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Case Studies
Rabobank Continues Its Tradition of Using Leading-Edge Technology by Adopting HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem
Dec 2009
Netherlands-based Rabobank has 9.5 million clients in 46 countries, a triple-A credit rating, and consistent growth of payment and Internet transactions of around 25% per year. Rabobank wanted to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Middle East State Modernizes Court System
Sep 2009
The Courts Department is responsible for enforcing the law in both civil and criminal matters throughout this Middle East state. It also acts as a registry for marriages and divorces, religious...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Windows 7 made easier with Citrix XenDesktop
Mar 2010
While Windows 7 adoption may be a daunting proposition, most of the potential challenges have more to do with outdated IT practices for provisioning and management. This whitepaper looks at how...
Provided by Citrix Systems, Inc.
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White Papers
Diagnosing the Cause of Poor Application Performance
Mar 2010
When troubleshooting application performance issues, there are two steps you can take. First, understand the common causes and, second, use the right tool to diagnose them. Read about these common...
Provided by Fluke Networks
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White Papers
ESG: Driving Storage Efficiency in SAN Environments
Nov 2009
Today's IT organizations need to operate on slimmer budgets while managing the increased demands of the data center. This ESG paper outlines the considerations for architecting an efficient SAN...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
TOT_Top Five Hyper-V Best Practices
Jan 2010
NetApp best practices cover important new features of Microsoft® HyperV™ as well as lessons learned from numerous deployments. Learn how to configure networks, set appropriate iGroups and LUN...
Provided by NetApp
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Downloads
Informatica Data Archive
Manage Data Growth While Controlling CostsMar 2010
An Informatica Product Demo Data volumes aren't just growing—they're exploding. In fact, much of the expensive hardware and software in your organization is probably clogged with it. Even worse,...
Provided by Informatica
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Whitepapers
Demand and sales funnel analytics - How forward thinking marketing organizations deliver competitive differentiators
Mar 2010
Designed for the marketing operations manager and executive, this series of Sirius Decisions research briefs focuses on the emergence of Marketing Operations and its increasing adoption of demand...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Data Driven Marketing
Oct 2009
This report examines how Organizations are using data to impact marketing performance and marketing effectiveness Example: VITAS has been using IBM Cognos TM1 for over 10 years for everything from...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Are We Ready for Enterprise Search?: Text Analytics and Intelligent Agents Cannot Be Overlooked
Mar 2010
It is critical to implement an enterprise search solution to meet the growing information needs of the business. The solution must be able to adapt to the organization's needs and transform...
Provided by MobilVox
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Tools & Templates
CA ARCserve Backup r12.5 ROI Calculator
Mar 2010
Now more than ever you're being called on to drive efficiencies, manage risk and do more with less, while at the same time, data — and its value to your business — is growing exponentially,...
Provided by CA
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Whitepapers
Virtual Software Development Appliances ekit - Get the same great IBM software, just pre-configured and for less.
Mar 2010
The way you to acquire, manage and pay for software has changed. Today, companies have more choices -- like SaaS, Cloud, and Virtual Appliances to get the software development tools they need,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Intro to Unified Communications
Mar 2010
UC provides substantial benefit to the enterprise in terms of capabilities that allow staff to collaborate in real time, access critical information and communicate seamlessly with coworkers and...
Provided by CDW
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White Papers
Curing Life Sciences Data Management Challenges With Scalable Storage
Feb 2010
This paper will look at the drivers forcing organizations to rethink their traditional storage solutions, the data storage and management challenges life sciences organizations face today, and...
Provided by Panasas
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Webcasts
IntelRISK, Data & Analytics Panel Discussion
Jul 2009
The attendee will hear what presenter have to say about the key risk, data and analytics issues affecting the financial services sector at the recent Intel fasterCITY event in London.
Provided by Intel
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Webcasts
Market Data Latency: London Stock Exchange Study
Apr 2009
The presenter of this webcast offers a unique perspective of the importance of driving down latency and increasing through-put to the Exchange.
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
Data Storage Archiving White Paper
Dec 2005
The rapidly increasing quantities of data generated in the last couple of years, in particular the electronic data, meant that a larger amount of data must be archived. Businesses recently noted...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Beyond ROI: Creating Long Term Value Through ERP
Mar 2010
Small and medium-sized companies face significant challenges in implementing company-wide or enterprise wide solutions. These challenges arise from the scarcity of resources − money, time...
