Data Centers
The traditional data center is undergoing many changes, if not a revolution. Hybrid cloud infrastructures, hosted servers, virtualized servers, and new methods to save energy and reduce costs in the data center create an ever-challenging array of decisions for today's data center managers.
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Minimizing Flow Completion Times in Data Centers
For provisioning large-scale online applications such as web search, social networks and advertisement systems, data centers face extreme challenges in providing low latency for short flows (that resu...
Provided By University of Pitesti
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Middleware and Toolkits in Grid Computing
The increasing demand for more computing power and data storage capacity in many fields of business, research, engineering, medical and science has raised the emergence of Grid Computing. Grid computi...
Provided By Lovely Professional University
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A Taxonomy of Performance Assurance Methodologies and Its Application in High Performance Computer Architectures
In this paper, the authors present a systematic approach to the complex problem of high confidence performance assurance of high performance architectures based on methods used over several generation...
Provided By Intel Corporation
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Task Scheduling in Grid Computing Systems Constrained by Resource Availability
In this paper, a survey of some of the approaches to task scheduling in grid computing systems based on resource availability is discussed. To improve task scheduling, resource availability can be pre...
Provided By International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT)
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Grid Enabled Environment for Image Processing Applications: A Review
Grid computing is an emerging technology which is finding its importance in handling large volumes of data. It is used to share and coordinate the distributed processing resources to achieve supercomp...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Profit-Optimal and Stability-Aware Load Curtailment in Smart Grids
A key feature of future smart grids is demand response. With the integration of a two-way communication infrastructure, a smart grid allows its operator to monitor the production and usage of power in...
Provided By Purdue Federal Credit Union
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Path Consolidation for Dynamic Right-Sizing of Data Center Networks
Data center topologies typically consist of multi-rooted trees with many equal-cost paths between a given pair of hosts. Existing power optimization techniques do not utilize this property of data cen...
Provided By University of Calgary
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Temporal Load Balancing With Service Delay Guarantees for Data Center Energy Cost Optimization
Cloud computing services are becoming integral part of people's daily life. These services are supported by infrastructure known as Internet Data Center (IDC). As demand for cloud computing services s...
Provided By Stanford Technology Ventures Program
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The CORE Storage Primitive: Cross-Object Redundancy for Efficient Data Repair & Access in Erasure Coded Storage
Erasure codes are an integral part of many distributed storage systems aimed at Big Data, since they provide high fault-tolerance for low overheads. However, traditional erasure codes are inefficient ...
Provided By Nanyang Technological University
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Online Control of Datacenter Power Supply Under Uncertain Demand and Renewable Energy
Modern Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) equip their Datacenter Power Supply System (DPSS) with multisources to mitigate power cost, carbon emission, and power outage: multi-markets grid with time-varyin...
Provided By Huazhong University of Science & Technology
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Yank: Enabling Green Data Centers to Pull the Plug
Balancing a data center's reliability, cost, and carbon emissions is challenging. For instance, data centers designed for high availability require a continuous flow of power to keep servers powered o...
Provided By University of Massachusetts
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Build A High-Performance Security Organization
Companies must not only protect their organization from danger but must continue to compete in the marketplace. Companies that ignore security do so at their own risk. Read this Forrester Research Inc...
Provided By IBM
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Transitioning Business Continuity To The Cloud
In the past, server, storage and data center redundancy were the only options that met corporate resilience objectives. Read this white paper to gain an understanding of the resiliency challenges faci...
Provided By IBM
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Improve IT Productivity with Unified Data Center
Increase ROI and improve productivity. See how the Cisco Unified Data Center can help you achieve these two goals by simplifying, standardizing, and automating IT processes, so you can turn your data ...
Provided By Cisco
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Vblock Helps Eclipse Resurrect Intellectual Property From Aging Infrastructure and Take Flight
Eclipse Aerospace, maker of technologically advanced, twin-engine jets, they want to replace outdated systems with a virtualized data center that supports the business more efficiently and cost-effect...
Provided By vcdgear.com
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Power Struggles: Revisiting the RISC vs. CISC Debate on Contemporary ARM and X86 Architectures
RISC vs. CISC wars raged in the 1980s when chip area and processor design complexity were the primary constraints and desktops and servers exclusively dominated the computing landscape. Today, energy ...
Provided By University of Winnipeg
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Numerical Methods for Solving Turbulent Flows by Using Parallel Technologies
Parallel implementation of algorithm of numerical solution of Navier-Stokes equations for large eddy simulation (LES) of turbulence is presented in this research. The Dynamic Smagorinsky model is appl...
Provided By Scientific Research
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Demand Based Hierarchical QoS Using Storage Resource Pools
The high degree of storage consolidation in modern virtualized datacenters requires flexible and efficient ways to allocate IO resources among Virtual Machines (VMs). Existing IO resource management t...
