servers are configured, and how the overall network architecture may need to change to accommodate load balancing appliances.
The good news is that deploying a load balancer needn't be perplexing or difficult...
| Coyote Point Systems |
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This white paper is intended for software company leaders responsible for their companies’ application development and delivery strategies, and who are considering a Linux implementation. It introduces Network Engines’ Appliance Certified Edition (ACE) Linux distribution and highlights its main features and benefits. It also provides a framework for comparing ACE Linux against alternatives in the marketplace. This information will help these individuals to choose the Linux distribution best suited to their application and will enable their organizations to produce Linux appliances in a better, faster and less expensive way.
| Network Engines |
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This white paper from Network Engines explains the fundamental characteristics of the appliance model and its advantages over traditional methods of software delivery, installation and management. It highlights the benefits appliances provide to software companies and enterprise customers. It also covers the capabilities software companies should look for in their potential server appliance manufacturing partners, as well as a few things to avoid.
| Network Engines |
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IT managers are just getting started with virtualization and are often employing it in only the most straightforward ways. If you’re in this camp, you could be leaving your network vulnerable to attack, needlessly complicating your disaster recovery plan and double-spending on your network infrastructure.
| Vyatta |
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This paper highlights the advantages of Vyatta’s Linux-based, open-source router, firewall, VPN over Cisco’s Integrated Services Router an Adaptive Security Appliance products.
| Vyatta |
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In this paper we aim to set out a general structure for implementing web content control and creating an acceptable use policy (AUP) within a business setting. The five-step plan we offer here is geared toward the practical realities facing businesses with limited IT and HR resources. We believe it to be a solid framework that can protect your organization from the major threats presented by users on your network and can be implemented and managed in short order.
| Untangle |
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This white paper discusses how Amanda compares to other enterprise backup products. It will help you understand some key Amanda differences, and will help you evaluate and transition to Amanda.
| Zmanda |
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Learn how network security forensics plays a key role in helping network engineers investigate security breaches and document a network incident for compliance.
| Network Instruments, LLC |
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Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) are becoming an affordable, high-performance backup option, with next-gen VTL implementations overcoming many early solution faults. This white paper is for IT organizations that need 1 GB/s and reliable backup of terabytes of data. Benefits include; faster backup & restore times, seamless integration with existing backup, the flexibility to be used as primary backup or intermediary between primary systems & archival tape, and scalability without degradation of performance. This paper describes DataDirect Networks’ (DDN) VTL Solution, which supports extremely high ingest rates, and supports high-speed transfer of backup data to archival tape through its superior performance of large sequential I/Os. It also allows time-shifting for more efficient backups and elimination of multiple tape auto-loaders. Using SATA drives, DDN VTLS provides major benefits as a cost-effective VTL platform through fast backup & recovery, reliability, and management.
| DataDirect Networks |
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Today’s EDA tools are straining existing computing and storage resources and require a storage solution designed for very high performance and massive storage needs. This paper is for chip vendors, EDA tool vendors, mask merchants, and foundries seeking in excess of 1GB/s sustained throughput and storage capacities of 100TB or more, with superior read/write performance, reliability, and scalability. Semiconductor pre-production processes, driven by shrinking process technologies, require the use of high-performance cluster computing, support for massive file sizes, and the ability to sustain very high performance I/O with faultless streaming during photomask preparation and production. This paper outlines how DataDirect Networks’ storage solution, provides an ideal solution for computing environments that need to keep pace with the exponential increases in data size, complexity, and compute requirements brought about by ever-shrinking node sizes.
| DataDirect Networks |
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cyn.in is a comprehensive and powerful collaboration and content management platform that is a perfect fit for Educational Institutes due to its simplicity, cost-effectiveness, intuitive features, web-based functionality and scalability. cyn.in enables Educational Institutions to harness knowledge in better and productive ways.
To know more on how cyn.in can help schools, universities and other educational institutes to enable collaboration and manage their knowledge better download the PDF here: http://blog.cyn.in/Note/3774/index.html.
| Cynapse LLC |
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This paper highlights Vyatta's unique ability to virtualize networking functions using Vyatta's secure routing software in service provider environments.
| Vyatta |
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Identity has become a hot topic on the Web in recent years. It seems that if you want to be considered a serious voice in the network media, you must have an opinion and participate in the identity dialogue. Much of the discussion revolves around the most fundamental of questions: what does “identity” really mean?
| Novell |
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PostPath, Inc. is the creator of the commercially-supported Linux-based PostPath Server™ - an email and collaboration server that is the only plug-compatible drop-in alternative to Microsoft Exchange™.
Given corporations substantial existing investments in Exchange and potential need to support additional Exchange-compatible applications in future, in many cases enterprises require any alternative email server to be “drop-in” – when deployed, it must not to require changes to desktops or infrastructure.
To enable a smooth transition and managed migration to a new system, it is required that it operates seamlessly at the server-to-server level, so that during a period of co-existence users of the new system can work effectively with users who are still hosted on Exchange™.
PostPath Server supports Exchange-compatible network protocols.
| PostPath, Inc. |
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Learn more about using the benefits of combining virtualized IP SAN storage
with virtual server technologies. Centralize management and resources to reduce power consumption, simplify management, and increase storage and server resource utilization.
| Stonefly, Inc. |
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This paper gives insight to what NFR Security learned when it evaluated the
different platform options for engineering its line of high speed, security
appliances for mission critical core deployments. You will learn how NFR
Security and Bivio Networks team up to deliver high speed, mission critical
network security by combining a RISC-based, multi-processor network appliance
platform possessing enterprise class failover and unmatched extensibility
characteristics, with true inline, real time network protection software.
| Bivio Networks |
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Microway's MPI Link Checker enabled a cluster user to pinpoint problem nodes in the cluster. By graphically representing the bandwidth and latency of all links in the cluster, a user can see the exact pattern of communication occuring in their cluster. As one underperforming node can slow the performance of an entire MPI job, it is imperative to ensure full speed of all systems.
| Microway, Inc |
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This paper is a "How-to" using the Vyatta router software and Sangoma WANPIPE card to connect a small office to the Internet using basic static routing with NAT to provide a large private address space behind the public IP address of the site. It also covers configuring the router to act as the office DHCP server and the WANPIPE card to serve as the public interface.
| Vyatta |
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This paper shows how the combination of open source and the x86 hardware ecosystem creates an entirely new cost-curve for networking that is structurally economic, delivering considerable cost savings to users at purchase and over the product lifecycle.
| Vyatta |
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This paper shows you how you can achieve true high availability and scalability for your PostgreSQL database.
| Continuent |
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This paper shows you how you can achieve true high availability and scalability for your MySQL database.
| Continuent |
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The focus of this paper is to investigate the features and benefits of implementing Server Technology’s Cabinet Power Distribution Units (CDUs) in your data center. Metered, Smart and Switched CDUs provide many solutions to common data center problems including cable management, temperature and humidity monitoring, circuit overload prevention and remote reboot capabilities, just to mention a few of the benefits.
| Server Technolgy Inc. |
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With Smart Load Shedding Server Technology is the first to offer data center managers the ability to automatically manage individual devices based on key operating parameters. These key parameters include temperature, in-feed load and UPS power status.
| Server Technolgy Inc. |
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This white paper provides an independent preview of Novell's Integrated Stack for SUSE Linux Enterprise and describes how SMBs and departments in larger enterprises can use it to lower the costs of deploying application/database and file/print servers. The Integrated Stack can be deployed with little or no Linux expertise, and it seamlessly integrates with Windows environments.
| Novell |