Provided by Sage Software
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White Papers
Breaking Down the Barriers to Business
Mar 2010
It's a given that information is the lifeblood of the 21st century organisation. Organisations that seek the elusive goal of a single view of the customer need first to instil an...
Provided by Sage Software
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White Papers
Assembling the Jigsaw - Realising the value of data
Mar 2010
As companies face ever mounting global competition, the ability to manage information is set to play an increasingly important role in competitive strategy. If companies are to avoid being drawn...
Provided by Sage Software
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White Papers
Optimise Your ERP System: How to Avoid the Implementation Sins
Mar 2010
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems offer much potential to improve your way of doing business. A successful ERP implementation can provide better business intelligence, streamline business...
Provided by Sage Software
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White Papers
The Intelligent Company White Paper
Mar 2010
Accounting and other business systems are packed with useful, and often critical, business information which can be turned to competitive advantage if analysed properly and quickly. A new...
Provided by Sage Software
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Whitepapers
Manage enterprise data with Integrated Data Management
Jan 2010
To successfully harness organizational data to business goals and manage data and data-driven applications so they deliver business value, enterprises need a comprehensive approach to managing...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Data Growth Challenges Demand Proactive Data Management
Nov 2009
Data growth is one of the most significant challenges - and opportunities - facing organizations today. New forms of data, the retention of additional detail for analysis, increasing pressure for...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Breakthrough: Humberside Police Improves Intelligence to Enhance Public Services
Jun 2008
The men and women of the Humberside Police Force dedicate themselves each day to reducing crime and antisocial behaviour, protecting communities and providing a visible neighbourhood presence that...
Provided by Unisys
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Case Studies
Breakthrough: Innovative Contact Data Management Tool Shows Market Leadership at Mobilkom Austria
Oct 2008
Mobilkom austria is the leading mobile telephone services provider in Austria. They wanted to store contact data centrally, retrieve it any time while on the move, synchronise between various...
Provided by Unisys
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Case Studies
UPSS Gains Intelligent, Robust Data Archiving
Aug 2008
In 2003, Dutch payments processor and domestic clearing house Interpay Document Services chose Unisys Corporation to develop a data-storage solution that would improve customer service through...
Provided by Unisys
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White Papers
Best Practices for Eliminating Fragmentation with Modern Storage Technologies
Jan 2010
Due to the significant complexity of the software and hardware used in modern storage environments, there are many myths and misconceptions regarding the continuing need for a solution to...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
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Webcasts
A New Way of Working: Insights from Global Leaders
Mar 2010
What can nearly 300 executives teach you about what separates outperforming organizations from their peers? Quite a bit. In this short video, preview the results of a new study that reveals...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Information Retrieval Perspective to Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction for Data Visualization
Dec 2009
Nonlinear dimensionality reduction methods are often used to visualize high-dimensional data, although the existing methods have been designed for other related tasks such as manifold learning. It...
Provided by Aalto University School of Science and Technology
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White Papers
Visualizing Data Trend and Relation for Exploring Knowledge
Jan 2010
When making decisions, it is often critical to understand the trends and relationships in the task-related information. Complicating matters is the time-varying nature of this information....
Provided by National Taiwan University
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White Papers
A Flexible Network Monitoring Tool Based on a Data Stream Management System
Apr 2008
Network monitoring is a complex task that generally requires the use of different tools for specific purposes. This paper describes a flexible network monitoring tool, called PaQueT, designed to...
