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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Different Node Deployments in a Square Area Grid of Wireless Sensor Network and Optimal Number of Relays
Wireless sensor networks deployment is an important issue to be considered when trying to cover an area with sensors, the authors' work focuses on the deployment of a grid network for larger number of...
Provided By AIRCC
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Data Interpretation and Transmission Techniques for High Performance Computing Machines
Now a day's efficient and fast interpretation and transmission techniques are becoming more and more vital for the machine designers to take optimum result from limited resources. The quality for inte...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Service Priority based Reliable Routing Path Select Method in Smart Grid Communication Network
The new challenges and schemes for the Smart Grid require high reliable transmission technologies to support various types of electrical services and applications. This paper concentrates the degree o...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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High Performance Speed Sensorless Control of Three-Phase Induction Motor Based on Cloud Computing
Induction motor is a cast of alternating current motor where charge endures allotted to the rotor close-at-hand deputation of conductive charge. These motors are broadly applied in industrial claim du...
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Memory Placement in Network Compression: Line and Grid Topologies
Enabling intermediate nodes in networks with the capability of storing the past communication can offer several benefits. Recently, the authors have shown that by utilizing memory at intermediate node...
Provided By IEICE
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A Two Phased Service Oriented Broker for Replica Selection in Data Grids
Replica selection is one of the fundamental problems in Data Grid's environment. This paper's concern is designing a Two phased Service Oriented Broker (2SOB) for replica selection. It is focused on i...
Provided By Reed Business Information
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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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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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Gartner Research Video: Primary Market Trends that Impact Data Centre Security Today
Today's data centres feel the increasing weight of virtualisation and cloud computing. But many of the available virtualisation security solutions are not designed for today's dynamic IT environment. ...
Provided By Trend Micro Australia
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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 ...
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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 virtuali...
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 virt...
Provided By Cisco
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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...
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Profiling of OpenMP Tasks With Score-P
With the task construct, the Open-MP 3.0 specification introduces an additional level of parallelism that challenges established schemes of performance profiling. First, a thread may execute a sequenc...
Provided By Aachen University
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Cake: Enabling High-level SLOs on Shared Storage Systems
Datacenter applications can be grouped into two broad classes: user-facing, latency-sensitive front-end applications, and internal, throughput-oriented batch analytics frameworks. These applications a...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Improving Datacenter Operations Management Using Wireless Sensor Networks
Increasingly larger datacenters constructed to serve Internet-scale enterprise and Cloud computing workloads are creating significant challenges for the management systems designed to operate them. In...
Provided By ICS
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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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Decentralized Erasure Coding for Efficient Data Archival in Distributed Storage Systems
Distributed storage systems usually achieve fault tolerance by replicating data across different nodes. However, redundancy schemes based on erasure codes can provide a storage-efficient alternative t...
Provided By Nanyang Technological University
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Agent Based Task Scheduling in Grid
Autonomous agents are intelligent entities that can operate on behalf of the human users autonomously to solve the problems, negotiate with other agents (peers), learn from the past and predict upcomi...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research
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Task Scheduling Heuristic in Grid Computing
Task scheduling is heart of any grid application which guides resource allocation in grid. Heuristic task scheduling strategies have been used for optimal task scheduling. Heuristic techniques have be...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research
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Grid Computing: The Next Decade
The evolution of the global scientific Cyber Infrastructure (CI) has, over the last 10+ years, led to a large diversity of CI instances. While specialized, competing and alternative CI building blocks...
Provided By University of Northern Iowa
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Scalable Solutions of Markov Games for Smart-Grid Infrastructure Protection
In this paper, the authors show that when the players' current interest is a subset of the states only and they are willing to accept small inaccuracies in the game solutions; many Markov game states ...
Provided By Purdue Federal Credit Union
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Comfort-Aware Home Energy Management Under Market-Based Demand-Response
To regulate energy consumption and enable Demand-Response programs, effective demand-side management at home is key and an integral part of the future Smart Grid. In essence, the home energy managemen...
Provided By IFIP
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DAHM: A Green and Dynamic Web Application Hosting Manager Across Geographically Distributed Data Centers
Dynamic Application Hosting Management (DAHM) is proposed for geographically distributed data centers, which decides on the number of active servers and on the workload share of each data center. DAHM...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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ECLB: A Novel Exhaustive Criterion Based Grid Load Balancing Algorithm for e-Learning Platform
Virtual learning is a method to access and share study materials on the web and other distributed networks. Grid technology is used for efficient resource sharing and voluminous data processing. Grid ...
Provided By EuroJournals
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Combinational Adaptive Advanced Scheduling Algorithm for Grid Networking
Scheduling is a fundamental issue in achieving high performance on metacomputers and computational grids. For the first time, the job scheduling problem for grid computing on metacomputers is studied ...
