Data Centers
Along with the rise of cloud computing, data centers are being reinvented via virtualization, servers and high-performance computing. Find out more in with the latest white papers and case studies.
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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 transformation—and how you can apply this learning to your transformation efforts to achieve greater productivity, mobility and responsiveness.
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 three part approach that improves data center availability, provides more flexibility and optimizes storage.
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 transformational projects including business analytics, mobility and cloud computing. How? This solution brief describes the four approaches to maximizing...
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. This paper discusses three approaches that help data centers achieve these goals.
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 and building modular data centers, derived from more than 500 IBM implementations for companies of all sizes. It also describes...
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 report to gain an understanding of what it takes to build a high performance security practice.
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 efficiency with the quick, easy and complimentary IBM self-assessment tool. You’ll also learn...
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 executives in seven countries to understand the current state of their data centers’ operational...
Provided By IBM
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Provided By CBS AUS PTY LTD
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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 usage signatures identified in labor-intensive in situ training processes. Recent work shows that autonomous power usage monitoring can be achieved by...
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 the discussion is a review of the key components in the data center that can affect power consumption and...
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 requirements and provide a pervasive learning environment in the school campus and beyond. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. Cisco Unified Data...
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, bandwidth, resilience, and scalability to support 24-hour global business model. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. Cisco Nexus 5500 series platform with...
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 warehouse-scale DataCenters (DCs) that host cloud services. Hence, it is vital to continuously improve the capabilities and efficiency...
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 imbalance. Splitting individual flows can provide better load balance, but is not preferred because of potential packet reordering that conventional wisdom...
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 extending gaming platform to new mobile devices and improve customer service by boosting speed, performance, and resilience....
Provided By Cisco
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Top 10 Mistakes in Data Centre Operations - Operating Efficient and Effective Data Centres
How can you avoid making major mistakes when operating and maintaining your data centre(s)? The key lies in the methodology behind your operations and maintenance program. All too often, companies put immense amounts of capital and expertise into the design of their facilities. However, when construction is complete, data centre...
Provided By Schneider Electric - AU
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Data Centre Physical Infrastructure - Optimising Business Value
To stay competitive in today's rapidly changing business world, companies must update the way they view the value of their investment in data centre physical infrastructure (DCPI). No longer are simply availability and upfront cost sufficient to make adequate business decisions. Agility, or business flexibility, and low total cost of...
Provided By Schneider Electric - AU
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High Volume Computing: Identifying and Characterizing Throughput Oriented Workloads in Data Centers
For the first time, this paper systematically identifies three categories of throughput oriented workloads in data centers: services, data processing applications, and interactive real-time applications, whose targets are to increase the volume of throughput in terms of processed requests or data, or supported maximum number of simultaneous subscribers, respectively, and...
Provided By Cornell University
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Choosing Between Room, Row, and Rack-based Cooling for Data Centers (duplicate 1- offline)
Latest generation high density and variable density IT equipment create conditions that traditional data center cooling was never intended to address, resulting in cooling systems that are oversized, inefficient, and unpredictable. Room, row, and rack-based cooling methods have been developed to address these problems. This paper describes these improved cooling...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Creating Order from Chaos in Data Centers and Server Rooms
Data center professionals can rid themselves of messy racks, sub-standard under floor air distribution, and cable sprawl with a minimum of heartache and expense. Whether the data center mess is created over years of mismanagement or whether the cable-choked data center is inherited, solutions for both quick fixes and longer...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Data Center Projects: Standardized Process
As the design and deployment of data center physical infrastructure moves away from art and more toward science, the benefits of a standardized and predictable process are becoming compelling. Beyond the ordering, delivery, and installation of hardware, any build or upgrade project depends critically upon a well-defined process as insurance...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Greening Data Center Networks with Throughput-guaranteed Power-aware Routing
Cloud based applications and services require high performance and strong reliability provided by data center networks. To overcome the problem of traditional tree based data center network, recently many new network architectures are proposed, such as Fat-Tree and BCube. They use aggressively over-provisioned network devices and links to achieve 1:1...
Provided By Tsihai
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On Graphs, GPUs, and Blind Dating a Workload to Processor Matchmaking Quest
Graph processing has gained renewed attention. The increasing large scale and wealth of connected data, such as those accrued by social network applications, demand the design of new techniques and platforms to efficiently derive actionable information from large scale graphs. Hybrid systems that host processing units optimized for both fast...