Provided by Universidade Federal do Paraná
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Case Studies
Czech Bank Offers Customers New Secure Online Payment Options for E-Commerce
Mar 2010
Ceskoslovenska obchodní banka (CSOB) wanted to launch PaySec as one of the first online payment services for merchants and clients in the republic. The bank used the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Manage and Standardize All Your Environmental and Sampling Data - Efficiently and Cost-Effectively
Feb 2010
In the increasingly ecologically conscious society, the demand for environmental data is growing rapidly. Regulatory bodies and government agencies require detailed and comprehensive environmental...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Leading Middle East Financial Group Sustains Rapid Growth With Database Deployment
Feb 2010
One of the leading Financial Groups in the Middle East, EFG-Hermes was growing at such a rapid pace that it was reaching the processing limits of its existing database infrastructure. By deploying...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Microsoft Case Study: Libelle AG
Mar 2010
Complex application landscapes make manual backup and restore procedures unfeasible, and new legal requirements demand full disaster recovery protection. Only very large distances between sites...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
"High Volume" Archiving: A Telecommunications Example for Call Data Records
Oct 2009
IBM is not responsible for ensuring its clients' adherence to federal and state mandated data compliance regulations. It is the client's sole responsibility to obtain advice of competent legal...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Performance Management With Trusted Information: How IBM InfoSphere Software Can Enhance Your Investment in IBM Cognos
Sep 2008
Most of the IT investments made over the past 15 years have focused on automating the business - ensuring that transactions flow seamlessly between applications. Organizations are now realizing...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
A Platform for Enterprise Data Services: The Proven Power and Flexibility of IMS From IBM
Oct 2009
Enterprises are engaged in a wide range of efforts to integrate their data and make it available to a new class of applications, resulting in a heightened demand for constantly available data and...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Whitepapers
IBM InfoSphere Software: Trusted Information
Oct 2008
As businesses change, so too does the nature of information that is central to critical business operations. Whether it's industry consolidation, global expansion or increasing regulatory pressure...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Watson: A system designed for answers
Jan 2012
Learn more about Watson (as seen on Jeopardy!), the latest IBM Research Grand Challenge, designed to further the science of natural language processing through advances in question and answer...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Research on the Knowledge-sharing Dilemmas of DSRT and Countermeasures from the Perspective of Social Networks
Sep 2011
The issue of knowledge-sharing was an important factor affecting research performance of Distribution Scientific Research Team (DSRT). Analysis its knowledge-sharing dilemma and put forward...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
On Solving Efficiently the View Selection Problem Under Bag-Semantics
Aug 2009
In this paper, the authors investigate the problem of view selection for workloads of conjunctive queries under bag semantics. In particular they aim to limit the search space of candidate...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Easy Educational Literature Comprehension Applying TermPedia to Information Retrieval Knowledge Domain
Sep 2010
This paper provides a detailed description of how TermPedia which is a document enrichment tool, is applied to educational literature in order to help students easily understand their reading...
Provided by University of Groningen
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White Papers
A Dynamic-Static Combined Code Layout Reorganization Approach for Dynamic Binary Translation
Dec 2011
Dynamic Binary Translation (DBT) has attracted much attention as a powerful technique for the run-time adaptation of software among different ISAs. It offers unprecedented flexibility in the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
A New Analysis of the False Positive Rate of a Bloom Filter
Aug 2010
A Bloom filter is a space-efficient data structure used for probabilistic set membership testing. When testing an object for set membership, a Bloom filter may give a false positive. The analysis...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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Whitepapers
Best Practices for SP Development and Customization
Jan 2012
Confidently Empower Your SharePoint Users SharePoint is a powerful tool that helps developers deliver customized solutions to their users. But most times, the users respond with more requests and...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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White Papers
A Uniform Dependency Language for Improving Data Quality
Sep 2011
A variety of dependency formalisms have been studied for improving data quality. To treat these dependencies in a uniform framework, the authors propose a simple language, Quality Improving...
Provided by University of Edinburgh
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White Papers
Efficient Similarity Estimation for Systems Exploiting Data Redundancy
Dec 2009
Many modern systems exploit data redundancy to improve efficiency. These systems split data into chunks, generate identifiers for each of them, and compare the identifiers among other data items...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
A Fine-Grained XML Structural Comparison Approach
Aug 2007
As the Web continues to grow and evolve, more and more information is being placed in structurally rich documents, XML documents in particular, so as to improve the efficiency of similarity...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Probabilistic Data Management for Pervasive Computing: The Data Furnace Project
Jan 2012
The wide deployment of wireless sensor and RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) devices is one of the key enablers for next-generation pervasive computing applications, including large-scale...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Tree Decomposition for Large-Scale SVM Problems: Experimental and Theoretical Results
Apr 2009
To handle problems created by large data sets, the authors propose a method that uses a decision tree to decompose a data space and trains SVMs on the decomposed regions. Although there are other...
