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Ten Errors to Avoid When Commissioning a Data Center

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

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...

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Top-rated reviews of the week (pictures)

April 27, 2013 1:00am PDT

This week, CNET reviewers got starry-eyed over the do-anything Galaxy S4. We tested an iPad keyboard you can use in the dark, headphones you'll want to fall asleep in, a self-winding extension...

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Location Prediction of Mobility Management Using Soft Computing Techniques in Cellular Network

April 27, 2013 12:00am PDT

This paper describes the neural network technique to solve location management problem. A multilayer neural model is designed to predict the future prediction of the subscriber based on the past...

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Cloud for Dummies, IBM Midsize Company Limited Edition

April 26, 2013 12:00am PDT

This book gives mid-sized companies insights on what it means to create flexible pools of computing resources that break down silos in your company so you can perform in a smarter and more...

Provided by: IBM

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IBM x86 Servers in the Cloud: Serving the Cloud

April 26, 2013 12:00am PDT

An analysis and perspective from leading IT Industry analysts Technology Business Research (TBR) on how x86 servers and the implementation of private clouds offer a secure and cost-effective means...

Provided by: IBM

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Solutions for a More Energy-Efficient Data Center: From Water to Fresh-Air Cooling

April 26, 2013 12:00am PDT

This white paper discusses recent trends in the industry toward increasing energy efficiency of the data center in order to save on power and cooling costs without reducing performance. Included...

Provided by: IBM

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Deploying Cloud with IBM System x

April 26, 2013 12:00am PDT

As a small or medium-sized business, knowing which infrastructure investments you need to make to improve your business is easy. The struggle is being able to apply your finite resources for...

Provided by: IBM

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Capitalize on a highly available virtualization reference architecture

April 26, 2013 12:00am PDT

Struggling with how to achieve consistent uptime? Address the challenges that can potentially cripple services and applications, while reducing data center costs and increasing workload...

Provided by: IBM

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IBM SmartCloud Entry on System x with VMware vSphere Essentials Plus

April 26, 2013 12:00am PDT

To address rapidly changing IT demands, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) can now go beyond virtualization and tap into the economic advantages of private clouds, enabling them to reinvent their...

Provided by: IBM

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Benefits of Consolidating on New IBM System x 2-Socket Servers

April 26, 2013 12:00am PDT

Read this white paper to see how consolidating with IBM’s 2-socket servers can help reduce cost, complexity and improve performance especially in virtualized environments. IBM® System x3650 M4...

Provided by: IBM

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New startup Exablox announced at Storage Field Day 3

April 25, 2013 8:12am PDT

Startup Exablox announced its launch at Storage Field Day and impressed this delegate. Watch Exablox's presentation and demo to learn about its NAS solution.

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10 stupid things people do in their data centers

April 25, 2013 7:08am PDT

Small missteps can turn into huge problems in the data center -- and that can mean big trouble for your organization (and for you).

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ESG Whitepaper: HP StoreOnce Backup Is “Better Together” with Symantec Backup Solutions

April 25, 2013 12:00am PDT

As much as deduplication originally solved the main setback for disk-based backups (the cost of storing the data), the evolution of deduplication must bring the optimization discernment closer to...

Provided by: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors

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First-Passage Time and Large-Deviation Analysis for Erasure Channels With Memory

April 25, 2013 12:00am PDT

This paper considers the performance of digital communication systems transmitting messages over finite-state erasure channels with memory. Information bits are protected from channel erasures...

Provided by: Texas A&M International University

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On the Feasibility of Online Malware Detection with Performance Counters

April 25, 2013 12:00am PDT

The proliferation of computers in any domain is followed by the proliferation of malware in that domain. Systems, including the latest mobile platforms, are laden with viruses, rootkits, spyware,...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Three Ways to Improve Your Data Storage Capabilities

April 25, 2013 12:00am PDT

Every company is interested in capturing, analyzing and taking action on data. Unfortunately, many data solutions and partners promise the world but offer very little. Whether you're thinking of...

Provided by: EMC

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Hunting down the mainframe unicorn

April 24, 2013 2:49am PDT

Gee what a surprise I've been in this business since 1978, and have lost count of how many times "new technologies" were going to get rid of Mainframes, the hoopla has been so big and pervasive...

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A Meta-Model for Performance Modeling of Dynamic Virtualized Network Infrastructures

April 24, 2013 12:00am PDT

The increasing popularity of Cloud Computing is leading to the emergence of large virtualized data centers hosting increasingly complex and dynamic IT systems and services. The performance of...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Embrace the New Era of Data Centre Services and the Cloud

April 24, 2013 12:00am PDT

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...

Provided by: Hewlett Packard

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Email Is A Key Workload For Storage Strategy

April 24, 2013 12:00am PDT

Email has been a mission-critical application for years and at the heart of organizations' communications and business practices. From an architecture perspective, email has frequently been...

Provided by: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors