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White Papers
Bel-Art: A Case Study in IT Efficiency
Nov 2011
Bel-Art Products is a leader in plastics and specialty products for laboratories. But their IT infrastructure was falling behind. Learn how virtualization and other technologies helped them reduce...
Provided by CDW & VMware
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e-Books
eBook: A Guide to Modern IT Disaster Recovery
Aug 2011
This online eBook provides insight and advice on how to build an effective disaster recovery strategy in the evolving world of virtual infrastructures, while mitigating the impact of so-called...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
Ultra High-Speed Wide Area Data Transport
Jan 2013
Achieving maximum throughput over 10Gbps WANs with leading, high-performance storage systems. This paper first explores the various fundamental bottlenecks of TCP that impair conventional...
Provided by Aspera
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White Papers
Moving to Virtualization: A Guide to What's Possible from VMware
Jun 2010
Did you know that over the next year, 50% of small and midsized businesses are moving to virtualization? That's because virtualization allows businesses to run multiple operating systems and...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Understanding the Cloud Computing Stack: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
Aug 2011
Cloud Computing is a broad term that describes a broad range of services. As with other significant developments in technology, many vendors have seized the term "Cloud" and are using it for...
Provided by Rackspace Hosting
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White Papers
5 Hidden Costs of Using "Free" and Legacy Tools for Support
Nov 2011
Traditional remote access and meeting tools were not designed as remote support tools for helpdesks and IT professionals. Do you know what hidden costs their lack of helpdesk-specific management...
Provided by LogMeIn
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Whitepapers
BYOD is here to stay.
Aug 2012
The BYOD phenomenon is hitting the mainstream--and drawing the watchful eyes of IT managers everywhere. As the trend matures, it turns out that workers are using their devices to integrate their...
Provided by LifeSize Communications, Inc.
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White Papers
Cloudonomics: The Economics of Cloud Computing
Aug 2011
There are many reasons for organizations to move from traditional IT infrastructure to Cloud Computing. One of the most cited benefits is the economics of the Cloud. Yet while many people point...
Provided by Rackspace Hosting
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Whitepapers
When Infrastructure Really Matters, A Focus on High-End Storage
Nov 2012
This Clipper Group paper provides a pragmatic analysis about the undeniable importance of mission critical infrastructure. The DS8870, the newest member of the DS8000 enterprise storage family,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
ZDNet Asia IT Priorities 2013 Report
Mar 2013
For this annual research study by ZDNet, Asian IT decision makers participated in an online survey to outline their key investments and priorities for the year, highlighting plans to optimize...
Provided by ZDNet
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Whitepapers
eBook: Five Things You Need to Know Today about Disaster Recovery Planning
Sep 2012
When was the last time you looked at your disaster recovery plan? What do you expect would happen if the ceiling collapsed in your data center? This free eBook outlines five important topics that...
Provided by Attachmate
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Downloads
Web Help Desk
Dec 2012
Satisfying customers isn't as simple as keeping phone lines open 24/7. Customer support is an intricate process that needs to be fully backed by intelligent IT solutions and strategy. By...
Provided by SolarWinds
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Whitepapers
Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure for Dummies
Jan 2012
Cloud computing, and specifically Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), offers many benefits to an enterprise. Cloud computing has matured into a production grade model for the enterprise. When...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
The Value of ITIL® Certification
Jan 2013
The professional certification industry has grown significantly in conjunction with increased growth of various aspects of the information technology field. The Information Technology...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
The Future of Cloud Computing Planning Guide
Sep 2011
If the question hasn't come up yet in your organization, it probably will. How do you build a private cloud for your organization? Cloud computing is one of the top three priorities this year for...
Provided by Intel Corporation
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Whitepapers
IDC Analyst Whitepaper: Embracing Consumerisation with Confidence
Dec 2011
In this white paper, analyst IDC explores the key converging market dynamics driving the consumerisation of IT. We then examine some of the significant opportunities and challenges that this...