Provided by Institute of Information Science
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White Papers
An Efficient Method for Constructing Personal DataSpace
Aug 2009
With increment of personal data amount, how to efficiently manage Personal DataSpace (PDS) becomes a serious problem and a hot research topic. In PDS, users often expect to relocate some known...
Provided by Renmin University of China
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White Papers
Exploring Personal CoreSpace for DataSpace Management
Sep 2009
With rapid increment of personal data amount, how to efficiently search Personal DataSpace (PDS) becomes an interesting and promising research topic. Popular methods include folder explorer,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
An Efficient Multi-Dimensional Index for Cloud Data Management
Nov 2009
Recently, the cloud computing platform is getting more and more attentions as a new trend of data management. Currently there are several cloud computing products that can provide various...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
An Adaptive Multi-Level Hashing Structure for Fast Approximate Similarity Search
Oct 2010
Fast information retrieval is an essential task in data management, mainly due to the increasing availability of data. To address this problem, database researchers have developed indexing...
Provided by Universidade de Sao Paulo
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White Papers
The Database and Information Retrieval Research Group at UFAM
Jun 2011
The authors present in this paper a summary of the main research efforts and results produced by the Database and Information Retrieval group of the Universidade Federal do Amazonas in the last...
Provided by Universidade Federal do Amazonas
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White Papers
Research on Complex Data Management and Analysis at UFSC
Jun 2011
Since the end of the 20th century data have been gathered in an unprecedented and growing scale, by using a variety of devices and information systems, ranging from sensors to the social Web. The...
Provided by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
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White Papers
Benchmarking Cloud-Based Data Management Systems
Oct 2010
Cloud-based data management system is emerging as a scalable, fault tolerant and efficient solution to large scale data management. More and more companies are moving their data management...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
ESQP: An Efficient SQL Query Processing for Cloud Data Management
Oct 2010
Recently, the cloud computing platform is getting more and more attentions as a new trend of data management. Currently there are several cloud computing products that can provide various...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-Structured and Structured Data
Jun 2008
Conventional keyword search engines are restricted to a given data model and cannot easily adapt to unstructured, semi-structured or structured data. In this paper, the authors propose an...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Paths to Stardom: Calibrating the Potential of a Peer-Based Data Management System
Jun 2008
A large number of Peer-To-Peer (P2P) networks have been introduced in the literature since their popular advent in the late 1990s. In particular, structured P2P overlays have gained much attention...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Distributed SQL Queries With BubbleStorm
Nov 2010
Current Peer-To-Peer (p2p) systems place the burden of application-level query execution on the application developer. Not only do application developers lack the expertise to implement good...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Personal Information Management, Personal Information Retrieval?
Oct 2007
Traditional information retrieval has focused on the task of finding information or documents in a largely unknown space such as the Web or a library collection. In this paper, the authors propose...
Provided by University of Southampton
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White Papers
Auditory Context Recognition Using SVMs
May 2008
The authors study auditory context recognition for context-aware mobile computing systems. Auditory contexts are recordings of a mixture of sounds, or ambient audio, from mobile users' everyday...
Provided by University of Oulu
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White Papers
A Front-End, Hadoop-Based Data Management Service for Efficient Federated Clouds
Oct 2011
In the recent years, cloud computing has emerged as the new IT paradigm that promises elastic resources on a pay-per-use basis. The challenges of cloud computing are focused around massive data...
Provided by University of Athens
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White Papers
Design of Fixed and Ladder Mutation Factor-Based Clonal Selection Algorithm for Solving Unimodal and Multimodal Functions
Jul 2011
Clonal Selection Algorithms (CSAs) is a special class of Immune Algorithms (IA), inspired by the clonal selection principle of the human immune system. To improve the algorithm's ability to...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Multiple Description Coding Using Data Hiding and Regions of Interest for Broadcasting Applications
Jun 2009
The authors propose an innovative scheme for Multiple Description Coding (MDC) with Regions Of Interest (ROI) support to be adopted in high-quality television. The scheme proposes to split the...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Spatial Indexing of Global Geographical Data With HTM
Sep 2010
Spatial indexing is one of the most important techniques in the field of spatial data management. Many kinds of techniques of spatial indexing have been successfully developed, and each of them...
