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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Augmenting Hierarchical Load Balancing with Intelligence in Grid Environment
Scheduling independent tasks to homogeneous resources is an ineluctable issue to be dealt with. Load balancing of resources is a crucial matter of concern. This paper comes out with an enhancement of ...
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Scheduling Jobs in Face of Status Update Timing of Resources in Computational Grids
Users and resources frequently join and leave computational grid, hence the state of the grid changes dynamically. So, an effective job scheduling strategy is needed that consider the dynamically chan...
Provided By Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Ant-Q Agent System Based Path Optimization Service for a Multi-Objective Mobile Robot and Real World
A multi-objective mobile robot path planning algorithm based on improved Ant-Q agent system algorithm is proposed. The most Driver has Navigation system. It is convenient if he use the Navigation syst...
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Vehicular Testbeds - Model Validation Before Large Scale Deployment
Vehicular communications are becoming a reality due to the investments by stakeholders like car manufacturers and public transport authorities. The building blocks of the "Vehicle grid" (radios, Acces...
Provided By Academy Publisher
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Energy Efficiency in Data Centers and IT Industry Obtaining Efficient Performance by Optimum Loading and Harmonics Mitigation
As the trend shifts from paper-based to digital information management, IT & Datacenter have become common and essential to the functioning of business systems. Datacenter is a facility that has vario...
Provided By International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (IJETAE)
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Revised Slide Window First Algorithm for Advanced Reservation in Optical Grid
For utilizing distributed resources in optical grid environment advanced reservations play a very crucial role. For applications like the co-allocation of distributed resources and deadline driven app...
Provided By Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Two Parallel Strategies for Real-Time Spatial Video Denoising for Multi-Core Processors
Video denoising is usually a time consuming process especially for large video files. With the advancement of the processor technology, it is possible to perform video denoising in real-time on multi-...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Dynamic Replication Based on Availability and Popularity in the Presence of Failures
The data grid provides geographically distributed resources for large-scale applications. It generates a large set of data. The replication of this data in several sites of the grid is an effective so...
Provided By KIPS
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Crawler Architecture Using Grid Computing
Crawler is one of the main components in the search engines which use URLs to fetch web pages to build a repository of web pages starting with entering URL. Each web page is parsed to extract the URLs...
Provided By Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Transparent and Efficient Shared-State Management for Optimistic Simulations on Multi-Core Machines
Traditionally, Logical Processes (LPs) forming a simulation model store their execution information into disjoint simulations states, forcing events exchange to communicate data between each other. In...
Provided By University of Rochester
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Avoiding Overages by Deferred Aggregate Demand for PEV Charging on the Smart Grid
The authors model the aggregate overnight demand for electricity by a large community of (possibly hybrid) Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) each of whose power demand follows a prescribed profile and ...
Provided By Uppror Media Group
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An Efficient Multiple Access Scheme for Voltage Control in Smart Grid Using WiMAX
An efficient WiMAX-based multiple access scheme for the state updating in voltage control is introduced. The scheme, called sample-contention scheme, addresses the problem of optimally bringing deviat...
Provided By University of Tehran
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Modeling the Neighborhood Area Networks of the Smart Grid
ICT and M2M communications will definitely play a key role on making the Smart Grid dream comes true. However, there are many available communications technologies that can be applied to this area, so...
Provided By University of Cincinnati
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Coping With Fluctuations in Resource Availability in Grid Networks
Due to the fact that grid networks are nonproprietary systems, resource allocation mechanisms must cope with fluctuations in resource availability to guarantee the QoS requirements of the applications...
Provided By University of Camerino
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An Algorithm for Joint Guidance and Power Control for Electric Vehicles in the Smart Grid
A massive amount of energy consumption currently stems from the transportation sector. Therefore, improvements in power usage by commuting vehicles are being studied and becoming an increasingly popul...
Provided By North Carolina State University
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A Cheat-Proof Game Theoretic Demand Response Scheme for Smart Grids
While demand response has achieved promising results on making the power grid more efficient and reliable, the additional dynamics and flexibility brought by demand response also increase the uncertai...