Provided By Wayne Stansfield
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Optimization of Large Scale of Files Transfer in Meteorological Grid
In this paper, the authors focus on performance enhancement of large scale of small files transfer, which is critical to the performance of meteorological grid. GridFTP and compression techniques are ...
Provided By Nanjing University
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A Reliable Schedule with Budget Constraints in Grid Computing
The application system while executing in a Grid environment may encounter a failure. This phenomenon can be overcome by a reliable scheduler who plays the major role of allocating the applications to...
Provided By Karunya University
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High Performance Computation Through Slicing and Value Replacement With CCDD Approach
In software development and maintenance stages, programmers need to frequently debug the software. Software fault localization is one of the most exclusive, tedious and time intense activities in prog...
Provided By International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE)
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Survey on Resource Allocation in Grid
Resource allocation is a problem that arises whenever different resources, which have preferences in participating, have to be distributed among multiple autonomous entities. A distributed system is c...
Provided By International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT)
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An Optimized Algorithm for Enhancement of Performance of Distributed Computing System
Distributed Computing System (DCS) presents a platform consisting of multiple computing nodes connected in some fashion to which various modules of a task can be assigned. A node is any device connect...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Parallel Computing for Accelerated Texture Classification with Local Binary Pattern Descriptors Using OpenCL
In this paper, a novel parallelized implementation of rotation invariant texture classification using Heterogeneous Computing Platforms like CPU and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is proposed. A compl...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Data center flexibility and efficiency: increasing the business value of IT
Optimization and consolidation can make a big difference in the business value your data centers deliver. This paper examines the techniques and results of IBM’s own internal data center transformatio...
Provided By IBM
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Data Center Study Mini-Paper -- Business Resilience -- "Resilience and continuity strategies of highly efficient data centers"
Data centers have developed sophisticated strategies for dealing with uncertainty. Holistic approaches will help address more complex issues and build a culture of resilience. This paper presents a th...
Provided By IBM
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Data Center Study Mini-Paper -- Networking Services -- "Optimizing the network for a highly efficient data center"
Highly efficient data centers are moving beyond traditional optimization approaches and focusing on network management and automation to drive IT efficiency and flexibility across the data center. Thi...
Provided By IBM
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Best-practice strategies for designing and deploying modular data centers
The business requirements for your data center have remained fairly consistent: reliable availability and higher capacity for a lower cost. Read this white paper to learn best practices for designing ...
Provided By IBM
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Build A High-Performance Security Organization
Companies must not only protect their organization from danger but must continue to compete in the marketplace. Companies that ignore security do so at their own risk. Read this Forrester Research Inc...
Provided By IBM
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Data Center Study - 2012
Highly efficient data centers allow IT to spend 50% more on new projects — but only 1 in 5 data centers currently operate at this level. The new IBM Global Data Center Study surveyed 300+ IT executiv...
Provided By IBM
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Data Center Self Assessessment
The IBM Global Data Center study reveals that highly efficient data centers allow IT to spend 50% more on new projects — but only 1 in 5 data centers operate at this level. Rate your data center’s ef...
Provided By IBM
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Data Center Study Mini-Paper -- IBM's own data center efficiency story -- "Transforming IBM’s data centers for optimal efficiency"
Data center optimization has always been a vehicle for innovation as well as cost reduction. Data center optimization has allowed IBM to shift 18 percentage points of total IT spending to transformati...
Provided By IBM
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Supero: A Sensor System for Unsupervised Residential Power Usage Monitoring
As a key technology of home area networks in smart grids, fine-grained power usage monitoring may help conserve electricity. Several existing systems achieve this goal by exploiting appliances' power ...
Provided By Purdue Federal Credit Union
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Solutions for a More Energy-Efficient Data Center: From Water to Fresh-Air Cooling
This white paper discusses recent trends in the industry toward increasing energy efficiency of the data center in order to save on power and cooling costs without reducing performance. Included in th...
Provided By IBM
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Enabling the Freedom to Learn and Innovate Teaching
Founded in 1823, Raffles Institution (RI) is the oldest school in Singapore, their challenges were to supporting the sophisticated technological needs of educators, coping with increased bandwidth req...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Innovator Gets Scalability on Demand
From modest beginnings, Lonza has grown into a leading supplier to the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and life-science industries worldwide. Their challenge is to transform data center network agility, b...
Provided By Cisco
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Resource Efficient Computing for Warehouse-scale Datacenters
An increasing amount of information technology services and data are now hosted in the cloud, primarily due to the cost and scalability benefits for both the end-users and the operators of the warehou...
Provided By Stanford Technology Ventures Program
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On the Impact of Packet Spraying in Data Center Networks
Modern data center networks are commonly organized in multi-rooted tree topologies. They typically rely on equal-cost multipath to split flows across multiple paths, which can lead to significant load...