Provided by East China Normal University
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White Papers
XtreemFS - A Case for Object-Based Storage in Grid Data Management
Sep 2007
In today's Grids, files are usually managed by Grid data management systems that are superimposed on existing file and storage systems. In this position paper, the authors analyze this predominant...
Provided by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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White Papers
The XtreemFS Architecture - A Case for Object-Based File Systems in Grids
Apr 2008
In today's Grids, files are usually managed by Grid data management systems that are superimposed on existing file and storage systems. In this position paper, the authors analyze this predominant...
Provided by John Wiley & Sons
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White Papers
Indexing Probabilistic Nearest-Neighbor Threshold Queries
Jul 2008
Data uncertainty is inherent in many applications, including sensor networks, scientific data management, data integration, location-based applications, etc. One of common queries for uncertain...
Provided by Purdue University
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White Papers
Emerging Multidisciplinary Research Across Database Management Systems
Dec 2010
The database community is exploring more and more multidisciplinary avenues: Data semantics overlaps with ontology management; reasoning tasks venture into the domain of artificial intelligence;...
Provided by INRIA
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Whitepapers
Evaluator Group: HP's Information Supply Chain (Optimizing Information, Data & Storage for Business Value)
Aug 2011
In this paper sponsored by HP and Intel, we examine each of the major technologies in the Information Supply Chain that should be considered as part of an integrated strategy and then show how...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Migration Policies for Location-Centric Data Storage in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Jun 2007
Location-centric data storage is a fundamental paradigm for data management in wireless ad-hoc networks. It guarantees that data is stored at network nodes near specific geometric reference...
Provided by NEC Laboratories Europe Heidelberg
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White Papers
Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-8
Dec 2011
Discover this optimized package of software, servers and storage with additional CPU core and memory capacity that can support OLTP, DW or mixed application workloads and creates consolidation...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2
Dec 2011
Learn about this optimized package of software, servers and storage that can support OLTP, DW or mixed application workloads and creates consolidation economies of scale in the data center.
Provided by Oracle
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Podcasts
Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine 3D Demo
Dec 2011
Imagine a device that enables organizations to make decisions faster, even while business conditions are rapidly shifting. The idea of being able to broaden business intelligence might seem tough...
Provided by Oracle
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Virtual Briefing Center
Online Data Warehousing Assessment Tool
Dec 2011
Data warehouses are required to manage a rapidly increasing amount of information each day, and business users likewise expect faster query response times. In order to meet these demands,...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Performance Analysis of Data Management in Sensor Data Storage Via Stochastic Petri Nets
Oct 2010
Recently, sensor data storage has gained increasing popularity for reliable access to data through redundancy spread over unreliable nodes in wireless sensor networks. In storage centric sensor...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
Identifying Themes in Social Media and Detecting Sentiments
Apr 2010
Recently, a huge wave of social media has generated significant impact in people's perceptions about technological domains. They are captured in several blogs/forums, where the themes relate to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Seeing Is Retrieving: Building Information Context From What the User Sees
Jan 2008
As the user's document and application workspace grows more diverse, supporting personal information management becomes increasingly important. This trend toward diversity renders it difficult to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Enterprise Video: A simple solution to a complex problem
May 2010
Global organizations struggle with training and continually informing thousands of employees. In addition, the vast majority of corporate knowledge is conveyed informally—in meetings and...
Provided by Altus
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White Papers
Capturing and engaging today's educated consumers for measurable results.
May 2010
The era of the educated consumer is here, unleashing revolutionary changes on how B2C marketers must interact with audiences. Nowhere is the new balance of dialog, education and selling more...
Provided by Aprimo
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White Papers
Ten Steps to Effective Email Marketing
Dec 2011
There's a revolution going on in marketing today. New technologies continue to emerge. Communication channels are shifting and fragmenting. New social media channels change the rules of marketing...
Provided by Aprimo
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White Papers
The Concise Guide to E-Discovery
Jan 2010
E-discovery capabilities are no longer an option - they are a critical "must have" capability that will enable organizations to respond to legal actions and be much more proactive about how legal...