Provided By University of Mary Washington
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A Review of High Performance Computing Foundations for Scientists
The increase of existing computational capabilities has made simulation emerge as a third discipline of Science, lying midway between experimental and purely theoretical branches. Simulation enables t...
Provided By Universidad de Vigo
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High Performance Spatial Query Processing for Large Scale Scientific Data
Analyzing and querying large volumes of spatially derived data from scientific experiments has posed major challenges in the past decade. For example, the systematic analysis of imaged pathology speci...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Performance Modeling of Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Scientific Applications on Large-Scale Multicore Supercomputers
In this paper, the authors present a performance modeling framework based on memory bandwidth contention time and a parameterized communication model to predict the performance of OpenMP, MPI and hybr...
Provided By Texas A&M International University
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Remedy: Network-Aware Steady State VM Management for Data Centers
Steady state VM-management in data centers should be network-aware so that VM migrations do not degrade network performance of other flows in the network, and if required, a VM migration can be intell...
Provided By International Federation for Information Processing
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A Service for Virtual Cluster Performance Evaluation
Virtualization is not a new technology, but recently a plurality of factors has boosted its adoption for server applications in production systems. Basically, a Virtual Machine (VM) environment provid...
Provided By University of San Francisco
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Performance Evaluation of Grid-Enabled Code: A Case Study
The goal of computational grids is to aggregate numerous heterogeneous resources in order to provide sufficient computational power to solve large-scale problems. In a grid environment, users can use ...
Provided By University of San Francisco
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Optimal Parameter Identification in Ant Colony Optimization for Load Balancing in Grid Computing
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a Swarm Intelligence technique which inspired from the foraging behavior of real ant colonies. The ants deposit pheromone on the ground in order to mark the route for ...
Provided By EuroJournals
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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 agg...
Provided By Cisco
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Adaptive Energy Forecasting and Information Diffusion for Smart Power Grids
Smart Power Grids exemplify an emerging class of Cyber Physical Applications that exhibit Dynamic, Distributed and Data intensive (D3) characteristics along with an always-on paradigm to support opera...
Provided By University of Southampton
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Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search
As two important operations in data cleaning, similarity join and similarity search have attracted much attention recently. Existing methods to support similarity join usually adopt a prefix-filtering...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Data Center Network Architectures
Data centers have become increasingly essential part of Internet communications, thus there have been interest in understanding how to better design and manage data centers. In this paper, the authors...
Provided By Aalto University
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User Demand Aware Scheduling Algorithm for Data Intensive Tasks in Grid Environment
Computational grids use heterogeneous geographically distributed resources and solves large scale applications by sharing computational capacity. Effective utilization of grid resources requires effic...
Provided By EuroJournals
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Complimentary SuccessFactors whitepaper: Leaders Drive Productivity
When it comes to business, high-performance environments stimulate individuals to work better, stronger, and faster. Why does high-performance management matter? It matters because it means better res...
Provided By SuccessFactors
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Priority Based Mathematical Modeling for Grid Computing Environment
Grids are a form of distributed computing whereby a "Super virtual computer" is composed of many networked loosely coupled computers acting together to perform very large tasks. This technology has be...
Provided By The Interscience Research Network (IRNet)
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MROrchestrator: A Fine-Grained Resource Orchestration Framework for MapReduce Clusters
Efficient resource management in data centers and clouds running large distributed data processing frameworks like MapReduce is crucial for enhancing the performance of hosted applications and increas...
Provided By Pennsylvania State University
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An Efficient Distributed Randomized Solver With Application to Large Dense Linear Systems
Randomized algorithms are gaining ground in high performance computing applications as they have the potential to outperform deterministic methods, while still providing accurate results. In this pape...
Provided By University of Tehran
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Building Cloud-Scale Networks Using Open Fabric Architectures
Several technology inflection points are coming together that are fundamentally changing the way networks are architected, deployed and operated both in the public cloud and private cloud. Requirement...