Provided By University of Bristol
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KSM Attains 95% Faster Access to Customer Records With VMware on FlexPod From NetApp and Cisco
At Katz, Sapper & Miller (KSM), supporting growth and efficient business management are top priorities. Their challenges are to scale with rapid company expansion by upgrading storage and server infrastructure. They chose Cisco Reinvent the data center with VMware vSphere built on the FlexPod data center platform from NetApp and...
Provided By Cisco
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Layout-Conscious Random Topologies for HPC Off-Chip Interconnects
In this paper the authors propose two new methods for generating random topologies and their physical layout on a floor-plan: randomize links after optimizing the physical layout, or optimize the layout after randomizing links. The first method randomly swaps link endpoints for a given non-random topology for which a good...
Provided By University of Hawai'i
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Resource Provisioning Based on Preempting Virtual Machines in Distributed Systems
Resource provisioning is one of the main challenges in large-scale distributed systems such as federated Grids. Recently, many resource management systems in these environments have started to use the lease abstraction and Virtual Machines (VMs) for resource provisioning. In the large-scale distributed systems, resource providers serve requests from external users...
Provided By John Wiley & Sons
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Resource Provisioning based on Preempting Virtual Machines in Resource Sharing Environments
Resource provisioning is one of the main challenges in large-scale resource sharing environments such as federated Grids. Recently, many resource management systems in these environments have started to use the lease abstraction and Virtual Machines (VMs) for resource provisioning. In resource sharing environments resource providers serve requests from external users...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Chirp: A Practical Global Filesystem for Cluster and Grid Computing
Traditional distributed file system technologies designed for local and campus area networks do not adapt well to wide area grid computing environments. To address this problem, the authors have designed the Chirp distributed file system, which is designed from the ground up to meet the needs of grid computing. Chirp...
Provided By University of Northern Iowa
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Legal Feasibility of Automated Data Collection for Statistical Purposes in the EU
Internet-based measurement is using Internet as source of data gathering and it is a method of automated data collection. The three most common Internet-based measurement approaches are user-centric, network-centric and site-centric measurements. User-centric relies on in-depth analysis of behavior of users by installing software and application; network-centric measures traffic flows...
Provided By Brunel University
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Towards Symmetric Multi-Threaded Optimistic Simulation Kernels
In this paper, the authors address the reshuffle of the design of optimistic simulation kernels in order to t multi-core/multiprocessor machines. This is done by providing a reference optimistic simulation architecture based on the symmetric multithreaded paradigm, where each simulation kernel instance is allowed to run a dynamically changing set...
Provided By University of Rochester
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Security, Fault Tolerance and Modeling of Grid Workflows in BPEL4Grid
BPEL is the de facto standard for business process modeling in today's enterprises and is a promising candidate for the integration of business and scientific applications that run in Grid or Cloud environments. In this paper, selected components of BPEL4Grid, a scientific workflow system for developing service-oriented Grid applications based...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Design and Implementation of Computation Grid, Measure & Improve Performance Parameter:-A Survey
The goal of this Paper is to develop Reliable Communication System in the Grid. The first initiative is to apply multi-casting features to this protocol & the algorithm for the same is developed. Then apply the algorithm on the Grid by using MPI (Message Passing Interface). Reduce the System call,...
Provided By International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT)
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An Evaluation of Job Scheduling Strategies for Divisible Loads on Grid Platforms
In this paper, the authors study distributed job scheduling in grid environments when each job is a DL application. The scheduling goal is to minimize the average steady-state job turnaround time. In this context, they identify in which regimes classes of scheduling strategies are efficient, namely for which platforms and...
Provided By University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahu
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Applying AHP Technique for Trust Evaluation in the Semantic Web
The increasing reliance on information gathered from the web and other internet technologies raises the issue of trust. Through the development of semantic Web, one major difficulty is that, by its very nature, the semantic web is a large, uncensored system to which anyone may contribute. This raises the question...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A Gravitational Search Algorithm for Finding Near-optimal Base Station Location in Two-Tiered WSNs
In designing Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the main issue is limited resource for each sensor. Hence, offering ways to optimize energy consumption in WSNs which eventually increases the network lifetime is strongly felt. In this paper, a Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) is proposed for finding nearly optimal Base Station (BS)...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Scheduling in Grid Computing
As the technology advances and the importance and dependence on internet increases by the day, there is need of finding faster and cheaper solutions to solve computational problems. This has lead the development of a new concept called grid computing, Grid computing (or the use of a computational grid) is...