Provided by Trend Micro Australia
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White Papers
Architectural Strategies for Cloud Computing
Aug 2009
Opportunities for improving IT efficiency and performance through centralization of resources have increased dramatically in the last few years with the maturation of technologies such as SOA,...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Why ITIL® Is Important
Mar 2012
This paper discuss several concepts and techniques that ITIL promotes, including ensuring accountability, defining and enforcing boundaries, and conducting consistent and predictable activities in...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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White Papers
Simplifying Server Virtualization
Nov 2011
In today's uncertain business world, companies are asking IT to do more with less. Technology needs to be more efficient than ever. This white paper shows how server virtualization can help. It...
Provided by CDW & VMware
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Whitepapers
802.1X Explained
Oct 2012
BYOD (Bring your own Device) is the term we have tried to put in the furthest, darkest place in our mind. Why do we react this way? The answer is that change scares us. Today, we are going to...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Making Choices with DNS-Based Traffic Management
Nov 2012
Uptime is the bottom line and Dyn.com Chief Scientist Tom Daly explains how to use managed DNS to accelerate, deliver and protect your website's content and traffic. Learn benefits and concepts of...
Provided by Dyn
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Whitepapers
Building a Successful Roadmap to the Cloud
Jan 2013
Developing a roadmap for your cloud strategy doesn't have to be daunting. It just takes a little planning, homework and collaboration. Read this IBM-sponsored white paper from Frost & Sullivan to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Cloud enabled business model innovation
May 2013
Companies worldwide are beginning to recognize cloud’s capabilities to generate new business models and promote sustainable competitive advantage. To manage and respond to these market pressures,...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Top 5 Reasons to Replace your Remote Support Tool
Nov 2011
Even if you have a remote support tool, the changing demands of business may necessitate a change. Now may be the time to reevaluate your remote support to add new capabilities, increase...
Provided by LogMeIn
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Whitepapers
Virtualization 101
Jan 2012
This white paper defines virtualization and focuses on how certain trends, such as server virtualization, are changing the datacenter. We'll look at what makes virtualization so compelling to...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Case Studies
Bharti Airtel Case Study
Mar 2008
IBM worked with Bharti Airtel, India's leading telecom, to create an innovative model for IT delivery. For CIO Jai Menon, it means he can now focus more on launching and creating new revenue...
Provided by IBM
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Research
Amazon Web Services: A guide to Amazon's cloud
Jun 2012
Amazon launched its cloud in 2006 and since then it has come to dominate the industry. Amazon's APIs are a de facto standard, as almost any popular start-up you care to name has used its services....
Provided by ZDNet
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Whitepapers
Managed Services Demystified - An Overview for Telecom Service Providers
Aug 2006
Facing increasing competition and commoditization from traditional telecom products, service providers are either in the process of or planning for the move to next generation, converged, network...
Provided by Alcatel-Lucent
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Whitepapers
Building A Successful Roadmap to the Cloud
Mar 2012
Whether your organisation is just getting started in the cloud or is looking to expand the usage beyond one or two workloads, it pays to have a solid roadmap in place. The roadmap will ensure to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: Free Virtualization without a Server Operating System
Feb 2011
Virtualization is a hot topic, with a number of techniques, tools, and technologies available. Some of the benefits of virtualization include hardware cost savings, role separation, configuration...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
10 Essential Security Policies
May 2011
Every organization needs a corporate security policy to firmly establish guidelines that will keep the company's resources and knowledge safe. This white paper discusses ten such guidelines that...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
In the Trenches: Eight Tips-n-Tricks For Microsoft
Sep 2012
Have you ever scratched your head and wondered why that group policy setting hasn't taken? Learn the best ways to deploy and troubleshoot Group Policies in your environment. Through eight...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Downloads
FREE TOOL - SharePoint performance monitor alerts
Aug 2012
Know at a glance if you're running on low disk space with this free and easy-to-use SharePoint performance monitoring tool! You can watch your performance in real-time from an easy to read...