Provided By Extreme Networks
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High Performance Computing Cluster Interconnect
High Performance Computing Clusters (HPCC) are no longer exclusive to the scientific community. "Big Data Analytics" are big business. Financial Services, Retail and Manufacturing all require real-tim...
Provided By Extreme Networks
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Public, Hybrid and Private Virtualized Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Center Architecture Overview
The Extreme Networks Virtualized Multi-Tenant and Cloud Data Center Architecture are designed to meet the needs of service providers and enterprises in this fast-growing market. This architecture is b...
Provided By Extreme Networks
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Storage System Architecture for Data Centers of the Future
Storage system architecture for data centers of future aims to address a few areas of critical importance to the design of storage systems for data centers of the future. With the massive amounts of d...
Provided By AICIT
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Modellus: Automated Modeling of Complex Internet Data Center Applications
The rising complexity of distributed server applications in Internet data centers has made the tasks of modeling and analyzing their behavior increasingly difficult. This paper presents Modellus, a no...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Introducing the New SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 E-Book
The pressure is on to deliver more performance at a lower cost, more capacity with fewer resources, and more business value with legacy systems. Aging and hard to manage infrastructure can make it tou...
Provided By Oracle
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Analysing Grid Security Issues and Some Preliminary Approaches for Secure Environment in Grid
Grid computing is a wide area parallel distributed computing environment where idle processor cycles and underutilized storages of geographically dispersed resources are utilized optimum way which act...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications
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Multi Objectives Heuristic Algorithm for Grid Computing
Grid computing provides the means of using and sharing heterogeneous resources that are geographically distributed to solve complex scientific or technical problems. Task scheduling is critical to ach...
Provided By King Abdulaziz University
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Smarter Data Center Interactive Flash
The Smarter Data Centers video discusses how IBM can help organization glean greater value from their data center environments. This is accomplished via analytics-based services that can help extend t...
Provided By IBM
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The Clipper Group: IBM Introduces More-Efficient x86 Servers ? Improving Virtualization, Energy, Lowering TCO
According to Clipper Group analysts, data centers around the world have become choked with inefficient and poorly managed servers; servers that are only being utilized at 15% to 20% of their capabilit...
Provided By IBM
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Metavante Enhances Agility With IBM WebSphere Application Server, Version 7
Metavante needed to manage fast growth and respond more quickly to the changing market conditions facing its industry such as shorter development cycles and higher demands for security. WebSphere Appl...
Provided By IBM
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Migration to IMPAX6 helps busy Maryland hospital meet zero downtime goal
Download this customer case study to learn how they implemented and deployed a BladeSystem architecture from HP that could support zero downtime goal for their trauma center. And with Agfa IMPAX 6, t...
Provided By HP and Intel®
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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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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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IBM Information Infrastructure to Meet New Emerging Green Initiatives and Needs in IT
While reading this paper, one must be aware that today's business executives are concerned not only with the growing costs of energy to run and cool data centers, but also with presenting a green corp...
Provided By IBM
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Algorithmics and IBM Platform Computing solution for financial markets
This paper describes best practices on how to spread the computational demands of advanced risk analytics across a dynamic grid computing environment. With a more advanced and capable computing infras...
Provided By IBM
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Controlling Application Data Growth in the IBM z/OS Environment
The IBM z/OS mainframe environment maintains a well-earned reputation for supporting critical business applications by continuing to provide superior processing power, availability and security - whil...
Provided By IBM
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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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Integrate facilities and IT. Realize the value of the green data center
This paper discusses the importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and how systems management technologies contribute to green management. The paper provides an overview of green data ...
Provided By IBM
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The value of smarter datacentre services
As organisations expand in the next five years, a diverse and efficient datacentre strategy will be essential. The future datacentre will need to be flexible, highly automated and based on workload de...
Provided By IBM
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Effective Asset Management in an Uncertain Economy
As data center costs continue to rise, green is the word of the day. What it means is cost savings through consolidation and lower energy usage, as this white paper shows. See the role energy consumpt...
