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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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...
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Predicting Job Wait Time in Grid Environment by Applying Machine Learning Methods on Historical Information
To have high performance scheduling mechanisms in grid computing, the authors need accurate methods for estimating parameters like jobs' wait time and run time. In this paper, they consider wait time ...
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A Taxonomy of Grid Resource Selection Mechanisms
Resources in grid systems are heterogeneous, geographically distributed, belong to different administrative domains and apply different management policies. The roles of resource selection mechanisms ...
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GSWAP: A Data Exchanging Partition for the Execution of Grid Jobs
Grid aggregates heterogeneous resources over Internet to execute large-scale jobs. In the job execution, data is usually downloaded to the computing sites before the data processing. The batch mode of...
Provided By Jilin University
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A Data Throughput Prediction Using Scheduling and Assignment Technique
In this paper, the authors present the design and implementation of an application-layer data throughput prediction and optimization service for many-task computing in widely distributed environments ...
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Maintaining Stability in Distribution System with Microgrid Using Neuro-Fuzzy
Microgrid is now commonly used in distribution system to produce continuous power supply during abnormal condition and also to reduce the total power losses in the system. During normal condition, mic...
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Neural Approach for Resource Selection with PSO for Grid Scheduling
Grid computing is a computing framework to meet growing demands for running different grid enable applications. This paper proposes a neural network for automatically capturing the requirements of the...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Web Applications & Operating Cost of Data Center
Traditionally, organizations use their own data centers to communicate with their users/customers through information technology. Business team of the organization achieves this by funding the develop...
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The Distributed Computing Paradigms: P2P, Grid, Cluster, Cloud, and Jungle
The distributed computing is done on many systems to solve a large scale problem. The growing of high-speed broadband networks in developed and developing countries, the continual increase in computin...
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Capacity Management of Vehicle-to-Grid System for Power Regulation Services
Due to green initiatives adopted in many countries, renewable energy will be massively incorporated into the future smart grid. However, the intermittency of the renewables may result in power imbalan...
Provided By Hong Kong Baptist University
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Dedoop: Efficient Deduplication with Hadoop
The authors demonstrate a powerful and easy-to-use tool called Dedoop (Deduplication with Hadoop) for MapReduce-based Entity Resolution (ER) of large datasets. Dedoop supports a browser-based specific...
Provided By VLD Digital
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M3R: Increased Performance for In-Memory Hadoop Jobs
Main Memory Map Reduce (M3R) is a new implementation of the Hadoop Map Reduce (HMR) API targeted at online analytics on high mean-time-to-failure clusters. It does not support resilience, and supports...
Provided By VLD Digital
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sDTW: Computing DTW Distances using Locally Relevant Constraints based on Salient Feature Alignments
Many applications generate and consume temporal data and retrieval of time series is a key processing step in many application domains. Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance between time series of size ...
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Serializability, not Serial: Concurrency Control and Availability in Multi-Datacenter Datastores
The authors present a framework for concurrency control and availability in multi-datacenter datastores. While they consider Google's Megastore as their motivating example, they define general abstrac...
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Probabilistically Bounded Staleness for Practical Partial Quorums
Data store replication results in a fundamental trade-off between operation latency and data consistency. In this paper, the authors examine this trade-off in the context of quorum-replicated data sto...
Provided By VLD Digital
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Towards Cost-Effective Storage Provisioning for DBMSs
Data center operators face a bewildering set of choices when considering how to provision resources on machines with complex I/O subsystems. Modern I/O subsystems often have a rich mix of fast, high p...
Provided By VLD Digital
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A Load-Sharing Architecture for High Performance Optimistic Simulations on Multi-Core Machines
In Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (PDES), the simulation model is partitioned into a set of distinct Logical Processes (LPs) which are allowed to concurrently execute simulation events. In this pa...
Provided By University of Rochester
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The Design and Implementation of a Multi-Level Content-Addressable Checkpoint File System
Long-running HPC applications guard against node failures by writing checkpoints to parallel file systems. Writing these checkpoints with petascale class machines has proven difficult and the increase...