Provided By IJCSMR
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Three Dimensional Dual Queue based Matchmaking for Resource Allocation in Grid Environment
Grid computing methodologies facilitate resource sharing and coordination of problem solving in distributed systems. In the Grid environment, shared resources and users typically span different organizations. Grid resources are distributed in different peers. Optimally assigning jobs to resources is one of the key issues in grid computing. This work introduces...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Adaptive Scheduling Solution for Grid Meta-Brokering
The nearly optimal, interoperable utilization of various grid resources play an important role in the world of grids. Though well-designed, evaluated and widely used resource brokers have been developed, these existing solutions still cannot cope with the high uncertainty ruling current grid systems. To ease the simultaneous utilization of different...
Provided By University of Szczecin
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Multi-Grid Broker Utilization with the P-GRADE Portal
Grid computing has gone through some generations and as a result only a few widely used middleware architectures remain. The Globus Toolkit is the most widespread middleware in most of the current production grid systems, but the LCG-2 middleware dominates in Europe. In this paper, the authors present a brokering...
Provided By University of Szczecin
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Grid Enabled Varsity Examination Result System
Grid computing started as a project to link geographically dispersed supercomputers, but now it has grown far beyond its original intent. The Grid infrastructure can benefit many applications, including collaborative engineering, data exploration, high-throughput computing, and distributed supercomputing. Computing Grids are basically networks that pool resources - CPU cycles, storage...
Provided By JATIT
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A Coordination Framework for Sharing Grid Resources
Distributed market based models are frequently used for resource allocation on the computational grid. But, as the grid size grows, it becomes more difficult for a customer to directly negotiate with all the grid resource providers. Middle agents are introduced to mediate between the providers and customers so as to...
Provided By University Of Zululand
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Military-Standard Data Center Management
In the case of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) lives depend on it. There challenges were to make IT operations faster, better, and cheaper and move to greenfield data center without disrupting military operations. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented Cisco Unified Data Center solution based...
Provided By Cisco
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Building Collaborative Platform for Driving Innovation
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) Zurich accelerates innovation. There challenges were to create highly available, secure network that facilitates collaboration and help ensure IT model is aligned to support competitive advantage and growth for next 10 years. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented Cisco Unified...
Provided By Cisco
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University of Tennessee Knoxville Boosts Competitive Edge With Citrix Virtualization on Flexpod
The University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, is one of the oldest public universities in the U.S. There challenge is to support anywhere, anytime student computing environment while conserving IT and financial resources. Build application and desktop virtualization delivery system with Citrix based on the FlexPod data center platform from Cisco...
Provided By Cisco
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Asset Management Company Builds New, Agile Data Centers
Built largely through acquisition of top asset managers, Allianz Global Investors (AGI), a world leader in asset management and a subsidiary, there challenges were need to streamline data center management by centralizing and consolidating five existing data centers and standardize on platforms and applications across acquired assets. They chose Cisco...
Provided By Cisco
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Insurance Company Virtualizes Data Center and Desktops
Promutuel originated 160 years ago when farmers from Quebec had the innovative idea to band together and create their own insurance company. There challenges were runaway HQ data center server costs to support continual expansion strain space, power, cooling budgets and different WAN configurations and server setups at 150 remote...
Provided By Cisco
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Electrical Firm Reduces Data Center Costs by 75 Percent
EDIF is an electrical wholesaler and distributor that operate along the eastern side of Italy, generating revenues of 136 million in 2010. There challenges were to improve customer service, reduce operating costs and strengthen operational resilience. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented Cisco Unified data center architecture...
Provided By Cisco
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Brennercom Invests in Cloud and High-Density Innovation at Its Data Center
Brennercom is an Italian communications provider active over a vast area stretching from the provinces of Trentino Alto Adige throughout the territory. There challenges were to enhance Data Center capabilities with a flexible, high-performance solution able to deliver cloud and virtualization services, and develops a new business model. They chose...
Provided By Cisco
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Subsea Supplier Improves Application and Data Center Performance
Innovative technologies and the rising price of natural resources have pushed more companies into exploring and developing offshore fields of oil and gas. They wanted to support business activities globally by providing up-to-date reporting, virtualized and improve performance on servers running SAP applications and streamline data center management. Updated data...
