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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Throttling I/O Streams to Accelerate File-IO Performance
To increase the scale and performance of High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications, it is common to distribute computation across multiple processors. Often without realizing it, file I/O is paral...
Provided By Springer Science+Business Media
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Data Center Transformation: HP's Proven Data Center Transformation Approach Can Help You Reduce Costs, Manage Risks, and Accelerate Business Growth
In today's connected global marketplace, data centers are more important than ever. Customers expect to purchase products and access services 24x7. So any downtime - planned or unplanned - can disrupt...
Provided By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Risks For The Long Run: Estimation And Inference
This paper empirically evaluates the ability of the long-run risks model to explain asset returns. Exploiting asset pricing Euler equations this paper shows methods developed for estimating the long-r...
Provided By Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Pricing A Global Measure Of Liquidity Risk
Most of us are not willing to bear risk without compensation. For a long time, return volatility has been almost synonymous with financial risk, but now we know that this not the only consideration. F...
Provided By Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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Live Data Center Migration across WANs: A Robust Cooperative Context Aware Approach
A significant concern for Internet-based service providers is the continued operation and availability of services in the face of outages, whether planned or unplanned. This paper advocates a cooperat...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Grid Resource Ranking Using Low-Level Performance Measurements
This paper outlines a feasible approach to ranking Grid resources based on an easily obtainable application-specific performance model utilizing low-level performance metrics. The Grid resources are c...
Provided By Springer Healthcare
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How To Determine What Kind Of PC You Want: What Do I Need?
Computer has a variety of uses, with the most common one being for playing video games. But, for those of us who are not 100% hardcore gamers, we try to look into more of what we need rather than what...
Provided By Associated Content
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Performance Testing of Trading Applications
Trading applications are a good example of composite applications, encompassing legacy applications, third party order management systems, exchanges, middle office and back office systems. Functionali...
Provided By AppLabs
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High Performance Business In China 2007: In Pursuit of Profitable Growth
The astonishing growth rates of so many Chinese companies have become a matter of great pride for the nation's business leaders - and a matter of concern for competitors around the world. But can Chin...
Provided By Accenture
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An Efficiency Perspective On The Gains From Mergers And Asset Purchases
A simple efficiency-based view states that acquisitions shift assets to more productive owners. This implies that expected returns from acquisitions increase with transaction value. The author propose...
Provided By Federal Reserve Board
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Innovative Employee Solutions Case Study: High-Tech Computing Solutions Company
A client is a leading provider of custom and standard hardware, software and service solutions for the internet, OEM, and high performance computing markets. The company needed a service provider for ...
Provided By Innovative Employee Solutions
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Best Practices for Data Center Infrastructure Design: Cabling Distances and Space Planning
When designing and laying out a data center, understanding best practices as well the pros and cons for each type of data center is critical. The TIA 942 data center guidelines are very specific that ...
Provided By Siemon
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MSDN Webcast: Working With the GridView and DetailsView Controls in ASP.NET 2.0 (Level 200)
The GridView control in Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 is similar enough to the DataGrid control in version 1.x that one can get started right away. However, the capabilities of the GridView control far exceed...
Provided By Microsoft
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Enabling the Reliability Centered Maintenance process with IBM Maximo Asset Management
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is an analytical process used to determine an optimum maintenance strategy for physical assets. It is an advanced maintenance strategy for increasing asset avail...
Provided By IBM
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ITS Data Center Access Policies and Procedures
The ITS Data Center provides specific environmental, enhanced security access, fire alarms/suppression, Uninterrupted Power Supplies (UPS), Campus Backbone connectivity, and a number of other elements...
Provided By University of California
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IBM Dynamic Inventory Optimization Solution: Helping improve the bottom line through inventory optimization
The IBM Dynamic Inventory Optimization Solution is designed to help companies manage inventory to optimal levels, providing the potential to reduce carrying and logistical costs, increase service leve...
Provided By IBM
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The Brand Capability Value of Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC)
It is now widely accepted that intangible assets provide the most sustainable source of competitive advantage. Indeed, brand equity often accounts for a major portion of shareholder value. However, Ra...
Provided By Thomson Gale
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The Essence of Strategic Leadership: Managing Human and Social Capital
A new type of strategic leadership is required to help firms successfully navigate the dynamic and uncertain environment in which they compete today. The strategic leadership needed in 21st century fi...
Provided By Thomson Gale
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A Learning-and-Growth Metric for Strategy-Focused Organizations, Part II
If economic value creation is the translation, through focused strategy, of intangible human into tangible commercial assets, then one can say that the learning-and-growth dimension of strategy has so...
Provided By Better Management.com
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Data Center Design Philosophy
This paper lays the foundation for addressing challenges of data center design, through a presentation of the more important design issues, priorities, and philosophies. This paper covers some philoso...