Provided by Google
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White Papers
Top Ten Misconceptions about Performance and Availability Monitoring
Jul 2005
Learn about 10 aspects of monitoring that may have once been perfectly sound best practices, but now no longer apply in most availability and performance monitoring situations.
Provided by Mercury Interactive
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Whitepapers
Master Data Management: One Step at a Time
Feb 2006
Master Data Management is quickly becoming the key strategy organizations are embracing to be the centerpiece of their information management strategy. This paper, by leading information...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Flyer - Mobile Collaboration from IBM - support for fast-moving businesses
Dec 2008
Mobile business solutions & services keep employees on the go and in the loop.
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Storage ISM JAM: Reduce Your Data Storage Footprint: Manage More Data with Less Infrastructure
Jan 2010
One of the primary IT-related solutions that companies are investing in today is any technology that will help them survive the tidal was of data growth, especially those solutions that help...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Rational Performance Tester and ITCAM
Jan 2010
This 3 minute video demonstration discusses the three integration scenarios between IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager.
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
American Electric Power Applies Rule-Based Archiving to Improve Application Performance and Defer Costs
Mar 2010
American Electric Power (AEP) wanted to reduce database overload for the MACSS/OPS application suite and control continued database growth. The challenge was to shorten time to execute 3,000 batch...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
US Army Targets Saving Billions of Dollars in Processing Costs With New Forms Automation Solution From IBM: IBM Business Partner Enterprise Information Management Provides Program, Technical Analysis and Develops ROI Plan
Aug 2009
The paper-based forms system the U.S. Army utilized could no longer handle the speed and flexibility required in the field. The Army chose to re-engineer its processes with IBM Workplace Forms and...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Asset Management Firm Improves Data Consistency and Accelerates Application Deployment With IBM InfoSphere Validator
Sep 2009
One of the largest asset management firms in the United States was replacing its existing portfolio accounting system with a new, more advanced system. The replacement had to be transparent to...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Major U.S. Financial Services Firm Realizes More Than Ten Times Acceleration With Master Data Management System
Sep 2009
One of the world's foremost credit card companies had experienced global changes to its reward program and associated expansion of its data spanning across 50 databases, making updates and changes...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Cetelem Enhances Test Data Management Processes to Support Worldwide Business Operations
Apr 2010
Cetelem wanted to deliver reliable applications to support worldwide operations by improving application testing practices and improve application reliability by creating multiple, realistic test...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
State Police Agency Improves Public Safety With Office 2010
May 2010
As the primary criminal justice agency in Colorado, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) strives to maximize the effectiveness of its Forensic Services division. Using a laboratory...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
Financial Services Companies Protect Data Privacy by De-Identifying Confidential Data in Non-Production Environments
Apr 2010
Large US Financial Services Company wanted to reduce risk of privacy breaches in the application development and testing environments and overcome test data management challenges related to data...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Case Study: Tucson Electric Power Saves with Server and Storage Virtualization
May 2010
Find out how NetApp and VMware enable customers to improve disaster preparedness while saving money. Today, at Tucson Electric Power, almost 90% of servers are virtual, 100% of daily backups can...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Gartner Report: Hosted Virtual Desktops Are the Catalyst Behind Changing How Organizations Manage Storage
May 2010
Hosted virtual desktops (HVDs) will oblige organizations in provisioning significantly more storage for end-user data. As such, the expected growth in storage needs will likely force a...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Enhancing Web-Based Data Collection Using Excel Spreadsheets
Jan 2008
The Current Employment Statistics (CES) Survey, conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), is a monthly panel survey of over 390,000 business establishments. The national CES estimates of...
Provided by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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White Papers
Knowledge Management and the New ITIL Framework
Dec 2007
KM frequently has established its first beachhead in organizations within IT and IT support. The concept is simple: If analysts at an IT help desk have access to one another's trouble-shooting...
Provided by Leveraged Technology
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Webcasts
MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Powershell for Data Professionals (Level 200)
May 2010
The presenter of this webcast demonstrates how to perform everyday database administrator tasks like backing up user databases, scripting table objects, and evaluating disk space usage, and he...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Space Management for Text Variables
Mar 2010
Spaces in text strings are vitally important. Without spaces between words, text would be completely unreadable and impossible to align. However, too many spaces between the words would leave the...