Provided by Idera
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Whitepapers
12 Steps to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Success
Apr 2012
IT departments have multiple opportunities and challenges as a result of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) invasion. The most common opportunity is to reinforce enterprise network security from...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Understanding Inventory, Configuration and IT Asset Management
Jun 2006
It's common knowledge that enterprise IT organizations face a deluge of efficiency, cost constraint and compliance issues every day. Sometimes it seems like dealing with these issues takes...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
Introduction to VMware vSphere 5
Mar 2012
This presentation will be available to audience members until August 16, 2012 at 09:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time. The foundation of the new VMware Cloud infrastructure Suite is VMware vSphere5,...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
Building a Home Lab for VMware vSphere5
May 2012
I often get asked by my students how to setup a home lab for study after class, and the result is this white paper. This paper is broken down into three major sections: the hardware required, the...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
White Paper: Business Transaction Management
Oct 2012
Companies build applications to support their business goals, so it's no wonder that business people expect to know how the applications are performing -- their success depends on it. But business...
Provided by Compuware
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Research
London Games: Planning a business and IT strategy
Jul 2012
As the Games come to London, organisers have also been urging businesses to be ready with contingency plans, from home working to IT infrastructure. This business and IT guide to the London Games...
Provided by ZDNet
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Whitepapers
How Compliance Impacts Backup Strategy
Mar 2013
There's nothing more important than compliance for a business, and yet there are also few things harder to manage. Backup and recovery has recently become a huge area of concern for IT as well,...
Provided by Idera
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Whitepapers
Virtualizing disaster recovery using cloud computing
Jun 2013
"We are in an always-on world, where the flow of information and commerce in this global business environment never stops. Is your business thinking about application continuity or dealing with...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Saving Time and Money with Savvy Use of Flash in Automated Storage Tiering
Jun 2013
Designing a storage environment to scale for both capacity and performance used to be somewhat mutually exclusive. Armed with new discoveries on data life cycle, including a phenomenon known as...
Provided by EMC Australia (grey BG)
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Whitepapers
Addressing the Five Requirements of BYOD for Mobile Unified Communications
Jun 2013
The BYOD initiative has come a long - from a single platform to an explosion of highly-sophisticated smartphones and tablets. This shift has meant employees can choose their own smartphones....
Provided by ShoreTel
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Whitepapers
An Efficient Model to Minimize Makespan On Data Grids Considering Local Tasks
Jun 2011
Scheduling divisible loads on the resources of a grid has gain a great attention in last years. In grids, load scheduling plays a crucial role in achieving high utilization of resources. Many...
Provided by Al-Azhar University
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Whitepapers
Budget Constrained Scheduling of Grid Workflows Using Partial Critical Paths
May 2011
Workflow scheduling on utility Grids is a complex multi-objective optimization problem which tries to optimize several scheduling criteria such as execution time and cost. One common approach to...
Provided by Ferdowsi University Of Mashhad
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Whitepapers
The Improvement of Dynamic Load Balancing Strategy in Grid Computing
Jul 2011
Load balancing is one of the major search areas in grid computing. The strategy of the grid computing is another important topic. Job scheduling is the way of scheduling jobs in a grid environment...
Provided by Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport
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Whitepapers
Towards Simplifying Workflow Execution on The Grid
Jul 2011
Researchers often spend valuable time performing mundane tasks to prepare for processing data on HPC. This is a function of two problems: first, researchers are forced to use unfamiliar tools to...
Provided by Kansas State University
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Whitepapers
Time optimizing in Economical Grid Using Adaptive Stochastic Petri Net Based on Learning Automata
Aug 2011
In this paper, intelligent algorithm of ALATO based on Learning Automata using Adaptive Stochastic Petri Net presented to optimize the time in Economical Grid. Adaptive Stochastic Petri nets based...
Provided by QAVantage
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Whitepapers
Using Matrix indexes for Resource Discovery in Grid Environment
Apr 2011
There are many resources and services in grid environment which may be distributed geographically. So, resource discovery methods with lower update and discovery costs are of vital significance....
Provided by University of Szeged Institute of Informatics
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Whitepapers
A Monitoring System Based on Nagios for Data Grid Environments
May 2011
The amount of digital data in today's society is already enormous and it will continue to grow exponentially. Therefore, it is necessary to devise new ways to preserve and manage the data...
Provided by National Tsing Hua University
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Whitepapers
Coalition: A Configurable Co-Reservation and Co-Allocation Tool for Supercomputing Infrastructures
Apr 2011
Distributed supercomputing infrastructures provide users with large amount of heterogeneous computing resources, like computational resources, graphical resources, data processing and archiving...