Provided By Purdue Federal Credit Union
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World's Largest Online Sports Betting Site Increases Reach
Based in Stoke-on-Trent in the United Kingdom, bet365 has grown rapidly from a handful of employees in 2000 to a global provider with 2100 staff. Their challenges are to drive business growth by exten...
Provided By Cisco
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A Survey of Data Mining Techniques for Smart Grid Systems
Electricity generated through steam and hydro - turbines have been serving one since ages. It has reached its limits. Outages, blackouts are becoming inevitable. So, there is a need to develop a syste...
Provided By International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Virtex 4 Field Programmable Gate Array Based 32 Bit FPM
FPGAs are increasingly being used in the high performance and scientific computing community to implement floating-point based hardware accelerators. The authors present FPGA floating-point multiplica...
Provided By International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Smart (In-Home) Power Scheduling for Demand Response on the Smart Grid
This paper proposes a power scheduling-based communication protocol for in-home appliances connected over home area network and receiving real-time electricity prices via a smart meter. Specifically, ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Decentralized Scheduling of Bursty Workload on Computing Grids
Bursty workloads are often observed in a variety of systems such as grid services, multi-tier architectures, and large storage systems. Studies have shown that such burstiness can dramatically degrade...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Combined Studies of Power Electronics and Communication Networks for the Smart Grid
The modernization of the current power grid has brought forward many requirements in order to make possible the vision of a smarter grid. This paper presents these challenges and the current achieveme...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Job Scheduling Algorithm for Computational Grid in Grid Computing Environment
Grid computing has emerged as a distributed methodology that coordinates the resources that are spread in the heterogeneous distributed environment. Grid Computing allow sharing of resources from hete...
Provided By International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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A New Scalable Parallel DBSCAN Algorithm Using the Disjoint-Set Data Structure
DBSCAN is a well-known density based clustering algorithm capable of discovering arbitrary shaped clusters and eliminating noise data. However, parallelization of DBSCAN is challenging as it exhibits ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Energy-Optimized Dynamic Deferral of Workload for Capacity Provisioning in Data Centers
In this paper, the authors explores the opportunity for energy cost saving in data centers that utilizes the flexibility from the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and proposes a novel approach for capa...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A General Framework for Efficient Continuous Multidimensional Top-K Query Processing in Sensor Networks
Top-k query has long been a crucial problem in multiple fields of computer science, such as data processing and information retrieval. In emerging cyber-physical systems, where there can be a large nu...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Provably-Efficient Job Scheduling for Energy and Fairness in Geographically Distributed Data Centers
Decreasing the soaring energy cost is imperative in large data centers. Meanwhile, limited computational resources need to be fairly allocated among different organizations. Latency is another major c...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Cutting Down Electricity Cost in Internet Data Centers by Using Energy Storage
Electricity consumption comprises a significant fraction of total operating cost in data centers. System operators are required to reduce electricity bill as much as possible. In this paper, the autho...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Data Center Energy Cost Minimization: A Spatio-Temporal Scheduling Approach
Cloud computing is supported by an infrastructure known as Internet Data Center (IDC). As cloud computing thrives, the energy consumption and cost for IDCs are exploding. There is growing interest in ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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eco-IDC: Trade Delay for Energy Cost With Service Delay Guarantee for Internet Data Centers
Cloud computing services are becoming integral part of people's daily life. These services are supported by Internet Data Centers (IDCs). As demand for cloud computing services soars, energy consumed ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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An Observation on Performance Analysis of Grid Scheduler
Grid scheduler allocates resources to task. In this paper, the authors proposed architecture of grid scheduler for task scheduling in grid. The goal of the scheduler in this paper is minimize make-spa...
Provided By International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)
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A Survey on Grid Computing Approach
Grid computing enables virtual organizations to share geographically distributed resources as they pursue common goals, assuming the absence of central location, central control, omniscience, and an e...
Provided By International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)
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Grouping Based User Demand Aware Job Scheduling Approach for Computational Grid
Grid Computing is a high performance computing that solves complicated tasks and provides powerful computing abilities. Scheduler is very much responsible for effective utilization of resources and le...
Provided By International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
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A Simulation Based Approach to Show Various Factors Affecting the GIDL in Matlab
As low-power design has become a concern in digital VLSI design, especially for portable and high performance. So leakage current is of prime concern. When the MOSFET is in off-state, a significant le...
Provided By International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
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Austin Energy: Leading the Way to the Smart Grid
Austin Energy was seeking to improve service and reliability, Texas utility Austin Energy saw the need - and opportunity - to transform how it delivers electricity. Austin Energy partnered with IBM to...
Provided By IBM
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MCC Creates Unique Data center Management program
Metropolitan Community College (MCC) of Omaha is a comprehensive, full-service community college that offers affordable, quality education. Metropolitan Community College needs to meet booming demand ...