Provided By Cisco
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Unified Computing Platform Makes Server Allocation Around 60 Times Faster
DATEV eG offers software solutions and IT services across Europe for tax advisers, accountants and attorneys, as well as their clients. DATEV wanted a modern, easy-to-manage, failsafe, cost-saving and future-proof infrastructure solution that would integrate well within its existing rack server environment. The personalized infrastructure solution is based on a...
Provided By Cisco
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Global Enterprise Scales to Meet Real-Time Demand
HireRight is the industry leader in providing solutions to meet its customers' employment background screening, drug screening, and employment eligibility requirements. Their challenges are to streamline IT infrastructure and simplify administration for long term, reduce carbon footprint and maintain high performance and availability for customers and internal users. They chose...
Provided By Cisco
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Service Provider Standardizes Data Center to Deliver Custom Cloud Services
Peak 10 has evolved from a more limited provider of IT services into a comprehensive provider of cloud-based, fully managed IT. Their challenges were to unify cloud delivery of subscription-based, customized, fully managed, enterprise applications, need to create scalable, flexible, multitenant environment to meet growing demand for cloud services and...
Provided By Cisco
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Midmarket Data Center Architecture: Ethernet Configuration Listings
The Cisco mid market architecture is designed to meet the needs of medium-sized businesses having 100 to 200 servers per data center. Designed to be simple, modular, and scalable, the architecture can grow to support up to 576 servers without changing fundamental switching components. The architecture encapsulates data center best...
Provided By Cisco
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Electrical Wholesaler Transforms Data Center With Cisco Solutions
Van Meter, has continued to build on its rich tradition of innovation and service-first business culture to expand its footprint. Their challenges are to achieving greater value from data center investments, streamlining IT management and improving data center performance and scalability. Van Meter chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They...
Provided By Cisco
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Cisco on Cisco: Cisco Unified Communications on Cisco Unified Computing System
Rapid growth in Cisco's employee user base combined with new ways of working put additional processing demand on the IT department's communication services. Their challenges are to provide reliable voice communication services to rapidly growing number of users and increasing devices per user, scale Unified Communications (UC) infrastructure beyond the...
Provided By Cisco
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Forrester Research on Network Strategy
Free Forrester Report shows how to focus your network strategy on user experience and effectively deliver the services your users need to be productive. This guide helps you understand why network design has to change, with specific insight on:
- Trends that impact your architecture
- How to maintain the best...
Provided By Citrix Systems, Inc.
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Node Allocation in Grid Computing Using Optimal Resouce Constraint (ORC) Scheduling
The objective of grid computing is to distribute the jobs to heterogeneous environment and increase the speed of processing the jobs. Most of the Grid tool kits use the First Come First Served (FCFS) based scheduling algorithm to distribute the job to different executors or client nodes. The FCFS scheduling...
Provided By Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Engineering
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Simplify your data center and reduce costs with the Cisco Unified Computing System
The Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers unlock the potential of your data center to bring computing, networking, and virtualization together.
Learn how you can incrementally build a unified data center, while enjoying significant ROI.Provided By Cisco Systems, Inc.
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Cisco Unified Data Center: The Foundation for Private Cloud Infrastructure
Break free of data center constraints. Provide IT service and cloud computing that is more agile and efficient. Learn why Cisco unified architecture and cost efficient design uniquely positions you to deliver the advantages of a private cloud.
Provided By Cisco
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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 center into an innovation center.
Provided By Cisco
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Automotive Group Reduces Servers and Boosts Performance
In today's market for new and used cars, customers are often in the driver's seat, actively communicating with dealers about what they need at all hours. Their challenges are to Provide always-on availability and responsiveness to staff and customers, delivering high-performance resources and Reduce infrastructure and operating costs. They chose...
Provided By Cisco
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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 extending gaming platform to new mobile devices and improve customer service by boosting speed, performance, and resilience....
Provided By Cisco
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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, bandwidth, resilience, and scalability to support 24-hour global business model. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. Cisco Nexus 5500 series platform with...
Provided By Cisco
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London Borough Council Saves Millions With Virtual Desktops
Olympic Park, the borough had the world's attention during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Their challenges are to improve worker flexibility to cope with London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and deliver planned real estate rationalization and optimize disaster recovery planning. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges....
Provided By Cisco
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KSM Attains 95% Faster Access to Customer Records With VMware on FlexPod From NetApp and Cisco
At Katz, Sapper & Miller (KSM), supporting growth and efficient business management are top priorities. Their challenges are to scale with rapid company expansion by upgrading storage and server infrastructure. They chose Cisco Reinvent the data center with VMware vSphere built on the FlexPod data center platform from NetApp and...