Provided By Indiana University
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SCORE: Smart-Grid Common Open Research Emulator
A Smart Grid is a digitally enabled electrical grid that equips with various embedded devices that can sense, communicate, compute and control. Validating, analyzing and evaluating new ideas and techn...
Provided By Georgia State University
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Block-Relaxation Methods for 3D Constant-Coefficient Stencils on GPUs and Multicore CPUs
Block iterative methods are extremely important as smoothers for multi-grid methods, as pre-conditioners for Krylov methods, and as solvers for diagonally dominant linear systems. Developing robust an...
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Workload Dependent IO Scheduling for Fairness and Efficiency in Shared Storage Systems
Supporting QoS control mechanisms in shared storage arrays is constrained by the well-justified fear of impacting the system efficiency. This motivates the authors' study of the tradeoff between fairn...
Provided By VMW Games
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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 bankin...
Provided By Cisco
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A Cyber-Physical Integrated System for Application Performance and Energy Management in Data Centers
Both performance and energy cost are important concerns for current data center operators. Traditionally, however, IT and mechanical engineers have separately optimized the cyber vs. physical aspects ...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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High Performance Dense Linear System Solver With Resilience to Multiple Soft Errors
In the multi-peta-flop era for supercomputers, the number of computing cores is growing exponentially. However, as integrated circuit technology scales below 65 nm, the critical charge required to fli...
Provided By University of Tehran
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RapidRAID: Pipelined Erasure Codes for Fast Data Archival in Distributed Storage Systems
To achieve reliability in distributed storage systems, data has usually been replicated across different nodes. However the increasing volume of data to be stored has motivated the introduction of era...
Provided By Nanyang Technological University
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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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Grid Computing for Different Applications
Grid Computing delivers on the potential in the growth and abundance of network connected systems and bandwidth: computation, collaboration and communication over the Advanced Web. At the heart of Gri...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Technology and Applications
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A Balanced Scheduling Algorithm With Fault Tolerance and Task Migration Based on Primary Static Mapping (PSM) in Grid
In this paper, the authors present a balanced scheduling algorithm with considering the fault tolerance and task migration of allocating independent tasks in grid systems. Resource scheduling and its ...
Provided By Payam Chu
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Highly Expandable Reconfigurable Platform Using Multi-FPGA based Boards
Reconfigurable computing has become an essential part of research since last few decades. By placing computationally intensive applications in the reconfigurable logic area of the system, the remarkab...
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Energy Optimizations for Data Center Network: Formulation and Its Solution
Data center consumes increasing amount of power nowadays, together with expanding number of data centers and upgrading data center scale, its power consumption becomes a knotty issue. While main effor...
Provided By Nanyang Technological University
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Smart Grids: A New Framework for Efficient Power Management in Datacenter Networks
The energy demand in the enterprise market segment demands a supply format that accommodates all generation and storage options with active participation by end users in demand response. Basically, wi...
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Workflow Management for High Availability of Resources in Grid Environment
The objective of this paper is to propose workflow management for high availability of resources in grid computing. Grid is providing infrastructure for grid workflow for managing grid applications. T...
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Characterizing the Impact of the Workload on the Value of Dynamic Resizing in Data Centers
Energy consumption imposes a significant cost for data centers; yet much of that energy is used to maintain excess service capacity during periods of predictably low load. Resultantly, there has recen...
Provided By Cornell University
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Novel Design of a 9T SRAM Cell With Reduced Leakage for Embedded Cache Memory Application
Low power memory design is one of the most challenging aspects in VLSI design. Trends in scaling technology have led to domination of leakage power dissipation. With large number of low power techniqu...
Provided By EuroJournals
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Double Auction-Inspired Meta-Scheduling of Parallel Applications on Global Grids
Meta-schedulers map jobs to computational resources that are part of a grid, such as clusters, that in turn have their own local job schedulers. Existing Grid meta-schedulers either target system-cent...
Provided By University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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A Survey of Game Theoretic Approaches in Smart Grid
The concept of smart grid to transform the age old power grid into a smart and intelligent electric power distribution system is, currently, a hot research topic. Smart grid offers the merging of elec...