Provided by Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento
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Whitepapers
Design and Implementation of GUISET-Driven Authentication Framework
May 2011
Authentication is the process of identifying a user on the basis of the credentials provided. In reality, the user does not necessarily have to be a person; it can be an application that is making...
Provided by University of Zimbabwe
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Whitepapers
Recent Improvements in Hlrmon, an Accounting Portal Suitable for National Grids
May 2011
In a production computing Grid, the accounting infrastructure is responsible for the collection of usage records, both for CPU and storage resources. Accounting data have to be properly managed...
Provided by Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento
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Whitepapers
A Modular Access Control Architecture for the Earth System Grid Federation
May 2011
The authors present key aspects of the federated access control solution required for the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF), including a standard mechanism for securing OPeNDAP-based services...
Provided by University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID)
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Whitepapers
An Interaction Analysis System for E-Learning: Toward a Web SOA Tool for The Improvement of Learning
May 2011
The numerical traces generated in e-learning environments represent a significant source of information related to the activities of users. The analysis of these traces is of obvious importance,...
Provided by Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento
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Podcasts
Virtustream (Vayence) video Taking a 3000-Seat SAP Environment to the Cloud
Jan 2013
How can public cloud services help your organization reduce costs and increase security for your mission-critical applications? Veyance runs SAP and other enterprise applications in the cloud...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Improved BPCS Steganography Based Novel Approach for Data Embedding
Mar 2012
Internet communication has become an integral part of the infrastructure of today's world. Bit-Plane Complexity Segmentation (BPCS) steganography uses an image as the vessel data and secret...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT)
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Whitepapers
Task Scheduling in Grid Computing Systems Constrained by Resource Availability
Mar 2013
In this paper, a survey of some of the approaches to task scheduling in grid computing systems based on resource availability is discussed. To improve task scheduling, resource availability can be...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT)
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Whitepapers
Survey on Resource Allocation in Grid
Feb 2013
Resource allocation is a problem that arises whenever different resources, which have preferences in participating, have to be distributed among multiple autonomous entities. A distributed system...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT)
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Whitepapers
Design and Implementation of Computation Grid, Measure & Improve Performance Parameter:-A Survey
Jan 2013
The goal of this Paper is to develop Reliable Communication System in the Grid. The first initiative is to apply multi-casting features to this protocol & the algorithm for the same is developed....
Provided by International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT)
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Whitepapers
A Review: Scheduling in Grid Environment
Nov 2012
Grid computing came into being and is currently an active research area. One motivation of Grid computing is to aggregate the power of widely distributed resources, and provide non-trivial...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (IJEIT)
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Whitepapers
Job Scheduling Algorithm for Computational Grid in Grid Computing Environment
May 2013
Grid computing has emerged as a distributed methodology that coordinates the resources that are spread in the heterogeneous distributed environment. Grid Computing allow sharing of resources from...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
The Strategies, Priorities and Implementation Plans of Australian and New Zealand IT Leaders and Professionals
Jun 2013
Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) IT leaders are engaged in a delicate balancing act in 2013. Their primary focus is deploying technologies to optimize customer processes, but at the same time many...
Provided by CBS Interactive
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Whitepapers
Enterprise Mobility Management embracing BYOD through secure app data delivery
Jun 2013
The transformation of computing through mobility, consumerisation, bring your own device and flex-work offers powerful benefits for today's organisation- but it poses significant challenges for...
Provided by Citrix Systems
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Whitepapers
Grid Service Level Agreements Using Financial Risk Analysis Techniques
May 2009
Grid computing continues to hold promise for the high-availability of a wide range of computational systems and techniques. It is suggested that Grids will attain greater acceptance by a larger...
Provided by University of Sunderland
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Whitepapers
Double Auction-Inspired Meta-Scheduling of Parallel Applications on Global Grids
Jul 2012
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...
Provided by University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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Whitepapers
Grid Interoperability by Multiple Broker Utilization and Meta-Brokering
Jan 2013
As grid technology matures the number of production grids dynamically increases. The management and the optimal utilization of these grid resources cannot be handled by the users themselves. To...