Provided By Sun Microsystems
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RDRAM Memory: Leading Performance and Value Over SDRAM and DDR
Memory performance is becoming a key concern of computing system designers across many market segments. From PC applications surrounding multimedia (gaming, streaming media and video/photo editing) to...
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Raleigh Leadership Data Center
Are you looking for a cost-effective solution that will integrate your IT infrastructure and data centers, and that will manage information intelligently? The Raleigh Leadership Data Center is a state...
Provided By IBM
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Gartner Research Paper -- "User Survey Analysis: Key Trends Shaping the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Through 2011
In August 2010, Gartner completed an extensive primary research study designed to drive a greater understanding of what's happening in the data centers for large enterprises worldwide today. To help y...
Provided By IBM
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Enabling the Reliability Centered Maintenance process with IBM Maximo Asset Management
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is an analytical process used to determine an optimum maintenance strategy for physical assets. It is an advanced maintenance strategy for increasing asset avail...
Provided By IBM
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Priceline.com: Booking Vacations Faster with HP Converged Infrastructure
Learn how Priceline.com avoids a major data center expansion and cuts time to deliver new services in half. Co-Sponsored by: Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the...
Provided By HP and Intel®
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HP 3PAR Storage in Fashion at Chico's
Rethink your data center with a Converged Infrastructure and the HP Performance Optimized Data Center. Learn how Chico's leveraged HP virtualization and POD technology to build their own private clou...
Provided By HP and Intel®
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Taneja Group: Brocade FME - Total Enterprise File Management
Today's server administrators are tasked with managing the ever-growing files stored within their data centers. This Taneja Group report, Brocade FME - Total Enterprise File Management, provides insig...
Provided By Brocade Communications Systems
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Moving to a Flexible Data Center eBook
Because of obsolete infrastructure, IT departments are constrained when they try to gain the flexibility they need to support objectives. Everyone expects them to provision new applications and servic...
Provided By IBM
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The Power of Flexibility
Driven by unprecedented business demands, IT is expected to deliver more services and innovative solutions at record speed to an ever-widening global customer base. Meanwhile, high operational costs, ...
Provided By HP and Intel®
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Scaling Out Data Centers with Brocade VCS Fabric Technology and Brocade VDX Switches
Organizations require maximum flexibility as they move to deploy new virtualized applications and the network infrastructure that supports them. Brocade VDX switches allow VCS fabric deployments to st...
Provided By Brocade
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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...
Provided By Cisco
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An Introduction to Brocade VCS Fabric Technology
Brocade VCS Fabric technology allows IT organizations to create efficient data center networks that "just work". Ethernet fabric architectures built on Brocade VCS Fabric technology share information ...
Provided By Brocade
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Matching Server Virtualization With Advanced Storage Virtualization: LeftHand Networks Accelerates VMware Server Virtualization With SAN/iQ Software-Based Storage Systems
In order to meet the challenges of running today's datacenters, an increasing number of IT organizations are turning to VMware Infrastructure 3 software. The ability to virtualize the datacenter and d...
Provided By LeftHand Networks
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Reducing the Cost and Complexity of Information Technology (IT) Asset Management With RFID
In large enterprises, IT data centers can frequently contain hundreds of thousands of IT assets. But tracking these highly mobile assets can be a daunting task. Servers, hard drives and external media...
Provided By Motorola
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Video: IBM IT Innovation Experts Forum - Meet the Experts
With an explosion of data, we must rethink how we build infrastructures. That means eliminating IT silos and doing a lot more sharing of resources across all of IT. But how is this possible without st...
Provided By IBM
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The Critical Role of an ADC in the Data-center and the Internet
The data center is the heart of a corporation's information infrastructure. Having the right Application Delivery Controller (ADC) is critical because it plays a key role in directing traffic, and def...
Provided By Akamai Technologies
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Bank of Russia Saves US$400 Million Per Year by Consolidating to IBM System z9
With a variety of local payment processing systems running on more than 200 distributed servers in 74 data centers across 11 time zones, Bank of Russia faced significant challenges in terms of operati...
Provided By IBM
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Preparing the Physical Infrastructure of Receiving Data Centres for Consolidation
With the lack of on-site resources, increasing demand for constant availability , and changes in the way equipment is deployed have heightened your day-to-day challenges and pressures with ensuring th...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Data centre operational efficiency best practices
There are four key stages that describe the typical evolution of a data centre as it relates to efficiency: Basic, Consolidated, Available and Strategic. How do you move up the efficiency scale and pl...
Provided By IBM
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Copy of Data center operational efficiency best practices: Enabling increased new project spending by improving data center efficiency
There are four key stages that describe the typical evolution of a data center as it relates to efficiency: Basic, Consolidated, Available and Strategic. How do you move up the efficiency scale and pl...
Provided By IBM
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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 red...
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 ...
Provided By Cisco