Provided By Cisco
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Bank Benefits From Borderless Network and Collaboration
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated is a leading pan-African bank with operations in 32 countries across the continent, more than any other bank. Their challenges are to standardize provision of banking services across countries, reduce operational expenditure and support continued growth. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They chose Cisco Borderless...
Provided By Cisco
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Financing Firm Leverages UCS for Improved Scalability and Performance
Credit ACceptance Corporation (CACC) began working with dealerships to help buyers finance the cars they wanted. Their challenges are to scale computing, storage, and networking infrastructure for aggressive, long-term growth, need to improve systems reliability and manageability and enhance user experiences through increased performance. They chose Cisco to overcome these...
Provided By Cisco
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Travel Insurer Gains Stability, Agility Through Virtualization
Founded in 1993, Seven Corners Inc. has grown to become one of the most respected insurers in the travel industry. Their challenges are to enhance network reliability and performance, simplify data center management and provide flexible infrastructure that can scale to accommodate growth. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges....
Provided By Cisco
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Global Cloud Index Video
The Cisco® Global Cloud Index is an ongoing effort to forecast the growth of global data center and cloud-based IP traffic. The forecast includes trends associated with data center virtualization and cloud computing. Watch now.
Provided By Cisco
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Safeguarding the Status of Europe's Largest Port City
Rotterdam, the second-largest city in the Netherlands, is also notable as the largest port in Europe. Their challenges are to assure future delivery of local government and port-based services and reduce costs and improve efficiency. They chose Cisco to overcome these problems. FlexPod architecture, integrating Cisco Nexus data center switches...
Provided By Cisco
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Avoid making major mistakes in data center virtualization (Spanish)
With increasing demand for data centers, network infrastructure may become more complex and more costly. Cisco In this article, you'll discover how to avoid the five major errors during consolidation and virtualization of data centers and how to correct them. Read the report.
Provided By Cisco
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Datacenter Transformation: New Directions for IT
In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations increasingly require solutions and services that are delivered by a responsive IT department. In order to deliver such services, IT can no longer rely on the traditional datacenter model in which hardware and software assets are provisioned for the business in a process that...
Provided By International Development and Consulting Group
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Digital Media Leader Revolutionizes Network Performance to Meet Rapid Growth
From streaming media to online distribution and supporting 3D video, the market for digital multimedia is growing fast, and DG is an industry leader. Their challenges are to accelerate network speed to provide advanced digital services for customers, Scale network capacity to handle network growth and reconcile disparate networks by...
Provided By Cisco
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Enhanced Business Continuity With Application Mobility Across Data Centers
The evolution of the global economy is redefining the paradigm of business continuity. Most businesses can no longer afford to operate only in their native time zones, but are mandated to operate round the clock. This puts a very heavy burden on Information Technology (IT) groups because the operational windows...
Provided By Cisco
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Autoprovisioning Data Center Top-of-Rack Switches
With the vast increase in available information, movement to virtualization, and growing demand for cloud computing, data centers are expanding at a rapid pace. To save costs, increase availability, and address environmental factors, companies are expanding their data centers into different geographical areas, while their network operations groups are mainly...
Provided By Cisco
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Children's Hospital Enhances Clinical Workflow
A world leader in pediatric healthcare, Miami Children's Hospital ranks among the most prestigious medical institutions in the United States. Their challenges were to evolve infrastructure to support Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system, minimize administrative effort and environmental overhead required to scale data center and plan, design, and deploy backup...
Provided By Cisco
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Cisco Data Center Services Node Architecture
The Cisco Data Center Service Node (DSN) is a new product offering from Cisco that complements the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches in the data center. Cisco DSN is the platform of choice to host specific integrated network services relevant in a given data center. Examples of network services include...
Provided By Cisco
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Midmarket Data Center Architecture: Ethernet
The Cisco mid market architecture is designed to meet the needs of businesses with 100 to 200 servers per data center. The Ethernet portion of the architecture is designed for both scalability and simplicity; it can scale up to 576 servers, and multiple network layers can be collapsed into a...
Provided By Cisco
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Cisco Global Cloud Index
The Cisco® Global Cloud Index 2011-2016, is an ongoing effort to forecast the growth of global data center and cloud-based IP traffic. The forecast includes trends associated with data center virtualization and cloud computing.
This document presents the details of the study and the methodology behind it.Provided By Cisco