Provided By EuroJournals
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Grid Based Wireless Mobile Sensor Network Deployment with Obstacle Adaptability
Mobile Sensors find their target position and placed themselves over the target field to achieve a certain goal in self deployment with certain additional functionality like sensor relocation. An effi...
Provided By AIRCC
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A Comparative Study on Seven Static Mapping Heuristics for Grid Scheduling Problem
Grid computing is a promising technology for future computing platforms and is expected to provide easier access to remote computational resources that are usually locally limited. Scheduling is one o...
Provided By Islamic Azad University
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On Achieving Low Latency in Data Centers
Today's data centers face extreme challenges in providing low latency for online services such as web search, social networking, and recommendation systems. Achieving low latency is important as it im...
Provided By University of Pitesti
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Green-Aware Workload Scheduling in Geographically Distributed Data Centers
Renewable (or green) energy, such as solar or wind, has at least partially powered data centers to reduce the environmental impact of traditional energy sources (brown energy with high carbon footprin...
Provided By Nanyang Technological University
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Delivering 24x7 Learning With Virtualisation & Green Computing
Temasek Polytechnic (TP) is a significant contributor to the field of para-professional education in Singapore, there challenges were to build an e-Campus for anytime, anywhere learning, deliver conne...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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An Overview of Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation in Smart Metering Systems
Growing energy needs forces governments to look for alternative resources and ways of better energy grid management and load balancing. As a major initiative, many countries including the UK, the USA ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Power-Efficient Time-Sensitive Mapping in Heterogeneous Systems
Heterogeneous systems that contain multiple types of resources, such as CPUs and GPUs, are becoming increasingly popular thanks to the potential of achieving high performance and energy efficiency. In...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Making Geo-Replicated Systems Fast as Possible, Consistent When Necessary
Online services distribute and replicate state across geographically diverse data centers and direct user requests to the closest or least loaded site. While effectively ensuring low latency responses...
Provided By Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
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Cabinet Layout Optimization of Supercomputer Topologies for Shorter Cable Length
In this paper, the authors examine the optimization of the physical layout of topologies of switches on a machine room floor with the goal of reducing cable length. For a given topology, using graph c...
Provided By University of Hawai'i
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Fault Tolerant Most Fitting Resource Scheduling Algorithm (FMFRS) for Computational Grid
In computational Grid, fault tolerance is an imperative issue to be considered during job scheduling. Due to the widespread use of resources, systems are highly prone to errors and failures. Hence fau...
Provided By EuroJournals
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Energy Aware Green Task Assignment Algorithm in Clouds
The greatest environmental challenge today is global warming, which is caused by carbon emissions. Energy crisis brings green computing, and green computing needs algorithms and mechanisms to be redes...
Provided By International Journal for Research in Science & Advanced Technologies
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Measuring Energy and Power With PAPI
Energy and power consumption are becoming critical metrics in the design and usage of high performance systems. The authors have extended the Performance API (PAPI) analysis library to measure and rep...
Provided By University of Tehran
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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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Scheduling Tasks on Most Suitable Fault Tolerant Resource for Execution in Computational Grid
Grid computing allows, controlled and coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations. Grids are categorized in to two, as Computational grid and...
Provided By Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Banca IFIS: Bank Decreases Processing Time by 75 Percent With High-Performance Computing Solution
Banca IFIS wanted to speed up its batch processing to meet an increase in customer demand for services. Banca IFIS has experienced an increase in its number of new customers as more small businesses c...
Provided By Microsoft
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High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart: Computer Center Improves Energy Efficiency With New Diskless Cluster
The High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) provides computing resources to internal and external research and industry partners. HLRS offers a range of computing platforms for researchers ...
Provided By Microsoft
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Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: University Extends HPC Capabilities With New Operating System
The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven used to rely solely on a Linux-based high-performance computing (HPC) environment to process research data, but several researchers were unfamiliar with Linux or alr...
Provided By Microsoft
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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 disr...
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 mod...
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 ...
Provided By Cisco
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Delivering 24x7 Learning With Virtualisation & Green Computing
Temasek Polytechnic (TP) is a significant contributor to the field of para-professional education in Singapore, there challenges were to build an e-Campus for anytime, anywhere learning, deliver conne...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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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 vo...
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 ...