Provided by University of Szczecin
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Whitepapers
A Taxonomy of Grid Resource Brokers
Oct 2006
Grid computing has gone through some generations and as a result only a few widely used middleware architectures remain. Using the tools of these middlewares, various resource brokers have been...
Provided by MTA SZTAKI
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Whitepapers
Formal Aspects of Grid Brokering
Dec 2009
Coordination in distributed environments, like Grids, involves selecting the most appropriate services, resources or compositions to carry out the planned activities. Such functionalities appear...
Provided by MTA SZTAKI
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Whitepapers
The Evolution of Grid Brokers: Union for Interoperability
Oct 2008
Grid resource management is probably the research field most affected by user demands. Though well-designed, evaluated and widely used resource brokers, meta-schedulers have been developed, new...
Provided by University of Szczecin
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Whitepapers
Adaptive Scheduling Solution for Grid Meta-Brokering
Jan 2013
The nearly optimal, interoperable utilization of various grid resources play an important role in the world of grids. Though well-designed, evaluated and widely used resource brokers have been...
Provided by University of Szczecin
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Whitepapers
Grid Interoperability Solutions in Grid Resource Management
Jun 2008
Since the management and beneficial utilization of highly dynamic grid resources cannot be handled by the users themselves, various grid resource management tools have been developed, supporting...
Provided by University of Szczecin
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Whitepapers
GMBS: A New Middleware Service for Making Grids Interoperable
Apr 2010
Grid resource management has been a highly studied research field since Grids were born. Though well-designed, evaluated and widely used resource brokers and meta-schedulers have been developed,...
Provided by MTA SZTAKI
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Whitepapers
A Service for Virtual Cluster Performance Evaluation
May 2012
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...
Provided by University of San Francisco
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Whitepapers
The Cloud@Home Architecture: Building a Cloud Infrastructure from Volunteered Resources
Feb 2011
Ideas coming from volunteer computing can be borrowed and incorporated into the Cloud computing model. The result is a volunteer Cloud where the infrastructure is obtained by merging heterogeneous...
Provided by University of San Francisco
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Whitepapers
The Future of Spatial Data Infrastructures
Jan 2012
In this paper, the authors address two central questions relating to the future of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs); where have we got to now? and where should go from here? The answers to the...
Provided by University College Dublin
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Whitepapers
Find the right platform for your server needs
Sep 2012
There are mounting business pressures to support more applications and users, store growing amounts of data, and manage an increasingly complex IT environment. Servers that fundamentally redefine...
Provided by HP
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Research
HP Blades Leadership and Innovation for the Data Centre – featuring the Magic Quadrant for Blades
Jul 2012
Gartner Magic Quadrants are a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market's competitors. By applying a graphical treatment...
Provided by HP
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Whitepapers
EMC Customer Profile - Rotary International
Dec 2012
Private cloud improves performance and reliability for mission-critical applications supporting humanitarian projects.
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
EMC Brainshark Customer video
Jan 2013
Learn how Brainshark is leveraging EMC infrastructure to confidently deliver software-as-a-service. Understand how EMC is helping to address increasing data growth challenges and increasing...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution
Jan 2013
The trend of increasing heat densities in data centers has held consistent with advances in computing technology for many years. As power density increased, it became evident that the degree of...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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White Papers
10 Ways to Increase Power System Availability in Data Centers
Sep 2009
This paper explains how organizations can significantly mitigate their exposure to power-related down-time by adopting proven changes to their business processes and electrical power system...
Provided by Eaton
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Whitepapers
Building A Successful Roadmap to the Cloud
Mar 2012
Whether your organisation is just getting started in the cloud or is looking to expand the usage beyond one or two workloads, it pays to have a solid roadmap in place. The roadmap will ensure to...
Provided by IBM
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Research
IT Governance Framework
Mar 2005
With IT at the core of most 21st century businesses, and with today's focus on compliance and risk management as a result of legislation like Sarbanes-Oxley, organizations can no longer afford to...