Provided By IBM
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Data Center Best Practices: Managing Data with Cloud Computing
Data centers are looking at cloud computing as a way to deliver the necessary flexibility, scalability, efficiency and speed. This article looks at Data Center Best Practices and focuses on how compa...
Provided By Oracle
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Webcast: Accelerating IT with Workload Image Management
Images are fast becoming the core objects for deployment in data centers - bypassing installation problems, providing faster time to value, better availability, and more efficient disaster recovery. W...
Provided By IBM
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10 issues to consider when developing a cross-platform backup strategy
A number of extra factors can complicate the process of backing up multiple server platforms. Asking these critical questions will help ensure that your plan is viable.This download is also available ...
Provided By Brien Posey
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Don't make do, do more with IT optimization.
Small to medium-sized businesses often find themselves forced to do more with fewer resources. IT optimization strategies such as consolidation and virtualization help reduce complexity, free up resou...
Provided By IBM
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Lessons Learned When Building a Greenfield High Performance Computing Ecosystem
Faced with a fragmented research computing environment and growing needs for high performance computing resources, Michigan State University established the High Performance Computing Center in 2005 t...
Provided By Michigan State University
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Two-Level Throughput and Latency IO Control for Parallel File Systems
Existing parallel file systems are unable to provide both throughput and response time guarantees for concurrent parallel applications. This limitation prevents different, competing applications from ...
Provided By Florida International University
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Build A High-Performance Security Organization
Companies must not only protect their organization from danger but must continue to compete in the marketplace. Companies that ignore security do so at their own risk. Read this Forrester Research Inc...
Provided By IBM
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Transitioning Business Continuity To The Cloud
In the past, server, storage and data center redundancy were the only options that met corporate resilience objectives. Read this white paper to gain an understanding of the resiliency challenges faci...
Provided By IBM
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A Change in the Paradigm: The Rise of the New Enterprise Data Center
The paradigm for the modern enterprise data center, which has served businesses admirably for many years, is looking increasingly brittle. The strains posed by disruptive technological innovations and...
Provided By IBM
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IBM's Vision for the New Enterprise Data Center
IBM's vision for the new enterprise data center is an evolutionary model that helps reset the economics of IT and can dramatically improve operational efficiency. It also can help reduce and control r...
Provided By IBM
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IBM zEnterprise 114 Brings "Freedom-by-Design" to Mid-Sized Organizations
The IBM zEnterprise 114 offers organizations of all sizes a flexible infrastructure, called "Freedom by Design." Read the white paper to find out how the z114 can help manage new and traditional workl...
Provided By IBM
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Enterprise Strategy Group: Data Management Challenges in the Internet Computing Era
Ever feel like you're storing everything and managing nothing? As data evolves, so must your file management skills. You need new tools to help you keep up. Thankfully, Brocade File Solutions for Wind...
Provided By Brocade Communications Systems
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Optimization: Creating the dynamic infrastructure today's economy demands
Issues like increasing interconnectivity, explosive growth of data, and the mounting costs of data center operations make IT optimization a very hot topic. Find out how initiatives such as virtualizat...
Provided By IBM
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It's A Bold Statement from IBM: "The one system that will unite all the others."
With 1.5 billion instructions in one second (BIPS), while consuming less energy than ever before, Wintergreen Research says IT departments need to sit up and take notice of this hybrid system that co...
Provided By IBM
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Florida Tech accelerates research with an IBM iDataPlex solution - A Cast Study
Florida Tech is a leading private science and engineering university in Melbourne, FL, with degree programs in fields such as aeronautics, bioengineering and mathematics. Florida Tech worked with the ...
Provided By IBM
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Improve IT Productivity with Unified Data Center
Increase ROI and improve productivity. See how the Cisco Unified Data Center can help you achieve these two goals by simplifying, standardizing, and automating IT processes, so you can turn your data ...
Provided By Cisco
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Using modular Data Centre
The explosion in IT demand has intensified pressure on data centres resources, making it difficult to respond to business needs, especially while budgets remain flat. As capacity demands become incr...
Provided By IBM
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Smart Data Center Solutions
Traditional concerns of data center stakeholders are keeping their applications running and their networks scalable, available, and secure. However, over the last five years, demand for processing pow...
Provided By Panduit
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IBM Healthcare Executive Kit
To deal with the changing landscape, healthcare organizations need data centers that can meet growing business demands and heightened technological requirements. Find out how IBM can help deploy cost-...
Provided By IBM
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Adaptive Security and Privacy in Smart Grids: A Software Engineering Vision
Despite the benefits offered by smart grids, energy producers, distributors and consumers are increasingly concerned about possible security and privacy threats. These threats typically manifest thems...
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