Provided By IBM
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Carmeuse Lime & Stone Gains a New data Center That Provides Room For future Growth While Better Protecting IT Investments
The U.S. branch of the company, Carmeuse Lime & Stone, is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is the largest provider of lime and lime-stone in North America. After considering a number of ...
Provided By IBM
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Recology Turns to IBM to Help Meet A short Runway for Designing, Building and Moving to a New Data Center
The prospect of needing to design, build and be operational in a new data center is bound to cause fleeting panic in even the most seasoned IT director. In late December 2008, negotiations on a new le...
Provided By IBM
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A Workplace Services firm Resolves Its flooding Fears
With so many services and business lines to support, PHS had invested in a number of IT systems to meet its day-to-day operating needs. After considering proposals from five different vendors, the bus...
Provided By IBM
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Preventive Site and Facilities Measures Avert Escalating Costs
The West Virginia University Hospitals healthcare network required a highly efficient, scalable data center to support the growth and technological advancements of its hospitals' system. IBM site and ...
Provided By IBM
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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...
Provided By Cisco
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The Ohio Supercomputer Center Asserts Its Position in the Industry and Boosts Processing Capacity With an IBM System Cluster 1350 Solution
The Ohio Supercomputer Center had been relying on a number of High-Performance Computing (HPC) solutions to serve its customers. Unfortunately, these systems had become outdated. The organization want...
Provided By IBM
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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 sim...
Provided By Cisco
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Fast, Effective Business Warehousing With the IBM Systems Solution for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator
Endress+Hauser wanted to maintain and reduce query response times in the face of rapid BW growth. The company wanted to make query response times more predictable, eliminating the need for custom tuni...
Provided By IBM
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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 spec...
Provided By Cisco
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American Osteopathic Association Maintains a Healthy Data Center With IBM BladeCenter and IBM System Storage
The American Osteopathic Association's (AOA) resources must be available around the clock, requiring a robust data center infrastructure that fits in a limited physical space and can be managed by a s...
Provided By IBM
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Top-Level Executive R?sum? Best-Kept Secret
In reality, executive r?sum? writing can be a rather complicated task for those who are unfamiliar with it - and in some ways, even for those already familiar with the process. In such difficult situa...
Provided By contentdig.com
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Guide to Selecting a Data Center Monitoring System
While the process of selection of a monitoring system is necessarily unique to every enterprise, this paper provides some guidance as to issues to consider when making that decision. Selecting the bes...
Provided By LogicMonitor
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Austin Energy: Leading the Way to the Smart Grid
Austin Energy was seeking to improve service and reliability, Texas utility Austin Energy saw the need - and opportunity - to transform how it delivers electricity. Austin Energy partnered with IBM to...
Provided By IBM
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State of Green in Data Center
IBM continues to expand on its commitment to becoming the leader in providing products and partnerships to improve your energy efficiency. Businesses are looking not only at the data center but to the...
Provided By IBM
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Greening the data center with IBM Tivoli Software
This white paper describes the importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and provides an overview of the problems and issues associated with "greening" today's data centers. It then de...
Provided By IBM
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SprintSecure Message Protection Fact Sheet
SprintSecure(sm) Message Protection keeps businesses safe from potential security risks due to the explosive growth of email. Read this solution brief to see how to keep your email assets safe and pr...
Provided By Sprint
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Mastering Virtualized Environments
Data centers are growing rapidly in size and complexity. At the same time, competitive and economic pressures are making cost control even more critical to the overall success of data center implemen...
Provided By IBM
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Scalable and Reliable Systems Management for Cloud Computing
With the advent of cloud computing, massive and automated system management has become more important for successful and economical operation of computing resources. However, traditional monolithic sy...
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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Performance Projection of HPC Applications Using SPEC CFP2006 Benchmarks
Performance projections of High Performance Computing (HPC) applications onto various hardware platforms are important for hardware vendors and HPC users. The projections aid hardware vendors in the d...
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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Webcast: Accelerating IT with Workload Image Management
Images are fast becoming the core objects for deployment in data centers - bypassing installation problems, providing faster time to value, better availability, and more efficient disaster recovery. W...
Provided By IBM