Provided By Cisco
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Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Today it is both possible and prudent to plan...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Ten Errors to Avoid When Commissioning a Data Center
Data center commissioning can deliver an unbiased evaluation of whether a newly constructed data center will be an operational success or a failure. Proper execution of the commissioning process is a ...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Containerized Power and Cooling Modules for Data Centers
Standardized, pre-assembled and integrated data center facility power and cooling modules are at least 60% faster to deploy, and provide a first cost savings of 13% or more compared to traditional dat...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Data Center Temperature Rise During a Cooling System Outage
The data center architecture and its IT load significantly affect the amount of time available for continued IT operation following a loss of cooling. Some data center trends such as increasing power ...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Choosing Between Room, Row, and Rack-based Cooling for Data Centers
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, ...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Impact of Hot and Cold Aisle Containment on Data Center Temperature and Efficiency
Both hot-air and cold-air containment can improve the predictability and efficiency of traditional data center cooling systems. While both approaches minimize the mixing of hot and cold air, there are...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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TCO Analysis of a Traditional Data Center vs. a Scalable, Containerized Data Center
Standardized, scalable, pre-assembled, and integrated data center facility power and cooling modules provide a “total cost of ownership” (TCO) savings of 30% compared to traditional, built-out data ce...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Cooling Entire Data Centers Using Only Row Cooling
Row cooling is emerging as a practical total cooling solution for new data centers due to its inherent high efficiency and predictable performance. Yet some IT equipment in data centers appears incomp...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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IBM Maximo Asset Management Essentials
Regardless of the size of the company, managing the critical assets is a vital business function - whether the assets include process equipment, lab, manufacturing, office or warehouse facilities. For...
Provided By IBM
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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 ...
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Virtuozzo from Parallels: Greener Virtualization
Managers at all levels are becoming aware of the substantial amount of energy required to power and cool a datacenter. Server virtualization is one way datacenter managers can reduce the amount of ene...
Provided By Parallels
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Embrace the New Era of Data Centre Services and the Cloud
Read this white paper to learn about the trends affecting the data center and how cloud services are playing a huge role in helping organizations to modernize, improve utilization, and future-proof th...
Provided By Hewlett Packard
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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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RSA® Solutions for Securing Critical Cyber Assets within Electric Utilities
Today, electric utilities are faced with the ever-growing threat of cyber intrusion which poses a huge risk to businesses and power customers. While hackers have targeted electric utilities and have b...
Provided By RSA Security
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Driving operational excellence with predictive analytics
Manage physical and virtual assets, maintain your infrastructure and capital equipment and maximize the efficiency of your people, processes and assets with predictive analytics.
Provided By IBM
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Symantec State of the Data Center Report 2007
Today's data centers are becoming more complex and are likely to become even more so in the next five years. Therefore, it's important for data center managers to understand today's challenges and how...
Provided By Symantec
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Reversing the Requirement for Storage Growth ? IBM Consolidates and Simplifies Tier-2 Storage
Technology and innovation have also come to the rescue of the enterprise data center where vir-tually uncontrolled growth in storage requirements have forced the IT staff to supersize every storage ar...
Provided By IBM
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: Performance and Scalability - User Scalability for the Enterprise
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is designed to help enterprise organizations attain a 360-degree view of customers, achieve reliable user adoption, adapt quickly to business change, and accelerate project ...
Provided By Microsoft
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: Performance and Scalability - Database Scalability for the Enterprise
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 demonstrated its ability to scale to support the needs of an enterprise organization with a very large customer service database. In a test based on a customer database of o...
Provided By Microsoft
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: Enterprise Performance and Scalability
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 is designed to help enterprise organizations attain a 360-degree view of customers, achieve reliable user adoption, adapt quickly to business change, and accelerate project ...
Provided By Microsoft
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0: Performance and Scalability - Bandwidth Utilization Improvements
Microsoft Dynamics CRM business software is designed to help enterprise organizations achieve a 360-degree view of their customers across marketing, sales, and service. Engineered to deliver performan...
Provided By Microsoft
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Quocirca Insight Report: Data Centre Asset Planning -- Regaining control of the data centre
Inefficent power and space usage in data centres wastes both money and energy -- and it's a universal problem. Late last year, Quocirca conducted wide-ranging interviews about the issues contributing ...
Provided By IBM
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IT Infrastructure for Providing Energy-as-a-Service to Electric Vehicles
Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) are set to be the defining trend in road transportation for the 21st century. Unfortunately, the process of charging a large number of PHEVs will put a prohibit...
Provided By IBM
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Gompute Harnesses Sophisticated IBM High Performance Computing
Gompute provides high-performance computing services for a remarkable range of customers. To attract new customers Gompute continually strives to find ways to boost performance, which helps customers ...
Provided By IBM
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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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Clipper Notes: Moving to a Private Cloud? Infrastructure Really Matters!
It is easy to see why The Cloud is a near-perfect metaphor for consuming, providing, and managing virtual resources ("VRs"). Unfortunately, providing and managing VRs is not without challenges and, so...
Provided By IBM
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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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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 avai...
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, b...
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 exten...
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