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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A Novel Approach to Enhance Reliability in Hadoop with Reduced Storage Requirement
A data grid should provide fast, reliable and transparent access of data to a large number of heterogeneous and geographically distributed users. The volume of data handled in a data grid is in the or...
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Optimal Performance Mapping on Reconfigurable Architecture for Multimedia Applications
Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs) are capable of achieving both goals of high performance and flexibility. CGRAs not only improve performance by exploiting the features of repetitive...
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Robust Dynamic Provable Data Possession
Remote Data Checking (RDC) allows clients to efficiently check the integrity of data stored at untrusted servers. This allows data owners to assess the risk of outsourcing data in the cloud, making RD...
Provided By New Jersey Institute of Technology
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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...
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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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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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Building an Efficient Data Center With IBM IDataPlex
Demand for data center compute capacity has been steadily growing over the past few years with existing as well as emerging technologies such as Web 2.0, online gaming, Social Network Analysis (SNA), ...
Provided By IBM
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Implementing the Poughkeepsie Green Data Center: Showcasing a Dynamic Infrastructure
The IBM Design Center Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, was running out of cooling capacity and needed to address continuing IT growth requirements. Innovative change was required and transformat...
Provided By IBM
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The bottom line on asset availability
Keeping your plant assets up and running is crucial to productivity and profit, but most facilities don't really know if they are running at peak efficiency. A 1% improvement in plant availability mea...
Provided By IBM
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Saving Storage With IBM System Storage N Series Virtualization Solutions
There are several dynamics at work in the data center. Uncertain economic times can cause data center managers to reevaluate their budgets and reduce overall IT spending. At the same time, environment...
Provided By IBM
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Getting flexible with datacentre infrastructure
Change is accelerating for datacentre and IT managers. According to IBM's global studies, CEOs and CIOs want IT to make smarter contributions to the organisation. There are proven ways to design and m...
Provided By IBM
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Los Alamos National Laboratory Breaks Petaflop Barrier With Hybrid Supercomputer From IBM
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has been at the forefront of national security since its founding in 1943. The organization now finds itself at the forefront of supercomputing technology. LANL's...
Provided By IBM
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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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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 roun...
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, a...
Provided By Cisco
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Assessment Prescribes a Technology Cure for Roswell Park
RPCI operated for years as a state hospital. It had a history of modest technology investment. Its data center was comprised of only four servers, for instance. The entire technology organization was...
Provided By HP and Intel®
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Converged Hardware Management
Increasingly complex IT infrastructures require new tools and strategies to streamline operations and reduce the management complexity. While virtualization and cloud-based technologies have helped c...
Provided By Oracle
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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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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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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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Exploring Smart Grid and Data Center Interactions for Electric Power Load Balancing
The operation of a data center consumes a tremendous amount of electricity, and the energy cost accounts for a large portion of the data center's operation cost. This leads to a growing interest towar...
Provided By Purdue Federal Credit Union
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IT Hosting Company on Line do Brasil Nourishes Its Growing Business With an Energy-Efficient and Cost-Effective IT Platform From IBM
On Line do Brasil is a service and hosting provider for midsize and small companies. After experiencing rapid growth for more than three years, On Line do Brasil needed to expand its data center opera...
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 ...
Provided By Cisco
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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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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 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 - 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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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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Data Center Automation in an Uncertain Economy
Today, organizations just like yours are under greater than ever pressures to do more with less. Many are implementing virtualization as a means to reduce costs. However, managing a virtualized enviro...
Provided By IBM
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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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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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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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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 inves...
Provided By Cisco
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CASPUR: Supercomputing Consortium Adds Flexibility, Improves Usability With New HPC System
The Interuniversity Consortium for the Application of Supercomputing for Universities and Research (CASPUR) in Rome manages a high-powered processing service center that is open to the entire Italian ...
Provided By Microsoft
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University of Bologna: University Physicists Reach New Research Horizons With High-Performance Computing
The Department of Physics at the University of Bologna needed to increase its computation speed for complex tomographic analysis of large works of art. The department eschewed the university's existin...
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