Provided by Howard M. Proskin & Associates
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White Papers
Adding Statistical Functionality to the DATA Step With PROC FCMP
Mar 2010
How many times a person had to write a cumbersome workaround to do an analytical task inside a DATA step that would be easy if one could just call SAS from the DATA step? With the advent of PROC...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Challenges in Genomic Data Processing I - Multiple Small Files
Mar 2010
Advances in the field of Genomics have made more data on the very building blocks of life available than ever before. When coupled with the burgeoning fields of Bioinformatics and Statistical...
Provided by University of North Carolina
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White Papers
Analyzing Interval-Censored Survival Data With SAS Software
Mar 2010
Survival data analysis is traditionally focused on analyzing lifetimes by using time that is measured to an event of interest, or the latest time available if the event did not occur during the...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Exploring DICTIONARY Tables and SASHELP Views
Mar 2010
SAS users can quickly and conveniently obtain useful information about their SAS session with a number of read-only SAS data views called DICTIONARY tables or SASHELP views. At any time during a...
Provided by Software Intelligence
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White Papers
PROC DATASETS; The Swiss Army Knife of SAS Procedures
Apr 2010
The DATASETS procedure provides the most diverse selection of capabilities and features of any of the SAS procedures. It is the prime tool that programmers can use to manage SAS data sets,...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
The Options You Must Understand to Effectively Publish an ITRM Enterprise Guide Report to a SAS Information Delivery Portal Portlet
Mar 2010
This paper describes the "Shortest path" from having an ITRM Enterprise Guide report ready to publish to end users viewing it in a portlet in the SAS Information Delivery Portal. The paper assumes...
Provided by Safeway
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White Papers
It's All About Variation: Improving Your Business Process With Statistical Thinking
Mar 2010
This paper explains how statistical thinking and statistical process monitoring, which have been practiced in manufacturing for the past thirty years, are proving valuable for process improvement...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Facilitating Genetic Analysis: SAS, the NHLBI and CARe
Mar 2010
Two common tasks for a SAS programmer are creating summary statistics and distributing data. Often, these are relatively benign tasks requiring only a handful of SAS statements but on the...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Automating SDTM File Creation: Metadata Files Speeding the Process
Mar 2010
For small to mid-size companies that cannot afford to purchase expensive tools to "Automate" the SDTM file creation process, tools can be prepared to streamline this process. SDTM conversion can...
Provided by Auxilium Pharmaceuticals
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White Papers
Automated Data Cleaning Linking Data Manager to Study Coordinator: Error Finding by Variable and Error Fixing by Subject
Mar 2010
Many researchers using the SAS System software receive data sets with incomplete data or data errors. Data cleaning can become an extremely tedious task for the Coordinators who must return to...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
PROC COMPARE - Worth Another Look!
Mar 2010
PROC COMPARE is one of those workhorse procedures in the Base SAS closet that deserves to be dusted off, tuned up and pressed into service again! With well-chosen PROC COMPARE options and...
Provided by Abt Associates
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White Papers
BootstrapMania!: Re-Sampling the SAS Way
Mar 2010
The most common way that people do simulations and re-sampling plans in SAS is, in fact, the slow and awkward way. People tend to think in terms of a huge macro loop wrapped around a piece of SAS...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Managing Clinical Data Standards: An Introduction to SAS Clinical Data Integration
Mar 2010
As the adoption of industry data standards grows, organizations must consider how to effectively implement and manage data standards across a large - often global - user base. SAS Clinical Data...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Using SAS Formats: So Much More Than "M" = "Male"
Mar 2010
Formats in SAS can be used to change the way that a value is displayed. There are numerous formats supplied by SAS for controlling the way dates, times, numbers, currencies and other types of...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Data and Text Mining in SAS Warranty Analysis 4.2
Apr 2010
SAS Warranty Analysis 4.2 includes two analytics, Multivariate Statistical Drivers and Text Analysis, and the functionality Find Similar Comments in the Details Table analysis that use data mining...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Dancing the Sample Size Limbo With Mixed Models: How Low Can You Go?
Mar 2010
Whereas general sample size guidelines have been suggested when estimating multilevel models, they are only generalizable to a relatively limited number of data conditions and model structures,...
Provided by University of South Carolina