Provided by Forrester Research
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White Papers
NComputing L-Series LAN Deployment: Best Practices for Local Area Network Infrastructure
Feb 2008
NComputing's L-Series terminals connect to a host computer through an Ethernet interface and IP protocol. The L-Series terminal relies on a robust network infrastructure, with minimal latencies...
Provided by NComputing
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Whitepapers
Delivering IT to the virtual workforce
Sep 2012
Workshifting works for workers. It enables them more freedom than a 9 - 5 office routine. Workshifting also works for employers. They can readily shift workers -- virtually or physically -- from...
Provided by Citrix Systems
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Whitepapers
Getting started with the cloud: A step-by-step enterprise implementation guide
Sep 2012
More enterprises are moving applications to the cloud every day, seeking faster implementation, more flexibility and lower cost. But not everyone has a master plan; these decisions are sometimes...
Provided by Rackspace
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Whitepapers
Platform-as-a-Service Private Cloud with Oracle Fusion Middleware
Oct 2009
Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in IT today, but many IT professionals are struggling to determine how best to achieve cloud's promises of agile deployment and elastic capacity...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Monitoring Physical Threats in the Data Center
Jan 2013
Traditional methodologies for monitoring the data center environment are no longer sufficient. With technologies such as blade servers driving up cooling demands and regulations such as...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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Case Studies
Rethinking the Data Center
May 2011
A case study on a Queensborough Community College infrastructure optimization project that resulted in savings of time, money and energy. The strategy included server virtualization and...
Provided by CDW & VMware
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White Papers
Transforming Business Through Collaboration
May 2011
Businesses increasingly see collaboration as a strategic initiative because it allows them to take advantage of new business models and meet customer demands. Collaboration helps organizations...
Provided by Sage Software
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White Papers
7 Steps to Building a Business Case for ERP
May 2011
Businesses are looking to make technology investments to prepare for growth. But with the economic recovery uneven and uncertain, they remain cautious about these investments. One thing is clear:...
Provided by Sage Software
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White Papers
Designing IT Infrastructure to Meet Your Business Goals
Mar 2007
Designing an IT infrastructure plan that meets the current and future business goals is well worth the time and energy required. Mistakes or lost opportunities can be expensive and limit growth in...
Provided by J.P. Schwartz
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White Papers
SOA-Based Integration of the Internet of Things in Enterprise Services
Aug 2009
Advances in the areas of embedded systems, computing, and networking are leading to an infrastructure composed of millions of heterogeneous devices. These devices will not simply convey...
Provided by ETH Zurich
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White Papers
Storage Device Reliability and Endurance
Jul 2011
In this white paper, sponsored by Seagate Technology, IDC discusses storage device reliability and endurance while examining the importance for storage device vendors of defining a common set of...
Provided by Seagate
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White Papers
How Enterprise Architectures Must Adapt to Solid State Storage
Jul 2011
In this white paper, IDC discusses the case for solid state storage in enterprise data storage systems and servers. This white paper explores various aspects associated with integrating solid...
Provided by Seagate
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White Papers
IT Essentials for Data Center Trends and Innovations
Aug 2011
Once upon a time, the words "data center" described a pretty common facility, regardless of industry or enterprise. Today, however, the words "data center" can describe an overheated small closet...
Provided by TechRepublic
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Webcasts
When No Press is Good Press - July 2011
Jul 2011
Yesterday's approaches to combating malware are no longer sufficient. Already this year we've seen an extraordinary number of high-profile security breaches. Whether you're a small business or a...
Provided by Symantec
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eBooks
Desktop Modernization eBook
Aug 2011
This eBook looks at the challenges involved in delivering and managing desktops, today and in the future. Its goal is to demonstrate how VMware desktop virtualization can deliver a solution to...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Understanding the Cloud Computing Stack: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
Aug 2011
Cloud Computing is a broad term that describes a broad range of services. As with other significant developments in technology, many vendors have seized the term "Cloud" and are using it for...
Provided by Rackspace Hosting
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White Papers
BotTrack: Tracking Botnets Using NetFlow and PageRank
Aug 2011
With large scale botnets emerging as one of the major current threats, the automatic detection of botnet traffic is of high importance for service providers and large campus network monitoring....
Provided by University of Luxembourg
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White Papers
Reinventing Branch Office Security
Sep 2011
IT security is often focused at the head office, while remote sites and home offices are often neglected, as security devices are expensive and require know-how. Read more about a new approach to...
Provided by Astaro
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White Papers
Transform the data center with IBM servers and Intel Ethernet
Sep 2011
A transformation is taking place in the data center. With more powerful compute resources available, IT managers are using virtualization to consolidate more applications onto fewer physical...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Bel-Art: A Case Study in IT Efficiency
Nov 2011
Bel-Art Products is a leader in plastics and specialty products for laboratories. But their IT infrastructure was falling behind. Learn how virtualization and other technologies helped them reduce...
Provided by CDW & VMware
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Whitepapers
SPARC Enterprise M3000, M4000, M5000, M8000, and M9000 Server Architecture: Flexible, Mainframe-Class Compute Power
Dec 2011
Organizations now rely on technology more than ever before. Today, compute systems play a critical role in every function from product design to customer order fulfillment. New computing...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
IT Service Management Metrics That Matter: Four Key Benchmarks for Improving IT Performance
Sep 2008
High performing IT organizations didn't get that way by accident, as revealed in a recent benchmark study by the IT Process Institute (ITPI). They operate on specific controls and measurements...
Provided by Tripwire
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White Papers
Business Intelligence Best Practices: Simplifying the Reporting Landscape
Apr 2008
With all the attention surrounding dashboards & other attractive delivery methods for business intelligence (BI) content, classic report generation & production is often overlooked. However, at...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Building a Home Lab for VMware vSphere5
May 2012
I often get asked by my students how to setup a home lab for study after class, and the result is this white paper. This paper is broken down into three major sections: the hardware required, the...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Seven Tips for Troubleshooting VMware vSphere5
May 2012
Here are seven tips for working with vSphere, including: Logging in via Command Line, dealing with connection problems using ssh to an ESXi host; network performance issues; possible storage...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: Free Virtualization without a Server Operating System
Feb 2011
Virtualization is a hot topic, with a number of techniques, tools, and technologies available. Some of the benefits of virtualization include hardware cost savings, role separation, configuration...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
Aligning IT with strategic business goals: A proactive approach to managing IT risk to your business
Feb 2013
IT events such as data loss, security breaches and infrastructure failures can affect the entire business. A holistic approach to managing IT risk can be more effective than traditional...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
802.1X Explained
Oct 2012
BYOD (Bring your own Device) is the term we have tried to put in the furthest, darkest place in our mind. Why do we react this way? The answer is that change scares us. Today, we are going to...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
The Need for IT to Get in Front of the BYOD Problem
Oct 2012
More than 82 percent of organizations are using personally-owned smartphones or tablets to access corporate systems. The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend seems innocuous enough to end users, but...
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Platform as a Service: The IBM point of view
Mar 2013
The Platform as a Service market has lagged the Software as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service segments in customer adoption. The team at IBM believes that a key reason for this is that...
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Leveraging Microsoft's System Center 2012 Suite in the Private Cloud
Apr 2012
Ultimately, all large organizations will require the added flexibility and efficiency of the cloud. Initially, the private cloud will be the most obvious choice for enterprises that will not or...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Virtualization: Myths vs. Facts
Mar 2012
Examine fifteen common myths surrounding virtualization, including many that prevent IT administrators (or their bosses) from getting the maximum value from virtualization. This paper is designed...
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Five Challenges To ITIL Best Practices Adoption
Sep 2010
ITIL is gaining momentum in the United States as the standard for best practices in IT Service Management. However, organizations looking to implement the IT Infrastructure Library often encounter...
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Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure for Dummies
Jan 2012
Cloud computing, and specifically Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), offers many benefits to an enterprise. Cloud computing has matured into a production grade model for the enterprise. When...
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Virtualization 101
Jan 2012
This white paper defines virtualization and focuses on how certain trends, such as server virtualization, are changing the datacenter. We'll look at what makes virtualization so compelling to...
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The Value of ITIL® Certification
Jan 2013
The professional certification industry has grown significantly in conjunction with increased growth of various aspects of the information technology field. The Information Technology...
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